#rook: aloisius ingellvar

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If only you knew the extent of what my Rook sees in you, Lucanis. ❤️

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credits, @greelin

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I'm so glad that Lucanis is confirmed to be a virgin so I can play out the virgin/experienced dynamic with him and my Rook, Aloisius (formerly known as Lethanavir) teaching him. While my Rook was quite sheltered and had only four relationships during his time at the Mourn Watch, he went through a phase where he had some very questionable lays while tracking Solas with Varric. (one of those being Lord Livius Erimond who survived the Inquisition just so I can write this.)

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Lucanis is going to be all "I love my wife." about my Rook, then someone says, "Excuse me sir, your wife is a male elven necromancer.", and Lucanis just gives the flintiest most baleful glare ever.

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I've got other Rooks planned to romance Lucanis with in the future, but my main problem apart from making another miraculously hot character in the character-creation again is me thinking that I'm having Lucanis cheat on my canon Rook by daring to pair him with someone else than Lethanavir.

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These two finally had their first date after Illario so kindly left the table. 👍 Of course, he had to wear the Invitation. 💀 Lucanis, my chest is down here, why are you looking me in the eyes? 😏

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I may have subconsciously made my main Rook into the kind of elven man that I'd be into, in fact, he is my ideal male elf. 😳 I'm actually jealous of Lucanis, but I also think, "Good for him". 🥰

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Lethanavir was actually cheated on by his ex-wife with by a Grey Warden, so I can understand his paranoia that Lucanis would cheat on him with Davrin, because he's triggered every time that the Veilguard's resident Warden flirts with his boyfriend. He wasn't going to lose another person he loved, and trusted, to a Grey Warden.

Lethanavir wouldn't have been able to survive his heart getting broken in that way again. He already put himself out there to give the right amount of vulnerability to Lucanis to express his interest in him. If he cheated, he'd have probably done something dreadful and unforgivable from a place of unhealed hurt left by the wounds of his disastrous marriage.

Thankfully, Lucanis had no interest in Davrin in that kind of way, not with my Rook around, because he couldn't even imagine doing such a thing to him. The thing is, he had no idea how to say it to him, because he was still working through his own trauma. He'd never wanted anyone more than he wanted Lethanavir.

If he'd done anything, he was matching Davrin's energy by returning his flirtations, because Spite implored him that it would be funny to goad a reaction out of Davrin, though his real intention was to make my Rook so jealous that he'd do something because this was Spite's way of playing match-maker with him and my Rook, and thankfully it worked out.

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Lucanis loves my tall, lanky elven Rook. He'd honestly not have him any other way. At least in my canon, since Lucanis had never been in a relationship before and didn't develop preferences prior to meeting him, I am going to presume that Lucanis technically doesn't have a preference so far as what Rook looks like expressly because he goes for personality primarily?

That said, I headcanon that my Rook, Lethanavir (aka Aloisius) was used to people pursuing him for his looks alone, and normally he wouldn't have minded this, because it's not like he doesn't know that he's unusually attractive, but he was genuinely taken aback that Lucanis was into his personality as well.

I'm planning to explore the Lucanis.exe has stopped working dynamic when I get around to committing to writing my fic. Lucanis has such an inward battle about the immediacy of his attraction to my Rook and how he feels inwardly about getting in over his head over him, as it had been a while since he had another crush (Viago)

My Rook, being my Rook, honestly felt lust at first sight when seeing Lucanis, hence him smirking, because he was trying to control his facial expressions - he was genuinely surprised that the Demon of Vyrantium was so hot. Due to him having the observation skills above those of a pine cone, he was able to piece together that Lucanis is asexual.

There is no way that it won't make my Rook think that he's coming on too hard to him, so I don't blame him for playing the field a bit because he didn't want to scare him off by his bold approach. It doesn't help that my Rook feels flustered around Lucanis, and that his flirtations come off as ultra awkward and that he discovers that he is in fact not as good at flirting as he thought he was.

It's a relief to my Rook that Lucanis isn't great at flirting either, apart from that one scene where Lucanis had clearly rehearsed some flirting techniques from one of his romance novels? Not only that, but it makes it a lot easier for my Rook to take the pressure off of himself by presenting his honest self to Lucanis.

What just is Lethanavir's honest self? Honestly, he's an autistic elven Watcher who had been raised in a fairly sheltered life in a Nevarran wealthy, noble family and raised around spirits and other people who deal with dead people stuff for most of his life who has read too many smut novels for his own good.

