What Does It Say About Me That Persona 4 Is My Favorite

Yes!!!

I've seen it said that Rook is a better romance option for Solas because unlike Lavellan, they know who he is from the get go. So let me make something clear:

Rook does not know Solas better than Lavellan does. They know his history, his crimes, even his regrets, but what he shows when they talk to him is very much a mask.

Fen'harel is not who Solas is. As dishonest as he was about his past during his time with the Inquisition, he also came the closest to being himself ever since he took a body.

In sappy terms, he hid his deeds and plans from Lavellan, but not his heart. With Rook, it's the opposite.

Who we see in Veilguard is not some kind of "Solas unmasked", it's Solas who has returned to wearing the mask he was allowed to shed for a little while and hide the fact he'd ever worn it.

The raggedy apostate who plays mental chess with Bull, trolls Sera, beats Blackwall at diamondback, who nerds out about magic with Dorian and approves of helping every single hinterlands peasant you encounter, that's the real Solas. Keeping his past a secret is what allowed him to stop being what his service to Mythal and his people made him into, even if for just a little while.

i think the most classic bioware move of all time might be catastrophically failing to answer and clarify major lore reveals in their game and instead just glossing over them quickly and hoping no one asks further questions, and then revealing them and their story and character relevance in the god damn art book after the game

"Peaceful beginnings, gentle giant gardeners, and curious spirits"

"The spirits saw the dwarves as they tended to the Titans, and they wanted to try making bodies for themselves"

"The spirits made physical bodies for themselves from the 'flesh' of the Titans. The first elves were born, and the first war began"

"A brutal war raged on between the elves and the Titans, only ending when one elf (Solas) rendered the Titans 'tranquil', capturing their souls"

"The elves brought a powerful war trophy home"

"With the Titans rendered tranquil, dwarves lost their connection to magic. They fled into the bodies of their fallen hosts"

"With the power that came from the captured Titan souls, the elves built the greatest empire Thedas would ever see"

The gods drew upon the power of the Titans' souls to gain more power. The imprisoned souls became twisted with rage. This became the blight."

"To contain the blight outbreak, Solas performed a desperate blood-magic ritual. He bound up the magic of the world behind a veil and powered it with the blood of the evil gods."

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???????????????? I GET SOME OF THIS IS IMPLIED IN THE GAME BUT NONE OF IT IS ACTUALLY STATED OUTRIGHT. I THOUGHT THEY JUST DIDNT FEEL LIKE FIGURING OUT THEIR OWN LORE THEMSELVES BUT THEY DID IT BEHIND THE SCENES IT JUST DIDNT MAKE IT INTO THE GAME?????

link to the artbook preview if you want to see for yourself, but beware of how much its going to make you yearn for what was lost. maybe it was on purpose as a fun-meta commentary for the player on how solas feels :D

𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒍𝒇 🐺 i am obsessed with this game and younger solas you will see nothing else from me forever thank u

Like, literally, hundreds of elves are going to die unnaturally of old age every single day that he doesn't do this. Let alone all the spirits tortured and killed every day because of the torture of the Veil, let alone all the mages that are killed every day because magic is seen as unnatural, let alone let alone LET ALONE ETC ETC ETC!!!!! It would drive me mad to think about it!!!!!

He is not saying that to say "people's lives do not matter" he is saying this as he very carefully does NOT kill Varric, who is a mortal person!!

Here's a rare mind blowing moment in the astronomy world. Clearest images ever taken of Equatorial Ridge on Saturn's moon 'Iapetus'.

The wool has been removed from over my eyes; I see a new narrative symmetry...

Sometimes you really need another's opinion to help you appreciate something more. I'm kinda not so angry about Varric's role in Veilguard now.

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