#leanathy

Tagged by @thevikingwoman @idrelle-miocovani and @dreadhobo. Sorry this took so long. Thank you!!

Revasan Lavellan

Revasan appreciates when those around him signal their trust in him. Despite his general emotional stoicism, particularly in high pressure situations, he’s actually a pretty open book in private conversation and is willing to open up and share his feelings with those he trusts. As a natural extrovert, he actually thrives on the ability to communicate his emotions and to share and even debate his concerns and ideas, and he will even search it out at times. He is very sensitive, it’s just well-hidden and very few people get to see this side of him. In the end, being a good listener is great, but sharing your own insecurities, fears, and ideas with him, the way he is willing to share with you, means a GREAT deal to him. If you confide in him, he will be your friend forever. 

Leanathy

Lea’s love languages have changed a lot over the course of her massively long and eventful life so far. When she was young, and just married to Marin, Solas’s father, she was deeply beholden to him romantically, and anything he did to communicate his simple appreciation of her would make her weak and thankful. She liked hearts and flowers, magic tricks. She was a sucker for his intelligence and his easy charm. After Solas was born, his attentiveness to her as a human that he loved and needed, independent of her identity as a “mother” also drew her deeply. She did not need much when she was happy. A little like Sene, she was easy to please.

After Marin died, and as she got older, Lea became very difficult to communicate with, but what she appreciated were Solas’s acknowledgments of her as an emotional individual, and not just, again, as a mother. She hid much of her emotional distress from Solas, but as an empathetic child and a sensitive young man (despite his bluster), he always made it a point to ask her if she was okay and to reassure her that he was okay. He also took care of her emotionally in ways he instinctively knew she needed, which were leftover from his father. Magic tricks, butterflies, all these things that sort of hurt her but also reassured her deeply that Marin was not fully dead, that he still lived in some way, through Solas, their creation. Solas did these things on purpose, with the goal of comforting her. They weren’t the most touchy-feely of mother/son duos growing up, but they did their best.

Quick doodle of a young Leanathy, with one of Marin’s butterflies.

Leanathy and Marin are Solas’s parents in The Dead Season. <3

Sene Lavellan: Spring | Summer | Fall | Winter

Ghilan’nain: Summer | Fall | Winter

Leanathy: Summer | Fall | Winter

Inspired by @thevikingwoman, @bearlytolerablethethird, and @ellstersmash 

Thank you for the tags @thevikingwoman and @dreadhobo <3

Bold always or almost always applies. Italic occasional or situational.

I’ll start with my Lavellan father/daughter duo, then I also did Young Solas, Solas’s mother Leanathy, and Mythal.

Sene Lavellan

aggressive | arrogant | authoritarian | bitter | brutal | callous | cannibal | careless | cold/cold-hearted | compulsive | controlling | corrects others constantly | cowardly | critical | cruel | delusional | demanding | disillusioned | domineering | envious | emotionally stunted | greedy | grim | guarded | hard | harsh | hypocritical | impatient | impolite | intimidating | irritable | kidnapper | lazy | liar | lustful | materialistic | mean | merciless | messianic | mistrusting | murderer | narrow-minded | obsessive | opinionated | over-bearing | over-critical | over-emotional | over-thinking | patronizing | proud | remote | repressed | rigid | rules with an iron fist | ruthless | sarcastic | self-righteous | self-indulgent | serial killer | taciturn | torturer | touchy | traitorous | unsympathetic | unpredictable | uptight | vain | vengeful

Revasan Lavellan

aggressive | arrogant | authoritarian | bitter | brutal | callous | cannibal | careless | cold/cold-hearted | compulsive | controlling | corrects others constantly | cowardly | critical | cruel | delusional | demanding | disillusioned | domineering | envious | emotionally stunted | greedy | grim | guarded | hard | harsh | hypocritical | impatient | impolite | intimidating | irritable | kidnapper | lazy | liar | lustful | materialistic | mean | merciless | messianic | mistrusting | murderer | narrow-minded | obsessive | opinionated | over-bearing | over-critical | over-emotional | over-thinking | patronizing | proud | remote | repressed | rigid | rules with an iron fist | ruthless | sarcastic | self-righteous | self-indulgent | serial killer | taciturn | torturer | touchy | traitorous | unsympathetic | unpredictable | uptight | vain | vengeful

Young Solas (20-something)

aggressive | arrogant | authoritarian | bitter | brutal | callous | cannibal | careless | cold/cold-hearted | compulsive | controlling | corrects others constantly | cowardly | critical | cruel | delusional | demanding | disillusioned | domineering | envious | emotionally stunted | greedy | grim | guarded | hard | harsh | hypocritical | impatient | impolite | intimidating | irritable | kidnapper | lazy | liar | lustful | materialistic | mean | merciless | messianic | mistrusting | murderer | narrow-minded | obsessive | opinionated | over-bearing | over-critical | over-emotional | over-thinking | patronizing | proud | remote | repressed | rigid | rules with an iron fist | ruthless | sarcastic | self-righteous | self-indulgent | serial killer | taciturn | torturer | touchy | traitorous | unsympathetic | unpredictable | uptight | vain | vengeful

