#and inky...and hawke...and rook...

[vintra-lavellan]

idk about u guys i always have Ten Thousand Feelings when it comes to Dragon Age

[housederiva]

I'm confused, you're a Sollavellan romancer? I thought you were queer and nonbinary????

I am all three?

[headachecat]

I am so happy whenever I think about the love Dragon Age fandom has for the Garrett and Marian Hawke option. We all have custom Warden, Inquisitor, Rook, but Hawke?

They are O U R S

[smitten-miqitten]

It's gonna be really hard making my Rook who, while probably chill/friendly with Solas, doesn't want to get with him AT ALL when I've got my Lavellan in the back of my mind banging on the walls of her enclosure trying to get a piece of that egg.

And then once I'm finally in the Rook headspace of totally ignoring the fact Solas is hot, Inky presumably gets set free from 'no longer the main character ' jail and I've gotta pivot mentally back to being feral to help her live her dream of smooching his dumb beautiful face.

[3gremlins]

it's been a minute since i replayed trespasser, but my understanding of the mark hurting the inquisitor was that it was basically a death sentence and solas taking their hand was just a stop-gap measure. Like it was an injury that wasn't ever going to heal and would get worse over time, but taking the hand stopped it for now. I wish they'd come back around to this a little bit- like not just with the solavellan romance, like going into the veil with solas might also be the best "cure" for the inquisitor too (for friendship ones or even rival ones who are like shoot, do i want to die sooner or live with my enemy longer kinda choices)

like perhaps because of the mark, they were becoming more *of* the fade daily, and if they went into it permanently, they would become something else and not die per se (but also not be the same as they were either).

def wish they'd done more with the inkys in general (if only to give them the badass prosthetic crossbow you get with the red jenny ending or something). the inky kind of suffers the way hawke suffers in dai- new players wouldn't have any attachment to them, so they didn't really give us much depth for them.

my ideal last of this era dragon age game ever would have been a 4 part narrative where you get to play a bit as each of the previous protags and then also as rook (or alternatively do a bit of the game AS solas to give him a little more background instead of just this random new character) working together to give you bits of the narrative/story/empathy.

This would also fix the "how do we get new players" problem- you'd introduce them to these 3 people who are at the end of their journeys, but it'd give you enough to want to go see how they got there. This would also be satisfying for returning players b/c everyone's already invested in the 3 other protags (prob a nightmare to write but like there's always the bioware canon for defaults).

veilguard was okay for what it is/how much time they really had for it but ah that artbook makes me sad. what we couldve had if it'd had a little longer to cook (see: art doesn't really work under capitalism, the point should be to make good art not to make money at it. esp with companies never being happy with good enough profits like it's just a bad formula)

[hallabun]

the funniest reoccurring trend in my dragon age romances: love interests whose mouths usually run like motors

[andrastesflamingknickers]

Warden and Hawke watching in absolute horror as Rook and Inky make a game out of seeing who can jump from higher and higher heights.

[albaharu]

i wanna start the year doodling dragon ages, send me prompts my beloved followers. preference goes to dwarves and women

[roguelioness]

mmm i'm supposed to be doing my 'canon' veilguard run with elodie but it's really hard to go through the plot when my head is like nope that doesn't happen that way for every cutscene lmao

(isobel ilu but bbygrl you're not rook, your story is all crow-based because someone needs to create the intrigue in treviso)

[welcomefortune]

Just saw in a Veilguard spoiler an opportunity for my Rook to make a selfish decision with really great RP opportunities and angst based on what companions I think my Rook will like the most we’re so back

[armofandruil]

Can't wait to finally get my hands on the Veilguard CC, spend ages going through all the options to create my Rook, messing with the different sliders to get everything *just right*, hit finalize... and immediately have to recreate my Inquisitor in next gen graphics.

[sky--phantom]

Fourth letter from the Inquisitor

Not much to say with this one, just that the "there are precious few in this world who unerstand the burdens people like us carry" got me thinking about my other DA protagonists

[cybershock24601]

Rook's personality is definitely reminiscent of Hawke's which is probably why Varric picked them but my personal Crypt Baby Rook lore is that Rook is in fact Hawke's second cousin once removed that was left in the Necropolis by Amell's sister who was on the run from the Templars after fleeing the circle when she found out she was pregnant in hopes of being able to raise her child in a place that didn't inherently fear magic only to be caught and cornered with her only solace being she managed to get her baby somewhere that they wouldn't be reviled for being a mage. Though the dead were certainly confused about why there was a newborn baby chilling in the Necropolis.

Rook will never know who her mother was or what happened to her but also an incredibly funny cosmic coincidence that Amell women (almost) always happen to be at the scene of the crime when Thedas is in trouble considering Rook is the Hero of Ferelden's niece and the Champion of Kirkwall's second cousin (once removed).

It's also my headcanon on why Morrigan was so sure Rook was going to be the hero the world needed because she took one look at Rook, went "that's an Amell alright" (because Rook is almost the spitting image of the HoF) and Morrigan knew the world was going to be in good, if irreverent, hands.

[endawn]

[gracien-maybe]

you're a canon dragon age character to me curren ingellvar 🥺💕