Off the Shelf

Here you'll find anything and everything! Rants, obsessions, loves, hates.... CURRENT: DA:TV and Solavellan

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get kissed idiot

[jarinnards]

came to minrathous drunk last night and got way too excited to see my Dread Wolf

[klineyful]

So are we all decided that Inky lavellan is channelling her inner Pepi le pew now? Teehee

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get kissed idiot

[jarinnards]

came to minrathous drunk last night and got way too excited to see my Dread Wolf

[klineyful]

So are we all decided that Inky lavellan is channelling her inner Pepi le pew now? Teehee

[babe-a-yaga]

Just thinking about how Crestwood was where Solas decided to reveal the truth and really commit to Lavellan, before changing his mind at the last second. How the "I am grim and fatalistic...getting you into bed is just an enjoyable side benefit" line immediately precedes this. Solas is IN IT when he decides to take her there.

And just imagining the travel time to get to Crestwood, I can only imagine that Solas is at this point probably walls down with his affection more than he's ever been. You even kind of see this in their body language as they walk into the cave together. They're holding hands, walking in together with a kind of casual closeness, almost knocking shoulders together as they're looking more at each other than where they're walking, hand in hand.

Like imagine how this probably played out, Solas, who's been super guarded in spite of being obviously in love all along, after the temple of Mythal just invites her to travel with him - promises he has something to tell her - and for this likely couple of weeks on the road is suddenly warm and open with his touches, and the way he's looking at you. Because at this point he's decided not to hide anymore! He didn't take her to Crestwood to break up, that was an in the moment choice! So Lavellan, who's been used to a very private, cautious romance, is being spoiled for affection all of the sudden. She doesn't say I love you UNTIL the breakup in Crestwood, remember. Crestwood is the lock in moment on this romance.

And then you get to the cave, and the Crestwood scene happens. And after being spoiled for affection for the last few weeks after months of caution, its all ripped away. And then you have to travel back the other way in frigid confusion and grief, possibly with a changed face so your other travel companions are also being weird to you.

Like, the likely context surrounding this that all happens offscreen makes Crestwood all the more cruel to Lavellan. And he refuses to tell her he doesn't love her.

The change in his eyes when he realizes he can't tell her haunts me Every. Single. Time.

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[lathbora-virann]

I feel like we don't talk enough about just how much Lavellan is into kissing Solas. Like look how she moves with him, trying to kiss him again and holding onto him even as he's literally walking away...

[klineyful]

Lavellan:

[yokelish]

Love is not offensive. Awkward, doomed, or ill-timed perhaps, but not offensive. - Felassan

[klineyful]

This quote lives in my head rent-free.

Can't help but apply it to a certain egg and his lady

[fortheloveofsolas]

I kinda wanna like mess with Solas as my Rook because the possibilities and to take no crap, but also kinda want him to open up because I'm still a massive simp, ya get me?

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... Maybe

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Lavellan after they got Solas out of prison or smth

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[klineyful]

So which limb will Rook give as payment this time?

[infernaldaydreams]

GUESS WHAT IT'S THEM AGAIN

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[seffie-is-ageing-dragons]

We're coming out of the woodworks baby 😂

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[kalaelizabeth-deactivated202103]

I play Dragon Age for the plot

The plot:

[klineyful]

Well that's DA4 sorted

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The one lie he cannot tell her

For the longest time I always prefered the sad option when Solas breaks up with Lavellan. All doe eyed and ‘Please don’t leave me, I love you!‘ Which REALLY pulls at the heartstrings.

Yet now I’ve come to really adore the angry option. Specifically the option where Lavellan insists ‘Tell me you don’t care!‘ and he SIMPLY .CANNOT. DO. IT.

I’m also one of those people that just completely accepts that Solas is a liar even to his loved one because Solas is an extremely flawed individual who just wants to do right for his people and this whole relationship with Lavellan is a big fat, clanger of a conundrum. I guess it all comes down to, do you think that omission of information is a lie?

To that I say yes, that decieving someone into thinking you’re a simple, dreamer mage when in fact you’re a ridiculously powerful man who created the viel, lived over a thousand years and lead a massive elven rebellion is a BIG part of you and even when he’s on the cusp of telling Lavellan in Crestwood he still cannot do it

BUT

He cannot say that he doesn’t care for her.

And it kills me

RIP

[atilla-da-honey]

Solas: "They call *me* the Dread Wolf. What will they call *you* when all this is over?"

Lavellan: "If I things go my way, Mrs. Dread Wolf."

Soals: "Vehnan please, Im trying to be a drama King here."

[klineyful]

Ghilan’nain, mother of Halla

 DA Fans:

Tevinter Nights : ... Creator of Monsters in Frankenstein-esque conditions

 DA Fans:

[klineyful]

Honest to God when I read about the Regret demon, I just got into my head the idea of Solas conjuring mini regret demons (coz boi you got baggage!) like Elsa produces her snowgies