#Ayala trevelyan

[fairfaxleasee]

Got tagged by @mxkelsifer for a ship summary game, so I present Fenia and Ayabelas:

Gonna tag @islanddryad @mxfionamae @sheplaysrpgs and anyone else!

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Things I’ve Read This Week* - 2021.12.11

New Stories

Tumblr Related, The Weakness In Her Armor by Jacklyn_Flynn (@jacklyn-flynn) - Zevran/F!Aeducan - 978 words - complete

Chasing Ghosts, ⚜️Chasing Ghosts, ⚜️Late Nights, ⚜️Heirloom by WickedWitchoftheWilds (@wickedwitchofthewilds) - Solas/OFC - 75,955 words - 1st two works complete, last work & series WIP

Rereads

The Gold to My Silver, La Petite Mort plus 18 more by greyvvardenfell (@greyvvardenfell) - Zevran/NB!Brosca - 38,746 words, each work complete, series WIP

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😈 Bloodied & Broken Bits, A continuation of Chapter 21 of Rogasha'ghi'lan, in the bath from a lot of prompts by @dreadfutures - Solas/F!Lavellan (on AO3)

Bloodied & Broken Bits, Solas POV of young!Ixchel’s Trespasser confrontation by @dreadfutures - Solas/F!Lavellan

Subscription Updates

Soladaar Drabbles by Shaykai (@shaykai) - Solas/M!Adaar (Ch. 5)

A Collection of Lost Embers, A Guide to Tending Embers by reonerra (@reonerra) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 8)

Wicked Things, What a Wicked Game to Play by Cracking Lamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 67-68)

I Have Found a Home (Ian x Solas), Solas & Ian Drabbles by theharellan (@theharellan) - Solas/NB!Lavellan (Ch. 2)

✔️ Love, Delivered by beaubashley (@beaubartley) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 12), complete

Unwritten by UnrealRomance - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 233-239)

The Guardian by HumblePeasant (@mogwaei) - Solas/OFC, Dorian/M!Lavellan (Ch. 151)

Solas/Ayala, Broken, Heart by Fairfaxleasee (@fairfaxleasee) - Solas/F!Trevelyan - (Ch. 1) complete, series sub

Bloodied & Broken World State, Bloodied and Broken, Rogasha'ghi'lan (The Brave Guide) by youworeblue (@dreadfutures) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 23)

beware the forest at night, when there are miles left to go, the forest is dark and deep and i've seen you here before by victoriousscarf (@victoriousscarf) - Solas/M!Lavellan (Ch. 177-178)

pressure point by 17734 - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 26)

The DA Alternate Universe Chronicles, Vir'vhen'an by RogueLioness (@roguelioness) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 7)

She's Lived a Good Life by Kinako - MCiT (Ch. 30)

Kintsugi, Fragile World by angelslaugh (@skyerie) - {F!Lavellan/TBD, Solas/F!Lavellan, Felassan/F!Lavellan} (Ch. 23-26)

lover, your back is bruised from what you carry, In the face of your light by noverture (@noverturemusings) - Solas/M!Lavellan, past Dirthamen/M!Lavellan (Ch. 105)

Love's Worth Running To, Love Run by JessTalksAlot (@jessitasquirrel) - Solas/F!Lavellan, background Iron Bull/M!Lavellan (Ch. 21)

» side note - multiple chapters may mean multiple updates; or might just be me refreshing my memory, reorienting myself in the story, or rereading some for fun.

*TIRTW & can recommend (previous weeks & TIRTW Key/Legend)

[fairfaxleasee]

Will answer for:

Cass Hawke

Ayala Trevelyan

Lyta Adaar

Cass Segare (WoL)

Send me a character + a number and I’ll tell you my headcanons for:

Their physical weak spots

Their emotional/moral weak spots

Scars or painful spots

Best places to kiss on their body

Guilty pleasures

Their vices (physical or emotional)

Their tickle spots

Bad memories/experiences

Humiliating memories

Fears/phobias

Bad or petty habits

Grudges and vendettas

What gets them flustered

Ingrained habits/forces of habit

What it takes to make them cry

Dark secrets/’skeletons in the closet’

Regrets

Things they’ll never admit

People they’ve hurt or indirectly killed, and how it affected them

What-ifs/Alternate Timelines

Turning points in their life

People who’ve influenced them greatly

[fairfaxleasee]

@mxkelsifer and @islanddryad tagged me for this couples picrew

Starting with the OTP

Then Ayala/Abelas

And if we're going to do Throuples, I'll throw in my FF14 WoL/Aymeric/Estinien (although good luck getting them in the same place at the same time)

will tag @sheplaysrpgs

[fairfaxleasee]

Six Sentence Sunday!

This is from one of my all-time favorite fics I've written (and it doesn't even have my OTP! Shock!)

Ayala Trevelyan's new pet is not met with universal approval:

The gnomes waiting in the line took offence to Cullen's movements, but unlike the one he had just kicked, their protests weren't aggressive. One of them rapped his boot with its fist and gesticulated angrily between Cullen, the popcorn, and the back of the line. Cullen glared down at the thing. He was in no mood to be lectured on manners by a blood-covered, killer garden gnome.

He reached the table and grabbed the bowl of popcorn away from Ayala. She looked up at him in alarm. "Hey! That's mine!"

What happened? How'd this happen in the first place? Read more!

