arma-fucking-geddon

i love stories about betrayal i love depravity i love tragedy i love miscommunication i love backstabbing i love when characters encourage each other to be worse i love dysfunctional partners i love misfits & i love it most of all when they are bisexual

I mean if you wanna go really deep with it, we technically aren't even just seeing Varric's retelling of the events of da2, we're seeing Cassandra's interpretation of Varric's retelling of events.

Dragon Age 2 is a story told by a sensationalist author with great incentive to lie that was then filtered through the brain of a strict Andrastian templar sympathizer. Canon is basically whatever you want it to be at this point.

Cassandra heard "blood mage" and made assumptions about how the other companions interacted with Merrill based off of her own biases. Varric said that Fenris & Anders would fight sometimes and Cassandra interpreted that to mean they were constantly at each other's throats. Why are Anders' actions always interpreted in the worst possible light? Because Cassandra already has a set negative opinion of him. This is also why Aveline is portrayed as consistently good and correct despite being the most cop to ever cop. You can literally fix everything with this one.

Plot holes exist because Cassandra was so distracted by Varric's scandalously low cut shirt that she kept missing important information as it was explained to her.