No one likes her, but Sera was never an agreeable girl [Inquisition]

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    I have a confession.

    I still like Sera. And the title of the thread kinda makes me go ehhhhhhh nah, you know? But on the other hand, a lot of companions I feel indifferent towards are loved by people, so I guess I can't judge.

    I really don't care if people like/dislike certain characters

    I think there were some sort of wildly disproportionate comparisons made of Sera, like calling her Trevor from GTA 5 or whatever

    That sort of exaggeration rubs me the wrong way

    but if you don't like her you don't like her and that's fine

    I don't like Vivienne and I think a bunch of people like her

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    I like Trevor more than Sera

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    I have a confession.

    I still like Sera. And the title of the thread kinda makes me go ehhhhhhh nah, you know? But on the other hand, a lot of companions I feel indifferent towards are loved by people, so I guess I can't judge.

    I really don't care if people like/dislike certain characters

    I think there were some sort of wildly disproportionate comparisons made of Sera, like calling her Trevor from GTA 5 or whatever

    That sort of exaggeration rubs me the wrong way

    but if you don't like her you don't like her and that's fine

    I don't like Vivienne and I think a bunch of people like her

    I don't think many people like Vivienne at all either.

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  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    Trevor's cool, but he's so at odds with the game's storylines that he feels weird. Like, here's a Saints Row Boss dealing with two mopey GTAssholes.

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Is it possible to talk to
    Alistar
    after Adamant? He left right, can I talk to him or is he gone forever?
    he should have told you he was going to Weisshaupt

    I think he did! Ok, so I can go there on the World Map and have a chat with him?

  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    The amount that people hate Viv and the amount of time they have her out in the field with their favourite character have a strong correlation

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Is it possible to talk to
    Alistar
    after Adamant? He left right, can I talk to him or is he gone forever?
    he should have told you he was going to Weisshaupt

    I think he did! Ok, so I can go there on the World Map and have a chat with him?

    No, that place is not in either Ferelden or Orlais.

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I still like sera overall

    I just really hate how she is about religion

    we've all had a friend who gets really annoying about one thing or another

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Actually I'm curious about something with Viv, though I haven't tried it yet.

    Viv personal quest spoilers
    So there's an option to give her a regular wyvern heart instead of the snowy wyvern heart. I haven't done it because it seems kind of evil, if I'm going to refuse her request I'll just do it openly, not give her the wrong thing.

    But in thinking about it and looking at her card change if you do that, I realized that she's probably knowledgable enough to know what kind of heart you're giving her but that she might use it anyway as an excuse to get rid of Bastian and raise her own power. Has anyone tried it, and if so what are the repercussions?

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Is it possible to talk to
    Alistar
    after Adamant? He left right, can I talk to him or is he gone forever?
    he should have told you he was going to Weisshaupt

    I think he did! Ok, so I can go there on the World Map and have a chat with him?

    No, that place is not in either Ferelden or Orlais.

    Dangit okay

    That's fine this first playthrough is a test run so I can iron out things like this

    Next time I'll keep that in mind

  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    I sworn off ever romancing Sera because of some of her commentary

    puts a big ol' damper on the character

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    I didn't get that at all, I
    stripped the noble of his title and put him to work and she laughed about it and that was that.

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Dubh wrote: »
    I sworn off ever romancing Sera because of some of her commentary

    puts a big ol' damper on the character

    Yeah, that sucks

    I still blame the writer for this not the character and like I said don't blame anyone for not being able to/wanting to get past that

    I do think its weird people say sera is a psychopath when bull VERY PUBLICLY and SPECIFICALLY says he enjoys hurting people and causing pain

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I got no real beef with Sera. Her speech is kind of weird, like a posh person pretending to be not posh, but she makes me laugh as much as any of the others. And her motivation for being with the inquisition ("I want the world to go back to normal so I can continue being a petty criminal and screwing over the nobility") is different, and a bit more interesting than most other people's "I just want to do good" kind of attitude.

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    I didn't get that at all, I
    stripped the noble of his title and put him to work and she laughed about it and that was that.

    On my version, Sera
    Got tired of me asking him questions, and killed him on her own, same violent result. Then I ripped her a new one back at Skyhold and told her if she ever pulled shit like that again, she's out.

    Best thing about Sera (and Viv for that matter) is being able to tell her that her shit opinons don't matter and that she can go fuck herself at any time.

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Is it possible to talk to
    Alistar
    after Adamant? He left right, can I talk to him or is he gone forever?
    he should have told you he was going to Weisshaupt

    I think he did! Ok, so I can go there on the World Map and have a chat with him?

