#from sindri's pov it all seems so obvious

[vigilskept]

For Sindri Brosca:

Which canon character doesn’t respect your OC whatsoever?

Which canon character does your OC respect a lot?

Which canon character does your OC not respect at all? Why?

for the fandom oc ask meme

smiling like the grinch at getting another opportunity to talk about sindri rn!! liable to write essays about them always so i’ll stick to the warden timeline to keep this short-ish

canon character who doesn’t respect sindri: morrigan

mostly because she thinks sindri has no self-respect (true!)

where it gets a bit misguided is that she also thinks they’re… soft (debatable) and naive (definitely not)

from her POV, they have no resources to fall back on & the pressure of the blight is not going anywhere so they should be extremely selfish!

meanwhile sindri tries to help people out wherever possible while they recruit each faction and it drives her crazy

it doesn't improve her opinion of them at all when she does see them making cutthroat calls at other times because she just... fundamentally doesn't understand them

she can't wrap her head around what they're thinking so it just seems bafflingly inconsistent

canon character sindri respects a lot: sten, by a country mile

there ARE other reasons they get on, but in terms of respect...

it's because he knows his role and devotes himself to the fulfilment of it. no excuses, no railing against fate

there's a part of sindri that always struggled with the role that was imposed on them by their family

then with the joining that burden was replaced by a doomed fight against the darkspawn for the rest of their life

they try not to think about it (as always) but there's definitely some turmoil going on there

and yet, for sten who has had even less personal freedom than sindri and will share their fate in fighting an endless war of his own, there's no such turmoil

they can't not admire that and take inspiration from it

after all if there is true fulfilment in fashioning yourself into a tool for the service of your kin and your sworn brothers, all sindri has to do to attain that is to Keep Enduring

canon character sindri doesn't respect: shale

what's really unfortunate here is that they actually do get on fairly well until they get into the deep roads!

... then all that respect is lost within the span of minutes

generally they're willing to hear people out, but how things go down at the anvil has them seeing red

learning that the shale once saw the value of what it could do for its people in a stronger, constructed form... that it doesn't remember any of this yet now wants to side with caridin to destroy any opportunity anyone else might have to do the same?

it's shortsighted. it's idiotic.

destroying the anvil because of orzammar politics isn't even worth considering

there will be volunteers. sindri will be the first in line.

when that line is crossed again (yes, they know, it surely will) it can be dealt with then. for now, there's a blight, and a single company of golems could face down countless waves of darkspawn