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[ZipZap2000]

Because she acts like that weird part of the internet that some people strive to avoid. I don't mind her, maybe she's a little too random for some people.

[KaiserShep]

Because she acts like that weird part of the internet that some people strive to avoid. I don't mind her, maybe she's a little too random for some people.

If it takes effort to avoid, then deep down in their hearts, they actually want to be there

[Confused Potato]

She is a psychopath with no character development....

 

Sera is like Jack / Subject Zero with no character development or character arc...

 

Jack had character development?

[KaiserShep]

Yeah, Jack changed, but the process of that change happens between games, not during any of them. Anyway, I would admit that she is at least a little crazy, when she pulverizes that snooty noble. The limp murder knife toss was amusing though. But it doesn't compare to piracy, kidnapping and such.

[Ennai and 54 others]

I could understand Sera perfectly when I first met her.(Subtitles helped).It wasn't worth it.

Cole talks weird and I *want* to figure out what he is saying because I trust that he is saying something cool or enlightening,or he is giving spoilers(sometimes about other works of fiction)
He reminds me of the spirit at the Gauntlet in DAO,revealing things about other characters.

[Nyaore]

I find her unbearable and I'm someone who usually likes the unpopular characters. Her speech is incoherent, her VA is annoying, her personality is terrible and she's painfully unfunny. Neeshka from NWN2 was...strident, but not dumb and irrational with a side of internalized racism. 

I didn't much mind her VA, but otherwise I agree - especially about the part about liking most other unpopular characters. Anora? Loved her. Vivienne? I'm not wild about her, but she makes several good points. Merrill? She's my favorite character in the second game next to Varric. No matter how stupid she was and stubborn, she pays for that stubbornness tenfold and thus completes her arc. She has a tangible purpose even though I wanted to shake her to death many, MANY times.

 

Sera just... Doesn't change. She doesn't even regress, which I wouldn't have minded all that much. A change for the worse is still a change. She's literally everything I dislike in a person rolled up into one perky package, as I've said, and I cannot get over that. I'm also very much of the mind that your past does not excuse your actions in the future. It explains them, yes, and even earns you sympathy and understanding. But I've never been the kind of person to accept 'oh they're this way because of this and it's okay that they'll never change'. It just doesn't sit well with me, even though it's highly realistic as most people DON'T change.

 

I think as well that she reminds me far too much of a former friend who I'm only now just realizing I am better off without. I wanted to like her, truly I did, but I had a very visceral reaction to Sera when we first met her and not for the position - and I'm only just seeing part of it might be because of that. I'm going to try to see if I can get past it in later playthroughs, but overall I'm not sure I can. Recognizing it makes me all the less wanting to deal with the character - which I know is not fair. Perhaps I'll be better equipped once I start my canon playthrough in a few months. By then I might not have that bias.

[KaiserShep]

I'm hesitant to believe that Merrill is an unpopular character.

[Ennai and 54 others]

It would be kind of funny if all this business in the temple was actually demons of sorts.

If neither Solas(a god/expert on demons) or Cole(a demon) detected demons I'm slightly reassured.

[Nyaore]

I'm hesitant to believe that Merrill is an unpopular character.

From what I remember of the forums awhile back, she certainly was. I haven't checked any recent popularity polls though.

[DemGeth]

Yeah her and vivians's banter is pretty great as it progresses.


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[Gothfather]

Sera has grown on me, she has the best response to a uncompatable orientation romance line in the game. Something along the lines of "Ahh No we had too much in common, we both like girls." I laughed so hard, its not ofte nyou get rejected by someone saying you have too much in common.

 

I found that if you take Sera on her own terms and get use to her she isn't so bad. Not my favourite companion but well written.

[Vormaerin]

I'm a little confused by this demand for "Character development."   Most adults don't change that much without some kind of trauma to cause it.  Again, we are looking at expectations that don't seem to apply to other characters.   Morrigan, Oghren, Zevran, Shale, Dorian, Solas, and probably some of the others don't have any character development.  You just learn more about them, as you do with Sera.

 

And she's not a psychopath.  She doesn't demonstrate any traits that would qualify as mental illness, much less psychopathy.  Being opinionated and tactless is not a mental illness.

[jellobell]

My feelings towards Sera are...complicated. I understand her very much, which makes the lack of tangible change in her character all the more frustrating. The thing about Sera is that she's smarter than she gives herself credit for. I think her speech races at a mile a minute because that's how her mind works. However she's also suffering from some serious existential dread. In the Fade her biggest fear is "The Nothing". She joins the Inquisition because she wants to know if the whole Herald of Andraste thing is true...and yet she doesn't. She believes in the Maker, but she also doesn't want to talk about religion, content with the reassurance that there's something out there. She's terrified of the idea that this might be all there is, so she lives in the moment and tries not to think too hard. Because once you start thinking you can't stop.

 

Black and white is easy, so that's what she prefers to see the world as. And...that isn't a good thing. At all. Like it or not, she's in a position of power. She kills people based on her ideas of right and wrong. She needs to open her eyes to the complexities of the world around her, even if it's frightening. Her stance on mages, for example. She hates them because they have powers that the "common man" does not. But what she doesn't want to realize is that most mages are just as marginalized as the "little people" she fights for. I don't blame her for her fear of magic; it's realistic for your average person to be frightened of somebody who can burn your house down with a flick of their wrist. But to not even try to understand is what disappoints me about her.

