Very well written. I really like your style (it's very poetic). My only complaint would be Solas' use of 'ma vhenan' rather than 'vhenan'.
Thank you, that is one of the things I was flipping back and forth on. It's one of the sections I poked at a lot, which holds true to the comment someone made earlier (they're blurring in my head, but still all very helpful) about pointing out which things bother you, the writer.
Oh gosh, I hadn't seen that version yet.
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Damn it, Solas.
i know a lot of you have moved on to equine faced ex templars and blighted priests but i'm still pretty hung up on this
it's so sad, and i just know i'm not getting any more content for this ship because solas as an antagonist is so much more useful to the writers than throwing a bone to those who romanced him
Laidlaw said they would only address some of the prologue. Worst case scenario we do track him down but he leaves again to be the antagonist of da4, and if you romance him you only get one extra little snip of dialogue to acknowledge that.
even without the whole stupid pantheon thing, he's still the best love interest i've ever played. He's a huge lore dump, the relationship is an amazingly satisfying slow burn, high quality cut scenes, plus he is a huge bundle of endearing faults and eccentricities.
The dread wolf thing is actually a huge downer for me, i don't like life span differences and bittersweet tragedies and i REALLY hate when they yank control from me and bottle necking everyone into more or less the same world state concerning solas is probably the only thing they can do at this point.
i need the blanket fort :(
i know a lot of you have moved on to equine faced ex templars and blighted priests but i'm still pretty hung up on this
it's so sad, and i just know i'm not getting any more content for this ship because solas as an antagonist is so much more useful to the writers than throwing a bone to those who romanced him
Laidlaw said they would only address some of the prologue. Worst case scenario we do track him down but he leaves again to be the antagonist of da4, and if you romance him you only get one extra little snip of dialogue to acknowledge that.
even without the whole stupid pantheon thing, he's still the best love interest i've ever played. He's a huge lore dump, the relationship is an amazingly satisfying slow burn, high quality cut scenes, plus he is a huge bundle of endearing faults and eccentricities.
The dread wolf thing is actually a huge downer for me, i don't like life span differences and bittersweet tragedies and i REALLY hate when they yank control from me and bottle necking everyone into more or less the same world state concerning solas is probably the only thing they can do at this point.
i need the blanket fort
Still sad. I'm always getting pulled back in. I haven't been this captivated by a character in quite a while.
I don't think he will be an antagonist though. At least, not in any traditional sense. His plans, whatever they might be, might go awry yet again, but I see the writers and the team overall treating him very carefully. They had planned some of these things for a while and were very careful with seeding Fen'Harel into the lore and mentions and then they dropped Solas in so we could get to know him as a person as well as get the lore and, ultimately, make comparisons and think about what we'd been given before.
I think it would be cheap if he were just going to become some antagonist after all the care they took with him. Though there is a lot of unfinished business with the romance, sometimes romances are just like that. But they seem to be aware and are likely to give us some sort of something, maybe a bit of closure, I think, though I can only imagine something kind of bittersweet at this point.
Given that Solas was written as not a romance option and will otherwise be written with the needs of the story first I think as the series moves forward what you said about world states may be more true. But the team seems likely to at least address things a bit now and then some later.
I always get pulled back in though. I also rewarch the videos and I've still got another Solavellan run. Writing has been helping, but I was kind of impressed they pulled that character with all of his layers, his real identity, and then as someone with such nuance, with such beautiful heartbreak too....I'm sad but also glad I chose this path for my first playthrough.
Laidlaw said they would only address some of the prologue. Worst case scenario we do track him down but he leaves again to be the antagonist of da4, and if you romance him you only get one extra little snip of dialogue to acknowledge that.
i know a lot of you have moved on to equine faced ex templars and blighted priests but i'm still pretty hung up on this
it's so sad, and i just know i'm not getting any more content for this ship because solas as an antagonist is so much more useful to the writers than throwing a bone to those who romanced him
Laidlaw said they would only address some of the prologue. Worst case scenario we do track him down but he leaves again to be the antagonist of da4, and if you romance him you only get one extra little snip of dialogue to acknowledge that.
even without the whole stupid pantheon thing, he's still the best love interest i've ever played. He's a huge lore dump, the relationship is an amazingly satisfying slow burn, high quality cut scenes, plus he is a huge bundle of endearing faults and eccentricities.
The dread wolf thing is actually a huge downer for me, i don't like life span differences and bittersweet tragedies and i REALLY hate when they yank control from me and bottle necking everyone into more or less the same world state concerning solas is probably the only thing they can do at this point.
i need the blanket fort
D: Ugh I know! This is what I'm expecting - less than 2 minutes of talking to Solas with one extra romance-specific line. Then he's gone. Poof. Onto being the DA4 antagonist if he's not already dead...
