if there's one thing the breeding kink discourse taught me, it is that most of you aren't weird enough to handle solas. i'm taking him off your hands. solas dragon age is my character now and i decide that he's a freak. i decide that he's a slut and a freak and that he is capable of doing bad shit with bad intentions.
solas did drag a low approval inquisitor to the eluvian by the arm and shut it off to dismember them most traumatically. he did that shit and he was swinging his hips as he did so.
solas will sometimes bite into something particularly crunchy and think fondly of times he was in his dread wolf form eating animals bones and all while they were still alive. he might even have a lil smile about it.
solas is of the persuasion that everyone around him is inferior to him, that the lives of everyone who survived his error hold so little value that he's willing to sacrifice countless of them. he has a prejudiced and highly racist remark for every inquisitor be they elven, qunari, human, or dwarven. solas is a cunt.
and yeah, this is the same cunt who protected a random wanderer who fell asleep between the paws of his statue. yup the very same as the one who goes "that was a kind thing you did" with the softest voice in the world if his companion goes out of their way to spread some stranger's ashes where they would have wanted. same dude as the one who beelines to offer his aid to hurt refugees at the crossroads in da:i. and yes it's the same freak who loves dancing and gossip and tiny cakes and painting and who calms cole down from a panic attack. he is all of those things at once.
but give me warlord!solas. give me the solas who followed a man for twelve years to drive him to madness with laughter. give me the solas who carves vallaslin into the faces of his foes when he kills them. show me the solas who faced mythal for the first time after betraying and rebelling against her. the solas who saw the first dwarves crawl from the titans and perceived them as being beneath him, as being the severed arm of a once mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood, undirected, whatever skill at arms it had gone forever? zoom in. enhance. rotate. this solas is just as true as the caring, wise, sad solas.
i'm not saying he's evil, i'm just saying that he's not a good man. he isn't. treating him as one and excusing his failures and crimes as exclusively poorly executed but well-intended mauls him. he's such a complex, multidimensional character and i wish people would stop woobifying and sanitising him because it is such a waste!!!!! it's such a waste!!!!! let him be freaky!!!!!
the number one thing i see in discourse about solas and his characterization is the absolute refusal to make him multi-faceted.
solas IS a bad person. solas ALSO has redeemable qualities. solas DOES like kind-hearted people who go out of their way to make the lives of those around them easier. solas ALSO is someone who has brutally killed multiple loved ones out of pure selfishness to complete his ultimate goal, a goal he deems far more important than the lives of the inhabitants of thedas.
you cannot say he is wholly good or wholly evil without stripping him of every last purposefully-placed piece of nuance that his writer(s) have given him. he is WEIRD. CONNIVING. MANIPULATIVE. solas is a FREAK WARLORD who has as many self-serving qualities as he does selfless ones.
his conflicting qualities are the absolute best thing about him, and sweeping every bad thing about him under the rug in favor of pretending like he is simply this kind, misguided, helpless soul does him absolutely no favors.
as fang said: it's such a waste! let him be freaky!!!!!
Op here's a loud speaker and a pedestal. I'm turning on live stream. Please tell the whole world about this. I cannot stress more how much I agree with this.
Give me the man who murders people in their sleep. Give me the wolf who fought in wars for centuries. Give me the ruthless trickster soaked in blood. Give me the arrogant god willing to sacrifice an entire world for his goals.
But also remember the proud elf that rebelled against tyrants and freed slaves. Remember the reserved scholar that painted your story because he believes it should be immortalized. Remember the gentle spirit who had fallen in love for the first time.
Pride and Wisdom are two sides of the same coin, just as every facet of Solas shines him in a new light.
He can be kind, but he can also be a monster. He can regret, but also he can be remorseless.
How did he describe himself? Young, hotblooded, and cocky. Always spoiling for a fight. This is him as much as the quiet apostate we traveled with.
Donāt forget the backhanded, racist compliment he gives Lavellan while confessing his love. Truly the man of all time.
I adore him to bits.
