it is so funny that leliana is like "I've mastered the art of seduction actually" and then every time she tries to flirt she's like "ummmm maybe we could me more than friends maybe "
and like we only know of one person that Leliana was in an actual relationship with and that's Marjolaine and its clear that Marjolaine was the one that pursued in that relationship because she was manipulating Leliana's feelings and youth the whole time
and any other mentions of "seduction" Leliana mentions is about marks and manipulating marks into giving her information and whatnot
so like I'm actually convinced that before the Warden, Leliana "Master of Seduction" Dragon Age has never actually been in a situation where she had genuine feelings for someone and had to be the one to pursue that person, because she realized the Warden in all of their journal writing density wasn't gonna be the one to do it.
and only after realizing that did she realize that she didn't know how to seduce someone in a real way and so she's like "Haha so one time these birds shat in a lady's hair. you ALSO have hair and I like it. do you like that I like it? would you like to hear about pudding now? is this real do we want to kiss yet? did you ask me if I liked girls and then give me flowers because you just want to be very good friends?"