#sera dai

[romanhyacinths]

DA Sera but make her modern... and punk? 👀

[lutentime]

i appreciate her more every playthrough

[broodwolf221]

forever thinking abt solas and sera as extraordinary foils of each other

elven history v. elven modernity is a big thing but just as major imo:

rebellion

solas is the dread wolf, the trickster god of rebellion and deception. we know now that it's more nuanced than all that, but he did lead a rebellion - and with good cause!

sera is a modern rebel, and what does solas do? he tries to share his experience with her. he talks about the tactics of rebellion, the choices to be made, the difficult things that lay ahead. sera listens and then rejects it and he's so confused. she's a rebel, she obviously cares about people, why won't she take it all the way?

but her reasoning is about avoiding his consequence and he doesn't even see it. she doesn't want to kill or ruin all nobles bc to do so would plunge everyone into chaos and she recognizes that. solas plunged all of arlathan into a chaos so profound it destroyed it

in a lot of ways, sera is wiser than solas, wiser about people, about reaction, about cause and effect. he went to extremes in order to free slaves and to punish the evanuris. she knows that nobles are awful and that servants and workers and all the people who provide for them are abused and misused, but she doesn't think wholesale destruction is the answer and she isn't wrong

and what's the difference? imo, community and experience. solas is such an academic, distanced from those he seeks to protect, and can be very paternalistic. sera has lived these things. she talks about how some of the red jennies make enough coin to retire and how the ones who do good are fine but others end up being the target of the jennies. she knows how people can change

also: the red jennies scare the nobles. there's power in that. it's far from perfect, but that doesn't mitigate the very real power in it. what if instead of destroying everything, solas had led a rebellion that put fear in the hearts of the evanuris? what if he forced them to confront that they, too, could face the consequences of their actions? it wouldn't have been easy but it would have prevented the absolute destruction that followed

and he! doesn't! fucking! see it! he doesn't see that sera's reasoning is about avoiding his mistake! he doesn't see that sera's wisdom grounded in experience counters his naivete grounded in an academic pursuit of justice!

which imo is all the more reason to believe he's a spirit. he had, and perhaps still has, a very simplistic view of things like this. if there is an injustice you fix it. you don't live with it and change it by degrees, you don't try to alter it at the root, you just Fix It, whatever form that takes. the evanuris are bad? imprison them. simplistic punitive justice. to sera, the nobles are bad? make them, THESE nobles, fear reprisal. give power and anonymity to the people being hurt. but don't get rid of all the nobles only to have to start the process over again

and we don't know the full form of solas' rebellion, granted. he may have tried many things for a long time. and arlathan appears to have been much worse than thedas is now - even tevinter doesn't seem as bad as arlathan is vaguely implied to have been. but he still destroyed... everything. he killed so many innocents. and yes, again, his situation was different - he talks about the evanuris destroying the world if he didn't stop them. perhaps he's right. it's not a 1:1 comparison, I get that. but they are still very profound foils of each other, and I find his insistence that sera should follow his path to be a fascinating bit of insight into his character, continuing to opt for extreme measures

[grimelven]

pov: the inquisitor is the blue message

warden’s pov | hawke’s pov

[zevzevarainai]

video game challenge: [2/7] female characters – Sera (Dragon Age: Inquisition)

not right. do everything for everyone, get sick. not right. can’t put arrows in it, put them everywhere else. i will never miss. i will make them know [inquisitor’s name] had HAS friends.

[kassarts]

3D for ask meme!

she just thought of the beeest prank

[isaactheowl]

Happy lesbian visibility week Averyone here'my girl sera

[nucuk]

Sera couldn't have waited longer for you inquisitor, so now you gotta battle-dance for the last cookie ✌️🍪💃🕺

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Sera | Dragon Age Inquisition

[rock-teh-elf]

DAI + noses that I adore :'-)

[jazzajazzjazz]

Decided to redo my first ever custom doll! Hope you all enjoy.

Everything made by me expect the following:

* Leggings - Shopbeetheone on Etsy, modified by me

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* Wig - Himerinda on Etsy, shop no longer available

* Bow - found on eBay

* Stand - modified basic Monster High doll stand

Original doll is a Monster High body with an Apple White (Ever After High) head

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[prophetssong]

Draw your inquisition party 🌹

[saurilashen]

[kaija-rayne-author]

So, apparently Cole is canonically supposed to be autistic? Or he was based on autistic people? I haven't found the actual comment, but I guess a dev said so.

I... uh, have thoughts on that. None of them are particularly flattering.

Sera is also coded autistic, but very few people ever mention Solas's incredibly clear and accurate neurodivergent coding. Why is that I wonder? (That's sarcasm, btw.)

Could it be the attitude that it's fine to portray some of the potentially less awesome traits of autistic and ADHD folks but it’s just not okay to portray us as intelligent, standoffish, deep, elegant characters like Solas? Sera and Cole are both some of the least accepted people in DAI. Both by the characters and the fans. I'm professionally diagnosed and I'm far more like Solas than either Cole or Sera. It's part of why I identify with him so much.

Look at all the shit Cassandra and Vivienne spout about Cole!

Look at how Sera is treated ffs. Ick.

Bioware really needs to hire a disability consultant. The ableism in this series borders on obscene. I don't think they're doing it to be mean about it. If anything, I think they might be trying to be inclusive.

They've, so far, failed miserably. As a disabled disability consultant and advocate? That sucks. Rather a lot.

I love the series. I've played the games more than once now, and I'm still very capable of noting and pointing out the flaws. Critique doesn't even usually mean someone hates something. It means they love it and would like to see it fixed.

[dankinthedas]

solas: I heard about your organization, Sera. I am impressed.

sera: Is this a trick?

solas: Hardly. But it is an opportunity. You have already divided your group’s membership. That is wise. No one cell can betray all your secrets. The next step is to establish a rhythm. When your enemies pursue, you vanish. When they become complacent, you harass them. When they are weak, you strike in earnest.

sera: Where’d you get all this, then?

solas: Do you wish to be unnerved by another tale of my explorations of the Fade, or do you wish to learn something?

sera: I don’t know. Neither?

~ THE STORM COAST

[gamerism]

The Ladies of Dragon Age: Inquisition - Companions/Advisors

Requested by @apricot-flyer.

[kassarts]

Happy Pride Month! 💕