#MY ROOK IS READY FOR THIS

[acommonanomaly]

Been eating up Dragon Age Veilguard spoilers about my boy Lucanis and I just fffffffffu ajflasdjfl adslfjalsfdjlakl1!!

[timethehobo]

It’s so rare for a game to give us a canon older character romance option (who looks their age) and I’m so damn ready.

[mourn-and-watch]

the whole premise of solas & rook dynamic is just comedy gold

you're an ancient god. you fucked up a big deal. twice. now the whole world is broken. you're NOT doing this third time in a row. you take precautions. do damage control even! then varric tethras shows up and pulls some weirdo out of his ass. also very nice speeches right out of one of his books that are supposed to make readers teary-eyed. the weirdo makes you fuck up again and it's even worse now. nobody cares you're a theater kid who speaks in iambic pentameter and also has feelings. they made you feel bad for saving the world! in a way. it's beyond their comprehension. whatever. you can't do shit now anyway. thanks everybody very much.

you're a normal person. employed, even! like, with a job! you're tired after a long day of work and go to the bar to relax, like normal people do. then, varric tethras shows up. like, the bestseller guy. he wants to hire you to go after a god and he's dead serious about it. you don't have anything better to do later this evening anyway, so you agree, probably with intention to find out what kind of elfroot he smokes. there's actually a god. you're scared shitless and try to throw a statue at him, because what else are you supposed to do with a god? ask him nicely to be good because friendship and stuff? that kind of works out, the statue thing, not the friendship one. kind of not, because there are three gods now and none of them seem friendly enough. you pass out.

you're stuck in that asshole's head now. probably it was empty enough so you got sent here, for fuck's sake. it's going to be a disaster because the world is going to shit and this time you quite literally can't do anything about it. unless.

you're stuck with that ancient scary fucker in your head now. he seems pissed and very unimpressed by anything you do. it's going to be a disaster because the world is going to shit and now you have to follow instructions. suggested by the god in your head. who doesn't like you very much. well, you don't like him too! what is he going to do about it now? peer pressure you into being a hero? he probably will, because otherwise, eh. everyone's going to die, aren't they?

good luck saving the world. try not to drive each other crazy. there are evil gods out here, and they're about to make up leeway

[vaguely-concerned]

having seen at least the rough outlines of all the romances now I have to say that I think emmrich's is probably objectively the best in terms of coherence and completeness of story arc (with the understanding that ultimately the 'best' romance is whichever one makes YOUR heart sing anyway so objectivity is a silly thing to claim that way, it just felt like it's the arc with the most well-paced focused content and the least dangling threads)... but lucanis' is my favourite haha. just. the whole kneeling before your beloved full of reverence but without any of the distance that usually implies??? his complete undramatic certainty and calm in every scene with rook after this, having spent the whole game caught between fear and longing???? mr. lives in a pantry but it says nothing about my psyche don't worry about it it's purely for tactical reasons that I keep myself contained in a small dark room not entirely unlike a cell, love among the parsnips -- finally coming to rook in their room and it's so comfortable and comforting???? after all the times rook supports and comforts him through the game he's finally able to return the same to them when they need it while being so calm and steady and it's so fucking sweet and feels so effortless and with no price attached?????? he basically assigns himself the role of your bodyguard and he WILL stab a god over it??????????????? the turn to protector (which was in his heart all along longing to get out and find a place) of it all????? he sounds like he's found himself unexpectedly stumbling into such a soul-lightening state of revelatory existential relief, full on 'you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves' mary oliver style, and he goes and he shares that with rook and protectively envelops them in it when they're hurting??????????????????????????? hello for the maker's sake hello can anyone hear me?????

[americankimchi]

playing dragon age veilguard is going to be SO fucking funny because me, the person, the player, the real life human being HATES solas but my "canon" inquisitor considered him a confidant and friend and sometimes even a mentor figure. so while my inquisitor is like "maybe i can still convince him... maybe it doesn't need to end in bloodshed" i'm hovering behind him like

[wanderingibon]

first draft / initial concept for my rook! (he/they), debating on a name still but I know for sure that they're a mournwatcher, mage, 30 or so, and have this aloof / intimidating aura which keeps others from approaching them- when in fact he's just awkward doesn't know how to hold conversations with others

[monabee-draws]

A handful of Crows (wip - still gonna colour this.)

(Lucanis Dellamorte when I find you with your ridiculous damn belt!!!!)

[eurydia]

darling, your looks can kill, so now you're dead

notes, details

I went through an art phase where I was really into optical illusion art, one of them being antique skull illusions. I find them fascinating but never attempted to draw one. this was really fun and challenging! I was listening to the Neighbourhood's A Little Death a lot while drawing this. Sybil is my Rook for Emmrich. I'm excited to learn more about the hot old necromancer 💀❤️

[fade-strider]

So the Veilguard playthrough is going great.

[autumnblooms]

1 month and 1 week until I can see my girl again 😭

[leopardmuffinxo]

keres squats down to kiss her tiny gf

[timethehobo]

Sketching tonight. He’s really taking over my brain.

[nokdunal]

Paper doll style + freaky long prosthetic

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Someone who once cared a lot about her appearance is now reckless and battle weary ❤️‍🩹

[irithyllians]

sooooooooooo about veilguard

[apricote]

rosanna ♜ (human / mournwatch / death caller mage / ♥ emmrich)

[a-whiff-of-a-dream]

finally got around reading the first two stories of Tevinter Nights last night and Down Among the Dead Men by Sylvia Feketekuty kinda made me want to start my first Rook with the Mourn Watch, ngl