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[lana-writes]

In Dreams, He Came - Part Fifteen - Lethallin

A Solas x F!Lavellan fanfic

Word Count: 10.1k

Rating: Mature

Tags/Warnings: angst, fluff, sexual content

Summary: Solas addresses the loss of his dearest friend. The two sisters reach an impasse and one makes a terrible decision. Althima struggles in the aftermath and Solas seeks to comfort her.

Read Part Fifteen on AO3

[arcturus-fallen]

Here's some old Solavellan doodles

[elkattacks]

Finishing Veilguard for the third time and I got very stuck in the sequence when Solas joins Rook in Minrathous. This still strikes me very emotionally.. every playthrough of Inquisition, after the first one, I'm very aware of the last time I can have Solas in my party and I kind of mark it wistfully. And to have him join the party again in Veilguard even briefly? My heart!

I paused a bunch and tried to get some good screenshots of him fighting. Sorry Rook, just don't die while I try to pause at the right moment..

Holy shit, the drama?! The power??

Who could ever look away?

Sir. I can't keep pausing like this.

[darkaviarymc]

Tragedy alignment chart. Feel free to use, but please reblog if you do.

[mikkeneko]

And of course the second part of the tragedy, which is: which quadrant did you think you were in vs. which one you were really in

[mynameisrocks]

[vintra-lavellan]

Solas somehow maxes out all of these and i love it. Hes in every corner

[jaydenskyle]

“It’s photoshopped” honestly in the age of AI that has a homey sort of nostalgia to it. Remember when people used to put effort into faking things?

[kaosuqi]

photoshop fakers are like the villain with moral standards now

[rhoxxia]

💍 Would they ever get married? What would the proposal look like?

🔥 What’s the pettiest thing they’ve ever argued about?

🩷~Lana

Very interesting! Thanks for the ask, Lana!

So if we're talking in canon then thats a bit different than Underfoot (around chapter 46 btw) but either way, they do get married though the proposals look different.

In canon, Solas believes they are married at the end of Trespasser. After she tells him "Var lath vir suledin." and he agrees she may come with him to restore the world of their people, he understands this as the act of proposal and marriage. For Elora, however, she doesn't see it that way and so she proposes to Solas months after they've taken down the Veil with a flower crown.

Needless to say hes confused and then they're both confused before kisses all around.

As for the pettiest thing they argue about...that's an interesting question. Elora likes to pick at Solas on purpose for fun but he usually doesn't take the bait. I believe it would be that Solas corrects her speech and grammar at first and it annoys her so much she starts interrupting him sometimes to force the use of contractions like

S: "I could not believe-"

E: "CAN'T"

S: "....believe that he would-"

E: "HE'D"

S: 😤

[celesenova]

In my own mind Solas originally meant Wisdom. It could possibly be a dual meaning word Wisdom/Pride, Wisdom denied it's purpose becomes Pride and Elvhen is a language that relies heavily on intent from the speaker so it could mean Solas depending on the context used would mean wisdom or pride.

So for me, Solas is Wisdom but also Pride depending on context used but through propaganda from the Evanuris, even years into the future all the way to modern Thedas the meaning of Wisdom attached to it was lost.

This is where I came to that conclusion, every translation has Solas as meaning Pride but as we know Solas is/was a spirit of Wisdom.

So when Lich Emmrich calls Solas 'Dread Wolf', Solas replies with 'I prefer Wisdom'" also when he tells the inquisitor "I was Solas first." He's saying 'Solas is Wisdom'.

Obviously this is just my head canon for his name. Because I always found it interesting how adamant he is that his name is Solas, and how attached to the fade he stayed throughout his long years. To be known as his spirit self even after all that time. Solas.

[courtneycranberries]

May The Dread Wolf Bloop You

[rhoxxia]

CHAPTER 23

READ IT

READ IT FOR ELORA

CHAPTER 23 OF UNDERFOOT IS HERE

Featuring Dorian Pavus. Aka Bestie. Aka Big shawty. Aka. 'Dat bitch

Give her a read!

