#pre solavellan

[queenaeducan]

Var Shiral'vhen - Chapter Thirteen: A Pretense for Company

Non-binary Lavellan/Solas. Rated M. Summary: Solas tests the Inquisition's mage allies, and Ian's tolerance for his company.

“If our aim is to hold back the Fade, then…” Connor had finished dusting the snow from Bronagh’s hair and robes, but turns and brushes her shoulder again, as if to give meaning to his hesitation. His face is one Solas has seen in dreams, before this. Spirits of joy recollect his boyhood games in Castle Redcliffe, until a child’s bargain had turned those games into the town’s nightmare. He is older, now, hair long enough to draw his hair back in a ponytail only the length of his thumb.

He steps out from Bronagh’s side, his gaze unsteady beneath Solas’s discerning stare. “It’d like to give it a try, ser.”

With a bow, Solas gestures towards the open space between them. Connor moves forward with hands curled at his sides, which Solas gently taps with the base of his staff. “Open your hands, first,” he instructs, “nothing has ever been built with a fist.”

Connor obliges, blood flowing back into his knuckles like air into his lungs. Solas grants him a moment’s preparation, then begins.

The rift gasps into existence much as before, fluttering the hem of Connor’s robe as it seeks to draw him in, dreams grasping at dreams. He ignores the tear itself, focusing past to tend to what flows through. A pocket of atmosphere collects where his hands direct it, a void ballooning where he repels the Fade. It presses against the ribs, a mere taste of the reckoning Solas has wrought upon the world.

Reality itself shudders, and the rift draws shut.

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[larkoneironaut]

Solas before the rebellion 🌟

Inspired by these two outfits posted by @/elfbotanist on twt

[binabees]

-Why are you looking at me like that?

-You remind me of another elf I once Knew.

Felassan may you haunt the narrative forevermore.

[grimwarden]

That one classic meme. Lavellan says they're cold and Solas is like oh dear here take my very cool coat. Rook says they're cold and he's like. I don't know why you're stating that. You should have taken precautions.

[vir-bellanaris]

I wanted to share the commission of Solas and my Lavellan pre-Trespasser I got from AgusZebrowska.

The first time I shared it was right when the game dropped and it was a ghost town on here lmao

It's also my pfp but I can't shout about it enough!!

[dianapocalypse]

ok solavellan nation. what’s YOUR one true solavellan song

u can’t pick hallelujah that’s the canon one. NO PLAGIARISM

[nokdunal]

Quick pose study before starting trespasser

[bunabi]

the months before DAI dropped were so light-hearted and fun and now it's like 🧍🏾‍♀️ thank goodness it's only 70-something more days of this

[rosieofcorona]

nobody talk to me until 2025 it is for your own good for your own sanity

[fadedsweater]

Kinktober Drabble #3: Hand/Finger Kink

Prompt: hand/finger kink, from from the Duck Prints Press Kinks-Your-Tober challenge (here.) | Read on ao3 | kinktober 2024 series

Title: move your fingers slow Rating: T Pairing: Female Lavellan/ Solas

She's dreaming of his hands.

The long taper of his fingers, the ridges of his knuckles. An artist’s hands—elegant, made for the flick of a paintbrush.

Yet she has felt callouses hidden in his palms and his fingers. Always chaste touches: the brush of his fingertips as he gives her a book, the press of his hand against a wound.

Yesterday Eira watched him cut an apple: his thumb pushing down the blade, a coy smile as he passed her a slice. She blushed when he sucked the juice off of his fingertips, and he pretended not to see.

[queenaeducan]

Var Shiral'vhen - Chapter Nine: Mending Bridges

Non-binary Lavellan/Solas. Rated M.

Ian's departure has left an impression upon his companions, Solas included. When dreams offer no respite from the turmoil of the waking mind, he seeks it in something (someone) new.

“You’re right.” Behind him, he hears the familiar sound of Felassan fumbling for his pipe. Always checking the wrong pocket before he finds it at his breast. “But then, I’m not ‘people’ anymore, am I?”

The dream takes on an orange hue as he lights his pipe, embracing the soft glow of autumn. He turns and finds Felassan bathed in it, the warm tones of his brown skin drinking it in. His role is as he best remembers him: that of a rebel, clad in the spoils of their victories, wearing the breastplate of June’s guardians and armed with a bow he wrested out of Andruil’s hunters’ hands. His dark hair is braided down his back, and the stubborn branches of Mythal’s tree still spread across his expression.

Someone else lies behind his eyes who Solas neglects to name, lest its nature remake itself at his whim. It comes in good faith, he thinks, but to an unknown end.

“No,” he agrees. “Not anymore.”

“So, then.” Felassan fits his lips around the pipe. Smoke sneaks out the left hand side of its stem, billowing between his teeth. Its shape is soft against the sharp angle of his cheekbones. He considers it, then offers it forward. “Why am I here?”

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[avvidstarion]

The way that the inquisitor doesn’t get to participate in the final showdown with solas unless you romanced him. Whatever

[gxldencity]

tbqh I Am not looking forward to ppl judging others for who they romance in da:tv, especially if it's a popular romance :< ppl kept doing that till at least 2021 with solavellans and cullenmancers. and idk if they are mainly minding their own business and just sharing what they love they should be left alone.

esp if the solavellan or cullenmancer is a poc. I've seen far too many ppl send hate to poc for romancing solas or cullen, almost implying that bc they are a poc, then they shouldnt be romancing a white male character, which is Just so fucking gross especially if you're a white person doing this (and tbqh it's always white ppl who are doing this)

[freesidexjunkie]

also fully imagining sarissa languishing over dramatically against a wall in this ruin to mess with solas

"Oh, an inquisitor with an elven lover. How terribly scandalous. What would the chantry think?"

i just want to watch this very composed man try so hard not to crack a smile at the very not composed love of his incredibly long life

[catdotnip]

trying to make myself like solavellan?????

[onewomancitadel]

Solavellan is good because Solas is already a polarising character deeply embedded in the worldbuilding, so knowing that they stumbled into it, essentially at the behest of one female employee (I don't remember the full story), and during the extra extended year of development in DA:I, makes a lot of sense. Like it was always going to be an interesting and compelling romance, or at least an exciting idea and not just simply romance as a reward, because surrounding Solas are a lot of potent ideas (freedom, beguilement, power and godhood, the elves alone) which open up many opportunities for player engagement and to expand upon the narrative and worldbuilding.

There's a lot of room for roleplaying too, which I think is a critically understated component, because of two major twists with the romance (the vallaslin and then Trespasser's whole deal), where what Lavellan believes, and how she's hurt by him, really matter. Is it a tragic romance or a betrayal story? Or both? One of the really disappointing things about online discourse is that the question is always 'is it or is not okay to like Solas'. It's never focussed on 'why is Solas such a polarising character?' which I think is really compelling. Do you buy that he really, absolutely believes in freedom at all costs? Do you think he's proud? Do you think he's a liar? Is he right? All of that makes for genuinely good roleplaying! It's a video game!