#but at least the writing seemed vaguely aware that “empress hooking up with her servant and getting her to do covert work”

[sunlight-shunlight]

anyway, the "they were doing it" bit on the solas flashbacks is wild bc it's like

ok. it's established that solas had mythal's vallaslin. which makes him her employee, AT BEST, in the most charitable interpretation of what those meant. and clearly there was a huge power differential, and she was willing to pressure him into doing things he didn't want to do, on her behalf. and later on, flemythal is capable of treating her daughters horribly, and fully mind-controlling whoever drank from the well on a whim, indicating that she has no qualms about what levels of cruelty or manipulation she'd go to. and despite all his "oough mythal was the best of them 🥺" stuff, solas gets very freaked out by a high approval inquisitor taking the well, which indicates he's at least somewhat aware of how much of a menace she can be, and is afraid on their behalf.

so is that not... a very dark implication for the writers to make? that's not a funny one-liner to throw in offhand, that affects both characters a lot, and is quite sad as an implication fhdgjgdfjgk. it would be an interesting plot point for them to explore such a toxic relationship and what effect it had on everyone involved, except i'm genuinely unsure if the writers had any thoughts about it at all.