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I like to imagine Emmrich in gothic settings, wandering through dark corridors lit only by candlelight, in search for spirits. Or: you wake up in the middle of the night at the Lighthouse, step out of your room, and find him waiting for you 😌💕 . (You can find prints on INPRNT—link in bio) . Reference from Penny Dreadful

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not my usual style but I liked making these sun/moon wallpapers :)

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was thinking about that ask about how Manfred learns curse words from taash bc rook doesn’t often curse but I think Manfred would pick up other things from Rook. Like yelling and staring into the void.

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Imagine you're Johanna Hezenkoss and your one goal in life is to Be Right All The Time and you've got this sidekick named Emmrich. He can do the whole corpse whispering thing and he's an objectively pretty skilled necromancer but, of course, YOU are Johanna Hezenkoss. And you decide that you like Emmrich enough to drag him along with you to glory. So you spend a few decades doing that. Only Emmrich is six and a half feet of saccharine poetry and fanatical devotion to the core tenants of the Mourn Watch and YOU, Johanna Hezenkoss, are just counting the moments until you can go Beast Mode in this bitch and show everyone what TRUE NECROMANTIC POWER means. So Emmrich weighs you down a bit but you're a little obsessed with him only because he's like. Real? That's a real dude? Saying that shit? Wild. Totally insane. He's like an annoying chattering dog who keeps all your secrets and makes the biggest saddest eyes at you when you say stuff like, "The world could be exactly what we want it to be. Aren't you MAD. Aren't you ANGRY at what they've taken from you. Don't you want to MAKE THEM SUFFER LIKE YOU'VE SUFFERED--"

Yeah. Whatever.

And then Emmrich betrays you because you're scaring him. SCARING him? After everything you've done for him? You were going to reinvent the world--you were going to put him at the top of it all so NOBODY could step on either of you ever again and now he's all, Oh Johanna, you're scaring me, this isn't what we believe in, you're letting your fear control you, blah blah BLAH he never shuts UP

Fear? FEAR, Volkarin? How fucking rich.

Then some stuff happens. Half lich 125 foot skeleton someone named Elgar'nan, maybe a God, who cares. You get so close--SO CLOSE--and then fucking Emmrich rolls in and this time he takes it ALL. Your power and your mortal life and your last remaining shreds of fucking credibility in this fucking world. And then he doesn't even have the basic fucking decency to say I Told You So. He keeps you on his desk like a tchochke and listens to you scream and spit and even THEN he doesn't do anything.

All the while he has his own sidekick now. Some vapid little thing always batting their eyelashes and paying Volkarin the kind of lip service that always distracted him, made his eyes go soft and his chin quiver. He's still such a weak man. You tell him so. You tell him and tell him and tell him until--

The sidekick disappears. Emmrich's eyes go empty and haunted in a way that makes you wonder what he's done to himself in his heartache and grief.

"Whoever did this to you," you tell him on the worst day, "You can make them pay. You're powerful enough. You defeated me." You being, of course, Johanna Balls of Steel fucking Hezenkoss.

"I just want them back," Emmrich admits. Because he's weak WEAK he's a weak man mewling pitifully in a dark room for his piece of ass while the moon rises red in the fucking sky and a God walks the earth.

"You have the power," you tell him. "When the world takes from you, you take those things back. This is what I've been telling you all these years, Volkarin. For once in your miserable life, LISTEN TO ME."

Finally, finally, Emmrich reacts. He screams. He throws a few books. He kicks his desk. Punches something, probably, because his knuckles start bleeding at some point. You watch it all with barely-contained glee. Anger, yes, fucking finally. You've been waiting your whole goddamn life for this man to realize how fucking ANGRY he is.

"How do I break into the fucking Fade?" He screams. He's not even looking at you. His hair is seven different kinds of fucked. His shirt is unbuttoned to the navel, and he's missing a boot.

"You could start by asking someone who's done it," you say. Emmrich turns, startled for some reason to hear you. Again you say, "Listen to me."

"Oh, Johanna," he sighs. "I've rarely done anything else."

It's not the words 'Thank you' or 'You're right'. It's certainly not lichdom or godhood or a 125 foot tall skeleton. But it's one point for Johanna Hezenkoss.

You'll make up the deficit eventually. Volkarin has a kid, after all.

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I got tagged by @lavender-tea-fling

Go on your 'On Repeat' Playlist and press shuffle 10 times and list each of the songs it picks. I'm really excited to do this since like I'm always hesitant to share music as I fear I'll be judged.

1. Sleeping Sun by Nightwish

2. Higher than Heaven by Powerwolf

3. Four to Six by Math the Band

4. Golden Future by Neckrogoblikon

5. Terminal Beauty by Serj Tankian, Les Rita Mitsouko

6. Falling Down by The Birthday Massacre

7. I Woke Up in a Car by Something Corperate

8. Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Ray

9. Oleander by Mother Mother

10. Please Please Please by The Smiths

Idk what this says about me as a person but.... :,,)

Tagging: @buckynats @warmhealerr @corvitine @des-no9 @ssektor

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I got tagged by both @buckynats and @lavender-tea-fling for this ask meme!

Last song: last song I listened to consciously was U+K by GACKT.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V30Pcp08gM4&pp=ygUJdStrIGdhY2t0

Favorite color: I was just discussing this earlier how I feel like my favorite colors have changed again... red and yellow were my favorite for prob close to the last 10 years but I've been REALLY drawn in to like. Wisteria lately...

Last book: still working through Tevinter Nights but I found this m/m fantasy novel on thriftbooks with a 1 star rating I wanna try.

Last movie: I got to watch like a 320p rip of the plankton movie off a twitter video and it was realllyyy cute.

Last game: still playing veilguard over and over

Last show: I just re-watched all of Morel Orel in 3 days :,,)

Last internet search: I was trying to find a specific Gakupo video from like 15 years ago (I did not find it :( )

Tagging... @ssektor @corvitine @warmhealerr @des-no9 @nerrels ... and anyone else who's wanna play :3c

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THEIR son

Bonus:

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this has been going on for 10,000 years

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I was rewatching Barbie...

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🐙✋✨

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Tooth fairy Vorgoth for little rook Ingellvar

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My baby rook and their parent Vorgoth doing some reading

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Today I present you Ascended Astarion / professor Gale sort of bloodweave. Is there a toxic power imbalance? Yes. Is it an endless sourse for comedic situations? Also yes.

Gale is the only one of the original characters who, in my opinion, would not only tolerate Ascended Astarion, but genially enjoy his company. And personally, I find the dynamic between the university professor and his villainous husband just hilarious

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for science purposes. post your party in each dragon age game + your sexuality

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So I'm testing out getting charms with glitter in them, so when you shake the lantern it'll have actual movement. Fingers crossed they come out well!

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Akihabara II

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In my series of retro-esque Dragon Age travel posters, here's one for Nevarra / Necropolis!

One of my favourite locations in the game (not least because of a certain dashing necromancer gentleman), the scale and atmosphere of this place is so incredible!