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[Cee]

I believe it's this one:

 

http://forum.bioware...-of-trespasser/

Or this.

[Jayla]

He's just lucky I found Dragon Age, my first great love was Harry Potter. He could have been Albus Severus. 

 

I'm trying to convince my partner that when we get dogs I can name them Garrus and Solas. I have him down for Garrus, but still working on Solas. xD Maybe Trespasser will sway him. I don't know if I could ever name my kids after a franchise, but Cailan sounds great. Preferable than the wave of Khaleesi that hit anyway. xD

[Kittn]

Writing again, and have run into a bit of a bump. This isn't exactly Solas related, but I'm seeking the advice of the amazing fanfic pros we have in our little corner of the bioware 'verse.

So, the story guest stars Fenris. Seeing Kadan write out the Comtesse Lavellan post-game idea that we had in common has me muddling through my own, and I think I could turn it into an episodic sort of thing. Except, my Fenris is different. When I first started playing DA2, it bothered me that every elf except cameo Zevran had the same green eyes. To remedy this, I modded Fenris to have stormy blue ones and they looked fantastic on him. It was the first mod I installed and the only one I never removed or tweaked. I changed nothing else about him, but eyes are important, and now I can't imagine him with any other color.

Here is my Fenris:

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Which brings me to my problem. I may have a clever way of writing in the modded eye color, but I don't want to be disrespectful, especially if I post it somewhere and people don't think it's clever enough. Have any of you run into a similar issue? What to do? Keep the mod in my story or write around the original recipe?

[dawnstone]

Bought and beat Trespasser in less than 4 hours last night! It was fun! I rushed through it and plan a perfect run when I have more time, but it was quite the eye-opener!

 

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I found something rather interesting when I was in the Shattered Library. The Archivist says someone who was not a Qunari came to the library and woke up the librarians. She said that this person has not been well since the fall happened. I wonder if she was talking about Solas and something in his mind snapped when he realized what happened after he created the Veil?

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I'm pretty sure the spirit was talking about the librarians and how they'd all been transformed into Fear demons because of what happened to the library's patrons.

[Cee]

Well here is that video in case.

 

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[Jaderail]

The early Solas romance does have a distinct Crapsaccharine feel to it now.

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His lines are still cute and funny, but now we know that as he's being all smooth, he also thinks you're some kind of not-person gremlin and is plotting terrible things -.- Puts a bit of a damper on the warm fuzziness

 

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I thought he said something about how you "proved him wrong, again" or something like that at that point if he's romanced, like you made him see not everyone is a not-human gremlin. Which is actually kind of endearing if not a bit misanthropic.

[BoscoBread]

Am I the only one who liked how my romanced Lavellan and Solas ended? I thought it was beautiful and perfect!

I mean it was really lovely and melodramatic and looks like it's going somewhere ridiculous. Which means it's perfect.  

 

I was actually quite satisfied by that scene. I wish it was a BIT more robust but what we got was enough.  I'm not feeling like "WTF MORE?" I am intrigued and excited for the next game.  

[Arcanista]

Writing again, and have run into a bit of a bump. This isn't exactly Solas related, but I'm seeking the advice of the amazing fanfic pros we have in our little corner of the bioware 'verse.

So, the story guest stars Fenris. Seeing Kadan write out the Comtesse Lavellan post-game idea that we had in common has me muddling through my own, and I think I could turn it into an episodic sort of thing. Except, my Fenris is different. When I first started playing DA2, it bothered me that every elf except cameo Zevran had the same green eyes. To remedy this, I modded Fenris to have stormy blue ones and they looked fantastic on him. It was the first mod I installed and the only one I never removed or tweaked. I changed nothing else about him, but eyes are important, and now I can't imagine him with any other color.

Here is my Fenris:

Spoiler

Which brings me to my problem. I may have a clever way of writing in the modded eye color, but I don't want to be disrespectful, especially if I post it somewhere and people don't think it's clever enough. Have any of you run into a similar issue? What to do? Keep the mod in my story or write around the original recipe?

