#she becomes divine and does everything justinia fundamentally opposed

[v-arbellanaris]

I'm so glad Inquisition gives us the option to soften Leliana which basically means removing all of Justinia's influence (or removing parts of Leliana that became hard because of Justinia.) I feel like it's a bit of a middle finger to the late Divine that now she's dead, Leliana is finally free.

YEAH. like ok, my two fav dao romances are leliana (whose romance i did first) and zev's. playing her dlc and feeling that betrayal first hand, seeing how much she suffered. and then later, seeing how much she beat herself up over marjolaine's taunts, and being able to tell her evil does not worry about being good.

and then, the divine calls on her. to have justinia use leliana as an instrument of death infuriates me. she's valued only as a cold assassin, made to act against her morals and beliefs. all because justinia required a blade to level against the orlesian nobility, one that was used to an old, ailing divine, far removed from politics and certainly not one with ambition.

it upset me so much to see leliana's faith, and the goodness of her heart, and her affection for justinia -- who saved her at her darkest, who saw her at her lowest -- be used against her. by justinia herself.

and even if she says she's sorry, even if she apologises to leliana, even if she lets leliana go, it doesn't matter. i can't let it go lol.

cassandra says that the justinia she knew is different to the justinia that leliana remembers. and i definitely agree with cassandra on that. the only regret i've got is that i can't have leliana realise it, too.