This Shit is Weird and Other Tales

CRITICAL ROLE GIF MEME

→ [3/6] scenes: Scanbo, “Gunpowder Plot Part 1,” Episode 31

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Ok, but at a cautionary distance.

underthehedge submitted: 

Solas greatly approves.

Featuring @jessicapendragon beautiful Keela Lavellan ❤️ based on this post!

Yes! And Mage Lavellan, as First (like Merrill), likely literally wears a magical sylvanwood ring inscribed with the story of his Great Betrayal purely and specifically to remind her never to trust the Dread Wolf and to always be on guard and protect her clan against him. So she’s just like... unknowingly doing the absolute worst at her job. The worst of any First, ever.

But also, because she’s LITERALLY transforming this estranged and resented god’s view of the world, drawing his attention from the Fade, loving him, trusting him, supporting him, she’s actually doing a better job at protecting her people than any other Keeper in the history of the Dalish. Instead of exiling his statues, lonely outside Lavellan’s camp to frighten harmful spirits, she invites him in to stay—all of her camps in the Emerald Graves have a huge statue of him right at the center—for the first time he’s fully, actually welcomed in a Dalish camp.

He is hilarious and heartrending throughout, wrong-footed and strangely shamed by being fully trusted and valued and honored and loved. According to his role in the stories, he’s supposed to hate and try to destroy the clever First because her heart is good and he hates good People (or: keep focused and not be distracted by her beauty from fulfilling his duty to the People). But... she pursues the great hunter, and she loves him, and so he loves her. And they transform each other. They somehow make it past that mythological divide that should have made it impossible to love each other.

It’s just... fantastic. Absolutely beautiful. DELICIOUS FOOD. Romance beyond romance. I love this story.

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