#dragons raising

[trialsofthedas]

Viago: Teia and I are having a baby.

Rook: That's gre-

Viago, slamming adoption papers on the table: It's you, sign here

[franeridart]

more dragon

[quibbs]

my best friend varric dragon age

[thimblings]

get with the Crow-gram, Davrin

[silverhalla]

obsessed with how the other backgrounds are like “you had a little oopsie moment with your faction so you’re temporarily benched” and then mourn watch is like “what if this LITTLE ORPHANED BABY!!!! was left IN A TOMB!!!!! to be DISCOVERED BY UNDEAD???? and then RAISED (collectively??) BY NECROMANCERS!!!!!!, only to be taken down by THE NECROPOLIS’ SCARIEST DANGER: BUREAUCRACY”

normalest protagonist in all of thedas tbh

[high-dragon-bait]

It really says something about Lucanis that if you're playing as a female Rook, when you recruit him you bring him into a mostly empty building as the only man with four beautiful women as company and the first thing he does is cook you a proper meal and then cannot tell if you're flirting with him to literally save his life

[mohntilyet]

still i think the one of the more fun differences drawn between illario and lucanis that was lost would be illario's ability to endear himself to others but serious lack of empathy, vs. lucanis' (self perceived) inability to be charming but how much he cares. it's interesting that the game has gone with the "lucanis' ability vs illario's lack thereof" because i think illario being the dellamorte 'best in show dog' vs. lucanis' attack dog would have made me so unwell.

lucanis is... awkward. he's not unlikable, because he is usually very polite, but he doesn't speak much and only seems to care about the other dellamortes. he once sent viago de riva a knife with no note (who knows what he could have meant by this). he does what caterina asks of him, and by his own admission, cannot say no to her. he is a dramatic and prolific killer, and that makes how untouchable he is even worse.

and the crows like illario, sure, AND he's a good assassin! he's even a good crow! he's so good that he can make lucanis smile, and so he is the charming, sociable one. he's the one that stays in treviso and can be relied upon to care, illario's even the one people prefer over caterina and lucanis!

but illario is decoration. he's the prize poodle, and even if poodles were bred to be working dogs, nobody will ever pick him to protect the house over the german shepherd that regularly mauls intruders. anyways the analogy is getting away from me. the point i'm trying to make is that i want illario to have a different kind of jealousy/hatred that's not just over 'being bad at killing' but also an arrogant loathing for everyone around him that is getting harder to hide, because they've forgotten he can bite and is just itching to rip someone's jugular out. illario is very good at hiding his family resemblance to caterina, while lucanis suffers under his grandmother's, and his own, reputation.

[tategaminu]

I can't believe Rayllum sleeping in the same bedroll and almost kissing is a real scene

[prideprejudce]

I am truly hoping that daeron is the spitting image of alicent. not only will it make complete sense for him to be shipped away from kings landing after his birth because his very appearance goes against otto's usurping propaganda that alicent's kids are "true targaryens" while rhaenyra's are "half breed strong boys" but alicent having to look in the face of the only normal child in the family surrounded by monsters for brothers and an already half gone sister and seeing his face of disgust and fright and it's her face. it's her face staring right back at her

[emilixthefox]

I have something to show you Ninjago fans.

Brave x Ninjago

Lloyd smiled, laughing only to notice that Arin was missing from his seat behind him. "Arin?" Lloyd asked as he spinned around to find Arin.

Arin walks out holding a bow taking off his mask.

"I am Arin and I'm going to show you that you don't need elemental powers to be a ninja!" Arin announced as he prepared to take aim with the bow. He aims and hits the first target dead on center.

All the other masters looked at Lloyd for an explanation, but Lloyd didn't have one. He looked at Arin in horror, as much as Lloyd was proud of Arin and believed in him this was going too far.

 "Arin, wait, stop this!" Lloyd called after him leaping off the platform watching Arin as he moved on to the second target, aiming and shooting center again.

Lloyd chased after him, hoping to stop him before he shot another arrow. "Don’t you dare release another arrow!" 

Arin takes another arrow and prepares to shoot the third target. Lloyd could feel his anger building at Arin not listening to him and causing a scene. "Arin, I forbid you!" Lloyd told him, reaching out to grab him.

