Something something Solas thinks Lavellan is beautiful. Sure. Man’s hands wander all over that lady. But when he tells her she is beautiful in Crestwood and when he is gazing at her as if she is the most brilliant sunrise after millennia upon millennia of only night… he’s in love with her spirit first. I feel like he sees both her spirit and her body at the same time. And he’s simply astounded.
The way he asks her if the Mark has changed her… *looks down and away* “spirit” on the balcony is something else. I think she is just blazing before him all the time. And he assumes it’s the Mark’s doing. But if you answer “the Dalish didn’t make me this way. I make my own choices (to that effect)”, he seems almost excited. Like… it just thrills him a little.
She’s not like this because of some weird magic or anything. She just is. She’s beautiful. And he’s absolutely smitten.
