me, reading every post you make: god elisa's solas is the one true and future solas what a loser i'd die for him
reasons solas is a nerd and i love/hate him
one. like the writing that surmises dai before trespasser is in fact weak, but it’s obvious they fucking tried and ea wanted the game out as quickly as possible because dai had already been delayed by a year. so i can be mad all i want but now i’m just going to stand here holding all of this and crying.
two. the reason the inquisitor is the inquisitor is because of solas. so trespasser ignoring that or passing that by makes me mad as fuck. like you leave right nOW? OF ALL TIMES TO LEAVE???? so YOU KNOW. the idea of the lack of choice with so many choices in dai is a good one, especially since it opens up the route that divine providence can be a thing – WHEN IN FACT it was actually SOLAS bad choices that lead the player character into being his inquisitor. that’s right Y’ALL. DIVINE PROVIDENCE IS ACTUALLY AN ELF FUCKING IT UP IN ONE FELL SWOOP.
three. his hate of tea is because patrick weekes hates tea and im playing on this trope by saying that in his modern verses solas hates artisanal teas and coffees and prefers black bitter coffee to anything. he’s also never learned how to drive because he woke up outside of kirkwall and the traffic is like hell there, so he was like: nah. and owns a bike.
four. getting back to why he’s a nerd and punching him is totally an option because even though ive waded through a lot he can still be a fucking jerkass. like that shit about the elves? oh yeah, you can most likely talk to him and educate his ass, but like he’s still standoffish and set in his ways. reformation is a possibility, but highly unlikely unless the inquisitor is dalish. even his bEST BUD SIDRI couldn’t get him to change his ways and she ended up losing her arm. like it used to be much harsher with a low approval solas in the first draft of trespasser, he would literally drag the inquisitor to the eluvian and pull the arm of the inquisitor through it and turn OFF the eluvian. and im thinking of bringing that back. i’m bringing bad solas back!
five. his voice actor is dareth david lloyd and he plays ianto jones in torchwood, so big nerd.
six. whats with the wolves, solas? in the pawee creation myth, the wolf was the first animal to experience death — and i’m actually very fond of that idea, considering that it is implied that the murder of mythal wounded fen’harel deeply and they had code so their agents could identify one another. wolves in general are tricky animals, deceptive and smart. there are myths in canon that state fen’harel as a warrior or as a rogue when solas is a mage – so what THE FUCK is UP my dudes. as for the real reason that wolves were chosen? it comes with the fascination of ea/bio with the torah and the bible. i don’t know why but they love the bible
Magic exists to serve man, and never to rule over him. – transfigurations 1:2
There is literally a older version before the current kings james of genesis 1:29 that states nature exists to serve man
this continues to carry over and ring true with how they have given solas the persona of the wolf with the prophet of jesus warning about tricksters that may be sheep in wolves clothing, that would come to do harm. the main reason that solas is a wolf nerd is LITERALLY because bio gets their rocks off at christianty!
seven.