[lana-writes]

i tell ya, the more i think about molly o'shea the more i want to cry. i need a retelling of rdr2 from her pov desperately. yes it would end in tragedy but i want so badly to have some view inside her head as this all went down, as she watched the man she bet her life on turn into a stranger who turned his back on her

[lana-writes]

💌 Who leaves little love notes & where do they hide them?

👀 Who gets jealous more easily & how obvious are they about it?

☕ Who’s the morning person & how do they lure the night owl out of bed?

☺️💚

Yayy!! Thank you for these!

From these Ship Headcanon Questions

💌 More often than not, it’s Solas who’s leaving little notes and gifts for her. Tucked in a book she was looking for or hidden in place sight among her correspondence at her desk or sometimes slipped into her pack while they were out traveling. As torturous as the waiting for her to find it is, he rather enjoys it, knowing that she’ll enjoy the little signs that he’s thinking of her and she doesn’t even know she has another to look forward to. Sometimes they’re just observations about their day that he wouldn’t normally speak of aloud among their companions and sometimes they’re encouragement that she is indeed as capable as everyone believes she is. Sometimes they’d be lines of poetry that he either read or remembered from ages ago that came to mind after something they witnessed or something she said. She’s tried to leave her own little notes for him but she never felt like her own were quite as meaningful or thoughtful as his, but he enjoyed them all the same. 

👀 Hard to say, neither are the jealous type really. If I had to choose, it would probably be Althima. Solas can be protective but he knows her well enough to know that she’s not the type to ever stray, even momentarily. He also knows that he is the most significant relationship in her life, at least as far as friends and lovers go. There’s been no one else, at least no one else anywhere near what they are to each other. For Althima though, there’s so much of Solas’s life that she just knows nothing about and thinking about relationships he might have had in the past, especially those that deeply affected him makes her uneasy. She has a moment of jealousy in Ch13 of IDHC when he tells her about his relationship with Mythal, even though it wasn’t a romantic connection. She tries to suppress the feeling and wave it away but she’s not always a good liar, especially not good enough to fool him, so I’d say it’s pretty obvious and it’s also pretty obvious that she doesn’t want to think about it or feel that way either. 

☕ Solas is always the first to fall asleep and usually the first to rise. Althima’s sleep schedule tends to be more chaotic because of the Anchor and also just anxiety induced insomnia, so sometimes she’s already awake by the time he wakes up. On other occasions, he has tried to wake her gently using the typical strategies, like calling her name and touching her shoulder, offering her breakfast and a cup of tea, but my girl is stubborn so when that doesn’t work, pulling away all the blankets and a magically chilled hand to her cheek or her feet always does the trick. But if they don’t have anywhere to be, he’s more than content to let her sleep in. 

[artist-rat]

another DAI commission for @ohmyarda done a while ago! 🧡

[raesource]

ship headcanon questions

make sure to include the pairing(s) you are wanting these questions to be answered for . these should work for poly ships as well as monogamous . feel free to edit these as you see fit .

💕 How did they both realize “oh wait, this is actually love”?

🌹 Who fell harder & who fell first?

🫂 What’s their favorite way to hold each other when words aren’t enough?

🔥 What’s the pettiest thing they’ve ever argued about?

💋 Who says “I love you” first & how?

🌙 Who’s the little spoon & who pretends they hate it but secretly loves it?

💍 Would they ever get married? What would the proposal look like?

🧸 Who still has the very first gift the other ever gave them?

😈 Who is more likely to start chaos “for the vine” & who films it?

🎶 What’s their song - the one that makes them both tear up / grin like idiots?

☕ Who’s the morning person & how do they lure the night owl out of bed?

🛡️ Who jumps in front of danger for the other without thinking?

😳 What’s the most embarrassing thing they’ve walked in on the other doing?

