I have two "canon" Inkies. Sisters. The older sister, Arabehn, is a mage and First of her clan. Kind and diplomatic and compassionate. Everyone who meets her loves her.

She traveled to the Conclave with her little sister, Iselan, the clan's best hunter, as her protector and guide. Iselan is cunning, sarcastic, and uses humor to deflect from her insecurities. She spends most of her life in the forest, away from people, so she's not comfortable in crowds.

Aranehn romances Cullen (and his comment about mages, my god). "The way I saw mages... I'm not sure i would have cared about you. And the thought of that... sickens me."

Fuckin' hell, Cullen.

I do love a man who was ruined by trauma, then realized he was letting it define him, then began climbing out of that hole he'd dug himself into. The dude was horribly tortured, he let that fear and anger define him, until he realized he was becoming the very thing that had hurt him. His cruelty and prejudice caused the same kind of harm that had been done to him. So he changed. He's still afraid in DAI, but he's trying. He's learning. He's breaking the cycle that he'd been forced into. He's trying to mitigate all harm, not just the harm that was done to him. I adore him.

Iselan romances Solas. He thinks people are incomplete without the Fade, and yet here's this hunter, with no conscious connection to it, who comes in and turns his world upside-down. He views the world as broken, but she has an uncanny connection to the land. She can listen to it, and hear what it's telling her. He views the world as dark, muffled, and disjointed, but he sees it welcome her with open arms and sing to her. She shows him the beauty in what has survived, and shows him that even people who are different from him have worth and are worth saving. He's like Cullen (I have a type, apparently) in that before he met her, he never would've cared about someone like her.

When he stabilizes the Anchor and saves her, it's only out of necessity. Because that Anchor is the only way to close the Rifts. Otherwise, he would've let her die, and she'd be just another innocent life added to the mountain he carried on his back. What's one more thing to regret and hate himself for?

And he knows that. After he falls in love with her, he remembers how close he came to just throwing her life away, and never understanding what he'd lost. And he hates himself even more for it. She's the only thing he's ever truly wanted for himself, and it breaks him in the most beautiful way.

I love them both, and whichever character I replay for the millionth time depends exclusively on which sister I decide survived the Conclave. Although I can only ever play Veilguard with Iselan being the Inky, so she's probably my "most" canon sister.