#Riva gender

[dykeredhood]

HRT follow up appointment tomorrow morning, let’s hope one of the nursing techs doesn’t refer to me as ‘queen’ immediately after reading off all the side effects of testosterone HRT again

[rookanis-de-riva]

"So." Davrin says after they step back into the fade from their trip to Treviso. "Those were your parents?"

"No. Basically," Rook admits.

Taash walks backwards to stare after the eluvian. "Damn. Do they always wear leathers like that?"

"Shut up."

"Both of them?"

"Shut UP."

"Hey, we're not related to them," Davrin says.

Rook heaves a sigh. "Whatever. Not even close to the worst I've heard."

"Oh." Taash turns back around. "Yeah, I guess that's your mom, right?"

"Yuuup."

Davrin grins. "And Viago is definitely a dad--"

"SHUT."

Davrin holds up his hands. "Sorry. Just teasing."

Rook sighs again but waves him off with a grumble. "Yeah, yeah. You gotta have tough skin growing up as a Crow with the hot parents. Right, Lucanis?"

Lucanis frowns. "Are you old enough to have known my parents?"

"Well, yeah, no. But ..."

It suddenly occurs to Rook what that statement was about to admit. The only thing left to do is shut the fuck up and keep walking. Quickly.

Lucanis passes through all five stages of grief.

"CATERINA??"

Rook thinks through the consequences for all of zero seconds before jumping off the edge of the island. A moment later, Rook falls through the air, yelling the entire way, and hits the ground with a thump.

"That ... didn't work," Rook wheezes.

Taash would help complete the mercy kill, but they're too busy laughing until they throw up.

Davrin is preoccupied with trying to prevent Assan from licking up the boiling lava puke.

Lucanis also contemplates throwing himself off the edge.

[bunbunsama]

couldn’t help but think about viago with a somniari!rook & how he’d 1000% invest so much time & effort & resources into just understanding what it means because 1. he’s watched her talk to thin air for hours before she realized she wasn’t talking to a person 2. some clients comment on how great a job she did because “not only are they dead but now everyone thinks they were possessed/mentally unhinged!” because “what do you mean you killed the target with a nightmare? what do you mean a spirit helped you???”

viago is committed to figuring out tf Nasi is & when de riva mages figure it out, telling him about how she is a danger to have around because she’s basically always on the cusp of becoming possessed as demons always consume their minds. so he spends years studying magic that he cannot touch, probably gives rook a look when she asks to have her new friend put in contact with viago’s art dealer because “wait do you mean the emmrich volkarin? author to novel intricacies and other machinations of the deeper fade?” & nas’revas is like “how do you know that?”

also it makes me love the regret prison scene even more cause i love a good old lovers reunion but viago being there & descending upon her immediately because he knows how her magic feels, knows how it trembles when she wakes up from going too far, when she’s dig too deep & she can’t tell the difference betwixt what’s real & what’s not & it makes her the prime target for demons to descend.

he knows cause he’s watched it happened when she was younger, how she held herself tight & kept singing through the lightning storm, covering her ears & getting louder so that she couldn’t hear the voices anymore. he knows how to help her through it, gathers her up in his arms & has to push away the mangle of feelings inside him— because he thought she was gone, thought she could be dead or worse, & now she’s here again & he’s so tired & overjoyed & angry at her for even putting herself in that situation, but it has to wait because she needs him.

[ramblinganthropologist]

Just the contrast between a put together younger Lucanis and a rough around the edges, bruised knuckles, eye swollen shut Cy is so delicious.

And there was only one available table so they wind up unfortunately sitting together, trying to ignore each other but Cy is so annoyingly Ferelden it rubs Lucanis' frayed nerves the wrong way. At the same time, Lucanis being there makes Cy annoyed because Viago is probably trying to get him to be like this pretty boy over here and it's pissing him off and...

Yeah, good thing they get coffee. The exact same type of coffee. And Lucanis wonders how this idiot has a sense of taste and Cy wonders why pretty boy is even here.

They drink in silence, the occasional glare marking their only conversation.

