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One of critiques of Veilguard that I disagree with the most is how the game handles Morrigan taking on the mantle of Mythal. The takes I've seen usually have to deal with how this is a perversion of Morrigan's character and how she would never do it but I fundamentally disagree with that take.

1. It isn't taking on Mythal that Morrigan was against. She didn't even know that Mythal was the spirit who came to Flemmeth until DAI. From Origins to Inquisition, Morrigan was afraid of being bodysnactched by Flemmeth but that is not what happened nor Flemmythal's intention. Morrigan is still objectively herself after she takes on Mythal. Furthermore: Mythal would not possess someone who didn't want it, Flemmythal says so herself. Morrigan CHOSE to take Mythal into herself and it IS narratively consistent when taking into account her whole arc.

2. Morrigan is fascinated and passionate about the Ancient Elves and their lost culture. It is she who asks for us to take the pilgrim's path in Mythal's temple and it is she who begs to drink from the Well of Sorrows because she feels that she is the best apt to use the knowledge it grants.

3. Morrigan was abused by Flemmeth and heavily resents her as is her right, but that doesn't mean she doesn't love her mother. When she leaves Flemmeth's hut in Origins it is clear she is a girl who loves her mother. She jokes to her about not letting the house burn down but still asks the HOF to kill her all the same. Her relationship with Flemmeth is clearly fractured beyond measure but, despite her own issues with Flemmeth; she feels her mother's pain within Mythal and chooses not to turn her away. She grants Flemmeth a kindness in death that Flemmeth would never have shown to her in life because that is who Morrigan is.

4. While this is worldstate dependent, Kieran exists in quite a few (I'd even go so far as to say MOST) worlds rates. Morrigan is explicitly not the mother Flemmeth was to her and provides him all the gentleness denied to her. This is, to me, WHY she takes on Mythal. It is a reclaimmation not only of ancient knowledge and family but also reclaiming Mythal from the retribution of Flemmeth to the benevolence of Morrigan. Morrigan is a modern woman who has all the agency and power this modern age can provide, agency that was denied to Flemmeth. Morrigan is kinder but no less fierce than her mother who came before her. Morrigan, despite her ability and right to do so, is not a scorned woman begging for retribution; she is a child grieving her abusive mother. Mythal chose her out of something more than vengeance and as such remade in Morrigan's image. Mythal is remade in Morrigan's image at precisely the right time that the world needs more benevolence than retribution.

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With the power of mods, my crow!Rook and crew are looking pretty dapper.

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Other people already said it but sending immigrants to El Salvador is not a deportation but a kidnapping. Deportation is sending a person to their country of origin. This is something worse.

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This picture from the Dragon Age The Veilguard story board is cracking me up because this is exactly how I imagine my Rook looked when Emmrich told her about his aspirations of lichdom

"bro wtf"

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“There are no female aliens in our game because we don’t know how to make a female version of this alien” You know that alien you just designed? That male alien? Give it a female voice actor and have characters refer to it as she. That’s it. That’s literally all you have to do 

Make her shorter if you must

Make her BIGGER if you aren’t a coward 

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I’m currently on my 5th Veilguard playthrough with a crow!Rook and while I’m still invested and having fun, I keep longing to go back my Cordelia Ingellvar.

I also have a rather strong urge to write and draw stuff for her, which, has been an urge harder to obtain for me for awhile now.

I need to be strong and finish my current playthrough (and I still want to try my LoF Rook x Bellara playthrough, and attempt to resist Emmrich for once), but it’s so hard to stay committed, rip.

If only I could multiply myself, lol.

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yes all my favorite characters are desperate to be loved. no i don’t think that says anything about me

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TITANIC 1997, dir. James Cameron

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Pink interiors have my whole heart

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everyone shut up and look at this

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your honor my client is guilty can i get another one

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me getting five notes from my regular mutuals on any given post

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playing barbies with Emmrich from the perspective of how Rook would dress/style him if he was allowed to

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Video captions: And stop trying to show your ex what they missed out on! Stop trying to teach your family a lesson for not believing in you! Stop trying to shit on your haters! Do it for you! Do it because you deserve it! Do it for YOU! Water your dreams with love! Don’t put no hate and resentment, and try to — “oh Imma fucking show them, Imma show” — FUCK THEM! Fuck them, do it for you! They don’t matter! They NEVER mattered.

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2008-07-09