leilani lavellan. (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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driftfleet2017-12-12 08:54 pm
veilstrike) wrote in driftfleet2017-12-12 08:54 pm
video
Who: Leilani Lavellan and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Blue Fish
When: Now, after gifts have been opened!
[ The video opens with Leilani fiddling with something in her hands, but she's quick to turn her attention to the camera and focus on the people she's talking to. She's well practiced at the art of focussing her attention on people rather than things; the Inquisition had demanded it from her, and she barely had any time of her own. No time for worries or fears or sadness; only work and fighting for whatever future Thedas had left. ]
In my clan we did not celebrate the winter as the rest of the world did. I didn't recognise that there were different celebrations until I became the Inquisitor, and then it felt as though I was pretending to understand something that was completely alien to me.
[ Frowning, she drops the necklace from her hands. ]
I'd like to know more about your traditions, if you'll appease me. I've never had much time to sit and talk about these sorts of things, so anything that you might be able to tell me would be welcome. There is always time to learn something new.
[ It also distracts her, so it's a welcome relief. ]
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Blue Fish
When: Now, after gifts have been opened!
[ The video opens with Leilani fiddling with something in her hands, but she's quick to turn her attention to the camera and focus on the people she's talking to. She's well practiced at the art of focussing her attention on people rather than things; the Inquisition had demanded it from her, and she barely had any time of her own. No time for worries or fears or sadness; only work and fighting for whatever future Thedas had left. ]
In my clan we did not celebrate the winter as the rest of the world did. I didn't recognise that there were different celebrations until I became the Inquisitor, and then it felt as though I was pretending to understand something that was completely alien to me.
[ Frowning, she drops the necklace from her hands. ]
I'd like to know more about your traditions, if you'll appease me. I've never had much time to sit and talk about these sorts of things, so anything that you might be able to tell me would be welcome. There is always time to learn something new.
[ It also distracts her, so it's a welcome relief. ]
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I'm rather glad you did, if I'm being honest. Things would have been unbearable had different decisions been made.
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[ All the fighting and the pain and the heartbreak... The suffering and the agony and the way her heart and mind hurt all the time... It was more than worth it. ]
I'd choose you over something as silly as peace.
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[ She really can't mean that. Peace is the general ideal that the Inquisition strives for- saying she would give that up for him? It's crazy. He can't think of anyone else who wouldn't throw him under the carriage if it truly came down to it. The needs of the many always outweigh the needs of the few. ]
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[ Thoughtful, for a moment, Leilani lets her fingers trail over the shame of the jawbone around her neck. ]
Things happen for a reason. They must do, otherwise our lives would be one comical joke played by the Gods and Creators. The choices I make... I trust myself to make the ones that I think are best, but I am also aware that I am changed and influenced by the people around me.
[ How much of her life had been her own, and how much of it had been manipulation? Knowing what Solas did, what he caused... She wonders, questions, frequently. ]
I may not have been able to choose the path I walk no more than I could choose what Corypheus and Solas do, but I can choose my friends. I would choose you, Dorian, a thousand and one times, no matter how many chances I was given. I would never choose anything else.