commandercritical:

Okay so this is possibly the shittiest picture ever, but can we talk about how fucking much this KILLS me?

Solas must be so, so painfully lonely. He feels he can’t speak the truth to anyone. He has to be extremely cautious about everything he says and does, lest someone find out the things he’s hiding. To be holding so much pain and regret inside himself with no outlet must be absolutely excruciating, and yet he continues to hold his burdens alone even when surrounded by others.

And then what happens? He loses one of the few good friends he has to the ignorance of some uninformed mages, dabbling in things they can’t begin to understand. When he returns to Skyhold afterward, he mentions to a romanced Lavellan that he’s become so accustomed to dealing with everything on his own that he’s forgotten how to confide in someone else.

Cole speaks with him during party banter about how there is still happiness to be found despite his past, which obviously means that poor Solas believes otherwise. Even the Dalish, the ones who are supposed to have preserved the heritage of Solas’s people, have it all wrong. The bitterness he feels toward them is palpable.

When Lavellan turns out to be someone he can rely on, someone he genuinely respects, he’s absolutely astonished. For the first time in who knows how long, he begins to believe that perhaps not all is lost… and then he loses even her, forging onward to do what he believes is right despite how much it hurts.

I mean come ON, BioWare. My fucking heart.