sitting here playing bellara’s final companion quest (cyrian’s funeral rites) with tears rolling down my face because i’m getting so emotional over this game. their world is a mess, blighted gods are on the loose, factions are vying for power in countless cities and hurting and killing innocent people, the inquisitor is struggling with the fight in southern thedas, the group is heaving under the weight of their individual predicaments, yet when bellara finds herself grieving the death of her little brother a second time, after having him back for such a short amount of time, bringing rook along if only to keep the ceremony small and not let it overshadow the other problems the group is dealing with, they rally around her anyways.
so i’m sitting there, ‘down, but not out’ from the official game soundtrack by hans zimmer and lorne balfe playing in the background, going through the process of lighting all three braziers for cyrian, when we come across neve who represents the entire group because the veil jumpers could only allow one person to be at the rites. she relays the group’s well wishes, emphasizing her point of ‘you know i show up for you, bellara’ when bellara is so shocked by neve’s presence, and it just gets to me so much that despite the world falling to ruins around them, they still find the time to be there for one another.
rook says at some point in their dialogue with mythal’s essence in the crossroads, ‘we started as strangers, and grew together into a family’. the group fostered a sense of community so strong, not only with each other, but with all their allies as well, that the simple act of showing up for someone they care about, no matter whatever else is going on around them, makes me cry every single time
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