love like a burning city in the breast

Making a seperate post of this because I don't know how this site works sometimes.

Ship Tournament, Round 2 — Match 3 / 15

Lae'zel/Wyll

"Lae’zel has the Vlaakith propaganda, the creche, the glorious destiny she was promised if she obeyed hard enough. Wyll has the Blade persona, the noble hero story, the pact he made when he was young and desperate and trying to save people. They’re very different people, but both of them know what it’s like to have your identity wrapped around duty until you barely know what you personally want. I’d love them post-game especially, when Lae’zel is learning what freedom means and Wyll is trying to live as more than the role everyone projects onto him. They’d argue constantly, but I think there’d be so much respect there. Wyll admires courage. Lae’zel respects action over empty words. They would both see the real thing in each other."

vs. Dammon/Karlach

"Dammon totally has a crush on her, he always smiles so cutely at her, Karlach can (could?) fantasize about him in her origin run, they're both total sweethearts, need I say more?"

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if it's going to make sense, then i think we'd need to see each memory increasing shadowheart's frustration and longing to know more. these scraps are tantalising and unsatisfying--her parents will know the whole truth.

but that would then imo require the resolution being that her parents actually knew her for a very brief period of her life when she was very young. they don't have some inherent, profoundly truthful knowledge of her because of their shared blood (and i am desperate to meet the writer who feels like THEIR PARENTS understand them more profoundly than anyone else they've met in life since). they've seen more of her acting like a sharran than acting like her "true" self (as of age 8). the life they'd built for her was one she was on the brink of beginning to outgrow. they don't have the answers either.

✨ first light, astarion and the star of bethlehem - a flower that represents hope and forgiveness, purity and new beginnings.