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invinciblerodent · 19 days ago

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this post has wormed its way into my head

god, it would be so good to give Solas a bit of a gay crisis in my canon game with Ray.

I typically really like to include something of a "could have been" type of a relationship, or a one-sided crush in my characters' stories (just to act as an extra point of interest), but... I already have him have a very uncomfortable misunderstanding going on with Cassandra, and a slightly homoerotic mentorship with Blackwall....

Like I know he's cute, and I know he's a veritable golden retriever who just wants to be liked so bad, but that.... that would be too many people caught in his (unconsciously woven) web, I think

that'd mean that this regular-ass garden variety white boy came in with that AOE charisma, and we can't exactly have that, can we

#squirrel plays dragon age #oc: raymond trevelyan #in my Iona game of BG3 I headcanon that Halsin is straight up pining; and the game more or less supports that #in Origins i can't help it; Alistair has to have a crush at least (even if he's not my canon LI)#in DA2 there's the “if only we had gone to therapy” thing my Garrett had going with Isabela for a spell #even Arvid had kind of an “if things had been different we might have been different as well” with Shadowheart #and Petyr was straight up beating Astarion off with a stick; that's not even something I made up for entertainment #i just had to literally reject the guy like three times that game so i just leaned into it #fictional yearning is fun! frustration and unrequited feelings make things a bit more interesting!#but “this is my guy; he's underwear-model handsome and very few people would be opposed to jumping his bones” is a bit............ well #gauche is the word that comes to mind

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