#i keep having to check myself and make sure i'm rping as nika and not just choosing what I always choose lmao

[inquisimer]

also I continue to make major changes to Nika's canon and this time it was about the isolde/connor dilemma because. originally I think I had her let jowan kill isolde for the ritual but I don't think she would actually fuck around with magic at all.

and she would totally not be down to let connor live, because even if he was unpossessed, I think she would see him as a sort of ticking time bomb, it happened once, it'll happen again eventually. And she's completely unsympathetic to isolde because so many people are dead. and they were the people that eamon and isolde were meant to support and protect and she's definitely drawing parallels in her mind between how the upper castes in orzammar step on the lower castes and casteless to spare themselves even the slightest inconvenience. she doesn't know anything about the Circle, but she just sees isolde taking advantage of her privilege and is not inclined to trust her judgment when that judgment was what led to all of this in the first place.

like isolde saying "I have nothing to live for now" and nika is just like.....you don't know what having nothing to live for is.

ANYWAY Nika's playthrough is feeling a lot more authentic this time around but also ow