#Dragon Age Spite

[cacospirit]

You're in his DMs

I’m

manifested as a representation of his perception of me within the internalized mind prison he keeps as part of himself to contain his inner demon 

[sapphireangelbunny]

Lucanis Dellamorte

[sisifroggy]

I love how if you flirt with Davrin, Assan cock blocks you and when you flirt with Emmrich, Manfred cock blocks you but when you flirt with Lucanis, Spite is all for it so Lucanis has to cock block himself. What a man

[beepoven]

[saddleseatollie]

will NEVER get over how spite is just as in love with rook as lucanis

not only is he obsessed with them from the very beginning, he's fully present during almost every romance scene with rook and lucanis

the almost-kiss? i fully believe that he pulled back because spite was trying to wrest control from him because SPITE wanted to kiss rook just as much as he did

he's there at the cafe in act 3, fully just there on their date

the post-*spoilers* couch scene? it's established that lucanis has no control over the wings, it's fully spite. when those wings come out it's because SPITE was getting in on the action.

2 boyfriends for the price of 1

[viennacherries]

i love that in all the story based scenes lucanis and the other companions are like "spite is dangerous", "if something happens we'll have to kill lucanis", "spite takes over when i sleep so i stay awake all the time".

and then party banter happens and spite it like "omg can we take the pretty girl flying?? also that lady had a crush on you. also manfred has hands?????"

like come on man spite doesn't wanna be here either. leave him alone. be nice to him.

[lavendarr00]

Solas' Banter With Davrin & Lucanis

“Mala shivanas ar athim” translates to: “Your dedication/duty humbles me.” translation source

Cute how Spite is mad at Solas for hurting Rook 🥹 (I don't think it makes a difference, but my Rook is romanced to Lucanis here)

EDIT: I made a tutorial on triggering Solas banter

[crownedinmarigolds]

This was a bunch of dumb bad sketchery to end up with this bad punchline. Sorry I went a little freakmode in my brain when I saw Spite walking around.

(Noa Hidalgo in Dragon Age is a Grey Warden from Antiva. I'm having Lucanis refer to her as Senora because they're both Antivan and that's that haha)

[meowsgirldrawing]

Like Mother, Like Daughter

[sky--phantom]

well, that's rude

[hydine]

Damn, I shouldn't think too much. I just had this random thought that...

Lucanis spent a year in the ossuary. A year filled with loneliness, a demon in his body and probably other psychological torture. Based on what I've seen ingame, other people broke under whatever was done to them. But not Lucanis. Lucanis is strong, no doubt.

And my thought went like... How many times did Spite have to take over because Lucanis couldn't take it anymore? Couldn't take the torture because his mind would break? How many times did Spite save Lucanis?

[nebulasaurus]

I headcanon that Spite gets absolutely frustrated and angry that he has a thing for Rook because the human (Lucanis) he is possessing also has a thing for Rook but WONT do anything about it.

He spends most of the time screaming at Lucanis for never making moves. Even though Rook is RIGHT THERE.

[void-bitten-ghost]

Lucanis almost literally pulling his hair out over some paperwork so Rook just pulls up a chair near him with a book and sits, waiting, seeing if he would like the offered socialisation. He doesn't stir from his whirlwind of stress. And Rook knows it's important work they cant help with, not really, so they just stay near and start to silently read, ready for when Lucanis needs them.

Its not long before they can feel the barely there disturbance of something flitting about near their shoulders, the air feeling strange and familliar by one ear, and then the other. So they quietly start reading aloud, barely above the scratches of ink and quick mutterings of Antivan in the other corner.

Soon, the mutterings slow. The shoulders drop from his ears. Scratching becomes slow, smooth cursive and, eventually, both the paperwork and the book are finished, as is the fire in the hearth.

Rook closes the book, satisfied with its conclusion, and almost startles at a sudden Lucanis being behind them.

"Any joy?" They say, already knowing the answer.

"With you around?" He leans over the arm of the chair. "Always."

He kisses their hair, their head, their cheek.

"Thank you, amor."

They turn in the chair towards him. There's that faint hum of purple. "Feeling better?"

And there's that telling pause. "He says thank you too. And that he enjoyed the part with the giant eagles."

Rook breathes out a laugh, letting out a thoughtful "good to know" before leaning up for a soft, comfortable kiss, something with dark feathers and tingles around the edges.

[fruk-choosing-a-username]

I have a headcanon that Lucanis constantly gives Rook gifts. Thats his #1 love language. He doesn't know how to tell them his feelings for a bit, doesn't know how to put them into words, or feels what he does say doesn't properly portray to Rook how much he really loves them. So he showers them in gifts, separates eight fucking eggs for them, etc.

But I'd like to add to this with the possibility that, mayhaps, half the reason for his chronic gift giving is also Spite

" LUCANIS! Buy that for Rook! Rook would like that! Buy that too! And get them that! BUY EVERYTHING!! EVERYTHING FOR ROOK!!! "

[lion-writer]

I've seen people comment on how Spite is more like a loud dog than a demon, that he's underused, and just generally pretty harmless.

But honestly it makes sense he's like that. What's more spiteful than defying everyone's expectations

Contains spoilers

A demon is described as a spirit whose purpose has been perverted, turning them evil

But it's also been stated that there's less of a difference between the two than most realize, both by Solas and Bellara.

Just as a few more examples

In one of Emmerich's banters with Harding, he mentions that more sophisticated spirits vary in kindness, or “There's the curiosity that leads one over a hill, and the curiosity that kindles a house fire”

Spirits also don’t really have to turn into demons to do harm. Take for example Cole/Compassion in Asunder. He kills a ton of people but he never really stops being a spirit of compassion, it's just that he views killing people as compassion.

In “Regrets of the Dreadwolf”, its implied that Solas was a wisdom spirit who became a pride demon, and while your opinion about him can vary, he’s not particularly demonic"

A spirit’s purpose can shift without them turning into a evil or into a demon, as shown when a spirit of Compassion turns into Eulogy after Docktown’s “In Memoriam” quest

It’s mentioned that before becoming Spite, it was a spirit of determination. Lucanis also states that “Any spirit can become a demon, Zara didn't give them a choice”.  so I think we can safely assume Zara was the one who turned determination into spite

It's also kinda implied that spirits don't always lose their original purpose when they turn into demons, it just usually shifts to a different aspect of it. Wisdom to Pride, Justice to Vengeance, Determination to Spite.

And spite as a concept really is close to determination, I mean how many times do you hear about people who are determined to succeed solely out of spite. 

Who is it that Spite hates most of all? Who is the person Spite wants to Spite the most? Zara

And the thing that Zara wanted most out of Spite is for him to be evil, for him take over Lucanis, to hurt people, ect.

And so when a spirit, created out of the determination to spite a lady who wants it to become evil, is forced into Lucanis’s body, is it really a surprise that it doesn’t go as planned.

I mean Spite can be a jerk, but he mostly just throws temper tantrums when he doesn't get his way, and the worst thing he does is attacking Illario after he kills Zara, which to be honest is kinda deserved. 

In fact, he usually seeks to help Lucanis, I mean he fucking drags Rook into Lucanis mind palace to act as a therapist. And afterwards there's a conversation between Emmrich and Lucanis where it's brought up that Spite literally thought they were still in the Ossuary, which is why he kept trying to escape through the Eluvian.

Overall I feel that he’s closer to a spirit of living in spite of trauma. Of succeeding despite others saying that you can’t, and being kind even though the world is cruel.

[forystr]

the shadow of spite