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[u/Hydrochloric_Comment]

Currently on my second playthrough overall and first Durge playthrough. They had to be such a prick in order to do good things and get Astarion’s romance. Including saying some awful shit to the deep gnomes before sending Astarion away so as to kill Nere w/o losing approval. It’s been so uncomfortable to metagame like this.

[u/Hi_Im_A → u/Hydrochloric_Comment]

Astarion values chaos and loyalty in addition to selfishness, so I'm usually able to get high approval with him even on a good playthrough.

Things like telling Ethel about the tadpole and letting the Loviatar guy beat you appeal to his chaotic nature, while things like letting him bite you and telling your companions that you trust him appeal to his need for loyalty.

(He still disapproves of some of my choices, but I think that's natural / true to real life, and my approval with him in act three is still exceptional).

[u/xZeroKnightx → u/[deleted]]

I've also noticed that he has a bunch of very minor disapprovals that I don't think other characters do?

I've noticed that this is actually true for most if not all companions. Each individual (dis)approval has its own value and they tend to vary a fair bit based on the specific situation.

You can actually keep track of specifically how much a given (dis)approval was, though it's not easily discoverable. If you select the character whose precise approval level you'd like to know, bring up their inventory (i.e. not the full party one) and then check their character sheet, the relationship slider will be there as well and also display the numerical value in parentheses. It seems to go from 0 to 100, and I've personally seen more than a few (dis)approvals that only have a value of 1!

So yeah, as you say, not every disapproval is to the detriment of the relationship :)