EXCUSE ME!!! I intended to simply capture this with only them in the frame to highlight how much this parallels their story (lavellan might also wait forever for solas to come back) but then!!! HE FUCKING LOOKED AT LAVELLAN WHEN HE SAID "BE FREE"! (And then kept staring at her asdfgh!) Listen, listen—I played this right after the break up, right after AR LASA MALA REVAS. This cannot get any more poetic cinema 😭
If you want a better look at each image without the layout (that I spent like two hours on but I understand bc I like being able to zoom in to QUALITY tumblr wtf) Here you go :]
And the other side of this, of like- Imogen and Laudna acting so differently around Ashton, versus around each other. If you put the three of them together something different (something regular?) spills out. But when they talk, just Ashton to Laudna and just Imogen to Ashton- the common threads stay strung out between them.
Ashton and Imogen talk about each other, and mention Laudna, the agreed similarities between Ashton and Laudna like a shorthand for understanding more, like a glossary in a textbook.
Laudna and Ashton talk about themselves, but refer to Imogen like a thing of admiration, like a wonder. A mirrored fascination like a shared road, like a steady standard, like moths to a flame.
Its not the same as getting them all in a room, we've seen that to an extent. It's like- lights, and crystals, and threads, fuck if i know, things strung up and shining when the light hits them differently and refracting into new colors and directions. Its not a balancing act, exactly, its like a chemical equation.