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❤️OLD GODS / YOUNG HEARTS.❤️ | she/her | AO3 | Dragon Age, Solavellan hell/heaven

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I write Solavellan. You may see some other stuff on my AO3 and I love that stuff too but let's be real, I'm pretty much just the one thing and I am obsessed. It used to be all Angst and UST all the time but now there's plenty of Fluff and Smut as well. Asks are always open. I love prompts. Chat is also fine.

Here's the stuff I wrote that I'd love for you to read:

Overgrown Solavellan | Modern AU | Enemies to Lovers | Eventual Smut Rating: E | Complete | 93,911 words | 27 chapters

Ellana Lavellan is an investigative journalist assigned to cover an excavation in the Arbor Wilds. Her editors have received a tip that the dig may uncover new information about the "Final Inquisitor," a mysterious figure from the Dragon Age about whom almost nothing is known. Ellana teams up with a history professor to investigate the story.

Roots (sequel to Overgrown) Solavellan | Modern AU | Idiots in Love | Occasional Smut Rating: E | Actively Updating (aprox weekly)

With the identity of the Final Inquisitor now revealed to the world, Ellana Lavellan (an investigative journalist) and Solas (a history professor) team up again to dive deeper into the mysteries of the Dragon Age as well as a series of strange phenomena that have been reported across Thedas.

the best of you, honey, belongs to me Solavellan | One-Shot | Smut Rating: E | 3,759 words

Hunt well, he told her. And she has. She may as well wear their pelts like trophies across her shoulders.

They have lined up to dance with her, to offer her gifts, to make her promises - all of it hollow. They want her for the power and the pleasure she can bring them. They want the world to see her in their arms as they swirl her across the floor. They want to feel the press of her body against their chest and imagine an intimacy which is his alone to claim.

Solas gets jealous at Halamshiral and his pride nearly gets the better of him.

In and Out of Time Again Solavellan | Letters | Angst | Time Loops Rating: M | Complete | 14,499 words | 14 chapters

I tattooed everything you said to me on my still-beating heart and while that may sound like nothing more than hyperbole, I swear to you that if you clawed open my ribcage you would see the truth in the ink that spilled through your fingers.

A Solavellan take on “This Is How You Lose the Time War." Two unlikely correspondents reshape infinite versions of Thedas, each manipulating events of the world’s past to create the future their faction desires.

in the cracks of light / i dreamed of you Solavellan | One-Shot | Angst | Pre-Veilgaurd Rating: T | 2,731 words

He slips into a cafe to pass the time. It is an alluring place on the water where lilac lanterns spill light on lovers and assassins alike. In the distance, something bright catches his eye. Two felines, perched side by side on the base of a pillar that overlooks the canals. One of them is such a vivid white he swears it’s glowing in the afternoon sun.

By day, Solas investigates an irregularity in the Veil in the Streets of Coin and encounters a spirit cat. By night, Lavellan dreams of Treviso.

Ruins Solavellan | Time Travel Fix-It | Angst | Slow Burn Rating: M | WIP | 109,325 words | 19/? chapters

More than 20 years after the Exalted Council, Thedas is in ruins. Finally, a hardened and desperate Lavellan conjures a dangerous spell that has the power to stop the Dread Wolf once and for all. But when plans suddenly change, Lavellan and Solas find themselves transported back to when everything began - one year before Corypheus opens the breach - and given "one last chance" to set things right.

Miscellaneous Solavellan

Short one-shots collected from various prompts. Mostly set in Inquisition, one in Veilguard.

Who fell first prompt. Four short scenes, two from Solas' POV and two from Lavellan's.

Me, fourteen and making OCs: okay she can’t be a Mary Sue! I can’t make her too cool or everyone will think she’s unbelievable and hate her :((

Me, thirty-two and making OCs: Every person I think is hot in this video game is into this OC and also she gets to be a Special Princess. I’ll commission a propaganda portrait of her as an imperial saint.

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I know he wants to look cool and sinister now but if Solas met the rhyming tree in Origins he would rhyme right back at it. You know he would. He would get really into it.

With the identity of the Final Inquisitor now revealed to the world, Ellana Lavellan (an investigative journalist) and Solas (a history professor) team up again to dive deeper into the mysteries of the Dragon Age as well as a series of strange phenomena that have been reported across Thedas. (Sequel to Overgrown)

Solas x Lavellan || Modern AU || Read on AO3 || Read from the beginning

Excerpt:

After a round of drinks Solas was considerably calmer, though his tongue had loosened accordingly. "When we return to Lydes," he said, leaning forward over the table with the flat bottom of his glass perched only somewhat perilously in the palm of his hand, "there's a new restaurant that just opened a few weeks ago. Antivan. I'd love to take you there. They make a fantastic paella." "I remember. You told me about that place when you first tried it. Actually, I think you sent me a picture of that exact paella," Ellana laughed before taking another sip of her drink. "That's right," he nodded. He had done that. He knew it. Why was still talking, he wondered, as he continued.

Professor Solas has a wild past... If you don't like it, I apologize. It's probably not everyone's cup of tea. I felt so silly making this. I was scared to put it to paper for a long time and I'm glad I finally did it.

The god of lies retcon is really boring tbh

Okay I wasn't planning to but I think I'll reblog to elaborate on my thoughts instead of going to bed.

I write Solas for like fun and he's really a blast to write. Just a super engaging character and part of his appeal as a writer is there is so much care in his words. It's carefully pieced together to still be the truth while shading it enough it works in his benefit. You also have to think about his motivations in saying that.

Each sentence can have so much depth and meaning and at so many different angles I really enjoy it as a writer. I enjoy character interaction and the concepts of why we saw what we do to others and how we interact with other. I like thinking about why he does things. Why he said what he said? What other meaning can be derived and how can I best use and shape Solas' words to engage with the story.

It's boring to wipe that out and just have him be a liar. I'm fundamentally not interested in a character like that. Why give a character a trait that means you can just throw out all that he says? There is no point in deciphering his words if he's a liar and that's really boring. it's a boring character trait. It's just not fun to read or write.

at least for me

The retcon makes Solas boring and that's such a shame because Inquisition Solas is sooooo entertaining.

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The best quality a fictional man can have is being deeply, pathetically, wretchedly in love with someone, I think

Every beautiful romance ever made is about two freaks who mask their freakishness & live conventionally but isolated until they meet and match each others freak so hard it ruins both of their lives

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