In most cases, Ahumai and Ellie don't get along with Solas like...at ALL... Really, the AU where one of them is a spirit is the only one where they do, because he's the first to trust them and offer them kindness and who they don't have to hide it from. But every other version of them? Solas is just too preachy, and his backhanded compliments and outright racism do NOT fly. He has opinions on the Dalish, and why Ahu would choose that, and GOODNESS 'its remarkable that your clan took in someone like that,' and gosh, isn't Ahu so gentle for someone of his kind, what a good surprise. Ahu has a hard time dealing with it, he doesn't know what to say, especially because a lot of what Solas says comes out sounding like compliments. Ellie though... Ellie is sharp and tired of bullshit like that from shem, and he's not gonna deal with it here. "Do you think we would have abandoned him? He was hurt, and scared, and helpless, he would have died. You think because we drive shem away from the areas our clans live in, to keep out families safe, that we're heartless? You do, don't you, you think so little of us that we could never stop to help someone who wasn't an elf.' Ahu tells him, when he's more sure of himself and Solas wonders how he could really be Dalish, 'they took me in. Never asked for anything back for it. Cared for me when I struggled to even care about myself. Eldrin and our Keeper were the first to tell me, my magic wasn't a curse, my magic didn't mean I had to be controlled like an animal, my magic didn't have to hurt anyone. Showed me it was a gift. Showed me I could help people with it. The Qun bound me. What I've seen of the Chantry would do the same. But the Dalish took me in and took my bindings off and said I was more than that, so yes, I call myself Dalish, and yes, I believe in the customs and gods that mean I'm treated as a person and not a threat, or a weapon." He doesn't know the history of what those gods really are, not yet, and it hurts like hell when he does, but maybe it makes Solas see, maybe the Dalish don't have it ALL wrong. This is Ahu's community, his family, he won't listen to someone telling him he made the wrong choice. He doesn't like hearing Solas pick at the Qun either. For everything he's said and been through, Solas thinks, Ahu can agree with him on that, but even then... 'Your haven't lived under the Qun. You don't, you can't know what it was like. What it is like. It's flawed and broken but there are good parts too. And for some people it works. For some people it's purpose and direction and support, and until my magic came, it was for me too...' there are things out of the Qun that still make sense to him, that he still puts weight in even now, but, 'don't talk to me about the Qun being broken. You see it from the outside and you only see the bad parts and you think it needs to break completely. You've never lived it, you don't know about it, and you can't preach to me, to Bull, what YOU think needs to happen to it.' It makes Ellie grin to see Ahu stand up for himself like that...he knows he has complicated feelings about the Qun, even now, but, no one, especially not Solas, is going to talk down to him or to either of them about their heritage or their beliefs.
prguitarman
izzy806
discoholicmusic
annaxmalina
theartofmadeline
janainaart
2087
