You know, I rarely get worked up over DA confessions, but this one got under my skin, especially since it’s literally two days after Veteran’s Day.

What exactly does this confession say about what you think of people who are physically disabled in real life? There are quadriplegics who run marathons, for Andraste’s sake. The Inquisitor loses ONE arm at the elbow and suddenly s/he’s too fragile and crippled to do anything but sit around a house in the countryside waiting to die?



The Inquisitor is a goddamn war hero. A veteran. Instead of making that analogy cheap or superficial, BioWare made it real. They said, you know what? Real war heroes don’t always make it out in one piece. Real war heroes sometimes give a part of themselves in the battle and return home with scars.

…and then tell me your Inquisitor can’t still be beautiful and strong and radiant and commanding.

Look, it’s your character and you can interpret her life however you want, but please don’t insult the character of the Inquisitor by insinuating that s/he can’t still be a motherfucking badass without a left arm. Hell, if you join the Red Jennies with Sera, you canonically get a fucking crossbow prosthesis.

When I saw my Inquisitor’s amputated left arm at end of Trespasser, I felt the same pang of bittersweet pride that I felt at the end of the first “How to Train Your Dragon” movie – that finally we’d been given a character who stared death in the eye and made a real sacrifice that resulted in a fully permanent, non-superficial injury. (Seriously, how many action heroes go through hell and come out without a goddamn scratch?)

It’s incredibly meaningful to me that both Hiccup and the Inquisitor continue to be awesome with or without one of their limbs. It’s powerfully symbolic of what it means to make a sacrifice and keep on living your life the way you want to live – as so many beautiful war veterans and other people with physical disabilities do every day.