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Karlach is hot, Astarion is cold, and Xav gets caught in the middle, lucky thing.
This is set in early act 1, so the companions don't know each other very well yet; nobody has high approval and everybody's a little on edge. Astarion and Karlach share a particularly prickly frenemosity, which leads to some lively Good Dom/Bad Dom power struggles at poor Xav's expense.
A note on my headcanon for Astarion in this piece: he's guarded and suspicious, not yet sure who to try out his seductions on. He still craves the physical release of sex but hasn't dealt with any emotions around it. As he comes to realize that he can sate some of his appetites on his own terms for the first time, he seizes the opportunity, while also unleashing some of his pent-up contempt for all of the (as he sees it) weak and gullible marks who fell for his charms over the last two centuries.