#no hate to solas but of all the 'hoping your fave is in da4' options dorian def has the best bet

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really excited for my blorbo to be in DA4 and for him not being Solas

[republictrooper]

Finally did Tresspasser on my angry gay elf. Basic thoughts:

-Did the Sympathetic to Solas conversation path at the end and gdi why couldn’t I romance him? I mean, yes, technically he’s kind of genocidal and incredibly racist, but he, like. you know. I really feel like I can talk him down because he still has a lot of compassion and kindness and he thinks the WORLD of me and ugh ugh ugh is this it? is Solas my problematic fave? Oh gosh... SOLAS I’M GOING TO SAVE YOU SOLAS MY BEAUTIFUL PROBLEMATIC EGGHEAD BELOVED

-Speaking of Romance, seriously, tho could at least give us gays one of the nice romance scenes??? Dorian makes the relationship long-distance without your input, and the main Iron Bull hangout scene is primarily non-romantic (at least in my always-save-the-chargers playthrough), with Bull only really showing interest in you if you talk sex toys. SOLAS WOULD HAVE AT LEAST PRETENDED TO LIKE MY TALK ON FERELDEN NOBILITY, BULL. GOSH. I mean, at least you got in some nice in-party banter, but STILL. Cmon. This is why I want Bioware to stop being cowardly and let me romance one of the soft boys on my dude characters, ugh. His ending slide even implied he did the Long Distance Relationship thing to lead the Chargers to, but at least he was by my side when I was vowing to save Solas.

-Speaking of Romances that get a nice scene in Trespasser: Sera. I heard she kinda 180′d on the elf stuff in Trespasser, but I didn’t see it? The best I saw was “ok, well, I still hate elf culture but I’m not gonna be such an ass about it I GUESS.” Of course, maybe I didn’t have enough friendship with her to get the real big scenes for that, we never even got to the cookies on the rooftop stage in the main game because I refused to give ground on the Elfy thing. But, nah. Still don’t feel like Sera redeemed herself.

-Gosh it felt SO GOOD to use the angry options in the exalted council and with my advisors to tell all the shem assholes to FRICK. OFF. I mean, as much as I love Cullen, Josie, and Leliana, they were all often bull-headedly pro-Chantry and didn’t always seem to be listening or respectful of the differences I bought to the table as a Dalish Elf, so having that epic rant near the end and having all of them seem... slightly guilty about it was almost cathartic? also, telling off the nobles while waving around their precious writ? Hell. yes. 

-Ok, like, we had to stop the Dragon’s Breath because it obviously would have killed more than the nobles AND the Qun would not ultimately be great for a lot of people, especially mages such as my angry gay lavellan, so I have no regrets about stopping it.... But also, could we kill more of the nobles? 

-I disbanded the Inquistion because no way was my Elf getting forced even deeper into bowing and scraping to Andraste, but I admit I hesitated a little. Leliana seemed to be genuinely on the path to making the Chantry a better place, but... let’s be real, in DA4, she’s probably gonna be deposed or fighting a losing battle against the traditionalists, and anyway, I strongly believe, as does my Angry Gay Lavellan, that you probably gotta throw the whole thing out because you can’t truly reform a burning building.

Still, Leliana is doing better than I thought. Canticle of Shartan and all.

Also, I wish I could get bee proc weapons in the main game cuz that was FUN.

Also, while I don’t feel quite as connected to my Inquisitors overall as I do my Hawkes and Wardens, I still kinda hope they get to come back in DA4 because, A, Dagna could probably make them a really cool replacement hand with magic attachments and stuff, and B, The reunion with Solas and the tearful attempts to redeem him would be AMAZING and won’t feel half as good with a new protagonist that only knows him as that one guy who wants to kill us all.

But more than that, they better bring back Merril. SHE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE ELUVIANS AND SHE DESERVES TO BE THE NEXT GAME’S ELUVIAN EXPERT DAMMIT.

Also, Varric’s end slide says he took care of Kirkwall “with the help of his friend Hawke.” I thought Hawke was still caught up in the Grey Wardens Civil War, but I will take this ending gladly! Let Hawke retire to Kirkwall!

