#belle lavellan

[ivee-draws]

asymmetrical elf fashion save me…save me asymmetrical elf fashion

[mogwaei]

And flowers grew again

[raviollies]

Lavellan was one of my first OCs to stick around on this blog and has gone through a lot of transformation since I first made him at about 15. With his story at an end in Veilguard, I wanted to do a final send off

[mictheweis]

Look, I love BOTH ship dynamics for Solas in Veilguard and I’ve found, what I believe to be, the best explanation of the vibes

Solavellan:

- In My Veins by Andrew Belle feat. Erin Mccarley

SolRook:

- The Death of Peace of Mind by Bad Omens

[tevinterdays]

ok @sashthesloth put THIS template up in october and i filled out some text at the time but finally finished it this week, because procrastination is truly a wonder.

here's most of my dragon age ocs!

[hanalghilan]

hit me with a #15 microstory combo

15. trembling hands (prompt list)

"Have you not killed before?" Beryl looked up from her trembling hands and shook her head. "Only monsters, never..." She said, staring at the corpse of the mage who had rushed them. Her eyes brimmed with tears. "Take comfort," Cassandra said gently, though staying her hand from Beryl's shoulder. "It does not get easier."

[niceness-before-knives]

Replays are fun because I can remember all my silly headcanons. Like Mir does not vibe with Solas immediately because he just grabs his hand and forces a rift close.

Mir is instantly suspicious in a way he can't verbalize, and while they do eventually become something shade of friendly, that odd note suspicion never really leaves him.

[ryoskuna]

also adding Bellanaris or Bell, one of the Solavellan (I refer to them as Kerisolas for my sake) twins who I’m using as a rook on my second playthrough. She’s a mage like both her parents.

Introducing my canon rook, Zenaida “Zen” Aldwir, although she gets the moniker, Rook during her time with Varric.

My canon Inquisitor, Keris Lavellan.

Zen is a Davrin romance while Keris was and continues to be a Solas romance, and I parallel their relationships often, not just because they’re the same classes (Zen and Davrin are both warrior class, and Zen has a Grey Warden champion specialization; Keris and Solas are both mages; Keris has a knight enchanter specialization), but because there’s a lot of similarities to point out, especially with their deep connections to nature and personhood as elves.

Wanted to explain because there will be fanart of them… in time, and as a black woman… yeah, my pcs tend to be to…

[bulls-chargers]

Cullen and Lavellan La Belle Dame sans Merci style — or well, in this case Le Beau Garçon sans Merci

[drozd-shipovnik]

This is an old sketch.

Many artists draw their Lavellan at the Winter Palace ball in stunning dream dresses with exquisite hairdos, and often they bring it all to life in the game with mods.

On my PlayStation, I wore the uniform from bell to bell. I don't like this design and color scheme, and it caused me problems at coloring stage, so I got stuck.

But this is essence of my canon. They were so busy with Corypheus that they didn't have time to sew an outfit that would make inquisitor stand out among her flock. Moreover, the tailors, hastily hired for this gigantic order and who had never dealt with an elven figure, sew the uniform for someone clearly taller. Or maybe that's how they realized their own ideas about her.

In any case, she once again feels out of place, catching contemptuous whispers. She doesn't like these people either.

I'm only doing this because I promised you a dance.

The night is long and the path is dark. I'm glad you're waiting for me with your sad smile and neck kisses.

[lavenderprose]

The WAY that a Watcher Rook can just so absolutely match Emmrich's freak. Inquisitor Lavellan asking Solas shit like 'Who's Mythal' meanwhile my Watcher Rook meets Emmrich and immediately without hesitation leaves with him to go on a date in some 1000 year old mausoleum. Holding his hand while they ring bells for the departed. "Oh Emmrich thank you for showing me this tablaeu of skeletons. This is so cute. Omg that corpse is waving at me. Adorable!" And Emmrich is just like. God I can't NOT fuck them.

[ivee-draws]

finally got around to drawing some of belle’s fam/clan!! 🌿🍄🌻✨

[liaragaming]

The problem with Solas' view of Mythal

Listen, this has been bugging me for a while, and I finally found a way to articulate it...

In Trespasser, Solas sounds completely devoted to her. And he's so bitter discussing her murder. It's almost like he didn't rebel to free the slaves but to avenge her. (He says he wrote that story "in desperation," so I'm not sure.)

In the Inquisition post credits, he takes Mythal's power, and in his mural he paints it as a betrayal. But it also seems like she gave him permission? She knows he needs her power, and there's no doubt in my mind she could stop him from taking it if she wanted. And we saw her put a soul through the eluvian. She's planned and prepared for this. And he's so wrapped up in his own grief that he doesn't see it.

