Pigment and Plaster: Solavellan smut

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Elia Lavellan watches as Solas paints another fresco. Her gaze catches on his hands, pale with splashes of plaster, his fingers long and elegant and grasping the brush just so. His sleeves are pushed up to his elbows, and she admires the tracing of his veins along the lean lines of his forearms.

Her quixotic lover will toil all night to render a masterpiece in full, but when the candlelight burns low, she discovers that Solas keeps a store of energy for something more than painting.

(Image credit to Dumped, Drunk and Dalish.)

(Sorry, it’s me again. Hope I’m not bothering you) Alright so I finally gave into temptation and read the last few chapters of your frozen wilds fic. All other fantastic points aside (which, of course, there was a lot of) I can’t help but snicker at your wording that last chapter. The interactions with Opili, Aloys weird behavior… Dont lie you fiend. You were setting up a baby fic. There’s NO WAY Aloy took her mother’s bane over those crazy weeks in the auxillary core.

@problematic-cinnamon-roll… HAHAHA WHY YOU GOTTA CALL ME OUT LIKE THAT

For real though, I might have ideas for how a Niloy baby fic would go. I might even have a rough outline for what it would be like. it’s possible. No guarantees. But whether I ever actually write it depends on what happens with the sequel, so…. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 

As for the mother’s bane while in the auxiliary core? Ikrie brought it for her, of course!! What kind of friend would Ikrie be if she didn’t remind Aloy to take her birth control when her husband is dying of pneumonia?? 😂

Thanks for the ask! You make me laugh too much!! xoxo

How likely do you think it is that we’ll see more of Nil in a Horizon sequel game? At first I thought it was a no brainier, duh, he’s one of the best NPCs! But then I considered that his fate is left to players choice, so bringing him back could cause some continuity issues 😣 I’d really like to get more interactions with him (and of course more Nil/Aloy dialogue) but I’m soooo nervous they’ll leave him out of any sequel games

Great question, and one that I also have @problematic-cinnamon-roll!

Honestly… I’m also worried that Nil won’t be in the sequel, given that he can be killed. Guerilla released a really cool infographic on the one-year anniversary of the game which showed the percentage of players who spared vs. killed Nil, and Nil was spared in 54% of playthroughs. 

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That’s not much more than half the time… so I wonder whether the writers would be willing to invest time in continuing Nil’s mini-narrative or character development if he’s dead in half of the fandom’s playthroughs.  (Keep in mind I’m not sure exactly how they obtained these stats, especially given that people have multiple playthroughs and even I killed Nil one time JUST TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THEN I IMMEDIATELY RELOADED AND SAVED HIS FINE ASS OK)

That being said, it’s clear that the writers for his character had something intriguing in mind for his backstory. There’s his poetic vagueness about his past, and there’s Janeva having an odd degree of sympathy for him even though she clearly prefers the Old Way of Carja Justice (i.e. death sentence lol), and there are those soldiers who comment about him when you find him before the final battle:

Guard 1: Isn’t that… him? From the Battle of the Daunt?
Guard 2: Can’t be. Cinnabar Sands was before that, and there were no survivors. 
Nil: Well, I don’t like to boast…
Guard 1: Oh Sun, keep the Shadow from falling upon me. 

TL;DR – I’m also worried that Nil won’t be in the sequel. However, I think there’s so much potential for him in the sequel, since there’s clearly more to him than meets the eye, and obviously I would love (L O V E) to see him show up.

And if he doesn’t show up, I’ll just host an online grieving party and we can all cry together.   

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LET’S TALK SOLAS’ FRESCOES

Solas’ paintings… are not just paintings. They are frescoes.
I tend to be silently bothered by fanfic or fanart of Lavellan or others
related to him “helping” him paint, drawing cute little smileys or something on
them because he would never in a million years would allow that to happen. It’s
a sweet mental image, very cute and fun, and several of them are hilarious, don’t
get me wrong, but I have trouble reconciling those with the frescoes he does.

The rest is under a Read More because this is seriously long.

Keep reading

Reblogging for Solas and His Interests Day for Solas Positivity Week because I seriously couldn’t come up with anything to top what I did here (I did try).

This… is all kinds of inspiring. Damn, Fen’Harel.

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Solavellan Angst and Smut

Read on AO3: Outside the Realm 

When Elia Lavellan finally finds the Dread Wolf, he’s not what she expects. Or perhaps he’s just not what she hopes.

He glances over his cloaked shoulder at her. “You should stop searching for me,” he says.

“Fuck you,” she hisses.

He looks down at her sharply, his hands folded behind his back. “Words are powerful, vhenan. Do not say what you do not mean.”

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This is a short oneshot that was meant to help me process my feelings after Trespasser but it backfired and now I’m even sadder. Oops. 

Angst, arguing, sex and sadness. Sorry in advance.

Pull in the body to twist
The thighs, the heels, the hips
Constellation markings
Across your body, drawings

Telephone rings
But we’ll just let it sing
Hide out ‘till tomorrow
I crawl into your shadow

I don’t mind, I don’t mind
This wasted, shaded daylight

– “Wasted Daylight” by Stars 

Thank you SO MUCH to the ever-talented @nsfwfrosch for this ko-fi sketch of Aloy and Nil. I will never NOT commission something when you do those events ❤️

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Many of these, especially the top one, inspired by @pikapeppa’s wonderful fic series, “The World and All It’s Lessons: A Song of Aloy and Nil”. It’s such an amazing read, I really recommend it, especially if you’re into longfics and slow burn!

By the Sun, I’m so pleased and DELIGHTED that you loved my series so much!! Thank you so much for the rec!

Link to the full series is here… in case anyone has a bunch of time on their hands… 😂