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as tumblr @kreebby​ notes, solas first pulls lavellan’s hips to his. really, though, it’s more like he slams her to him? he’s that horny. i had to slow the gif quite a bit.

two different angles for the thigh-riding for y’all. for some reason, i assumed the dipping wasn’t as deliberate as it was desperate. i was wrong. as we can see, it was deliberate. he literally bends lavellan to a position where she’s perfectly situated to ride him. any lift of his thigh is minor, as he only needs to apply a little more pressure.

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Old practice.

no I will never be over Solavellan

I had the honor of writing about Athelas and Solas’s first time together for a trade with @hansaera (who is a fantastic artist that you should absolutely be following/commissioning/supporting on Patreon)! Here is the result :D I am so glad you love it, dear Saera <3

Pairing: Athelas Lavellan x Solas

Rating: Mature/Explicit - kind of right on that fuzzy line

Summary: Athelas is used to people who leave, and expects Solas to at any moment - right up until the moment when he stays.

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Athelas was used to people that left her.

Her mother, her father.

Her whole clan would have left her if they had the chance. She was sure of it. Who needed someone so cursed?

She was used to nightmares, too. Wolves right at her heels, teeth bared - the sound of their snapping and snarling. Water rushing over her head, lungs closing up, refusing to breathe, darkness closing in. People chasing her the way the wolves did, as if she was an animal, as if she was prey, as if she was not fit to live -

Athelas was used to both of those things - but Solas was not.

It bothered him that she thought so little of herself, that she could not understand why he thought so highly of her. It bothered him that when he came to see her in the Fade he often had to dispel a nightmare first. It was okay if he didn’t understand. He was only one more person who was going to leave, after all. They’d danced around each other since the Fade, since she blurted out that she had feelings for him, since he kissed her on the balcony. Of course it was inevitable that he would dance away.

They shared a tent in the field sometimes, though. More out of practicality than anything else. And, she suspected, because it wasn’t entirely private. You could always hear the campfire and the insects and the birds, and whoever was on watch. She didn’t know why Solas would only allow them both the comfort of warm arms and whispered words before good night when they were in camp - but there was so much she didn’t know about men, and relationships.

It was because of this habit of sharing a tent that Solas first witnessed one of her nightmares in person.

"You could have saved her... you're worse than anything locked up down there. One day, I'll have the chance to save you, and I'll watch you suffer and die."

"I won't do it. You can't make me. You like to think you're a hero, but you're the biggest monster of all."

"This is my fault... I am responsible for this."

"I brought you here to heal you... so we could be together."

*watching GDL's scenes in the tv show Torchwood and Imagining Scenes In Your Mind

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The truth is: he is always Fen'harel, and he is always Solas. We know more, and we know he has been lying, but, I often see people talk about Solas' deviations from "sad fade guy" in Inquisition as the mask slipping, but I look at those moments as elements of character. No one is just "sad fade guy" (I would argue Solas isn't that either but that's a whole other conversation). And the moments when Solas attacks the mages, or relaxes at the ball, or when he argues with blackwall about a soldier's duty. Those are all moments where, yes, he reveals more than he should of the self he's pretending not to be, but that is simply Solas. That is the reality of him that were seeing. His past, his passions, his compassion. He is more a scholar than he a vengeance-filled rebellion leader. His heart lies in wisdom and history and the course of things but it recognizes and feels injustice.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk to Gareth David-Lloyd (Solas' voice actor) during a Swedish convention. Here's some of the things he said about his work on Dragon Age (that I remember!)

He's not entirely happy with the writing of The Veilguard. "But that's what happens when there's too many cooks" (paraphrasing) and when all the original people disappear from the project (like the layoffs). He said something about how when passing on the project to other people (writers) there's sure to be some lost information or different interpretations.

He didn't know more about Solas than the player did during Inquisition. He just thought Solas was a mysterious companion that disappeared. He only learned more when he got the script for Trespasser (and his reaction to getting all the info from Trespasser was "this is awesome")

I asked how he prepared for the role of Solas the first time he got the role, compared to when he came back for The Veilguard, and one thing he did for The Veilguard was just to play Inquisition several times (which ofc he "had the time for since it took years for The Veilguard to come out" (paraphrasing)). The third time he played Inquisition he romanced Solas, which was "a fun experience".

He hasn't finished playing The Veilguard because he's playing on his son's ps5 and doesn't always have the opportunity to play. He received a free code for the game, but for pc, and he doesn't have a gaming pc (if I recall correctly).