#interpretation meme

[course-the-vampire-squid]

Cute

i want to write a story about these two.

[elastadelreino]

✿ Why did you decide that he had to be as old as he is]?

Oh boy! Okay so I have two main headcanons for his birth. The one that I secretly think is more plausible for the canonverse is 722-AC ( with the battle of Covadonga, as the Kingdom of Astur). However, I don’t like it much because it blocks me from a lot of important points of his character.  

In this verse:

- The death of Rome marked him for the rest of his life. He has an overwhelming fear of following his path and dissipating into thin air. That same underlying fear explains a lot of his actions during the XIXth century and most of his life, actually. 

- Certain events he lived through with Lusitania during their childhood marked how he would act and feel towards Portugal during the rest of their lives. Toni’s complex attitude and net of contradictory feelings towards his brother took roots during the IV-VIII centuries. 

- I could talk about the role of religion in the life of the XI century peasant all day, but I’m only gonna say that the whole point of the Reconquista has always been to recover the Visigoth Kingdom of Hispania. 

- I need him to be “him” during that period so badly. It’s really, really important for modern-day Spain, even though it’s mostly forgotten even in the history books, its cultural legacy is astonishing and explaining the history of the country and the empire without the Visigoths is a feat I’m not yet confident enough to try on. 

Finally, the reason I established his actual birth time at III-BC with he Celtiberians and not with the arrival of Rome is because back when I first made the blog I asked Allie (our former Port) for help and she oriented me in the pre-roman and roman dates so I could more or less find a point of reference. 

I put down the date at V-BC back then, but months later, and after a fuckton of actual research and studying maps and freaking bone flutes, I actually pinpointed III-BC like the date that worked best for me. 

[thegoof]

❀ Share a headcanon you have not shared.

Muse Interpretation meme.

One idea I've been crazy about is him babysitting Jaime's little sister Milagro from time to time. They talk about all sorts of things, and he eventually reads to her. He reads adult fiction, and eventually, he gets in trouble for reading Camus's The Stranger or Lovecraft's work. She eventually becomes a fan, and suddenly she's demanding Cthulu plush toys and shirts every other day. Guess who pays for them? (It's Bart.)

[kitameguire]

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✦ Has your own interpretation changed from when you first began playing the character? Yes. 

♤ Has your muse developed to be different from their canon selves through roleplay? Yes. 

✍ Has new canon material ever forced you to adjust your headcanons? No. 

[theharellan]

✘ Any unpopular opinions about your muse? (for the Mun's interpretation, if it isn't too late.)

People headcanon Solas as being so tall?? I mean like SO tall even by human standards, like 6′1″ and up. Sometimes I feel like my headcanon for his height (5′8″) is pushing it, but my Solas is a runt compared to a lot of other headcanons.

The general consensus is that Arlathan elves were taller than modern elves, which is a headcanon I agree with tbh, but Solas is shorter than m!Lavellan and not significantly taller than f!Lavellan. What I tend to say is that Solas is tall by the standards of a modern elf, but actually on the short side for Arlathan elves. It doesn’t help that the games are all over the place with elf height. Like in DA:O they were teeny tiny, but Lavellan in DA:I feels super tall regardless of gender. Still, I’d like to think that the average for an elf is ~about~ 5′5″-5′7″.

Besides if you put Solas, who I’m pretty sure is the shortest male member of the Inquisition (besides Varric), at 6′1″ then that makes all the other guys at least 6′5″. And it makes most of the ladies about 6′0″ too? And then suddenly the Inquisition is just populated by giants. You might say I’m taking the in-game models way too seriously, and you’re probably right, but in the end the idea of Solas being tall enough to bump his head on a low-hanging doorway is weird to me. Love this (kind of) smol elf.

[theharellan]

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♧ Any part of their canon portrayal you dislike?

also asked by @mochimochirabbit

Well, there’s plenty of points where I disagree with him, but I don’t think that’s what this is asking lmao.

UMMM first off, Solas being straight continues to baffle me. I get that it’s partially because of time constraints and when time constraints happen the straight romance tends to get prioritised by developers. I don’t like it, but I get it. Solas is a character so disconnected from the physical that a big theory is that he is or was a spirit, that he cares about gender identity just??? Nah. This boy is pan, sorry. I still say if they had just made the m!Lavellan body shorter we could’ve had it all.

There are some minor inconsistencies in his writing regarding the qunari, which drive me nuts. At one point he’ll be arguing with Bull about how Tal-Vashoth are victims of the Qun, and continue to be guided by it even as they try to escape it, implying that he believes the qunari are no different from anyone else (he insinuates that he disagrees with Bull calling them “savage”). The next he’ll say the Qun is the only thing that keeps their savage tendencies in check. It’s a result of the banter system being, to an extent, random, but my problem is that Solas has this conversation with Bull regardless of the Inquisitor’s race. That means that there’s no one who changed his mind or made him think this way?? It helps that I can give it a timeline, and allow Solas to go from believing them to be savage to arguing with Bull about them, but on the other hand I hate the inconsistency and how it’s never elaborated on.

✎ What do you wish the author would reveal/had revealed about your muse?

Not much, so that way I can keep more of my headcanons. I think what I’m craving most is more about the events that surrounded Solas. What was the nature of the war they fought that created the evanuris, exactly when did the Forgotten Ones abandon the elves, what the fuck is up with the Titans, etc. These are things that could better inform my interpretation without damaging what I already have written.

[theharellan]

✦ Has your own interpretation changed from when you first began playing the character?

also asked by @tanadhal

Definitely!

I kind of jumped into Solas right after I beat DA:I, and while the foundations for the stuff that later became what made my Solas were there from the start it did take me a while to develop them. I replayed the game once or twice and started examining the implications of what Solas said, and it wasn’t really until January when different pantheon gods started showing up that he began to solidify.

Though I doubt myself a lot I know I have a better grasp of his motivations and who he really is than when I first started writing him, which is comforting.

[imgonnashoottothrill]

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the mun’s interpretation

♧ Any part of their canon portrayal you dislike?

Oh definitely. I often feel like they haven’t let Dean grow as much as they have Sam. Or when he does grow, he backsteps a short time later. It’s frustrating to see him grow, only for that growth to be taken away by circumstance or for no plot reason at all.

✦ Has your own interpretation changed from when you first began playing the character?

Answered

❀ Share a headcanon you have not shared.

Dean does keep in contact with Bobby. He’ll call him once every couple weeks to ask about anyone who might be in the New York area and to catch up about what’s been going on in Dean’s life. They never really get into anything emotional, but as long as they’re both alive then life is good.