Omfg I forgot the tags 🤦‍♀️

@mxanigel and @mxkelsifer

[fairfaxleasee]

So I’m gonna take some inspiration from that fear graveyard in the fade from DAI and ask: what is your OC’s (one or multiple) greatest fear? The one thing them truly terrifies them.

Ooh, nice!

Ok, let's start with my Inquisitors cause they actually went into met the original Nightmare!

Lyta Adaar: Herself/her powers. She is very uncomfortable being able to call down lightning that can zap a crater in the ground and she thinks that's a very bad idea.

Ayala Trevelyan: Being left behind. She has a really hard fitting in anywhere so being left out/excluded is really painful for her (Solas really twisted the knife with her...). Also snakes.

Cass Hawke: Other people (specifically Orlesians but she's not too sold on anyone except Fenris, and to a lesser extent Sebastian, Isabela, and Aveline). She and other people aren't a good mix most of the time.

Amelia Theirin (nee Mac Tir): Being ignored. She's really over that from growing up (although there was a time where her greatest fear was her father, Loghain, and her husband, Alistair, being in the same room without her there to make sure they don't kill each other)

Theron Mahariel: Idfk, probably something stupid and innocuous like dandelions or something (not that he would ever admit it. EVER!)

Cass Segare (WoL): Honestly the fucking shit the scions will get up to in the name of "helping" the second she takes her eyes off them (SHE wanted to work for Emet, damn it!). Also Estinien finding her credit card.

[fairfaxleasee]

Fax posts an art!

Created for a monthly prompt for a discord server I'm on featuring Ayala Trevelyan spotting something shiny and Abelas recognizing it as something that's legit probably going to kill her.

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Things I’ve Read This Week* - 2021.06.19

New Stories

Dueteragony by little_lightning_lavellan (@little-lightning-lavellan) - Solas/F!Lavellan, Cullen/F!Lavellen - 30,624 words - WIP

Inquisitor's Bed by MidoriMaddie (@midorimaddie) - Solas/NB!Lavellan - 294 words - complete

In Hell I woke by Myskiteeri - Solas/F!Sole Survivor - 115,498 words - WIP

Shattered dreams and healing truths by Noire12 (@noire-pandora) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 4,505 words - complete

Rereads

What of the Hedge Mage? by CommonEvilMastermind (@commonevilmastermind) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 36,304 words - HSE WIP

Three!verse, Three by EllsterSMASH (@ellstersmash) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 29,574 words - HSE WIP on hiatus pending a rewrite

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Bloodied & Broken Bits, How Solas learned of young!Ixchel’s fate by @dreadfutures - Solas/F!Lavellan

Gods and Monsters by @gingerly-writing - Original Fiction

Iwyn Lavellan, ⚜️The World prompt, ⚜️Please (on AO3) prompt by @thevikingwoman - Solas/F!Lavellan

Five Times Arrested by @theshirallen - NB!Lavellan

Plans prompt by @thevikingwoman - F!Lavellan

Bloodied & Broken Bits, ⚜️Dread Wolf Take You, ⚜️"i’m worried about you." prompt, ⚜️"You're bleeding." prompt by @dreadfutures - Solas/F!Lavellan, M!Mahariel & F!Lavellan

things you said prompt by @nug-juggler - Zevran/M!Tabris

Superheroes by @fakecrfan - Original Fiction

Subscription Updates

Unwritten by UnrealRomance - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 191-192)

What a Wicked Game to Play by Cracking Lamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 17-18)

Sugar Honey Iced Tea by AntlersandFangs (@thededfa), Beckily (@beckily), & Celtic_Lass (@thecelticlass) - F!Adaar/MBiT, Varric/MGiT, Krem/MGiT, MBiT/MGiT, Solas & MBiT (Ch. 38)

Well, S.H.I.T., there's more..., Well, S.H.I.T. by TitaniaFaerieQueen - Zevran/MGiT/Felassan (Ch. 21-22) If you read Sugar Honey Iced Tea, you really need to read this one too!

The Guardian by HumblePeasant (@solas-disapproves) - Solas/OFC, Dorian/M!Lavellan (Ch. 143)

Crazy, Rich, Elves by KeeperSpock (@outragedvulcan) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 7-8)

miles to go before the fall of night, across the ocean and over the ruins, the forest is dark and deep and i've seen you here before by victoriousscarf (@victoriousscarf) - Solas/M!Lavellan (Ch. 143-144)

Echoes Across Time by JLHall (@jlhallares) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 234)

Hay by Viking_woman (@thevikingwoman) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 8)

Scars of Light by Kallypso (@kallypsowrites) - The Darkling|Kirigan/Alina (Ch. 21-22)

In Another World by fenkyuubi (@fenkyuubi) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 66-69)

Maker's Balls And Then Some by FanForFen (@fanforfen) - Solas/MCiT (Ch. 62)

Running With The Halla by InArlathan (@in-arlathan) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 11)

Feral Verse, The Creature in the Woods by apfelgranate (@notenoughdragons) - Solas & F!Adaar (Ch. 7)

rhapsody in red. by wildmountainmoss - Solas & ONBC (Ch. 9)

Til It Squeaks: A Modern Girl’s Take on Thedas, Twist Some More by CrackingLamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 16)

Dir'vhen'an, The Promise by oxygenforthewicked (@oxygenforthewicked) - Solas/M!Lavellan (Ch. 7)

Solas/Ayala, Fade In by Fairfaxleasee (@fairfaxleasee) - Solas/F!Trevelyan - (Ch. 1) complete, series sub

