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forgive me father for I have sinned in all the coolest and most glamorous ways possible

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Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

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Crystal for Glossier

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also! her reaction to the various possible outcomes of WEWH

character questions!  /  always accepting holy shit.

celene rules alone —— indifference, primarily.  so nothing has changed, really.  however, as she works to untangle her bias, she can appreciate celene’s relative progressiveness towards elves.  it’s merely that she knows that this won’t cause any notable shift for the commoners that she now seeks to protect, and she also knows that her traitors and her deserters are as good as dead if they can’t carve something out by force.  she’ll be marginally more aggressive after this; not necessarily to the inquisitor outside of a little bitterness for one bit of dialogue, but she’s less optimistic about negotiations.

celene rules with briala —— curiosity and surprise and no small amount of instinctual discomfort, though, to her credit, she catches it, mentally berates herself for a hot minute, and then forces it away.  a part of her suspects that this may be better for her people, or far worse.  on the one hand, briala’s own rebellion means that benjamine does feel that, maybe, she’ll be more sympathetic to her own.  on the other hand, if there’s anyone with reason to despise chevaliers and human knights —

gaspard rules alone —— this is her at her most optimistic, to be honest.  on the one hand, there’s just this similar ‘we’re warriors, not players of the game’ thing (  ben doesn’t hate the game as much as he does, and she’s alright at it, but her lack of duplicity works against her  ).  gaspard also rebelled against the empress and can appreciate the value of knights and those experienced in battle, so she expects she might be able to negotiate and create some sort of alliance or deal with him that will protect some of her men, even if not her specifically.  it’s worth noting, though, that she has a fairly limited idea of his racism / sexism and to a lesser extent his classism, viewing him as fairly average for his status.  worthy of critique, certainly, but not any worse than others.  if she was told more specifically of what he’s done to elves and his other bigotries, she’d be much less eager to ally with him.  not so say she wouldn’t, but it would be out of necessity.

gaspard rules with briala —— honestly?  she has no idea what that’s going to look like.  talking to her about it after that comes to light is going to boil down to “you’ve thrown me entirely off - guard, inquisitor, and that is not easy to do.”

forced into a truce —— benjamine has very little hope that this will work and not that they’ll all just continue to try to kill each other in secret.  that being said, the chaos does give her — not leverage, of course, given that she has actually no status in orlesian society any longer, but that she might be able to work something out.  she’s not optimistic, per se, but she sees ways to make this work.

forced into a truce (  ‘you work for me now.’  ) —— if she likes the inquisitor and they’ve been good to her people, she’s very optimistic and will ask them to ensure that her people are represented and listened to.  if not given their own land, at least not killed for their crimes.  if she really likes the inquisitior she’ll push for them to hamstring the nobility as a whole so that commoners and the freeman might have more representation.  if she doesn’t like the inquisitor and they’ve been shitty to the freemen, she’s less optimistic, and all she’ll say about it is that “i pray you are kinder to orlais’ citizens than you have been to her deserters, inquisitor” before switching topics.

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shit thats fucked up: benjamine decides she hates her parents because they lied to her and tricked her, not because they actually beat the ever - loving shit out of her with great frequency / denied her meals / isolated her for weeks on end / etc.

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Your kid shouldn’t be relieved to know you’re not home. Your kid shouldn’t have to double lock all of their stuff up because they’re scared you might go through it. Your kid shouldn’t have to think “Here comes the screaming” or brace themselves for the worse because you’re angry or stressed. Your kid shouldn’t have a genuine fear of you even being close to touching them. Your kid shouldn’t be afraid of you; your kid shouldn’t be afraid of the thought of you.

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thesxmmersword:

“It is worth nothing at all.” Spoken nearly through gritted teeth. She only cared that the title of Chevalier had been held, that meant something. As did the woman’s baring, the scars peaking from beneath collars and cuffs, the quickness of her step, Cauthrien knew Chevaliers inside out. They were dangerous, egotistical and as self-involved as they came. She didn’t give a fuck about ‘ex’, as an ex-knight she knew just how little that amounted too in the long run. If anything, it made the woman even more worthy of a careful eye. “I do not trust you, so I watch you. Leave if it is so annoying. I’m sure the pain of parting won’t kill me.” 

             EVERY BIT AS CHARMING AS THE STORIES MAKE HER OUT TO BE, ISN’T SHE?  Oh, yes, they speak of her.  As they speak of Loghain.  As they speak of all of the heroes and traitors of Ferelden.  (  easier to deride the mistakes of others than the mistakes you make yourself.  )  “I left because it was wrong, and because I realized that it was wrong.  More than you can say for your rebellion, isn’t it?”  It’s unworthy cruelty, and she knows it.  One who lived through the occupation has plenty of right to despise Orlesians (  she’s only just learning that such is true, but she is learning  ).  Her voice smooths.  “I don’t care if you trust me, but the WATCHING is creepy.  I’ve nothing to gain by betraying you or this Inquisition, and everything to lose.”

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lioninwolfsclothing:

     “I–”

Oh, it’s going to be a while before he lives that one down. The young man heaves a SIGH as his shoulders slump ever so slightly. 

     “Yes. And you– you’re the one that tried to drown a boy in  Miroir de la Mère, no?”

       SHE, on the other hand, is giddy with excitement.  OH, SHE HASN’T MET ANOTHER FROM THE ACADEMIE (  who wasn’t bent on killing her  ) IN AGES.  

                      “No ------ he swung at me and I dodged and he fell in.  It’s not my fault he was fully armored!”  He’d been fine, anyway.  The baby’d cried about it, though.  “What’s your name?  I can’t remember.”

