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Chapters: 2/8 Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Illario Dellamorte & Lucanis Dellamorte, Caterina Dellamorte & Illario Dellamorte, Caterina Dellamorte & Lucanis Dellamorte, Illario Dellamorte/Zara Renata Characters: Illario Dellamorte, Lucanis Dellamorte, Caterina Dellamorte, Zara Renata, Rook (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Child Abuse, Siblings, Antivan Crows, Antivan Crows Training (Dragon Age), Antivan Crow Rook (Dragon Age), Seduction, Dysfunctional Family, Dubious Consent, Temporary Character Death, Canon Temporary Character Death, Grief/Mourning Summary:

hood training (def): the process of using a falconry hood to keep a bird of prey calm and acclimatise it to human presence.

or, a study of Illario Dellamorte

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idiot: i hope you're reading this. don't get careless out there. don't fail. and don't get yourself killed, or i will come after you in the fade myself. viago.

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i miss my wife even more now and i’m still not finished

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Idk how others in the fandom feel about this, but to me, Isabela's presence in Veilguard is frankly bizarre.

Isabela has wildly different endings in DA2, depending on Hawke's decisions and relationship with her. If you didn't form enough of a friendship or rivalry with her, she fucks off with the Tome of Koslun and never comes back. If Hawke decides not to defend her, she gets given up to the Arishok and Qunari. (It is implied she escapes regardless, but that's still a pretty significant thing to brush aside!) If Hawke romances Isabela and follows through on her quests, they stay together at least semi-permanently (barring whatever happens to Hawke in Inquisition).

Except, when you meet her in the Lords of Fortune - she can never mention any of that. She doesn't explain her new philosophy around the finding of cultural artefacts and how her Tome of Koslun debacle shaped that. She can never mention Hawke in any capacity, which is especially weird if your Hawke romanced her.

She does makes comments like "Kirkwall taught me a lot about family 😌" which makes 0 sense if your Isabela absolutely hightailed it out of Kirkwall or got thrown to the Qunari. What was the lesson she learnt, exactly? "I was right the whole time, fuck emotional vulnerability and fuck caring about anyone else?"

She's also one of the few characters who make an appearance other than the Inquisitor and Harding who has a close connection to Varric from previous games. You're telling me she has absolutely nothing to say about his death?

Her return strips her of any complexity and sidelines any of her past relationships because Veilguard just completely refuses to engage meaningfully with the stories before it.

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Let me take it all away

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andarateia cantori gifs ⟶ 2/?

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he's proud of them probably

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scout lace harding without warning makes men fall like tarnished crowns...

thank you @sidver for this wonderful piece of my crow adriano and our favorite scout harding, i can't wait to ask ali hills to sign it this weekend at sacanime.

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the revisionist history where inquisition is actually the Best Game Ever Made and above criticism when it's actually something we've been criticizing for ten years for being largely lifeless and putting the burden on the player to carry the weight of making it interesting is. insane. you are all smoking donkey balls

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Rook is a certified Yapper. I wonder if one of the reasons Viago was in such a bad mood while Rook De Riva was gone was because he missed that yapping. It was such a normal part of his day, have a coffee, get yapped at by Rook, be annoyed he was getting yapped at by Rook. However, when it was gone, he missed it, which annoyed him more.

Viago: *drinking his coffee in peace and silence, is annoyed by it* You *nearest fledgling* start talking

Fledgling: About what, Sir?

Viago: Anything.

Fledgling: *trying their best* I umm...the weather is nice today.

Viago: No, you are doing it wrong. *grumpy*

Teia: Stop picking on your fledglings just because you miss Rook.

Viago: *extra grumpy* I do not.

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Is opening your fic document then scrolling on your phone for 5 hours part of the writing process or

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You know what really fucking Annoys Me about internet censorship is stuff like swear words being heavily censored because that's entirely an American cultural hangup being forced on the rest of us. I don't know a single country where swearing is as taboo as it is in America. In fact most languages have swear words that would have the same effect on an American as giving a Victorian chimney sweep a pepsi max cherry.

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good god.

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what is the FUCKING POINT then???

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ladies and gents may i present you with my favorite photo of Ella Fitzgerald ft. that guy

homie was down bad, and can we blame him?