Blackwall romance vs. Cullen romance - The Winter Palace
In the cutscene episodes I’m making for myself, I have both of these scenes in as if they’re not two separate playthroughs. (lol, I have two different characters in them as twins as if they’re in the same story, so...)
I just love the juxtaposition of these two romances, especially knowing the kind of character Evynne is.
She absolutely loathes the idea that people think of her as the chosen one. She wants no part in it, hates that it wasn’t her choice, but despite that she wants to help and will try to use the power it gives her to change things for the better.
But the burden of it weighs heavily on her, to the point where she feels as if she’s disappearing.
And as much as she cares for Blackwall, the second he told her “Whoever you were is gone”, it sealed the deal for whatever relationship they could have had. She stays with him after that, but her heart is not in it.
Not only because it’s already with Cullen, which she is not remotely ready to deal with due to him being a former Templar, but also because Blackwall doesn’t really see her.
He sees the Herald, the Chosen, the Inquisitor. He all but worships her. And he’s hiding something and playing games, which she makes clear she hates.
Even here, at the end of the Winter Palace quest, he talks about her being a hero and how many men and women want time with her. And she just cannot handle it. He admits she’s earned time for herself then asks her to dance. And she just feels like an object, yet again.
Then, Cullen comes outside. He talks to her as a person in her own right, not the product of some magic gone wrong which has now made her the object on which the fate of the world depends.
He asks how she is, confesses he was worried about her. And then, with that shy damn smile, he admits he might never get another chance to ask her to dance. Knowing how much he loathes dancing. And it just brings joy to my heart to hear how immediate and eager her “of course!” is. It actually made me emotional.
I knew when she started with Blackwall that she was going to end up with Cullen, but I couldn’t have begun to imagine how organically it would actually develop like that - how actually perfect Cullen and Evynne are together.
This is one long-ass post to cry about my Evynne and to say dEAR GOD I LOVE CuLLEN SO SO SO SO SOOOO MUCH.
