Something I didn't realise the first time I watched it – and that made me feel much better about the whole thing – is that it's actually Solas who kisses Lavellan, not the other way around!
I slowed this down so you can better see that she stops before kissing him and it's him that closes the distance.
And it's hard to see because of the classic Bioware bad camera framing and all the black archdemon gunk on his mouth, but he is actively moving his lips as he kisses her and leans in.
I'm feeling insane about them and I need to get the flycam mod immediately.
Just realized one of the rituals in The Temple of Mythal has Fen’Harel statues all over it. and it’s the most complicated one.
Solas, you ass. That gate trips me up every time. It’s the only puzzle I can never complete on the first run.
Things Tranquility does:
Cuts you off from the Fade
Prevents you from doing magic
Sunders you from your emotions
Things Tranquility does not do:
Affect your intelligence
Render you incapable of reasoning
Turn you into a subservient, mindless drone
Cause lapses in judgement
Get rid of your morals and beliefs
Cleanse you of opinions, prejudice, or preconceptions
Make you immune to posession
Make you less of a person
Our new mommy figure, AHHHHH!!! I don't know what else to say here except that I am READY TO MEET HER!!!
I've got Internet problems so I wasn't able to upload this one to Redbubble, but everything else is there right now!
Prompts for Veiltober by @lynnerdo as always!!
Just thinking about the scene with Solas and Lavellan where she tells him he doesn’t have to go alone, and he replies where he is going is terrible.
Yes, it’s a warning. But it is also disbelief she could want to follow him somewhere terrible. That she would still want to be with him, despite where he must go. Why would she choose freely to go somewhere terrible? For him? The concept is foreign to him.
The last time he loved someone, Mythal, he asked her to leave everything she knew behind to join him, and she refused. He did that very thing for her, but she would not do the same for him. He made her a place for her to be comfortable, and she never saw it.
Solas has nothing to offer Lavellan. No castle to gift her, no place for her to be comfortable. He is at his lowest. He is going somewhere terrible. He only has empty, bloody hands to give.
I’m reminded of that scene from Little Women (1994) when Professor Bhaer tells Jo, “But I have nothing to give you. My hands are empty.” Jo takes his hands in hers and says, “Not empty now.”
Lavellan does much the same. She reaches for his hands, bloody as they are. She tells him it won’t be terrible if he is with her. They make this journey together, always. She doesn’t need anything else. He is enough. Their love is enough. There is no fate but the love they share.
Why would she choose freely to go somewhere terrible? Because she loves him. It’s True Love. The kind that only can exist in stories. Good thing we’re in one.
doodlin the lad while Not at ECCC table L-23 😂😭😭
can't wait to set up tomorrow during the middle of the con!!!! (despair)
I absolutely ADORE the way you draw Solas, I'm absolutely in love 🥺🥺🥺
Aahhhhh thank you so much! Here’s a Solas wip for you 💖
Fear, like every emotion, is a powerful thing.
May The Dreadwolf Take You
An attempt at the fresco style paintings from DA:I
Boop!