The Dread Wolf’s Heart is Changed Already
Give me a Solas who’s primary goal when you’d just stumbled out of the Fade wasn’t to save your life, but to ascertain the status of the Anchor.
Give me a Solas who objectively decides that you’re more useful to him alive than dead, so he saves your life. A Solas who decides that you deserve to live for that bit longer so that you can close the Breach. The world’s only hope.
Give me a Solas that realizes quite early on that it’s a shame you weren’t born in his time, he would have probably liked you.
Give me a Solas that slowly comes to the realisation that he respects you, is beginning to trust you to make the choices that most benefit the oppressed, the weak, those who can’t get what they need for themselves.
(Give me a Solas that doesn’t realise how much trouble he’s in until he tells himself that this, no this is the time that he’ll stop encouraging whatever is going on between you.
Give me a Solas that is so focussed on denying his growing feelings that you manage to catch him off guard. A Solas who is far worse at dealing with his feelings than you are because he’s still trying to pretend he’s not having them.
Give me a Solas that looks back on those few days where he was coldly contemplating killing you and his gut clenches at how easy it could have been. A Solas that sometimes, out of the blue, just takes your hand and squeezes, brings you into the circle of his arms just to remind himself of what he would have lost had he made a different choice.)
Give me a Solas who realizes he’s learning for the first time in Ages. Who is seeking you out to sate his own curiosity as much as you are seeking him. A Solas that truly regrets having to leave, knowing that this is the last time you will be allies.
Give me a Solas that has to prepare for you now, is not going to make the mistake of underestimating you. A Solas that still questions himself, still interrogates his own actions, who can’t quite stop asking himself if he’s doing the right thing. Only now, that voice sounds like you. And it’s stronger than it’s ever been.
“I would not have you see what I become.”
No, because only he knows just how close you’ve been to that side of him already. Because your brush with the Dread Wolf happened whilst you were sleeping, before you ever knew he existed. By the time he’s introducing himself on that mountain, you’ve been closer to the man he’s trying to protect you from in Trespasser than you ever are again.
Basically. Give me an arc to this potential character growth, Bioware. Do NOT let it fizzle out into Generic Bad Guy. You brought the Dread Wolf to us just after he’d coldly murdered a close friend without even looking them in the eye just because they’d failed him. And then you let him CARE. Don’t make that for nothing.
