#God I love the Crows in this game
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22 years later and the Crows are still cringing over Zevran. Truly the man of all time.
#Dragon Age#DA:V#DAV Spoilers#Lace Harding#Lucanis Dellamorte#Zevran#God I love the Crows in this game#“We can never show our face in Ferelden again. Our Crows might get seduced by a Dog Lord again!”
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“You go on, Guardian. We’ll catch up.”
#destiny 2 art#destiny 2#destiny the game#destiny art#cayde 6#destiny 2 crow#livdoodle#god I just love their interactions so much
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Fell in love with this fucked up version of Charles and the gang so i drew them !! <3
Here they are spliced up for better quality :3
(Can you tell montys my favorite character ? LOL)
LOOK AT MY FUCKED UP BABIES!! SO PRETTY!!!
I love it so much thank you thank you thank you
#ask ask ask#dead boy detectives#dbda#reverse verse#charles my boy is going through it#edwin looks so cool while freaking out as god intended#crystal bi panic is adorable#and niko lmao#the conductor looks kinda cute i love him#game over indeed charlie boy#also oh crow king#i swear i will give you a canon desing soon#adding this to the google doc immediately#thanks again it made me so happy
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lucanis truly has a near terminal case of burned out golden child syndrome. caterina fucked both of these kids over so incredibly bad with the dynamic she enforced there, with illario being labled the perpetual fuckup kid where lucanis 'could do no (would never be allowed to do) wrong'. the way he admits in the first coffee date scene that the only thing that happened when he showed he could carry the weight of expectation was that more weight was added makes me so sad. you can hear it in caterina's voice in his intro mission that she's incredibly proud of him, but this is clearly a leandra and hawke situation where that pride never translates into relief or resolution or unconditional warmth or understanding or anything that really helps.
#you messed up an excellent little autistic dude caterina look at him he has no personal life and his only friend is his scar-ass cousin!!#because that's what you told him he has to be and he believed you!!!#all that and you wouldn't even let him have a wyvern dagger just for fun and b/c it makes him SO happy? when i get you caterina dellamorte#I'm finding the crow family drama so compelling in this game I'm just hanging around treviso Observing haha#I wish they'd given illario a bit more nuance in this (as I feel he does have in the wigmaker job)#b/c with the sheer pantomime susness he's got going on they really don't want you to engage with him deeply haha#also teia mvp as always but I think that goes without saying (and happily all these lads around her seem to know it)#both lucanis and viago like 'thank you teia you're the best 🥺' and she's like 'yeah I know'#protective big sis of the remaining crow family haha. and she's got to be barely thirty years old at this point. I'm love her so much#'*annoyed voice* MAKER HELP US' she's saying what we're all thinking#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#lucanis dellamorte#I think my rook is having some uncomfortable moments of realizing some parallels here with their own relationship to the watchers haha#like 'buddy you're so much more than just a tool for your family to use. I however have a sacred duty I was banished from#the fulfilment of which determines my entire worth and that I am low-key mourning behind the levity b/c that's what I was made for. ...wait#I feel like rye was more the illario & lucanis combo only child tho. wants so much to be good but keeps getting into Shenanigans#chaotic underachiever with frankly upsetting potential when they actually get their act together and they WANT to so bad#but also. shenanigans keep happening. releasing blighted gods is only barely the wildest of them
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I think there should be some magnificent writing done of the looming moral dilemma of Elspeth Rook Mercar, the Breaker of Bonds, the firm believer in heroic nonsense, falling for a Lucanis Dellamorte, whose calling is death, the First Talon of the Crows. Because no matter how big and soft his heart is, he’s still unavoidably will lead the organization who helped to save Thedas, yes, but also is intertwined with many of the horrors that the Shadow Dragons oppose. And yet, still she will always choose Treviso, instead of Minrathous.