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how receptive is benjamine to having her beliefs challenged?

character questions!  /  always accepting holy shit.

it depends on where in the timeline we place her.  if it’s prior to her mother’s death, then she can be — stubborn.  not cruel, necessarily, but dismissive.  if elves tried to tell her of their plights she’d brush them off; same with the lower classes.  if they complained of their treatment at the hands of chevaliers or nobility, she would just assume it was a few bad apples and that, really, people like that — they might well be exaggerating, as the uneducated are wont to do.  it’s sad, honestly, because she actually got along well the the servants before her parents made a concentrated effort to train her to see elves and the lower classes as non - persons.  anyway, though, prior to her mother’s death she was apt to sorta blow it off.

after her mother’s death, though, she’s sort of grappling with the sudden realization that if this huge important part of her life was false, then like…everything else her parents and the academie taught her is also pretty suspect.  she’s super open to critiques, even mean ones, because she’s desperate to reorder her worldview and get some stable ground again regarding what is good, and given that she no longer trusts her father or the academie, she’ll be extra receptive to stuff from commoners or the oppressed in a sharp reversal.  basically — after mom’s death, PLEASE challenge her beliefs.  make her think about them.  make her say ‘yes, i never thought of that’ or ‘no, that’s wrong’ because she’s literally never had these conversations before and she fucking needs to, and she knows she needs to.

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lioninwolfsclothing:

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     “Wait, aren’t you–” No. What if he’s wrong? He’s been wrong so many times before. And it’s been years since the Academie, he doesn’t–

     “Excuse me. I believe we may have met before.”

            Not too often strangers approach her out of nowhere and just --- talk.  The whole EX - CHEVALIER image is, understandably, intimidating.  But.  Oh.  She knows that face ----------

                           “I --- are you the one who --- you struck Bastien Proulx!”

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yall dont,,,,put pedophile / pedo ship supporters on my dash,,,,,,blease

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YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL HEART & AN OBEDIENT MIND, & THERE IS NO MORE DANGEROUS COMBINATION FOR A WOMAN WHO WISHES TO BE A HERO. written by rain.

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Now accepting curious anons.

These can be character development questions, questions about any interactions you’ve seen on the blog, questions about any ships you’ve seen on the blog, questions about my muses feelings about other muses from the fandom, or anything else you may be interested in knowing about my muse. 

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this is ben literally any time someone makes a joke

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it’s important to note that despite extreme physical and emotional abuse as a child that benjamine does sincerely just not....think of any of it as wrong?  like if someone else treated their kids the way her parents treated her she’d be horrified but it sincerely does not occur to her At All that it’s wrong.  she’s the result of years of grooming and abuse and violence and has Actually No Clue that this has a.) damaged her as severely as it has or b.) it’s something worth hating her parents over.

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eventually i’ll make a proper page or smth but you meet benjamine in game leading a group of freemen and when you go to attack she’ll talk you down and, if you’ve killed the other groups already, basically insist ‘woah buddy we’ve seen what you’ve done already and We’re Good Thanks.’  you can still attack and kill her group, but she’ll be an exceptionally difficult boss fight, basically.  if you don’t attack she’ll explain that not all of their groups are fucking idiots who want to fight all the time and that she’s interested in working with the inquisition and with fairbanks (  !!!  ) and call back to her own connections within the academie and orlesian nobility (  they may have all disowned her by the point but She’s Still Got Stuff She Can Help With  ) among the other resources their group can get them.

if you ally with her and haven’t already killed the other freeman groups, you’ll no longer have to kill maliphant’s or costeau’s groups, as they will not be hostile, and cousteau will release fairbank’s people without violence, claiming that benjamine was very persuasive about it.

she’ll ask you to investigate into their new and mysterious benefactor / members because “there isn’t a soul among them that i know, and that…does not seem possible” and it will, as in the normal game, point back to corypheus and the red templars, and she’ll act as a temporary companion in killing them.  she can’t be recruited properly but when you’re in the dales you can swing by her base and ask for help and she’ll follow you around for a bit.

in the last quest her group along with a few others from other freeman groups will be there, she’ll glare at the chevaliers and they’ll glare at her, it’ll be great ——

if you ally with her it Automatically deducts extra approval at halamshiral, sorry.  you can actually invite her to the ball aaaand she will just laugh at you.  gaspard and celene will both ask what the fuck you plan on doing with the traitors and you can tell em you plan on a.) betraying her b.) not actively helping but not harming (  a la ‘i see their point but i’m not getting involved’  ) or c.) basically tell them that you think the freemen are right to want to rebel against monarchs who don’t care about them or the commoners they’re supposed to protect.

if she likes the inquisitor she’ll ask them, especially post - halamshiral, to see if they can pull Something and get the other deserters some slack if not their own land here in the dales (  you can point out that shit belongs to the elves and she has a ‘what do you mean i’m racist, i’m not…oh.  oh, wait, i see it now’ moment  ) and depending on how that goes an epilogue slide will vary, but she’s pretty much always Being Hunted by chevaliers and assassins for being a blatant traitor TOO BAD SHE CANT BE BEAT U COWARDS

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              A QUNARI.  THAT’S NEW.  Despite the recent rearranging of her moral code, and her struggle now to resettle herself on what is right in lieu of a childhood of privilege and abuse --- there’s still an internal part of her which rebels at the thought of allying with such a creature.  Yet, she allows herself to fall into familiar respect.  Within the Academie she’d learned a great deal of it, and voice is that of how one would speak to a trusted superior.  “We are a new rebellion, Inquisitor, and desperate.  It does not excuse our foolishness, but I assure you not all of us are enemies of Fairbanks, nor his people.  I wish to help if only he’d let me near.”