#and acting like rook SHOULD give this person who's taken every chance they've given him to hurt them YET ANOTHER CHANCE is just...

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"The non-redemption endings are bad because Solas is going to get out again" is such a funny take to me. Like... guys. Gang. My friends. Who is going to let him out. None of the characters trapped in the Fade get out on their own. Rook manages to reflect on their regrets and move forward and then is rescued by their team (no one loves, trusts, respects or needs Solas enough to do that on account of his pesky habit of betraying and/or murdering his allies the second they tell him no), Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain got out because Solas started fucking with their prison and then screwed up the ritual by stabbing someone with the ritual dagger that's very sensitive to being bled on, Solas uses the blood magic bond he forged with Rook before getting locked up explicitly because he can't get out on his own. Is it possible that Solas will one day break out of the Fade? Sure, technically, although assuming it still works the same as the previous prison he'll have to self-reflect and grow as a person which a) he's shown no interest in doing and b) would lead to him being a lot less likely to attempt genocide again if he did do it. But it's at worst no more likely than redemption ending Solas changing his mind and also breaking out. I personally think Solas is done no matter what ending you pick, he's not getting out of there any time soon, but let's not pretend that the endings where Rook doesn't forgive the person who murdered their mentor, gaslit them the whole game and repeatedly stabbed them in the back and blindly assume with literally zero evidence he'll choose to do the right thing this time for the first time in millennia, gambling the fate of the world in the process, are bad, okay? Let's not start claiming that the only good ending is the one where Rook gives the person who has used literally every chance they gave him to stab them in the back another chance. Rook doesn't owe him that and the narrative does not support the claim that they somehow do or that giving it to him despite them not owing him that is the only way to get a good ending.

...So I guess that take is less funny and more infuriating but whatever.