Solavellan fanfic

It's slightly NSFW, and by slightly, I mean truly.

Enjoy as Dumat would want.

Plato was actually pretty built. He was a wrestler.

The professor/student relationship is very important and can be very powerful--especially between a grad student and her adviser. The mentee/mentor relationship is really a key part of garnering expertise in your field. It's like Virgil/Dante. Someone is guiding you. And yes, there are shades of eros in such intimate relationships, but they are complicated and there are lines you do not cross out of respect and duty.

However, a lot of the prof/student fantasy engages with the best parts of the power differentiation without really thinking about what such a relationship would entail. The romanticization off such relationships is very popular. I get the appeal. But the reality is different. 

I wouldn't care so much, if the "hot for hahren teacher" thing wasn't so popular and so unreflective.

And, as someone who has to deal with this narrative a lot: for example,  "Do your students hit on you?" was a question recently asked. I am deeply uncomfortable with the popular narrative as such.

So, yes, have your fantasy spaces, but also acknowledge the exigencies and fraughtness of such narratives.

Also, no, it would not be better if Lavellan was his boss, or the prof/student thing was reversed.

First thought that popped in my head when seeing that Dirthamen art was Eddie Munster.

I could see that.

If, by Eddie Munster, you weren't making a sly value judgement on another artist's work and instead meant "My what erotic talons!" 

I hope it's an Arlathan prequel.

 

If not probably some Tevinter politics, which would also be cool. 

It should be June's Arlathan scrapbook of memories.

He didn't. He's not.  His actions were no different than Solas' actually. They were actually motivated on faith.  Unfortunately the game did a ****** poor job of showing it, but he breached the golden city to see his god.  He tells you this.  He is motivated by his lost faith and wanting it to be affirmed. When he was shown that Dumat was not real he wanted to be the God that Thedas deserved. Then at the end, when you send him to the fade, he finds the last shreds of his faith.  He dies believing. Corypheus is actually really really sad. 

 

Ok now I have magister feels. Going to cry now. 

Corypheus DESERVED BETTER. COME ON, PEOPLE. 

Also, I don't think our erotic magister lord wanted to DESTROY ALL THE THINGS!! (solas)

But seriously, his is a story of lost faith. Son't make me break out the Marlowe again.

Is it any wonder that my Lavellan is 100% over gods?     

I just can't quit the Din.

Or JUNE!

JUNE WITNESS ME!

The 'get out of jail free' aspect is what really bothers my with the time travel aspect. I was really glad when BW seemed to be a hard limit on how far back anyone could go. I hope people are wrong about the original veil creation actually being the limiting factor as the world could get too screwy. 

Or just screwy enough to be able to go back in time and save the real savior of Thedas: Corypheus. Or at least thank him. And perhaps compliment his erotic claws.

Yes I could. 

 

At least the Architect is probably definitely still around. 

 

The Inquisitor meets the Architect of beauty in an abandoned temple, his robes flowing behind him as he floats majestically toward them. He will be BEAUTIFUL!

 

I vote Inquisition Army including undead magisters!!!

it would be beauitful. weeps.

I mean...to be fair...he is trying to kill everybody most definitely everyone is not an elf. 

 

I personally only find him sexier(also didn't hurt that they clearly gave him some plastic surgery...if anyone else noticed his cheeks and eyes are a bit better).  

 

I think these people need to just embrace the pain!

Could you imagine solely next gen Cory or Architect? I am sad.

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One god, one realm, one month! June!

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Look at that face, he wouldn't hurt a fly!

Your June is my favorite thing ever!

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I would not be surprised if in DA4, part of the game requires us to either wake a Titan up or to free some of Evanuris to fight Solas toe to toe. To fight someone as powerful as Fen'Harel, you will need someone else who is as powerful as he is. Currently, I do not know of anyone except Titans and the Evanuris.

 

I hope we can free June or Sylaise to knock some sense into the Egghead. Or that Valta can get us a Titan to do that.

For the person who requested that picture of Corypheus...

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I know you said not everything you said above applies to what happened here but I'd still like to point out I suggested they took it to PMs because it was getting heated, and it wasn't being handled respectfully. By all means, talk about it, but it's common courtesy to be respectful. I've said it before, but oftentimes arguments happen due to misunderstandings, and if it can be handled maturely then all kinds of drama can be avoided, and this thread has seen enough drama.