#this is so random#I love Veilguard I do very very much#but gods I needed more#nuances? non erasure of ugly bits?#the post-game lives of these two plague me#because its unavoidable of Rook learning how some crows are recruited#how they are trained#how Lucanis was trained by Caterina#that at the center of the pain and gloom there is family and love#and yet despite her morals and principles she stays by his side#she becomes the wife of the fitst talon she is gifted that dammed opal ring with Caterina’s blessing#because even though Rook is not a crow and cannot and will not be a crow she is *loyal*#like a dog#because she understands the importance of family unlike one specific man#I have so many thoughts about it#my rook would be so conflicted she hates Caterina for the abuse yet pities the woman lost to grief and and doom of her children and grand#and who doomed what was left#it’s so fascinating#please oh please BioWare give me a post canon dlc#I need to have a convo with the grandma please#on the brighter side the sheet confusion and frustration of Illario to comedic degree#because after everything he does bit expect Caterina to welcome Rook to the family with open arms#I live by the misery of Dellamorte family and the sheer comedic potential of in-law Rook and Illario#dragon age rook#rook#lucanis x rook#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#veilguard spoilers
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Let me talk to the little gremlin, Lucanis. 💜😈
#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#lucanis dellamorte#the crows#I’m in love#spite#I love everything about this game oh my god
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LORD I forgot how fucking funny the banter is in origins
#currently running the party with alistar morrigan and leliana#anD GODS THEYRE HILARIOIS#i love this stupid game#im just at redcliff so eagerly awaiting our crow boi to join the crew#and wynn- i like wynn#i never had shale cause i only played origins on my ye old xbox 360#so its exciting to do all the dlc#dragon age#dao#dragon age origins#jasper
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man i remember when my time at sandrock was still in development and there was some dev update introducing the town doctor character, fang, with his pretty delicate facial features and long shampoo-commercial hair, looking like every cliche of a "cold, reserved anime pretty boy" distilled
and then the update where they said they would make him romanceable/expand his backstory due to popular demand, and i rolled my eyes in utter disinterest at what looked like the same cardboard cutout love interest we've all seen a million times, cuz that is just not my bag, personally
and then i played the game and well fuck, so he's actually disabled due to deep childhood trauma, and you help him through his struggles to a place where it's less debilitating, learn he's extremely, passionately motivated to help others not suffer the way he did, and is in fact kind and awkward and a little bit of a dork
and oh no, whoops, i've tripped and fallen and married him
#my time at sandrock#mtas fang#babygirl has been fighting through something like 2 decades of aphasia#constantly being misunderstood and disliked and treated as weird because he can hardly speak#and mostly communicates through his support animal (talking crow)#been abused and abandoned and lost a loved one far too young in a slow and terrible way#spent years on the streets starving#i swear i would absolutely believe if the devs came out and said he was autistic#and you get to help him tentatively begin to relate to others again and work on his aphasia#(his OWN choice based on his OWN motivations and desire rather than you trying to fix him)#and see him blossom and warm and relax into his life and achieve his goals#and he's always always shaped by his trauma and always will live within certain limitations#but it's never all that he is and it feels like a privilege to learn that as you play#oh man i was so pissed the game didn't give me an option to punch his dad in the throat though#and my god the EXHILARATION when they didn't force fang to forgive#a+ character writing sandrock dev team well done
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i wanna hear your law talesofarise thoughts then
ohh this is a can of worms you’re opening rn. im so obsessed with this guy and am always thinking about how the game does him dirty so please share in this with me
(obviously spoilers ahead for tales of arise) (and a few for beyond the dawn)
(and yes im being dead serious about this)
more than anything else or any of the major criticisms you hear about tales of arise, literally my biggest problem with it is how law is treated, both by the other party members and by the writing itself.
