Well, I just slapped myself into the feels corner.
I hate myself sometimes.
This song.
Spoiler
Aw man, I have a love-hate relationship with that final fantasy game, but Zack's death always gets me to tear up something dreadful. And now my head is filled with well intentioned characters who didn't see how flawed their own side was until it was too late and everybody died. Oh, hi Solas.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to write the act of someone grabbing another person's butt without it sounding overly juvenile or stilted/clinical?
And with that said, he turned his back to her. She blinked but, after a moment, a mischievous glint lit her eyes. She crept up behind him and Solas, still thoroughly (obliviously) engrossed in his studies, could do nothing but give a startled yelp when he felt the slender hand grab his backside. He turned widened eyes over his shoulder only to be met with a grin and a giggle.
... Tada? 
If you meant suggestion as in a writing tip and not a written example, then I'd say don't focus on the action, like don't go around describing it too much. Focus on the point of it. To show affection, to show playfulness, to show the grabber's assertiveness/desire (or aggression if its that kinda situation), to make the grabee uncomfortable, etc.
Sorry, to clarify, I was thinking of it as a kind of extension to what you said. Solas is incredibly intelligent and insightful, I think he would be able to pick things up in a way that most of us couldn't. Like how he beats Blackwall at Diamondback on his first game.
I think it's a combination of him being really smart, the Fade reflecting the physical world, and him just being withdrawn and trying not to attract attention.
I think he's been conscious in the Fade for a long time and has prepared himself for waking up. He knows how to dress, how to speak, how to carry himself, the big things that everyone ought to notice.
But no matter how hard he tries, there are little things he'll miss and will have him dumbfounded.
However, most of the time everyone's too busy chasing Cory and all that to pay attention to him. Plus, it can always be explained by him being this weirdo who spent most of his life in the woods.
If you meant suggestion as in a writing tip and not a written example, then I'd say don't focus on the action, like describing it too much. Focus on the point of it. To show affection, to show playfulness, to show the grabber's assertiveness/desire (or aggression if its that kinda situation), to make the grabee uncomfortable, etc.
Sorry, my brain just kind of fixated on that word. Grabee. Teehee 
(crawls into blanket fort, grabs apple cider and donut)
Must remember: murder is still illegal. Even if it's for rampant stupidity.
Oh dear. Is this about the thread I mentioned?
I think that is also me and I am very in need a hug mode so
*hugs*
Calpernia and Maevaris. Sassy, lovely, Tevinter ladies of epic winsauce
(please O Weekes, let one of them be romanceable!)
Yesssssssss.
Why not both?
Quizzy: Yes, that sounds totally legit, do your thing Ghili
Ghili: *does her thing*
Ghili: Welp, just unleashed an immortal demon beast on the world who feasts on the souls of babies. This won't help us seal the breach at all!
Quizzy: Oh, you!
*cue audience laughter*
Oh, NOW I know who Ghili reminds me of:
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to write the act of someone grabbing another person's butt without it sounding overly juvenile or stilted/clinical?
'Gently she caressed the perfectly formed shape of his rounded lovebump'
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to write the act of someone grabbing another person's butt without it sounding overly juvenile or stilted/clinical?
"She felt something move on her lower backside. Darn spiders. She smacked the beast with all her might, but it wasn't a spider. It was a hand."
I'm sorry, Cee. I'm trying real hard to hit cancel on this post, but I can't.
So I'm sitting here at my desk listening to music and I just have this song on repeat and its causing me major solavellan feels? Like this is my Lavellan's song right now. After Tresspasser. (Or heck in the intervening 2 years btwn vanilla and Trespasser. The song even mentions "2 years" as a time interval.) And it'll be her song from now until she stars in DA4 (at least when I'm feeling optimistic, not melancholy. lol)
I'm having feelz so I just wanted to share. Carry on. lol
"She felt something move on her lower backside. Darn spiders. She smacked the beast with all her might, but it wasn't a spider. It was a hand."
o___O Now that was creepy. Not because of a hand, but because of implied spiders the size of a hand which apparently are so common people don't really freak out about them when they travel up your leg 
! *feels a sudden urge to bathe*
@Sunny - Thanks for the video AND THE FEELS:
12:44 regarding Adament - "Originally the Inquisitor would fall in the Deep Roads and meet the intelligent Darkspawn from Awakenings"
Crying now.
o___O Now that was creepy. Not because of a hand, but because of an implied spiders the size of a hand which apparently are so common people don't really freak out about them when they travel up your leg
I love how in Skyrim the dog sized spiders are called 'spiders' and it's only when they get bigger that they get the lable 'giant spiders' which implies that is the base size of spiders in Tamariel and by 'love' I mean 'hate'.
