#in da:i he's just confused and lost and a bit adrift from himself in all the chaos. more a baffled witness than the teller of the story
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varric and rook feels again. immeasurable suffering. sure, I'll be your checkmate of hope at the end of the world, the triumph of the noblest lie, that one that keeps us going: maybe it'll all turn out all right, this time. maybe we'll figure out that happy ending thing yet. but it feels like all I got to keep of you for myself are ghosts and so many stories I'll never know the endings or beginnings to now, stories I'll have to figure out how to tell on my own or else let go of. am I allowed to still miss you as much as I do.
(so. love as usual then. love as a haunting, love as ghosts that cannot quite keep us company but how could we ever bear to leave them behind completely. orpheus walking backwards out of hell the whole way to watch what he left behind. on a clear day you can see all the way back to kirkwall from here. the da2 themes continue to rule supreme varric just brings them along into the narrative with him)
#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#varric tethras#oc: Ellaryen Ingellvar#I actually feel less sad about varric in da:tv than in da:i somehow. he's back this time. he's deep in the narrative#he may be dead but I think he found the story again from the inside. which is necessary for varrics to thrive (even again while dead)#in da:i he's just confused and lost and a bit adrift from himself in all the chaos. more a baffled witness than the teller of the story#in veilguard he's making out with the narrative again#with tongue and metatextual implications. what can we ever hope for in this world but to find our way back into being ourselves#rye still misses him every day tho. can't be helped. grief follows love around like a shadow they overlap in shape
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