#dav hurts me

[yappacadaver]

Why the fuck did Emmy approve when I made Dorian archon hello

[scribeofmorpheus]

everyday i learn more about joplin, everyday i wish they just cancelled veilguard or took longer to make the joplin project they envisioned.

i think i'm just gonna put all the blame on anthem atp.

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if they were in such a rush to make me5, why didn't they just go ahead with that project and then make da4 after--if the funds allowed for it?! i bought the artbook and that literally just made me go down a spiral.

like... this hurts me so much man.

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[waspgrave]

It should be listed as a crime that my Shadow Dragon Rook can’t raw Lucanis after saving her city. I’m hours away from The Choice and am ILL thinking about what happens to the shadow dragons when you choose Treviso. Sheer horniness for this man and his brown eyes is what’s keeping my path true right now

[bunabi]

okay I took a little itty bitty peek for more combat information and I feel reaffirmed in my choice 🥲

[veilkeeper]

60 for the kissing prompts for Corentin and Emmrich?

(prompt from here)

60. kisses with their last dying breath (480 words)

"You know... With all the trouble I used to get into, I always sort of figured I'd go young," Corentin says slowly, wheezing slightly on the exhale. His lungs didn't know quite how to fill all the way anymore, and each breath was weaker and shakier than the last. And while his lover and the rest of the Mourn Watch had done an admirable job of keeping his sickness at bay, his time was drawing close.

"Please don't say that," Emmrich replies from his post at Corentin's bed. He's been there non-stop the last few days, hardly daring to leave his side. "This isn't funny, dear."

"I'm not laughing." Not that he could, much. "Just giving perspective, I guess. It could be worse."

Without his glamour, Emmrich's face is a blank slate, showing only the regal and unemotive bearing of a skull. But Corentin had known him long enough to see the tells elsewhere—his slumped shoulders, the way his hands pressed together hard enough that his wrapped phalanges trembled. The way he couldn't quite face Corentin head on.

"I'm really not sure how," he admits, more to the blankets than to Corentin himself. "I... thought I'd be more prepared."

Gentle, weak fingers find Emmrich's wrist, squeezing with the remnants of a strength that had faded in his months of bedrest. "You are the only person I've ever met who thought they could prepare for grieving," he chuckles lightly, grimacing at the way it tightens his chest, holding back the cough through will alone. "You can't think your way out of this. But you'll be fine."

"The light of my life, my most dearest love, will be gone. How can I possibly be fine?"

"Because I'm asking you to be. You'll do me that favour, won't you?" He slides his hand up, hooking a finger under Emmrich's chin to nudge him forward. And as he always has, he indulges Corentin by leaning closer. "Mourn me, but don't stop being you, okay? You still have books to read and new friends to meet, you know."

"None shall ever compare to you, my dear." His voice is projected clearly, despite that it would be frail and shaking were he still mortal. Never before had he so strongly wished their positions were reversed—that he'd never done his rites and he had gone first. Spared himself watching the most vibrant, beautiful person he will ever have the pleasure of meeting deteriorate like this.

"Give them a chance anyway. And when you have a second, visit me and your parents and tell us all about it. I'll live vicariously through you. Forever and ever." With effort, he leans forwards to press still-warm lips to Emmrich's teeth, a gentle kiss goodbye. "Love you, Emm."

"I love you, too," Emmrich tells him, knowing the words have never once sufficiently captured the depth of his feeling, but wishing that they could now, just this final time.

[iniziare]

Re-watching some Veilguard scenes, specifically the ending, had me really focus on how much more prominently purple Solas' eyes are in it, in comparison to how they were in DAI, and it got me thinking. Because we know that Bioware doesn't do things willy nilly and for fun, and especially not after Weekes has been stupendously thorough with Solas in DAI. So here's my thought process:

Spirits across Thedas are primarily presented in greens, which is a color that's serene, and bears a deep connection to the foundation of the earth and/or nature, and that fits, as they share their color with the Fade itself. Now, Veilguard confirmed for us that Solas was, indeed, a spirit of Wisdom. And for those who are unsure: Solas' name means 'Pride' in the elven language, but there are no such things as spirits of Pride, as it is an inherently negative trait to bear, and spirits only ever embody positive qualities. On top of that, we're mostly familiar with 'pride' in the form of beings that were fully twisted until they manifest as 'Pride demons'. However we do know that is the result of a spirit of Wisdom being pushed to the farthest and most extreme extent of its nature, instead of it being the immediate form when one gets even slightly twisted. There is a journey between the two, and that is where Solas can be found, but he's at different points of that journey in both games.

Cassandra: I knew demons and spirits were similar, but I did not know one could become the other so easily. Solas: Not similar, Seeker. The same. The Chantry sees black and white, but nature is, and always has been, grey. A spirit is a purpose. A demon is that purpose perverted.

And this is what my little rambling ultimately touches on: the evolution of his eye color from DAI to DATV, and how that may just further confirm this theory. In the former, Solas' eyes are primarily described as grey, but if you look (read: gaze, like what I do always, and hopefully Lavellan does too) properly, you can see the ring of purple around the pupil. And in DATV, it's gone beyond that, his eyes are a full lavender color, unmistakably so. But what do we know to be purple when it comes to spirits/demons, and magic? Pride demons physically manifest in a very muted green/grey color scheme, but their magic is thoroughly purple. This, to me, firmly ties the color into his name, and his perspective. But we don't stop there, because there is one part of his... 'identity', shall we say, and that is the Dread Wolf.

