I'll always appreciate how audacious and intense Lavellan and Solas are.
The poison of the anchor killing Lavellan, on the verge of death and the Dread Wolf sees her and goes my love, vhenan and decides it's a good idea to remove Lavellan's anchor by kissing her. And she meets that kiss without fear.
Then it's her turn.
She sees him in an apocalyptic landscape, covered in blood and blight, himself on the verge of death and goes - vhenan, my man - and decides it's a good idea to march right up to him and offer up her lips. And he meets and takes that kiss despite the gore all over his face.
These two I tell ya... freak for freak.
For @dragonagekissweek - Day 2: Injury
Sorry, got nothing elegant for Day 2 other than these musings on how much these two continue to reflect each other - even in their questionable decisions on when it's a good idea to start making out.
I will publish two versions. Tumblr will have half size of chapter 50 because of size restrictions (it'll be a little blurry is what im tryna say)
But my Patreon version will have the full size. Basically higher quality.
You can watch the Patreon Version here.
Don't worry, both versions are free to watch!
My behind the scenes and commentary will be the one that will be available to buy/available for cinnamon tiels.
In a later date, audio will be added and the entire storyboard will be posted on my youtube.
ANYWAYS SORRY GUYS THIS TOOK SUPER DUPER LONG.
BUT HERE IT IS! PLEASE, ENJOY!
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I would treasure the chance to be wrong once again;
I will never forget you.
[A pairing I adore, but since Iāve got DA:I on the PS4, I havenāt got any game mods to bring it to life. So I make do with art and writing and headcanons!]
Anyway - Iāve been so excited to post this for such a long time!
My entry for this yearās Dragon Age Big Bang. Iāve never done a BB or anything like it before, so I was very excited (and nervous) to join this one! But I love Dragon Age so much, I just knew that I had to give it a shot. A huge thanks to all the hard work the DABB mods have put into this project!
All of my awe and gratitude to the wonderful authors who chose to work with this picture, @bewareofthesea and @ageofdragon! You can find the amazing written companion pieces to this art here (bewareofthesea) and here ( AgeofDragon)!Ā
Listen to me when I say I NEVER dream about anime men. My brain just canāt convert them into real people or something, I donāt know.
Last night I did. Last night Law made an appearance. It was phenomenal. I stared at his bare chest and made a fool of myself. How do you people handle this on the regular. My brain short circuited.
The whole of In Hushed Whispers is very emotional - in particular I love having Solas and Blackwall together in this quest. It's partly to do with me just loving these two companions, but it's mostly that I love Solas and Blackwall recognizing in each other traumatized soldiers carrying secrets and shame - they are so reflective of each other. I enjoy their journey together and their banter quite a lot.
But this moment In Hushed Whispers - that look the two companions share, whoever they are, when it's time to lay down their life to ensure that the Inquisitor and Dorian can get back and undo it all - for me, having Blackwall and Solas exchange that look gives me chills. Two old soldiers who have done some things and who have seen some things - just communicating everything they need to in that one look. Two veterans choosing to do the only thing left to them in that moment, to defend the possibility of a different outcome. These two who made horrible choices that altered their lives, altered them - maybe this time their actions can make a change for the better. Two veterans choosing to die at each other's side for that chance.
When given the option to customize my characters, I never try to make them look like me. I like making a variety of OCās with different personalities and looks. I did, however, try it out while playing DATV and I gotta sayā¦. No thanks. That shit was eerie. Very uncanny valley.
The game felt like it shoehorned rook into a specific personality that was disturbing to see myself in. I felt like a puppeteer and not in a good way.
Summary: You are of royal blood, having chosen to leave home and your sworn responsibilities for a much, simpler life. Hiding for years as one of Asgardās servants, the second prince of Asgard has taken interest in you being his primary target for his mischief and chaos; However, his behavior seemed to take a drastic turn when he has found out about your true identity. Perhaps this could be his ticket for gaining a throne after all! He just needs to convince you to marry him and forgive his constant years of teasing and torment.
Rating: R (with pending dark elements)
Note: the wonderful @darknessawaits28 had helped me RP a handful of the chapters to help solidify a skeleton for this piece and i couldn't be more happier of how it turned out!!! Thank you my love!!
Ever since Inquisition, and specially the Temple of Mythal scenes, I've entertained the possibility that some Evanuris were let's say just a wee bit nicer than the others, and on this I do take Solas' word like it's set in stone because he's a primary source, their last contemporary. Yes, he lies and manipulates, but he never does that without a reason and when he speaks from emotion is when there's a higher chance he slips up. So when he speaks of the Evanuris' evil, sadistic ways I believe him. When he says Andruil was also a goddess of sacrifice and Falon'din was so vain he instigated wars so more people would worship him as Guide of the Dead, I believe him. Mostly, I believe these people did things that angered him considerably, that he condemns their ways so badly that even thousands of years later and with them already dead and gone Solas can't keep his opinion of their character to himself.
So considering how Solas doesn't hold back talking the awful truth about the Evanuris I think there must be a reason why he has zero to say about three of them: Sylaise, June and Dirthamen.
While he insists they were all awful it's clear the ideals of those three may have been the most harmless -home, hearth and architecture, protection and preservation for Sylaise, arts and crafts, beauty for June, silence and secrets, privacy and confidentiality for Dirthamen...compared to vengeance, retribution, sacrifice and unethical science from the others..-
..and that reason for Solas to hold his tongue against those three may be that they contributed to his rebellion in secret, behind Elgar'nan's back.
Sylaise may have provided shelter -the Lighthouse- and medicine or other forms of protection, June may have provided his tech and filled the Dread Wolf's armories -as seen in Trespasser- and maybe Solas outsmarted him modifying the Vi'Revas as everyone thought or maybe June helped with the modifications himself, and Dirthamen may have aided with secrecy, for all we know maybe the reason the Lighthouse is hidden in the Fade is owed to a loan of Dirthamen's magic, concealing it from the enemy's eyes.
