#soren

[kradogsrats]

them

[numptypylon]

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“If you mean whether Soren doesn’t look at your butt anymore, no, he definitely still does.”

“And you-”

“I don’t-”

“No, dummy!” Rayla snorted. “I meant, how do you even know that? Are you just… spending your time staring at Soren staring at my butt?” …Yes. He had very much done exactly that, and he didn’t even think it was jealousy or possessiveness, so much as… vicarious butt-appreciation, which he was pretty sure most people would agree was a lot weirder- “That’s-”

“Weird. Super… super weird. You’re right. I should just… not.”

“Or… you know, you could skip the middle man?”

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Excerpt from the next chapter of my S4-6 between-canon-episodes fic, Downtime’s Up (successor to my S1-3 between-canon-scenes fics Downtime in Wartime and Upside Downtime) wherein Rayllum imbibe in some magic skittle vodka and Callum contemplates his habit of butt-appreciation-by-proxy

The full chapter will be up next Sunday

[scrimblo-soab]

Probably gonna post this somewhere else later but whatever!!!

This is what I think happened after Katolis burned down, Soren probably blames himself and thinks he could’ve done more, and since he was rushing in to try and save people, he probably saw a couple dead people, and smelled the death around him. Anyways!!

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

Thinking about Soren at the beginning of We All Fall Down. Why is he asleep in the chair in the council room? Has he been sleeping that poorly that he’s falling asleep whenever he’s getting a moment to himself?

We know that he’s gone down to the dungeon at night and just sat. Does he do that every night and leave when he notices Viren stirring, hoping not to be caught like the time we see? Does he sit there with his past, his thoughts, his complex emotions, trying to make sense of them all?

Or does he just lay in bed tossing and turning all night at the knowledge that Viren is here? The man who haunted his nightmares for years is back, and… not dangerous? But that can’t be right, because Viren is always calculating his next move and figuring out new ways to make Soren feel less-than.

Most of his friends are gone, off doing their thing across Xadia to help save the world or celebrate joyous occasions. He doesn’t have his usual support system there to go to. No King to check on. No fellow Crownguard to tease. No High Mage to sit with while he studies magic at all hours of the night.

And he volunteered to stay at the castle, he knows this. He can’t imagine not being in Katolis with Viren there, lurking in every shadow. But it doesn’t help him rest or make the sleepless nights any easier.

[kradogsrats]

So whatever is going on with the cut of that suit aside, that teal? Super weird. Accent colors for Soren within the setting trend toward reds—the lining of his cape in arc 1, the whole underlayer of his armor in arc 2... even his pink pajamas.

So why teal? Well, as one person pointed out, it's the color of Corvus's scarf:

So this could be a cute nod to sorvus being endgame, or it could be something like "Corvus dies in s7 and they change the color of the entire Crownguard uniform to honor him." (So be careful what you wish for, is all I'm saying.)

But there's another possibility, because strangely enough, this is actually the second skin in a row that has teal accents for Soren. The other being this one, which we don't really talk about because Soren has a lot of much, MUCH better skins:

And what's going on here is also deeply weird. Not only is red Soren's usual accent color, he's highly associated with red dragons, in the form of Pyrrah and his childhood plush dragon toy. Personally, if I were to design a "Dragonslayer Soren" skin, it would be themed after Pyrrah for maximum irony. Like Caludia's fawn skin.

Like, honestly, my first thought seeing this was "when has Soren ever encountered a Moon dragon," because another strong teal association that lines up with Soren is the Archangel Lunaris in arc 1:

Like, I wouldn't say they're associated with Soren, but he does keep showing up with them—he's sent out with one to track the Moonshadow assassins, they comically vex him at the caldera moon temple, and they're revealed to have been used to make the illusion of Viren that he "killed." And between the Archangel Lunaris and Lujanne's color palette, I would say that teal is associated with the Moon primal.

And then we have the s7 trailer, where Soren is almost stepped on by a dragon rising from the Moon Nexus. A dragon looking like this:

A dragon whose armored head crest bears a not-small resemblance to Soren's "Dragonslayer" helmet. It's not exactly the same, not having any feathers or hair, but that's actually not a common crest shape among the dragons we've seen. Something even kind of like that only occurs here and on Squeaky. Since this dragon (drake?) is literally just Squeaky's model scaled up:

Could they have based the skin on Squeaky? I... guess? If they did, I'd suggest that the person who picked the colors get tested for red-green colorblindness, but it's possible. It would also be kind of weird to do without a bit more clarification, since we literally haven't seen, heard from, or even heard about Squeaky since s4, and Soren has been riding Pyrrah around for two seasons, instead.

So here's my extremely tinfoil-hat theory: there's a dragon that we haven't seen in full that will be associated with Soren in s7, whether it's the shadow one in the trailer or another Moon dragon, enough so that Soren with teal accents makes sense.

Or else sorvus is endgame.

Unlocked Red Carper Soren!

[luckyshouse]

[thegurlwhoisntthere]

Y’know, I feel like we don’t give the writers enough credit when it comes to Soren

So often when a character is the “comic relief”, they start off with dynamic personalities and then lose them as the season go on (looking at you Cat Valentine and Steve Palchuk), but not Soren

No, Soren somehow manages to jump between being comic relief and genuinely serious and caring seamlessly. And it’s all the same character, too! He doesn’t feel like he’s switching personalities they’re just other facets of who he is and it’s amazing!!!

[cosmicpoutine]

season 7 better start like this

[sagegreenfrogs]

"well, that can't be true. because you don't go to parties! you certainly didn't come to any of my crownguard bonding barbequeue game night extravaganzas!"

soren you petty little man i love you so much but corvus is literally just an introvert

[tuinendraws]

The whole scene where Shinon gets reprimanded for looting corpses always seemed weird to me, considering how the Greil Mercenaries' main method of gaining new equipment is looting corpses.

IDK, maybe ike and Soren just took this oppurtunity to bully Shinon for a change.

[pillow-boi]

When people ask me who I ship Ike with

[spectacledraws]

tellius ace attorney au

[scarfscallum]

How Aaravos is gonna get defeated (maybe)

[scrimblo-soab]

Sorvus cause I was looking through audios and got an idea

[hazieash]

Big week for himbos

[raayllum]

A new S7 picture from Justin in the main server!