#Amri de Riva

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Hapee seasonal 🎄

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When you and your fellow birb are the only close range fighters at the start of your contract and haven’t had another person to spar with in a while

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Reading Viago’s letter for the first time (and then reading it again out loud to Varric, mimicking all of Viago’s mannerisms)

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happy lunar new year 🌙🧧🐍💜💛

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last one ⚔🩸

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*gets down on one knee* would you do me the honour of ending my life ⚔️

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Daily with the baby (and when Viago tells her to button up) 💜

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self indulgent bloody mess 💜

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she be like (و •̀ ᴗ•́ )و

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Bby goblin’s scars study from later 2024

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In my heart of hearts my Rookanis is like a 900k slowburn with Pride & Prejudice (2005) levels of longing and probably the costuming/vibe of CW Reign with a heavy dose of my love of Period Drama Hand Holding™ and healthy amount of string quartet covers of pop songs and but a dash of Shoujo but I've yet to put a word or line to doc or digital canvas. It's enriching my blood though 🤷‍♀️ all that yearning. All that dancing around it. All the physically trying to beat the shit out of each other. All that friendship. All that camaraderie and knowing each other's physical capabilities intimately to fight together, especially in those early days when it's two close range fighter and a bunch of range fighters. The connection of steel, of fighting until they're on the ground, sweating, panting, slowly growing close enough to egg each other on a bit. Knowing each other's tells in that sense, and then building an emotional bridge. Bonding in shared hardships and traumas, but also noting the differences, bonding over the thought of "what if we'd known each other as fledglings?" Would they have grown up into friends then? Would they have been trained to be rivals?

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At the office thinking about Rook de Riva and how Varric gave this Antivan Crow who was kicked out of their entire country and home a different corvid as a name, and one they wear as a choice. A bird that is equally as clever and adaptable as a crow - still of the corvid family, just a different one. Someone new. When they return to Treviso for the first time in months, Teia greets them and acknowledges that they fully go by the name Varric gave them. Still a corvid, still one of them, same colours, but now a different bird with new wings. What did that mean to you, Rook de Riva? I will be thinking about this all day and beyond.

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Adding some extra Flavour™ working out the logistics of the abundance of scars my Rook has. Initially, I thought maybe the Antaam ambush the de Riva background has, but in-game dialogue paints it going pretty well — 20:1 ratio Antaam to her, an opportune ambush, Varric being among the prisoners ready to be transported. A single Antaam dwarfs my Rook by being twice her size in height and width lol so I don't doubt they would get hits in. Chose the body scars with the huge set on the chest and abundance of back scars. And arms. And legs. I'm thinking some Antaam, or the Antaam commander got a good chest hit in enough for her to struggle or pass out once the adrenaline left and she got everyone out.

But it's more deliciously fucked up if all the very intentional back scars (because the game makes them noticeably darker than the front ones) are from the Crows. Punishment for stepping out of line. Complain as he might, maybe Viago did his best to advocate for leniency instead of death, so a brutal lashing and banishment from the whole of Antiva was the lightest he could get for her without coming off as soft/weak for the little Crow under his wing. Varric steps in to offer a job to take her out of the city, which works perfectly. Viago sends that iconic letter.

Writing home to recruit Lucanis is something Rook says is a bit rocky. Rook says she couldn't possibly disappoint the Crows more when talking with Lucanis. She brings up Viago repeatedly in conversation, but her first exchange with him when coming home is as bitter as she can fit in before it's Business as Usual.

Such a horrible, brutal system, but he is family.

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Collected dailies of my Menace to Society #2/Northern Thedas 💜

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i'm so excited to have a little fucking monstrosity in the house to wear my favourite expression to draw ily bby welcome to the family

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I actually really like the flats, just bc the differences between them :)