I'm so depressed right now. I just want Solas and Lavellan to run off into the Fade together.
Still sad. I'm always getting pulled back in. I haven't been this captivated by a character in quite a while.
I don't think he will be an antagonist though. At least, not in any traditional sense. His plans, whatever they might be, might go awry yet again, but I see the writers and the team overall treating him very carefully. They had planned some of these things for a while and were very careful with seeding Fen'Harel into the lore and mentions and then they dropped Solas in so we could get to know him as a person as well as get the lore and, ultimately, make comparisons and think about what we'd been given before.
I think it would be cheap if he were just going to become some antagonist after all the care they took with him. Though there is a lot of unfinished business with the romance, sometimes romances are just like that. But they seem to be aware and are likely to give us some sort of something, maybe a bit of closure, I think, though I can only imagine something kind of bittersweet at this point.
Given that Solas was written as not a romance option and will otherwise be written with the needs of the story first I think as the series moves forward what you said about world states may be more true. But the team seems likely to at least address things a bit now and then some later.
I always get pulled back in though. I also rewarch the videos and I've still got another Solavellan run. Writing has been helping, but I was kind of impressed they pulled that character with all of his layers, his real identity, and then as someone with such nuance, with such beautiful heartbreak too....I'm sad but also glad I chose this path for my first playthrough.
this is pretty much the conclusion i had come to as well, they've invested too much into his story to do anything else with him.
I still think he'll be the antagonist, just a very sympathetic and nuanced villain, especially if you romanced him.
corypheus as a villain is a caricature of evil
Solas will agonize over what he has to do, he'll hate himself and regret and you'll empathize and maybe even agree with him on some points which will make him an amazing villain because it is that much harder for you to oppose him.
i love the idea, i'm just super bitter that it had to be my love interest.
i agree it would be "cheap" just to force us to kill him off, especially since this whole mess took years of real time development to set up.
i know bioware loves their tragic death scenes and they milk that particular teat for all it's worth because it's always a guaranteed emotional pay off but there are other ways they could go? which is also why i'm so glad weekes is at the helm now, he enjoys fan tears but he tends to extract them with a wider array of tools than just using melodrama all the time.
realistically i think "closure" is as much as we can hope for, which is not at all what i want.
i know we consider romances a lot more important than the devs do, so while we may feel that of course they can't just leave it like that, they may absolutely do.
thank you ;A;
I have zero interest in leaving this or my Abelas trash heap. Since I know you were all worrying.
Given how long it took for my Shepard/Liara feelings to even begin to settle into whatever they are now (still active, still present, just....'settled in' rather than 'raw nerve'), I suspect this will be present for me for quite some time as well. And of course, there's more to come...in one way or another. I played Mass Effect after all three games were out and finished ME3 right after Citadel came out.
Damn it. I was happy in the Solavellan hellspiral shallows. It was warm and occasionally sunny and I had a nice comfy cabana there. And you're all pulling me back into the actual storm.
I DON'T WANNA FEEL THESE FEELS. I'm gonna go watch Star Wars instead.
RESIST.
Star Wars is much safer.
I feel like the major thing keeping me in the hellspiral, besides the unresolved ending, is the world I've created around the inquisitor I write with Solas. I've spent so much time and investment on her, and on their relationship, and she's so saddddddd.
I feel like the major thing keeping me in the hellspiral, besides the unresolved ending, is the world I've created around the inquisitor I write with Solas. I've spent so much time and investment on her, and on their relationship, and she's so saddddddd.
I feel like after Jaws of Hakkon, my quizzy is ok. Not great, but ok, and getting better. She's not going to be sad forever. It's frigging Solas who keeps me from leaving the hellspiral. I just want him to be ok too, even if they're not together.
i know a lot of you have moved on to equine faced ex templars and blighted priests but i'm still pretty hung up on this
it's so sad, and i just know i'm not getting any more content for this ship because solas as an antagonist is so much more useful to the writers than throwing a bone to those who romanced him
Laidlaw said they would only address some of the prologue. Worst case scenario we do track him down but he leaves again to be the antagonist of da4, and if you romance him you only get one extra little snip of dialogue to acknowledge that.
even without the whole stupid pantheon thing, he's still the best love interest i've ever played. He's a huge lore dump, the relationship is an amazingly satisfying slow burn, high quality cut scenes, plus he is a huge bundle of endearing faults and eccentricities.
