#but one day I'd love to see some mages studying merrill's work like 'how?? how in the fUCK did she do this it shold be impossible'
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merrill dragon age really reverse engineered an eluvian from first principles in a cave with a box of scraps and one single blighted shard. and STILL she gets no respect for it from anyone but potentially hawke, at least in a confused yet well-meaning 'are ya winning son' sort of way on the friendship path. dark days for women in STEM
(really though it seems the equivalent of a person in the middle ages putting together a nokia phone from rocks and sticks (and one coaching session from a spirit, fair enough) and then just not being able to figure out how to turn it on even though it is fully functioning. magically at least merrill is inarguably a genius. the tony stark of kirkwall. well not really that comparison falls apart pretty quickly but you see what I'm saying here lmao)
#dragon age#dragon age 2#merrill#of all people aveline actually seems to pick up on just how brilliant she is#but she only ever tells merrill so out loud so that she gets to tell her she's also an idiot with the next breath fhsadkfhsa#ah would it really be DA2 if that wasn't how that conversation went tho#anders has his head way too far up his own ass (affectionate) about anything she does to really consider what she's achieved#but one day I'd love to see some mages studying merrill's work like 'how?? how in the fUCK did she do this it shold be impossible'#hawke standing over on the side like a proud yet bumbling older brother like 'uh. it involved some sort of really special knife.#I punched a varterral about it. do not ask me any more questions'
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