Inteloper

Inteloper

Chuckles

Chapter Three: How to Regrow a Garden

Moths had gotten into the trunk where she had put a few bolts of cloth, but it was mostly salvageable. She headed over to the kitchen table with it, with only a candle lighting her work. She had the pattern memorised from years of experience. She couldn’t bear to go over to where he lay, to take his current measurements. She couldn’t dare hold out that much hope. So she took measurements from his old clothing. Even that caused a pain to spike through her heart from the weight he had lost. She glanced back over at him, he was skinnier than he had been when they met. She could see the bony protrusion of his ribs and hips, without the soft cover of healthy fat. “Oh Solas…” she whispered. There was no response.

The End and The Beginning is a cosy/cottagecore-esq Solavellan fix-it AU. Set in a universe where Solas' ritual fails, Lavellan fakes both of their deaths to give them a chance to start over. But the weight of a decades worth of trauma is not easy to overcome, especially on your own.

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Going through a fanfic draft, and now I'm just wondering...how much would Solas' departure/whole dread wolf thing impact Ghilara and Cassandra's friendship. Because Ghil and Cass hate each other at first, they do not get along. I always get the cutscene of Cassandra drunkenly complaining about the inquisitor as soon as I get to Skyhold.

But as I've been replaying Ghil, the two have managed to work out their differences. And I think Solas would have been a big reason why that happened. Cause Cass and Solas are really close, and their banter is really sweet. So there would definately be an aspect of Ghil bickers with Solas' closest friend (Cass) and Solas bickers with Ghil's closest friend (Dorian). And they help each other find the middle ground.

Because Cass and Ghil are such similar characters. Both extremely stubborn, driven women, bad at elite manners, reckless and sure of themselves. And that can be the basis of great friendship or great enemyship. It's such a case of unstoppable force (Ghil) meets immovable object (Cass). Because they have extremely different ideologies. Ghil is pro-mage, believes in the chantry having less political sway. And Cass is well...not that.

Because while they do become good friends and learn to accept the other's difference of opinions, they have such different opinions about what to do with Solas. Cass even slightly approves of picking the "I'll kill him myself' option right before you meet Solas in trespasser. The only other who approves of that is Vivienne.

Idk, I just feel like that will be super interesting to explore. They start off hating each others guts, resenting the other, and through Solas' encouragement become friends, they trust each other, they have each others backs. Then back to the resentment, except now its so much harder to bear now that they know the comfort that their friendship can bring.

I might be overthinking it, but here's my Warden Mira's life before start of the game.

P.S. Poor baby suffered enough.

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