Can you explain the Flemeth-is-an-abusive-mother thing? I know Flemeth has some flaws but I've never gotten any outright abusive vibes? Maybe I just missed a lot?
Morrigan will tell the warden of a time when she was just a little girl, Flemeth broke the mirror she loved for the purpose of teaching her not to love things. “To teach me a lesson, Flemeth took the mirror and smashed it upon the ground. I was heartbroken.” “Beauty and love are fleeting and have no meaning. Survival has meaning. Power has meaning. Without those lessons I would not be here today, as difficult as they might have been.” Morrigan looks back at this and sees it as deserving. “Flemeth was right to break me of my fascination.”
If you give Morrigan a replica of the mirror after she tells you the story, she asks what you want in return. When you tell her it’s a gift, she says, “You say that as if I should be accustomed to such a thing. I have… never received a gift, not one which did not come at a price.”
Asking Morrigan if Flemeth is her real mother gets a number of telling dialogues. If the warden asks Morrigan if she loves Flemeth, she will answer “What an odd thing to say. Why must “love” enter into the equation? Flemeth taught me everything I needed to learn. How to survive. The meaning of power. The truth of men. If other mothers do not teach these things, then I believe them the lesser.” Morrigan doesn’t understand the very idea of loving your mother. When Morrigan asks the warden about their mother, and the warden says they love her, she responds “I find myself a little envious, to tell the truth. But it matters not. Let us move on.”
If the warden enters a relationship with Morrigan, she will eventually ask what the warden thinks of love. She herself says, “What I am saying is that I have been foolish. I have allowed myself to become… too close. This is a weakness.” “I would not… I am not like other women. I am not worth your distraction..” Morrigan was taught that love is a weakness and that she is undeserving of love.
In the Fade sequence of Broken Circle, a spirit is attempting to convince Morrigan it is Flemeth. “I am your mother… do you not love me?” The spirit says. Morrigan does not believe it. The spirit slaps her across the face and says “Are you more clever than your own dear mother? Surely such pride must be punished! There! That is for not showing respect!” Morrigan’s response to this is, “That is far more like it, but it is too little too late, spirit.” This suggests that Flemeth has physically hurt Morrigan, as that is what she says is more akin to her mother than speaking of love.
If Morrigan is in the party when Brosca reencounters their abusive as fuck mother, afterwards Morrigan will comment “We have more in common than I thought.”
Morrigan is an emotional and very likely physical and verbal abusive survivor. And when she tells Flemeth in DA:I that she is many things, but will never be the mother Flemeth was to her, it hits me so hard. Every single time.
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