Why would some Evanuris join Solas' rebellion? For starters, Elgar'nan was a tyrant, and nobody really loves a tyrant, they get support from others for as long as it's convenient for them. Still, Elgar'nan was dangerous enough that maybe denying him publicly represented too great a risk to take, even for other accomplished Evanuris.
The murals in Veilguard interestingly enough hint at a sort of clique: Elgar'nan, Ghilan'nain and Andruil.
Mythal was the most decent among them and unaware of their breaking of the seals when these three released the Blight so she wasn't part of the gang, and Falon'din was probably too busy feeding his vanity with the blood of the innocent. So where does that leave the other three? Well, until BW comes out to say any different, I'm assuming they supported Solas in secret.
Particularly Dirthamen, perhaps he joined the rebellion out of love for his brother, seeing how his new ways fueled by Elgar'nan's ambition and the blight's power was turning him into a vain deathbringer rather than the friend and guide of the dead he used to be. As for the couple's reason to join Solas in secret i guess it would be all the senseless destruction of the war, and the corruption of their creations at the hand of the blight-addicted evanuris; all the war and infighting destroying their precious cities, turning their beatiful works of art and craftsmanship into empty tools for killing. For instance, June's artifact that we can see during one of Bellara's quests in Arlathan Forest, his "Tear", has the power to separate an object into its various components and it may have been originally meant to gather materials, but in the hands of Ghilan'nain it would have turned to a much darker purpose, used on living beings to get body parts for her own creations.
Veilguard also has way too many casual mentions of June as well peppered around, possibly more than in all three previous games combined. Heās responsible for the Eluvians -made from two fragments of lyrium which used to be one, so thatās how two eluvians connect to each other. June also designed the light beams we use in Arlathan and the Crossroads for some puzzle solving. And the crystals we use to energize some doors and bridges...basically June seems to have designed Elvhenanās whole tech and aesthetic. I couldnāt believe how all of a sudden he was the most mentioned Evanuris after the two that got out of the prison.
I always theorized that, due to how little protagonism and mentions they had, June and Sylayse may have been somewhat decent Evanuris. Most of their contributions were directly to the People, and to making everyday life a bit easier (medicine, shelter, tools, hunting). The couple are the most domestic of the group so it wouldn' be so weird they maybe cared for the people a bit more than the others. Solas insist they were all corrupted, sadistic, and freaking evil in their ways, and i'm sure Sylaise and June had their darker side (there's just enough on Veilguard to imply June may have used spirits for those beams of light and that's a bit creepy to think about). I've been keeping this inside since 2015 and i frankly never imagined Veilguard would have so much to add to it. Also, June's dragon was Urthemiel, the archdemon from the Fifth Blight, and its soul can be saved through Morrigan's ritual and if so, later extracted from Kieran by Flemeth in Inquisition. We still don't know where that soul ended up. All of a sudden June's become even more mysterious so there's a chance, however slim, that he could return somehow.
And as for Sylaise again, there's this codex in Veilguard and i want to focus on this part:
She was linked to someone only known as "the Healer", but this high-ranked ancient had their name magically erased from the records, apparently by order of no other than Elgar'nan. Just imagine who could elicit such a reaction from the Firstborn of the Elvhen. Surely someone known as a Healer is doing nothing wrong? Why bother erasing them from history like that? Unless...that was one of Solas' many titles.
This rang a bell so loud in my memory I just have to add it here, from Solas' Inquisition dialogue lines with Blackwall:
Solas:Ā I wish to apologize for what I said to you, Blackwall.
Blackwall:Ā You were right, though. I deserved it.
Solas:Ā My people had a saying long ago - "The healer has the bloodiest hands." You cannot treat a wound without knowing how deep it goes. You cannot heal pain by hiding it. You must accept. Accept the blood to make things better. You have taken the first step. That is the hardest part.
Oh yes, he was a healer alright. Remember Solas often speaks from personal experience and his own memories, but presenting it more objectively, he tells on himself a lot and i think that was one of such instances where he's actually talking about himself.
That Sylaise codex in Veilguard turned out to be more about this unknown healer than about Sylaise herself and i think that's also of note because Solas says it himself in the prologue, "The Veil is a wound inflicted upon this world. It must be healed"...and he's trying to heal it, he's the only one who can.
He is the Healer, and his hands are bloddied.
I hope in time we get more info on that period of Elvhenan and on the other Evanuris and we can answer all the questions, or most of them at least.
Okay but if Solas was 'The Healer', that actually explains why his tool is a dagger sharp enough to cut through basically reality itself and why his solution to the Titans was to cut away their selves while they dreamed.
The dagger is a scalpel. Tiny, precise incisions that have massive, life-saving (or life-ending) effects. A tool he would never trust someone like Elgar'nan with, because it would be so easy to turn it into a device of torture instead. And what would be kinder for the Titans than to wait til they slept and finish them then? Yes, their detached selves would become something terrible, but it would happen instantly. No suffering, no pain.
Euthanasia.
I'm gonna be thinking about this for MONTHS. Suddenly my whole understanding of that obnoxious egg is turned on its head.
The look of a man who must carry out something he believes he must do, while hating the cost. The look of a man dreading his next step. The look of the man leaving behind the people he grew fond of, despite himself. The look of a man who is leaving his heart behind.
āHaha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.ā
Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.
āY2K came to nothing amirite?ā
Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.
āRemember the hole in the ozone layer?ā
You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?
One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those āitās gonna be an apocalypseā disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.
The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.
And I still think thatās going to happen. I donāt know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope wonāt help bring it about.
And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.
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