AARGH! The scene was so sweet! They walk into the grove all lovey and holding hands and he's being so sweet and tells her the truth about the vallaslin and he removes it and she looks so damn naked without it, and the kiss was so wonderful and then he just breaks up with her like that?!
"Woops! Distracted you! My mistake, beg pardon, won't happen again!"
"Nowait nonono it's fine I like it I love you DISTRACT ME!"
"No LOL! Sorry, vehnan!"
Oh God she was so sad standing there on her own when he walks away. ;_; Poor Ilaria is just confused and sad and naked without her markings but I, me as the player, am so angry! I literally cried out "SOLAS YOU BASTARD!" I think I startled my partner downstairs. xD
Okay, taking a step back. *deep breath* *weeps*
Still love Solas you little sh*t.. Awesome character, even after this. I'm gonna finish the story and then take a break off an elf ('cuz there's no way I can make another F!Elf without romancing that magnificent little sh*t) until I see what they do. Until we can get some closure with the story, for better or even for worse, because even if I am miffed at Solas this is damn good writing. I'm still hopeful there'll be a chance of reconciliation, purely because he says he's willing assuming they survive. I know he leaves anyway when the Orb breaks, but he still has feelings for Levallan, so I'm hopeful that despite everything there'll be a way.
Oh Weekes, don't let me down. ;_;
I'm headcannoning Cole senses Solas's pain when he returns to Skyhold first, goes to him to do his usual comfort gig but Solas tells him that poor Ilaria probably needs him more. Sensing her pain through him (similar how Cole could sense IB's Tamassran through him), he finds her and goes to her, sitting beside her as she thinks about what she needs to do next and processing everything that's happened (Ilaria doesn't cry easily, she's stronger than me xP) and, after a while, he takes off his hat and puts it on her head, and sits with her through the rest of the night. Saying nothing. Only when he lends her his hat for that short time does she allow herself to cry, feeling safe and less naked beneath it.