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Yeah, I’m torn between Cass and a softened Leliana for divine but yeah Leliana is the extreme end in terms of change. It’ll be interesting to see what they do with it in da4

Ooooh thats a cool headcannon :D yeah the options are very black and white it seems in dai and theres no option for a middle ground, so I hope its something they change in da4.

I did see the youtube video for that (i cant remember if it was on pinterest or a friend sent it me) XD oh god yeah, the differences between a low approval, high approval and romanced solas in trespasser are amazing and such good attention to detail :3 Yeah, like Im pretty sure they do a double take when they see the statues! In the current fic I’m writing when Dorian finally gets through that Eluvian to get to Estelle, seeing the statues makes him very concerned what solas may have done to Estelle cos I can imagine seeing those statues like that would intimidate anyone (I swear this fic gets more angstier the more drafts I do XD) :o I didn’t realise that was how you got the amulet of power for Dorian, I always found it weird that he seems to be the only companion you don’t find one for XD I can imagine! Not to mention the emotional turmoil your Lavellan must have been going through in that moment!

oh my life that pic is adorable! :3 :3 haha, I can so imagine that much to the annoyance to those around them :’)  Yeah when I first started writing him he was a pain in the butt to get right, but I think its helped with the amount of Ive now played dai and just paying more attention to the way he talks :3

I am a pain for losing things I’ve just put down, I can spend ages looking for my graphics tablet pen even though its right under my nose XD

I have a sketch of the layout for it, so might I get started on it once I’ve finished this comic :3 oh yeah, same, I tried to learn tarot at one point but I always got so confused about meanings ect -.-

That map is gorgeous! :o I need to get around to putting the map on my wall at some point but it was super useful when I was in a Dragon Age TTRPG and I had barely any knowledge about DA at the time XD My character ended up being an escaped slave from Tevinter, who travelled with a disgraced son of a magister who helped her escape but they very much had a love hate relationship (one of my fave moments of the game was when the mage decided to refer to her and another elf in the party as his slaves (I can’t remember what the context was now) and Elviria just turns round and punches him in the face XD) I’m assuming that’s the dalish origin? I do need to do all the other origins at some point too XD

Yeah, this was pretty much the line I have: “But Dorian had enough to worry about in Tevinter without him, Estelle adding to it. Especially when it was likely nothing to worry about.” The last thing Estelle would want is to pull Dorian away from Tevinter over something that might not be that serious when he knows how much working to change Tevinter means to Dorian. Omg there reactions get me every time and they get more worried as time goes one just ack, my heart! And like Dorian frets and asks you to let him know if it gets worse, which is why it hurts so MUCH that he finds out from Leliana instead :( I always assumed it was a few days and then some given there had to be some recovery time between having the anchor removed and walking into the exalted council to announce your decision. Yeah, he had to have walked away with some broken bones or other injuries ect.

I really do hope that they include it in da4, or at the very least has some form of prosphetic otherwise I’m gonna be annoyed if they just show it magically regrown :/ I definitely think Estelle would have ptsd at the very least if not also some form of anxiety/depression, he’d definitely be a lot more withdrawn then normal and Dorian would probably be the only one to see the softer side of Estelle. Oh, Estelle would be the same I think, given how reckless he gets during the delveraard ect - I defintely can’t blame Dorian for wanting to protect him after everything they’ve been through. I don’t know why but I keep thinking of the way the da4 protag would be so angry and disappointed at finding out that inky can’t help them for whatever reason

I’ve never gone back to the deep roads after I’ve gotten the explosive upgrade cos by the time I’ve finished the shattered library and gotten the feelsy dialogue with Dorian, I’m kinda swept up by the story and end up going straight to the delverearrd ^^; what is it with games and small text, dammit XD

So after my xbox foiled my attempts to re-play Origins, I'm forcing myself to learn how to play on the laptop. I cant play for too long as my hands cramp up easily and begin to hurt, so I've been doing two hr stints after work

My warden is a warrior this playthrough (i normally play as a mage) and I've just reached the part with the ogre in the tower - this is gonna be interesting since I've yet to get the hang of combat. (I figured out how tactics work so that's a start)