#datv imagine

[fandom-go-round]

Could you please do Emmrich x Lucanis x reader poly relationship hcs?

There is always someone being told to go to bed. Usually, its Lucanis but Emmrich has a bad habit of staying up late reading and you often work late into the night. The three of you do your best to check each other but it’s always funny to try and hold the others accountable. The best way to make sure everyone sleeps is to invite them to snuggle; the boys can’t resist a good snuggle pile.

The boys are very big into dates and going places as a group. Date nights are taken very seriously and it takes a lot to miss one. Emmrich likes going to new places, seeing sites or food. Lucanis prefers quieter places, like a play or café. You like both and are just happy to spend time together. Even if it’s not something one of you loves, being together makes the experience worth it.

Emmrich and Lucanis are huge into compliments but can’t take them. It’s funny to watch the two of them start a ‘compliment war’. Emmrich will make a comment about how elegant Lucanis looked and the Crow will respond by saying how Emmrich always strikes a sharp figure. Their cheeks might be flushed but they’re having a wonderful time. Watch out if you don’t like compliments; they’re more than happy to turn that affection onto you if you try to tease them.

Both the men are workaholics so be ready for that. Lucanis will stay up late to manage Spite and work on contract details. Emmrich loves responding to letters and papers but he’s so detailed it can take a while. Be patient with them but don’t ignore the lack of attention if it becomes a problem. You’re one of their favorite people and they’ll happily drop everything to see you taken care of. Within reason of course.

[pupkinpumpkin]

- Endgame, after Solas and Rook join up-

Rook: Ok hold on wait a minute. So, you were seeing me through Varric anytime I came to talk to him right?

Solas: That is correct.

Rook: So were you there when-

Solas: When you burst into the infirmary and asked Varric if Anders ever shared any possessed abomination sex tips?

Rook: ....

Rook: ....

Rook: ....

Rook: Thank you for the advice all the same.

Solas: Of course.

[ruushes]

he's proud of them probably

[psin314]

just gals being pals guys nothing to look at here

[timethehobo]

…Mourn Watch themed calendars with their staff when?

Was just looking at more modelling photoshoots and couldn’t help myself oops. 🫣

[askfordoodles]

Johanna when she's had enough of watching her lame ex-friend play tonsil-tennis with his hot paramour right in front of her

[sketchbeast]

No one can tell me Lucanis didn’t fall for Rook the moment he met her. 😤

[gyrovagi]

have you ever felt the warmth of a god's happiness?

[pocket-dragon]

[ibahibut]

Just keep looking at me

[raoneven]

~ thirst ~

[flowersforthemachines]

Thinking about Rook and Harding's relationship through the lens of Varric's death like. It's crystal clear it has a big impact on Lace - she's angry and distraught in its aftermath, has to psych herself up just to approach the ritual site ("You need to do it, Lace, it needs to be done"). When Rook suggests that she can use her powers to protect people, the first thing she thinks about is that she could've used them to protect people who mattered to her.

But she sees none of that in Rook. Rook comes across as standoffish at best. "Varric knew the danger." There's no in-game chance to reach out to Harding to share that grief, talk about how it affected them.

But it's not like Rook has to do that, right? Maybe they are not that kind of person. Maybe they grieve, but they don't show it, maybe Harding realises she and Rook just aren't as close as she thought they were, and that kind of stings, but you know. What can she do?

But then things happen in the plot. Weisshaupt happens, Shathann, Cyrian. There are so many chances for Rook to express how sorry they are about someone's passing, the loss of life (and Warden Rook especially does not just observe loss, they experience it and don't have to hide it). Harding sees that Rook can reach out to friends in difficult times. They attend the funeral with Bellara, comfort Taash when they need it. They can grieve, and they can help someone through grieving.

And there's that certain feeling of misunderstanding, maybe a hint of resentment, that Harding, a people pleaser, wouldn't dare to confront. What can she say, even? Why are you mourning all those people and not our common friend? Why not Varric? Why not Varric?

Then, she either dies, never finding out the truth, or finds out the truth so late that the rift between her and Rook has become so big they can't just fill it in. She can't undo the way she had been feeling, feeling about something Rook had no idea about. Tricked by Solas, manipulated to think that Varric was alive. Robbed of the chance to grieve a friend together, time lost forever.

[stormsbourne]

Me up again metaphorically pacing my room thinking about how datv is a game about hard choices that don't have a right or wrong answer (but the answer you choose still shapes you and your relationships the same way it shaped Solas and his own relationships)

and a game about regret for things you had no choice but to do (the same way Solas had no choice but to struggle against the rule of the evanuris including his best friend/lover/elder sister)

and a game about how even then you ultimately did have a choice (the same way Solas could have refused to make the dagger or could have allowed flemythal to do whatever she had planned or could have not tried to tear the veil back down which he knew would kill everybody before it fixed anything)

and a game about how sometimes you do your best and do things for good reasons and you still fuck up and you can't save everybody and people will still be frustrated with you (the same way the veil was an accident and Solas was only able to save a tiny fragment of mythal and even that fragment seems bitter about him holding her there even though he does it out of love)

and a game about what leadership does to its leaders (the same way Solas killed his blighted allies, the same way he betrayed felassan, the same way he ultimately betrayed the shard of mythal in flemeth)

and a game about GRIEF and how rook is trapped in it and not being allowed to move forward by blood magic, and how grief cages you (the same way Solas feels caged by the loss of mythal and he's just as trapped as rook is but it's of his own free will and how he uses rook as a method of self absolution for what he did to Varric)

and how every character arc and story touches on at least one if not multiple of these points and how it's all layered in with area quests, side quests, main story quests, that do the same thing. I'm tired of feeling like I have to qualify my praise of datv with "it has problems" because it's a fucking dragon age game. They are all, in their own ways, hot messes. Each one has its weak hinges and its stress points but the level of sheer thematic cohesion and thought in datv is absolutely fucking unparalleled and I don't think I'm wrong to say so

[thimblings]

i keep drawing him looking like he has the upper hand but tbh this is their dynamic more likely marisol is a menace, and the rookanis rot continues bonus:

[psin314]

phew, i haven't drawn them for almost a week, caught a little cold but i think i'm okay now.

anyway, i wanted to draw them after a little training fight but my hand slipped i blinked and now it's something after a party?? idk haha just wanted to draw lucanis' black shirt i designed again.

[timethehobo]

Emmy being self-conscious of his age, and maybe even about how he looks. 🥺 Rook loves him anyway.