Arin breathed in.

At that moment Merida shoots the arrow and hits the center of the target, splitting the successor of gravity's arrow in half.

Arin smiled turning to face Lloyd but his smile faded when their eyes met.

Lloyd dragged and threw Arin into his painting room slamming the door behind him. Arin stumbled in catching his footing.

"I can't believe you! Just what were you thinking!" Lloyd snapped at him, turning to face him as his eyes narrowed.

"You’re the one that said I could-!" Arin shouted at Lloyd, confused why he was mad at him. Lloyd cut him off, raising his voice.

"You just embarrassed them! You embarrassed us!" Lloyd told Arin gesturing to the door then back at him. Arin huffed, rolling his eyes.

"I followed the rules!" Arin asserted back.

Lloyd groaned walking past him, turning around glaring at him. "You don’t know what you’ve done!"

Arin gave a frustrated scream throwing his hand into the air. "I don’t care how-."

Lloyd covers his face with his hands, cutting off Arin again as he paces. "There will be fire and fighting if it’s not set right." 

"You're not listening! Just listen to me!" Arin shouted at him feeling desperate but recoiled when Lloyd faced him.

"I am the green ninja and the leader! You listen to me!" Lloyd yelled, putting his foot down as his eyes flickering to a shade of purple. 

"Oh! This isn't unfair!" Arin argued back, marching over to the other wall picking a training sword.

"Huh?" Lloyd asked, perplexed folding his arms across, staring at him.

"You are never there for me!" Arin jabbed at Lloyd even though this wasn't true as he pointed the sword at him. Lloyd flinched but not because of the sword.

"Do you ever bother what I want? No! You walk around telling me what to do, what not to do! Trying to make me be like you! Well, I’m not going to be like you!" Arin shouted and swung the sword around.

With every word that came out of Arin's mouth Lloyd could feel his anger rising but he kept saying to himself that Arin was just saying these things because he was mad at him.

Of course this didn't stop the oni inside of him from feeding off the frustration and anger from Lloyd, pushing him.

"Ach! You’re acting like a child." Lloyd told him while holding his head, all this stress was getting to him. Arin growled glancing over at the unfinished painting of him, Sora, and Lloyd. With Lloyd's hands on their shoulders, all of them smiling.

"And you’re a terrible teacher! That’s what you are!" Arin sneered at Lloyd pointing the sword at the unfinished painting that Lloyd had been working on.

Lloyd glanced over then back to Arin, but his eyes widened darting back in realization to where he was pointing the sword at.

"Arin?!" Lloyd called out to him in fear.

"I will never be like you!" Arin shouted as he stuck the tip of his sword into the painting.

"Wait, No! Stop that!" Lloyd cried, reaching out hesitantly and scared.

"I’d rather die than be like you!" Arin screamed and slashed the painting, Arin separated himself from Lloyd and Sora. Lloyd's arms jerked back in horror.

Arin frowned, looking back at Lloyd feeling a bit of relief from his anger. 

Lloyd's face went dark as the oni inside of him came out full force. Arin's eyes widened staring at Lloyd's glowing purple eyes.

Lloyd marched over to Arin, tearing the sword out from his hand throwing across the room. He also takes Arin's grappling hook from him as Arin looks at him in fear.

"You will never be a ninja! If you can't act mature!" Lloyd growls, throwing his grappling hook in the fire. He turns his head at Arin, glaring at him as he stares in shock at him.

Arin backed away slowly then slammed the door open, running away.

"Arin!" Lloyd shouted after him as his eyes returned to their normal emerald hues. A crack and pop sound came from the fire, Lloyd eyes widened and immediately regretted his actions in realization.

Lloyd quickly kneeled down reaching into the fire and pulled out the now broken grappling hook before it burned. Lloyd shook his hand in pain from the heat.

"Oh no! What have I done?" Lloyd wept in horror at his own actions. Why did he say that? Arin was more than capable of becoming a ninja.

[elshe]

I’m going to hop on the “what if Hiccstrid had Zephyr during rtte” bandwagon, and shamelessly contribute to what has caused my devastating brainrot these past few weeks, cause it’s just. so. good.