    No, that place is not in either Ferelden or Orlais.

    Yeah, Weisshaupt is kind of the ass end of Thedas

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    I didn't get that at all, I
    stripped the noble of his title and put him to work and she laughed about it and that was that.

    On my version, Sera
    Got tired of me asking him questions, and killed him on her own, same violent result. Then I ripped her a new one back at Skyhold and told her if she ever pulled shit like that again, she's out.

    Best thing about Sera (and Viv for that matter) is being able to tell her that her shit opinons don't matter and that she can go fuck herself at any time.

    You can ask a couple of questions
    you can ask the ones that are just information about what happened here
    just stay away from the ones that are like, hey if we make a deal what do you want out of it

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    I didn't get that at all, I
    stripped the noble of his title and put him to work and she laughed about it and that was that.

    On my version, Sera
    Got tired of me asking him questions, and killed him on her own, same violent result. Then I ripped her a new one back at Skyhold and told her if she ever pulled shit like that again, she's out.

    Best thing about Sera (and Viv for that matter) is being able to tell her that her shit opinons don't matter and that she can go fuck herself at any time.

    I mean that guy
    killed his servants and literally didn't give a shit

    What did you think she was going to do

    Everyone in your party has triggers and hatreds and shit that sets them off

    I just don't understand why this specifically sets people off quite so much

    is it just because she acts without your say-so?

    In DA2 all the companions did that on occasion

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    I didn't get that at all, I
    stripped the noble of his title and put him to work and she laughed about it and that was that.

    On my version, Sera
    Got tired of me asking him questions, and killed him on her own, same violent result. Then I ripped her a new one back at Skyhold and told her if she ever pulled shit like that again, she's out.

    Best thing about Sera (and Viv for that matter) is being able to tell her that her shit opinons don't matter and that she can go fuck herself at any time.

    I mean that guy
    killed his servants and literally didn't give a shit

    What did you think she was going to do

    Everyone in your party has triggers and hatreds and shit that sets them off

    I just don't understand why this specifically sets people off quite so much

    is it just because she acts without your say-so?

    In DA2 all the companions did that on occasion

    You do remember how everyone feels about Anders right

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Sera does sound weird, yeah

    doesn't sound like the kind of person she is supposed to sound like, I mean

    That is a lot of why she annoys me, actually

    I will say this, though, I think Iron Bull is well written but I don't like him at all

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    I didn't get that at all, I
    stripped the noble of his title and put him to work and she laughed about it and that was that.

    On my version, Sera
    Got tired of me asking him questions, and killed him on her own, same violent result. Then I ripped her a new one back at Skyhold and told her if she ever pulled shit like that again, she's out.

    Best thing about Sera (and Viv for that matter) is being able to tell her that her shit opinons don't matter and that she can go fuck herself at any time.

    You can ask a couple of questions
    you can ask the ones that are just information about what happened here
    just stay away from the ones that are like, hey if we make a deal what do you want out of it

    Yeah like

    guess what
    the person who doesn't want normal people to get stepped on by nobles gets pissed if you disregard his murder of his servants and make a deal!

    Like if you just hate that about her character I guess?

    But its confusing why thats a sticking point when other characters have similar blind spots and some are far more violent/loose cannon-ey

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    I didn't get that at all, I
    stripped the noble of his title and put him to work and she laughed about it and that was that.

    On my version, Sera
    Got tired of me asking him questions, and killed him on her own, same violent result. Then I ripped her a new one back at Skyhold and told her if she ever pulled shit like that again, she's out.

    Best thing about Sera (and Viv for that matter) is being able to tell her that her shit opinons don't matter and that she can go fuck herself at any time.
    She did that more because she thought You were trying to make a deal with the son of a bitch

  • DrDinosaurDrDinosaur Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    that's...not really an accurate summary of events
    You do a Red Jenny operation to disrupt a standoff between two noble houses who are competing for land. This dispute hits the common people hardest, because they're the ones who are getting killed or forced out of their homes. Something that Sera, as a member of the Friends of Red Jenny, is all about standing against.
    So you do a War Table mission, the nobles stand down, and Sera tells you there's a reward from the Friend who requested the operation.
    You go to the drop point and are greeted by a servant, who nervously tells you a noble made him do it. He runs away and is immediately felled by arrows. The noble reveals himself but notices you're the Inquisitor and immediately begins trying to ingratiate himself with you.

