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[Illyria]

Oh, that must be a complete coincidence

 

I started listening to WT at the height of my love for FMA, so I tend to associate the songs more with FMA.  But it works for any grim and fatalistic immortal who made a ton of mistakes.

[NeverlandHunter]

Check out this amazing fan art by Dakkun!

http://dakkun39.tumb...e inquisition=

They don't have much Solas, but there's so much more Dragon Age and Tolkien awesomeness!

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*.* Wishing Dragon Age was set in an Asian inspired setting instead of Western European overused setting

[drosophila]

Helena Amell - human female - spirit healer - 20 - Alistair

Ginny Hawke - human female - force mage - 28 - Anders

Sophia Lavellan - elf female - rift mage - 28 - Solas

 

I'm into female mages, either human or elf, so that's probably what I'll play in DA4. Also, ideally I want to have a female-female canon romance in DA4, but it will depend on who's available. 

[Cee]

 

 

 That sounds like a fun trip. Italy is beautiful, BTW. But when my husband and I went to Rome, we were at the mercy of those who spoke English. Getting around the train station was a nightmare and we got lost several times. 

 

I loved Italy. We spent about eight days mostly split between Rome and Florence, with that day trip to Venice and it was so beautiful and full of historical places and art and very wild drivers (the stories are true!).

 

 

I loved those summers with my grandparents. And it wasn't always summer for me either, my grandmother raised me till I was about 5, and I'd see my mom only on weekends, since she was in university, and my dad never, since he was in military school. They live in a very rural area, have a donkey and a cart instead of a car, light fire in a stove to heat a room in winter, have sheep, goats, and a farm. It's a totally different life. I still remember small, ridiculous things, like how you could hang laudry out to dry in the fall, and if the weather gets unexpectedly cold overnight, the laundry would be frozel solid in the morning. (Now that I think of it, I should work that into my fic.) My cousin and I would spend the entire day playing on the streets completely unattended and get into all sorts of trouble 

 

Just reading the laundry thing and thought where I left off in my fic and was thinking I should use that. But no, I am not returning to the laundry. They can hang it to dry offscreen, as it were.

 

The closest thing I can relate to were a couple of trips, including an entire summer in Puerto Rico with my family. Being a city person who also spent summers in places where people grow things and visiting pig markets, and picking oranges and bananas fresh in the mornings, chasing hummingbirds and waking up with lizards on the walls. I also spent some other summers in small town southern NJ with my my great grandmother and usually my mom or her sisters. No farming there but it was a block or two from the Delaware Bay and so we had a small slice of rocky beach and small town experiences too.

 

When did you actually leave Bulgaria?

[drosophila]

I started listening to WT at the height of my love for FMA, so I tend to associate the songs more with FMA.  But it works for any grim and fatalistic immortal who made a ton of mistakes.

 

That pretty much sums up the song, Hohenheim, and Solas all at once I started listening to WT when I was 16, then dropped them eventually, and hadn't listened to them in at least a couple of years until I discovered Dragon Age and the need for some more dramatic music emerged. 

[Renmiri1]

Yeah, having studied Russian myself I was boggled to learn that Bulgarian didn't decline nouns. 

talking about Russian and cool songs ..

 

[drosophila]

I loved Italy. We spent about eight days mostly split between Rome and Florence, with that day trip to Venice and it was so beautiful and full of historical places and art and very wild drivers (the stories are true!).

 

 

Just reading the laundry thing and thought where I left off in my fic and was thinking I should use that. But no, I am not returning to the laundry. They can hang it to dry offscreen, as it were.

 

The closest thing I can relate to were a couple of trips, including an entire summer in Puerto Rico with my family. Being a city person who also spent summers in places where people grow things and visiting pig markets, and picking oranges and bananas fresh in the mornings, chasing hummingbirds and waking up with lizards on the walls. I also spent some other summers in small town southern NJ with my my great grandmother and usually my mom or her sisters. No farming there but it was a block or two from the Delaware Bay and so we had a small slice of rocky beach and small town experiences too.

 

When did you actually leave Bulgaria?

