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endearment

Revan choosing the light because of love: Broke. Revan choosing the light because Mission needs a reliable parental figure: Woke. 

My suggestion for the KOTOR remake is that the more Carth hangs out with Revan, the more grey hairs his model will have.

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one of those things that's really striking and interesting to me is how often it's simply not addressed when discussing low approval Solas + inquisitor that Solas is, in many ways, acting out his role as the fantasy trickster god. he comes to you in a very humble format; an apostate mage elf, which in the social dynamic puts him veeeeery low on the podium. one of the first things he does in his first conversation is address the fact that HOPEFULLY, the Inquisition will remember who helped, and who did not -- because it is a very real possibility, again, in the context of the social dynamic, for him to be fucked over supremely by the inquisition -- to put him back into a circle, etc. once it's over. of course, Solas knows, and we the player know, that this will never happen, because he's Fen'Harel and such and such. but when interacting with him IN GAME? that social dynamic is vital to understanding why Solas acts the way he does around you. it's fairly easy to rack up approval--simply make the effort to consider a perspective other than your own, a perspective from someone who society has deemed very low (elven mage). slam him down and be belligerent? it only confirms that the leadership here is rooted once again in power hungry individuals who will step on the lowest classes for their own gain.

it's quite literally... fantasy trickster god testing the hero to see if they will treat the humblest person with kindness, or need to learn the error of their arrogance. solas APPROVES almost entirely of things that promote elven and mage freedom, helping the needy, freeing those who need freeing, not playing into being an arrogant leader. when you punch him, in the social dynamic, you are exerted an abuse of power and authority that now goes beyond the verbal, into the physical. could HE, if he were a simple elven mage, defend himself? no. because an elven mage hitting the leader of a holy army back could have him be put to the death. none of this excuses Solas' own flaws, his faulty reasons for his actions, etc. but like, taking into consideration the actual social structure of the game and what kind of power dynamics are going on here, it's necessary to UNDERSTAND the character and what kind of choice you make here, and how it all informs Solas' idea that either 1. he's wrong, this world has things worth saving, but he cannot diverge from his course, even if he on some level wants to be stopped, or 2. this world is just as terrible as the one he left behind, and it needs to be undone.

I never found a scar option in ME2 and ME 3 which might just mean I’m dumb but I like it better this way because its actually so fucked up to think about loseing your scar(s) in ME-2

Imagine being Shepard and stareing at your hands or forearms that dont look like yours anymore because that tiny faded scar from when you were six and cut yourself with the child safe scissors isnt there on your index finger.

The larger scar you dont remember the origin of doesnt rake across the back of your hand anymore. And the shiny rounded scar from where you tripped and chipped your shin-bone when you were 15 is gone too- along with all the divits and imperfections in the bones where you banged them learning to run from cops in the city or falling out of trees and jumping crates with your friends in the colonies.

Sure the bad ones are gone too. Scars from battles where you lost friends. Maybe the big scar on your shoulder doesnt ache on reentry anymore, and the scar on your cheek doesnt send phantom pains shooting through your face when you’re stressed. You’re commander Shepard. You’ve seen some pretty fucked up shit, not much rattles you.

But every time you look in the mirror you stare for an extra moment and try to decide if the unmarked skin you see there is even yours.

Will a body built by your enemies ever truly feel like more than a shell of you?