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has anybody written any spite/rook fanfic where spite is the driving force of the romance?

whether that's happy ending fluff where lucanis and spite work it out and they agree with each other about rook, drama where lucanis has to question and grapple with what he actually wants because spite's feelings for rook happened first, or maybe lucanis isn't into rook at all (scheduled body custody days? lol), or angst where lucanis is getting actively pushed out, or...? anything

i've seen spite/rook but in the small amount i've read so far, it seems like spite tends to be secondary to lucanis already wanting to romance rook. and spite is sometimes portrayed as ignorant of the nuances of sex/romance.

i would love love love x 1,000,000 recs (if any exist) where spite is a weird otherworldly goblin-vibes dude but VERY determined and aware of his interest in rook, and active about that as someone inhuman but GROWN grown. (... and frankly that's how it felt in game for me...) i'm open to this whether he's with or against lucanis, though i have a soft spot for him trying to take good care of lucanis.

bonus for fervent spite love confessions at rook, but non-mandatory!

extra bonus for spite as more emotionally intelligent than poor lucanis, because honestly that was what canon felt like to me???

extra extra bonus for rook being interested in spite romantically/sexually. like specifically spite himself, not just in lucanis' body, and not just as a tagalong.

anybody? pls and ty

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what a horrifying and very familiar experience for Zevran to be told I might kill you if you don't keep being sexually appealing to me and you better agree with me or else I'll hurt you

and yet he's so brave and has such a big heart to be scared and still go cool story, anyway, what you're doing is wrong

"Inconvenient, no?" brb crying

PROTECT THIS MAN

Zevran: I am hardly the person to lecture on the worthier points of human nature, but surely this is a fine time to display the oft-lauded virtue known as mercy?

Zevran: I deserved to die, and you spared me. Why are you so quick to condemn these mages?

Warden: You’re a lot better-looking than most of the mages.

Zevran: Why, thank you. Flattery would normally distract me, but not today. Inconvenient, no?

Warden: You’re saying I made a mistake sparing you?

Zevran: (Nervous laughter) Perhaps. But you did it nevertheless, no?

Warden: Magic and knives are different.

Zevran: Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speed could kill.

Zevran: Why single out the wielders of one and not the others?

Warden: Mages can do more damage with one spell than you ever could.

Zevran: Mm. Touché.

Zevran: I’ve taken the lives of many throughout my career, but this is no measured act. There is no chase, no hunt, no dignity in this… there is only slaughter.

Warden: What about the people they might slaughter?

Zevran: Might, not will. Committing genocide just because something might happen is more than the mark of a weak mind. It is insanity.

Warden: Zevran, you’re a hypocrite.

Zevran: Perhaps I am at that, and a thief and a murderer as well. But I looked my victims in the face.

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i made a meme lmao

i'm bringing my argument back again (here's my previous post with more deets: Reminder: Solas planned it) because of some recent posts (that i lost and can't find anymore! not vagueblogging! zero bad feelings about the author(s) of those!) about how solas left the eluvian to his ritual unlocked and how incompetent that makes him look.

although i'm critical of a lot of veilguard, this writing detail only makes me grin about solas' scheming.

see the post for more but the tl;dr is solas:

encouraged the people of thedas to prepare for an apocalyptic threat

gave them approximately 8 years to do so

arranged for elgar'nan and ghilan'nain to get loose in front of the person varric chose and trusted to lead the charge, because imprisoning the evanuris was unsustainable and would result in worse outcomes in the long run

also created a situation where he could actively advise the process of defeating the evanuris while being perceived as a villain (as in, without needing to rely on trust)

does not deny anything when called out directly, just says the quote i put in the meme while being like >:0 how dare

i'm onto u, babe

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The Dread Wolf's Eyes

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Just an AU where Solas can transform into his spirit form anytime, and likes to rest in the best spot ☺️

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Still annoyed that Dwarf Rook does not get lyrium powers from the dagger but Harding does. Where are my lyrium powers? I want my lyrium powers!

