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• No One Can Blame You For Walking Away by Silverfern500

  Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)  

  • Explicit
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  23 Apr 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Female Lavellan/Solas (Dragon Age)
  • Female Inquisitor/Solas (Dragon Age)
  • Lavellan/Solas (Dragon Age)
  • Solas (Dragon Age)/Original Female Character(s)
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Solas (Dragon Age)
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition Inner Circle
  • Background & Cameo Characters
  • Spirits - Character
  • I can't give EVERYTHING away
  • Time Travel
  • MGIT sort of
  • Modern Girl in Thedas
  • Torture
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • This Is Not Going To Go The Way You Think
  • Author Is Sleep Deprived
  • Really bad understanding of Elvhen
  • Even with Project Elvhen
  • Eventual Happy Ending
  • Only sort of Veilguard compliant
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Non-Linear Narrative
  • playing fast and loose with canon
  • No lovey dovey feels at first because TRAUMA
  • Eating Disorders
  • That one will probably crop up
  • Scratch that LOTS of Elvhen
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Memory Alteration
  • Slow Burn
  • In the middle or end of a time-loop
  • Written Organically with only My Own Dumbassery
  • TW where applicable are in notes before chapter text
  • Spirits

  Summary

  "Mercy."

  It would take him longer than the others, to realize that she was giving name to herself in that moment, not asking it of him. And longer still to realize she was asking it. Longer then, to realize she had been offering it.

  Chapter one can be read standalone.

  Act 1 complete at Chapter 15.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  48,373

  Chapters:

  15/?

  Comments:

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