Fanfic writer with a passion for exploring romantic relationships // Fandoms: Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age // Fandom: Dragon Age, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect
A list of prompts for October. Write something short (or long) and tag it with #fictober18. Let’s see your creativity!
Prompts:
“Can you feel this?”
“People like you have no imagination.”
“How can I trust you?”
“Will that be all?”
“Take what you need.”
“I heard enough, this ends now.”
“No worries, we still have time.”
“I know you do.”
“You shouldn’t have come here.”
“You think this troubles me?”
“But I will never forget!”
“Who could do this?”
“Try harder, next time.”
“Some people call this wisdom.”
“I thought you had forgotten.”
“This is gonna be so much fun!”
“I’ll tell you but you’re not gonna like it.”
“You should have seen it.”
“Oh please, like this is the worst I have done.”
“I hope you have a speech prepared.”
“Impressive, truly.”
“I know how you love to play games.”
“This is not new, it only feels like it.”
“You knows this, you know this to be true.”
“Go forward, do not stray.”
“But if you cannot see it, is it really there?”
“Remember, you have to remember.”
“I felt it. You know what I mean.”
“At least it can’t get any worse.”
“Do we really have to do this again?”
“I’ve waited so long for this.”
Go forth and write!
This event is open to all fanfiction and original fiction.
Please specify at the top what it is (if you have an original project, don’t forget to link us to it) and in the case of fanfic tell us what fandom it is. I will reblog all here on @fictober18 .
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A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on august 1st 😊
I’ve been loving writing the relationship between these two in my Abelas/Lavellan series. I know it’s really up in the air how well they knew each other back in the day, but I like to imagine they were total bros in their youth, and things had to change as Solas became Mythal’s 2IC.
The card symbolizes Fate and Destiny with wisdom behind if you are able to understand its meaning. Life goes in a cycle; each beginning leads to an end but each end leads to a beginning. Also Fate is a very open “option” there is no fix Fate to a person, Fate is depends which side you are standing at the Wheel and it implies that you are able to forge your own Fate – if you are able to see behind the “mechanism”.
The flower is a yellow Zinnia which represent “Remembrance” – a symbolical blood suppose to give impression that remembering for something for so long alone beside being a burden should be shared.
Ps; I just noticed I got so many new followers; Hello!
Once I hit the 500 I will make a free art giveaway as thank you ALL the amazing support ❤
Thank you @pikapeppa for putting this image in my head (Stormbirds and Stalkers, Chapter 23), so now I’m obligated to put it out there in comic form though I added a little extra detail from another oneshot. Sorry, not sorry.
Again, SMUT alert (just in case anyone missed the first warning).
While browsing Tumblr, I came across one of Solas’ dialogues that you can hear only when your approval with him is low and feels hit me again like a sack of bricks. Being Solas is suffering.
But that dialogue also offers a very interesting view on his past life during Elvhenan.
Had a good chat about this scene (before the animation went in) with Patrick Weekes when I was working on this DLC… We discussed having low approval rating Solas actually drag the inquisitor partially through the eluvian and then shutting it off…
Just… something extra for you to ponder.
Holy shit, I knew Solas was terrifying on low approval but I a) hadn’t noticed the different animation and b) that additional info just upped him on the villain scale.
DAYUM BIOWARE, THAT’S BRUTAL!
I mean though, the fact that he can be a cruel ruthless motherfucker isn’t really a revelation, like his whole plan to destroy the world aside, he does demonstrate that a time or two during the main game. I always think of the mages who summoned his friend. He will burn them alive without a second thought if the inquisitor doesn’t step in, he doesn’t give a shit that they didn’t know better or that they were desperate, he will straight up murder them.
Fair point, that is true. He can be extremely cold and vicious (Just look at his treatment of Sera) and what you pointed out there illustrates that rather well. I mean, I think he is a FASCINATING character/antagonist (Probably one of the best BioWare or any studio has ever come up with) and I actually LOVE that there are so many sides/layers to him.
And this didn’t just come up in Trespasser either, as you’ve pointed out. Clues to him being the antagonist of the piece while Corypheus is a red herring are literally strewn all over the main game, Trespasser only confirmed that & then some. It’s the one claim to writing brilliance that DAI has without a doubt, no matter what.
“We discussed having low approval rating Solas actually drag the inquisitor partially through the eluvian and then shutting it off…”
BRUH. That would have been the COLDEST SHIT. Like imagine actually having an ending where your Inquisitor dies and then it cuts to your advisors arguing what to do about the Inquisition without you.
GODDDDD
What gets me about this is that low approval is actually enough of a reason for Solas to not just MAIM you brutally rather than the pseudo gentle approach he’ll use if he likes you enough but:
1) I looked at the animation again and on low approval the anchor is far MORE VOLATILE than on high approval and that’s not a co-incidence. That’s sadistic cruelty to the max.
2) Low approval is also a justification to him to not just request that you let him do this to your Inquisitor but that he will force it upon them, by using the frigging Eluvian to do it instead of using magic which might come with a dose of pain killing effects and making sure that you don’t bleed out. ‘cause cutting off a limb like that without magic or anything to cauterize it in time would have been a death sentence.
3) It’s one thing to have him force you on your knees if you attack him by just…..a flare of his eyes but this is on a wholly different level of brutality he hasn’t exhibited before outside his personal quest if you permit him to kill those mages.
Low approval Solas is more terrifying than the Archdemon, Meredith and Corypheus combined IMHO. And the fact that he’ll treat you so differently based on personal approval alone is……terrifying on a different level.
THEY. WERE. GOING. TO. DO. WHAT?!
…That is BAD-ASS.
Solas is definitely extreme with Low Approval, I’m not going to defend his actions – but both approvals are canon depending on playthrough. I see High Approval more as forcing him to think about what he is risking in tearing down the veil. Low Approval Solas scares me and my Inquisitor who romanced him would hate him if he were like that (except he wasn’t in my playthrough). Low Approval!Solas is complete delusion and madman to be honest. I love the contrast though, one side of him I love and the other I hate.
As for the Mages he kills and treatment of Sera etc. I see it as him disassociating from the world he woke up in and focused on the path he must take. High Approval actually challenges him. Low Approval cements everything’s he hates about the world he woke up in.
Low approval is hardly him being extreme or evil, if you’ve spent the majority of the game being evil and hurting or/and killing unjustly, yourself.. Especially if he lets you live in the end despite all the horrors you could have done to get there.
I am fucking SHOOK ok.
But literally I’m kind of shaking at the thought of Solas treating the Inquisitor this way
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