#isabela (dragon age)

[yudol-skorbi]

my worldstate is pretty fun

[purpleenjoyer]

Rotating the DA2 cast inside my mind like a rotisserie chicken (sorry for the floating in the void fanarts but I don't wanna draw bg)

[ode-to-fury]

I just have a very cursed image in my brain because ok imagine its the end of veilguard and they've just saved the world. I, personally, am incapable of having Lucanis lock Illario up for various reasons but thats another post. So at the epilogue party (that we should have FUCKING gotten bioware) everyone is dancing and having a good time and celebrating not dying in whatever building in Minrathous they could find that wasn't destroyed (I'm leaning toward it being Dorian's house for various reasons but idk how I'm gonna spin it that it didn't get demolished) and I was trying to find someone for Illario to dance with because I think it would be cute for him and Lucanis to just share a 'I'm glad you're not dead' look over their respective partners' shoulders and I was like hmmm out of everyone in the game who would have the least amount of scruples about dancing with someone who 1. Is a crow 2. Worked with the venatori 3. Sold his own cousin to said venatori 4. Faked his grandmother's death 5. Fumbled his entire super evil plan to become first talon... who would look at this morally bankrupt man and only be able to see 6'5" or whatever he is well-dressed (because you know he conjured up 5 new shirts for the occasion) well-groomed extremely handsome Antivan man who managed to get a cut on his face that rogueishly accentuates his eyebrow just so and the only answer that popped into my head was Isabela

[maxx-the-queer]

I do enjoy the fact that each faction gives Rook a couple of unconventional familial figures.

Antivan Crow Rook gets the perpetually together-and-split-up Teia and Viago, whose love languages are bickering and poisons. Rook is Viago's favourite and he would never admit it to them, even if Teia is all too happy to expose his affection with her playful barbs.

Mourn Watch Rook gets Myrna and Vorgoth, the former of whom is akin to a college professor who found a baby in their science lab and the latter of whom is most definitely one of those mysterious executors from across the sea but it's fine because they're just Vorgoth and nobody questions it.

Shadow Dragon Rook gets T4T icons Tarquin and Ashur, a Templar who absolutely despises his job and the literal Black Divine, whose anti-slavery group is so full of queer people it may as well be a gay club. Same bickering energy as Teia and Viago, minus the poisoning and cyclical divorcing.

Grey Warden Rook gets Antoine and Evka, the most married wardens to ever exist. Antoine is the absolute sweetest man alive, and the only Orlesian allowed ever. Evka is incredibly competent and has everything under control. Their dates end with explosions. Everything is perfect.

Veil Jumper Rook gets Irelin and Strife. Strife is battling Viago for the grumpiest and meanest dad award. Irelin is clearly the golden child and favourite sibling and he makes that clear to Rook.

Lords of Fortune Rook gets Isabela and Rowan, a pirate turned allegedly somewhat ethical treasure hunter and Rivaini seer who regularly convenes with spirits. Neither of them are parents to Rook, they hold the most insane much older cousin energy though.

[tychemepisteye]

Also, I would just like to point out that this is the exact same face. Like, the second Neve walked away, I went hmm, where have I seen this before??

[ir-abelas-vhenan]

I'm actually just going to pop one of these up for every single game because I'm curious in the overall distribution/if there's any patterns. If your first romance wasn't your eventual favorite romance, I'd be interested in hearing about what that experience was like, too :)

Shout out to me, btw, for playing this game at 3 AM my first playthrough, not fully focusing, and then waking up the next day and loading the game to discover Anders had moved in.

[stealingpotatoes]

broke: everyone calls Hawke by surname bc the game can't get people to say your custom name

woke: nobody in Kirkwall knows Hawke's first name

(commission info // tip jar!)

[albaharu]

did you know if you support merrill in her act 2 mission you get rivalry points with everyone except isabela and varric. anyway merrill support team no one is gonna be mean to her on my watch

extra:

[elfboypussy]

dude idk what’s wrong with me but dragon age 2 has been on the edge of my psyche for the past month since i finished the game

[sinizade]

I'm back with Dragon Age 2 baby

I like to think it was Tallis who chose Nadia's clothes for the mission at Chateau Haine

[arizonaranger]

I should have guessed who comes up with their awesome outfits.

[mosswiind]

"why are the lords of fortune ethical treasure hunters wtfffff"

do

do we not remember

what happened

when isabela, admiral of the lords of fortune

stole an important cultural artifact

from the qunari

do we not remember the arishok fight

do we not remember why we had the arishok fight

isabela doesn't run the lords of fortune the way she does because she loves Ethical Piracy

isabela runs the lords the way she does because the last time she stole something important, kirkwall happened

having appraisers from a bunch of different cultures absolutely makes sense, and grabbing a finders fee for getting stuff back to its respective place is pretty reasonable (labour should be compensated)

like...it IS ethical piracy, but the root of it was never "oh maybe we should do better," it was always "hello my name is isabela and i would like to not get bodied by the entire qunari population a second time"

[yudol-skorbi]

so this is basically how lord of fortune rook was recruited

[blighted-elf]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Isabela 1/?

[nikiferous]

Welcome to my crackship I think cassandra should get into pirate romance genre

[lathbora-virann]

Fanfic writers, we have been blessed this day.