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

Look, that's is the closest to a smile we've seen from pookie in the past decade

This cracks me up.  It's right up there with "we were on a break!".

if I'm being honest, I'm here 100% for the drama of a tragic ending lol

A happy one would be nice, but I live for the drama.

But I've had ten years of drama and heartbreak.  I'm ready for my sweet Inky to be happy at last.  She deserves it. She's earned it.  Since we're not likely to see her again after this game...

Happy ending vs drama aren't mutually excusive.

I don't think any of us expected there NOT to be drama with Solavellan. Doesn't mean it can't have a chance (out of probably several different endings) to have a happy-ish or at least satisfactory outcome.

I never said it was a good explanation. 

*le sigh* Twitter is becoming a toxic wasteland full of very weird people - now, some of those very weird people insist on dunking on Solavellans for the sole reason of potentially getting a romance conclusion (regardless of how it's going to be).

I've even encountered someone arguing that they've sacrificed all the other choices of other players in the game just to give Solavellans a romance conclusion, which is a level of brainrot that baffles even this veteran Twitter doomscroller.

Brainrot aside though... it does surprise me to how many people it seems to come as a surprise that DAVe is going to be a very Solas-centric game, and that this is not a recent development, but something reliant upon years of planning. We've had Trespasser. If there was any marketing material, it was usually Solas-centric, and all the things they revealed so far suggest a very Solas-centric game. Heck, the game itself was called "Dreadwolf" until they switched it very recently!

....Like, how is that a surprise to anyone, at this point???

What gets me about all of this is that all DAI LI's got their closure in Trespasser... except Solas. The hell people are complaining about?

Yea, I've pointed out to someone that Sollavelan is simply getting a conclusion they never got in the base game or Trespasser - unlike other LI -  and the only response I got is that we did get an ending; it was just a sad ending, and apparently we should be content with what we got  

And honestly, even if we concede that point about getting a sad ending... I'm baffled by the insistence that the Veilguard story has been changed, or choices/other romances have been cut out from Veilguard to give Solavellan a conclusion.

The only reason we get anything is because they've long been planning a conclusion of relationship of Solas and Inky in DA4 (regardless whether they're lovers, friends, or enemies). Solavellan is merely a flavor, entirely reliant on them retaining Solas and Inky - not the other way around (the sad thing is I saw Trick Weekes and Corinne Busche being smeared for being supposedly obsessive Solavellan fans who destroyed Gaider's story to give the Trick's darling a sappy ending... while completely ignoring the fact that Solas is actually David Gaider's character, co-written by Gaider in DAI, and that story of DAVe was initially supposed to be the 2nd half of Inquisition, so one that Gaider planned and approved of before leaving).

Anyway, I think some people may be resentful that - whether it's just humorous trolling or not - romanced Lavellan may be the default worldstate (which we have no confirmation of) and somehow confuse it with level of importance to the story, rather than a bit of flavoring that makes the story a tiny bit spicier???

The other is that... well, some people don't like Solas, and made fun of Solavellans for being hopeful that Solavellan will be retained, even if only to add a bit more drama to Solas' personal story. So some of those silly comments may simply be resentment for being wrong about Solas, his role, or where the story may be heading.

Am I the only finding it curious how it is always Solas' followers and allies who suffer the most from the consequences of his descions. Surely he isn't deliberately eliminating any loose ends and establishing himself as the only viable alternative to the Evanuris. For all his supposed good intentions he leaves behind quite the body count.