 

Honestly? There's an easy solution to this but it may not be the one you want: just don't really bring up his eye colour at all. I know it's a big thing, in fanfic especially, to luxuriously detail eyes that way, but if you think of your daily interactions with people, even people you're close to, how often are you really paying attention to their eye colour? Nothing in your story will feel missing if you just never mention the colour at all.

[NightSymphony]

Or you could just explain how the eyes make you feel....or something like "His eyes were windows into his very being, shadows of his past."  Or some such nonsense. :-P

[Jayla]

Honestly? There's an easy solution to this but it may not be the one you want: just don't really bring up his eye colour at all. I know it's a big thing, in fanfic especially, to luxuriously detail eyes that way, but if you think of your daily interactions with people, even people you're close to, how often are you really paying attention to their eye colour? Nothing in your story will feel missing if you just never mention the colour at all.

 

I agree with this, you can still mention just the eyes, just not the colour.

I'm interested in hearing the workaround you've thought up myself though. (Also I think Fenris looks better with the blue eyes. Phwoar!)

[Shari'El]

I mean it was really lovely and melodramatic and looks like it's going somewhere ridiculous. Which means it's perfect.  

 

I was actually quite satisfied by that scene. I wish it was a BIT more robust but what we got was enough.  I'm not feeling like "WTF MORE?" I am intrigued and excited for the next game.  

 

Did you walk away not entirely satisfied but utterly intrigued?

[Cee]

I'm trying to convince my partner that when we get dogs I can name them Garrus and Solas. I have him down for Garrus, but still working on Solas. xD Maybe Trespasser will sway him. I don't know if I could ever name my kids after a franchise, but Cailan sounds great. Preferable than the wave of Khaleesi that hit anyway. xD

 

Boyfriend suggested Tali at some point. It's pretty but ...no.

 

I have been planning to name a dog after Samwise Gamgee for many years. I just keep winding up living in no-pet places.
 

[Ardent Blossom]

Will the blanket fort make me not miserable/furious anymore? I don't feel good, it might be lack of sleep ^{_{it's probably lack of sleep}} OR it could be that I've developed a cross dimensional reality bond with my Lavellan and I'm getting the excess feelings of her emotional state.

 

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I think this fluffing DLC left me feeling worse than the ending of the main game when it comes to Solas. Maybe I just had more time to cope with the main epilogue ending...but I don't know. I think I could do more with *sprinkles a rainbow* imaginaaatttiiioooon and headcanon with the original than now.  

 

And Solas is such a fracking arse. I don't care if the true elven were a magical unicorn race, it doesn't he should and he can and eeerrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

 

But oh my goodness did I want more time for my Lavellan to talk with him! AND IT WAS SO SAD!!!

 

Uh, the world. I think the worst thing is that Solas really does think he's doing what's best and that he's being selfless for The People. I don't care about The People anymore Solas, I care about THE PEOPLE!!! The real fluffing people, not your ideal!!!!! 

 

I JUST CAN'T COMPREHEND HOW HE COULD DO THIS!!!???

I know the next game will be a new protagonist, but I really hope the Inquisitor is able to change Solas's mind or complete Solas's story or have some major bearing on it!!!!

DESPAIR DESPAIR MISERY AND DESPAIR

Come on fellow Lavellans. Don't despair. Wrap yourselves up in a cozy team optimism flag, watch some Torchwood, and eat some frilly cakes. All is not lost...yet.

 

I think, rather than miserable or furious, the Solasmance has just left me quasi-tranquil. Solas was my first dumping experience, ever. It was horrible. I was genuinely distressed. I cried and repeatedly made my hubby promise that he'd never leave me. It was nuts that a GAME could do that to a grown woman. After the precious moment in the dank wyvern cave from Hell, Solas couldn't really hurt me--I mean my Lavellan, I mean me, I mean--I just don't know anymore! Let's just say he couldn't hurt US anymore than he already had.