 

Your Puerto Rico experience sounds so familiar and yet like a fairy tale. One of the things that fascinated me in Italy was that oranges grew on trees. You could just pick one off a tree and eat it. It seemed surreal, since I grew up with a climate similar to PA/NJ/NY and oranges and bananas were these super exotic things  

 

I left when I was 19, had just graduated high school and came here for college, that was 10 years ago. 

[drosophila]

talking about Russian and cool songs ..

 

Ghost in the shell! I greatly approve. Also I love this song. 

[figment_]

A really sweet post-Trespasser Solavellan story on AO3:

 

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Var Lath by Lafaiette

http://archiveofouro...apters/11216992

 

Go Team Optimism!!!

[Yanagi_Uxinta]

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Makes you wonder what actually happened when the Architect tried to "help" Urthemiel, and inadvertently awakened him as an Archdemon.  I don't think the Architect gives any useful details; he just says he tried the Warden blood, and it didn't work.  But working off this theory, of COURSE it wouldn't work.  Warden blood is already blighted.  

 

Maybe the dropping of the Veil trapped the Evanuris in their physical bodies--the dragon forms that Tevinter later worshipped as the Old Gods.  Argh.  Head starting to spin.  Still don't know how the Blight and the old gods' souls figure into all this.  Kieran certainly never seemed like he wanted to murder and enslave everyone, but Flemeth is undoubtedly influenced by Mythal.

 

I know I am way, way, waaaaaaay behind (above quote is from page 4846), but it, particularly the bold, got me thinking. We know Solas created the Veil to trap the Evanuris, to save the People. So far the assumption has been that they were trapped inside the Fade (possibly in the Black City). But what if they were trapped on the other side, and Solas created the Veil to sunder them from the Fade? So the Evanuris are trapped in their dragon bodies (if we go along with the above theory) in Thedas, but they cannot access the Fade, they cannot change shape, are trapped leagues below ground, and if they have access to any magic in this form it is only that of a normal, mortal mage.

 

For immortal, almost-all-powerful, magical 'god'-kings, that sounds like an 'eternity of torment' to me.

 

I may be completely and utterly off base with this (it's late and I'm loopy from too long in work) and there may be in-game evidence that immediately proves me wrong - if so let me know - but the thought popped into my head and wouldn't go away. You also may have already discussed this very possibility, which I'm probably going to find out now when I go back to catching up XD

 

If not however, please take this and run with it, if there's any evidence to back it up.

[Aroihkin]

 Well I'm a little late to the 'who did you romance' topic, but.

 

(Big image and tl;dr under the cut.)

 

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Silver and Scarlet: Group Heal ^{_{(my art from 2011, sigh)}}

 

What Hawke? Who's Hawke? 

 

(I did play DA2 but... never could give a damn about Hawke. So in the story of mine that's gotten that far (and further) in time, things go a bit differently.)

 

Tannusen Surana (pictured above) hooked up with Zevran... and also dallied with Morrigan until she told him to choose. (He chose Zev.) Fenris didn't happen until jerk!Hawke in that universe gave Fenris back to Danarius, and these two busted him back out again. (Okay, Zevran did all the actual work there. Tannu wasn't coherent enough to help. Nor did he have access to his magic during that time.) I like to call the three of them the Ex-Slave Brigade, because I'm awful.

 

Alleyana was a Warden in another, earlier series in 2010 that took place in a different universe (obviously) and she hooked up with Zevran, too. Alistair always felt like someone I'd dig a lot more after he had a few more years of life experience under his belt. Also his fan-base at the time ensured I didn't invest much time or energy into him fanworks-wise.

 

And in DAI, of course, Solas with Alleyana-who-didn't-become-the-Warden, taking place in the same universe as Silver and Scarlet. The Warden up there is her little brother, not that she knows that until shortly before he charges off after Nightmare in the Fade. Whoops.

 

I really do tl;dr at the drop of a hat. I de-lurk, drop a whole truck load of it on the thread, and then vanish again. 

 

Short answer: Zevran with a dash of Morrigan, Fenris, Solas.

[Cee]

Well, I did the thing.

 

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and someone the other day mentioned how after you close one of the rifts and your mark flares up and Solas makes a small movement forward and then it stops. Yes.

