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i do have to say that i like elgar'nan and ghilan'nain as our primary villains. because they look like cartoon bad guys on the surface but if you look a little deeper and find all those hidden little notes and codex entries, it's obvious they actually do have complexity that they don't want us to see.

ghilan'nain is actively in mourning. not just for andruil, but also for her fucked up little experiment of an archdemon, her most perfect creation, razikale. at the end of fire and ice, she is ready to throw herself into a fight that she might not win because she's blinded by her own grief, and she only doesn't because elgar'nan holds her hand and pulls her away. protects her. we can find notes that talk about how elgar'nan is concerned that she's not taking time to mourn properly. we know she's checked in on her first creations, the halla, despite the fact that she writes about them in this sort of detached, almost patronizing way. she calls them something she made when she was "untraveled and naive" and that she could never make them again, but she visited them just to see what they might have become in her absence. like she cares more than she wants to let herself.

and elgar'nan calls her sister, despite the fact that ghilan'nain is the youngest of them. he lets her experiment on lusacan for the express purpose of cheering her up. and when she dies he seems legitimately torn apart by it. what should be an opportunity for the first of the firstborn to finally become the sole tyrant he was practically made to be is instead him becoming completely and utterly alone, the only remaining of his kind. i don't think it's coincidence that both he and solas drift to each other as they do, even if it is as enemies. they're too alike, and they're also the only remnants of the old world, their world, that either of them have.

i can't say that i'm particularly sympathetic to either of them—they're both unrepentant monsters who have committed atrocities across millenia, but the fact that they have this hidden depth reminds me that at of the day they are not really anything that no one else is. they are very powerful mages that other people called gods. and people can be very sentimental, indeed.

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On Fenhala (really, it applies to any Solavellan kid):

I imagine Solas slipping and letting himself think on what he would have named any Solavellan baby, and promptly punishing himself when he comes back to reality.

His mental health is so great, you guys! He's so good at emotions.

ohhhhhh my darling, this has me deeply unwell (i say, as if I were not already)!!! i think you're 100% right, though. i imagine that, despite efforts to the contrary, solas often finds himself thinking about the things he wants most, and that allowing himself to think of them at all is a punishment on its own.

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once again thinking about arwen and aragorn. otp and my personal blueprint for basically every subsequent ship upon which i have sailed

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i never write from my OCs’ points of view bc then u guys might get a glimpse of my actual real-life flaws and personality thru the lens of This Guy I Made Up

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thinking very casually about how in one of felassan's codex entries he writes that solas always thought mythal would join them one day, and that he believed it so strongly that he made a place for her near him in the fade, but she never came, and he never saw her again. thinking even more casually about how all these many centuries later solas seems stunned when lavellan comes to join him. comes to stand at his side and support him, as he hoped mythal would do. how stunned he is when the person he loves (who he did not even dare hope would join him, this time) does exactly that. in the fade, for the rest of their days.

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WHAT KINDA CAT ARE YOUR MUTUALS

I REALLY WANNA SIT HERE AMD GO THROUGH TAGGING EVERYONE BUT I HAVE TO GO TO BED NOW SO I’LL DO SO TOMORROW!!!

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Just read the snipped of the wip that you posted and I'm!!! /car crash noises, screams can be heard in the distance, sounds of feral raccoons (me) running

I can't wait to read it!! Your writing is always so evocative and just *chefs kiss* 😭😭 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

PLEASE y'all are making me blush!!!!! you're so kind, thank you so much for reading it and for saying such nice things; it's unbelievably encouraging and hearing from folks like you just makes my day every single time. 💕💕

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camera tools updated so I was able to get some better shots of the moment when Solas sees Lavellan for the first time 😭 he truly can’t believe she is there after all this time

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i'm gonna be real team, i think there was a missed opportunity for rook to discover that emmrich had his own hand of glory (hence the glove he wears at all times).

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something something Felassan telling Solas they have to keep up the Dread Wolf act to give people a reason to believe someone is strong enough to fight for them and something something the Inquisition advisors telling Inky they need to believe they were sent by Andraste to give people hope. the Solavellan parallels continue to slay

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mutuals always making masterpieces and I think wow. and you're following me too. wild stuff

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@rowanisawriter SORRY THE IMAGE WOULDN'T LOAD LAST TIME anyway thank you for letting me draw your blorbos (why are they always SO SAD)

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i KNOW they’re not gonna do it (and like, why would they, to be fair) but i would go feral for DLC in which you can play as solas investigating the blight (optional rook/ inquisitor presence???)

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nothing more intuitive to read than a counter clockwise panel-less comic, right?? anyways one of my fav parts of Felchaser by @rosieofcorona

sorry for the chickenscratch here is the moment under a cut

“What would you demand?” She says, sweeping the thought from his mind. “If you were a god.”

If, he thinks, that one word louder than all the rest. 

“I suppose it would depend what was being asked of me.”

“Your favor,” she tells him. “Your love.”

“Ah.” There’s a twist in his chest, like an arrow wrenched free, pain and relief all at once. “The heart of a god is not easily won. I would require yours in return.”

She laughs a little, as if he’s jesting. “That hardly seems equal. A mortal heart for a god’s?”

“Your heart,” Solas says, in a gentle correction. “For mine.” He does not kiss her, like he wants to. He does not stop her kissing him. 

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go read Fellchaser by @rosieofcorona thank me later!!!!!!!!!! bonus doodles below

bonus warm up doodles- i tried my best to base this gal off of the writer's own lavellan so i hope i did alright!!!!

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i deserve to be an eel. in a crevice with a bunch of other eels. opening and closing our mouths over and over

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you have to let yourself be a weird woman or you will not survive