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It's Lucanis's first time seeing Sterling shirtless with his hair down and it made the crush he already had on him so much worse. Spite's pretty fed up with it too.

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Boys Night!

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(Please don't tag/comment with your Rook, thanks)

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Spite doesn't know how to style Lucanis' hair, that's my headcanon now

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Morning doodle, my pretty crow 🥺💖

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Freeing him from languishing forever in my WIP folder…. Be free you beautiful messy bastard

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We've run out of onions. Again.

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👿

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Cliffhanger and Exposition!

Cliffhanger: If a spirit wanted to trap your Rook in the fade, what would their best plan be?

I mean, Solas executed it pretty well. Adrian would just need to think Lucanis needed him to be lured. He could chase that image for a long time before he could push past the worry that it was real to see the possible falsehood.

Exposition: What would Rook think of younger Rook? What would they tell them if given the chance?

He would tell younger Rook that he would belong one day. There would come a time when he not only belonged but was so desperately needed that he might come to regret it, and he'd tell him to plan so, so carefully for those in power, especially if he couldn't see their angle.

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Happy Valentines Day to these lovebirds ❤ This is based on Lucanis's romance concept art!

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Rook Literary Device Asks

I’m taking your Rooks back to Language and Literature class with these asks. I added a few examples to questions I found vague or difficult to explain. Hopefully it’s not too gratuitous!

These are based on common literary devices. I tried to pick more recognizable ones, or at least ones that autocorrect will pick up 📝

I’m considering doing a strictly NSFW one next. Lemme know if that appeals to you or not 💐

Dreams

I elect that Dwarven Rooks should still answer even if they don’t apply/aren’t canon. It can be theoretical for character exploration.

Allegory: What does Rook dream about?

Repetition: What are Rook’s nightmares? Did/does this change with age?

Cliffhanger: If a spirit wanted to trap your Rook in the fade, what would their best plan be?

Ex: Illusions of their past/wants, trapping them behind an emotion? (hello regret 🥚😔), promising them help in achieving their goals?

Tragicomedy: Would Rook make a deal with a demon? If no, what about a more benevolent spirit, would they make a deal with them?

Symbolism: The team is trying to rescue Rook from the fade. What five items do they use to do a summoning ritual?

Surrealism: How adept is Rook at navigating the Fade in dreams?

I believe it’s typically a sliding scale between these three points: no control (non mage) to some control (mage) to a lot of control (dreamer) but outliers definitely occur.

Morality

Hyperbole: Rook encounters two injured people. One a random npc citizen with a moderate but not life threatening injury and the other a venatori with a life threatening injury. As far as they can tell the Venatori was not actively involved in anything nefarious at this moment. Who does Rook help first (or at all)?

Foreshadowing: What does Rook think about Solas sacrificing the spirits of chaos and disorder? Would their opinion change if Solas had explained to the spirits that this was a mission they wouldn’t come back from?

Motif: What’s Rook’s opinion on the rite of tranquility? Is there ever a circumstance that could change this?

I know the fandom’s general opinion on tranquility is to absolutely admonish it, which is totally fair. But I also think OCs can and sometimes should have bad opinions or limited perspectives

Epigraph: What situation(s) would make Rook compromise their morals? How would Rook feel about this?

Point of View: Does Rook judge others for choices they made under duress?

Paradox: What’s Rook’s opinion on Blood magic?

Would they/have they ever participated in Blood magic (casting it, providing blood for it, was it their own or someone else’s etc.)

Personification: What’s Rook’s opinion on Necromancy? If your Rook is a necromancer, do they consider it a form of blood magic?

(AFAIK it canonically is, but that’s not an opinion held by all in Thedas)

Self Reflection

Anaphora: What lie is central to Rook’s worldview? How does this affect them?

Ex: Lisel thinks she can never regain the family she lost, so she neglects new relationships.

Extended metaphor: What inspires hope in Rook?

Dramatic Irony: Does Rook wonder why they’re the main character?

(As in, why they are in charge, why Varric picked them, why they’re connected to Solas etc.)

Do they have an explanation for why they are the main character? Fate? Chance? Skill? Maybe they don’t actually think they’re the mc?

Ex: Lise eventually comes to see taking the Evanuris down as a poetic justice. She dedicated her early (and happiest) life to worshiping Sylaise and feels it’s her responsibility to bring the remaining pantheon down. If they were ever the kind deities they claimed to be, she recognizes that they certainly aren’t now.

Exposition: What would Rook think of younger Rook? What would they tell them if given the chance?

Flashback: What past act is Rook most ashamed of?

Omniscient: Are there any secrets Rook is hiding? From others? From themselves?

Allusion: Who does Rook blame for their trauma, misplaced or not? Do they keep this a secret?

Physicality

Onomatopoeia: Describe how Rook speaks.

(Possible topics: Word choice, volume, phrasing, vocabulary, accents, tones, emotional intonation, speech impediments, etc!)

Isocolon: Describe how your Rook walks/runs.

(Possible topics: speed, agility, spatial awareness, grace, loud vs quiet steps, endurance, etc!)

Style: How does Rook sleep?

Archetype: Describe what another character might notice about your Rook physically.

Vignette: Describe the first time Rook got very injured. What was their reaction?

Juxtaposition: What’s their most prominent physical weakness and strength?

Bonus

Soliloquy: List/describe the most self indulgent headcanon/fic you’ve thought of for your Rook.

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Lucanis' Room

Theory time!

You know how it's weird that every companion's room changes over time, except for Lucanis' pantry?

That's because the pantry isn't really his space. The dining hall is.

Dining space before Lucanis.

Dining space immediately after Lucanis arrival.

Dining hall by the end of the game (notice the fucking chandelier and the art on the walls).

And that just ... does things to me. Of course he wouldn't decorate the utalitarien space where he (refuses to) sleep. He adds his personal touch to a communal space instead, one that is warm and welcoming to everyone on the team. A space for good food and conversation, where he can do something he enjoys for people he cares about.

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That one romance-only line during the boss fight with Illario that would have made my Rook absolutely unhinged levels of irate 🤣

What’s 5’2, 100lbs soaking wet, and putting the fear of god into Dellamorte The Lesser? Rook Aldwir, ladies and gentleman. 🤌✨

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two things can be true at once

- people are fucking annoying about Joplin and refuse to understand it was essentially a stack of unpolished draft ideas thrown at the wall like wet spaghetti

- the DA team did NOT stop working on Joplin because they wanted to; EA forced a shift towards Morrisson, the live-service version of the game, because EA wanted money

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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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jacobus would be soooooo jealous of Illario (<- got his dead cousin back :) yay) until he Found Out and then he would be just so so mad i think

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the way people talk abt veilguard concept art when they’re posting it without context makes me feel insane 😭😭 no you cannot tell everyone that such and such was “supposed to” happen or is what “we were supposed to get” when what you mean is that 10 years ago someone at bioware drew 1 picture of what it might look like if that happened

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