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ellorgast:

hissingwastes:

Friendly reminders about Vivienne:

  • She’s horrified & saddened when you find out what has happened to the Tranquil Mages
  • If the Inquisitor & Dorian enter a relationship, no matter if she’s not friends with the Inquisitor, she will defend their relationship from assholes putting the relationship down
  • She’s the only one to approve of you saving everyone during Haven’s attack
  • If you blame yourself for Haven, she offers kind & comforting words
  • When Cassandra blames herself for not being present at the Conclave & trying to save the Divine, Vivienne reminds her she did all she could & to not blame herself
  • After completing Cole’s companion quest, Cole reads her mind & discovers a part of her cares for him despite all her vocal vitriol toward him
  • She’s distraught over the violence between mages (those who want to rebel & those who don’t) & the innocent lives caught in the crossfire
  • In Jaws of Hakkon, she offers condolences to Finn after he speaks about losing his father

Oh, but don’t forget:

  • She’s just as adamant that the right outfit will make people respect you regardless of your race–when most people in the Orlesian Court find an elf, qunari, or dwarf in formal dress laughable at best.
  • Iron Bull basically adopts her as a mother figure, and she tuts over him like one.
  • She accepts Dalish mage training as just as valid as Circle training.
  • She consults both Solas and Dorian on magical matters, even though she doesn’t get along with either.
  • For all her ambition, she joins the Inquisition at the very beginning, when doing so is more likely to make her a social pariah than gain her any favors.
  • Her biggest problem with dissolving the Circle is that there is no viable alternative in place to protect and teach mages.
  • She climbs mountains and trudges through bogs in high heels and never complains once.

The reason a lot of fans hate her (even going so far as to wish death upon her every single time her name is mentioned ffs, no one can talk about her without people grabbing their pitchforks) is because she “threatens” the Inquisitor saying she will feed them their eyeballs if anything happens to Varric. Don’t think she would have gotten half as much hate if she’d been a male character who said that about a woman he loved, but y’know, that’s what fans are like.

shotfromguns:

dalishious:

Oh no, how dare a female character say something mean to the protagonist?

That’s… not the impression I’ve gotten at all? Like, maybe Anon knows a person who’s explained it that way, or maybe they’re just strawmanning because they like Bianca and can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t, but that’s not me nor anyone else I’ve seen with a dislike of Bianca.

Varric trusted Bianca with the knowledge of red lyrium and the thaig where it was found, and she decided her own curiosity took precedence over that trust. Not only did she study it herself, but she led Corypheus (in Larius’s body) straight to the red lyrium, and she gave him unfettered access without supervision. It’s unclear how long she waited between getting Varric’s letter about red lyrium at Haven and coming to Varric about Valammar, but given the time gap before “Well, Shit” pops (only after “Here Lies the Abyss”), she probably waited at least a while. She also didn’t come clean about what she’d done until confronted with the evidence.

“I was doing you a favor!” Bianca claimed about her reasons for messing with the red lyrium… Except she didn’t ask Varric before studying the red lyrium (let alone before involving a stranger), and she never told him she was doing it. She probably never would have told him if he hadn’t written her about Haven.

And then there’s their relationship:

Bianca: You’ll have to stop by before Bogdan comes back. You should see my new workshop.
Varric: I’ll see what I can do. You know your family will kill me if I stop by, right?
Bianca: They’re not going to kill you.
Varric: You always say that, and they always send assassins.

Inquisitor: After all this, do you think you’ll see Bianca again?
Varric: I always do.

Varric: We write letters. Now and then, we manage to meet up. I don’t know if that’s “together.” Shit, it’s been, what? Fifteen years?

Inquisitor: What makes the merchant’s guild such a danger to her?
Varric: To be fair, it’s more of a danger to me. Technically, we’re not supposed to be within 300 leagues of one another. If it got back to the guild that we were seen together, they’d freeze my assets. And then have me killed.

Varric: I heard the wedding was lovely. The one Bianca actually showed up for, anyway.

Bianca’s arranged marriage may not have been a love match, but ultimately she decided Varric wasn’t worth giving up her family, and she went through with it. In Varric’s dream, Bianca said, "You look out for everyone—me, your family, your partners… But who looks out for you?“ To me, this suggests that her leaving him for Bogdan was not about protecting him, but about prioritizing her own interests. Bianca doesn’t have anything negative to say about her husband, and she clearly has a very successful career as an engineer pursuing her own ideas. Yet she has continued to string Varric along for more than a decade, never letting him actually move on, all the while having her cake with her husband and eating it too with Varric… despite the fact that it puts Varric in literal, mortal danger every time they meet as well as keeping him in a permanent holding pattern where he can’t move on even when they’re just corresponding. And yeah, Varric is a big boy who can make his own decisions… but she’s the one who keeps dangling the carrot in front of his eyes.

Bianca’s “Get him killed, and I’ll feed you your own eyeballs, Inquisitor” line isn’t bad in and of itself—but it comes immediately after the revelation that she was responsible for Corypheus getting his hands on red lyrium, and after it’s been explicitly stated that her relationship with Varric—and especially her physically being there—puts him at risk of being assassinated. Which makes the threat more than a little bit hypocritical.

So I guess you could TL;DR my personal dislike of Bianca as that she’s deeply selfish, and especially that she’s deeply selfish in a way that has harmed and will continue to harm a character I care about a lot. She continually puts her own desires above the needs, wants, and safety of Varric, someone she supposedly loves (and cheats on someone she made a commitment to, to boot).

Maybe Bianca truly loved Varric. Maybe she thinks she still does. But someone who genuinely loves another person doesn’t treat them the way Bianca treats Varric.

cobaltash:

tor-zirael:

Vivienne: *is told all her life that everything in the Fade is a threat, and if she gets posessed it’s her fault entirely because she’s a living bomb*

fandom: ugh she hates Cole, what a BITCH

bonus:

Cole: You worried for me.
Vivienne: I was concerned about you, demon.
Cole: No. You were worried. The part of you that forgets I’m me cared. You want it to go away.

It’s also worth noting that some of the things Cole says to Vivienne would raise serious red flags to any circle mage (I put it under a Read More ‘cause it got a bit long):

Keep reading

rederiswrites:

The party came through the great gates of Skyhold dirty and bedraggled, hard-pressed to put a cheery face on two weeks of mud, blood, and the aftermath of a civil war that sapped their strength for the greater struggle. All Samhal wanted was a hot bath and a warm meal, alone in his quarters. When the spark of magic flashed in the corner of his eye, his first instinct was to tense for battle.

But there were no signs of fighting around the foot of the west tower. Instead, there seemed to be…a dance? Laughter, embracing. Magic flashed again, and this time he identified it as a harmless shower of colored sparks. It looked like the entire mage tower had turned out for a party.

“What’s going on there?” Samhal asked as Josephine and Leliana hurried up.

Josephine beamed happily. “One of the mages has had a baby!”

“What, and they’re all the uncle?” Samhal scoffed, scratching irritably at a healing blister.

Leliana caught his eye as she took the horse’s bridle.

“One of the mages has had a baby,” she said. “And there is no one to take it away.”