There's also this exchange between Vivienne and Blackwall. Just as a reminder, the chevaliers are noble-born warriors who are notorious for raping and killing innocent people - and they go on a killing spree of the city elves as part of their training. Vivienne: I wish we had more proper Chevaliers in the Inquisition and fewer...lowlife thugs. Blackwall: No matter how much you pretend I'm furniture, I'm a person--with ears. That can hear you. Vivienne: You recognized yourself there? Good.
See, now, this to me was a spot of absolute genius on the writers' parts. Because Blackwall was almost made a chevalier, and because the reason for his downfall was because he acted in the interests of - yup! - a chevalier. Fucking hilarious; I imagine the writers were laughing to themselves when they wrote this exchange.
Vivienne talks about wanting more 'proper chevaliers' in the Inquisition, not realizing that the Inquisition would likely not want such backstabbing, ambition-fueled psychos on their team. She also doesn't realize that the man she's busy calling a thug has learned through pain and effort to be better than the chevaliers and thus shows more honor and courage than they, thus making him far more worthwhile. The murder everyone hates Blackwall for was brought up, paid for, and sanctioned by a chevalier, showing that the chevaliers themselves prefer calling upon 'lowlife thugs' to do what they want, thus putting Blackwall and his actions under the chevaliers' employ.
In other words, Blackwall is a 'lowlife thug' because he joined the chevaliers' cause. When he steps away from what the chevaliers' wanted of him, he is far less a 'lowlife thug.' Vivienne slaps herself in the face with this one, and it's pure gold.