And on the subject of things I love: whatever mod added in the random chance of tiny fast spiders whenever I search a websack because that's great. Really great.
"She felt something move on her lower backside. Darn spiders. She smacked the beast with all her might, but it wasn't a spider. It was a hand."
I'm sorry, Cee. I'm trying real hard to hit cancel on this post, but I can't.
I love how this turned into a prompt. I'm out of likes but all the butt grabbing gets a heart
"Solas tapped Lavellan's rear dorsal abdomen with his front leg. His rough and manly sex combs scratched her cuticle in the most pleasurable way."
I think it's a combination of him being really smart, the Fade reflecting the physical world, and him just being withdrawn and trying not to attract attention.
I think he's been conscious in the Fade for a long time and has prepared himself for waking up. He knows how to dress, how to speak, how to carry himself, the big things that everyone ought to notice.
But no matter how hard he tries, there are little things he'll miss and will have him dumbfounded.
Like Sera, for example 
Like Sera, for example
What do you mean?
So I'm sitting here at my desk listening to music and I just have this song on repeat and its causing me major solavellan feels? Like this is my Lavellan's song right now. After Tresspasser. (Or heck in the intervening 2 years btwn vanilla and Trespasser. The song even mentions "2 years" as a time interval.) And it'll be her song from now until
she stars inDA4 (at least when I'm feeling optimistic, not melancholy. lol)
This is one of several "get Lavellan back into her groove" songs that I have
Also, my Solavellan hellspiral song just played on Pandora for the first time in about a month. Nope, still not quite over it 
Geralt, I need you to make me hellspiral harder!
@Sunny - Thanks for the video AND THE FEELS:
12:44 regarding Adament - "Originally the Inquisitor would fall in the Deep Roads and meet the intelligent Darkspawn from Awakenings"
Crying now.
What if he was dead?
What if he was dead?
Why should that make a difference? 
Oh dear. Is this about the thread I mentioned?
What do you mean?
Oh, I thought he found Sera puzzling. In their first few banters he tries really hard to make Sera understand what it means to be elven. I think he gets exasperated and gives up after some time, but his banters with Sera were some of the few times where I thought he could have just stopped.
Though perhaps that wasn't what you meant by him being dumbfounded...
Yeah, which I why I dropped my philosophical rant on the thread and didn't come back. Then real life went to pot too
Sigh, I need cookies. Or hard cider. Or both.
*hug*
What if he was dead?
I assume by he you mean his most glorious The Architect(or you could also mean the adorkable Darkspawn soldier I left alive) and by dead you must mean sleeping so you would just wake him up and he'd be super glorious and helpful!(THIS IS CANON - he serves a lost dwarf tea in the deep roads and helps them find home)
I love how this turned into a prompt. I'm out of likes but all the butt grabbing gets a heart
"Solas tapped Lavellan's rear dorsal abdomen with his front leg. His rough and manly sex combs scratched her cuticle in the most pleasurable way."
Fly'harel strikes again?
This is one of several "get Lavellan back into her groove" songs that I have
Also, my Solavellan hellspiral song just played on Pandora for the first time in about a month. Nope, still not quite over it
Geralt, I need you to make me hellspiral harder!
What song is your hellspiral song?
Also, Geralt's job is to stop hellspirals isn't it? I coulda sworn Vessimir included that in the lectures somewhere... 
I assume by he you mean his most glorious The Architect(or you could also mean the adorkable Darkspawn soldier I left alive) and by dead you must mean sleeping so you would just wake him up and he'd be super glorious and helpful!(THIS IS CANON - he serves a lost dwarf tea in the deep roads and helps them find home)
The Messanger!
I can never bring myself to kill him.
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