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[DarthEmpress]

As for romances, I've only played 3 Bioware games:

 

Jade Empire: Sky (though I really wanted Sagacious Zu... no similarities to Solas at all, of course not!)

 

DAO: Flirted with Zevran, romanced Alistair.

 

DAI: Solas. I haven't even been able to force myself to romance anyone else.

 

omg I wanted Sagacious Zu too!  I WANTED HIM BADLY!  It's like if they never gave us Solas to romance... oh man, the longing for that elf we would have 

[roselavellan]

omg I wanted Sagacious Zu too!  I WANTED HIM BADLY!  It's like if they never gave us Solas to romance... oh man, the longing for that elf we would have 

 

I can't even imagine! Solas is like Sagacious Zu plus infinite sexiness 

[Cee]

Ghost in the shell! I greatly approve. Also I love this song. 

 

I love it too. The second theme, Rise, I actually associate with Shepard.

 

 

This is pretty much what I consider a Shepard theme song.

 

 

Your Puerto Rico experience sounds so familiar and yet like a fairy tale. One of the things that fascinated me in Italy was that oranges grew on trees. You could just pick one off a tree and eat it. It seemed surreal, since I grew up with a climate similar to PA/NJ/NY and oranges and bananas were these super exotic things

 

I left when I was 19, had just graduated high school and came here for college, that was 10 years ago. 

 

It's funny to think back on these things, considering most of my time was spent growing up in Brooklyn but I have these very different experiences. Chasing lizards, people cutting open fresh coconuts, picking bananas, and on the other side, trapping crabs or walking around in very quiet areas, small town stores, the attitudes different from city life. I guess some of these also inform my writing a bit too. There's a very cute picture of me at 5? with some baby goats that everyone loves.

[tatterdemalion]

/lies down in thread.

 

I played through the Solavellan breakup scene in the vanilla game this afternoon and have been overcome with post-breakup blues ever since. I even went to a previous save to do a Cullenmance to make myself feel better. Now, I love both ships quite fiercely but the fact that Solavellan has this unresolved...sadness and melancholy to it makes me cling to it just a littlebitmore. Some days I want the Prince Charming, the married life and the mabari. Other days I want the Dread Wolf and the angst and pain that comes with the territory. 

 

I saved a screenshot of their last kiss (before Trespasser, that is -- though I'm debating whether my Lavellan would want to redeem him or stop him):

 

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And I had Damien Rice's Color Me In playing throughout the scene and it just beautifully captures Solas's struggle between love and his pride/duty/ambitions -- in the song though, love wins. 

 

 

Color Me In comes from the album titled My Favorite Faded Fantasy, funnily enough...and it's just pure Solavellan from the first song to the last.

 

As for my favorite Bioware romances:

 

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DAO

 

Malachi Cousland/Morrigan - Malachi the warrior and Morrigan fell in love and had the OGB. And then later on, Mal went after Morrigan into the Eluvian, devoted puppy that he was. It pleased me to learn that he and Morrigan were able to live in relative happiness afterwards, for a time.

 

DA II

 

Dierdre Hawke/Isabela - Both were rogues, and got on amazingly, though I never really finished DA II. I know this, though: Dierdre certainly did not give Isabella to the Arishok.  There was a dalliance with Fenris for awhile but 'twas the pirate queen who ultimately stole Dierdre's heart.

 

DAI

 

Tenebrian Lavellan/Solas and Tenebrian/Cullen - doing these romances concurrently. I have my cake and I want to eat it too.

 

As for DA4...I don't really know who my protagonist would be yet? I don't have any hope or expectation at all that my Quizzy might be the PC, nor would I want her to be. If we do encounter Solas in some form, having him mention my Quizzy would be good enough for me :3.

[Cee]

omg I wanted Sagacious Zu too!  I WANTED HIM BADLY!  It's like if they never gave us Solas to romance... oh man, the longing for that elf we would have 

 

See, I got spoiled in the good way because Jade Empire resulted in Silk Fox becoming empress and ruling with my PC at her side. Then DAO, similar outcome with marrying Alistair and becoming queen consort. Then DA decided it wanted to just bring the pain and Anders and Solas happened to me.

