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Despite the issues I had with Veilguard I still fucking adore my romance option and my griffon son so. Here's my Rook and his little fam <3

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It's like finishing Veilguard has shoved me into the dumbest fucking meme conversations as a coping mechanism now. (I'm partially blaming @they-lived for this one, its a joint effort.)

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I cannot vibe with Dorian's character design change in Veilguard, so I'm coping by drawing dumb "At some point in the future" Pavellan stuff. Here ya go.

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someone posted this regarding the book club codex entries and it perfectly captures one of the biggest issues with the companions and their writing. the game is trying to convince us that they've all become a found family but only does a fraction of the work to get there.

when it comes to most of the companions, not only is HR in the room, you are HR! companions don't seek you out unless they need something and they don't really include you in anything. you can listen in on their conversations with each other but never participate (unless they need to be guided through basic conflict resolution).

why wasn't rook invited to the book club??? it could've been really fun to pick the genre of the next book or something! if you're going to emphasize going grocery shopping, skipping rocks, taking the griffon for a walk, and other mundanities, lean into it! let me join!

and the way you only find out from meeting minutes Bellara leaves lying around - considering there are no ambient dialogues or references to it (that I heard) - really makes it feel like they're going out of their way to keep it from you 😭 and it feels even worse that they're excluding you all while telling you you're such a great friend that helped them move through really hard things in their personal lives. I feel used 🫠

it makes it feel like Rook is the saddest character in the entire game and it wasn't even on purpose! like, I would start hallucinating a supportive friend if I was treated this way, too!

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Da2 handled Tevinter's slavery with more depth, gravity, and understanding than the game partially set in Tevinter

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its 2024 i think dragon age fandom can grow up and admit that 1) sebastian vael was extremely fuckable and 2) it drove varric to the kind of levels of insanity that would make a man irl kill himself

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i love that sebastian gets a mention by varric in datv (via letter) despite being a dlc character and having no worldstate choice related to him. in every world varric is on first name basis with the prince of starkhaven. in every world they would find each other and sebastian would piss varric off so so badly.

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Yesterday I described Dragon Age 2 as a 'Strategy game where the only objective is making your friends like you' and I think I've never been more correct in my life

Edit: It's been brought to my attention that the other objective is make them hate you, and you know what? Fair

I'm just a whimp who can't be mean ever

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Happy ten year anniversary to Dragon Age Inqusition where I try to convince myself that jumps are a lot closer than they actually are only to have this staring at my face.

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kid: hey daddy can you read me a bed time story?

dad picking up "doggy goes to school": how about this one?

kid: sorry cant really read that one yet cause first we need to read "doggy rides a bike" and then "doggy vs cat: last hope"

dad: im sorry i dont think ive heard of that one

kid: yea it was during the dark era of doggy books but since then cat has become more of anti hero and helps doggy sometimes

dad: oh didnt even know that

kid: thats pretty fucking embarrasing father. i recommend you read "Kitty: origins" and "Doggy: year 1" to catch yourself up with the canon and then we can really get started on the bedtime stories tomorrow night

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man this piece of media i like that's bad and sucks would be so cool and awesome if it wasnt bad and didnt suck. unfortunately,

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newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it

me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

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Spoilers and criticism for Veilguard under the cut! Don't read if you're not prepared!!! I've been sitting on this long enough to try and get my thoughts together on what my biggest problem with the game is and I think I figured it out (for me personally, anyways) so!

The biggest downfall for me is genuinely not really having a way to ACTUALLY get to know your companions. Most of their backstory information is tucked away in party banter, so you just have to kind of hope you happen to hear it while out running around with the right combination of party members. (I could get into how much I hate that I can only take two but that's a whole other thing.)

The issue with this is that it completely cuts Rook out of the equation at all. I can't really go around and ask my companions questions about themselves or their backgrounds. There aren't any conversation trees to get to know them, and I literally can't even talk to them unless it's something they want from me. Rook isn't even really part of ANY of the party banter out in the world, which is a huge bummer. It wasn't EVERY banter, but in Inquisition, there were many times you were actually able to chime in with your own response to whatever people were talking about. And you know what that does? It makes it feel like Inky is actually part of the crew. It feels like they're IN the conversations and their thoughts and opinions matter.

Meanwhile, Veilguard has several party banters where I feel like I'm interrupting a conversation and they're turning to look at me with drinks in their hand waiting for me to get lost.

Rook is like the CEO of a company while everyone else is making friends, and it's frustrating as a player. Even with codex entries that talk about the team doing stuff it's like. Why isn't Rook part of their book club?? Why isn't Rook part of their grocery lists in the kitchen??? Why isn't Rook included on the mural Manfred paints at the end of the game that's supposed to highlight how heroic everyone was?? (I know the answer to the last one is because everyone's Rook looks different, but come on. You could at least just have a hooded figure in the center or SOMETHING to indicate they're involved)

Nobody asks Rook questions about themselves, nobody really seems to care about them at all. There's so many points in Inquisition with Joesphine asking about your background or Cassandra asking about your beliefs etc. And that's just....not there??? (Don't even get me started on Rook randomly popping out information about their past that I have Zero input or knowledge of. Why the hell does my elf Veil Jumper Rook who HAS Vallaslin insist they were a city elf out of nowhere when talking to Taash??? Why don't I get the option to pick that???? What???)

Anyways, all of this to say is that it makes me incredibly sad because a big draw for Dragon Age for me is how cohesive the crew usually is as a unit. I dont expect everyone to be the best of friends (lord knows that my Cousland didn't get along with Morrigan at all, my Hawke had issues with Sebastian, and my Lavellan doesnt like Vivenne at all) but the difference is with all three other games I can point out directly which companions they're closest to, and how by the end of the game at least a decent chunk of them feel like a found family. And I just can't say the same for Veilguard because its like Rook is an afterthought and everyone else is besties. (Forreal though, as a Veil Jumper especially, would it really have been that hard to assume I already knew who Bellara was??? We're from the same fucking camp. There's like 40 of us. HOW does Rook not know who she is prior to the game deciding to meet her???)

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Re-playing Inquisition and reading through the actual wording on some of the requisitions is so funny to me because like.

Playing as Lavellan and getting this as a requisition is so wild. I'd like to imagine he just rips the request in half like "??? Im not killing ten halla just to make Orlesian nobles feel better about themselves"

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God so I started another playthrough of Inquisition after finishing Veilguard because I missed it. And somehow forgot that half of running around the Exlated Plains is me going HOW THE FUCK DO I GET OVER THERE.

I hate the ramparts. Thanks.

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Whenever a team kisses on ice mid routine it always makes me think of Glee when Finchel kisses at nationals in New York I cannot escape this