Thank you @metatiki for tagging me! I didn’t see the tag until today, sometime after 7 pm, so it’s a bit late, but better late than never I hope! This is from my Cullen/Solas WIP - a little Solas-and-Cole dialogue from the chapter I’m currently working on.
“Wondering and worrying: will it even work? It’s all different now. If it works, does that mean it’s less different? More real? If it works, is he real?” Cole paused. “Why do you think Cullen isn’t real?”
[There’s more stuff here in the actual fic, but I’m omitting for brevity.]
“Would you consider a nug a real person?” he asked Cole, quite seriously.
Solas sighed. Perhaps Cole would not be of much help to him in this.
“Do nugs think and feel like people?”
Cole thought for a long time on that one, head tilted like a puppy dog. Perhaps he was listening to someone at a distance, trying to see their thoughts differently to answer Solas’s question.
“Nugs can be sad,” he said finally, “But people can be - guilt-grim, shame-shattered, locked in lies, loving but unloved, racked by recollections.”
“There’s more complexity in people,” Solas said.
“Yes. Knots to untie before they can be free,” Cole confirmed.
“When you hear my pains, are they more complex than other people’s? Just like people are more complex than nugs?” Solas asked.
Cole listened again, for even longer this time, his face furrowed around his concentration.
“Your hurts are older,” he said finally. “You used to feel them louder than the others, but you cut a channel, canal them, to keep the ocean from overflowing.” He paused. “Can oceans overflow?”
“Not exactly,” Solas said. “So my emotions are ‘louder’ but not more complex?”
Not sure what the etiquette of tagging is when it’s late, but I figure I can still tag a couple people! Your choice whether you post when you see the tag or hold out for actual Sunday lol! How about @amata-hawke, @dragonifyoudare, and @dirthenera
