in the fade's embrace

Quick and Dirty Varric Tethras... WAIT NOT LIKE THAT

(God, I love Procreate. Took some time to get used to it but now, it feels super comfortable to draw on an iPad)

They didn't keep him as a love interest because they knew people were not going to be normal about him. And look at me, not being normal about him. He's completely my type.

also me after posting a fic *refreshes ao3 every five minutes*

Just how long have you been wanting to do that?

shoutout to The Missing comic btw where Teia hears Varric talk about Solas and goes "wait so did you hunt this guy or fuck this guy" and varric goes "no comment"

The two people in the whole world who woke up and discovered the world was not as they thought it was.

Your typical MGiT will come in not knowing how the fuck they got there but trapped and forced into becoming something they never wanted. And it gives them the chance to change things for better or for worse. They engage with the system as is because they are forced to, but they do the best they can to remake the world in their image and with their ideals and beliefs. And they engage with the people in the world as people despite knowing they were once nothing more than pixels on a screen.

Solas wakes up to the world he created and knows he must do something similar, but refuses to engage with the way the world works now. He seeks to destroy it, to bring back the good parts of the past while eliminating the bad. And he cannot allow himself to see the people in the world that he created as people because to do so would invite a guilt and shame that would only stop him from doing what he believes to be right.

(original exchange borrowed from @riverlarking post)