I love Sera a lot. And then I can't stand her a lot as well.
She's a fun character, I love the goofy side of hers, and I love the fact that she cares about little people. She has such different views from everyone else in my Inquisition, that I knows I NEED to keep her. Because I don't want my Inquisition to ever be a circle-jerk of people continuously agreeing with each other.
She has her own way of doing things, and I'm ok with it, even if deciding on her own to kill someone before I decided I had enough information from them kinda irked me a lot. She has no respect for authority, so the only way to approach and have slight control over her is being her friend, I guess.
Which I did, because she intrigued me. I ended up romancing her on my first playthrough (even though I was playing a mage Lavellan), and sticked to it, because I knew it wouldn't be my canon playthrough and still wanted to see where it'll go. It was a bit difficult, she kept reminding me I'm too "elfy" and "magical" every three seconds.
She sees the world in black and white, and barely tries to reconsider these views much. At least, when you try to do so in dialogs, you don't do much, but then you get to read her notebook, and you see that she's interested in stuff, and trying to learn things, it's just that she's not good with books, and mostly give up everytime she has to deal with those. Coming from the lowest social class, she's not used to books, and she's not used to words too complicated or well-intricate to make sense. It doesn't mean she can't understand these concepts, it's just that it's too elitist for her, and it must be frustrating to her, because I think she wants to learn, but doesn't have the tools to do so because of her education. So she's stuck.
If anything, Sera is a good representation of the little people, those who have opinions, and wants to learn, but then the upper class makes things too complicated and elitist, and leave the people they're supposed to fight for in the mud still, because even though they're talking about freedom as well, they do it in such a way that makes it impossible for what they say to reach the people who need to hear it the most. Ironic, right?
Back to Sera, the moment I definitely hated her, is the moment she asks you to chose between believing in the possibility (not even the fact, mind you, JUST the possibility) that what happened at the Temple of Mythal wasn't entire bullsh*t, and your relationship with her. That part of her, I just will never like it. On my playthrough, I held my tongue, and said it didn't matter to my quizzie (even though it matters a LOT to me), just because I didn't want my quizzie to break up with her, I knew that it wasn't my canon playthrough, I just wanted to see her romance to the end.
I hated that, but I think she's a character in the midst of a huge faith crisis, most likely. Her reaction is one of complete denial, but isn't that what Sera might be, at her core? Completely in denial about who she is? (I have a huge belief she has magical powers, but suppressed them at some point).
She's also completely touching and adorable, when she opens up and talks about pride cookies. That side of Sera makes me love her a lot, because it made me understand her a bit more. I think there's still a lot to be done about her character, maybe I'm too hopeful, but I think so much could be done with her, and character development. Overall, I love her a lot, even though she spends her time being an annoying pain in the arse to my favorite character (Solas), but she's an awesome comical relief (even in banter with Solas, when poor egg tries to understand her and be nice to her, she just shuts him off, which is both painful and funny to watch).
I wouldn't want her out of my Inquisition ever, I need a character like her, even though she can be unpredictable, and has huge flaws.
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