I know the actors aren't that interested in the show, but this ranking still sucks.
Corlys was going to give his 12-year-old daughter in marriage to a king who is three times older than her and forced her to say that she would give birth to many heirs, it seemed that he didn't care much about the deaths of children (Daemon did not allow Laena to reunite with her family and died alone, and Corlys still worshipped the land on which Daemon walks. the situation with Laenor's death is even worse).
Harvin, although gentle with children, still deliberately put them in danger when he continued to produce them with Nyra and when he continued to hang around them, thereby increasing the suspicions of others because they literally look like his mini versions (Ctrl+C Ctrl+V).
Viserys… need an explanation?? he does not talk to Nyra after the death of his wife, plays favoritism, ignores the green kids including the long-awaited male heir, shrugs off the injury of his son, does not try to strengthen Nyra's claims and guarantee the safety of the boys (and this is only the most obvious).
Daemon ignores his daughters (which even cast confirms), marries immediately after the death of the mother of his children, forcing them to be present during the ceremony. he also did not mind marrying his daughters to bastards, thereby putting them in danger (everyone is talking about usurpation of the throne, but what about the driftmark for Baela?)
Otto uses his daughter as a political pawn, marrying her off to the king at the age of 15 and continuing to manipulate her years later (at the same time, he seems to have more tender affection for his daughter than some people higher up the list have for their own).
Aegon... we haven't even seen Aegon with his kids, but from the information we have, as a father, he is better than the rest. and this despite the fact that he is the youngest dad here who was forced to have children with a girl he did not choose (all circumstances are against him, and he is still winning). like, yes, he doesn't devote enough time to the children, but he makes an effort to be a good parent for them.
therefore, I would put Aegon in the first place (in the comparison), then Otto, Daemon and Corlys in random order, and the last place for Harvin (bc of the danger he regularly exposes children to by the illegality of their origin. otherwise, he would have taken the first place) and Viserys.
in fact, this ranking is a rather subjective thing, it's true, and it can be anything depending on what you rely on when choosing. but putting Aegon in the last place is a very dubious thing (as well as Viserys in the top three 💀).
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I got it in my head that Jin has always wanted to be a dad, but once the war starts and he starts becoming the Ghost, that road seems to shut on him. Who wants to live as the wife of a marked man, and what could he pass to the heir of a disbanded bloodline?
But I can't see him being single for the rest of his life, and I don't just mean casual sleeping around. He would be one of those people who somehow get locked down, and once he's quietly married he'll sit there wondering, "When did this happen?"
I do see him as bisexual, especially given that samurai were allowed to have relationships with other men (it's a specific age gap type of relationship, but from what I've read, that doesn't mean the door was shut on adult samurai having relationships with each other either), but when it came to actual marriage, it was expected that they end up with women because of how people expected gender roles to work when it came to starting a family.
So...I think one of two things could happen:
He has a child with Yuna. I absolutely do not ship this by a million miles (no hate to the ship, I just very strictly see them as bros), but she's the only woman he can get close to without dragging her into danger by association with him. It's very much a case of "my best friend and I made a pact that if we're still single by forty, we'd get married."
Or he finds a woman who willingly throws herself into a life on the run, or already is, and they become inextricably involved with each other. It could even be Tomoe. He sneaks onto the mainland on a mission, to the capital of Japan itself...and, well...
I have a lot of complicated feelings about this, given that Jin was most likely raised being taught that blood is everything. But the way he was raised, his relationship with his elders, and eventually the found family he ends up with at the end of the game tell a completely different story.
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There's something to be said about Sera's comments to Lavellan, but she will still romance her, still try to understand, she IS still attracted to her sexually and romantically, regardless of the prejudice instilled in her own self with her terrible upbringing. There are no race restrictions which differenciates her from both Solas and Cullen who will just not be attracted to anyone else than an elf or an elf/human respectfully. Her comments to an elven romance is not particularly worse than Dorians own on "brutes" and "barbaric qunari" to Bull. Nor more hurtful than Blackwall first remarks to Dorian mocking him and calling him lesser than a man for being more feminine in attitude and speech (something that is partially the class difference but would clearly count as weird homophobia/toxic masculinity). Every fucking character in DAI has something wrong and I feel as through Sera gets a lot more shit for it?
I can spend hours commenting on Sera's writing and how it's really bad in some ways and good in others. A big inconvenience is the locked dialogue to answer her with. There is rarely an openness for a genuine conversation about it all, never any room to clearly speak without accusations and rude remarks to Sera herself. Most others get some kind of reconsiliation or apology, and/or a discussion, but she doesn't get much to work with.
In Trespassers shes been reading up on elven lore for her wife and even before, in the Avaar DLC, you can use Sera to explain some elven god lore in place of Solas and she will recognize, differenciates, and explain a little lore. But how do you find this out? You'll have to find her journal in trespassers and specifically bring her and ask her in the other DLC. She's hard to explore. Sera is not all ignorant, there is a lot more to her that is simply not explored and all that is left is the bitterness and anxiety that is carefully lessened with time and true belief in having found an elf, particularly a dalish, that does not look down on her and sees her as an equal.
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can anyone tell me how much HoTD changed the ages of characters? cos like- according the book wiki, during the fight at driftmark that cos Aemond his eye, Aemond was 10, Jace was 6 and Luke was 5
like- er- that er really says something different about Alicent demanding Luke should be punished and that whole... eye for an eye thing? and also Aemond's whole revenge thing cos like. half his age
just like. should Luke have had a dagger at that age? no he really really shouldn't have. do i blame him for using it as his ten nameday old uncle was beating on jace? no I really don't
cos like it really doesn't portray aemond well there
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Young adult/Late teen Big Shot Spamton is funny cause like I can believe a 19-21 year old would make a deal with an eldritch horror if it meant partially escaping the bottom rung of capitalism. Like yeah that sounds legit cause his brain isn’t done cooking and he knows nothing about being an person outside of the goal of success and wouldn’t consider the possible consequences of expediting that process.
Also just the idea of the mansion staff welcoming a new and esteemed guest and it’s like the kid that fucked up their coffee order so bad he was crying before he even served it not a month ago and now he is somehow the CEO of Toyota that lives in the biggest/best suite. Guy still doesn’t fully get how a credit card works but he has 10, no wonder it all went down hill..
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