#blackwall staring at the warden constable badge with a quaver in his voice:

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i’m making progress in my blackwall romance and oh. zoe and i were getting emotional about BLACKWALL. i used to hate this dude, i found him stupid and boring and nasty, but the older i get the more i appreciate the nuance and subtlety in his writing? sheryl chee you did it again. also of all the straight dude romances i’ve done in DA (which are....alistair and solas) blackwall is by far the most endearing. a lot of the story beats of his romance are similar to solas’s, but have such a different tenor? solas tries to back off but doesn’t because he knows he has power over the inquisitor and thinks that, while she’s smart and clever, he’s smarter and cleverer, and it just feels so skeezy. blackwall is like... the opposite. the inquisitor has power over him, and the inquisitor makes him feel like he has the ability to be a good person when, deep in his heart, he thinks he’ll never be a good person ever again and he’s just evil and wretched, so the inquisitor terrifies and inspires him at once. it’s really emotional ;-;