It wasn't heated.

I was blunt. I called what she said irresponsible, because it was, in fact, an irresponsible thing to say.

I don't need my tone policed when it was not disrespectful. Give me a break.

You know what? That's fine. I didn't think this discussion was to the point of "take your convo to PM," but whatever. It's dropped. But I certainly don't need to be told how and when to converse.

I do think that it is important to call these things out. I just do. 

But sure. More important things. 

Solas.

Its not automatically irresponsible to write a character having a mental illness. Like any other character trait, it can be done well or poorly.

 

And I am giving it due consideration. It would be a clever way to have one person be thought of as two people thousands of years later b/c legends forget/distort details. Please stop acting like I am somehow mocking or being insensitive to people with mental illness b/c I like the idea of a character in a video game actually having one. 

What I said was: "Mental illness is not something that responsible writers use to add interest to a character." There is nothing there that connotes that I was making a blanket assertion. 

And you are acting irresponsible, sorry. You did that when you said "schizophrenia" would be "cool."

... You guys are aware that by "cool" I did not mean "Yay, mental illness! Let's poke them/him with a stick!", right?

 

I meant "cool" as in: "That would be a clever explanation for a legend mentioning two people who are linked so closely that the legend itself says 'They might as well be brothers except they aren't, but they're also not not brothers. They're this weird amalgam we can't explain.' The two of them actually having been the same person, with that explanation lost to the mists of time and legend, would be interesting."

 

I also wasn't specifying how someone should feel about them/him, if this was the case. Personally, he might have my sympahty, he might not. It would depend on the circumstances and what event/action I'm supposed to be offering my sympathy about exactly.

 

As for the correct term, if its not what we define schizophrenia anymore, then its something else. I think I saw disphoric personality disorder? Or something like that. Point is, you guys know the type of scenario I mean.

 

Having it as an explanation for the uncertainty around Falon'Din and Dirthamen's relationship would be an interesting scenario to me, was all I was saying.

 

 

I disagree.

Mental illness is not something that responsible writers use to add interest to a character. Moreover, discourse such as the above is part of a larger problem of attaching mental illness to explain character traits without due consideration.

Falon'Din and Dirthamen are androgynous, erotic "brothers." I will accept nothing else.

Also, I would be careful ascribing mental disorders to characters we know from codex entries.

 

I can't be the only one who finds Corypheus sexy, right?

 

Not my confession. I'm not THAT depraved.

By "depraved" surely you mean, "have sublime aesthetic taste."

Though "depraved" works, too. At least it's interesting.

Corypheus is erotic? It must be the voice. It just oozes power.

He had my Lavellan at "kneel."

Why Elder One?

Because he is an erotic, possibly dead magical lord.

He is your elder. You will kneel.

 

Boibot: Me neither. There's no maple syrup in Star Wars.

User: That's a damn shame.

Boibot: No you're not. We should get together and go unicorn hunting! (With maple syrup, of course).

User: Okay, let's get back on topic.

Boibot: If there's maple syrup, I'm there!

User: Okay, where is Solas?

Boibot: I heard Canada has great maple syrup.

 

And...Falon'Din is Canadian. Self-promoting Canadian. XD

 

Of course our Lord and Savior is Canadian. nikki_tikki regularly dons her mounty gear in search of the Din. He is like the yeti.

Easiest way to get the inquisitor out of the picture would be removing the Anchor. Then they're just some random schmuck, likely having no army or allies by this point. They could retire to some kind of normal life, without everybody freaking out about the power they have.

Just because Cory couldn't extract it, doesn't mean a Mythal-powered entity couldn't. And extraction doesn't necessarily equal death. Cory wanted to kill the Inquisitor mostly out of spite - he still wouldn't be able to get the Anchor out of your corpse.

I think killing the Inquisitor would be a smart move on Cory's part after he discovered he could not remove the anchor. He says that he "cannot suffer even an unknowing rival." The Inquisitor is a political threat--a rival. Thus, it would make sense to kill them . . . unless the inquisitor seduces him with her matching tights.