💔 What’s the one fight that almost ended them?

🩹 How do they comfort each other after nightmares?

👀 Who gets jealous more easily & how obvious are they about it?

🍳 Who cooks & who sets off the smoke alarm trying to help?

🧳 If they had to run away together tomorrow, where would they go?

😏 Who is bolder in public (hand-holding, kisses, etc.)?

🌧️ Who steals whose hoodies when it rains?

🎂 How do they celebrate each other’s birthdays?

🖤 What’s the darkest “we’ll never tell anyone” thing they’ve done together?

💌 Who leaves little love notes & where do they hide them?

🛌 Who hogs the blanket & who ends up freezing dramatically?

😴 Who falls asleep first & who watches them with heart-eyes?

🚪 Who’s more likely to say “we’re not leaving this room today”?

🌸 What nickname do they have for each other that would mortify them if others heard?

🎤 Who sings in the shower & who secretly records it for blackmail?

💞 How do they act when one of them is sick?

🩸 Who would literally kill for the other & who would help hide the body?

🌅 Do they go on sunrise / stargazing dates? Which one do they love more?

😤 Who apologizes first after a fight, even if they weren’t wrong?

🧩 What tiny habit of the other do they find unbearably adorable?

🎪 Who plans elaborate surprise dates & who just wants to stay in?

👑 In their relationship, who’s the king / queen & who’s the knight / advisor?

🌪️ What’s the most chaotic thing they’ve done together on pure impulse?

💤 Who has the weirdest sleep-talking lines that the other quotes constantly?

🧡 What color reminds each of them of the other?

🕰️ If they could go back in time, what moment would they relive together?

😶 Who’s terrified of saying “meet my parents” & why?

🍷 Who gets tipsy first & starts spilling embarrassing love confessions?

🌿 Do they want kids/pets/plants together? What do they name them?

🪞 Who takes longer getting ready & who hypes the other up in the mirror?

💥 What’s the biggest risk one of them took for the other that the partner didn’t find out about until much later?

🧣 Who steals the other’s scarf / gloves “on accident” every winter?

🌌 What’s their “we made it through hell” memory they’ll tell their grandkids?

😘 Who kisses the other first thing in the morning, morning breath & all?

🩰 Slow dancing in the kitchen at 3 a.m. - who starts it?

⚓ If one of them had to leave forever, what would they leave behind for the other?

💫 Ten years from now, what random Tuesday are they spending together?

[lana-writes]

I'm about to embark on an otherwise boring evening of handsewing, please send asks about Althima and Solas 🩷

[nateeseart]

I always wanted to draw his "dark" version.

[elfbotanist]

"ir abelas vhenan" "my heart" "my love" "i will never forget you"

Trespasser Solas did not have to show sm affection to lavellan in that moment as it was easier for him to be distant (like he was during their relationship). He finally had a reason to behave like that, be cold and distant. Let her know "my mask is off. I was distant cuz xyz reason. Now you know it too. Hope everything makes sense now. Bye." But no. Also, being distant would have helped him with his ultimate plan, helped him focus on his main goal, so to speak. But instead, as soon as she gives him an olive branch, he is desperate for her to know that he always loved her, that he is a very affectionate man (quite literally pathetic for her if given chance lol), that she did infact changed everything for him.

[elkattacks]

Finished my remake of my Inquisitor Lavellan cosplay leg armor! They're much cleaner and lighter/thinner than my originals, I'm very happy with them!

And here's references from Inquisition:

[sugar-petals]

saw someone say they feel bad and awkward ‘contributing nothing’ to fandom (“no fics, no drawings, no theories, just gluttony”) and to anyone who feels inferiority about this i gotta say us creators, doing things for free, love nothing more than your unbridled spiralling greed in our notifications aka genuinely be more unapologetically gluttonous 24/7 there is nothing wrong with enjoying something insatiably because us writers and artists feel empty and despairing without a passionate audience and feral surroundings so please and thank you and we love you