More Of My Babies Smooching. It's 2023 And I Still Love Them.

More of my babies smooching. It's 2023 and I still love them.

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Mass Effect 2:

Shepard: please I need your help

Liara: Sorry, I'm busy.

Ashley/Kaidan: Sorry, I'm busy.

Wrex: Sorry, I'm busy.

Tali: ...okay but ONLY AFTER I finish what I'm doing.

Garrus:

"If I'm going to live past Saul, I need you to, as well. Let me protect you... from yourself, from the Sith... you have to let me try."

- Carth Onasi, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, 2003

My hot take: Aveline's story was never about being a woman but instead being elf blooded. Aveline was raised by the dalish and she appeared human - more likely shes elf blooded like feyneriel and Alistair. When the chevaliers killed all the dalish she was spared.

Why would the dalish keep a human child if she wasn't one of their own? We know feyneriel mother (name escaping me) was caste out but zatharians daughter was raped and she took her own life. Had she lived it's not unrealistic that her human child would have lived among the clan.

Aveline was outcast and not allowed to fight because she was elf blooded. They don't want an armed angry minority who Aveline was more culturally immersed in.

The story of it being sexism is Orlesian Propaganda to not give the elves a hero

What's wrong with the tale of aveline the brave? My memory about it is hazy

it comes from an imagination so phenomenally incapable of picturing a world where men and women are (supposedly) equal that it not only assumes an explanation is necessary but decides that the logical explanation is that women used to be oppressed (read: not allowed to fight with swords, because that is what misogyny is about), because it would be of course impossible for any society to not come to that conclusion, but now Sexism Is Over because a man saw a woman get publicly brutally murdered for being a woman and was like, wow! that wasn’t okay! and this man personally Ended Sexism (read: women can become chevaliers now)

also to spice things up we’re going to throw in a weird little colonialist trope where she was inexplicably raised by indigenous people for no reason

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