Solas Is Loki, Eros, The Last Unicorn, A Damsel In Distress, The Beast Husband In Every Fairytale, Oppenheimer,

But the greatest tragedy of veilguard is mythal just looking like some chick.

A mortal old biddy rocked up in a skin tight studded corset, a feather capelet, plate sleeves and hair styled to look like dragon's horns.

Meanwhile a fully conscious fragment of the actual prime, Mythals like

'Hi, I'm Kimberleigh.'

Idk. Maybe this particular fragment of Mythal didn't come with fashion sense software. It was Flemeth's fragment that evidently remembered having remembered that 'hey i was a fucking god, I can look as cool as I like.'

Edit: or as someone else put it, a dollar store angry!Galadriel.

I see people on reddit argue that as a fragment she doesn't have the bandwidth to choose anything but understated clothes and I'm like, sister, she can TURN INTO A DRAGON in that form and kick your ass to kingdom come, you're telling me she has no power to choose to wear skinny jeans with knee high boots and a plain summer coat?

But then the Inquisitor walks out of the shadows in their jammies like the only thing missing is a 'i hate mondays' coffee mug so...

At my most bitter, it genuinely feels like they just did not Know how to write the elves in a way that wouldn't invite discourse (i.e, they didn't know how to write their struggle compassionately. or they didn't want to.) So when they realized that they were getting highly criticized for increasingly treating them like disposable punching bags, they decided to just write them as little as possible. Which feels like the height of incompetency to me, but that's where we're at.

Like how (at least it feels to me) they took out the Chantry from the story entirely when they got criticized for (in Inquisition) constantly giving the Chantry a pass for their genuinely evil history. They'd rather not write it at all than criticize it.

I want to believe that there were writers on staff who genuinely cared about these things, but they either left in development or lost influence on the final product to people who only cared about getting better optics.

let me share with you this post i reblogged a few days ago that has stayed with me ever since

“I cannot kill the blight, but I can help to soothe its anger. I will go and seek atonement”

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I just love the identical shit-eating grin that the companions get when you find that naked guard tied to Celene's bed - these two especially.

They're just living for the messy drama and I am here for it.

Solas/Elvhen murals 🥰🥰🥰

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.

The Last Unicorn Elvhen

"You’d murder countless people?"

"Wouldn’t you, to save your own?"

I MISS THIS!! THE DILEMMA OF EVERYTHING

Dev quotes on Solas from the PAX panel

(Rewatch panel here)

Solas was a challenge for us [re: design, translation] because it was very important to us to make sure that he was interpreted as a very kind person.. that everybody in the world mattered to him, how they were treated, to try and get that across…

Solas is sympathetic and hunky

Solas is never looking where the other characters are looking [in concept art]. He’s looking at you [the Inquisitor]. He is intrigued by you.

URGENT!!!!! can anyone find the image from the art book of an inquisitor's gloved hand reaching out to pet a small dread wolf's snout???? i can see it so clearly in my mind but cant find it in my tags and @kraujuota must witness it