#papae solas

[ghostfire]

I don't usually revisit a decade old piece of fanart, but when I do it's because it won't leave my mind.

[ar-ghilas-vir-banal]

I just can’t see Solas ever having any thought about being a parent in all this thousands of years. He hates his body. He hates the way the society he’s part of is degrading. I just don’t think he even considered “be a father” ever. Nah.

Until he meets Lavellan. (At least mine.) She’s caring and motherly with Sera, who at best Solas tolerates. And when Cole arrives, she is so immediately concerned with accepting and helping him, protecting him as staunchly as she can.

Even Morrigan’s strange son, she immediately warms to. When he says “I didn’t expect you to be an elf,” Ar’Sulahn grins and quips “Did the ears give me away?”

It makes Solas chuckle, listening out from his little perch on the wall. Cole is someone he feels responsible for, protective of. And he knows this must be how fatherhood might be, though a child of one’s own body… with someone one loves…

And that first little thought of “I wonder what her children would look like.” And it burns a hole in that man’s mind. Would they look like her? Or… or him? Would they marry or just live together? Oh marry, for sure. She deserves the ceremony. The beauty. His vows… and then a home. A simple little home in a forest. Where the trees are quiet and no one will disturb them. Where their child could play and climb trees and… green eyes, he hopes. Like their mother. With unerring kindness and courage and a heart to protect. Maybe more than one. Maybe…

These are the quiet, foolish dreams he nurses alone in the Lighthouse. The ones so bright and precious that he can’t even fully grieve them. Solas just holds them like tiny jewels. Deep in his heart.

He can’t know Ar’Sulahn Lavellan wonders the same. That she dreams a little girl with lilac eyes and an all too serious demeanor, who wants to paint and loves stories from her father. Because he has the best stories.

Until much, much later when they’ve talked and cried and Solas’ wounds have begun to heal. The Blight is healed and the world outside the Fade is allowed to do the same. And it’s just them now. Safe and together. And there’s time, and time, and time in the world of dreams.

[beetlebabe]

Solavellan fanchild I keep drawing in my work: Elowyn. ❤️ She is based on my timetraveler!Rook playthrough of Veilguard

[princesscaramel]

"Part of me."

[rosieofcorona]

i don't often headcanon my faves as parents, but there's a charm to solas as a father that just...appeals to me. i've seen other folks posit that he'd never talk down to a child, and i agree with that fully, but he's got a silly streak for all his stoicism, and i think he'd also humor them quite a bit. i can see him wanting very much to foster their imagination, especially with art and play and storytelling.

he’d let them paint murals alongside his own. he’d play pranks with them (DAI lizard prank callback, anyone?). he'd restructure some of the great elven histories as bedtime tales, and not really skip out on the hairier details, and then encourage thoughtful critique of said bedtime tales. intentionally or not, he'd almost definitely raise a small historian, who'd have no problem correcting any inconsistencies in his recollections. a real treat for fen'harel, i'm sure.

in my view, he'd cherish the chance to see and experience both the fade and the waking world through fresh eyes. mythal says he watched the world for so long as a spirit, only to suffer when he joined it himself. i think this would be a chance to start over, to see things as a child sees them, to rediscover old joys and fascinations. centuries of wonder made wondrous again.

and i think, too, that it would give him an opportunity to teach someone as he's always wanted to. a new little spirit to nurture and guide. someone who loves him right from the beginning, and who relies on his wisdom. who lets him meet his purpose, and loves him unquestioningly, the way lavellan does.

[bearofohu]

anyone saying solas wouldnt be a good parent bc he would be too impatient is WRONG as fuck. solas loses patience with ignorant adults because they more often than not are choosing to be ignorant but little ass kids literally just don’t know shit about the world. that sick fuck would LOVE the stage where a toddler starts asking “why” to everything they are told. he tells his four year old that sometimes pieces of their house might teleport into the air and they ask why not realizing they are not going to have a chance to play with toys again all day because babae is still fucking yapping

[mausilein]

Fade parents!

[vir-dirthera]

In my mind Solas starts out reluctant to show Lavellan his shapeshifted giant wolf form because to him it represents the parts of him he doesn't want his vhenan to see, it only comes out when he's about to give someone a legendary ass whooping, etc. Then a couple years later he's letting their children ride around on his back like the dread doggy express.

[celestialmacrocosm]

My hand slipped. Oops.

I love them.

Meet Solas and Leilah's baby girl. Fenlah. 🥹💚

[lathbora-virann]

Thinking about potential

✨️Solavellan baby names✨️

for no particular reason don't worry about it and there's so many good options just using already established elvhen words. I've seen a couple used by some amazing artists but not most of them:

 Atish’an (peace)

Bellanaris (eternity)

Dirthara/Dirthera (learn; to tell tales)

Enasal (joy in triumph over loss; a variation of joyful relief)

Halani (help)

Hamin (rest)

Hellathen (noble struggle)

Melana/Melava (time)

Revas (freedom)

Serannas (thanks; gratitude)

Setheneran (land of waking dreams; a place where the Veil is thin)

Shivanas (dedication to duty)

Sulahn'nehn (rejoice; joy)

Suledin (the concept of finding strength in enduring loss or pain)

Sulevin (purpose)

Theneras (dream)

We're really spoilt for choice over here

[ladyofc]

Her first spell 🥹💕

[teamdilf]

Sorry to my non-Dragon Age and non-Solavellan mutuals but I’m on my “Solas as a dad” bullshit now and it’s just not going to stop.

[vir-bellanaris]

I've seen a lot of hate towards Solas as a father from a specific blog and like...dude I get it. I don't like kids either. But literally let people enjoy their headcanons. Just because you don't agree with that perspective of Solas doesn't make it invalid. If it bothers you so much literally just block the tag or blogs who reblog that kind of stuff.

I think Solas would love being a father if he ever felt secure and at peace enough to start a family. He would cherish them and be involved in every aspect of their development.

Don't post things that would make others feel bad about a harmless little headcanon.

[binabees]

[princesscaramel]

Peace

[attractthecrows]

Papae Solas is incredible conceptwise, but as an angst demon, I MUST make it a torment. its like my only biological imperative is to make things much much worse. anyway wouldn't it be fucked up if the timing of their breakup was juuust so, that he didn't even KNOW there was a child. Like it's not like Lavellan would be taking a toddler along with the party during Trespasser. If they broke up RIGHT BEFORE the final fight with Corypheus, then it's entirely possible neither of them would have known when Solas disappeared. It's not like Lavellan could track him down. Fuck, if they're bitter about it they might not even want to. it could cause so much fucking drama and problems i cant stop thinking about it