#about.solas

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Solas and the Iron Bull get pissin drunk and Solas goes “you look like a dragon I used to know” and the Iron Bull in typical Bull fashion goes “oh yeah? you mean know or like... know know” *nudge wink almost falls over*

and Solas is like “hahahaha........... yeah, maybe I’m your ancestor” and that’s when the Iron Bull learns that they call it “fire water” because it burns like the FUCKING DICKENS when it comes shooting out of your nose

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what Solas doesn’t realise is that he’s fucking outclassed in the Inquisition

Solas: *says something condescending*

Sera: *replies cuttingly but in a way that makes everyone fucking die laughing*

Dorian: *replies even more condescendingly, and with class besides*

Vivienne: *replies indulgently, like one would to a small and plucky child, patting Solas gently on the shoulder as if saying ‘you’re lucky you’re pretty’*

Elias Lavellan: *stares innocently at Solas and asks really uncomfortable questions about what he just said*

Kasaanda: *ignores him completely*

Hiberna Skaara: *straight up fucking slaps him* “try again, wolfboy”

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I’m toying with the idea that Solas is partially full of shit, just in general

but also a Thing I was considering is that the Evanuris may have been all Solas said they were, but that being so, there’s no reason why the roles that the Evanuris took on, the names and the jurisdictions, couldn’t have been mantled by other spirits down the line

I’m considering elves who passed into the Fade and were not content to stay there, who knew the Evanuris were not in a position to answer anyone’s prayers and so answered prayers themselves out of a sense of duty to and love for (same thing, I guess) their living brethren, and who eventually collected the energy of June or Sylaise or Ghilain’nain or whomstever to themselves and... mantled them.

it’s not just ONE Sylaise or Mythal or whatever either, it’s multiple ones, because the Dalish are in no way a monolith and different clans attract different spirits who eventually wear the mantle, and I really think that’s just how it works period (various alienages have their versions too, probably, but that’s a different sort of story)

and when Solas sees vallaslin he thinks of the Evanuris, because they’d started it -- except rituals are living things, they grow and change with the people who perform them and the entities who answer them, and the rituals do not belong to the Evanuris anymore. the Dalish who wear vallaslin wear it in tribute to gods who are active and present in their lives, who follow them in animal form to protect them and nudge things in their reality in order to guide them. the gods don’t ask for vallaslin; it is a choice of every Dalish clan that continues to uphold the practice, an expression not of servitude but of gratitude and loyalty.

mostly I’m really interested in how Solas’ Rip Van Winkle act has put him completely and myopically out of touch with the actual world he’s now walking around in, and how many times he’s gonna get dragged for pretending history and culture is something that you can set down in a book and prevent from ever changing or evolving or developing nuance

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I didn’t realise it at first, but my headcanon of what Razikale did for the kossith has a striking similarity to what Fen’Harel did for the elves

the Qunari are largely glad to be Qunari, all told, but they also fared a lot better than the elves did overall. still, the Qun, the Veil -- same thing, different application, different results

Solas, being Solas, sees it as the same thing either way -- a great loss to prevent a greater loss -- but Razikale feels no such burden

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also Sera was in the tavern when that dragon conversation happened and you know damn well she told everyone that Solas tried to say that he’s Iron Bull’s great-great-etc grandpappy

people blame Sera for how many reputations got ruined in the Inquisition but they do it to themselves every damn time

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I have so many Solases on my blog right now so I just keep thinking about him and my Inquisition

like how after Razikale/Zaarilek outfoxed him for the lulz, he slunk back to the waking-world and slouched next to Kasaanda’s unconscious, dreaming body muttering to himself like “I can’t believe this draconic binch fucked me over” like 100% taking it personally

and how over time he’d remember Zaarilek’s seemingly-offhand suggestion that he go hang out with the nascent Inquisition and see what happened, since, you know, he might as well... and he’d always remember that when he felt a weird fondness about some Inquisition member, like when Varric decided to make up his own set of hilarious stories about Solas’ frescoes or when Sera put a beehive in Cullen’s desk and laughed so hard at the aftermath that she started choking and the Iron Bull helpfully nearly whacked her across the courtyard

or like when Hiberna Skaara got too much mage and templar blood in her hair and too much sickness in her spirit and whacked off all her hair and the first thing she did when she saw Solas afterward (Solas, beautiful to her, dark like her, with his mane of locs that were like hers) was burst into tears and Solas was like “well we can’t have that, can we” and painted lovely swirling patterns on her scalp for no real purpose other than to make her smile at the silliness of it all

honestly I keep forgetting there’s like an actual plot and stuff, like about Coryphytits and the sky vagina and all that, because I’m really really really invested just in the Inquisition’s relationships with each other and the tiniest moments I can imagine