oh and btw i am Not shitposting about soghren
oghren is a product of orzammar, of being trained as a beserker, asked to give his life for his people - and i don't mean risk death, although that too, but to literally dedicate his existence to protecting orzammar - and he does! he does
things happen, i'm not going to lay out the whole thing here, but when he joins with the warden, he's an alcoholic. he fought darkspawn. he fought for his home. he still cares about orzammar. it exiled him, and he still cared. he's all twisted up about it, he's in pain, he's isolated, he almost certainly has ptsd... substance abuse isn't an unreasonable direction
and he's so discerning. but he tones it down, plays dumb. he's a beserker. he's an angry drunk dwarf. that's all he is, all he'll ever be... (right?) except, no! there's bits of his dialogue that just cut right to the heart of a thing with this perfect precision. he knows things. he knows people. he understands people, how they act, how they react
so put him and solas together, and yes, they'll piss each other off royally. oghren will be all "sharks are smooth, actually," and it'll drive solas batty. but as the act slips and depth is revealed, solas, ever-curious, will want to dig. will want to tease out these other aspects. will find the pain and the bravery and the conviction and the wisdom that is buried beneath the bravado and the act
and that'll piss oghren off and then they'll be mutually pissed off and intrigued and frustrated and carefully maintained walls slip as they try to get underneath the other's carefully maintained walls and it is A Mess
this is my soghren agenda uwu
