#mourning and melancholy

[floralhellscapedatv]

i am probably forgetting/overlooking heinous amounts of obscure lore with this but hear me out...

[Spoilers Ahead]

theoretically it should be possible for at least half the Veilguard to be some flavor of immortal by the end of the game. behold, my list:

Emmrich - Fairly obvious example if you choose the Lich route. We are not talking about the choice itself here, this post ain't about that, this is a "if, then" bullet point.

Harding - There's actual dialogue/party banter that speculates on whether or not Harding is immortal after merging with the Titan Shade. Can't really say if it's true or not, but it could be! Call it a non-zero chance.

Lucanis - This is my first real Hear Me Out example, but listen. Listen. As far as we know spirits/demons don't die natural deaths. So what's the deal with abominations? We don't have a lot of examples and Lucanis and Spite are particularly unique what with the whole Lucanis not being a mage thing, but... I'm going to call this another non-zero chance. We just don't know what the biological effects of Spite are on Lucanis. We do know that spirits can inhabit corpses, so there's some more morbid speculation to be done there but I won't be doing it here. Anyway I think it would be really funny if Mr. "Why Would You Want To Be Immortal?"/"Everything Dies" was little a immortal, as a treat. (For me, the treat is for me, Lucanis would hate it.)

Rook - Specifically for elf Rooks, sorry other Rooks. Listen, it's a major lore fact/plot point that elves in DA used to be immortal. The Veil cutting off their connection to the Fade also cut them off from their immortality, this is one of the reasons Solas feels he owes it to them to tear it down. And then Mr. Dread Wolf Immortal Elven God himself does a tiny bit of blood magic specifically to link himself to Rook so he can do dream projections in their head. After which Rook proceeds to spend months living in the Fade itself, plus running around the Crossroads shedding blood everywhere doing a bunch of fighting. What I'm saying is there are multiple reasons to assume that an elf Rook could be considered as re-connected to the Fade, so theoretically it's possible they have elven immortality and just don't know it. Maybe Solas didn't realize that'd be a potential side-effect, maybe he didn't consider it relevant to mention with everything else going on, maybe he thinks it's funnier to let them find out on their own, or maybe he just straight up forgot to tell them, who knows! All I know is that this sounds like a perfectly plausible consequence of Solas' questionable choices to me.

Based on that last point i do think there are (admittedly much weaker) cases to be made for Bellara and Davrin to also possibly have re-linked to the Fade and unlocked elven immortality, but I think an elf Rook being confirmed to have been linked via blood magic to an immortal elven "god" is more compelling evidence.

do i think all of this is canon? no, probably not. do i think there's enough wiggle room to come up with fun scenarios, headcanons, and AUs? yes, that's what i'm here for.

[emmriches]

emmrich’s personal choice quest holds a weight to it that i really feel like the others didn’t or tried and couldn’t

[thedeadthree]

𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖙 𝖆𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖊 -`. 𝔟𝔤𝔦𝔦𝔦. 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔪𝔬𝔬𝔫.

MOON HALF ELF. FIGHTER. ELDRITCH KNIGHT. WIZARD. NECROMANCER. NOBLE. ❦ 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱.

[brbgensokyo]

been thinking about this song alot recently

[ghwosty]

people who act like Pearl Jam's music is sad and depressing (just bc of the grunge association imo) confuse me bc are you actually paying attention to the words? like, what are we doing here bestie

[avagarde]

god, imagine putting out the first season of your podcast and it's pretty rough but shows a lot of promise and a lot of fun moments and then the second season is fucking COUNTER/WEIGHT

[farmlesbians]

imagine ur girl dumps you in 1955 and chet baker drops this

[fooltofancy]

the problem with omaha is that i would have to drive two hours there, have concert, then drive two hours home. the problem with minneapolis is that id have to drive five hours to not minneapolis, then drive one hour to minneapolis, concert, then one hour to Home That Is Not My Home Anymore.

[cosmicseashanty]

The morning breaks, The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveller to the shore

[poore-choice-of-words]

Currently reading through the Batman: Knightfall event. It's really fun because Chuck Dixon and Doug Moench have different philosophies when it comes to the character, but the story's consistent enough that it still works even when the character feels different.

Anyways I like Doug just a bit better.

[guesswhosaninja]

do you ever hear the phrase "I was so scared of wasting a day that I nearly wasted my life" and have it haunt you for a month

there are so many times I've felt like I simply lost years, and you'll finally do something and realize you spent six months saying "I should do that soon" without doing anything or "I should get back to that" each day for months on end

[blossomhcir]

// thinking about the duality of Sweetgrove and, by extension, the Maluses. I cannot string words together to explain but I’m thinking about it.

[givemebishies]

Heard someone in my apt parking lot playing Leith Ross’s We’ll Never Have Sex in their car and good god I wasn’t ready for that 💔💔💔

[numbaoneflaya]

espira post everybody fucking duck

If theres one thing i love its taking classic masculine tropes and taking them to their logical conclusions with female characters.... like shes the classic stoic hero trope. the one tear and tough demeanor covering a sensitive heart. And shes also whats left unreported in those movies about said characters.... she has severe depression. Days at a time of lost time and staring at the ceiling. A constant sense of disconnection from reality and her own humanity. (made worse by the realization that she has a dragon soul. like what does that even mean. is that part of why she feels theres a glass wall between herself and everyone else at all times, even her loved ones, a space that she cant reach across? a border shes unable to pass? maybe, she doesnt fuckin know either). The stoicness comes with being constantly misread and thought of as cold and unfeeling. She cant control her facial expressions and they almost always do not match up with how shes actually feeling. She could be in the best mood of her life and the people around her are like. why is she making that face what a bitch. The single manly tear isnt always the single manly tear, sometimes its just impossible to cry. shes wanted to cry a lot, she just cant make herself do it. Her life is a constant battle of trying to break through that glass wall between herself and all other living things. A constant battle of trying to convey how she feels and what shes thinking, but finding it impossible, so after years and years she just chooses to speak about it less, because why bother or give herself hope.