#rezaren ammosine

[bloodraven55]

YASSSSSSS 🙌

[koras-hunter]

[dalishious]

The Dragon Age Fandom’s New Favourite Charming Slaver

There is nothing wrong with appreciating and enjoying villainous characters, especially when they are done so well. Everything about Rezaren Ammosine makes a him a remarkable and fascinating villain. He’s very intelligently depicted; all aspects of his character matter to how he presents in the story. His design is that of a handsome young white man. He is animated with a graceful and gentle flow, not just in how he casts spells but literally how he carries himself. His voice has a soft and soothing tone, and he uses that soft tone as part of his powerful charisma and sway he has over the people around him, like Tassia. In fact, Rezaren uses all of these characteristics for his benefit. Because just like in real life, abusers do not always wear “I’m a shithead” signs on their chest. To the outside world, they are charming and gentle people who couldn’t possibly hurt a fly, could they? But make no mistake. Rezaren Ammosine is a villain to his core. And treating him as anything other than a villain is a grossly disrespectful interpretation to fans of colour, given the nature of his villainy.

From his very introduction, we see that Rezaren is used to getting his way, and becomes easily frustrated and angered when his will is denied. When he summons a spirit of memory to interrogate about the circulum’s creation, the spirit warns him that answering too much would be unwise. Rezaren ignores these warnings and orders the spirit to continue, to the brink of turning the spirit into a pride demon. This is called back into further example when Miriam refuses his plans for her. Again, he becomes easily angered and physically lashes out, using his magic to flare up the pain in her wound. Then to solidify the power he has over her, says “You live because I will it.”

Rezaren explains to Tassia, “Her name is Miriam. She's my sister. My mother owned her. She was to be my personal spy, assassin. Whatever was needed. My left hand, as it were. But she raised us as siblings.” Except we see how Miriam and Neb were really raised in flashbacks. We see how they were beaten for Rezaren simply tripping while playing with them. We see how they were forced to do hard labour, and told they were not allowed to own anything. And we see how Rezaren’s mother sacrificed Neb so that Rezaren would not become an abomination during his Harrowing, sending the demon into Neb’s body instead. And that raising has obviously shaped how Rezaren views this so-called siblinghood, because while he may call Neb and Miriam his brother and sister, make no mistake, he still views them belonging to him. Rezaren has no respect for their autonomy. Even in death, he defiles Neb’s body by using blood magic to put a demon inside it and controlling him. And Miriam? He cannot bare to accept that she refuses to submit to slavery again, no matter how pretty a picture he paints of them being like family. But you don’t own a sibling. “Selfish bitch! You and your ungrateful brother. You were mine!” he shouts at the very end, before Miriam fatally stabs him.

So, Rezaren is a villainous slaver. Why is it, then, that people are writing reviews praising his character while calling Miriam and her party the real baddies? Why are people saying he “deserved” a redemption arc? The only assumption I can come to is simply that people are so not used to the white guy being the one to lose in the fantasy genre, that they’re willing to bend over backwards to try and paint the only white person in the show as a victim of the #mean brown woman. Think about it. How many stories are out there where the hero is a white man? White people are conditioned to always be the centre of attention, so when they’re not for a change, they need to seek it out by shining a spotlight on whatever white man they can find. This is of course nothing unique to the Dragon Age fandom, but rather a disease found in fandom spaces as a whole. Hell, look at the Star Wars sequels, and how the bizarre love for and babygirlification of Kylo Ren was so strong it led to ruining the second and third films. This is why it’s such a relief to me that Rezaren dies in the end of Absolution, because otherwise it would truly end up a fear to me that the writers would try the same with him.

When you’re pushing Rezaren into the spotlight, you are pushing Miriam out of it. And Miriam is such a treasure of a character, it’s a crying shame to see her get so much disrespect. I have nothing against people who like Rezaren, but if your like for him goes to the extent of putting down Miriam in order to put him up, then we have a problem.

[warden-commander-of-ferelden]

“No one sees a slave.” —Written in secret by slave scribe Solvarin Brann, 8:65 Blessed

[baejax-the-great]

Tassia: No, Rezaren, don't do blood magic, you're so sexy aha

Rezaren, who has done blood magic every day since he failed his magic license exam: Aw, babe, don't even worry about it. Seriously. Don't.

[copdog1234]

Its such an interesting choice for DAA to make the main character and former slave POC and queer, her slaver a White Man that doesn't understand that she doesnt belong to him and cant take "no" for an answer, and her problematic love interest a White Woman who agrees that there's things wrong with the system that has oppressed the main character, but is very much absolutely willing to bargain the main character's freedom to meet her own ends.

[pinkpinkboota]

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[dragons-and-ages]

[valtianan]

“nothing is absolute”

[darethshirl]

okay so people keep dunking on poor Tassia for not realising Neb is fucking dead and just chatting at him with like zero response BUT are we not gonna talk about freaking REZAREN talking to him??

like? are you expecting a response here?? from the corpse? the reanimated corpse that you made? what kind of mental gymnastics is this man doing in this head good GOD

also THIS part

like is this a joke. is he having a private joke with himself. is he chuckling inside.

and you know what actually this last scene is a really cool way the show tricks us, cause on first viewing Rezaren just seems like a calm and chill guy here, unruffled, doesn’t raise his voice, just an all-around mild dude

and then you rewatch and go oh. this man thinks this entire situation is acceptable. he thinks his life is a Normal Life to live. no wonder he doesn’t realise he’s the villain of the story lol

[merrillapologist]

nightmare blunt rotation. will not elaborate

[bloodraven55]

Rezaren truly the most annoying bitch in this show 🙄

[kizzyfrizzy]

A quick Rezaren piece 🔮

[dalishious]

[warden-commander-of-ferelden]

A Poor Little Meow Meow if you will

Dragon Age: Absolution 

[orinthered]

i will speak in a language you can understand.