I said I wouldn't respond (and I don't know why you're bringing up elvish stuff and such in the part I cut out - I'm not the one who said that stuff), but let's narrow it down to one instance.
Why does she take their gold? I get that a girl needs to eat, but she's very eager to take potentially "pass the hat" gold when she wants the Inquisitor to come with her to pick up the drop (that goes wrong) in Crestwood. She doesn't need money by this point. Why take it? Why be so eager for it? (My answer is that, in her desperation, in what she has seen and experienced, she is as desirous of power as any noble is, really, because she wants the protection of some kind of power - she doesn't want to be a noble, certainly, I'm not saying THAT - and this makes her very similar to those she hates. Most people are, and it's one of the things I find interesting about her character, actually, so that's not a slam on her, just how I view her. She's terrified to actually be a Little Person and desperately wants to be a Big Person in many ways, even as she despises them.)
That question is easy. Sera wants money because she's greedy. She'll use it for her needs, and she'll use it to keep greasing the Red Jenny network, and she'll use it for herself to have fun.
Big Person doesn't mean wealthy in Sera's book. The big people are the ones who stand over little people and step over them in the name of themselves or 'the greater good' and what not. When money is involved, the Big Person uses of money are the sort of protect themselves against Little People and to promote their own influence. To get little people to say 'yes my lord' and do anything.
But what Sera hasn't been using money for, so far as we can tell, is for protection or security or personal influence or status. She's not using it to buy guards or build a safe haven or invest in assets or to get people to defer to her. She's not even interested in trying to get out of a life of crime.
Also, at no point do we actually help people that we see. Maybe we do in the War Table missions, but they rarely get follow up. Maybe those people had their throats slit later - I don't know. We don't see any evidence of Sera's help, but we do see evidence of her (accidental) harm and her eagerness to profit personally from helping the little people.
Sera isn't about altruistic helping, or any sort of maximizing benefit for any cause. Trying to frame an argument in those turns is missing the point. Sera is about having fun, and Sera's fun comes mostly in helping little people stick it to The Man. Not in helping little people escape being little/becoming richer/living healtheir/etc.
Helping little people is incidental, not the objective. Her own description of the Jenny network should give an idea: some people get paid, some people get a favor, some people just get a laugh or a thumb into the eyes of some noble they dislike. Her cornerstone motivation for helping with the Breach revolves around that the Breach gets in the way of her fun, more than concern about how it hurts people in general.
And I like Sera - I just don't think that people who say she's hypocritical about helping the little people are without a point.
Most people misuse the hypocrisy angle. For the same reasons Sera isn't a race traitor, Sera can't simply be slotted into individual preferences on what she 'should' feel or do if she was really sincere about little people. Hypocrisy is a consistency standard of the position holder- not the consistency of upholding the positions of the observer/player who has different ideas about what Sera should do and believe.
I didn't realize she lied to her. Or it didn't register with me. If that's the case, fair enough.
It's ambiguous, and may have been a trap set by the Duchess with Briala uninvolved.
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