Did anyone actually create a backstory that was sort of fluffy and unassuming for their Lavellan? Maybe some of the really young ones, I guess could lean that way.
My Tenebrian was pretty happy up until her husband died some years before the events of Inquisition. In my head they were rather fluffy 
he was a hunter: brash, impulsive, hot-blooded, incredibly intelligent and meshed well with my Lavellan, who was quite level-headed. I can number many nights where she tended to Endelliel's wounds after he came home from each hunt, tutting over them. Endelliel was younger than her -- so there was that dynamic where her husband not only adored her, but looked up to her immensely. Precious puppy.
In retrospect, I like to think her husband shared the same qualities as the young!Solas --
Blackwall: For all your experience, Solas, you don't carry yourself like a soldier.
Solas: You should have seen me when I was younger. Hot-blooded and cocky, always ready to fight.
Blackwall: Ah, youth.
When my Lavellan heard that banter, she got all those feels. I imagine that she and Solas discussed her married life at one point, and it was a conversation that was rather telling of how much she would've trusted Solas -- she's rather guarded with her feelings, especially concerning her first husband. In the end, it saddened her that she revealed much of her past to Solas, when he wouldn't (couldn't) do the same for her.
I have a question that's slightly off-topic (or it may have been asked before) -- in what unexpected ways has your Lavellan developed throughout your playthroughs? If any of you had certain expectations or plans for your character, in what ways have they deviated from, or exceeded, them?
I ask because it's always astounds me that even though you're given a set of dialogue options in-game, the depth and breadth of Inquisition is such that my character is still able to develop organically as though she were a character I was writing -- that's how I feel anyway. Some might disagree.
At any rate, I originally started Tenebrian with the intent that much of her life philosophy and views would align with Solas's...but last night, while I was playing the quest to turn Cole into a being more human or more spirit, she agreed with Varric and chose to make him more human. In fact, Tenebrian now has more in common with Varric than she does with Solas -- and in my head, Varric and Solas do take up diametrically opposite views on so many issues. So yeah, she's now BFFs with Varric
. I am beginning to treasure their cutscenes together. Tenebrian's also come to embrace her leadership role, though she insists that it is merely a job to her, nothing more. She's more decisive, battle-hardened. Stuff needs to get done.
Plus, Tenebrian started out as Claire Fraser from Outlander, but I suspect she'll turn into Imperator Furiosa by the end, shaved head and lost arm and all. Which I don't mind, really -- those two are among my favorite fictional heroines.
Also.
I'm imagining just how cocky and hot-blooded young!Solas would've been.
The imaginings are good. Very. Good.
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