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Tagged: #Dragon Age #DA2 #Sebastian Vael #I'm going to pretend that this is tangentially related to the Circle spam because Chantry #... you gotta stop with the eyes Sebastian that's cruel
They weren’t supposed to match.
But they did, and it was awesome.
So I combined them.
Tagged: #Dragon Age #DA2 #Sebastian Vael #hello sweet prince #aren't you handsome today #with your nose and your eyes and your teeny little smile in the third gif #shh the fandom at large totally mischaracterizes you I know but it's okay #there's a few of us who will always be here for u bb
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I agree people project preachiness on Sebastian based on RL experiences with bible thumpers. hes actually pretty chill about it- see his banters with Merrill. personally, I found Anders pro-mage rhetoric waaay more preachy (even if its secular)
I adore Sebastian’s dialogue with Merrill.
The thing that gets me, is they went out of their way to display a moderate religious view, and he still gets called out on it.
iirc, the only religious conversations he starts are with Merrill and Fenris.
With Merrill, he very politely asks her about dalish faith, because, hey, he’s probably never met a pagan before. (Everyone else in the group is, at least in a desultory fashion, andrastian, and one assumes much the same held true for the rest of his life.) He even suggests to the pagan that maybe their beliefs came from the same divine source. He doesn’t try and convert her. He doesn’t expect her to try and convert him. They have a very civil conversation on the matter and both continue believing in their own faiths. LOOK AT THAT. THAT’S HOW EVERYONE SAYS THEY WANT RELIGIONS TO GET ALONG.
(And she makes a joke about him becoming an elf because she’s Merrill.)
He brings up faith with Fenris only because he’s trying to offer comfort to a friend who is obviously seeking some answers in life, and only after he sees him attending services.
He is never the aggressor in his conversations with Anders, though he certainly dings back at him when he can; he is still human, after all. He believes a bit too easily that the Chantry and the Templars mean well, but he never actually stops Anders from spouting his rhetoric about them. He politely disagrees and then attempts to diffuse the situation by looking at clouds.
And yet he’s the one who repeatedly gets called a zealot.
/and I know anyone who is actually hanging around my blog already agree with me, but some days I just feel the need to rant. Today is apparently a ranting day. Sorry?
I have nothing useful to add here (because I’m at work and I don’t have time to go nuts with this) but THANK YOU, YES.
Sebastian: Yes, well, these apples will buy your sister, eat your house, and woo your chickens.
Seriously, Sebastian?
“How do you put up with him? It’s always Chantry-this and Maker-that with him, not to mention that Starkhaven business he keeps complaining about but never fixing…”
The only people prudent enough not to ask were my companions. But I saw it in Fenris’ sidelong looks and Isabela’s sighs and folded arms, and every time I had a conversation longer than five minutes with any Kirkwaller that had met the Vael lad, the question arose in some form or another.
I don’t know who they’re talking about, but it’s not Sebastian Vael.
Sebastian Vael is a man divided between two worlds and two desires. He is repentant and rueful, but full of passion even he cannot quell, not even with a will of steel. He is wistful when he murmurs the Chant to himself, reflexively — wistful because the beauty of being a chanter is lost to him as long as he travels with me. He beams at the opportunity to help some lost Darktown soul because he wants to believe his redemption will be found in the imparting of coin to the downtrodden. After all, he can’t bring the dead back to life, nor can he swallow words already spoken or undo deeds already committed.
He is a diligent witness to the rising of the sun. He is a new adept at the art of deadpan humour, training under the master, Varric Tethras. He bows to my hound without self-consciousness. He treats the crass tavern clientele with courtesy, even when he is spit upon. Even with watery ale dripping off his nose and chin, he stays his hand, and his steady hand on my chest keeps me from starting a brawl on his behalf. “It is merely ale,” he reminds me, softly, wiping it away with a wrinkled napkin. “Let us not shed blood for the sake of pride alone.”
He flushes deeply when Isabela speaks and yet chuckles when Merrill misses yet another “dirty thing”. He is contemptuous of the rash and mad-eyed maleficar, yet he remains seated beside the feverishly rambling Anders at the Hanged Man long into the night, long after the rest of us have given up on him. His arrows fly straight and true, yet his fingers tremble as the wrongdoer cries ‘mercy’.
He rails against the Harrimans and the other noble families of Starkhaven, but when the anger has worn down to nothing, all that’s left are broken words of apology to the family he’s lost.Sebastian Vael is a man between worlds.
Sebastian Vael is neither a Starkhaven prince nor a brother of the Kirkwall Chantry, and yet too much of both.
Sebastian Vael, like the rest of us, merely wishes the suffering to end.“How do you put up with him?” you ask?
What makes you so much better that you can’t?
Oh, joy. The Sebastian-haters have crawled out of the woodwork again.
Tagged: #Dragon Age #Sebastian Vael #god I wish they hadn't made him a DLC character it just makes the bitching worse
Tagged: #Sebastian Vael #Merrill #Dragon Age #DA2 #banter #Sebastian she's running circles around you #I love all the babies in this bar
rebloggable version now. you can have your own personal starkhaven cock… (▰˘◡˘▰)
