#solas hate

People always seem to compare them but Solas has negative appeal to me. And even when I disliked Astarion for the first 40 hours of bg3 I found him intriguing. I did SO MUCH DA:I art but always skipped the egg because I would rather he be launched into space.

“Don’t you mean enemies to lovers?”

“I promise you I do not”

Thanks for the ask! I don't actually talk about characters I dislike much, so if you're a fan of the characters I don't like, I'm sorry. Know that I think that's completely valid. Inquisition had some polarizing chacters in it and that's part of the fun.

Blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): Genuinely hard to answer. Probably Dorian, but he only SLIGHTLY edges out Iron Bull.

Scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped) Dagna is delightful in every iteration. But so is Scout Harding. There's a history there with Dagna though, like every time I look at her I'm like, I paid your tuition and I'd do it again.

Scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave) Okay, so people will say she's not underappreciated but she DEFINITELY is. Vivienne is one of the best characters in Dragon Age hands down and the whole fandom sleeps on her because she's unromancable, a woman and Black. Yeah she's pro-circle... Kinda? But she's literally the only person making pro-circle arguments that actually make sense. She's trying to draw attention to problems that a lot of the people in the rebellion haven't thought about. People are so willing to cut literal Templars slack over their circle opinions, but God forbid Vivienne speak about her own experiences as a mage. And when fandom isn't treating her with a double standard and being overly critical, they just write her out. It sucks.

Glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week) Honestly, Josephine's sister Yvette. I love that she basically came to Halamshiral to get the hot gossip and roast her sister. Yvette lives a life of pure joy and she deserves it.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave) Sera! There's definitely parts of fandom that appreciate her, but mostly people hate that she has internalized racism even though it completely makes sense for her character and it's a real thing that people struggle with. People nitpick all sorts of stuff about her. They hate her voice and hair and plaid weave. I don't think so. Sera is an anarchist icon and she can have all the bees her deranged little heart desires.

Horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason) Cullen. I simply don't like him. He has cop energy. I didn't like him as a random noodle hair in Dragon Age Origins and absolutely nothing has changed since then.

Instead of fighting with the pro-genocide ppl, I could ask myself why Bioware set up a guy who supposedly fundamentally believes in the inherent right of all free willed people to exist, who is against hierarchies and spent his early life trying to liberate slaves....and then undermine literally all of that and then some through his actions and words.

Are they trying to make him hypocritical by making him dehumanize literally everyone that isn’t “his people” unless the Inquisitor changes his mind - and having him still harbor cultural supremacist views against his own race? Or are they trying to make him sympathetic by revealing his good intentions as in showing that his actions in the past were framed as betrayal when you could call it liberation?

I mean, what are they trying to say about his political positions through his character? Were they trying to say anything at all? Am I thinking about his character harder than Bioware was?

Why would you TELL ME that this guy, again, supposedly supports the marginalized and fundamentally believes in the inherently dignity of everyone, and make him such a contradictory mess if you didn’t want to point out that his fundamental philosophy is flawed or wrong?

Or maybe I’m just not particularly fond of the idea that a guy who they keep saying cares about the marginalized and is willing to take radical action and then make that radical action be.....genocide.

I mean, I already know Bioware is very much attached to a liberal philosophy of looking at political systems, oppression and marginalization (you must work through the system, radical change is bad and leads to more harm than good, forgiveness and empathy towards your oppressors is the ideal) and other type of “love wins” “both sides” “ask nicely” bullshit but I’m figuring out that maybe I don’t hate the character as much as I hate the wasted potential.

Maybe my problem isn’t that Bioware doesn’t know what they are doing so much as I fundamentally disagree with what they are telling me.

Maybe I’m not confused as much as angry.

Hi!! I completely forgot to introduce myself to the da fandom!

My name is M, and my main is @wolfcat-hybrid​! I figured I reblog too much da stuff to bother tagging it all, so I just... went ahead and made a sideblog, so I wouldn’t bother my non-da followers on my main ^^’

I am pro-Anders, pro-mages (including bloodmagic), and pro-dalish

I am anti-Cullen (FUCK that guy), anti-templar, anti-chantry, anti-circle, and I think Solas is a dumbass bitch who's too stuck up his own ass to see that his plan fucking sucks

Anti Solas Federation

What happens when you get bored at work.