It turns out to be a major relief that Lucanis is also autistic (because I headcanon him as so). I also love the idea of two distractingly attractive people being awkward about love, with one being the experienced one and the other being the virgin. Things become a lot easier once they both accept that neither of them have flirting game, that said.

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Earlier on, I was all about Rook/Emmrich/Davrin/Lucanis/Spite as the poly ship for my canon Rook, Aloisius (/Lethanavir), but now I am all about Rook/Lucanis/Teia/Viago/Spite as the superior poly ship for him. My Rook is now quite close with the Antivan Crows as a faction, not just with Lucanis, and he loves the city of Treviso. And maybe he wants to be sandwiched between Lucanis and Viago while they address Lucanis' unresolved crush on him.

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💫 Happy Holidays from Lethanavir and Lucanis. Made with Couple Maker on Picrew. I'll have whatever it is that they are having. 〽️

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I think that it's the influence of my original Rook on him, but Lethanavir (/Aloisius) in his canon state is quite vain. He prides himself in taking excellent care of his body, although being particularly athletic wasn't a priority until he had to begin using magic to fight instead of tending to the dead among his other responsibilities in the Grand Necropolis.

With that said, Lucanis is not the only one to notice his exquisite physique and how elegant he looks. How couldn't he? The angular planes of his face, his sharp chiseled jaw, that elegant aquiline nose and sharp eyes the color of precious metals, his narrow waist without any softness to him whatsoever. He's got the kind of appearance that's hard to look away from.

Although I am aware that looks are not the first thing that Lucanis looks for, because he's so lonely, traumatized and touch-starved that anyone who shows him kindness is automatically attractive to him, I like to think that Lucanis was attracted to my Rook from the first time he saw him, but he felt guilty for being drawn to his looks before getting to know him.

It didn't help that the Mourn Watch armor that Lethanavir was wearing exemplified his narrow waist, enviable hips, and his broad shoulders, however. I can see Lucanis going through a crisis about this internally, because first off, Rook is the kindest person he's met in a long time, but he's also the most physically attractive man, at least, since Viago, and he's trying not to be weird about it.

It doesn't help when he sees Lethanavir bathing under a waterfall during one of the group's missions in Arlathan forest, and he looks at his toned back, and how grabbable his waist is and just how broad and strong his shoulders are and how it might feel if he were to hold him against his chest. It didn't help that Rook also smells amazing.

He wasn't even shocked when the elf disrobed in eyesight of his companions, if anything, it was hard for him to not enjoy the sight. It didn't help that Spite was encouraging him to engage in some more base desires, but Lucanis was inwardly like, "Not yet!" because he wanted to make sure it was him and not Spite pursuing Rook, as nice as he looks.

He smells like a Chantry, or an old library, or a primeval forest. He smells exactly like how he expected someone who grew up in Nevarra's Grand Necropolis, yet he also doesn't, because he was surprised he scarcely smells of enbalming fluid or whatever else it is that the Nevarrans do with the preparation of their dead.

It didn't hurt that Lethanavir has such a nice, well-formed butt that was exemplified quite noticeably in those form-fitted robes that he was wearing when he rescued him from the Ossuary. Lucanis is thinking, how can I ask him to wear those robes again without being weird about it. Truth be told, Lethanavir looks good in all the armors he's seen him in, even the more peculiar ones particular to Nevarra and their fixation with the dead.

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I'm thinking of my canon Rook Lethanavir (aka Aloisius) and Lucanis getting married and how so many people want for it to be a high-profile event as Lucanis is the First Talon, and he and my Rook are like, "No, no, no! We want a low-profile wedding with just us and our closest friends."

I can actually see the two of them eloping and choosing to get married in Nevarra instead of Antiva and they both act coy about it until someone outside their closest friend circle sees the wedding bands on each of them and pries into it until my Rook who has a worse poker-face than he thinks he has admitted that they got married.

[There is a lot more under the cut; now I need to design the wedding wings for Lethanavir and Lucanis. Hmm.]

Their remaining companions after [redacted] all are given invitations, along with other friends they'd made along the way, such as Antoine and Evka. Due to the fact that they've kept the Lighthouse, everyone is able to travel to the wedding in a very timely manner. By then, Lucanis was accustomed to the swarm of spirits of curiosity that wanted to attend said wedding as well. He actually found the Necropolis a comfort, especially when getting married to the love of his life.