so let’s start with why law immediately caught my attention as a character at the beginning: hes a turncoat! he’s a dahnan actively working with the renans! the story bring you straight from calaglia, where that would have been UNTHINKABLE, to show you “hey! not only do dahnans work with the renans, some of them go so far as to prioritize that work over their own family!” which is fascinating! we get thrown into a fight with law, where he clearly uses the same fighting skills as his father, he has calaglian instrumentation in his fight music, and he doesnt show any mercy. all this while knowing hes going to become a party member! because then we learn through the course of that chapter (and a little bit later in the game) that law’s working there under duress, that he watched his comrades be killed in front of him, that he was left alive if he joined with the snake eyes. and he still has nightmares about that. we learn that he DOESNT hate his father, just left on bad terms and couldnt reconcile with his father’s way of being a father. he couldnt stand how overbearing and patronizing zephyr was, and the first thing zephyr does when they reunite is do exactly that! no wonder law was frustrated at him! but then you get to see his absolute loneliness as a dahnan working for the snake eyes. he gets no sympathy from the renans who treat him as other because hes a dahnan, and active dislike from dahnans because hes working with renans. but if his other option was to be killed, then we as the audience have to ask if this was a decision that’s sympathetic. but we do get this conversation:
law: “i never did tell you how i ended ip hanging around with the snake eyes, did i?”
alphen: “not properly. all i know is you had a falling-out with your dad and ran away from home.”
law: “getting to cyslodia almost killed me. once there, though, i actually ended up joining a resistance organization, believe it or not. of course, before long someone ratted us out, and we were ambushed by the snake eyes. i’d never seen such brutality. if i hadn’t surrendered…”
alphen: “law?”
law: “i don't know why they let me live. they made me watch as they butchered my friends right in front of my eyes. i still have nightmares. i hear roars of zeugles as my friends scream, the snow stained red with blood. and all the while those bastards, laughing. i thought that with ganabelt defeated, i’d be able to put it all behind me. turns out that was a little optimistic. i was terrified they would kill me, too. so i wound up betraying the memory of my friends, and getting my old man killed in the process. i wonder if i’m any braver now. what if one day i panic again, and end up running away like always?”
alphen: “and leave us behind? you really think you’d do that?”
law: “i hope not. but who’s to say what i’m really capable of?”
[lies down]
so there’s the whole thing with law trying to free zephyr and fight back against the snake eyes. as a dahnan that’d be a death sentence even if it weren’t coming from a member of the snake eyes. and yes cyslodia’s built on betrayal, but it establishes law as somebody who betrayed his father, who betrayed his people, and who betrayed his pledged loyalty. it also establishes that when push comes to shove, he cant stand by as an observer and enforcer — hes a protector at heart. and it gets proven again and again throughout the game when hes the first one to jump into things that he isnt made to be an observer! as a person hes so fundamentally opposed to what the snake eyes do but still managed to be convinced to work with them for his own well being. we see in beyond the dawn that he experiences deep regret for what he did and for how he was directly responsible for the suffering of other dahnans he sent to the pylons. hell, even when alphen gets him come along with them, theres this little interaction:
law: its not like theres anyone waiting for me in calaglia either. …plenty of ditches along the road. maybe i’ll find one to die in.”
alphen: “how about a fresh start?”
law: “after the kinds of things ive done? i don't know where id even begin.”
so we need to keep in mind that even if he doesnt talk about it, even if he puts on a front, that he a) thinks hes irredeemable, b) feels intense guilt for what hes done, c) still has nightmares about seeing his friends be killed, and d) is living with the knowledge that if it weren’t for his actions, his father would still be alive. (and its important to note that he recognizes it’s not just his own personal loss, he’s well aware how deeply zephyr’s death affects both the party and the crimson crows.)