 

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Now after Trespasser I'm just like, "Whatever Solas. Dread Wolf Schmead Wolf. I don't care if you do have new sparkly pants of awesomeness and your eyes glow. I really do hope you feel better after airing out all your ancient dirty laundry. I guess I'm just gonna have to fix all your elvhen schmelvhen doom upon the world crap and figure out a way to seal the deal on this 'romance' in the next game. You know I love ya vhenan, but I've had enough of your emo drama for now. Nice pants. See you in a couple years. Oh, and I expect flowers or chocolate or at least something other than a missing limb and a duck-lipped kiss the next time we hook up. Ok, look me up in the Fade some time if you want, or not. Bu-bye. Oh, did I mention I really do like your new pants?"

 

My Lavellan and I...we've finally achieved enlightenment.

[Ajna]

Will the blanket fort make me not miserable/furious anymore? I don't feel good, it might be lack of sleep ^{_{it's probably lack of sleep}} OR it could be that I've developed a cross dimensional reality bond with my Lavellan and I'm getting the excess feelings of her emotional state.

 

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I think this fluffing DLC left me feeling worse than the ending of the main game when it comes to Solas. Maybe I just had more time to cope with the main epilogue ending...but I don't know. I think I could do more with *sprinkles a rainbow* imaginaaatttiiioooon and headcanon with the original than now.  

 

And Solas is such a fracking arse. I don't care if the true elven were a magical unicorn race, it doesn't he should and he can and eeerrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

 

But oh my goodness did I want more time for my Lavellan to talk with him! AND IT WAS SO SAD!!!

 

Uh, the world. I think the worst thing is that Solas really does think he's doing what's best and that he's being selfless for The People. I don't care about The People anymore Solas, I care about THE PEOPLE!!! The real fluffing people, not your ideal!!!!! 

 

I JUST CAN'T COMPREHEND HOW HE COULD DO THIS!!!???

I know the next game will be a new protagonist, but I really hope the Inquisitor is able to change Solas's mind or complete Solas's story or have some major bearing on it!!!!

DESPAIR DESPAIR MISERY AND DESPAIR

 

 

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Don't worry NH, it's rawer for me this week than it was last week, I think it's just a very very bad case of post game depression right now. Such a long wait and I'm in pieces.

 

The slides were sweet though, they're still a thing, I think they will always be a thing. It's beautiful, and tragic and there's something a little bit fairytale like about it.

 

I have no doubt we'll have the option to save him, because why give us the option to choose to do that? It's not so much what we discovered that I'm having problems with now personally, it's the wait before we get more.

[Shari'El]

Boyfriend suggested Tali at some point. It's pretty but ...no.

 

I have been planning to name a dog after Samwise Gamgee for many years. I just keep winding up living in no-pet places.
 

 

That's too much like thali, which is a lovely nameeee for delicious food. Not dogs.

[Arcanista]

I still haven't actually run a solasmanced Trespasser playthrough yet-- my canon quiz romanced blackwall and my secondary was with dorian (a lavellan and a cadash respectively, let no one say my romance choices are conventional). I'm really looking forward to it though, from everything I've seen/watched/heard. I have got a solavellan endgame save ready to go for it but I think I'm gonna wait until I finish this complete run with a quiz I'm using in a one-shot fic I'm writing right now. I absolutely did not feel the romance the first time, for a lot of reasons (not all of which were related to the game itself), but now? My body is ready.

[BoscoBread]

Did you walk away not entirely satisfied but utterly intrigued?

Yeah. HE wasn't wrong.  I'm not sort of desperately clambering for the next game. We know what's coming. We know it's going to be a shh*t show.  The romance will conclude.  It's going to be bittersweet or utterly tragic.  But it's going to be good.  And depending on how he's written, may be the best Bioware romance EVAR. 

[Kittn]

Honestly? There's an easy solution to this but it may not be the one you want: just don't really bring up his eye colour at all. I know it's a big thing, in fanfic especially, to luxuriously detail eyes that way, but if you think of your daily interactions with people, even people you're close to, how often are you really paying attention to their eye colour? Nothing in your story will feel missing if you just never mention the colour at all.

