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twirling my feet and kicking my hair at Solas's obvious big big crush on the Inquisitor before she fade-kisses him. he looks away when he says "a figure of speech." when she asks him to clarify, "felt the whole world change?", she's asking about his feelings for her bc she's been getting The Vibes for a while. inside he's giggling and blushing and twiling his once-long-and-luscious brown hair bc his big big crush found him in the fade and is fade-flirting with him like she's tryina get some fade-dick (unknowingly on the fade part tho). and he's like "noooo i don't do entanglements" but then she kisses him and he's like "fucking fuck god damn it nevermind". he's bad at lying when it comes to luv ❤️ and cannot resist her sweet fade lips ❤️

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@lepouf

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Exactly

thinking about writing a solas on pussy eating duty fic @emmg lmao

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im so glad my god complex manifests in something that gets me paid

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I don’t think mages have ever needed a focus to cast, it just helps. In DAO you can fireball bitches without a staff, and in DAI mage inky says to Cassandra “I don’t need a staff to be dangerous"

wait. guys. it just hit me that solas casts without a staff or even an orb/dagger. no focus just completely raw. holy shit. is there a precedent for this in the lore?? was he just pretending to need a staff while he was with the inquisition???? he literally just waves his arms around im losing my mind he’s sooooooooooooo *car crash noise, car horn, cat screech, alarm sound*

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ummmm hey guys. the fade prison is.... the black city, right? the fade prison is the black city. we know that the fade prison is the black city. or at least part of the black city based on what we saw as rook when we were inside. we know the evanuris were locked in fade prison..... which is the black city. solas and lavellan are in the fade prison. solas says he is going there to study and try to heal the blight. they are in the black city together except when we see them there in the epilogue the background isn't black its......

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ummmm hey guys. the fade prison is.... the black city, right? the fade prison is the black city. we know that the fade prison is the black city. or at least part of the black city based on what we saw as rook when we were inside. we know the evanuris were locked in fade prison..... which is the black city. solas and lavellan are in the fade prison. solas says he is going there to study and try to heal the blight. they are in the black city together except when we see them there in the epilogue the background isn't black its......

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Nerdhands update

Sorry

I need the strength to finish this

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you wont grow if you don't evolve your mindset into accepting the possibilities that currently exist, that did not exist before. the only actual thing holding you back is the belief system you created due to past patterns and experiences., or the idea of future ones. you are living in the past or the idea of the future.

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rain by Raymond Carver

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Will never be normal about this theme of how war and subjugation destroys you, crushes your spirit and not only dehumanizes others in your eyes but yourself in your own eyes.

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They made bodies from the earth. And the earth was afraid. It fought back. But they made it forget

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something so amazing about solas is that he is very good at predicting his enemies and his allies moves. he’s always thinking 5 steps ahead, even varric says this. (long post incoming!)

but when it comes to lavellan, he could never predict her. when he first meets her, solas thinks she’s just another dalish elf that is unwilling to listen to his advice. nope turns out she can be willing and not only that but asks him about what he knows so she can better understand the fade/spirits/ancient elves.

and then the haven dream kiss! she’s the one who initiates and solas is once again thrown off guard because he never expected that. and then he just gives into it with so much passion and fade tongue.

in all new, faded for her, solas is once again surprised lavellan agrees with his plan to free his friend, the spirit of wisdom. because nobody in the entire inquisition (except cole) would be down for this?? like all the world knows about spirits is that they don’t ever come in contact with people unless very rarely. they’re an enigma, something to be feared even because they can become demons. but nah lavellan is like ‘yep sounds good let’s go save your friend!’

and solas after this tries to rationalize lavellan’s bizarre behavior as something the anchor changed about her. because he has always known how to read people. he can’t understand her. he thinks her ‘spirit’ has changed due to magic’s influence.

but no, lavellan surprises once again by pointing out that her choices are her own or that if the anchor did change her, wouldn’t she notice? like no wonder solas is so fucking down bad. lavellan subverts everything he thought about the modern people, not just exclusively elves. she’s constantly showing him new points of view and challenging his whole mission. and so the cracks start to form.

“you show a wisdom i haven’t seen since…*pause* my deepest journeys into the ancient memories of the fade.”

“your mind, your morals, your… *pause* spirit.”

“it would be kinder in the long run. but losing you would- *cuts himself off*”

and then if lavellan drinks from the well, this conversation and the previous quest itself (what pride had wrought) just cracks solas wide open (even if she didn’t drink). he’s visibly upset because he’s afraid the well will change lavellan and he knows first hand what it’s like to do everything for someone who made the wrong choices! so solas asks what she would do with the power of the well and he’s ONCE AGAIN thrown off guard by her answer. i really like the “help the world move forward” option because it almost aligns with solas’s plan but it doesn’t.

s: “you would risk everything you have in the hope the future is better? what if it isn’t? what if you wake up to find the future you shaped is worse than what it was?”

l: “i’ll take a breath, see where things went wrong, and then try again.”

s: “just like that?”

l: “if we don’t keep trying, we’ll never get it right.”

you’d think this would be an affirmation that solas’s plan is right, but it’s not. lavellan is wanting to fix things now and shape a better future with the well’s power. it’s eerily similar, but once again a path solas didn’t consider. she surprises once more. using the wisdom from the well to help, rather than command. sound familiar? this conversation just solidifies solas’s want. to be himself and to be solas, not fen’harel, with lavellan.

so he takes her to crestwood. somewhere intimate and quiet just for the two of them. a place where the veil is thinnest because it’s easy for spirits to cross and be comfortable. solas is going to tell lavellan the truth. he’s going to abandon his plan. but then solas gets in his own head. he fights with the possibility of her rejecting him because why wouldn’t she? he’s the very god in her culture that ruined everything. what if lavellan sees him for the monster history painted him? and then he realizes why he even wanted to tear down the veil. to avenge his oldest friend and right the wrongs he did to the elves. and it all comes crashing down in not even a second.

“then what i must tell you… *pause* …the truth.”

solas backpedals so fucking hard. the reality of everything just hits him. so he quickly redirects to the vallaslin topic because it’s familiar as he looks down at lavellan’s face and sees the markings of the very gods he locked away.

remove the vallaslin or not solas still loves her no matter what. and the sad option is still my favorite here because once again solas is slipping.

s: “you have a rare and marvelous spirit. in another world-“

l: “why not this one?”

and then at the end of veilguard, lavellan does one more thing solas doesn’t expect. after hurting her, betraying her, leaving her alone without any answers, killing one of her friends, and almost succeeding in his plan, she forgives him. lavellan abandons thedas and everything she knew to be with him. to the very end, she is subverting his tragic expectations.

“this journey is not yours alone. we make it together, always.”

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