And she tells him she's "sorry as well." And I don't think she's commiserating with him. It's almost like she's apologizing for something she's done that he doesn't realize? Solas thinks he's done something terrible, but I think he did exactly what she wanted him to do.

Like, I'm sure Solas believes Lavellan loves an idealized version of him that isn't true. But I'm thinking maybe he needs to look into a mirror about Mythal?

We've known Flemeth for three games. She always has a plan. She was waiting for you to come kill her in Origins. Just because she was curious about what you and Morrigan would do. You didn't just happen to be the only Grey Wardens she could save. She hand-picked you. Just like she did Hawke.

And Solas comes to this woman at the end of Inquisition thinking he stabbed her in the back??? Honey, sweetie, do you know this woman at all???

I have so many alarm bells going off in the back of my head.

[angelknives]

On Mythal, Solas and Lavellan

I'm sure it's kept ambiguous to keep the audience thinking, but I'm with Bell (you know, the resident ancient elven expert) on this one and I don't think Mythal and Solas were romantic.

I think the relationship Solas has to Felassan was written as a repeat of the one he had with Mythal, just with him in the position of leader.

If you look at how Solas talks to and acts around Mythal, it's with deference and not the kind you have towards your romantic partner, but someone you admire so much you put them high on a pedestal.

Now of course he loved her, and probably loves her still. And she is tied to almost all of his greatest regrets, so of course she needs to be there to help him move through the regret.

I don't think that diminishes his feelings for the Inquisitor at all; we've already seen he cares too much about Inqy to let her get anywhere near what his quest to take down the veil will do. So he can't be with her until he fulfills or drops that mission.

To do that he has to move through his regret and he needs the people tied to his regrets to do that. Same way the fallen companies help Rook through her regret.

That's why both fallen companions appear to her and not just one to help her through, it's an intentional mirror (even if with Rook it's not the actual companions but a manifestation of them).

Also I get it can be interpreted both ways, but Mythal calling Solas love doesn't mean anything romantic to me. Maybe because I have called friends that, or maybe because context matters.

(On a side note, I am not saying Solas has had no lovers before Inqy, we know hes 'done it' in the Fade after all. Who knows, maybe that was even before he had a body.)

[mogwaei]

What art to post next because idk anymore

[nose235678]

Finished my first play through with my Crow!Rook!

I’m devastated! My Lavellan’s happy ending broke my heart and the Lucanis romance is wonderful!

But am I gonna take a break? No, not for a second!

Warden Var’fen “Rook” Thorne reporting for duty!

Her parents left her clan during the Fifth Blight, after they fought with the other Dalish in Denerim and King Alistair refused to honor his promise of land to the Elves. Offering their skills to the Grey Wardens as trackers in the Anderfels where she’d discover her magic and live as an apostate. Training to be a healer with Warden Mages until they invited her to join them on a trip to the newly emerged Kal-Sharok and stumbled into a nest of Darkspawn.

Barely managing to clear them out, but not before Var’fen was blighted and subsequently took the Joining at the age of 23. Suffering a rare side effect of the ritual that turned the sclera of her eyes black. Meeting Varric shortly thereafter and at 24, using a fake last name since joining the Wardens, they would make their move against the Dread Wolf.

Doing whatever it took to stop his ritual…

Her likes include:

*Cioccolata calda ☕️ (never had chocolate until Varric bought her a cup and was addicted ever since)

*Dogs 🐶 (left mabari, Josa behind with her family when she left to hunt Solas)

*Rocks 🪨 💎 (picks up a pebble or crystal wherever she goes. Most are just cool looking lumps of granite)

*Giving gifts to friends 🎁 (gifts may or may not be pebbles that “remind her of them” and no, she will never explain what she means)

*Harts 🦌(her parents raise them for mounts to herd halla. Brought them along from Ferelden to the Anderfels when they moved)

*Smoking Elfroot 🍃(helps with period pain; bad before, but the Joining made it worse)

Her dislikes include:

*The Chantry ⛪️(only got her vallaslin to keep Templars from dragging her off to a Circle)

*Dracolisks 🦎(saw one lick its own eye like a gecko once and never recovered. Scarred for life)

*Cooked vegetables 🥦 (if it’s slimy? She will die before eating it, but likes salads, carrots and has been yelled at more than once for shuffling around the pantry/kitchen, eating a whole bell pepper/cucumber/tomato, like a rabbit)

*Taxes 💵(self-explanatory)

Who she’ll romance:

This dapper gentleman, whom she met once before while recruiting conscripts in Nevarra City. Bumping into him on her way out of the city dungeon while he was leaving the morgue after corpse-whispering to help solve a murder. Never exchanged a word, but she remembered his polite apology (the first she’d ever received from a Shem) for nearly knocking her over and he remembered her eyes.