#OC: Antonio de Riva

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More specific headcanons for my Rook and Lucanis/Spite

My Rook loves wings. He loves the various types of wings of different winged creature from birds to dragons. He likes feathers and scales and wishes he could have his own. He spends time sketching the wing structure of the various crows and ravens around the city during his Crow training. He has tattoos of wings on his arms and face. He had the ashes of his sister carved into his back in the shape of wings.

He just loves wings.

It's part of the reason he was so happy to be taken in by the Crows with the whole wing motif.

So imagine when he meets Lucanis and sees the wings out of this man. As a mage, Antonio clocks it immediately that Lucanis is possessed, can sense the demon. But he can sense the dissonance between demon and host. Something's not completely right.

Later learning that Spite is the one controlling the wings, there's a point in their relationship where Antonio cracks and asks to draw Spite's wings. Both Lucanis and Spite are surprised, but give in anyways (because how could they so no to their adorable boyfriend). So, they go to the meditation room and Lucanis sits on the floor and Spite spreads his wings. Lucanis watches the fish in the aquarium while listening to the quiet sounds of pencil on paper.

Then, cause Antonio is a mage, he reaches out and touches the wings. It's the strangest feeling ever. The wings are both physical and not. He couldn't pluck a phantom feather out if he wanted to, but he can feel the wispiness of the wings between his fingers. Lucanis finds out very quickly that the wings, while in this weird metaphysical state, are still very much connected to his body and he can feel them. Spite can too and it's extremely weird for Spite because that part of him has never been touched before, especially not with as much care and grace as Antonio does.

Antonio is fascinated by the properties of Spite's wings and, while Antonio has never been a smart and technical mage, he still writes down some theories he has about the wings, something to bring up to the smarter mages -- Bellara and Emmrich -- later on.

Of course, there's also a point where Lucanis takes Taash's advice and he and Spite take Antonio out on a fly. It's the best thing ever. Antonio is completely amazed and exhilarated at flying something he's always wanted to do. He's also in the arms of a very handsome man so how can he possibly complain?

There's just something about Lucanis and Spite's wings that fascinate Antonio and he always gets excited seeing them pop out. Spite feels happy, to say the least, that he's appreciated in this way. It's a very different feeling than the time in the Ossurary.

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Dtawing Challenge

So I decided to do something pretty crazy and do a project based around the concept of the Pan-American highway. It'll involve my OC Josephine journeying up from the (well one of them, at least) southern terminus all the way up to the north of Alaska. I've also planned it such that it will be done within 100 drawings exactly. There will be a surreal twist to this, and a friend (or two) may join her along the way.

Here is the full list of locations in order (also I like funny names):

CHILE

Quellon

Puerto Montt

Los Angeles

Concepción

Santiago

Valparaiso

Viña Del Mar

Antofagasta

Iquique

PERU

Tacna

Lake Titicaca

Cusco

Machu Picchu

Nazca

Lima

Piura

ECUADOR

Machala

Guayaquil

Manta

Quito

Middle of the World City

Tulcan

COLOMBIA

Pasto

Cali

Bogotá

Medellín

Turbo

PANAMA

Darién Gap

Yaviza

Bayano Lake

Panama City

Panama Canal

Santiago de Veraguas

David

COSTA RICA

Paso Canoas

Uvita

Cartago

San José

Peñas Blancas

NICARAGUA

Rivas

Jinotepe

Managua

Esteli

El Espino

HONDURAS

San Marcos de Colon

Choluteca

Tegucigalpa

San Lorenzo

El Amatillo

EL SALVADOR

San Miguel

San Salvador

Santa Ana

GUATEMALA

San Cristobal

Jutiapa

Cuilapa

Guatemala City

Quetzaltenango

La Mesilla

MEXICO

Comitán

San Cristobal de las Casas

Tuxtla Gutiérrez

Salina Cruz

Oaxaca

Tehuacán

Puebla

Mexico City

Tampico

Ciudad Victoria

Monterrey

Nuevo Laredo

UNITED STATES (CONTIGUOUS)

Bigfoot

San Antonio

El Paso

Truth or Consequences/Elephant Butte

Albuquerque

Santa Fe

Colorado Springs

Denver

Cheyenne

Billings

Helena

Great Falls

Sweet Grass

CANADA

Lethbridge

Calgary

Red Deer

Edmonton

Dawson Creek

Fort St. John

Muncho Lake

Whitehorse

Destruction Bay

Canada-Alaska Border

UNITED STATES (ALASKA)

Northway Junction

Delta Junction

Fairbanks

E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge

Coldfoot

Prudhoe Bay

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Fun little headcanons for my trans Rook:

Lucanis eventually just starts preparing Antonio's HRTea (my trans roommates have informed me that fantasy HRT can be just special herbal tea) every week. Like, coming home after doing whatever, Lucanis already has his tea prepared and maybe even with a nice snack since Antonio has said how awful the tea tastes, but he has to take it. Eventually, Lucanis finds a way to make it taste good. He starts experimenting, wondering if he can find a way to apply the herbs to ciccolata calda. He can't really test whether or not it tastes good without failing to surprise Antonio.

