I've been watching some Solas romance scenes on youtube out of boredom and I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people who had their Vaselline taken away. Yes, they might have meant slavery thousands of years ago, but now I see them as a mark of adulthood/pride in the Dalish culture, a modern culture, which marks them out as never submitting to slavery again. I could never take away my Dalish pride in my first play through, or any future play throughs.
Does Solas offer that to a male friend, or is it just a romance scene? And how many people accepted his 'gift'? I thought it was a sweet gesture, but it's sort of like LBGT or coloured people taking back offensive slurs. I'm a gay man in real life, and when people call me ****** or gay or queer, I laugh and smirk and wear it with pride. I imagine the Dalish being something similar really. >.>
So yeah, am I alone? Please say people refused his gift other than me haha.
I, like many other in this thread, removed the vallaslin, but I did pause to think for a long while before doing so.
I figured, at the end, that it fits my Lavellan's traits the most to remove it, I imagined her to be quite upset over what happened in the Temple of Mythal and that it got her thinking differently about what she thinks to be her People's heritage. Especially after coming across the different murals of her so-called gods and having Morrigan and Solas comment on them.
She was never especially 'DALISH GLORY' in her conversations (I've avoided some of the special dialogs on purpose), she seeks to expand her knowledge and grow (and her clan lets her). She is a Dalish elf & a mage, she is the face of the inquisition and as such she feels that since people treat her as a symbol (against her will) that she should atleast try to bring on a change, thus she must stand for truth as far as she can (and that includes physical representation).
Honestly: after thinking about it a while I was like 'meh, why not' + I really wanted to see that scene in which he removes the vallaslin, it was so beautiful.