The Blanketfort (crying and throwing up) - The Official Solas Thread [Spoilers]

1, the stick figure idea sent me, good job. XD

2, he could depict the stylized Lavellan from the Keep site. Maybe have it be a half-finished drawing to avoid having to assign hair and skin color, but with the anchor so you know who it is. And half finished cus of emotional, "he couldn't bring himself to finish it", reasons. 

Heck, they could depict all the inquisitors with that method, actually, so there could be a mural for non-romanced too. And just... maybe no mural for the Inkys he didn't like. lol

Must have gotten some pointers from Cassandra before he left. lol

Varric: Huh. That feels familiar.

All over his sketchbooks, "S + L, TLA"
(for those angsty high school memories, lol)

I'll just copy paste my feelings about yesterday's news. I need moral support now
Years ago (around a decade ago, to be frank) I read By The Still Waters. Even though solavellan is minor pairing there, once scene gave me goosebumps and got imprinted in my memory.




Solas was alone (!) all those years. This is so fucking sad. I can't help feeling for him. Imagine how miserable we was feeling all this time.

Lavellan at least had people beside her.

He has noone. And it's his choice. I'm not gonna judge him or say he should have stayed with Lavellan. I clearly don't know the rest of his story, what he went through and what's at stakes. But the sheer willpower needed to end relationship with he, when it's clear he cares for her is immensive. Considering his greatest fear is dying alone. Considering he lost one of the few companions he had (Wisdom). Considering his words to Lavellan when they met and in Crestwood.

Lavellan: I’ve never heard of anyone going so far into the fade. That’s extraordinary.
Solas: Thank you. It’s not a common field of study, for obvious reasons. Not so flashy as throwing fire or lightning. The thrill of finding remnants of a thousand-year-old dream? I would not trade it for anything.

vs

Solas: I was trying to determine some way to show you what you mean to me.
Lavellan: That’s not necessary, Solas. You’re my…
Solas: That is the question, is it not? For now, the best gift I can offer is the truth… You are unique. In all Thedas, I never expected to find someone who could draw my attention from the Fade. You have become important to me - more important than I could have imagined.

Weeks said in the past how moral implications of romance with Solas are huge. Back then I took it as confirmation that through her he realized his mistake in thinking modern people aren't real. But I think it's more that than, especially after yesterday.

He was alone for millennia, it's unknown if he ever had deeply intimate relationship with anyone. In fact, his word suggest he hasn't: before Lavellan the Fade and dreams was what he loved. And then he met her and realized he could trade it in favor of spending time with her.

What is their story, for him, is about truly loving for the first time? Opening up like never before, experiencing connection with another being on a new level. A possibility of having someone know how you truly are, not a persona, but Solas (or, more precisely, his soul. I think Solas is a name he was given. which doesn't necessarily represent him wholy) . Being cared for who he is. Being free and loved.

I so hope we will get a chance to make it better for him. I also hope spirit Cole comforted him, even though Solas likely turned him away as well.

I was positive Bioware will depict him as a leader amongst his agents, busy progressing with his plan and spreading the chaos for his opponents. I got this impression from Trespasser. Intelligent trickster, who got what he wanted by using qunari and Inquisition.

But I was wrong and I'm glad. What we got is so much sadder but also fucking beautiful. It opens a lot of possibilities to how his story will progress. Weekes is a genius. I love them.

I am this close to blocking any news to experience the game for the first time as it's released. Now that I know Inquisitor will make an appearance, I'm hopeful for meaningful wrap up to their story.

And fuck if the news don't give another spin at him watching Lavellan from the distance in her dreams. Imagine it as the only comfort and intimacy (or whisp of it, really, as he was always far away) he allowed himself since Trespasser, probably when his lonely presence in Lighthouse became too much to bear. It's so sad. I actually cried yesterday T_T

Let me love you and care for you and hug you and comfort you and protect you you stupid fucking idiot of a vhenan

He he I would call that a cat fight   and not only that just think of the entertainment value. 

I can already feel the goblin inside me rubbing my hands together and cackling while plotting this out.

It's just so tragic and juicy.

Imagine him choosing between them.

Solas in the background, as Inky and Rook duke it out.

My Lavellan showing up with a major glow up, hair long and beautiful, skin glowing, to rizz up Solas again, only to find a new woman trying to take her man.

Lavellan: Var lath vir sule - oh, f*ck it...

I didn't romance Solas, so maybe i'm wrong but didn't he basically break up with you at some point?

He sorta-kinda breaks up during Inquisition, but unless we break up with him the game treats Lavellan like she's still in relationship with Solas till the very end, and Trespasser has unique interactions for romanced Lavellans, as well as a unique epilogue card that makes it clear that Solas and Lavellan didn't stop having feelings for one another.

OK, thank you!