I'd literally have to delete bits if I decided not mention his eye color at all, so it would be missing now. Haha. But I see your point. Sadly, I don't think I can write it that way, especially not with Fenris. His eyes are super intense, regardless of color. Right now I'm staring at the passage where I mention his eyes for the first time. I have them written as green currently, but it triggers a weird disconnect for me. No bueno.
 

I agree with this, you can still mention just the eyes, just not the colour.
I'm interested in hearing the workaround you've thought up myself though. (Also I think Fenris looks better with the blue eyes. Phwoar!)

The workaround being that when we play DA2, we are playing a story that Varric is telling - like the part where he faces Bartrand solo and is a total badass until Cass tells him to stop it. Perhaps one of the reasons most of the elves have green eyes in the game is because Varric just glossed over it, doesn't especially care, or just made an extravagant lie in Fenris' case. So when Tiger meets him, she'd be kinda expecting the green, but be pleasantly surprised by the blue if I decided to go that route.

When I had that idea, I went to change it and am now hovering over this part, wondering if I actually should. Blat. Indecision.

[CapricornSun]

Boyfriend suggested Tali at some point. It's pretty but ...no.

 

I have been planning to name a dog after Samwise Gamgee for many years. I just keep winding up living in no-pet places.
 

 

I would love to name my daughter Tali. The only problem is Tali in Filipino means "rope" or "to bind or tie up". 

[Cee]

That's too much like thali, which is a lovely nameeee for delicious food. Not dogs.

 

He meant for a child. But I just looked that up and I may now be hungry.

[Sable Rhapsody]

I'm trying to convince my partner that when we get dogs I can name them Garrus and Solas. I have him down for Garrus, but still working on Solas. xD Maybe Trespasser will sway him. I don't know if I could ever name my kids after a franchise, but Cailan sounds great. Preferable than the wave of Khaleesi that hit anyway. xD

 

Any dogs of mine will be named Remus and Sirius.  Or Moony and Padfoot, I can go for that too.  No compromise: I've wanted that since I was in middle school

 

 

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The slides were sweet though, they're still a thing, I think they will always be a thing. It's beautiful, and tragic and there's something a little bit fairytale like about it.

 

I have no doubt we'll have the option to save him, because why give us the option to choose to do that? It's not so much what we discovered that I'm having problems with now personally, it's the wait before we get more.

 

Garrus is my go-to romance for playing an actual, healthy, normal relationship.  They feel like an old married couple, stable and down-to-earth, each others' best friend and greatest supporter.

 

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Solas is my romance for a tragic and lovely fairy-tale.  It ticks off all the boxes for the things that I would never EVER put up with IRL, but make for great fiction.  My BFF was commenting on the relationship status for Solas and Lavellan at the end; she was all like, "Wait, so taking your hand, trying to end the world, and dream-stalking you counts as still being together?  WTF."

[nikkylee]

I'm trying to convince my partner that when we get dogs I can name them Garrus and Solas. I have him down for Garrus, but still working on Solas. xD Maybe Trespasser will sway him. I don't know if I could ever name my kids after a franchise, but Cailan sounds great. Preferable than the wave of Khaleesi that hit anyway. xD

 

Oh yeah, we never would have if we didn't just like the name in general. The Dragon Age association is just a plus. I liked Kaidan, but I know a lot of them and my mom would never forgive me if I picked a 'popular' name.

 

 

"Not completely satisfied but utterly intrigued" is literally the most accurate thing I've heard. I'm crossing all my fingers that the wait is SLIGHTLY shorter than the 3-4 years. I'm sure eventually Mass Effect or something will catch my attention enough, but for now everything is Solas. *sigh* 

[Sable Rhapsody]

"Not completely satisfied but utterly intrigued" is literally the most accurate thing I've heard. I'm crossing all my fingers that the wait is SLIGHTLY shorter than the 3-4 years. I'm sure eventually Mass Effect or something will catch my attention enough, but for now everything is Solas. *sigh* 

 

And everything hurts.  But the good sort of hurt

 

I used to prefer more escapism in my RPGs; I installed so many romance mods for BG2, and 99% of them had happily ever afters into the sunset with sexy menfolk  But now I just want the story to be good, no matter how long I wind up spending in the hellspiral.