Man the ‘I will never forget you’ pissed me off so much at first (like that’s MY consolation?? love you forever but also bye forever??) until I realized he meant that shit, like FOREVER forever. ouchie!!!!
On the one hand, there’s maybe a kind of emotional consistency common to former spirits, a obstinance of purpose? So I believe he believes that fully, that no matter what he will never not [love] her. It’s such a given that he doesn’t even name what he feels, it is a fact that does not need a name.
Furthermore, he’s immortal, so what he feels for Lavellan will endure FOREVER. Like even if he dies? Even if his spirit should return to the Fade? If he should become someone new? Does it still work that way?? Anyway, tbh I think it’s a fatalistic sentiment! Extraordinarily romantic but also …
… predicated on an outcome that does not *allow* his feelings for her to change, as in mortal relationships they always do! They change, they grow, they are altered and deepened by shared experience, and he can’t even allow himself to consider an outcome where that’s possible!
So I’m moved to tears reading that, but I also know Lavellan knows he’s wrong. It’s so much like one of his little cries for help. He wants change, he embodies change! Crazy to think a sincere pledge (a memorial even!) of his eternal devotion is his *consolation* for foregoing a life beside her 🥲
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I thought right away of the (incomparably wet) “I will never forget you”… SOLAS!!!!!!