It's more like they're only sexually attracted to people they're emotionally attracted to. Which isn't related to being chaste or lusty, it's just the criteria for feeling attracted.
What, are you implying that Killabee being a gentleman is a funny idea? My dear Siha, he's a Colonel! 'Officer and a gentleman, q.e.d!
Conan is quite the gentleman. The majority of the time and when he's an ass, well, just keep track of that and demand a whole lot of Solas pics.
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I almost forgave you for ruining the pun-spiral due to those pretty GIF's, but then I saw that you were just coldheartedly trying to get your post count to a pleasing number.
EDIT: Ooh, 918 is very snazzy.
Then again, the pun-spiral has been slow for a while now. Some of the ones toward the end were kind of reaching too. When the thread is out of ideas, it's time to change the topic.
Speaking of which, we talked about trickster myths in Native American class. We also closely examined the story I mentioned a few days ago, "The Industrious Daughter Who Would Not Marry," whom Coyote tricked into marrying her, and she was none the wiser until she gave birth to little coyotes.
It turns out he won her by disguising himself as Payatamu, a prominent fertility god to that tribe. Essentially, all the boys in the village bent over backwards trying to impress her but she would have none of them, but then supposedly a god of their people strolls into town and flirts with other girls, then she bats her pretty eyelashes at him and they marry.
And I'm sitting here thinking, "Solas is like Coyote in that he's a canine trickster. However, Coyote tricks an ordinary girl by pretending to be a god, while Solas is a god (most likely) who pretends to be a humble mortal. Coyote just did it for sport ("She won't marry anyone? Ha! I can get her to marry me!"), Solas fell in love for real. The industrious daughter only married him because she was vain and proud enough to think a prominent member of her people's pantheon chose her of all mortals, while Lavellan fell for Solas without knowing he is a prominent member of her people's pantheon."
It was a fun read.
Then again, the pun-spiral has been slow for a while now. Some of the ones toward the end were kind of reaching too. When the thread is out of ideas, it's time to change the topic.
Speaking of which, we talked about trickster myths in Native American class. We also closely examined the story I mentioned a few days ago, "The Industrious Daughter Who Would Not Marry," whom Coyote tricked into marrying her, and she was none the wiser until she gave birth to little coyotes.
It turns out he won her by disguising himself as Payatamu, a prominent fertility god to that tribe. Essentially, all the boys in the village bent over backwards trying to impress her but she would have none of them, but then supposedly a god of their people strolls into town and flirts with other girls, then she bats her pretty eyelashes at him and they marry. My professor described it as basically a cautionary tale (among other things) about being gullible and full of yourself enough to think a god would really stroll into your humble village and choose you to marry out of everyone else available in the world?
And I'm sitting here thinking, "Solas is like Coyote in that he's a canine trickster. However, Coyote tricks an ordinary girl by pretending to be a god, while Solas is a god (most likely) who pretends to be a humble mortal. Coyote just did it for sport ("She won't marry anyone? Ha! I can get her to marry me!"), Solas fell in love for real. The industrious daughter only married him because she was vain and proud enough to think a prominent member of her people's pantheon chose her of all mortals, while Lavellan fell for Solas without knowing he is a prominent member of her people's pantheon."
It was a fun read.
Ah mythology. One of the few things that makes my heart skip a beat, lol.
I like how some people were disturbed by the whole Andruil tree story.
Meanwhile, I'm just going:
"Would the Elvhen equivalent of Sleipnir be the Varterrals? Was Solas...involved there?"
It's interesting how apparently the varterrals were 'engineered' by the ancient elves as guardians. Likewise, in The Calling, brontos are mentioned as having been engineered by ancient Shapers.
Page 191 of the Calling: "There was a pack animal called a bronto that roamed the Deep Roads, formerly tame beats that the dwarven Shapers had engineered long ago and had gone wild when the darkspawn had destroyed the dwarven kingdoms during the First Blight."
"Would the Elvhen equivalent of Sleipnir be the Varterrals? Was Solas...involved there?"
LOL Solas slept with a titan's...bronto? To stop the veil from being built in time? So that Sylaise wouldn't have to marry a titan????
LOL Solas slept with a titan's...bronto? To stop the veil from being built in time? So that Sylaise wouldn't have to marry a titan????
That sounds appropriately zany enough to be an Elvhen myth. 
I like how some people were disturbed by the whole Andruil tree story.
Meanwhile, I'm just going:
"Would the Elvhen equivalent of Sleipnir be the Varterrals? Was Solas...involved there?"
It's interesting how apparently the varterrals were 'engineered' by the ancient elves as guardians. Likewise, in The Calling, brontos are mentioned as having been engineered by ancient Shapers.
