#dav stuff

[baratheon]

when your professional frenemy calls you a cradle robber and says that she looks better than you despite being a literal skull.

[speremint]

Ngl though, it can be frustrating when some of your companions are being fucking dipshits and you can't tell them to shut the fuck up and get it together... There's not really much conflict between the companions to begin with, but the game does consistently force Rook into being a "and why don't you tell [character name] how that makes you feel?" every time you're forced into being a therapist (which is a lot).

It does make me miss all the bitching and whining and fighting and yelling in Inquisition. I don't think you can even actually kick a companion out?? Idk. The game has been extremely heavy handed with the "Power of Friendship" message, and I personally have never been a huge fan of that trope.

Edit:: ALSO. I really hate the setup for quests. I am literally constantly binging the companion quests in between basic story missions because i'm scared it's gonna seal them off otherwise, so the pacing is EXTREMELY weird for me right now.

I've been absent because I've been binging DAV; enjoying the game a lot, but I gotta agree with all my discussions I've had with friends: they really sanded down any of the edge/darkness DA had, and I think that's a mistake and a loss, tbh. Still a good game and I'm having fun, but there's a lot of wasted potential.

Also they keep retconning/ignoring parts of lore/world building (esp the darker aspects) from older games and it annoys me, but whatever

[crovvlipso]

Zevran as my rook's father. Girl dad zevran 😩

[merrinla]

[night-orchids]

I absolutely love the way GDL delivered this line. Solas is so ashamed and angry with himself, he's speaking to Lavellan but he directs those words more at himself, there's SO MUCH remorse and regret in his voice. The way his voice trembles when he says "betrayed", the fact that he has to take a breath because it pains him so much. It's been 10 years and up to this point he's never actually had the chance to say those words out loud, this is the first time when he admits to how deeply he hurt her.

[crownedinmarigolds]

Noa and Lucanis having a casual hallway conversation. Pic reffed from the Cordelia movie ~ Okay I know for a fact I didn't come up with this idea of Lucanis being pushed to the wall in this exact pose I'm almost positive I saw the idea while scrolling but I cannot find the original post! Please if someone sees it in the wild link me and I will credit the originator of the idea... but yes this is how we're going to treat the Crow. Here's a free and relevant Spite meme to how he may be taking witnessing this go down:

[peteytheparrot]

TWO WHISKERS ALERT I SEE TWO WHISKERS 🫵🫵🫵🫵

[wanderingibon]

🗡lucanis dellamorte, who are you really?

[meggannn]

following this game these past few years has been a weird experience

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

VEILGUARD SPOILERS FOR LUCANIS ROMANCE SCENE

I haven't seen anyone post this option version for the first dialogue wheel choice in Lucanis' romance scene yet, but it's by far my favorite because it's one of the few (perhaps even only) opportunities the game gives you to add a little depth to your character and the Lucanis relationship (even if it's never mentioned again). My comment below is just about that one choice and followup but ummmmm i recorded the whole scene anyway just for you know. Me. Anyway...

This is the only "anxiety/alarm" dialogue option I think I picked the whole game, but I think the timing of it is really perfect. Especially with the knowledge that Rook was trapped in the Regret Prison for WEEKS. Even if time moved faster for them, we can still imagine it probably wasn't as fast as it took us the player to go through it. But Rook has just gone through a series of awful things--losing one of their companions (and being the one to consign them to that role), learning Varric has been dead all along, Solas (who they were perhaps just coming to trust) betraying them, being trapped with no idea if they'll be able to leave. And they just got confirmation that Solas was using blood magic to make them hallucinate their dead friend speaking to them, so that they'd fall in line with his plans more easily. So when they're trapped and struggling to escape and suddenly hear their new companions calling to them, and come out to find everyone they hoped was still alive safe and waiting for them... wouldn't they doubt it? At least a little? I mean if Solas REALLY wanted to trap them in the Fade forever, wouldn't this be the absolute best way to do it--by convincing them they ARE out and everything might still be okay? And this is especially great with the Lucanis romance because he (and Spite) are the only one on the team who have first hand experience with that same thing. He escaped the Ossuary but he didn't, truly, at first. He knows what it's like to be trapped somewhere and then not really believe in his own freedom afterward. And THIS time, he gets to be the one comforting Rook, who's been his rock through the whole experience, and Rook gets to be the vulnerable one for a change as he finally steps into the more active/supportive role. I just think it's really nice symmetry, to have an option where the hookup scene is coming from a place of loss/desperation on BOTH of their sides, to convince themselves that everything is real AND there's a chance that everything might actually turn out okay in the end.

[laputaskies]

I won't be upset if you don't like coffee.

[chronurgy]

Bioware failed to manage expectations for veilguard at every possible turn in a way that is both genuinely confusing and makes it hard for me to feel sympathetic about the fan backlash they're getting

[n4talia-chaparro]

Scared to post CU art rn. Idk why but...just made silly petey stuff in case the CU community starts getting mad lol

[emmster]

Probably won’t finish this so you guys just get lineart for now.

Got a few things coming up this week (partner’s birthday for one)

[merrinla]

[regalpotato]