The dread wolf thing is actually a huge downer for me, i don't like life span differences and bittersweet tragedies and i REALLY hate when they yank control from me and bottle necking everyone into more or less the same world state concerning solas is probably the only thing they can do at this point.
i need the blanket fort
I don't know. I feel like if the romance was going to get so in the way of what they want to do with Solas then they wouldn't have bothered to even make him a romance, even if they "wanted to make him seem sadder". There would have been easier ways to do that.
I feel like if they can still include a warden's romance with Morrigan for whatever big things they seem to have planned for her then they can defiantly do the same for Solas.
*Hides in Team Optimism corner*
D: Ugh I know! This is what I'm expecting - less than 2 minutes of talking to Solas with one extra romance-specific line. Then he's gone. Poof. Onto being the DA4 antagonist if he's not already dead...
I'm so depressed right now. I just want Solas and Lavellan to run off into the Fade together.
this! i want them to retire together into the fade and spend the rest of forever talking about history and philosophy and smooching
the absolute best i could possibly hope for is that they'll give us a choice
you can kill him if you want, if you want the tragedy or simply because you don't like him
or you can choose not to, which will probably come at a huge cost like all of thedas is plagued by demons he let loose or the elves kill all the humans in the dales or something (fairwell fairbanks)
everyone hated me3 because after YEARS of commitment and emotional investment we all got shoe horned into basically the same shitty melodramatic option available in three colours.
so here's hoping if they do give us a choice, one of them is as close to happily ever after as we could reasonably expect
I should be writing something else, and yet, angry, embarrassed, frustrated, post-breakup Lavellan is pouring out onto the page.
I too was thinking of watching some Star Wars stuff, but then....I was here.
I feel like if they can still include a warden's romance with Morrigan for whatever big things they seem to have planned for her then they can defiantly do the same for Solas.
*Hides in Team Optimism corner*
Thanks for this 
*waves tiny Team Optimism flag*
I know in the past, there's been a tendency for the LIs that female PCs can romance to turn out tragically (Thane) or just plain badly (Jacob). Hopefully that's not deliberate, and Solas's romance gets some kind of resolution like Morrigan's did.
EDIT: You know what, Solas. You don't get ToP right now. ToP goes to Zev, for being an awesome stable boyfriend.
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I feel like after Jaws of Hakkon, my quizzy is ok. Not great, but ok, and getting better. She's not going to be sad forever. It's frigging Solas who keeps me from leaving the hellspiral. I just want him to be ok too, even if they're not together.
Oh yah, totally understandable. I mean, my quizzy will move on. She'll be fine.
But Solas comes across as an even bigger ass when he's dumping an Inquisitor with a chronic illness who confided him before she confided in anyone else. I mean, ouch dude. Harsh.
I don't know. I feel like if the romance was going to get so in the way of what they want to do with Solas then they wouldn't have bothered to even make him a romance, even if they "wanted to make him seem sadder". There would have been easier ways to do that.
I feel like if they can still include a warden's romance with Morrigan for whatever big things they seem to have planned for her then they can defiantly do the same for Solas.
*Hides in Team Optimism corner*
thank you, i needed that ;A;
But Solas comes across as an even bigger ass when he's dumping an Inquisitor with a chronic illness who confided him before she confided in anyone else. I mean, ouch dude. Harsh.
Ooof. Yeah. Maiwe gets first dibs on the "punch him" option, I think.
Thanks for this
*waves tiny Team Optimism flag*
I know in the past, there's been a tendency for the LIs that female PCs can romance to turn out tragically (Thane) or just plain badly (Jacob). Hopefully that's not deliberate, and Solas's romance gets some kind of resolution like Morrigan's did.
Yes but that's Mass Effect. All the romances in Dragon Age so far (besides Solas for the moment) all ended with at least a chance at a ride into the sunset together ending.
thank you, i needed that ;A;
I needed it too. This place has been full of the sads lately. 
Yes but that's Mass Effect. All the romances in Dragon Age so far (besides Solas atm) all ended with at least a chance at a ride into the sunset together ending.
True. I think I'm still just a touch wary after Mass Effect. I romanced Garrus and dodged a bullet, but I had friends who were very, very upset.
I think it's time for adorable kitty gifs.
this! i want them to retire together into the fade and spend the rest of forever talking about history and philosophy and smooching
the absolute best i could possibly hope for is that they'll give us a choice
you can kill him if you want, if you want the tragedy or simply because you don't like him
or you can choose not to, which will probably come at a huge cost like all of thedas is plagued by demons he let loose or the elves kill all the humans in the dales or something (fairwell fairbanks)
everyone hated me3 because after YEARS of commitment and emotional investment we all got shoe horned into basically the same shitty melodramatic option available in three colours.
so here's hoping if they do give us a choice, one of them is as close to happily ever after as we could reasonably expect
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