Currently replaying Dragon Age: Inquisition for the first time (properly) since I was a teenager, and I think I'm finally starting to hone in on why I love the Inquisitor/Josephine romance so much. Specifically, a Mage Lavellan/Josephine romance, where one has been raised to become Keeper (now Inquisitor) and the other the bearer of all her family's burdens.
It's like, the weight of this legacy on my shoulders is crushing. Don't you dare take it away. The two of them know duty, responsibility, have inherited both since before they could remember.
Lavellan was bound to become Keeper, and now Inquisitor. They exist as the head of a legacy that has eclipsed them, the individual, and left a symbol in its wake. Josephine is a Montilyet, an Ambassador, the face she presents to the world has been carefully constructed to survive the Game. Her purpose fulfils and shackles her. Both are tied to a history, a legacy, a duty they cannot truly escape. Struggle against it all they might, they were never going to lead quiet lives.
It's like, everybody is looking at us. Nobody sees us. I see you.
