Alistair comforting his baby when she suddenly hit her head? Alistair just whispering soft words and kissing his daughter’s forehead until she stops crying?
Or how about
Zevran finally realizing he has a family with the Warden and that he has a lovely, healthy son? Zevran just hugging and rising his son like in The Lion King and he just can’t stop smiling???
In Origins, the one mage woman in the chantry room who prays to the maker to take her magic away. Do not tell me the circles are not abusive. Not allowed relationships, to visit family or to be visited by them, children taken away….
The bard is anti-circle and anti-templar/chantry because of how they are used to abuse others. This does not mean he is against the person who is a templar if he sees they are a good person. He can see the good in people, but the overall organisation he does not like.