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it's also ironic to me because the thing i had a problem with in the lucanismance was not a lack of sex, it was the opposite! it was that he doesn't have enough content with rook to even seem like he LIKES rook very much, romantically or otherwise. almost every unromanceable companion NPC in past games, literally even oghren, can have a vastly more intimate friendship than my rook had with lucanis' romance. until suddenly he shows up at the WORST moment when i as a player and my rook as a character had ZERO interest in sexual content because of grief and major character death, only to have a mandatory no-opt-out (albeit fade to black) sex scene. i would have actually liked it better if there was NO sex AT ALL and an option for comfort like in DA2 after leandra dies, compared to the literal worst moment for sex after an entire game of getting blanked by lucanis. so now he's written as interested? when i most need a nonsexual snuggle?

nothing about this is "demisexual". we know content was cut. his romance is incomplete, just as his arc about his abusive experiences with his family and the crows is incomplete, just as his arc with spite is incomplete, just as MANY of the veilguard NPCs have incomplete character and relationship arcs in the game.

spite, meanwhile, also deserved far more content than he received, but spite felt like my star-crossed lover. spite and i were mutually screaming to talk to each other. spite delivered the (IMO) only moving and emotionally significant lines in the lucanis friendship/romance. i was romancing spite, and never given an opportunity to work out the complexities of that either.

i wouldn't center my real-life emotional intimacy around someone who primarily avoids me but remembers i prefer black coffee (a trait that is basically meaningless to my sense of self). much less a romance in the epic fantasy genre and in a game promoted as allegedly the "most romantic" of the series. i literally would have preferred that lucanis never fuck my rook at all if it meant we could have had even a single scene with a deeper dive into emotional intimacy. which dare i say it is pretty demi of me. HMMMM.

im also kind of insanely baffled by everyone getting super defensive over people pointing out the "demisexual lucanis" take being the stupidest on the spot lie the likes of which has never been seen. are you telling me you dont at all find it offensive and Extremely Weird that your sexuality was used as a cheap prop so the writers could avoid admitting extreme crunch and a ridiculously toxic dev cycle caused massive parts of his romance to be cut entirely. do you seriously not think the game with nonbinary taash and adhd bellara and trans tarquin would not even attempt to acknowledge a major character's asexuality in a way that wasnt just a TWITTER POST!

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I like the new trailer

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The Dread Wolf Fen’Harel

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'Smiling at the templars to show them im me' is such an upsetting line. The only other frame of reference we have for a harrowing is amell/surana and they, after the 'quickest cleanest harrowing' in recent memory, passed the fuck out immediately. That vivienne had enough presence of mind to smile after her harrowing is both a testament to her strength as a mage and also just so horrendously awful, to have gone through such a strenuous and disorienting ordeal and still not be safe!!!! Still unable to stop performing, to lower her guard, still needing to keep her wits about her. True tests never end!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Solas actually telling Lavellan he’s Fen’Harel multiple times throughout inquisition then getting scared and erasing those moments from her memory

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Regular day on the job

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Put your Rook Through The Horrors™

Feel free to answer some of these for pre-game as well! :)

What is the worst they've ever been injured?

What is the worst they've ever been sick?

What is the worst heartbreak they've ever experienced?

What would fearlings look like to them?

What event brought them to their lowest, mentally? How did they act during this time?

Have they ever been in any unhealthy relationships? This doesn't necessarily have to be romantic.

How high is their physical pain tolerance? Do they ever show if they're in pain? What about their mental pain tolerance? How easy would it be to break them down?

What kind of demon would emerge from them had they been subject to Zara's experiments?

What would a nightmare tailored to their worst fears look like?

Who do they miss the most?

Which one of their senses would they fear losing the most?

What do they doubt most about themselves? Why? Where did this come from?

What kind of injury scares them the most?

Think of the two people they are closest to. They can only save one. Who are they choosing?

What is the one thing that would make them lose all hope?

What kind of demon would be most successful in tempting them? What offer would it have given them?

Have they ever felt insignificant? To the world? To their faction? To their loved ones?

Which one of their insecurities would be the easiest to take advantage of?

One of their loved ones just got grievously injured by their enemies. Who was it? How do they react?

Deep down, did they truly believe they'd be able to get out when they were trapped in the Fade?

What would their last words be?

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solas is gonna get some at the winter palace

(WIP)

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do you think solas cried after crestwood? do you think he walked to a quiet clearing so he could be sure he was alone, or do you think he held it together until they were back at skyhold? did he find some corner away from the rotunda where he could cry without anyone knowing, or do you think they heard him sometimes, late at night, and pretended not to?

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DA:I characters but as gifs I have saved on my phone: Solas (again!)

Solas [x] Cole [x] Sera [1] [2] Blackwall [x] Vivienne [x] Dorian [1] [2] Cassandra [1] [2] Iron Bull [x] Josephine [x] Cullen [x] Leliana [x]

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Credit to aella@tearsofN7 on X