Nothing? They just don't exist. The closest thing are the mages, but they're not strictly human as they can live for centuries.
Plus, Chance was 5. The goal there was to keep him from growing a forest in the backyard with his magic, not to teach the nuance of humans versus mages.
[ mages aren't human ... ? mages aren't human? mages aren't human ... !
sorry did you think anders was a sane or reasonable person who is willing to accept the different facts of different worlds at face value because no. he is an insane person. ]
Of course the mages are human! To call them anything else, to call them other, only allows the Chantry to further excuse their crimes. To brand us monster. If we are not human, they can maim our minds and put us to the sword like any other livestock, and those who stand on the outside will justify it as reasonable! They simply aren't human! What does it matter?!
How did anything I said relate at all to dragons?!
[ memshares this. You don't have to watch it its just Hawke fighting and killing a high dragon and it involves anders blasting magic to murder dozens and dozens of dragon babies. ]
[Hawke had told him about this, but honestly seeing it is a thousand times worse and triggers a memory of his own.
A memory of Ali, meeting his sister in a mountainside town. Of warning her that the cave she built her nest in is too close to a town.
Of his sister, Ria, telling him that the father of her eggs is already dead, and that she needs his help making sure they hatch safely.
Of a group of teenagers, looking for a place to go camping and stumbling across a nest of eggs and a protective dragon.
Of Ali trying to stop her, telling her they can move the eggs, but his words don't reach her and she flies out of the nest to go 'handle the problem'. Her instincts to protect her next being too strong to be overcome.
Of Ali trying to move the eggs as quickly as possible, but only being able to move one at a time due to their size, and he ends up only having time to move one before some adult humans come around and smash the rest of the eggs in the nest.
Of Ria struggling to fight back as humans damage her wings and knock her to the ground.
Of the way Ria cries out "Leave my babies alone!" in a language only Ali can understand.
Of how, in the end, Ali watches his own sister get decapitated. And how he can't even cry, because any emotion would make the humans notice that he's not human as well.
And finally, of how, decades later, Ali returned to that same town and found his sister's dead body stuffed and preserved in a museum about the glory of humans who protect the world from dragons.
He probably would have been fine without seeing Anders' memory, but now? Now he's trying to punch Anders in the face.]
[ well that comment makes him angry enough that his voice drops, and he starts fighting back for real in that Cat At The Vet way he had at Hawke's trial. ]
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Plus, Chance was 5. The goal there was to keep him from growing a forest in the backyard with his magic, not to teach the nuance of humans versus mages.
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sorry did you think anders was a sane or reasonable person who is willing to accept the different facts of different worlds at face value because no. he is an insane person. ]
Of course the mages are human! To call them anything else, to call them other, only allows the Chantry to further excuse their crimes. To brand us monster. If we are not human, they can maim our minds and put us to the sword like any other livestock, and those who stand on the outside will justify it as reasonable! They simply aren't human! What does it matter?!
[ if he could be glowing right now. he would. ]
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His world is just different, you lunatic. Also, sorry, did you just say non-humans are livestock?
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LOUDLY: ]
I wasn't talking about the elves!
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[ I have elf friends!]
They imprison them in the Circle the same as anyone else!
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but also she's just busting his chops. she's not even an elf she's a half-elf.]
Next time don't be so quick to act like not being "human" is such an insult.
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Watching this slapfight ensue. To Shadowheart:]
Are we really letting this happen in a narrow maze full of glass?
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So I guess that means dragons are livestock in your worldview?
[He should not be enabling this argument, and yet.]
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How did anything I said relate at all to dragons?!
[ memshares this. You don't have to watch it its just Hawke fighting and killing a high dragon and it involves anders blasting magic to murder dozens and dozens of dragon babies. ]
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A memory of Ali, meeting his sister in a mountainside town. Of warning her that the cave she built her nest in is too close to a town.
Of his sister, Ria, telling him that the father of her eggs is already dead, and that she needs his help making sure they hatch safely.
Of a group of teenagers, looking for a place to go camping and stumbling across a nest of eggs and a protective dragon.
Of Ali trying to stop her, telling her they can move the eggs, but his words don't reach her and she flies out of the nest to go 'handle the problem'. Her instincts to protect her next being too strong to be overcome.
Of Ali trying to move the eggs as quickly as possible, but only being able to move one at a time due to their size, and he ends up only having time to move one before some adult humans come around and smash the rest of the eggs in the nest.
Of Ria struggling to fight back as humans damage her wings and knock her to the ground.
Of the way Ria cries out "Leave my babies alone!" in a language only Ali can understand.
Of how, in the end, Ali watches his own sister get decapitated. And how he can't even cry, because any emotion would make the humans notice that he's not human as well.
And finally, of how, decades later, Ali returned to that same town and found his sister's dead body stuffed and preserved in a museum about the glory of humans who protect the world from dragons.
He probably would have been fine without seeing Anders' memory, but now? Now he's trying to punch Anders in the face.]
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anyway he's not Justice-ing out and hes a mage so yeah? he just gets punched in the face? IT HURTS? ]
Quit it!
[ he has no staff, so just. trying to slap fight him off. ]
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But at least after that punch he'll turn to slap fighting in return.]
How dare you kill children like that?!
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I didn't start the fight! They were attacking the Bone Pit!
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Well you sure ended it! Do you kill other kinds of children too?!
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You will not accuse me of injustice!
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Stop. Not tonight.
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