and here i’ve got to talk about an under appreciated law detail that i love about him so very much: law, the loudmouthed, immature-acting brawler of the party, has the capacity and skills to have been a great snake eye. look — we saw how he acted with zephyr. but in the “stowaway law” skit he says “eh, lets just say i’ve always had a knack for sneaking around since i was little” to explain how he escaped calaglia. hell, for months, as a kid in a brand new realm, he managed to join a resistance cell and avoid getting caught (for a while). when he helps zephyr escape, he uses smoke bombs. when the party is getting tailed by kisara in viscint, hes not only the only person who notices, he manages to fall back, sneak up on HER unaware, and get a blade to her throat! the woman who's supposed to be the best guardsman in the realm! in beyond the dawn, he can sense the party's being followed and calls out nazamil even when she's invisible. and when that zeugle is attacking pharia ranch, law's the first person to be able to track this invisible creature. law’s perceptive, sneaky, unafraid to dirty his hands for the sake of others, and this trait is soooo fucking underutilized in this game…
which probably brings me to why i cant stand tales of arise sometimes. for every incident of law doing this, or showing literally any emotional vulnerability, theres three incidents of the other party members (rinwell) disparaging him. and it pisses me off SO MUCH. its obvious from that first conversation when he joins the party that while he does have a lighthearted nature, hes got a ton of guilt and self-hatred and regret that take precedence, and he’ll put on a joking front to cover that up. because how can he let himself be who is he when he just got his father killed? and this slips out plenty of times in the game — tons of skits have him start to bring up how it felt to lose his father — but every goddamn time he starts to talk about himself, rinwell insults him.
im not fucking joking! ive played this game twice through. i copy down every skit and conversation that law’s involved in for the entire game. law can’t get a fucking SENTENCE out about who he is as a person without rinwell insulting him. the game tries to play this off as banter when its ALWAYS one sided. rinwell gets to have her emotional scenes with other characters without law jumping in. hell, if she starts to be serious with him, he listens! but heaven forbid he get the same respect in turn! and its not just her. shionne never hears him out (and hell, i love shionne the most, but i really dont like that part of her) and its clear she doesnt see much past his front. kisara and dohalim both see him as totally immature.
“but zad,” you say, “law IS immature.” yeah! of course he is! hes 16 and hes never been allowed to have a childhood! hes been involved with the crimson crows since the day he was born! he escapes calaglia as a kid! hes had time to join a resistance cell and end up working with the snake eyes all by the time he’s 16!!! he says it himself, traveling with the party is the first time hes been allowed to be himself. he wears silly wolf decorations because he thinks they look cool and he doesnt have anywhere else to put them. he playfights with alphen. he lets himself have fun in fights. he (unsuccessfully) flirts. he eats good food and learns to cook. hes got immature taste because hes a teenager. i know i sure was the same! he makes ill-timed jokes because he hasnt been able to be a normal part of friendly conversation before. he has a hard time reading other people because he’s only had people patronize him or suspect him until now.
but the fact is that for all his silliness and immaturity, he is more than that. hes sneaky and traumatized and guilt-ridden and has such a big heart that the first things he does when finding himself is to protect others. (hell, he even says “if im not training, its easy for me to get anxious.” ) and it frequently feel like the writers forget his backstory and motivations and treat him solely as comic relief and as a tool to develop other characters (rinwell).
the most egregious example of this is the almeidrea incident, which i can hardly watch. law’s a character who joins the party and immediately gets revenge on the guy who killed his father (which is still an awesome scene), realizes that doesnt bring him back or undo law’s complicity, then stews with that knowledge and doesnt tell anybody. i love a good revenge plot, but i can see where he comes from when he says “killing the person who wronged you doesnt undo what they did”. but what really and utterly kills me is that all of that is a throwaway line used to develop rinwell’s story. time and time again in this game law’s completely disregarded and im honestly so fucking sick of it 😭 the most we get is this line:
alphen: “law left home because of how much he hated his father. i think law spent a lot of time thinking about how they never got to make things right. and if i had to guess, killing ganabelt didn't make any of those feelings go away.”
and the handful of good scenes (law’s pep talk to alphen when shionne’s kidnapped, law’s conversation with the traitor dahnan and the informants)
so yeah. i dont have a conclusion to this. i adore that law’s a traitor and hes sneaky and hes competent and fights like his dad and wears a silly wolf decoration and lives with unimaginable guilt and has nightmares and has favourite foods and flirts badly and likes being a farmer. im just like cheering for this guy and supporting him unconditionally because the game itself sure won’t.