    Sera, meanwhile, is pissed that the noble set her up, potentially set up the land dispute to lure her out, and personally murdered her friend, the servant. If you don't handle the conversation correctly (asking too many questions) or just step out of the way, she attacks the noble and kills him.

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    I didn't get that at all, I
    stripped the noble of his title and put him to work and she laughed about it and that was that.

    On my version, Sera
    Got tired of me asking him questions, and killed him on her own, same violent result. Then I ripped her a new one back at Skyhold and told her if she ever pulled shit like that again, she's out.

    Best thing about Sera (and Viv for that matter) is being able to tell her that her shit opinons don't matter and that she can go fuck herself at any time.

    I mean that guy
    killed his servants and literally didn't give a shit

    What did you think she was going to do

    Everyone in your party has triggers and hatreds and shit that sets them off

    I just don't understand why this specifically sets people off quite so much

    is it just because she acts without your say-so?

    In DA2 all the companions did that on occasion

    You do remember how everyone feels about Anders right

    anders starts a war between two factions and murders a bunch of innocent people

    sera
    kills some asshole who callously murdered his servants, and she ONLY does that if you start to let him get away with it

    the two aren't comparable

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    I have a confession.

    I still like Sera. And the title of the thread kinda makes me go ehhhhhhh nah, you know? But on the other hand, a lot of companions I feel indifferent towards are loved by people, so I guess I can't judge.

    Can you do me a favor and rank the party members for this game

    Include the war council in there if it please you

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Yeah I know Anders has a lot more depth I just mean in terms of how people tend to react to their companions going off the reservation.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    I'm not arguing that she isn't justified for hating the guy.

    I'm arguing that she's a murderous psychopath.

    "I hate that guy" and "I'm going to stab him so much he actually turns to liquid" are not the same thing?

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    There's not a single character in this so far that I don't like.

    Better luck next time, Bioware.

  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    DrDinosaur wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    that's...not really an accurate summary of events
    You do a Red Jenny operation to disrupt a standoff between two noble houses who are competing for land. This dispute hits the common people hardest, because they're the ones who are getting killed or forced out of their homes. Something that Sera, as a member of the Friends of Red Jenny, is all about standing against.
    So you do a War Table mission, the nobles stand down, and Sera tells you there's a reward from the Friend who requested the operation.
    You go to the drop point and are greeted by a servant, who nervously tells you a noble made him do it. He runs away and is immediately felled by arrows. The noble reveals himself but notices you're the Inquisitor and immediately begins trying to ingratiate himself with you.

    Sera, meanwhile, is pissed that the noble set her up, potentially set up the land dispute to lure her out, and personally murdered her friend, the servant. If you don't handle the conversation correctly (asking too many questions) or just step out of the way, she attacks the noble and kills him.

    Oh ty for the correction I have been playing this game in the evenings when Im exhausted from work and I did it like two weeks ago so the details were muddy

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    I didn't get that at all, I
    stripped the noble of his title and put him to work and she laughed about it and that was that.

    On my version, Sera
    Got tired of me asking him questions, and killed him on her own, same violent result. Then I ripped her a new one back at Skyhold and told her if she ever pulled shit like that again, she's out.

    Best thing about Sera (and Viv for that matter) is being able to tell her that her shit opinons don't matter and that she can go fuck herself at any time.

    yeah that's what happened in my first playthrough
    I was questioning the guy to figure out his fucking deal because this entire scenario was fucked up as shit and partly Sera's fault and partly his fault and I wanted to know what was what so I could yell at the appropriate parties properly

    and Sera basically re-enacted the elevator scene from Drive on this fucking guy and I was like jesus christ Sera

    then back at Skyhold we argued about it and her response was basically "I'm going to keep doing shit like this because this is how I do things" and I was like "Not if you're part of my Inquisition you're fucking not" and she got shitty with me like it was my fault she got a bunch of innocent people killed with her stupid ideas and bootfucking a guy to death

    so I kicked her the fuck out right then and there

    second playthrough I refused to recruit her, when the mission came up that introduced her, I did it, I picked apart how she's basically a petty thug who enacts revenge fantasies with no regard for the repercussions and she smiled like "yeah, and?" and I'm like and that's a bad thing, Sera and she was like "pfft" so I told her to fuck off and she vanished from my game and I will never recruit Sera again because she's fucking awful

    Sera is a shitty person. She just is. She's either badly written, as a character, or she's written deliberately as someone so aggressively unintelligent and truncated in her ability to comprehend the world that she can't grow as a person or understand complex things and she's basically some variety of mentally disabled.

