Just thinking about how jarring and maybe even scary it has to be for Solas, when he got his first thoughts of Lavellan as more than just the woman who happened to have his anchors power in her hand. A woman who undeniably has captured his attention.

Like, he's just minding his own business, and maybe he thinks about something she's said, or she walks by giving him a smile, or maybe it was when she first asked him about himself because no one has ever bothered to before. Or when she's staring up at him with genuine enthusiasm as he indulges her questions about different topics, like what he has to say is the most important and interesting thing she's ever heard.

Or maybe it was sooner than that? Maybe it was the moment he saw her lying on the cold floor of her prison cell as he did all he could to save this curious woman who had just walked physically out of the fade and lived. Or when he grabbed her hand bringing it to the rift, or her quick mastery of closing the portals.

Oh, I could think about them all day.

Clueless (1995) dir. Amy Heckerling

let's be evil with Mama

and she might not be wrong :'D

i know it's more tragic (and admittedly very delicious) in the other direction but i just don't think solas would kill lavellan. he had many chances. many many.

he could've let the anchor kill her easily enough. he wouldn't even have had to look her in the eye to do it, felassan-style. but instead he went out of his way to guide her right to him in trespasser (alone, btw! a golden opportunity!) to do the exact opposite, including telling her the truth, even if she promises to stop him. and how many times did he visit her in her sleep? dream-killer god that he is? and he didn't do it.

he's killed everyone else who stood in his way, however burdened he was by their deaths. flemythal and felassan and varric, all people he loved. i just don't think he has it in him to kill lavellan, no matter how much she knows or how close she gets to finding him or staying his hand.

maybe it's because of the depth of his love for her, or maybe it's because he's just so tired by the end of it all, but for me i think his refusal to kill her comes down to that very early interaction in which lavellan promises to protect him, however she has to. i think solas carries that with him always. maybe he feels he owes her that much, when he can't give her anything else.

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ouppy

Solas has a very important message for you all.

Bite

My favorite War Table missions are the ones where Josephine and Leliana are playing 6D chess on some side quest and Cullen’s input is just: “what the fuck? no. i’m not getting involved in this. can we go back to work.”

i love when fic writers who have clearly never tried any kind of alcohol in their lives try to write someone drinking bc they're always like

"he ordered a tall glass of hard liquor. after three large glasses he was feeling tipsy" like babygirl i can't be sure but i think u just sent this man to the hospital

"the amber liquid tasted sweet" bestie i can assure you it did not

A simple crush forming in the early days

There's a Varric/Blackwall banter in Inquisition that is probably my favourite quote to come out of the dragon age series and also says so much about Varric and also about Hawke but reframed in the context of Veilguard also says so much about Rook and why those people complaining about Rook 'not being a main character' or Rook 'not having any right to be the leader' are so completely missing the point of Rook.

Blackwall: You can't really think Reeve Asa is a better knight than Honorine Chastain. Her record's flawless. Four hundred jousts, never unseated. No one's ever come close to it.

Varric: Oh, she's easily the most skilled, that's a fact. It's just that 'scrappy' is better than 'flawless'. I like heroes who try their damndest, even if they fail a lot. It's easy to be valiant when you always win and everything goes your way. There's nothing great in that.

In Inquisition, obviously Varric is talking about Hawke. Hawke, the tragically doomed hero who tried and failed to save Kirkwall, but who tried. Now explain to me why Varric would pick anyone other than Rook to be his second? To look after the team while he talks to Solas? Varric is, first and foremost, however much he tries to be something else or pretend he isn't, an idealist. An author. He lives and thinks in terms of stories, it helps him deal with and make sense of the world. So why would he go and try and recruit the type of hero he doesn't like? Yeah, Rook is a nobody. They're probbaly not the best at what they do and the only reason Varric notices them is because they get cast out of their organisation for going against orders to save people. They might not be the most skilled, but goddamn if they don't try. Rook is the definition of scrappy, the prologue and first couple of cutscenes basically hit you over the head with it multiple times. They're exactly the stuff heroes are made of, according to Varric. And sure, they need some help, but what good would a story be if the hero was perfect all the time?

God I love Rook. And I love Varric and the way he thinks. And you know what? You know what the game says?

He's fucking right.