Heritage (English), Heritage by Luwan_Kyuu - Fen'Harel|Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 37)

Love Comes Home, Wolf's Pride by jasna - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 4-6)

The Rebel's Ascension by InArlathan (@in-arlathan) - Solas/OFC (Ch. 18)

The Lioness and the Wolf by Arden (@shift-shaping) - Solas/F!Surana (Ch. 48)

Lingrean Rosal'sule'din, The Future Is Not Yet Set In Stone by angelslaugh (@skyerie) - Dorian & F!Lavellan, Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 46-49)

lover, your back is bruised from what you carry, In the face of your light by noverture (@noverturemusings) - Solas/M!Lavellan (Ch. 92)

The Taming of Fen'Harel by beaubashley (@beaubartley) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 18)

lover, your back is bruised from what you carry, A tapestry of stars by noverture (@noverturemusings) - Dirthamen (Ch. 18)

» side note - multiple chapters may mean multiple updates; or might just be me refreshing my memory, reorienting myself in the story, or rereading some for fun. 😊

*TIRTW & can recommend (previous weeks)

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Things I’ve Read This Week* - 2021.12.04

🎊Happy Dragon Age Day!🎊

New Stories

Daughter of Fire/Herald of Spirit by Noire12 @noire-pandora) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 22,117 words - WIP

Rereads

A Singular Shadow by AntlersandFangs - {Solas/MGiT, Cullen/MGiT, Solas & Cullen} - 286,661 words - WIP

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None this week. My non-work/family time was mainly split between AO3 & crafting, as my truly, nearly empty queue can testify (if I don’t add any, it runs out today). Worth it. 💖

Subscription Updates

Dreams, In Waking Dreams by AParisianShakespearean (@a-shakespearean-in-paris) - Cullen/F!Trevelyan (Ch. 92)

She's Lived a Good Life by Kinako - MCiT (Ch. 28-29)

Lingrean Rosal'sule'din, The Future Is Not Yet Set In Stone by angelslaugh (@skyerie) - Dorian & F!Lavellan, F!Lavellan/F!Warden, Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 66)

Wicked Things, What a Wicked Game to Play by Cracking Lamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 64-66)

Dueteragony by little_lightning_lavellan (@little-lightning-lavellan) - Solas/F!Lavellan, background Cullen/F!Lavellen (Ch. 19)

✔️ Scars of Light by Kallypso (@kallypsowrites) - The Darkling|Kirigan/Alina (Ch. 68-70), complete

The Crossroads by crown_laurel (@crown-laurel) - Solas/Post-MGiT (Ch. 5-6)

lover, your back is bruised from what you carry, In the face of your light by noverture (@noverturemusings) - Solas/M!Lavellan, past Dirthamen/M!Lavellan (Ch. 104)

Kintsugi, Fragile World by angelslaugh (@skyerie) - {F!Lavellan/TBD, Solas/F!Lavellan} (Ch. 15-22)

Dovetail by ByJoveWhatASpend (@inquisitorbasil) - {MBiT/everyone} (Ch. 16)

Running With The Halla by InArlathan (@in-arlathan) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 17)

Our Love Gorges, Hand in Hand in Unlovable Hand by Sevent (@seventfics) - {The Darkling|Aleksander/Alina/Mal} (Ch. 17-18)

A Singular Shadow by AntlersandFangs - {Solas/MGiT, Cullen/MGiT, Solas & Cullen} (Ch. 66)

Bloodied & Broken World State, Bloodied and Broken, Rogasha'ghi'lan (The Brave Guide) by youworeblue (@dreadfutures) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 22)

Bloodied & Broken World State, Our Careless Heads with Roses Bound by youworeblue (@dreadfutures) - Fenris/M!Hawke, this chapter (Ch. 7)

Unwritten by UnrealRomance - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 237)

✔️ Coiling Time by Enceladus (EspressoComfort) (@espressocomfort) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 32), complete

Elvhenan: Tales from the Elven Empire, The Rise & Fall of Fen'Harel, The Rebel's Ascension by InArlathan (@in-arlathan) - Solas/OFC (Ch. 24)

Small, For A Qunari, Small, For A Qunari by the_raven_called_iceveins - Solas/MGiT(ish) (Ch. 1-2)

Solas/Ayala, Synnes of the Father by Fairfaxleasee (@fairfaxleasee) - Solas/F!Trevelyan - (Ch. 1) complete, series sub

Thenera Lavellan, Secrets From Dreams by Dirthenera (@dirthenera) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 107-108)

Leilani Lavellan Ficlets, NA Scenes by angelslaugh (@skyerie) - Dirthamen/OFC, OFC(pre-Lavellan) (Ch. 2)

» side note - multiple chapters may mean multiple updates; or might just be me refreshing my memory, reorienting myself in the story, or rereading some for fun.