Page 191 of the Calling: "There was a pack animal called a bronto that roamed the Deep Roads, formerly tame beats that the dwarven Shapers had engineered long ago and had gone wild when the darkspawn had destroyed the dwarven kingdoms during the First Blight."
According to the Dalish stories at least, the varterrals were created by Dirthamen.
http://dragonage.wik...ntry:_Varterral
DA:I may have explained a strange issue with the varterrals in the previous games. They aren't supposed to attack elves, but they do so in Witch Hunt and in DA2. This could possibly be explained by modern elves not being recognized as elves due to whatever change has happened to them since ancient times, similar to the elves and elvhen distinction made by Solas and Abelas. Then again, Merrill claims the varterral at Sundermount had never bothered the Dalish until that particular incident. I've wondered if Pol's presence as a former City Elf might have had something to do with it, but I'm not sure how it would matter.
I'm still a little miffed that I'm apparently one of 'Them'.
I am sorry to disappoint you, but you couldn't be more assimilated into the geth consensus. All your base belong to us.
If the person was annoying enough, well...JOKER: Grunt is not a...stabilizing element, Commander.
Are you comparing the Colonel to Grunt? (I know you don't but I find it too funny to not bring up because... obvious.)
big fan of barbarian culture and history <followed by more rambling>
As I said, your biological and technological distinctiveness has been added to our own.
Do we have buddy cop nicknames now?
I'll be the Saurus to your Killabee any day, bro.
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al
I am sorry to disappoint you, but you couldn't be more assimilated into the geth consensus. All your base belong to us.
Are you comparing the Colonel to Grunt? (I know you don't but I find it too funny to not bring up because... obvious.)
As I said, your biological and technological distinctiveness has been added to our own.
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me AlCall me Al
I am sorry to disappoint you, but you couldn't be more assimilated into the geth consensus. All your base belong to us.
Are you comparing the Colonel to Grunt? (I know you don't but I find it too funny to not bring up because... obvious.)
As I said, your biological and technological distinctiveness has been added to our own.
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me AlCall me Al
Stop going on about this Geth and Borg nonsense, Siha! Geth do not intentionally assimilate.
...Error. Something wrong with face.
I gave up listening to the banter in game. So i downloaded the 5 hours of DAI banter to listen to because I am that cool.
So did I. I listen to it...in the car...on the way to work.
O_o You work in... uh... Mexico?
What, are you implying that Killabee being a gentleman is a funny idea? My dear Siha, he's a Colonel! 'Officer and a gentleman, q.e.d!
Nono! Perfectly fine. Whenever I'm thinking "gentleman", "Colonel" is the first logical implication.
Stop going on about this Geth and Borg nonsense, Siha! Geth do not intentionally assimilate.
...Error. Something wrong with face.
Nope. they don't. But we do. We are legion for we are many.
To make it somewhat related to Solas... How awesome is Patrick Weekes that he found a way to write a character and his romance in a way that brings people on many points of the sexuality and interest spectrum together? Add in the remarkable strides in game engines and the ability to portray so many facial expressions and body language in conjunction with spoken words, and it's no wonder we all fell for the character (one way or another).
Forget Blights, Solas is the true way to bring people together.
It is completely awesome. I am probably slightly older than most people here and I think many of my generation are pretty stupid in failing to appreciate the quality and the involvement a good computer game can bring... Every other day there seems to be some article or other about "playing computer games will damage your child's brain", ah FFS! They might say the same about reading novels...
Actually, they used to say the same about reading novels and comics and music.... Sometimes I have fun reminding them of this...
I'm guessing he's lying. He also just happens to really looove the fade. The excitement was genuine.
See, he never actually lies, his statement is "I never thought I would find myself here physically" break it down and he's not saying he hasn't physically been in the Fade before but that he'd never thought he would be, those are two different things... Solas would make a great lawyer...
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if he was lying via creative phrasing. I am probably remembering some of the dialogue wrong. Wasn't it said something about "why this particular part of the fade?" and then he said his line about never being their physically? So assuming he's lying, he's being truthful in that he's never physically been in this specific part of the fade? If I am remembering the dialogue incorrectly just completely disregard me!
Using as you say "creative phrasing" to give a wrong impression, isn't actually lying, it is "misrepresenting", the end result may be the same but the process used is different and of course, the person later has wiggle room to say "I didn't lie, you just misunderstood!"
I just love that the writers had the skill to create such a subtle personality.
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Solas is a master of truth bending. He can twist it into all sorts of knots... Kind of like he does with my stomach when he does that little Solas chuckle.See, he never actually lies, his statement is "I never thought I would find myself here physically" break it down and he's not saying he hasn't physically been in the Fade before but that he'd never thought he would be, those are two different things... Solas would make a great lawyer...
