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Guardian

A step by step process of this will be available at my Patreon on december 1st 😊

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Some Warden classics

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this kind of feels like Illario slander 😂

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has anyone posted this. im in tears.

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Has.... Has anyone made this comparison yet?

The implication being that Viago... Is Zazu

Bonus:

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I never for a moment interpreted the ending where Solas and Lavellan journey off into the Fade together as anything but hopeful.

The Inquisitor has been the Hero Who Saved the World for the last decade, and now she’s continuing that work. She’s not abandoning her duty. She’s venturing into the realm of pure magic to heal the Blight. Solas being there is just an enjoyable side benefit. Why can’t she save the day, get married to her true love, then head off on her next adventure? Heroes do those things all the time.

The game also is incredibly vague—and sure it’s implied they are going to the Fade Prison, which is the Black City—and Solas says it’ll be terrible… but he’s Mr. Grim and Fatalistic. Don’t listen to him. Lavellan responds that it won’t be terrible. It’s the Fade. You can shape it. It’s like the land of lucid dreaming. It will literally not be terrible if they are together. They’ll heal the Blight and help the Titans and go on many weird Fade adventures.

Again. It’s the Fade! It’s like the best sandbox for creating what comes next for them. They could totally spend all the time they’d like exploring Fade World, then return to the real world and find out only like… an afternoon has passed. Or I’m sure Dorian—after giving them a respectful amount of time for their Honeymoon—uses that magic knife to cut his way in and bring Lavellan an eluvian to use to visit him and her other friends and family whenever she wants. It’s not like they’re trapped forever. It’s left very open-ended. Have a little whimsy! Believe in true love that lasts forever and does not wane no matter the years that pass! Let them have a happily ever after. Why not. It’s fun.

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One of the things I love about Solas' VA is, most of the time, especially in the beginning of Inquisition, he's got this. Air. About him. This sort of...polite?ness. Ethereal? But clearly put on?

And then sometimes that slips in some of the funniest places. Like, "But not everybody WANTS to go to RIVAIN," or, "Oh, for-- REALLY?"

Because it makes it seem like, "Ah. There's the real Solas. He's dropping airs." And that's fun.

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Ancient Arlathan Solavellan Au

Vallyn is June’s champion and Solas is still Solas lmao. They meet while he is trying to copy June’s notes/transcripts on eluvians to make his own.

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so this is basically how lord of fortune rook was recruited

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Everyone say "thank you @vir-tanadahl for pointing out that while you tagged Bellara, her name was not in fact a poll option"

Condolences to everyone who answered this pre-me messing up. But obviously it's not complete without our girl in it.

(Honorable mention goes out to the Vipers and other "we had them firsts" lol)

I'm actually just going to pop one of these up for every single game because I'm curious in the overall distribution/if there's any patterns. If your first romance wasn't your eventual favorite romance, I'd be interested in hearing about what that experience was like, too :)

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I'm actually just going to pop one of these up for every single game because I'm curious in the overall distribution/if there's any patterns. If your first romance wasn't your eventual favorite romance, I'd be interested in hearing about what that experience was like, too :)

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I'm actually just going to pop one of these up for every single game because I'm curious in the overall distribution/if there's any patterns. If your first romance wasn't your eventual favorite romance, I'd be interested in hearing about what that experience was like, too :)

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I'm actually just going to pop one of these up for every single game because I'm curious in the overall distribution/if there's any patterns. If your first romance wasn't your eventual favorite romance, I'd be interested in hearing about what that experience was like, too :)

Shout out to me, btw, for playing this game at 3 AM my first playthrough, not fully focusing, and then waking up the next day and loading the game to discover Anders had moved in.

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you just know that thedas has a thousand and one romance books about the antivan crows. they're antivan, they're assassins... if zevran and the warden got together, leliana probably hit the number one spot on the thedas top 100 charts with her song about it

and poor lucanis, romance reader that he is, is probably hyperaware of it all. so when rook starts flirting with him (especially a rook who is not a crow), he's probably thinking, "ok. this is what they're expecting. i can do this. i can be this for them"

and then he just... can't. it's not in him. it's not who he is. and you just know he beat himself up over it. he'd see it as just another failure, just another way that he isn't what he is supposed to be

he has spent his whole life walking the razor's edge of caterina's expectations, and now he is plummeting to earth. he failed to kill ghilan'nain. he failed a contract. and now he can't even manage to forge a romantic connection with someone, even when he wants to

(it makes me wonder if caterina even pressured him to take a partner, to have children, to carry on the dellamorte name. and did anyone in that family model a healthy relationship? were his parents in love? did caterina's expectations lead her children to marry whomever she deemed fit? or was she more forgiving when her legacy seemed more secure? does lucanis even remember his parents? and what about caterina's spouse? what were they like?)

lucanis managed for more than thirty years to be the perfect assassin, to be caterina's perfect grandson, the perfect dellamorte. he has kept any doubts, any imperfections, any spite locked tightly away inside himself. and now it's all spilling out into the open

as much as he fears people being hurt by spite, i think he also fears people even seeing spite. spite is messy, spite is emotional, spite doesn't care about other people's expectations. and lucanis can't enter into a real relationship with rook until he can let go, accept spite, and come to peace with all the messy, emotional, imperfect parts of himself

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When they dropped the cosplay guides, one of Neve's color swatches was mistakenly? labeled as tattoo...and the thought has been haunting me ever since