Double Pawns
There is something I can’t get out of my head about Cullen’s chess match with the Inquisitor…
So if you let him win, Cullen obviously wins…
If you play fair the Inquisitor wins…
But if you cheat Cullen wins…
When I really thought about it, it made me think about how Cullen is a commander, he is a strategist by trade… And he even reveals that he practiced countlessly with his brother to get good at chess. So why on Makers good earth is it that when you play fair the Inquisitor wins… and this is the only option where she wins as well…
I suddenly realised the answer is in his response, “we shall have to try again sometime.” He smiles with a hint of blush, with a soft voice that he only ever reserved for her. It was then I realised that in the same way you can ‘let Cullen win,’ he also lets the Inquisitor win in hopes of ‘spending more time together.’
Of course this is just my interpretation of it after thinking about it over and over again. Im sure other people might have different interpretations of it… but for me the answer is so clearly exposed in his dialogue and facial expressions.
Excuse me while I rewrite my whole chess chapter in my long fic… This man is too much for my hopeless romantic heart 🥹
On a side note, I also love the fade to black there is between the chess scene and the first kiss scene. I know some people complain about it but it creates so much freedom about how they could have ‘spent more time together,’ and your imagination is the only limitation to what could have happened that lead to their first kiss 🥹😭💕