See, he never actually lies, his statement is "I never thought I would find myself here physically" break it down and he's not saying he hasn't physically been in the Fade before but that he'd never thought he would be, those are two different things... Solas would make a great lawyer...
There is that wonderful dialogue between him and Dorian, where Dorian's all excited about it being the second time people have ever been in the Fade physically.
SOLAS: Second time in human history.
DORIAN: 
Well, I guess we humans have a lot to learn.
I recently got that banter with Dorian (and it was thr first time I actually brought Dorian to the Fade) and it got me very fascinated.There is that wonderful dialogue between him and Dorian, where Dorian's all excited about it being the second time people have ever been in the Fade physically.
SOLAS: Second time in human history.
DORIAN:
Wait, "demisexual" is a fancy way of saying "not screwing everything around"?
Not really, no ;D
And people can screw around as much as they want, if that's how they wanna live their life. It always amazes me, the capacity of certain people, to be able to separate their brain & heart entirely from their genital organs. It's definitely something I just can't do. That's just how I am :/
No value judgment here, on whether it's better or not, it's just different. As long as everything's done between consenting adults, I don't judge.
And also, definitely enjoyed the puns flying around, put a huge smile on my face while waking up, you guys rock xD
It is completely awesome. I am probably slightly older than most people here and I think many of my generation are pretty stupid in failing to appreciate the quality and the involvement a good computer game can bring... Every other day there seems to be some article or other about "playing computer games will damage your child's brain", ah FFS! They might say the same about reading novels...
Actually, they used to say the same about reading novels and comics and music.... Sometimes I have fun reminding them of this...
I believe it was Socrates who dissed writing because he believed it made people stupider.
To be fair, there's some evidence it affects memory.
To be fair, that doesn't matter, because with writing we can preserve the memories of civilizations. We don't need to memorize the entire teachings of Socrates, we can learn the gist of it and refer to books about it if we're looking for specifics.
It's just the same cycle of blaming the 'failures of the new generations' on new media. When really, my parents' generation was roundly mocked by my grandparents', and so on and so forth.
Same ****, different day, I guess. 
I recently got that scene with Dorian (and it was the first time I actually brought Dorian with me to the Fade) and it got me very fascinated.
It really made me wish we heard more Fade stories from Solas.
I just want Solas to be nicer to Dorian 
I don't know if their banters warm up over time since I've only heard a few and I'm trying not to abuse the banter mod. But he's so grouchy to my poor bestie! I think in every DA game thus far, my main PC's LI and BFF have never gotten along. (Alistair and Morrigan, *anyone* else and Anders, Solas and Dorian).
I just want Solas to be nicer to Dorian
Too bad, because I'm pretty sure in the long run, Solas and Dorian WOULD get along nicely.
Though, on my second playthrough, my banter was almost exclusively made of Solas, Cole (BFF) and Cassandra. Because they all respect eachother, and I can't stand people being mean to Cole, like, AT ALL. Cole is my second favorite character, after Solas, I love him so fcking much (in a big sister way, nothing romantic/sexual at all). I think I really needed the quiet and respect in this banter, because I knew what was coming.
Plus, I had already gone through Sera/Solas entire banter in my first playthrough, and that was awkward/painful at times. Sera can p*ss me off so much, and at the same time, I love her so much still.
Too bad, because I'm pretty sure in the long run, Solas and Dorian WOULD get along nicely.
I wonder if Dorian reminds Solas too much of a younger version of himself. Talented, hot-blooded, arrogant rebel trying to save his people from themselves. "Too much pride," as Pavus Senior so eloquently put it. Maybe that's why he bags on Dorian.
I just want Solas to be nicer to Dorian
They have their bonding moments. 
Mostly nerding out over magical minutiae.
I'm not sure if they warm up. I'm on my Hard Lavellan PT and I've only recently decided to bring Dorian around with me so I've only gotten a few banters out of him. But skimming through the Solas/Dorian banter list, for the most part those two just seem to be sassing and snarking each other out. o__OI just want Solas to be nicer to Dorian
Where are you from? I honestly didn't think of you being from anywhere specific, but I just read this now in a russian accent
If I were to really compare myself to a disney character though, it'd be a combination of Mufasa and Scar. The conniving bit, I have, but the... lets say, flamboyant thing he has? No, not a bit... lol, not any of that at all.
I am from Finland haha.. Close enough! XD
I'm half delirious... I must be... I should sleep... Caddius looks so... different... so... collectively.... us.
Siha greatly approves.
I'm half delirious... I must be... I should sleep... Caddius looks so... different... so... collectively.... us.
Siha greatly approves.
We don't know what we're talking about. 
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