The Highest One

CELO

[verb]

1. to hide, conceal, keep secret.

2. I hide (something from someone), cover, keep a secret, conceal.

Etymology: Latin cēlō.

Either you kissed Solas or punched him, according to the fandom. There’s literally no in between. Everyone focuses on the romance with Solas, acting like that’s the only way to have a true and fulfilling relationship with him and that sucks.

My Inquisitor was a male Lavellan and he befriended Solas, they were best of friends, big nerds. And it felt so natural and real, it didn’t feel forced. I’ve played most of the romance with my Lavellan’s sister to see and I’ve got to say…

The friendship route feels more authentic than the romance route. And do you know why? Because the romance route focuses way too much on cliche, overused tropes, so it made it feel liked forced fanservice, whereas a friendship with Solas grows and shapes more naturally through the game.

And it made me so happy as an asexual player. I play the romances and yeah, I get pulled into certain couples and that, no doubt. But I almost cried at the end of Trespasser just because of how close of a bond my Inquisitor had with Solas as just a friend. Your heart can be broken in a platonic way, too.

So when ya’ll are making your jokes about Solas and how Inquisitors felt about him, don’t forget some people’s Inquisitors had a very deep and very fulfilling friendship with him. 

There is the battle cry of an eagle in the heart of a songbird.

Ethial dresses up as something simple but recognizable (Dracula, Wizard, Cat, etc.) and awaits trick-or-treaters with barely-concealed delight. Runs out of candy super early in the evening because he keeps giving children two pieces of candy for particularly creative costumes, and the bar is extremely low for what “particularly creative” means. Has to send someone to go get more candy. Twice. Fenumin just leaves a bowl of candy out on his front porch with a sign that says “Take One.” Spends an otherwise quiet night in, alone and untroubled. …May call up Dacien ( @ofxelvhen ) to see what the family’s costumes look like this year. Halan almost definitely dresses up in some couple’s costume with Dacien, their personal favorite being anything that lets them be unabashedly pretty and frilly. Possibly hand-sews their own costumes if they have the time and can afford materials. After the two of them adopt kids, often they have whole family-themed costume sets - at least until the kids are old enough to protest and want to choose their own costumes.

Dirthamen just pays someone to hand out candy while he sleeps. Dirthamen may dress up and be a living Halloween decoration while he sleeps, if he’s feeling particularly mischievous that year. 

Sulahn enjoys seeing all of the costumes, and has Ethial’s problem of giving out too much candy - but she’s far better supplied than he is, as she knows perfectly well what she’s like. Makes special goodie bags for Dacien and Halan’s kids (and Dacien and Halan themselves), takes pictures of them every year. Sulahn herself usually dresses up, almost always as a witch, but the costume is never the same twice.

Ethial dresses up as something simple but recognizable (Dracula, Wizard, Cat, etc.) and awaits trick-or-treaters with barely-concealed delight. Runs out of candy super early in the evening because he keeps giving children two pieces of candy for particularly creative costumes, and the bar is extremely low for what “particularly creative” means. Has to send someone to go get more candy. Twice. Fenumin just leaves a bowl of candy out on his front porch with a sign that says “Take One.” Spends an otherwise quiet night in, alone and untroubled. …May call up Dacien ( @ofxelvhen ) to see what the family’s costumes look like this year. Halan almost definitely dresses up in some couple’s costume with Dacien, their personal favorite being anything that lets them be unabashedly pretty and frilly. Possibly hand-sews their own costumes if they have the time and can afford materials. After the two of them adopt kids, often they have whole family-themed costume sets - at least until the kids are old enough to protest and want to choose their own costumes.

Dirthamen just pays someone to hand out candy while he sleeps. Dirthamen may dress up and be a living Halloween decoration while he sleeps, if he’s feeling particularly mischievous that year. 

Sulahn enjoys seeing all of the costumes, and has Ethial’s problem of giving out too much candy - but she’s far better supplied than he is, as she knows perfectly well what she’s like. Makes special goodie bags for Dacien and Halan’s kids (and Dacien and Halan themselves), takes pictures of them every year. Sulahn herself usually dresses up, almost always as a witch, but the costume is never the same twice.

Do not use me as a meme/musing archive. If the only times I see you in my notifications are when you’re grabbing something and running, I will block you. Go to the source for the meme - or better yet, send me something. This is ten times more egregious if the meme is literally “send a symbol” or “send a word.”

I should clarify that reblogging things from me bothers me significantly less if you actually interact with me outside of this. Send me memes, chat with me, god forbid RP with me, and I have no issue whatsoever with you grabbing things now and then.

If you’re a crossover/multi-fandom blog, I probably won’t follow you back unless you actually interact with me, because I do want my dash to be primarily Dragon Age things. 

Spotify link to the whole playlist here.

Individual songs/YT links:

Elgar’nan: Arise, E.S. Posthumus

Mythal: In Caelum Fero, Adiemus

Falon’Din: Grimstone Manor, Arcana

Dirthamen: The Forbidden Sea, David Arkenstone

Andruil: Wolf Blood, Adrien Von Ziegler

Sylaise: Dulcis Amor, Qntal

June: Icarus, Mythos

Ghilan’nain: Deo’s Erotas, Daemonia Nymphe

Spotify link to the whole playlist here.

Individual songs/YT links:

Elgar’nan: Arise, E.S. Posthumus

Mythal: In Caelum Fero, Adiemus

Falon’Din: Grimstone Manor, Arcana

Dirthamen: The Forbidden Sea, David Arkenstone

Andruil: Wolf Blood, Adrien Von Ziegler

Sylaise: Dulcis Amor, Qntal

June: Icarus, Mythos

Ghilan’nain: Deo’s Erotas, Daemonia Nymphe