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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
we're not kids anymore.
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dissociating after a Hard(ing) day
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drawing my beautiful wife when i need to be working on other things
Duncan.
"I miss you, my commander.. my friend.. my love.."
people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol
I know that it's because Inquisition had to leave the option for players to back either side of the Mage/Templar conflict and for either side to potentially be allied vs conscripted. Therefore, Veilguard cannot assume what kind of model the Inquisition set forth on the issue for characters like Harding.
But when I get Harding's dialogue with Neve about Templars in Tevinter and "What do you do when you can't trust the people in power to do the right thing?" my gut reaction is something like:
Lace. Sweetheart. Did you not listen to anything the Inquisitor [my mage Trevelyan who was gentle/polite/well behaved enough to be considered one of the "good ones" in her Circle, something her noble blood helped considerably, but was still almost driven to suicidal depression] had to say about the southern Templar Order as a whole? Ever?"
And my Inquisitor became less and less Chantry-appeasing and more and more openly pro-Mage as she went, too. Leiliana became Divine, permanently allowed the Mages to live outside Circles, and immediately began massive Chantry reforms.
But if you want to take what is mostly just a function of necessity in video game programming/ writing the script broadly to not invalidate past choices and make it work in universe?
It does kind of circle back nicely to the idea of the Inquisitor as a person and their personal convictions or decision making versus the Inquisitor as someone who has become living religious iconography, a symbol that people interpret into their own faith and world view.
It isn't that my Inquisitor Trevelyan didn't manage to use her position to make very significant progress for mages (and her other causes, which are less relevant here). Again, the Circles are done with. She put her thumb on the scale and Leliana, a reform driven, pro-Mage Divine is in place in Val Royeaux. That's a remarkable amount of change from the last several ages in southern Thedas.
But her power was acquired in a very specific manner. She had games she had to play for security, and a role she had to perform to be seen as deserving of that power. She was not in favor of the Chantry, but the Inquisition still was born from a Chantry organization and lead by former Chantry officials. Many if not most of her followers were there because of their faith in Andrastianism. The Inquisition is still a religious institution, even if the Inquisitor wants to break free or is left screaming on the inside.
So you end up with someone like Lace Harding, who is generally kind hearted and driven by good intent, still not understanding why the Inquisitor chose the Mages over the Templars.
The history the Templars have if you aren't Andrastian or if you have magic or if you are a non-human who either isn't sufficiently integrated into the local culture or who isn't allowed to be? Somehow didn't get communicated even though a good portion of the message was "The Templar Order as an institution is cruel and cannot be trusted; the Chantry has not used its authority in a way that is appropriate".
(Along with "No one should have this much power over someone else's life and personhood much less due to an accident of birth", but again that's the less relevant statement to the post.)
And Lace even has the line in Treviso about not always liking the people she found in Chantries! So I don't think she's entirely unaware. She's definitely not malicious.
But somehow with the cultural influences and pressures of the south, the use of the Inquisitor as an Andrastian symbol, willing or unwilling, and probably a long childhood of hearing about how Templars protect people and "Magic exists to serve man, and never to rule over him."
You still end up with a Lace Harding, kind and driven by justice as she is, who is confused by northern Templars being corrupt and doesn't make the connection that the Templar authorities in the south also couldn't be trusted.
Re reading the original hunger games is so funny bcus katniss can literally read haymitch's mind like what. I'm dying of thirst but haymitch hasn't sent me water, that must mean that there's some nearby!! And one kiss is one pot of broth!! Like she even acknowledges that it's strange when she's like oh to peeta this would just be a pot of broth. Haymitch will give her one look and katniss knows immediately what he means and she's right every time
Meanwhile peeta is like your dress really suits you and you look nice :) and katniss is like he's trying to kill me
don’t call me kid, don’t call me baby
SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT (2025) dev. Compulsion Games
Dogz (2005)
yeah no man it's cool that you don't like the female character for having an insufficient development. yeah even if you adore that male character that appeared in two frames of the show. yeah. yeah. yeah. cool. cool.
no you're also very much right. let's get this on the post
The Hummingbird
The greatest solavellan thing bioware did in datv (intentionally or not because story doesn't change depends on romance choice) is reverse Solas and Mythal' drama so it can bite him in the ass.
Solas begged Mythal to leave the evanuris, stay with him, right the wrongs. Tried to remind her she was the one who cared for the People (and might even still). She didn't listen, she was too prideful, she chose to do it her way.
And then Solas takes her place.
Lavellan begged Solas to stay, to abandon his plan to destroy the Veil because it will cause deaths and suffering. Tried to remind him he's not some monster of dalish stories but the man she knows and loves. He didn't listen, he was too prideful, he chose to do it his way.
When Solas said to Mythal he'll follow her anywhere, he wasn't lying. She allowed him to believe she needed him but didn't allow to become more than a "lapdog". She didn't want him to be equal. The crown is heavy but she wanted to wear it as a goddess supposed to.
When Lavellan said she'll follow him (optionally in dai), she wasn't lying either. But Solas didn't let her because he remembers him said those words long ago and he knows what comes next. He "doesn't want her to see what he will become". Because he once saw. And dinan'shiral is not for her, he must protect her from it. That "crown" is heavy too, but he didn't want to force Lavellan walk his steps.
Solas took Mythal' place for a while and put Lavellan on his but those roles aren't meant for them.
Relationships between Solas and Lavellan were different from the beginning. It is based on respect, full of sincere care and love. She never wanted to change him to make him match the fictional image. He never used her trust to make her useful for his goals.
That's why Lavellan didn't give up and kept trying to bring him back, while Solas let Mythal go. That's why Solas was never able to leave Lavellan behind and turn his back away from her for good, while Mythal walked away with no hesitation.
It's the different kinds of love. One is demanding and transforming into something you don't want to be, whereas another is healing and helping to stand tall again.
I really like to think he understood the mockery of fate in the end. Understood their story with Mythal is going in circles now. I also like to think it's not only Mythal' appearance and her saying she frees him from the duty made Solas stop but also the understanding of how close he stepped to the abyss. And he's not Mythal, he's not a dragon and won't fly; jumping to that abyss will simply corrupt his spirit permanently.
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MASS EFFECT : LEGENDARY EDITION | Garrus Vakarian
If that's what he wanted, why imprison you? Why not just kill you? No offence. It's a fair question.