 

But as for her confrontation with the Inquisitor after the temple of mythal...I can understand that. And I'm inclined to be forgiving. Because that whole sequence of events just pushed so many buttons for her. It brought to the fore all of the things that she's been trying not to think about. She says it herself; in her mind, if the elven gods are real, then the Maker isn't. And if the Maker isn't real, then there is no afterlife. This is all there is. I have a feeling her pulling a bow on the Inquisitor was her having a bit of a panic attack.

[Fufunette]

I love Sera. She s like the sister I never had. ^3^

[SirDoctorofTARDIS]

I've noticed that a lot of people may find that your expirience with Sera might be a bit different depending on who you take with you. If you have Solas (too elfy), Cole (Spirit) and Vivienne (Aristocratic/magic) with her you get her bad side since those are the types she tends to avoid. If you role with a party consisting of Blackwall, Iron Bull, Dorian or Cassandra you'd probably get a better experience with her. Personally I love her to bits but YMMV.

[Fufunette]

Banters between Sera and Black are magic! xD

[Heimdall]

Liking Sera requires both patience and a thick skin, not to mention a willingness to accept the immaturity of someone that doesn't respect much of anything.

I love her to bits personally. She's struck me as someone who acts out the way she does at least in part because deep down she is terrified. Both of the things she doesn't understand and that existential dread jellobell mentioned. She clutches to her beliefs and shuts everything else out, because to admit there might be more to it would be to unravel her security blanket. It's immature, close minded, and an incredibly human reaction. She's just not good at or even incapable of dealing with strange and scary ideas. I mean, look at the romance path, there's a part where she refuses to even be near the Inquisitor because she had a dream of or imagined the Inquisitor dying, and she can't deal with even the thought of it.

Granted, there's a personal aspect to that for me. My brother's been having anxiety attacks over a sort of existential dread over the past few weeks. He stayed with me last weekend and we went out hiking. He broke down crying in the middle of the trail because he just couldn't get those thoughts out of his head and they scared him so badly... No matter what I tried, I couldn't seem to help him except by distracting him. Very frustrating... So you could say I'm predisposed to be forgiving of that aspect of Sera and her behavior.

[OdanUrr]

Sera was never an agreeable girl -
Her tongue tells tales of rebellion
But she was so fast,
And quick with her bow,
No one quite knew where she came from

[Daerog]

At first I was a little put off from her personality, mostly due to her being introduced by killing some random jerk, but she doesn't usually kill people... unless they killed some poor, innocent bloke, then she smashes their faces in.

 

She grew on me, and I like her. Her interest in Andrastianism really worked with my loyalist human mage who came to embrace being the Maker's Chosen One after being unsure in the beginning.

 

I also liked Vivienne. She's the Divine in my canon.

[HereticDante]

I like Sera  personally, its nice to have someone who just cats through the bullcrap.

[AntiChri5]

I'm a little confused by this demand for "Character development."   Most adults don't change that much without some kind of trauma to cause it.  Again, we are looking at expectations that don't seem to apply to other characters.   Morrigan, Oghren, Zevran, Shale, Dorian, Solas, and probably some of the others don't have any character development.  You just learn more about them, as you do with Sera.

 

And she's not a psychopath.  She doesn't demonstrate any traits that would qualify as mental illness, much less psychopathy.  Being opinionated and tactless is not a mental illness.

I disagree that Morrigan, Oghren, Zevran and Shale don't develop.  Dorian and Solas im not sure about.

 

However, i do agree that some people are vastly overstating the importance of characters changing. It's okay for a character with flaws to remain so.

[Ceoldoren]

I don't find  her close-minded. She just stand up to the rain of people that keep trying to change her. Which I find funny. Close minded would be the people that hate her for being her own person. She's not really a menace. She hate magery,smugness and elf living in the past. I can respect that.

So she hates people who happen to have magic ? And won't listen to any sort of reason when we try to explain that not all magic is evil ? That's not close minded ?

 

 

Ok.

[Uriel]

I find her... boring. She talks like a 13 years old teen, her speeches are absolutely confused, she gets angry all the time for no reason, she's stubborn, and her banters are as much boring and close-minded. I tried to like her, I really tried. On a pure battle level, she's an incredible archer. But I can't like her.

[Daerog]

She doesn't hate mages. She just doesn't trust magic. Who can blame her? Most of Thedas agrees with her.

 

She doesn't hate elves. She hates the stereotypical, whiny elves who are stuck in the past. She really enjoyed the revelation at the Well.

 

She doesn't hate nobles. She hates people who are in positions of power that treat others like tools and such.

[mikeymoonshine]

I found Sera really annoying at first which only made me appreciate her more, now I adore her. She's frustratingly unable to get over her own fears and prejudices, she comes close to it a couple of times in the game but never actually gets there. It was a very interesting way of doing a story arc, you see the opportunity for her to grow as a person presented to her only for her to run away in fear at the last second. 

 

I really like all the characters this time round to be honest, even the ones who i thought might be a bit boring like Blackwall and Solas turned out to be really interesting.