#u all should be glad my stubbornness to trying to make elio/lucanis work is taking up most of my head space rn

[veatomis]

Actually expanded upon thoughts because he is the guy of all time for me:

- As just previously said. Harding is NOT making it out of this alive. She's really there pressing each and every single one of his buttons. Calling him inquisitor, talking abt what the "inquisition" is doing in the south, spreading false rumors (morrigan turning into a dragon), acting like she actually knew solas and saying that he was/seemed really lonely and obviously. her whole questline about the titan's anger and the weird comments on the elves "thriving" + it probably makes him miss dagna so much... He had a favorite redhead dwarf and it was NOT harding lmao

- He refuses to engage with bellara's weird hung ups abt the elven gods and her thoughts abt how modern elves should apologize for what was done to the titans and her feeling guilt with wanting to remember their past. He would put her on this strain known as "solas lies all the time" and "the evanuris weren't good but they weren't totally bad" and "i didnt drink from the fucking well of sorrows 0 hesitation for u to consider getting rid of an actual fucking ancient elven archive"

- He is dragging davrin back to his clan to reconnect whether he likes it or not + he's turning him into an emerald knight fanboy and a "the elves should focus on restoring something like the dales instead of looking for elvenhan" truther. I dont think he would give a shit abt assan or the griffons tho. But i dont think the griffons shouldve been the actual final choice for davrin's storyline anyway

- Taash is getting the biggest side eye for actually going looking to TEVINTER on how to healthily engage with your gender journey. He's dragging davrin and bellara by their ears to teach them the way most dalish engage with transgender people. He's also cashing in the thousands of favors people owe him and calling bull to come here IMMEDIATELY so he can touch on gender from a qun perspective. He's also not taking the shit attitude they have towards their mother when it's completely unprompted. U can have grievances abt her not being accepting of who u are without being weird abt her culture. why are u forcing her to eat food that goes against her dietary preferences. WEIRD. He also refuses to choose for them on the final choice. This is YOUR issue. U need to make choices on ur own sometimes.

- Originally i dont think he would care much for emmrich. Arihs already has his own fruity mustached necromancer. But i think emmrich would get too curious abt arihs' time as inquisitor and arihs who HATES speaking abt it is now thinking on how to effectively kill emmrich and make it look like an accident. He probably has a soft spot for manfred tho. Reminds him of cole <3

- Lucanis has a great start with being another assassin and spite fascinates arihs. He blows it tho when arihs realizes just how high maintenance this man is. One thing is being a bit insecure and having issues another is having all of that and also not even attempting to communicate what u want or try to get better on ur own. Pick a struggle. Arihs hates elio and even how fucked this situation is is making him consider having an intervention for elio to realize he can do better

- Neve is probably going to feel betrayed arihs doesnt care abt minrathous' destruction when he lives there, his children are from there and he's married to magister pavus. Arihs honestly feels insulted anyone could think he cares abt minrathous beyond "my family is there and i dont want anything bad to happen to them". if his family is far away from the city he couldnt care less abt it being completely wiped off the map honestly. Neve's complete faith and unrelenting want to save docktown would grate on arihs too tbh

I keep thinking about how arihs would react to some of the things happening in veilguard, esp from an actually dalish point of view and because i just deluded myself into thinking the inquisitor would have a bigger role (and it would be done correctly lmao), but every time i reach the same conclusion that he just should never be allowed anywhere near the veilguard companions because half of them are getting killed while the other half would be radicalized beyond belief.