Leanathy

aggressive | arrogant | authoritarian | bitter | brutal | callous | cannibal | careless | cold/cold-hearted | compulsive | controlling | corrects others constantly | cowardly | critical | cruel | delusional | demanding | disillusioned | domineering | envious | emotionally stunted | greedy | grim | guarded | hard | harsh | hypocritical | impatient | impolite | intimidating | irritable | kidnapper | lazy | liar | lustful | materialistic | mean | merciless | messianic | mistrusting | murderer | narrow-minded | obsessive | opinionated | over-bearing | over-critical | over-emotional | over-thinking | patronizing | proud | remote | repressed | rigid | rules with an iron fist | ruthless | sarcastic | self-righteous | self-indulgent | serial killer | taciturn | torturer | touchy | traitorous | unsympathetic | unpredictable | uptight | vain | vengeful

Mythal

aggressive | arrogant | authoritarian | bitter | brutal | callous | cannibal | careless | cold/cold-hearted | compulsive | controlling | corrects others constantly | cowardly | critical | cruel | delusional | demanding | disillusioned | domineering | envious | emotionally stunted | greedy | grim | guarded | hard | harsh | hypocritical | impatient | impolite | intimidating | irritable | kidnapper | lazy | liar | lustful | materialistic | mean | merciless | messianic | mistrusting | murderer | narrow-minded | obsessive | opinionated | over-bearing | over-critical | over-emotional | over-thinking | patronizing | proud | remote | repressed | rigid | rules with an iron fist | ruthless | sarcastic | self-righteous | self-indulgent | serial killer | taciturn | torturer | touchy | traitorous | unsympathetic | unpredictable | uptight | vain | vengeful

Chapter 62: Rites of Solemnity

Excerpt:

“How do you feel?” Deshanna said to Solas. “You look good.”

“Thank you,” said Solas. “I feel good. I feel impatient.”

Deshanna smiled at this. “Yes, I can sense that.” He brought his chair forward, just a little. All around them, the tall, yellow grasses rustled in the breeze. “Which part makes you most impatient, Solas?”

“Everything,” said Solas, staring at Deshanna with perfect courage. “I am in a hurry today. I have not been in a hurry in a very long time. You can imagine the discomfort.”

“Why do you think you are in a hurry.”

“I miss her,” he said, plain as day. “I haven’t seen her since yesterday afternoon. Today is our wedding.”

“You are in a hurry to see your bride?”

“Yes, sir.”

(Keep Reading at AO3)

Chapter 60: Pioneers

Fire and Window. Pride and Sorrow. Earth and Storm.

Excerpt:

Girls like presents, Solas told him once. They like the little things. They’d been drinking whiskey in some old bar casino called the Pale Dreaming on Winter Street. It had never closed, not even after the city went to shit, and they sat there, as they so often did, looking at the candles in the shapes of trees on the walls, wearing their matching vallaslin of the woman who loved them. Solas was always on about gifts with Abelas. Gifts, gifts. It was no secret, but it was a secret weapon.

Little things. Like your butterflies? said Abelas. He was eighteen and in some ways, wise to the world and its shitty disposition. In others, he was very green and very eager. Solas was twenty-four. I’ve seen you make butterflies for Mythal.

Yes, you have, said Solas. He snapped his fingers. A butterfly came to life in the air. It was small and pink but translucent, like the blue light from a candle. The serving girl, she stopped to regard its cool and crystalline grace. Like the city itself.

That’s lovely, she said.

Solas smiled. She passed.

The butterflies are just an example, said Solas as the butterfly slipped away into the ether. It can be anything. It can be a piece of paper. It’s just a symbol. What matters is that it is from you.

What matters is that it is from you. Abelas had always liked paper.

(Keep Reading at AO3)

Tagged by @katalyna-rose (and sort of @thevikingwoman) to make my OCs in this elven doll maker. Thank you!!

Here’s Sene Lavellan, Ghilan’nain, and Solas’s mother Leanathy. I think it worked best for Ghil, though I found it impossible to make Mythal with this one for some reason?

Hey all,

Teen Wolf will soon be coming to an end. It is not the end for my dear young Solas as far as storytelling goes, but in terms of his innocent years living as a teenager in a pre-war Arlathan--I feel that it is time to move on.

So to all of my dear readers, if there is anything left that you would like to see--for Solas and Ghilan’nain (nineteen years old) and/or Solas’s mother Leanathy, please send me a prompt! I can’t guarantee I will fill them all, but I will do my best to include each request in about two more short stories before the end. 

Thanks again to my small but wonderful readership. This has always been a prompt-driven endeavor, and it’s because of you and your encouragement that I have gotten to know Solas so well, as I envision him, and I’ve invented characters and a world that I now love so dearly, I’m compelled to let it mature. I plan to continue the story, bringing it into slightly more adult territory, very soon. But in the meantime, whatever else you’d like to see--however specific or however vague--pertaining to Solas in the end of his teenage years, please don’t hesitate to let me know. 

All the love,