*TIRTW & can recommend (previous weeks & TIRTW Key/Legend)

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Things I’ve Read This Week* - 2021.03.27

New Stories

Solas/Ayala, ⚜️Tempting Offer, ⚜️What's in a Name?, ⚜️In Your Dreams by Fairfaxleasee (@fairfaxleasee) - Solas/Female Trevelyan - 10,302 words, each work complete, series WIP

Through the Same Places, ⚜️Through the Same Places, ⚜️A Different World by Azzandra (@azzandra) - Solas/Female Trevelyan - 12,084 words, first work complete, second work & series HSE WIP

In A Manner of My Choosing by Pyreite - Solas/Female Lavellan, Fen'Harel/Female Lavellan - 46,483 words, complete but HSE for a sequel

Best Laid Plans by kyaticlikestea (@teashoesandhair) - Ardeth Bay/Jonathan Carnahan (The Mummy) - 6,666 words, complete

Rereads

Prompts and AUs, ⚜️Marked for Death, ⚜️Lies by oxygenforthewicked (@oxygenforthewicked) - Solas/Female Lavellan - 15,927 words, each work separate & complete

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Letta and the Cursebreakers by @meg-moira - Original Work

Lavellan daydreams about a relationship with him prompt by @rivainisomniari - Solas/Female Lavellan

Bath/hotsprings prompt by @fairfaxleasee - Solas/Female Trevelyan

picking fights prompt by @salexectria - Iwyn Lavellan & Venus Sabrae

water, quivering by @nerdanel01 - Solas/Female Lavellan

The Pups of Fen’Harel by @nerdanel01 - Solas & his sons, Solas/Female Lavellan

Subscription Updates

An inkling of the past by Thebigegg - Solas/Mythal Lavellan (Ch. 5)

Sugar Honey Iced Tea by AntlersandFangs (@thededfa), Beckily (@beckily), & Celtic_Lass (@thecelticlass) - Female Adaar/MBIT, Varric/MGIT, Krem/MGIT (Ch. 26)

miles to go before the fall of night, across the ocean and over the ruins, the forest is dark and deep and i’ve seen you here before by victoriousscarf (@victoriousscarf) - Solas/Male Lavellan (Ch. 127-128)

Beneath the Veilfire by oxygenforthewicked (@oxygenforthewicked) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 49)

In Another World by fenkyuubi (@fenkyuubi) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 48-51)

Shadowed Moon by Heartfelt_Memories (@evuna) - Fen’Harel|Solas/MGIT (Ch. 26)

The Masks We Wear by Celtic_Lass (@thecelticlass) - Iron Bull/MGIT (Ch. 47)

Borderland Sorrows by SerialChillr (@serial-chillr) - Abelas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 33)

No Longer A Game by Here_To_Be (@nolongeragameart) - Solas/MGIT (Ch. 54)

Bloodied and Broken, Dead Pasts and Dread Futures by youworeblue (@dreadfutures) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 139-140)

lover, your back is bruised from what you carry, In the face of your light by noverture (@noverturemusings) - Solas/Male Lavellan (Ch. 71-72)

Hope Is a Fragile Thing by Cracking Lamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 5-6), complete

Dreams, In Waking Dreams by AParisianShakespearean (@a-shakespearean-in-paris) - Cullen/Female Trevelyan (Ch. 66)

Til It Squeaks: A Modern Girl’s Take on Thedas, Twist Some More by CrackingLamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGIT (Ch. 4)

There Is No Ithaca by hes5thlazarus (@5lazarus) - Solas/Ghilan'nain (Ch. 3), complete

Fen'Harel’s Teeth, Fen'Harel’s Teeth by hes5thlazarus (@5lazarus) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 11)

Til It Squeaks: A Modern Girl’s Take on Thedas, The Cutting Room Floor by CrackingLamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 41-42), complete

The Taming of Fen'Harel by beaubashley (@beaubartley) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 7)

» side note - multiple chapters may mean multiple updates; or might just be me refreshing my memory, reorienting myself in the story, or rereading some for fun. 😊

*TIRTW & can recommend (previous weeks)

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Things I’ve Read This Week* - 2021.04.10

New Stories

Any Dream Will Do by enigmalea (@enigmalea) - Solas/Male Lavellan - 644 words, complete

Vhenan by Noire12 (@noire-pandora) - Solas/Cassandra - 4,627 words, complete

we found each other hungry by cedarmoons (@cedarmoons) - Solas/Iron Bull - 4,453 words, complete

Ar Lasa Mara Revas: You Are Free, ⚜️Harmless Dalliances, ⚜️The Red Wolf by RosellaWrites (@rosella-writes) - Solas/Female Lavellan, Solas & Sera - 27,867 words, 1st work complete, 2nd work & series WIP

Smoke and Mirrors by TeriTheTacticalUnicorn (@terithetacticalunicorn) - Solas/MGiT - 4,354 words, WIP

As Dreams Fade in the Light by WizardofOzymandias (@wizardofozymandias) - Solas/Dagna - 4,754 words, WIP

Rereads

Together-verse: Iwyn/Solas/Ellana OT3, ⚜️Together, ⚜️Antivan Vacation (Sand & Coffee on Tumblr), ⚜️Possibilities by Viking_woman (@thevikingwoman) - Solas/Female Lavellan/Female Lavellan - 6,584 words, each work complete, series HSE WIP (see Tumblr Reads)

Setting Fires, ⚜️Punch Drunk Kiss, ⚜️Codeine, ⚜️Addiction by cedarmoons (@cedarmoons) - Solas/Female Trevelyan - 17,696 words, complete

Love, It's Summer by jenny_of_oldstones - Solas/Male Trevelyan - 2,954 words, complete

Reflection by jenny_of_oldstones - Solas/Male Trevelyan - 2,579 words, complete

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Together-verse, ⚜️First Date, ⚜️Chalk, ⚜️Pleading and Pleasing, ⚜️Here and Now, ⚜️Home, ⚜️Belonging, ⚜️A Softer World, ⚜️Family, ⚜️Closer, ⚜️Neon Lights micro-prompt by @buttsonthebeach & @thevikingwoman - Solas/Female Lavellan/Female Lavellan