#t#law#tales of#arise#ty for asking 🥺 i love to talk about him#i even held myself back from being a rinwell hater. proud of myself#but god i cant stand her. the fucking romance implications make me wanna kms#i am an arise enjoyer though… i like law so much i cant help it… i like the alphen/shionne romance so much too… its the best tales romance#theres more law things i love btw. i love how he keeps trying to flirt with kisara and that he doesnt take shit from dohalim#i love that he checks out mahavar’s ship before everyone gets on it#i love that he rejoins the crimson crows after the main game#i love that he hates boomies. and that he sucks at doing laundry. and that he asks to listen to tigrina’s recording in the bard quest#i love that he wants to learn more and that he likes working at the farm and that hes good with kids#i love that nayth supports him. i love that his father left him a note. i love that he eventually wears his mothers ring#and most of all i love playing as him. his low defense and incredible attack and awakening levels. i could analyze him on gameplay alone
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you know what I do have one complaint
what do you Mean when you finish Lucanis' big quest and he goes "I have better plans for my evening" that wasn't him implying a romantic dinner or a date afterwards why the fuck did that go nowhere we just saved his grandmother and stopped his cousin from handing over the entire city to an evil mage and he became First Talon which means he inherits the Gigantic Fucking Mansion with it's own Guesthouse and Opera House and all it culminates to is him drinking coffee back at the Lighthouse going "damn, that was crazy" they set it up perfectly-
#it Honestly feels like they had a ton of ideas and plans for him and ran out of time#like the concept art shows a lot of heart already and he got some of the funniest lines in the game#maybe it's just that the last chunk of this game has pacing issues in general and his quest line just got a pretty short stick#but Man Come On#I should be used to my Antivan boys getting done dirty but gods is it tiring#I did really like the quest tho I just wish I could have roasted him more for being a rich boy#I Love the banter you get for playing a Crow too#there's a lot of love in here but you can see the corners getting snipped in real time#DAV Posting
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so far i'm liking lucanis a lot more than i thought i would, and bellara unfortunately a lot less than i had hoped u_u
#which is a shame cause i wanted to romance herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr#but she feels like she was written for a different game#and by an intern#idk actually who her writer is. if she's written by a veteran than i apologize but it really doesnt feel that way so far (im still only lik#20 hours in)#dav spoilers#lucanis has been really great though (helps that im a crow)#I HATE HOW I CAN'T BE LIKE “I ALSO LIKE ANTIVAN COFFEE AS A TREVISO NATIVE” THO OH MY GOD#T_T#let me roleplayyyyyyyyyyyyyy#that's another thing i dont like abt bellara so far#is that my character is railroaded into so much dialogue talking to her i keep being like#mara would never say that#when I'm forced to just continue the conversation a certain way after picking one dialogue option#anyways#still hooked on the game just love to complain and critique
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Another thing I've really liked about Veilguard so far is that they kinda dove into the darker tone right off the bat with dmetas crossing. A lot of people were complaining about the trailers not being "dark" enough for a dragon age game so I am very happy about that
#dragon age#dav spoilers#crow rambles#ALSO. YOU CAN SEE!!!!#yeah you have to turn to brightness up but i can actually see in the dark places thank fucking god bioware#dmetas crossing reminded me a bit too much of the broodmothers and i was NOT expecting it less than two hours into the game#not complaining tho!!! love when a game sets a tone to expect
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#my girl <333#mina de riva#god i love her so much#i spent like 90 minutes in the CC tbf#she's a Crow assassin#looking very pink and soft to hide the threat 🗡#da:v#verayne games#dragon age
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I was just ambushed within the turbulent halls of my own mind by some headcanons about rye ingellvar's childhood that did 15000000 points of psychic damage to me and my heart personally and also made me almost sure of how I want to play it all at the end (very very differently from how I imagined going in!). some 'oh holy fuck this changes everything' rocking my own world bullshit going on in my neurons right now I'm reeling
