The “and Ken” sign says so much. Not only do the police identify him as some crazily dressed guy just tagging along with an equally crazily dressed girl who just decked someone in the face, they also cuff him even though it seems like he hasn’t done anything because he tagged along with his girlfriend even to get arrested.
He’s an accessory even to a convicted Barbie. You do not separate a Ken from his Barbie even in jail. Ken is having the time of his life even in incarceration because he’s there with Barbie.
Anyways my ultimate vision for Varric has always been “super morally bankrupt guy who also just happens to keep doing objectively morally good things not because he’s a good person or has good intentions but because if he loves someone he will do basically anything they ask of him because fortunately most of the people he loves actually are good people”. Does that make sense.
And this is why the post-Trespasser corrupt politician end game is ideal for me. He’s making insane ethical breaches all the fucking time but no one can call him on it because the people getting personal favors keep using those personal favors to like, feed the poor.
The Kirkwall Alienage is like the nicest Alienage in all of Thedas because every other month the Alienage elder shows up at the Viscount’s Keep with her baby and a packed lunch and is like “hiiiiii can you tell Varric that Daisy is here :)? He’s not expecting me it’s a surprise” and he immediately clears his schedule no matter what and then she leaves his office four hours later with everything she asked for and more plus a little walking around money (like six sovereigns) and a check for Junior’s college fund. And then he just goes right back to laundering Carta money.
