I think it boils down that I don't like her relationships one-on-one. If you don't agree with her one hundred percent, she flips. She yells at you. You're stupid and an idiot. Anything that she doesn't like, or that might force her to re-examine her preconceived notions, is flat-out ignored or else mocked/shouted down. She's like a twelve-year-old in the regard. A child. She's incapable of maturely handling disagreement, when to her any disagreement at all is a reason to try and emotionally and verbally stomp the opposition flat. "You're stupid." "People are going to think you're stupid." "Why would you say that, you're stupid." It feels like one wrong move and she'd drop the relationship, whatever it is, in no time flat and laugh at you as she did it. Would she really? I don't know. But it feels that way. And sometimes it feels like you might kind of wish she would just so she'd
go away and you wouldn't have to deal with the ordeal of telling her to leave yourself. I always felt like I had to walk on eggshells in dialogue with her, because one wrong choice--not even the actual more aggressive choices that would warrant an equally harsh response, just the ones where you happen to say something
she doesn't agree with, no matter how innocent--and she'd be screaming at you, belittling you, and sneering at you. I get enough of that in real life, thanks. I don't need that sort of stress in a video game. It's not even something that happens only once or twice. This sort of behavior occurs
over and over again, to the point where it can't just be written off as the bad handling of one scene, or a justifiable aberration caused by stress or something else. It's a consistent part of her interactions with the Inquisitor and other characters.
And what she does to a Dalish Inquisitor in a romance? I don't care about the reasons. Demanding someone give up their entire way of life for you. Their heritage, their sense of identity? That's wrong. That is very, very wrong. I mean, I can understand to an extent why she would? She doesn't like the Dalish. She supposedly has reasons. But the way she goes about it is messed up, and that entire conversation is full of really skeevy, blatant emotional manipulation.
Dalish Inquisitor: [Makes a fairly innocuous comment about how they encountered so many things in the temple. What if even some of it was true? (The "what if" is important: not even disagreeing, just presenting a potential.)]
Sera: [Immediate reaction] Oh, see, now you're getting all elfy. Knew I shouldn't have started to like you.
...Really? I get that she's very insecure about a lot of things, it explains a lot of her behavior, but that doesn't excuse using that insecurity as a weapon. "Stop having this opinion, stop being excited about this thing, no matter how harmless that thing is, or I'm going to drop you like a hot potato right here, right now." Using their relationship as a weapon? That's not okay.
I wanted to like her. I was delighted when asking her about her skills after I first got her and she talks about teaching herself, and she's awkward about it and it's really a neat moment, and she's a fun character sometimes, and I can see where she could have been such an awesome companion. That prank scene with her? Loved it. My Inquisitor only did one thing Sera's way out of the entire thing, but it didn't lead to an utter meltdown. More like gentle ribbing at the end of it, because it was supposed to be all in good fun anyway, right? I was surprised, but happy. It was a good moment, and then I had to go right back to walking on eggshells, but that scene with Sera's character was good. She's highly intelligent and driven. She's honest to the bone and I actually like her way of talking. I like that she says what she thinks. I like her bluntness. I wish she'd been written more like an adult, even a young one, than a child, especially as a romance, but I can even take her childishness. I think she honestly does care about the little people and is trying hard, in her own way, to give them a little avenue to fight back and keep the people with power over them in line. Does she always succeed? No, but not everyone's perfect. She tries, though. She can beat a guy to death for killing her "friends", she's that upset when it happens. That isn't something that's faked. In the grand scheme of things, I think she's got her heart in the right place, and I like that she isn't perfect about it. I don't even mind her hypocrisy so much. It's an interesting perspective sometimes.
But the way she acts one-on-one, with the Inquisitor and with some of the companions, is just so awful most of the time. I can't stomach it. But her writer also doesn't have a great track record with writing non-abusive/villainous queer women, so I'm not sure what I was expecting. Sera herself has the potential to be a great character, but it requires ignoring a lot of the way canon writing handles her personality, I think.
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I know you need to be patient with Sera sometimes, but if you listen to her and treat her with respect she will return it. 