So he might ask around, ask for some advice, until maybe meeting one trans person that gives an explanation on what they do. Lucanis takes the advice, prepares Antonio's tea, and manages to surprise the man when he takes his usually bitter and gross tea and finds that it tastes so good!

Then Antonio will lament that even though the HRTea helps, he will never grow such beautiful facial hair like Viago or Lucanis. When Lucanis asks why, Antonio just points at his ears.

Elves can't grow facial hair. Sad day.

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Look I forgot they said Lucanis was a short king, but I didn't realize how short. Nor did I realize that he was as short as MY short king. So now we just have two short king crows

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Started a Nightmare playthrough with Antonio. Since I know the pacing of the game now, I'm going to try and get more banter since I actually didn't get a lot of the funny banter I've been seeing going around. That and I need to get the last two achievements to complete the game.

But I also now have the Otis photomode mod so I can take many cool fun pictures in cutscenes and shit which I definitely plan to do. So enjoy just a couple of cool shots here plus an amazing Varric eye roll.

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Literally kissing Bioware for the hair physics. I am honestly so amazed and impressed with the hair physics. Sometimes, it gets a little wonky, but for the most part, they're so good. They just add so much LIFE to the characters. I really can't explain it. I fucking love it

Also my Rook is so fucking pretty look at him, I love him

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Just a funny little tidbit about my Rook.

He may be a mage, but compared to the other mages in the Veilguard, Rook is literally the dumbest of them all. He knows nothing about his magic actually works, about the ebb and flow of the Fade, and all the technical shit that Bellara and Emmrich love throwing around.

He just knows that he shoot lightning out of his body and somehow, can control it. He just goes with the flow. Literally. He makes using magic look like the easiest thing in the world, but if you were to sit down and ask him how he's doing literally any of it, he would shrug and just say "Fuck if I know."

It took a bit for the Crows to be able to help him actually control his magic because he just couldn't understand any of the technical jargon they were throwing his way. At least not until Viago and Teia suggested maybe they just let him try stuff out until he was able to figure out how his magic was supposed to flow into his assassin skills.

Eventually, it came around and now he's incredibly powerful with his magic. Lightning is his specialty, but he still doesn't quite know how he does it. His magic is still chaotic given its affinity, but he can still control bits of it. His magical incident of a spell backfiring and causing the nerves in a good chunk of his body to fry, leaves him very resistant to lightning damage (hence the scar on his face). Most of the time, he can't feel anything in his right hand unless he's using lightning magic that sometimes shocks the nerves into a temporary state of liveliness. There are parts in his arm where he can't feel anything at all, but then other parts that are extremely sensitive. The nerves in his right ear are super sensitive making his right ear very sensitive to anything really, more so than it would already be as an elf (yes, Lucanis abuses this information).

Rook can stand in front of a lightning dragon, get hit full force with the lightning breath, and manage to shrug most of it off before taking that power and throwing it back at the dragon.

He can use lightning to practically flash across the battlefield, unexpectedly in his opponent's face. He can kill the nerves in someone's body, rendering parts of them useless if he wanted to. He's an extremely powerful mage, with the training of a Crow behind him.

But still, he has no fucking idea how he does this shit.

Much to Bellara and Emmrich's disappointment, he is never able to answer their infinite questions. However, everyone can agree that Rook is extremely talented and are impressed with his skills.

Neve does ask at one point how he deals with demons as a mage and he says that was the one training he wasn't allowed to ignore even with all the technical jargon. She doesn't disbelieve that he could handle himself against a demon, merely curious.

I do headcanon at some point, after a fight, the team are shocked and worried as fuck once they see an arrow in Rook's hand. They're flabbergasted that he didn't even realize because he doesn't feel the pain. Emmrich of course heals his hand while everyone asks him how the hell did he not notice an ARROW in his HAND.

Then there's the lightning wings. He can't fly, but sometimes his magic needs to escape in other ways and that's why sometimes he'll sprout the appearance of "lightning bone wings" since the energy is just escaping from his body. He can control these tendrils and uses them in tandem with his fighting, as daggers almost. He is a flightless bird, but deadly bird nonetheless.

I just have lots of thoughts about him and this is just one of them. Probably drift on to talking about his Crow life and title and his calling sign.

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Just sharing some pics of my lightning boy Antonio. Just now got all the companions and he's not doing well after... Certain things. But he's managing.