#oc: sylvhen de riva

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Important things that are happening at the Lighthouse right now:

Rook and Taash are having sex casually

Rook is kind of in love with Neve who doesn't pay her any attention over the whole "you let a fascist cult take over my city and kill my friends" thing

BELLARA is into Rook

Harding is also into Taash but doesn't want to get in the way and ruin her friendship with Rook even though the whole thing's casual

Neve is, regrettably, into Lucanis a little bit

Everyone is interdimensionally listening to Chappel Roan about it, somehow

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Baby talk to me, please, I love you, please T.T

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In my head Rook made her that cup of tea to make her feel better about the whole thing

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I'm leaning really heavily towards romancing Neve because I think her and my Crow Rook could fit. A cynic who believes in fighting for a better world vs an idealist who cannot afford idealism because as an assassin her job is to be the villain. All that. They could've met in different circumstances because in my head the Crows found Rook when they got hired to kill a Tevinter lord only to find one of his slaves, teen Rook with newly-found magic powers, had killed him and half his family first, so they saw potential. But if they hadn't? My Rook would have 100% ended up with the Shadow Dragons somehow. So, because of all of this my heart was asking me to save Minrathous in this playthrough but I decided to save Treviso and leave Minrathous for a later canon playthrough in which I do all the quests, but I'm just... really enjoying the angst with Neve gone because it was Rook's fault the Venatori took over? Like it's horrible but it happened just after Neve's first personal quest where she told Rook about the people in Dock Town who were worth saving and right after that Rook gave her a gift, and they flirted and it could have been something but then the dragons attacked, and Rook chose Treviso (because she thought Minrathous could defend itself, because a part of her thinks Tevinter and just wants to burn it all to the ground, because she is a Crow and the Crows come first, always) but she broke Neve's heart!! Neve saw her dreams shattered and Rook confirmed to herself that no matter what happens she will always bring only death and like, this idea has me on a fucking chokehold, man, hold on a fucking second...

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The way that I am obsessed with her and her face

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Sorryyyy I cannot get over her pretty gorgeous scrunchy little face

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LOOK AT HER

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DA:TV Spoilers

No idea if this is true or just a rumour but if the reason that Crow Rook was sent after Solas was to kill him, I'm personally going to be playing that as "this is your second chance after you fucked up one time, if you don't succeed, you're dead", because that is at least a more compelling motivation for me.

Of course, I think my Rook (Sylvhen) was only a Crow out of necessity (she's good at and enjoys killing, it keeps her out of the streets, there was some very specific people she really wanted dead in her backstory that she managed to get the Crows to put a contract on) but that doesn't mean that she doesn't feel trapped with them, so the events with Veilguard will also be (hopefully! We'll see how the game ends) a way to negotiate an escape and secure enough power or status so that the Crows will not come after her forever.

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I love how my Rook is a death caller but also disgusted by the whole putting spirits into corpses thing.

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Languages my Rook knows:

Antivan (she's a Crow)

Common Tongue (which in-universe, it should be Orlesian tbh)

Elvhen (her special interest, she's an elf, my hc is that she had a Dalish dad, etc)

Qunlat (??? for some reason??? but it's canon now)

Tevene (my headcanon is that she's a former slave from Tevinter, the Crows found her there)