    I've seen some people, I don't know if Chincy is one of them but there have been some, try to defend Sera as being representative of a really basic commoner's point of view; that she's just really uneducated and uncultured and she's basically a street rat and doesn't have the patience or education or background to really think at the level some people are expecting of her and her behavior reflects her life

    except that's 100% bullshit if you manage to eke out any of Sera's backstory; she was raised by a human noble with some degree of privilege. She rejects it all, of course, but that's also part of why she's totally shitty towards other elves, for example. She wasn't raised in an alienage and she didn't grow up on the streets starving. Sera grew up in privilege and has only as an adult adopted this whole street rat persona thing and kinda leans on "keepin' it real" to conceal the fact that she's kinda intellectually incapable of understanding the world around her.

    it makes her an enormously unpleasant character to be around on like, several levels.

    Pony on
  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    I'm not arguing that she isn't justified for hating the guy.

    I'm arguing that she's a murderous psychopath.

    "I hate that guy" and "I'm going to stab him so much he actually turns to liquid" are not the same thing?

    He
    murdered her friend in front of her, stepped over commoners, and literally didn't even acknowledge he had done anything wrong

    Psychopathy is the lack of empathy or caring about people other than yourself

    She was in a blind rage, she is not a psychopath, at all.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    I will never not recruit someone in a Bioware game. Or at least, I've never yet seen someone I won't recruit.

    Plus without Sera you don't get BEEEEES

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    I'm not arguing murdering someone in anger is ok

    But its also pretty firmly in the realm of shit videogame characters do all the time and just about everyone in your party has done as bad or worse

    And she's DEFINITELY not a psychopath, that's not what that word means

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Also I will give her this
    When I said, "Sera, what you're doing isn't actually helping anyone", after blustering for a bit she agreed with me.

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    DrDinosaur wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Trevor is a great character!

    He's just also a murderous psychopath, which sera is not

    What Sera did you get? The one I got took great pleasure in stabbing a guy way past the point he was dead. She also screams "Eat it! Eat it!" after nearly every party kill. Seems pretty murderous psychopath to me.

    The one who specifically discusses with Bull that she doesn't like thinking about the pain or suffering she causes people in combat. She focuses on what she's doing but is uncomfortable with the actual damage she causes to people and doesn't relish it.

    She calls Bull weird for enjoying hurting people.

    And I've no idea where the bolded part was from, haven't seen anything like that.

    Sera Spoiler:
    She has two character quests, the second one you play pranks but the first one she takes you out to check on a Red Jenny operation. During that one there's a noble who sabotaged the operation and he is like "yo Inquisitor stop tooling around with Red Jenny and our ~*noble houses*~ will make a glorious alliance"

    and you can give Sera the go ahead

    and she kills him

    not just a little but a lot

    My Inquisitor's exact line was "Sera, stop, he's dead! At this point you're just making wine

    that's...not really an accurate summary of events
    You do a Red Jenny operation to disrupt a standoff between two noble houses who are competing for land. This dispute hits the common people hardest, because they're the ones who are getting killed or forced out of their homes. Something that Sera, as a member of the Friends of Red Jenny, is all about standing against.
    So you do a War Table mission, the nobles stand down, and Sera tells you there's a reward from the Friend who requested the operation.
    You go to the drop point and are greeted by a servant, who nervously tells you a noble made him do it. He runs away and is immediately felled by arrows. The noble reveals himself but notices you're the Inquisitor and immediately begins trying to ingratiate himself with you.

    Sera, meanwhile, is pissed that the noble set her up, potentially set up the land dispute to lure her out, and personally murdered her friend, the servant. If you don't handle the conversation correctly (asking too many questions) or just step out of the way, she attacks the noble and kills him.

    Oh ty for the correction I have been playing this game in the evenings when Im exhausted from work and I did it like two weeks ago so the details were muddy

    But yeah I distinctly remember giving her the go ahead, so that's something you can do, its not just a fail condition of the conversation

  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    I'm not arguing that she isn't justified for hating the guy.

    I'm arguing that she's a murderous psychopath.

    "I hate that guy" and "I'm going to stab him so much he actually turns to liquid" are not the same thing?

    Nah, she's not a psychopath. If you tell him to fuck off, she deals. If you use the Connections dialogue perk, she's cool.

    Bull is much closer to being an actual psycho, he gets turned on by Cassandra bisecting folk and he "stumbled into" a similar fighting style to one based around drinking people's blood.

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