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Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

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ir abelas, vhenan

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am i approaching 2000 hours in skyrim. yes. do i know my way around windhelm even a little. absolutely not.

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Some Solas practice sketches - some of the screenshots y’all take make me feral 😭

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really old baldur's gate 3 comic i dont remember if posted i want to say this was done like, 2 days after 1.0 dropped lol?

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actually i need everyone to weigh in on the specific scenario i got in this poll.

you get trapped in a room with solas and felassan for a day.

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You get trapped with two Dragon Age characters (spin the wheel) in one room for a day.

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they could never make me hate you solas dragonage, breaker of chains, pride of the people, ass grabber

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i have been reading a lot of emmrich smut and i have to say i greatly enjoy an emmrook dynamic that's just both of them going "i can't believe this gorgeous amazing person is into ME of all people" about the other.

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HEARTBREAKING: character actually mildly interesting to think about but I Dont like their fans

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women want tinctures potions elixirs salves balms concoctions brews tonics essences and so on

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in apocrypha. straight up "obtaning it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. forbigden noledge

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descending from my cloud like christ to calm the fighting masses. "please, friends. there is a perfectly reasonable compromise: solas is the epitome of a switch."

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i don't often headcanon my faves as parents, but there's a charm to solas as a father that just...appeals to me. i've seen other folks posit that he'd never talk down to a child, and i agree with that fully, but he's got a silly streak for all his stoicism, and i think he'd also humor them quite a bit. i can see him wanting very much to foster their imagination, especially with art and play and storytelling.

he’d let them paint murals alongside his own. he’d play pranks with them (DAI lizard prank callback, anyone?). he'd restructure some of the great elven histories as bedtime tales, and not really skip out on the hairier details, and then encourage thoughtful critique of said bedtime tales. intentionally or not, he'd almost definitely raise a small historian, who'd have no problem correcting any inconsistencies in his recollections. a real treat for fen'harel, i'm sure.

in my view, he'd cherish the chance to see and experience both the fade and the waking world through fresh eyes. mythal says he watched the world for so long as a spirit, only to suffer when he joined it himself. i think this would be a chance to start over, to see things as a child sees them, to rediscover old joys and fascinations. centuries of wonder made wondrous again.

and i think, too, that it would give him an opportunity to teach someone as he's always wanted to. a new little spirit to nurture and guide. someone who loves him right from the beginning, and who relies on his wisdom. who lets him meet his purpose, and loves him unquestioningly, the way lavellan does.

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Lovely EmmRook for @erionita. Thank you for commissioning me!

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okay i was so distracted by da for months that i hadn't looked into avowed at all. it supposedly takes place after deadfire but isn't connected to it and im SO curious to learn what that means. guys did we fix the reincarnation cycle or is that just not going to get discussed.