They bump into each other on the way out (Cy is ready to climb onto the roof to go get yelled at by Viago, Lucanis takes a different way home) and the talons are out and for a brief moment the passersby think it's gonna be a fight. But Cy reigns it in and just tells him to fuck off as he climbs to the roof and disappears. Lucanis shrugs it off because he's got bigger problems. They never see each other again.

...

Until they go to the same cafe during some downtime in Veilguard. After all, they both like the coffee here. Location's nice too. Cy comments they haven't been back in a while, surprised they even let them in. Lucanis is so confused like why wouldn't they let you in?

Cy: oh, I used to show up bloody a lot because I got into street brawls when I was younger. You know, stress relief.

And then the fun begins on the Loathing reprise.

[turidtorkilsdottir]

What the Crows do in the shadows

Collab with @castielsangel-x

>> Chapter 3 << Viago x Rook

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Teaser:

Viago suddenly appeared at their side and slammed the door shut again. "I didn't give you permission to leave," he said gruffly.

Rook wheeled around. The door was now at their back, Viago's hand still holding it shut beside their head.

"I thought I’d go pack my things," Rook explained, unable to stop the corner of their mouth from twitching into a nervous smirk.

“There's time for that later," Viago replied.

His expression was still serious, almost threatening. But for a different reason than before. And Rook could feel the excitement running through their body.

"Am I facing another punishment?" they asked defiantly, the lopsided smirk now exposing their canine tooth.

"You bet," Viago growled.

[jaderavenarts]

Wait, I didn't realize Spite could have different responses to the same dialogue option... what was the differing factor?? Crow vs non-Crow? I'm pretty sure there weren't any flirt options until after this either.

Edit: Comparing notes with friends and the differing factor seems to be gender/pronouns?? I'm so curious what the response to a she/her Rook is if that's the case

[kelesaria]

Only took a couple days for Veilguard withdrawal to start, so time for a new Rook!

This is my Crow!Rook that I have been thinking almost constantly about for the past several weeks. They're my hardened Neve romancer (because I could never put Neve through all that with Kel). They are about 90% sarcasm and 10% I-will-kill-you-if-you-hurt-my-friends. Planning on doing the "trick Solas" ending with them.

Also I cannot even with their face. Help me I made another super cute character again.

[starlightchaser]

My beautiful princess 🫶 he's so pretty

[thorinoakenbutt]

do you guys wanna see my Sims version of my Dragon Age protagonists

[motherstone]

do you have any LGBT amulet hcs?

I do, but nothing too solid. Emily is DEFINITELY aroace, Trellis in my head gets the honorary nonbinary status as an enby myself. But since I'm being asked, if I were given the chance, I'd make Riva a guy in a girl way and Trellis a girl in a guy way, do you get what I'm saying,

[dykeredhood]

Maybe I do want to technically be a boy. I’m working through literal decades of depression and I can promise that I won’t foist my own angst on my transfem siblings

[consuetudinari0]

TRASMVTATO Magazine

[ramblinganthropologist]

Probably the funniest thing about Cy's friends from their early crow shit if they had no idea their buddy was a Crow. Like, sure they wear all black and have a talon tattooed on the side of their head... But like, come on. This guy, an Antivan Crow? No way the Crows would take somebody like them.

I cannot wait for Cy to get back to Treviso and have to go to one for something related to a mission (they straightened out and went into the family business in the market) and they're like ?!?! Cyrion? Didn't you get kicked out of Treviso for fucking with a Crow? How are you not face down in a canal?

Cy: oh, pretty sure Viago wanted to do it, but poison is more his style. Not that it'd work, poison tolerance is a de Riva trademark for a reason.

And then it's like you know a head crow? After that it all just dissolves from there like yes. The idiot you used to get drunk with and fight beside was an Antivan Crow this entire time. Hell, they're probably the favorite of the 5th Talon and rumored successor to his position if the whispers are to be believed.

Also, even bigger surprise? This idiot was a mage this entire time. So they were punching even though they could electrocute people.

Cy de Riva. They contain multitudes.

[juls-art]

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preliminary rook sketches cuz i should get one draw out for all of them too, right?

[dykeredhood]

Shaving with a straight razor is such a great gender feeling… please send good vibes my way so my sideburns fill in even more

[dreadfutures]

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