Can you imagine all the reactions and conflicts?!??

Not to mention the SCANDAL jk😩

my bebe boy Snotlout takes any opportunity to tease Hiccup about it, because, really, it is sooo funny.

might write a whole fic on it fr fr

That Hiccup angst is just— mmm… *chefs kiss* 🤌🏻

[trialsofthedas]

I’m just saying I don’t care if they’re friends or not, or if Lucanis is First Talon or not, when Viago first finds out Lucanis is romantically involved with his little idiot sibling? Well, giving a shovel talk to the Demon of Vyrantium is hard but somebody has to do it

[caemidraws]

Small talk

[fishofthewoods]

while i'm imperialposting. imperial dragon lore that makes me want to tear my hair out. web weave

[vaguely-concerned]

the things it adds to both of the characters involved that lucanis used to have a thing for viago could not have been more tailor made to be for me. literally the ideal thing to come out of this game for me personally and specifically and spiritually. I mean I'm teia x viago trash until the day I die and nothing will ever change this (and with the best will in the world and even the power of lucanis' big beautiful soulful eyes, that would never have worked out even if viago DID somehow understand he was being propositioned. which I'm not convinced he did. the mutual 'so. snakes are pretty cool huh. and. knives. also' awkward energy without someone of teia's charisma and people skills involved to mitigate it... it would have been dire), but on so many levels I find it so incredibly charming for what it says about them both that the (one-sided) attraction was there once.

what's more, it means the man about whom this legendary paragraph was written:

Viago was not a typical Antivan. He liked facts—checklists, numbers, precise measurements. Heart palpitations, clammy hands, tight pants—Viago did not like these things. In fact, he would go so far as to say he hated them. Mild curiosity was his favorite mood.

has got some of the hottest coolest deadliest people in thedas down so catastrophically bad it's got them acting unwise. teia had to wait a UST-drenched decade for him to be ready to take his fucking gloves off for her. and she did!! the tetchiest most neurotic least approachable little vetinari knockoff of a man you ever saw has game for days and days and lives rent free in heads for years. in eight little talons viago consistently feels so inadequate up against dante and it's like. man I'm shaking you by the lapels you have what he'll never have. the ability to bewitch body and soul with your terrible personality and long thin legs. do not waste the gift you've been given go get her she's waiting!!!

(lucanis is really good at reading people, so I wonder if maybe he saw through all of that to some of the steadiness and incredible capacity for warmth and tenderness in specific interpersonal relationships you see viago have with teia when he finally opens up enough, and maybe that was part of it. either way it's so perfect that both he and teia have regarded viago with this affectionate intrigued amusement. lucanis still seems pretty fond of him in a 'viago continues to be exactly himself no matter what else happens or goes wrong. comforting universal constant' sort of way, he brings him up quite a lot in party banter.)

you've seen lucanis' game in this day and age, arguably or at least hopefully older and wiser -- can you imagine how catastrophically bad it must have been back when he presumably handed viago, most paranoid man in thedas all years running, a knife like this expressed everything it needed to. people give him so much shit for the cake moment being his big romantic lock-in, but considering where we started that is GROWTH and I for one am so proud of him fhsdkjaf.

also I wonder at what point vis-a-vis that whole Situation teia and viago met for the first time, leading us to ask... just how much was it a matter of lucanis simply being ignored out of a lack of interest on viago's part (tbf, not entirely unlikely). how much was it lucanis truly not managing to make himself understood. (all but certainly. literally how would one understand that. I think it says some sweet things about rook and lucanis' dynamic that they -- somehow -- DO pick up what he's putting down in a similar scenario presumably b/c they know him pretty well by then haha.) how much was it viago interpreting the romantic move as a death threat from one of the most dangerous people alive and freaking out. (1000% and indubitably.) and how much was it andarateia steal-your-girl cantori turning up and thus setting off whatever spectacular, volatile, awesome-in-the-original-sense chemical reaction between the substances of her and viago's souls that goes on to this day and makes everything else kind of a side note at best. a gentle mix of several of these things, perhaps. ...god I love all these characters so much