Maia Rua is an island aumaua ranger whose animal companion,
Ishiza, is a bird of prey that can scout outdoor environments both in
and out of combat. Like Kana, her brother, she’s a loyal Rauataian of
Huana ancestry.
Her boldness and dedication have earned her an
enviable position as a ship captain, which in turn has brought her to
Deadfire as part of her country’s mission to “civilize” the wild
archipelago. Her duties find her working with Atsura, a courtier and
representative of the ranganui, on an ambitious campaign to win the
hearts and minds of the Huana people. But for all her skill as a soldier
and captain, she has little experience with politics and espionage, and
she must adapt to her new role quickly.
Serafen is an orlan
cipher/barbarian and a member of the Príncipi sen Patrena, the dominant
pirate organization in the region. He was born into slavery and put to
work as a rigger and powder monkey since his small size made him ideal
for scurrying around ships.
During those years, he discovered his
talents as a cipher and used them to lure his masters’ ship into the
path of the Príncipi. Impressed, the pirates offered him a position as
one of their infamous"ship hunters,“ and he in turn found acceptance and
freedom among his new comrades. He worries, however, that the growing
schism in the Príncipi will destroy the community he has come to love.
“seras romance is abusive” okkkk bbbbuuuutttttt hhhhaaaavvvveeee u met anderssssss… why is he forgiven when she isnt…….
Her romance is emotionally abusive if you’re an elf, since she constantly makes bitter and spiteful comments about your heritage, culture, and religion to or in front of you but expects you to just take it; and uses emotional manipulation and blackmail to try to force you to hide or deny your culture / heritage / religion or break up.
Anders? … He remains one of the most hated characters in the franchise. O.o Even if he wasn’t, his actions don’t excuse Sera’s.
god I don’t even want to get into this again but it is fuckin wild that this post I made when the game came out like… two years ago is getting reblogged now.
for the record, i read seras actions as being that of an emotionally immature person who is dealing with someone she really likes but can’t deal with certain aspects of their lifestyle because of her own personal issues. it’s better for them to break up in the long run, though she handled it all incredibly poorly. it’s shitty, but this post was less about excusing her behavior and more written in response to how the word abusive was still being used as a catch all word for “behavior i don’t like.” im not sure if it’s still happening because i don’t participate in the fandom, but it is still an attitude i disagree with.
as for the anders thing, i, once again, don’t follow the fandom anymore, but it was more a commentary on how he can treat both hawke and the companions in a super shitty way but (at least at the time and environment I wrote this post in) was still a fandom fave. i would probably not classify his behavior as abusive, for the same reasons i would not classify sera’s. his actions were shitty but not abusive.
im only clarifying this because ive seen this post reblogged a couple times recently and it feels weird to see kind of an angry reaction post of mine go around without any clarification on both my current position and why i made the post, which had more to do with a fandom attitude that was emerging at the time than any actual statement on either of the characters, despite how poorly I framed it. im not like…. mad at you for commenting or anything haha. that’s the nature of this website.
but anyway, characters can be shitty and complicated without overusing the word abuse to decry their behavior and i think that’s true for both sera and anders.
i think a big issue with aces wanting to be considered lgbt and thinking they’re entitled to include themselves amongst us is that their version of the lgbt community is so idealized they don’t understand it. they don’t understand that we can barely take care of ourselves, that kids still freeze in the streets because there aren’t enough room in lgbt centers (which are barely funded as it is), that trans women are being killed left and right, that gay kids are being kicked out of their homes, that lgbt people are killing themselves every day, that alcoholism and drug use is a huge problem in the community. they only see the pretty parts – the parades, the rainbow flags, the celebration of gay marriage, the culture, but they don’t understand that it’s not like that all the time. that most of the time we’re barely scraping by, that the resources, the beds, the scholarships run out so quickly, and there’s not even enough for us now
and honestly i’m gonna disregard all the fuckin discourse for a second about whether aces are even inherently lgbt and remind people that we honestly can’t support them. our resources, our shelters, our scholarships, our food were created for certain people and we don’t even have enough for ourselves, never mind them!
and to a degree, i can understand why aces might think the lgbt community is for them, because through their narrow view they only see the good parts, and they want to be a part of it, because they’re abnormal too, right? they’re not the norm either. but that view comes with a shitload of misunderstanding on their part and ignorance of our history. we didn’t come together as a “community” by chance. we were united by things like the aids crisis, like stonewall, and even now we’re just barely clinging on to each other when we’re not fighting amongst each other. they don’t understand that during the aids crisis our elders saw their friends dying around them and a government who ignored their existence, that they attended funerals every week, that they were barred from seeing their loved ones in the hospital because of who they were. they cannot understand, and they will never understand.
and i’ll say this: aces do deserve a community. they deserve support and resources too. but the lgbt community is not the one for them. we can barely take care of ourselves, and we are not the answer to their issues.
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Like the sea, I’m constantly changing from calm to ill. Madness fills my heart and soul, as if the great divide could swallow me whole. Oh, how I’m breaking down.
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