Okay, so it's gonna take a couple hours to catch back up on 20+ pages of thread, but in the meantime I was thinking about someone's theory--I can't remember whose--who had been saying that maybe that one banter post-breakup between Solas and Cole was referring to Solas, not the Inquisitor, when Cole says "You became real."
At first I was like: Nah, he's totally addressing the Inquisitor there. And he does, in like the next line, I think? But now I think that person may have been onto something there...
[awesomely crazy theory snip snip]
God, this thread moves fast. Apologies if this has already been addressed.
If there’s one thing Weekes seems to love doing with Solas, it’s dropping lines that take on an entirely new punch-you-in-the-gut meaning once you have enough information to place them in their proper context. And man, what a way to invert expectations: converting what we thought was a bittersweet, romantic line into a hint about the nature of his Big Secret Goals. It would be amazing.
There’s a hitch though, and it’s a big one. Even if we assume it’s a truth deliberately placed in a red herring context, both the assumed meaning and “true” meaning have to fit naturally in that context. Remember, Cole immediately follows this line with “It changes everything… but it can’t.” That suggests strongly that no matter what he was referring to being “real”, the fact that it was surprised Solas. It ran contrary to his expectations, came as something unforeseen. In all his wisdom, it was a factor that he had not thought to weigh into his original plan.
So there’s a fundamental contradiction there that has to be resolved. In order to accept the first line as a reference to Cole, we have to discard another working theory: the one in which Solas is well aware that spirits can, through extended exposure to this side of the veil, eventually become fully real. In this wider context, the two theories cannot comfortably co-exist.
Personally, as much as I love the “point of reference changes the meaning entirely” twist, the bulk of available evidence seems to favor the second theory as being the more likely one.
Now, on its own, that doesn’t necessarily invalidate any of our sub-theories. However, there are other contradictions –deeper ones about the nature of spirits and the fade- that need to be ironed out if we’re going to make those theories plausible.
….aaaaand there’s no way I’m going to be able to get into that with the available wi-fi time I have. I’ll pick this up later if/when I can find a connection.
(I’m supposed to be enjoying my vacation guys, you’re killing me here)
(... I love it. TwT )
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