Former Elf Companions Joining Solas (or not) In DA4

They didn't ask her the last time.

If she was capable of controlling dragons as a child, and she was a dangerous weapon proven to be able to be controlled and used by blood mages, it would be safer for everyone to tranquilize her then. I have no idea why they would wait.

I question the ability of a young child being capable of consent.

Yes we know nothing. Which means my narrative is just as good as your narrative. I think she was made tranquiled as a child by force. I think if Solas could control the emotional outbursts at first, she could be nurtured into non tranquil life calmly. And she would see him as her liberator just as Calpernia did towards Coryphaeus. And she would be angry and she would help her liberator.

I never said your narrative wasn’t. I just disagree with it considering the dialogue we hear from Cassandra about the subject.

I've been googling to try to find what Cass specifically says. avexus' Wikia doesn't say when she was made tranquil. I don't think her saying to Giselle that she's "safer this way" should be considered as her voluntary urge to remain that way. A tranquil is at all times logical and I assume she's spent more years Tranquil than not. Even normal people dislike change, especially if they don't know what they're missing.

Pharamond I'm sure said while in a Tranquil state he should be that way, but preferred death over that state when awakened. Karl similarly was willing to betray Anders without blinking, but when awake, was desperately sad and asked for death. I think, other than that crazy girl in Mage Origin, and even then there is a chance... That all Tranquils do not want to be Tranquils if they had the chance to not be so again.

I also had that thought, but it was more complex than I felt like trying to explain on mobile. I'm not eloquent by a long shot, you summed it up pretty well.

You can't consent to something you don't understand.

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Okay, it didn't happen immediately. She was like 7 in that movie and you literally quoted a story where an 11 year old was tranquiled for her health.

Is 11 better than 7? Any more capable of consent?

Avexis was 10 in the movie actually. 
When it comes to matters where their life is a living hell, absolutely. Better than than forcing someone like Orana to endure however many more years of torture until deemed old enough to make that decision.

What about the comment that Avexis made that a non Tranquil-her would be unhappy by what has been done to her DURING her Tranquility? That doesn't raise eyebrows?

Ya, I find it unlikely it was something as harmless as basic grief . Not when most of the time they are hitting us over the head with the Tranquil Abuse narrative.

Right, losing someone close to you is "harmless". Ironic coming from a conversation about a character from a movie that shows just how much such a "harmless" action can affect a person.

She says "I may also experience discomfort over events that occurred while I was in this state." So she never says things done to her or stuff like that.