'Because it was Solas’ home base of operations [the Lighthouse], it’s gaudy, with his fresco murals adorning various walls, greenery hanging from above, and hues of purple and touches of gold everywhere.' (source)

This is the side that he no longer hides in any form throughout the entirety of Veilguard, and it is throughout this that we see his eyes radiate the most vivid, and intense color of purple. So is this the closest manifestation of his 'twisted' nature of Pride? I would say so, as everything points towards it. Not only his 'aesthetic', but his speech: it's wjat we get it repeated to us, on multiple occasions, his belief that no one is able to undo the mistakes that he has made, and it is only him who can undo what he has done. Outside of that, he reacts more firmly than he ever has even in DAI (ie.: to Morrigan in the Temple of Mythal), to anyone who counters his beliefs when they do so from a sense of confidence; and he counters it in kind as an embodiment of Pride would. And not only that, because I feel the need to explain the 'bad ending' (apparently this playthrough calls it the 'normal' one, as Rook remains), where he shouts: 'You sneer at me as though you understand. You are mortal! Compared to you— to your infinitesimal existence... I am a god!' Some would call this absolutely out of character for Solas, but it is incredibly in character for 'Solas', for 'Pride', the most twisted form of him, which is exactly what you get during that ending for all the right reasons. And I'll back this up with this: do you hear how his voice changes at 'I am a god!' Does that sound, the 'growl', sound familiar? Welcome to a spirit of Wisdom, moments away from reaching the apex of its perversion into a Pride demon. It hurts me to see it, because it takes so long to get here, over 8000 years worth of time, but here we are: the heartbreaking tragedy of what a twisted spirit can look like in the end.

[treviso-nights]

idk dude i just think one of veilguard's greatest tragedies is how sad it is when a high-approval inquisitor reunites with solas at the end of the game.

this is someone who, regardless of what race and class you picked in inquisition, solas came to respect and even care for. despite solas fighting them every step of the way, the inquisitor is the illuminating force in his world. the inquisitor shows him right from wrong—shows him the value and personhood intrinsic to those in the world he didn't necessarily want but ended up in nevertheless.

there is an intimacy to friendship that cannot be understated here. there is an undeniable depth to the dynamic between a high-approval inquisitor and solas, who traveled together, shared space together, held long, philosophical debates together, ate together, celebrated together, mourned together, etc etc etc. the point is, they were together. the lack of a romantic connection does nothing to detract from the reality that this was a person solas trusted with his life on more than one occasion, and in veilguard, if you don't set the world state's inquisitor as romanced with solas, he just calls them... useful.

we already know that solas is rarely ever 100% truthful. we know he canonically kills his closest friends the moment they appear to diverge from his objective, so the label of "friend" is no true marker of what exactly friendship means to solas, because imo, we're not entirely sure (for a number of reasons).

what we are sure of is that the inquisitor experiences no real catharsis or relief at the end of veilguard, because they are not enough for him. a high-approval inquisitor is arguably the closest thing to a best friend solas has had in thousands of years, and it doesn't matter. it is only when you conjure mythal herself does he abandon his plan to tear down the veil and "end the inquisitor's people" (see trespasser), and that is only AFTER he tries to argue that it's not really mythal—it's just a fragment of her that he didn't even really kill.

a romanced lavellan inquisitor is the only kind of inquisitor who gets a "happy ever after" (depending on your definition), and only because she has 1) spent the last near decade cleaning up his messes 2) presumably expended the entirety of her resources just to find him again and 3) drop everything and rush to rook when they give the signal to.

but the inquisitor who is just a best friend to solas, ultimately, in every ending, loses that best friend. again. one way or another, solas is going through that veil, and when he does, it is with very little acknowledgement of the sacrifices and loyalty that inquisitor has made for/given him.

solavellan has been categorized as a tragedy by many in the fandom, and for good reason—but this is still another one.

except this tragedy, stays a tragedy.

[dragonologist-phd]

i'm really not far in this game at all but i'm already so sold on them and the way they look at each other

[amarmeme]

Rook is such an animal softie that hearing wolf!Solas whimper/yelp while getting beat up from the archdemon is enough to soften their grudge and try the persuasion path.

[sleepfight]

⚠️ VEILGUARD SPOILERS ⚠️

A few people asked me about the lyrium poisoning scene from this gifset so here you go! There are multiple instances of Rook feeling the effects of kissing a pretty girl lyrium and they are part of Harding’s romance path. I LOVE YOU MY TOXIC SHORT QUEEN

[yappacadaver]

The way he calls you “my heart” just before having that thang cut out forever

[crows-of-buckets]

Okay this may be me just overthinking things to an insane degree but is anyone else like. Very concerned about future griffons.

Because!!!! They're all siblings!!! How are there going to be future generations? Will there even be future generations??? The gene pool bioware. How are we fixing that one. Please it has been driving me up the wall since last flight it's bad 😭😭

[dykebeckett]

im a big strong masc and sexy butch. and video james cant hurt me

[endawn]

he could’ve been blonde

[captainsaku]

Regrets of the Dread Wolf making me regret playing main story l o r d y.

But it's okay, because he was so so sad about it!!!!!!

Bitch.

[famewolf]

my Rook is at about level 22 or so, and I've got 24 hours in the game so far! I just got Davrin a bit ago and I'm off to collect Emmrich next