#Saare'mira Aldwir

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27 and 37 from the fifty rook questions?

Yay, yay, thank you so much for asking! Here are a few recent screencaps of my beloved Saare'mira "Mira" "Rook" Aldwir just for reference:

(I don't actually use that Shadow Dragons fit all of the time, but it is flattering on her)

27) When was the last time they cried?

Mira cries a lot! While she did face some stereotype threat pressure as a Vashoth mage growing up in Tevinter to give off an image of untroubled perfection, the increased freedom mages have in the north meant she didn't feel boxed into that identity so much as she might in, say, Ferelden or the Free Marches. And this freedom to express herself only increased when she left Tevinter to join the far more welcoming Veil Jumpers. So she feels pretty open being herself now as Rook-- a mix of curiosity, whimsy, worry, and deep compassion for those around her.

So she cried after freeing the two blighted evanuris, she cried after Weisshaupt, and she cried after discovering Cyrian's betrayal. She cried a lot after she returned from saving Minrathous from the blighted dragon and seeing what had become of Treviso in her absence.

I think to answer the question directly, most recently Mira cried after getting back from the Cauldron- both because of the horrors of the place, and because the team still hasn't succeeded in capturing the Gloom Howler and saving the remaining baby griffons. Davrin's more stoic pragmatism has been a great complement to her emotional vulnerability on these missions.

37) Does Rook ascribe to a faith?

This is a great opportunity to gripe about the writing in this game, because one of my intentions with Mira as a Veil Jumper was to give her a sort of adopted-Dalish energy, preferring the wisdom of the Dalish over her vaguely Andrastian upbringing. But at every point the Elven gods have come up, the game has firmly refused to let her mention having ever worshipped them, presumably because she isn't an elf; Mira says stuff like "that must be so hard for [Bellara and Davrin]" on multiple occasions, but the only faith I can roleplay her into is the Qun or Andrastianism (neither of which she follows, definitively). So she's kind of landed on an awkward unintentional agnostic?

In my head, though, she had come to worship the Elven gods before she was made aware of the events of Trespasser.

Thank you again for the ask. <3 Ask prompt is here!

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Mira screenshot dump because I have to spend the rest of my evening doing house cleaning but I still want to celebrate my beautiful disaster girly of a mage <3

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This is my veil jumper rook, Saare'mira or Mira for short :)