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Aye, Scotland here too... I didn't realise how much we drank until speaking with folks who moved here from other places (USA mainly) and finding out that this is not what happens everywhere.
In Hungary drinking for every reason imaginable is a national pastime. 
Thus coming back to the US as an adult was... interesting. I was beginning to think everyone was looking at me askance as an alcoholic when, by Hungarian standards, I was really very reserved. Ah, culture shock, you do so like to surprise me in my own home countries.
Worst fight I ever had was two days ago: 2 giants and six brontos. AT THE SAME TIME. Because Solas can't keep his AoE in his staff like a good mage and not aggro every passive Thedosian bovine in the vicinity.
Hahahaha, I had EXACTLY this. I see I'm not the only one.
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I would like to imagine something inspired by one of the earliest frescoes: A portrait of a girl from Pompeii. It's one of my favorites since I used it to shutup a history teacher I didn't like when he said there weren't any depictions of learned women in European art.
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Oh, Pompeii fresco, Renaissance art -- 
*gush* I so love you guys.
I agree and I like Dorian personally, but not everything can just be smiled over. Solas has experienced a lot personally that our characters haven't, so it's kind of much to expect him to just wave all that away simply because Dorian is gregarious. Especially a naturally suspicious, introverted person like Solas.
Don't you as an artist or writer have to mostly do it for yourself anyway? I think his painting is a way of meditating on his situation. He's trying to find a sense of place in the mortal world and tie it to his past experience.
Of course, as we know with the Dark Ritual and the Aimo comic, the same event can happen in a game and yet the motives and emotions associated with it are very different depending on the relationships involved. I don't think anyone imagines Solas painting the deeds of his lover with the same mindset as he would impartially depict the deeds of someone he's cool towards.
I'm lackadaisically trying to get a human mage through a Cullen-romance game and it's kind of killing me. I think it's going to be a truncated version. Not recruiting the optional characters, speeding through the main events.
I really like that about Dorian that he's striving for friendship. I agree that it's simply not always feasible to actually make headway, as you say from Solas' standpoint it's understandable why it's not enough to gain his friendship personally - but the effort does count, and I like him for it a lot. (Besides, he reminds me of myself and that's always fun. 
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As to the question, I wanted to answer it, because I don't write for myself, not at all. Creating for yourself and for others are two very different things in the long run, the intent behind it does matter, it shows in your work. I cannot simply write for myself if I want to do it professionally, as few other people can fully appreciate a work of mine that is tailored to my personal fancies; it's a fine line, as I am putting myself into my work, but what I personally strive for is not to display my heart and soul as I play out what I wish to see and feel, but to explain what I experience in a way that can be understood by as many people as possible - I write for you. I write because I have something to say to other people, not because I wish to get even more lost in my head than I already am. I experience there, and I want to bring that to the rest of the world, not to bury myself in deeper without a care for what is significant to people and what I feel could benefit them. That is my purpose.
I agree, however, that Solas' painting can be looked upon as his way of "meditating on his situation" as you put it - in fact, I believe that this is the quintessential heart of creation. An artist might be a conduit for all manner of things, yet the act of creating something is beneficial in sorting through things as much to the artist as to those who admire his/her work.
Ok, I must away to work. Sorry for my random bursts, it must seem utterly out of context as these are quotes from yesterday. I'll go back to lurking now.
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