Solas gets sent to Earth prompt by @crackinglamb - Solas/OFC née MGiT

Short Solavellan piece by @ironbullsvitaar - Solas/Female Lavellan

Subscription Updates

Bloodied and Broken, Dead Pasts and Dread Futures by youworeblue (@dreadfutures) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 143-145)

miles to go before the fall of night, across the ocean and over the ruins, the forest is dark and deep and i've seen you here before by victoriousscarf (@victoriousscarf) - Solas/Male Lavellan (Ch. 131-132)

Fen'Harel's Teeth, Fen'Harel's Teeth by hes5thlazarus (@5lazarus) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 12)

Beyond the Veil by Pyreite - Solas/Female Lavellan, Fen'Harel/Female Lavellan, Abelas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 10)

Bloodied and Broken, Our Careless Heads with Roses Bound by youworeblue (@dreadfutures) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 4)

Diary of a Dislocated Knife-ear, Dislocated Souls: Skyhold by LonelyAgain (@thereallonelyagain) - Solas/MGiT, OFC/ OMC (Ch. 215)

Roses Where Thorns Grow by Bdafic (@bdafic)- Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 30), complete

Sugar Honey Iced Tea by AntlersandFangs (@thededfa), Beckily (@beckily), & Celtic_Lass (@thecelticlass) - Female Adaar/MBiT, Varric/MGiT, Krem/MGiT (Ch. 28)

No Longer A Game by Here_To_Be (@nolongeragameart) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 56)

What We Have Lost, Into the Imperium by midnightprelude (@midnightprelude) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 19-20) Hope Sprang!

lover, your back is bruised from what you carry, In the face of your light by noverture (@noverturemusings) - Solas/Male Lavellan (Ch. 75-76)

Dovetail by ByJoveWhatASpend - MBiT/everyone (Ch. 6)

Echoes Across Time by JLHall (@jlhallares) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 232)

Til It Squeaks: A Modern Girl's Take on Thedas, Twist Some More by CrackingLamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 6)

Overgrown by luzial (@luzial) & maerisk (@maerisk-writes) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 18)

Sweetened by the thorn by elo_elo (@junkbabelna) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 3)

The Guardian by HumblePeasant (@solas-disapproves) - Solas/OFC, Dorian/Male Lavellan (Ch. 139)

Solas/Ayala, Seventh Time's Not a Charm by Fairfaxleasee (@fairfaxleasee) - Solas/Female Trevelyan (Ch. 1), complete, series sub

The Taming of Fen'Harel by beaubashley (@beaubartley) - Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 8)

When the World Fell by Psalacanthea - Fen'harel|Solas/Female Lavellan (Ch. 11)

» side note - multiple chapters may mean multiple updates; or might just be me refreshing my memory, reorienting myself in the story, or rereading some for fun. 😊

*TIRTW & can recommend (previous weeks)

[fairfaxleasee]

Relationships: Female Inquisitor/Solas (Dragon Age), Solas/Female Trevelyan (Dragon Age), Leliana & Solas Summary: Solas is interrupted on his way to meet Ayala Trevelyan in the fade by Leliana, who has some opinions about both Solas and the Inquisitor.

Preview:  Solas turned his head far enough towards her that she would be able to see his sneer, “How have you not realized, Sister, that it is the lies we tell ourselves which are the most insidious.  And the ones with the most devastating consequences.”

[fairfaxleasee]

So @rangeredacted (the mind behind my Evergiven fic) requested something with killer garden gnomes for @dadrunkwriting so... Here it is. (Or here is Part 1 at least, I don't think I have the energy to do the whole thing tonight...)

"Inquisitor what are you doing?" The answer should be fairly obvious to Cullen - Ayala Trevelyan was kneeling in Skyhold's garden digging a hole. But Cullen knew enough about Ayala (and the woman's hatred of getting dirt, plants, or bugs anywhere near her hands or clothes) to know that if she was digging a hole in the garden, then answer was anything but obvious.

Ayala ignored him entirely and stuck something in the hole.

"Inquisitor..."

Cullen had no idea what she had stuck in the hole, other than he both didn't want to know and that it should greatly concern him. Ayala had an annoying habit of picking up every piece of useless junk on Thedas that caught her attention for any reason and Cassandra and Solas had decided it was Cullen's job to sort through it all just in case some of it was dangerous (some of it was inevitably dangerous, but given the amount of stuff the woman dragged back to Skyhold, it would be far more suspicious if it wasn't occasionally dangerous.)

"I asked you a question, Inquisitor..." Cullen hoped the 'angry Templar' tone would get her attention. He doubted it would, she was one of the few Circle mages he'd met that didn't inherently mistrust Templars, but if the tone didn't work he'd have to try and touch her and he wasn't in the mood to be flung halfway across the courtyard by a barrier spell she'd send up whenever someone tried to touch her and she wasn't expecting it (although if she spent more time in this world and less in her own, she might be surprised about it less often).

Ayala hummed to herself and adjusted whatever it was that she stuck in the hole that Cullen was becoming more and more convinced he never wanted to look closely enough at to properly identify. She made one last adjustment and turned to face Cullen (who had made sure to have his arms crossed and a disapproving glare on his face in preparation for it).

"Inquisitor, you know you're supposed to bring anything you find to me before you do anything else with it, right?"

Ayala's eyes darted up and to the right, "Uh... I don't know what you're talking about?"

