#but idk i just feel like if solas is stuck in this regret prison while rook is saving the world

[strawberry-halla]

so i started thinking about solas in the regret prison over the course of veilguard and…

i cannot imagine the mental anguish he had to endure while rook was off cleaning up messes around northern thedas. we know the entire time rook is trapped there, they are haunted by losing their companions and varric. this part made me cry the whole way through. and they were trapped there for weeks!

now imagine solas, in his countless regrets, constantly being haunted by mythal, felassan, varric, and lavellan. haunted by what he did to the dwarves and the titans.

i wish veilguard gave us glimpses of solas cracking under this immense weight throughout the course of the game. because he’s trapped there for months before he finally is able to swap places with rook.

do you think when he was first trapped, solas was spiraling because the first thing he sees was him being pulled from the fade over thousands of years ago? was he met with varric’s shocked expression when solas stabbed him? or was it the sorrowful eyes of his vhenan that night in crestwood?

and then solas has to pull himself together in a matter of minutes because he sees his opportunity to reach out to rook. to try to plant the seed that rook needs him. it’s the only way so he can see his plan through. to get out of the very prison he made.

the same prison that is now taunting him every second. the one cage he can’t get out of without moving past his regrets or tricking someone into letting him out. and we know he can’t accomplish the former.