#I'm sorry to say that despite what I expected I think the dread wolf might be going down violently on my first run???#not because *I* love solas any less but because of who rye is and some of the twists I know happen down the line#which does make for a neat thing b/c I meant to play the crow I'm going with second as initially incredibly hostile#and then growing to feel for him and redeeming him at the end.#so if rye starts out very reasonable and sympathetic and then is brought to 'haha. no. fuck you forever for that in particular' at the end#...a pleasing cosmic symmetry in it I must admit. perfect and also makes me feel a bit sick#I'll try to put together something coherent eventually but for now#it's sort of a 'my name is ellaryen ingellvar you killed the guy#that my brain went 'close enough welcome back beloved and much missed deceased father figure' over. prepare to despair and die'#I think just the killing part might not have done it but everything that comes after? rye is a chill guy until he finally decides#that enough is fucking *enough*. and that was the most enough of all time for them#it also explains rye's accent (one of his primary caregivers growing up was a dwarf)! so many birds with one stone here#also I am so fucking sad now and I did it entirely to myself. I love fiction I love games (embarassingly genuine)#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#oc: ellaryen ingellvar#thank god that the romanced solas playthrough is the second one tho that does make things less dire haha#adaar would have given it the good old college try to get solas to change his mind right to the end I think#but even his capable hands and politician's mind could not hold back the sheer beware the fury of a patient man storm#that is about to hit solas for the shit he just pulled. I think rye and solas are -- as it turns out -- TOO alike in many ways#...solas buddy I'm so sorry I'll come back for you on the second playthrough and make it right I swear fhsak#it's just that a second dead dwarf dad has joined the chat to haunt the narrative (and this time it's fucking personal frfr)#it's almost scary how quick I've gotten attached to my rook tho. I've waited A DECADE to save this bald elf man from himself#and then rye shows up with steel in his normally kind eyes going 'no. I want that fucker *dead*'. and I just go anything for you babyboy#I'll see what we can do. unspeakable stuff
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Which of my top four favourite characters am I the most like
Thanks for the tag @twinkle-toph ❤️
This was so hard wtf. Look I have so many faves and to first remember them all and then pick only four??? So hard. Also why are they all men? I clearly have a type lol
Anyways tagging @sexy-raccoons @hailqiqi @menina89 @poly-mechanisms and whoever else wants to join :)
#my favs#god I have so many favs#I wanted to add Kipps lucy or skull too#or cress cinder or kai#or Eugene and rapunzel#Astrid could’ve gone in there too#anyone from pjo#NICO I COULDVE ADDED NICO#Or any Rick riordan charcater for the most part#oh the crew from six of crows#nikolai cause I love him#man so many characters#OH anyone from tales of Arcadia pretty much#like Jim or Toby or Claire or blinky or aaarrrgggh or shoot blanking on names but anyone#so so many characters#can you tell I’m bad at decisions?#anyways going with these guys for now and stop adding characters down here otherwise I’ll keep going#oh Eda or king or Luz or willow or amity or Gus or literally anyone from the owl house#ok ok I’ll stop#tag game
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shadow & bone 🤝 game of thrones having showrunners that ruin intricate storylines that MAKE SENSE and SUPPORT THE THEME and MORAL OF THE STORY for shock value when all of source material is there
#shadow and bone#sab#game of thrones#got#asoiaf#sab spoilers#im actually rlly fucking pissed#its so bad but its like not even comical#sure it had AMAZING moments but at the cost of everything else??? yea hell fucking no#i love the crows i rlly do bUT THIS IS SHADOW AND BONE#THIS SEASON SHOULD'VE FOLLOWED BOOK 2#NOT CRAM 5 OTHER BOOKS AS WELL#ITS SO DUMB#god im so fucking mad i rlly was so fucking excited#and now im just looking at a dumpster fire of a mess#joey talks
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