"You know exactly what I'm talking about." He stepped around her, finally resigned to seeing just what she'd gotten herself into this time.

"But look! He's all happy there! You wouldn't want to make him mad by taking him out of his new home!"

Cullen clawed his fingers in rage at the interloper sitting in the garden. The blighted gnome was, by far, the ugliest thing Cullen could recall seeing (and that was saying something given the things Cullen had seen). Its sculptor had (for some Maker-forsaken reason) carved its wrinkled face into a snarl and given the thing almost avian talons that were reaching up towards whoever was looking at it. And the ridiculously oversized hat that obscured its eyes was just a mockery of everything.

He reached out and snatched the thing out of the ground, provoking a disbelieving interjection from Ayala. "Hey! Put him back! He liked it there!"

"NO! Inquisitor, you know the rule - anything you find on your travels has to come directly to me for inspection! Now, I'm going to put this blighted thing in the ever-growing pile of things you've picked up. Once I manage to examine it, assuming it's not possessed by something, you can have it back and then you can stick it in the garden if that's what you want to do!"

"But he wants to live in the garden now!"

"It is a statue!"

Cullen turned and stalked off, but not quickly enough to avoid Ayala's grumbled retort, "Don't see why you're so grumpy about everything all the time..."

He (barely) resisted the urge to turn around and hit her over the head with the stupid hunk of rock and stomped the rest of the way back to his office.

He set the thing down on his desk and buried his head in his hands, hoping the thing would decide to be gone when he opened them (this could all be a bad dream, couldn't it?). Unfortunately, when he was interrupted a few minutes later by Jim, not only was the scout lurking around in his office for what he was positive was an inherently illegitimate reason, the blighted garden gnome was still there and appeared to be sticking its tongue out at him (he wished he could recall whether the thing always had its tongue out like that).

"What's this?" Jim lifted up the statue and turned it over in his hands.

"Nothing!" Cullen snatched it back. Jim winced as he did so, but Cullen didn't care. "Something the Inquisitor picked up and was trying to sneak into the garden." He slammed the thing down on his desk.

"Oh, so you know the Inquisitor was doing something in the garden then?"

Cullen widened his eyes and pressed his lips hard enough for it to hurt him at the man. Fortunately it worked as Jim ran from the office faster than Cullen had ever seen him move before. He turned down to his desk so he could take out his anger at the damn gnome only to find it gone.

That's... odd. I could have sworn I just put it down here.

He started looking around the desk for the thing.

Maybe I just slammed it down hard enough to crush the blighted thing. No, I'm not that lucky...

He snapped his head up when he heard the door open, "What now, Jim? Some other problem I've already solved?"

"I highly doubt that, Commander. I can think of few problems you've actually solved."

Cullen narrowed his eyes at the one interruption he liked less than the scouts. "...Solas."

"Well, I see your eyesight is working. However, I came in to test your memory. Ayala came to tell me that you confiscated her gnome."

"I don't care how upset your girlfriend was about it! She knows she's supposed to bring things like that to me first! And why'd you let her bring the blighted thing back with her anyway?"

Solas shook his head slightly in a gesture Cullen recognized to mean the apostate had no intention of listening to a word he was saying.

Where is that damn gnome now that it could have a use. I might not be able to hit the Inquisitor with it, but I could absolutely throw it at him...

"Finished, Commander?"

Cullen glared in response.

"Good. While I care little, for the record, I did not 'let' Ayala bring anything back here. She was with Sera, Blackwall, and the Enchanter at the time, and my understanding is they were too busy antagonizing each other to notice that Ayala had gone off into a secret passage on her own. However how the gnome got to Skyhold is unimportant. Where the artefact is now is."

"I don't know. I must have tossed it in one of the piles of junk," Cullen threw his arm around his office to indicate all the random items Ayala had dragged back to Skyhold, while Solas had been 'supervising' her, "Your girlfriend whose name you're afraid to say to her face dragged back here."

Cullen thought one of Solas' eyebrows may have twitched at that.

Good. At least he's getting just as annoyed about this as I am!

"Let us keep any interaction between us to a minimum, Commander. Where is the gnome now."

"I don't know, I can't find it, but I also can't be expected to keep track-"

Solas sighed, looked at the ceiling (or at least as much of the ceiling that existed in Cullen's office), and cut him off, "Very well, Commander. However, as you cannot locate it, can you tell me this - had Ayala put the gnome in the garden before you confiscated it?"

"I -" Cullen thought back for a second. "Yes."

Solas pursed his lips. "Unfortunate. And these blood drops by your desk, they were not caused by the gnome by any chance, were they?"

"I - what?" Cullen leaned over to where Solas was pointing. There wasn't a lot of blood, but it was fresh, and Cullen didn't think it had been there before Jim started playing with the stupid gnome.

Cullen didn't answer Solas, but the man saw through his silence. "That is even more unfortunate, Commander."

"Why? Just what do you know about this Solas?"

"Well, I know nothing, I never saw the statue myself if you recall, however in my travels in the Fade I have heard rumors of-"

"GARRG BAR-RARGH!!" A gutteral cry interrupted whatever Solas was going to say.

They both snapped their gazes to Cullen's desk in time to see the gnome reach into the inkwell and smear paint on is face in a pattern that was reminiscent of Bull's vitaar.

"BA-RAR-RAR!!!" the gnome called as it picked up one of Cullen's quills and stabbed at his hand.

