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Your cat Morrigan somehow looks like game Morrigan. Something about the angularity of her markings and the way her white whiskers stick up against the black looks like her character design. (She's adorable!)

Dhdufigkggussys thank you! She's v sweet - she tends to flit between having the temperament of Morrigan, Zevran and Alistair which I think is very funny.

Obligatory extra pictures of my baaaaabbbbyyyy:

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Azrael 'Azzy' 'Rook' Ingellvar

Found deep in the haunts of the necropolis as a toddler, Azzy was always a strange child. They prefered the company of skeletons to the living, prefered the touch of bone to skin, prefered funeral rites to parties. They spent their days exploring, napping in coffins instead of attending their lessons, and talking to the whisps.

Azzy has always understood the dead, but never the living. But they are trying their best! Even without Varric, who they leaned on heavily as a guide for how to navigate the world outside of the necropolis. They are deeply, deeply homesick though, and often get very overwhelmed by the world of the living and the sunlight and need to go and hide away.

As a teen, Azzy doned the ceremonial skull paint in order to perform rites in the necropolis. Now, they feel uncomfortable without it on; they let the skeltons paint it on their skin. It's gender. To them.

A little offputting, naturally gifted in necromacy, Azzy is slowly coming to enjoy the company of their new friends. They're also rather enchanted by a necromancer who understands what it means to miss the skeletons at home; although they can't understand his fear of mortality.

(I absolutely adore Azzy. The lore surrounding their backstory - why they were in the necropolis - isn't known to them, but it is to me! They were found down there by a spirit of grief, who became a flame upon seeing that nobody - not even the watchers - had remembered to mourn for them. That spark of flame and magic created Azzy out of pieces of both who the dead child was, and who the spirit was.)

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quick messy cole paint

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somnus

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ATTENTION WILD VEILGUARD SPOILERS!!!! But I cried and laughed when I draw it 💀

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Like. Imagine if you kept blacking out in the middle of cut scenes with companions and suddenly you were with Solas again. And you don't understand why it's happening - maybe your connection to Solas is getting stronger? Maybe he can control you?

But really it's just every time a companion tries to mention what happened to Varric

I think that Rook should have had a similar reaction to people talking about Varric as Harrow had to people saying the word Gideon in The Locked Tomb

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I think that Rook should have had a similar reaction to people talking about Varric as Harrow had to people saying the word Gideon in The Locked Tomb

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the most comfortable seat in skyhold

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Thinking about my Ingellvar Rook. Getting skeletons to paint on their skull paint. Because that is gender. To them.

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The inquisitior when they realise they are responsible for kicking all the grey wardens out of southern Thedas and now the sixth blight is upon them:

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Children characters from DAO and DA2 that would have been interesting/hilarious as Rooks:

DAO

That baby found in a meteor crater

The redhead orphan with an accent from Lothering

Bevin, the boy hiding in a closet in Redcliffe and who also got a cool sword

A casteless' (Zerlinda) baby that you can either save or convince the mom to abandon him in the Deep Roads

DA2

The kid trying to steal from Athenril

The girl you rescue during Magistrate's Order

THE REDHEAD ORPHAN WITH AN ACCENT FROM LOTHERING MY BELOVED YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS TO ME

no but you're completely right here these are all great Rook concepts. Love them.

Maybe even Zerlindas baby as mourn watch rook. Shows up with the skeletons because Reasons after being abandoned in the deep roads.

Anyway yes all v fun love this

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Based on the promotional material before Veilguard came out people were like, "welcome back da2" but Veilguard turned out to have a very different vibe

Instead I'd like to propose that Veilguard is just Awakening with updated graphics (warning for spoilers):

our base of operation is the previous residence of one of our antagonists (Lighthouse belonged to Solas, Amaranthine to Howe)

can't talk with companions at will, instead they talk to us after specific plot points/when receiving gifts

also companions are unphased and accepting of spirit possessions (Justice/Spite) and, like, atrocities (Lucanis being an assassin, and Velanna murdering humans), and overall are on friendlier terms than other DA titles

the female elf companion has a personal quest related to her sibling joining the antagonist

darkspawn are different now (more primitive in Veilguard, more sentient in Awakening)

possibly the most important choice in the game is about which one of the two locations to save

there's a very sexy eldritch-monster-like antagonist (Ghilan'nain/The Architect) (<- I will accept no criticism about this point)

companions survival rate depends on the completion of their personal quests and city upgrades

(this is a silly post btw don't take it seriously)

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I've consistently seen people argue that Varric is trying to impose his view of normal onto Cole by making him 'more human'; and how this is immoral. But I so rarely see how the opposite is also true. When Solas tries to quell Coles anger and reminds Cole to be more of a spirit, Solas is doing so because he regrets becoming physical himself. He also wants Cole to confirm to his idea of normal, and his idea of 'whats right' based on his own personal experiences.

Neither Varric or Solas in this scene is 'correct', neither are 'right'. They are both trying to impose a norm onto Cole that they see as best. They are both using their own cultural and personal ideas of what is normal and right to try and guide Cole. The reason this decision is juicy and fucked up is that tension.

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Listen – Cole would love Anders if they met. Compassion, yes – because Anders has so much of that – but also Cole, the ghost of a traumatized child who died in the dark because of Templar cruelty, whose existence and death were erased from the records to protect their murderers’ reputations

Think about that for a second. Think about that child meeting someone who was ready to lay down his life to so nobody would ever be hurt again for being born with magic; so that the deaths of hundreds of mages in the Gallows would not go forgotten

whose actions cracked the Circles wide open and freed mages across Thedas, so never again, no one will be left to die in the dark ever again

cole and anders need to meet okay

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Rook trying to learn about the companions' backstories and personalities like -

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YOU play video games to feel powerful. I play video games to feel new, previously undiscovered shades of grief and sadness. we are NOT the same.

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