“It’s not goodbye, it’s see you later. And you are a good man. we’ve seen all the proof we need.”

listen im not saying orym was saying this but. Dorian leaves home for the first time, shirks his duties and responsibilities and the person that his parents wanted, expected him to be, and there’s guilt there. There’s fear that you’re not enough, that you’re a bad person. that you’re letting everyone down. and he makes friends somehow but he lies to them every day and he puts his foot in his mouth on the regular and he’s doing his best but it’s hard to be a person, he can’t seem to get it right

And then the spider queen talks to you and she offers you deals and you think, maybe I can’t do anything else but I can protect these people with everything I have.

His whole alignment changed (permanently I think)?????? And he loses part of himself for them??! And maybe he never gets it back???? But it’s worth it for his memories, for the chance at enough power to save his friends

and orym tells him to put the crown down, and he’s just looking out for him but it’s also like. Why don’t you trust me to do this? Why am I not good enough?! What if I’m not a good person after all???????

idk. idk where I’m going with this. but like???