From the start, Sei though Barnham was pretty cool. I mean, the whole burning witches thing? Not great. But being an Inquisitor and seeking the truth and trying to give people a fair trial? Definitely neat! And he tried really hard in the Whole Ass trials, so that was something she admired, even if they weren't especially close and even though he kept telling her to chill.
And then they became bandits.
I still can't get over them arguing back and forth about which of them was going to be the actual killer and whether or not the other would actually be allowed to help until they were both like but honor though, but only taking a single comment each to decide on who they were killing. They were both willing to make hard choices for the sake of other people, and once they'd settled on their course, it was only a matter of actually carrying it out.
I also can't get over Barnham backing up her shitty alibi and people actually believing it.
In the trial she probably would have ended up guiltspiralling and either coming really close to confessing or just bawling her eyes out incoherently but Barnham actually managed to keep her from doing that long enough for Ezio to confess! She feels like she owes him a lot - for helping to remind her of why they did what they did, and why it was so important that they stay the course.
And then, of course, she got killed by deer.
She was super willing to fight Simon to defend Barnham's honor in the graveyard, and I didn't get to thread it out because I ended up getting really busy with work (which was why I volunteered to let her die), but she definitely spent a day or two agonizing over how to word the letter she wrote him. She probably wrote like ten different drafts and discarded them all for being too suspicious or too likely to get redacted before settling on the one she sent him.
BASICALLY she was his undead cheerleader who would have fought for his honor if fighting was allowed in the graveyard. She's super proud of him for what he was able to accomplish even though it was really obvious it went against his moral sensibilities, and she hopes that once he's able to go back home, he can finally get some much-deserved rest.
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From the start, Sei though Barnham was pretty cool. I mean, the whole burning witches thing? Not great. But being an Inquisitor and seeking the truth and trying to give people a fair trial? Definitely neat! And he tried really hard in the Whole Ass trials, so that was something she admired, even if they weren't especially close and even though he kept telling her to chill.
And then they became bandits.
I still can't get over them arguing back and forth about which of them was going to be the actual killer and whether or not the other would actually be allowed to help until they were both like but honor though, but only taking a single comment each to decide on who they were killing. They were both willing to make hard choices for the sake of other people, and once they'd settled on their course, it was only a matter of actually carrying it out.
I also can't get over Barnham backing up her shitty alibi and people actually believing it.
In the trial she probably would have ended up guiltspiralling and either coming really close to confessing or just bawling her eyes out incoherently but Barnham actually managed to keep her from doing that long enough for Ezio to confess! She feels like she owes him a lot - for helping to remind her of why they did what they did, and why it was so important that they stay the course.
And then, of course, she got killed by deer.
She was super willing to fight Simon to defend Barnham's honor in the graveyard, and I didn't get to thread it out because I ended up getting really busy with work (which was why I volunteered to let her die), but she definitely spent a day or two agonizing over how to word the letter she wrote him. She probably wrote like ten different drafts and discarded them all for being too suspicious or too likely to get redacted before settling on the one she sent him.
BASICALLY she was his undead cheerleader who would have fought for his honor if fighting was allowed in the graveyard. She's super proud of him for what he was able to accomplish even though it was really obvious it went against his moral sensibilities, and she hopes that once he's able to go back home, he can finally get some much-deserved rest.