How would Varric handle an Inquisitor who sides with Solas?
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Lou, I had to chew on this one, and honestly, I think at one point, this was something on the table outside of draft sketches. Lavellen’s lines do not start out in iambic pentameter. Rather, Solas is the one speaking in stressed iambs.
Elisa, why are you talking about narration and literary devices? Well because Lavellan was a device. I preach that everything is borrowed from your power, to the theme of music, to eventually the style in which Lavellan speaks, as now they are speaking in stressed iambs. These small things I pick at make me think, oh it was always in the in the cards, it was always right there in front of them. However, Solas is in a martyr state - if I am the one who did this, it must be me, I alone can undo the hurt I caused. It’s a very Shakespearean take, also all iambs. Push the lover away, be scorned, do it on your own, and yet, with tragedy, there is still love.
Okay, so the real question - how would Varric react if we got the choice - well, I don't think we'd get much of a public reaction as his reaction to Solas, which was the: “I disagree, I hate it here - I will now chase you for ten years.” With Inky, it would be much of the same, perhaps a little more pressing on them than Solas, as Varric would see them as the emotional reason, not the right way to see it - but I digress. Varric is used to people betraying him; it happens often enough that he canonically jokes about when the next time it will happen ( wait, old man ). I think he would write every letter he could get ahold of every contact he knew he could, and even put down his own story and pause his own life to chase two others who are very much worth it. Yet he hurts; he is very much hurt.
Now, since you asked this question, I must answer in the space of Dhavi and Solas, so buckle up. Varric considers Dhavi family; it is gutting to him to see Dhavi choose this, and it is more letters than he ever thought he would write; he doesn't have Charter - as Charter went with her, so it would be the Viscount of Kirkwall looking and scrounging through papers and missives from Harding, and anyone else he ended up employing to find her. He is distraught and doesn't understand, and he would like to hear her out; he needs to even. He's lost so much in his life at that point; Bartrand is gone, Hawke likely as well, now some of the people he held onto as close as possible are also smoke in the wind, ghosts to the breeze, and he can't help, he can't understand, and he can't even dream to try to reason - to reason with either of them, as he does still think Solas is worth it as well, that is not a matter of question really.
So he moves, the man who loses everything, continues to move and seek the sun.
