The story is so good! Holy moly!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've been having so much fun with it you have no idea. ♥ Like a mixture of Bloodborne and Dragon Age and it makes me very very happy to write about.
I find Dorian's archtype to be very similar to how I RP my Inquisitor, short of the playing hard to get part (because we all know my Inquisitor is easy as hell.) Which of course similar to how I (at least try? haha) deal with things in real life. Don't let anyone know you're hurting, flash and bluster and sparkle so no one sees behind the mask, don't let anyone near your vulnerable side because then they're able to hurt you, that sort of thing.
My husband kind of crapped all over that when I met him, just as Iron Bull and the Inquisitor ruin it for Dorian too. It's sweet and it hits close to home, and as a gay man who dealt with my own father disavowing me (until I married, then he wanted money), Dorian's character is extremely relatable. He also is gentle, caring, sees the good in absolutely frickin anyone, and is generally just a big sweet heart as well as being incredibly driven and focused. You give that boy some motivation and support and he will change Tevinter with it, that's something.
The biggest difference is Iron Bull is a fantasy, his character is amazing but its not anything I can personally relate to as I am not a spy and dont have a big crisis of faith living a double life thing haha. Dorians personal struggle, his tendancy to cope with self destructive behavior, etc, its all very relatable.
There's a lot to like. If I judged people off their exterior package and didn't give them a chance to be someone greater, I wouldn't have had much luck romancing a certain qunari spy, either. So it works, haha. The upside is all my adoribull-shipping friends are incredibly open to OT3, and so I fit right the hell in. >:3