Fortunately, his armor was more than a match for his quill and the makeshift weapon snapped in half. The gnome seemed to be far less pleased than Cullen at the development and reacted by trying to bite his finger. He snatched gnome and threw it at the nearest wall (the fact that Solas' head was in a direct path to the nearest wall was just a random fringe benefit of the action). Unfortunately, Solas ducked out of the way and the gnome was launched outside Cullen's office without taking any of the apostate with it.

"GAR-Rah-argggh!!!!" it called as it landed and turned to scurry away.

"Let me guess - the statue is cursed and will come to life if its removed from its garden and exposed to blood?"

"Not exactly, Commander. The statue is cursed, however it does not need blood to come to life. That happens if it is forcibly removed from a garden in which it has been placed if the proper precautions are not taken. The blood allows it to increase its numbers. The more blood it finds, the more of these we will have to deal with. And the more bleeding injuries they could cause. I'm sure you can understand the vicious circle that represents."

"If we survive this, Solas - your girlfriend is in quite a LOT of trouble."

"Technically, Commander, she didn't cause any of this. You were, after all, the one who removed the gnome from the garden."

"Have I mentioned lately how much I don't like you?"

[fairfaxleasee]

New fic up on AO3!

Pairing: Solas/Female Trevelyan

Summary: After Ayala Trevelyan takes Dorian's dubious advice, and Solas ignores his reasonable advice, they meet in the Fade to discuss where things stand between them.

Excerpt:  When he returned to his quarters, he scowled at the interloper sitting in his favorite chair.  “You haven’t caused enough trouble for one evening, Dorian?”

“For your information Solas, I’ve been trying to prevent trouble.”

Solas crossed his arms, “I find that distinctly hard to believe.  Particularly given your inspired choice of beverages.”

“Well, I admit that was a miscalculation on my part.  I was rather banking on you lousing things up.”

“ How ,” Solas wasn’t sure why he was bothering to ask, the answer wasn’t going to improve the discussion, “did you expect that getting her drunk would lead to me ‘lousing things up’?”

“That little ‘oh, I’m so superior to everyone’ tone of yours that you just love to trot out at every available opportunity.  I figured you’d use it on her, hurt her feelings, and that would be the end of this.  ...You do know just how easy it is to hurt her feelings, don’t you?  Particularly if you’re someone she trusts.”

“I -” Solas closed his eyes and slowly exhaled through his nose, no reason to do anything that might encourage the Tevinter to meddle any more than he already was.  “I understand her far better than you do, Dorian.”

“Oh, I’m well aware of that.  We had a talk about you, you know?  Well, something approaching a talk anyway, you’re the only one who seems to really understand her.  I know she was saying something but damned if I could figure out a word of it beyond her not being happy about me saying she had a crush.”  A pause Solas assumed was Dorian waiting for a reaction he had no intention of giving.  “You do know she has a crush on you, right?”

He just can’t let this go, can he?

“Are the romantic entanglements of other members all anyone in this entire organization care about?”

“Ah, so you want to romantically entangle her, do you?”

Solas snapped his eyes open to glare at Dorian, “That is not what I said!”

Thanks to @xqueen0fhellx, @mx-nplm, and  NovemberWitch19 for betaing!

[fairfaxleasee]

Prompt: The only thing I want is for you to come with me. Pairing: Solas/Ayala Trevelyan. Thank you very much.

For @dadrunkwriting

Apparently tonight I'm in a maudlin mood... (Sorry if you were hoping for something happier, anon! And sorry this took me so long to get to!)

"The only thing I want is for you to come with me." Ayala Trevelyan's pewter eyes glistened with tears as she whispered the words into Solas' wrist.

It was odd that she was able to do that, he didn't recall getting close enough for her to be able to touch him. But now that he looked, he was touching her too. He had his hand on her cheek and was twisting some of the hair that framed her face around a finger.

Usually the hair that framed her face was some completely unnatural color, but she loved changing it for nothing more than her own pleasure and amusement. She was so easily amused - always trying to find a bit of wonder in the mundane. It was one of the things that drew him to her.

Usually the hair he touched burned red. Ayala had no guile, no deception. She was so clear, so honest - her hair burned at his touch because she burned for his touch.

But almost all of her hair now was its natural walnut brown. Not an unattractive color, but flat. Common. Uninspired. And ill-fitting to what was usually her vibrant being. And the hair he touched didn't burn anymore; it dulled, faded. Like he was sucking what little color she had left away.

It was happening to her cheek too. The creamy porcelain was being blotted out by cold, achromatic grey.

She shifted her eyes to look directly into his. He watched their shine die as she whispered, "Why did you leave me, Solas?"

"...Vhenan..."

She crumbled to dust under his touch. He was transfixed at the sight of the last of her slipping from between his fingers. He wanted to close his hands around what was left, try to keep something of what she was, but he couldn't move. He stood helpless as a gust of wind came and scattered what was once the woman he loved where he'd never be able to find her.

You destroy everything you touch.

Solas' eyes flew open. The echoing voice that had seemed to come from everywhere had given the game away, let him realize everything he'd seen had, this time, been nothing but a bad dream. But he shouldn't be able to have bad dreams. And the voice had sounded far too much like his.

He got up to brew a pot of his least-favorite tea. The stench of the stuff should be enough to keep him from even considering falling asleep again. Not that the guilt was any easier to ignore awake. He had known better than to get involved with Ayala - she was a mortal, a shemlin mortal, but by the time he realized how close they were, how much she mattered, it had been too late - he wasn't a good enough person to let her go, and now they were both paying for it.