[drosophila]

I love it too. The second theme, Rise, I actually associate with Shepard.

https://www.youtube....h?v=UJjscA9Zvcw

This is pretty much what I consider a Shepard theme song.



It's funny to think back on these things, considering most of my time was spent growing up in Brooklyn but I have these very different experiences. Chasing lizards, people cutting open fresh coconuts, picking bananas, and on the other side, trapping crabs or walking around in very quiet areas, small town stores, the attitudes different from city life. I guess some of these also inform my writing a bit too. There's a very cute picture of me at 5? with some baby goats that everyone loves.

I have city memories too! Actually quite a few different cities, since my dad was in the military and we kept moving. I'm an expert at being the new kid in school. None of them were as big as NY though, haha. TBH, I can't believe such a cinnamon roll could grow up in NY, it seems like such madness whenever I visit.

[Joe25]

Solas messes with my face, cuts off my arm, and is going to blowup the world. Worst/best super villain boyfriend ever. Anders, I hope you are taking notes. And here I was thinking the next villain romance was not going to look like part of an English breakfast.   

[Cee]

I have city memories too! Actually quite a few different cities, since my dad was in the military and we kept moving. I'm an expert at being the new kid in school. None of them were as big as NY though, haha. TBH, I can't believe such a cinnamon roll could grow up in NY, it seems like such madness whenever I visit.

 

 

I'm always drawn to cities. We do have all sorts of people here though, clearly. The first time I ever spent living on my own was studying in Madrid. Different feeling than NY but a great place. I miss it, years later. Like leaving a bit of yourself behind. Which happens in travel, and even in games. Life as set of experiences.

 

I stopped playing m!Lavellan for now since I have laundry to do (in real life, not in fiction where I can wave it away in a couple of paragraphs!) and I am also attempting to judge how badly I want to go out for a latte versus this weather before I settle in for chores.

[NightSymphony]

hhehehe... Skyhold Halloween. Of course Cullen sparkles. :-P

http://tamarandom.de...oween-564075134

[figment_]

A really sweet post-Trespasser Solavellan story on AO3:

 

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Var Lath by Lafaiette

http://archiveofouro...apters/11216992

 

Go Team Optimism!!!

And one not so sweet post-Trespasser story on AO3 but excellent:

 

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Trespasser by Umerue

http://archiveofouro...apters/10906847

 

I highly recommend all of the writer's stuff but especially these:

 

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The Wrath of Heaven

http://archiveofouro...hapters/7051940

 

and

 

Maker's Child

http://archiveofouro...g/works/3857059

[MayriyaNoori]

Well, finally caught up and I'm late to the "Who did you bang?" party, but here's my list.

 

DAO- Female Elf Mage romanced Alistair

DA2- Female Hawke mage romanced Anders

Inquisition- .................................................................Solas. And then Solas again.

 

I have gone back in the other games to romance characters for science. It took years....but it eventually happens.

 

Based on my current trends....I will be able to successfully complete a Cullen romance at some point in the year. 2019. Maybe Bull the year before, I don't know.

[RynJ]

Solas messes with my face, cuts off my arm, and is going to blowup the world. Worst/best super villain boyfriend ever. Anders, I hope you are taking notes. And here I was thinking the next villain romance was not going to look like part of an English breakfast.   

 

Ha! You know, the more I think about both characters, the more I consider Solas to be Anders done right. I think Solas is more of what they were going for with Anders, but it didn't turn out quite how they wanted. Now even the writers dump on Anders, poor guy. I still like him, all the hate regardless! He has more depth than people give him credit for.

[Cee]

Well, finally caught up and I'm late to the "Who did you bang?" party, but here's my list.

 

DAO- Female Elf Mage romanced Alistair

DA2- Female Hawke mage romanced Anders

Inquisition- .................................................................Solas. And then Solas again.

 

I have gone back in the other games to romance characters for science. It took years....but it eventually happens.

 

Based on my current trends....I will be able to successfully complete a Cullen romance at some point in the year. 2019. Maybe Bull the year before, I don't know.

 

It usually takes lots of time for me too, and sometimes it just feels wrong but hey, I now have a m!Lavellan who can at least send glances at Cassandra and say nice things to make her blush. That's a start, right?