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bardandbear · 5 months ago

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I'm going to add my two cents because I feel pretty strongly about this (people are welcome to disagree as always).

I honestly think a massive part of why Solas falls in love in the first place is that Lav only falls in love with Solas. She can't take any preconceptions into the relationship, which I think to someone who has had so much of his identity / life / purpose bulldozed by 'Fen'harel' is a critical point. She falls in love with Solas alone, as he would like to be. No matter how much deconstruction and fadevibing Rook does, that relationship will never be free of the baggage. Is the baggage interesting? Theoretically, sure. But I don't know if that represents the kind of relationship Solas is looking for.

On top of that, Rook's other similarities with the Inquisitor and their story rub me the wrong way narratively if they were to provide the Rook/Solas romance option. So much of what we've seen so far has me asking 'So why wasn't playing the Inquisitor (in Rook's place) an option?' Had the Inquisitor canonically died at the end of Trespasser I might feel differently, but mechanically I think 'rehashing' the DAI romance with the least content in another game feels cheap. Provide the contrast if you're going to do it, or have people who want to experience it play the romance that already exists.

Tldr I might be more open to it if it wasn't being discussed / represented essentially as Solavellan 2.0. We have Solavellan at home.

Am I the only one who doesn’t want Rook to be able to romance Solas? Maybe it’s the jealousy from my Solavellan heart speaking but I can’t imagine him with anybody else other than her, even if the inquisitor didn’t romance him.

Solas and Lavellan have an epic love story and Rook would never be able to compete. I just want Rook to stay in their own lane. None of the reoccurring characters have been romancable twice, I just hope they don’t decide to change it now.

If you disagree say why in the comments!!

#fandom wank #i'm pretty sure this will show up in the ship tag regardless #i will probably be blocking whatever ship tag that gets made for rook and solas and i've already seen the shipping #i am not about it #i really wanted rook to be a very distinct character to the inquisitor #to make the change of protagonist justified #they feel very similar at this stage #i feel like shaking people picking up on the shipping vibes and being like you can already experience this in another game #if they made them very different dynamics maybe i would be more on board #but i again don't know that solas would let his guard down enough for that with a different dynamic #the way the solavellan romance went down was a hyperspecific weakspot for him imo #yes he's lonely but having someone who only saw Solas was very much the point

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