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icharchivist · 5 days ago

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the artbook saying they planned on having Cole in da4 to give a compassionate voice wanting to help Solas navigate through his pain and supporting him in front of Rook and the companions, only for the final product to literally just be "bashing Solas hours because he's such a loser for always being alone and he's to blame for literally everything (rightfully so or not)" just fills me with an intense sorrow i will never recover from.

#specifically relating a lot to Solas' loneliness and the despair that comes with it and the guilt and all #only to hear literally every characters in da4 calling him a loser for it #& for the ending being to punish him because how dare you try to fix your mistakes. just go into prison alone (unless romanced) and repent.#'you're free from Mythal' they say by forcing him to give up on something he did rebelling against her bc Mythal tells him to stop #and im supposed to be satisfied with that #genuinely this deep sorrow in my heart will never truly heal #it's one thing that they framed Solas as a villain who had to be stopped #it's another how they are utterly always ruthlessly mocking his vulnerable side to show he's inherently a failure of a man #da4 needed Compassion more than anything else and they scrapped him in the development phase #instead the spirits representing da4 are Spite and Curiosity #for a game and protagonist who's insultingly uncurious for the game that reveals so many mysteries hinted at in the three previous games #but sure seems spiteful about the messy legacy the saga has left them with and just decided to just erase everything controversial instead #head in hands #i wanted to have fun reading Solas' lines but i'm just filled with sorrow again #what was Cole's quote about it again #'Solas-- bright and sad-- observes and accepts. Spirit self-- seeing the soul. Solas-- but somehow sorrows'#ichasalty #ichablogging davg #ichatalks about da

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