He just hoped he was paying more. There were people he'd wish this pain on, but Ayala wasn't one of them.

And hoping that the price had fallen more on him than her was all he could do, he might not have been good enough to let her go, but he did at least have the decency not to hover around her and remind her of him (walking by her tower in the Fade occasionally didn't count). In the months since he'd left the Inquisition, he'd been careful not to get anywhere close to where she was. She still had the anchor, but she was fine. Safe. He just hoped she stayed that way.

The only thing that would be worse than not seeing her again would be seeing her again. He didn't trust himself to see her again.

[fairfaxleasee]

"how much have you had?" For Solas and Trevelyan!

For @dadrunkwriting

Pairing: Solas/f!Trevelyan

Characters: Ayala Trevelyan, Solas, Dorian

CW: Alcohol use

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“Lethallan, just how much have you had?”  Solas raised an eyebrow at Ayala Trevelyan as she giggled while she was slumped across the library table.

“Uh... not much I don’t think?” Ayala managed to say between fits of laughter.

Solas wouldn’t believe the statement from anyone else.  In addition to the laughter (which was what first alerted him to come up the stairs from his usual haunt in Skyhold) and the fact that Ayala didn’t seem to be able to sit up straight, her face was flushed.  She was obviously drunk, but given that whatever alcohol was in her glass had been poured from a bottle covered in Tevene that Dorian must have provided and how rarely she drank anything, it was entirely possible that she had only had a few sips.

“Has anyone ever told you, Solas - you’re a positively dreadful worrywart.  I’m keeping an eye on her, she’s perfectly safe.  Besides, you had plenty of time to corrupt our dear Herald before I got here, mysterious elven apostate that you are - I think it’s only sporting that you let the evil agent of the Black Divine have a fair shake at it.”  Dorian poured himself another full glass from the bottle.

Solas couldn’t decide whether he wanted to narrow his eyes or roll them at the man.  He settled for closing them and shaking his head, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Oh, come now - all the ‘private training sessions’ you two get up to?  It’s all over Skyhold you know.”

“...are you referring to the glyphs I instruct her about?”

“My dear man!  I am insulted you think you need to lie to me!” Dorian pressed a hand to his chest in mock affront.

“Oh, but he does teach me glyphs though!  Why do you think that’s a lie?” Ayala gave up trying to sit up and put her elbow on the table so she could use a hand to prop her head up.

“Ye gods, you poor, little Southern Circle mage!  Don’t tell me you actually study with the man!”

“What else would we do?”

Dorian took a gulp of his drink, “Study each other, for a start.”

“I don’t -”

Solas cut Ayala off, “That’s enough, Dorian!  And she’s obviously had more than enough.  Come, lethallan, I’ll see you to your quarters.”

“That’s quite unnecessary, Solas!  She’s perfectly fine.  And capable of making her own decisions.”

“Not when she’s too drunk to even sit up!”

“...are you mad at me?” Ayala turned to Solas.  She’d stopped laughing and he could see tears in the corner of her eyes.

“No, lethallan.  I am however rather annoyed at your companion, whose idiotic idea I can only assume this was.”

“I - well - that’s...” Dorian sputtered.

“Entirely accurate?” Solas offered.

“...I just wanted to be able to be normal and talk with you.  Dorian said it’d be easier if I loosened up a little...”

Dorian leaned across the table, “I thought we agreed that you weren’t going to tell him that part!”

“..but if he’s mad it doesn’t matter ‘cause he won’t talk to me anyway.”

“We can discuss matters in private at another time, lethallan,” he tried to keep his voice neutral but either he didn’t succeed or she interpreted his neutrality as anger.

“...okay,” she pushed the chair back and tried to stand.  She stumbled almost immediately and Solas rushed over to catch her.  Fortunately Dorian was either too drunk or too ashamed of himself to question how Solas could easily carry the human woman out of the library towards her chambers (even if both eventualities seemed equally unlikely to Solas).

She was silent the entire way there.  He had thought she was asleep but she grabbed his necklace when he laid her down on her bed.  “It’s later and private, so we can talk now?”

He could hear the hope in her words.  He should quash it now.  For both their sakes.  “You’re still clearly inebriated, lethallan.  Now is not the time for any discussion.”

“But if I’m not, I can’t...  I don’t...” 

He watched her ransack her mind for an explanation.  If he could be firm here, now, he could end things before they truly began.  “Perhaps you would be more equipped to discuss things in the Fade?”

...that was not what he intended to have said.

“But how?”

“It is possible for two mages to communicate with each other directly in the Fade.  There is a bit of a trick to it, however I am confident you will catch on.”

Why was he offering to get closer to her?  She already trusted him - saw him as an advisor, a mentor.  He didn’t need anything more from her.  He shouldn’t even be considering anything more with her.  Let alone all but begging for it.

“Do you promise?”

No.  Say ‘NO!’

“Yes, lethallan.”

“Do you need to show me?”

“No, the trick involves finding each other.  But don’t worry, I have it on good authority where to look for you.”

“How?”

“Several of my friends speak very highly of you,” she looked at him quizzically.  “You would not know them out here,” he explained.

“Oh.  Those friends.”

“Yes, those friends.”

“So...” she ran a finger along the halla jawbone.

“I will follow you in a bit, lethallan.”

She let go of the necklace and sank back against the mattress.  Solas left her chambers and walked back to his own to do the least advisable thing he could think of.  Find Ayala Trevelyan in the Fade.