Not everyone was happy for the married couple, as Davrin's unrequited crush on Lucanis wasn't just something he can get over in a short period of time. Even though he'd found a relationship with Rook's former-wife. Dhaveira, he feels as if he is wasting her time as using her as a placement for the person whom he had wanted more. With that said, he grows to love her and to see her as more than a "replacement" for Lucanis and appreciate what she has to offer.

Neve and Rana will likely have gotten together by that point in time, although Lucanis didn't get over his crush on her overnight, even after he got into a relationship with my Rook. It was actually due to an unintended suggestion from Lethanavir about something completely different that prompted Rana and Neve's relationship. With that said, Lethanavir feels less guilty about "stealing" Neve's boyfriend.

Because I don't like any of the non-romanced companions remaining lonely if Rook romances the person who they would have romanced if otherwise, I like to give everyone a partner, so Bellara gets together with Yenarel, seemingly unable to rekindle a relationship with Irelin. Emmrich and Strife are as happy as ever with one another, raising Manfred together in-between their respective duties.

Taash is still grieving over Harding, and they are not ready for someone new for quite a long time. I like to think that they eventually kindle something with Seer Rowan after some amount of years, after they get time to mourn Harding and not feel as if they are replacing her. Lethanavir's guidance helps Taash a lot with this, that being said, processing both their mother's death and Harding's.

Viago and Teia are at the wedding of course, as are Vorgoth, Myrna and other friends whom both Lucanis and Lethanavir have from their respective factions, even though Lucanis sadly had far fewer friends than Rook did, due to his trust issues. With that said, he gained not just a husband, but a whole family's worth of friends as well from his time in the Veil guard.

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Lethanavir is deeply insecure about his lack of "real" Dalish roots, having been raised by human nobles in Nevarra city and only striking out to seek the clan from which his parents came from as a teenager. He feels like an impostor wearing a stranger's face (his Vallaslin), and he feels that he didn't earn that distinction of the Dalish elves, while he's by all extents and purposes a city elf.

He feels inadequate compared to a real Dalish elf like Davrin. With that said, he doesn't make his insecurity about not being a "real" Dalish elf Davrin's problem, as he figures it out on his own during the story events of Veilguard. It's hard for him to not feel the odd-man-out with two actually Dalish elves as his companions, Bellara and Davrin, while he is a city elf raised by a wealthy Nevarran family in the Mortalitasi.

He feels as if his time as a Dalish elf was an extended camping trip, and that he only had a taste of what it is like to live the Dalish lifestyle. When he sees another Dalish elf with far higher charisma than he has himself flirting casually with his intended boyfriend, Lucanis, he feels all those old insecurities come back that had him seek out the Dalish as a teenager.

It makes him want to fight harder for Lucanis' affection than he did before, because, for one, Neve, as a human woman, doesn't represent any of his insecurities or his inner lack of a solid identity that is unique to the elves. This isn't Neve's problem, Davrin's problem, nor Lucanis' problem, but it is a driving factor as to why my Rook reacts so strongly to Davrin's banter with Lucanis sounding more than just friendly.

He just wants one win.

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I won't lie, the reason I am not into Lucanis/Davrin, is because I like Lucanis with my Rook instead. 💀 It's so petty, but it is what it is.

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My Rook, while he played the field by flirting with every single one of his companions, he wants an exclusive relationship (Although in Lucanis' case, he doesn't mind sharing him with Spite. Being a Mourn Watch, he is very comfortable with and familiar with spirits.). Another thing is, he is aware of how Lucanis got attached to Spite, and he'd never hold it against him.

That said, after some specific mid/late-game scenes and banter he is going to make it very clear to Davrin that Lucanis is off-limits to him, and to not even make a move towards his man. At the point where he's done flirting with anyone but Lucanis, I can see something like this happening. (It's under the cut, for those who are interested in how my Rook's mind works.)

There is much unhinged Rookery, because my Rook is actually quite so. He's an Aries Sun with a Scorpio Moon, and a Venus Opposite Pluto, both in fixed signs. He was born to be possessive. Example below of how this manifests in Aries Sun, Scorpio Moon; especially because he lets his insecurities about how his previous relationships turned out make him possessive about Lucanis.

He'll be like, "Davrin, while I am pleased that you buried the hatchet with Lucanis, don't make a move on him unless you are interested in fulfilling 'In Death Sacrifice', because I can point you in the direction of Elgar'nan's Archdemon. I'm making it crystal clear, that I, for all intents and purposes, am not one to mince my words. I will be glad for you to help fulfill the final part of your Warden's oath if you so much as try anything with him. No more flirting, no more anything like that. You are one of my best friends in this entire world, and I'd hate to lose you so soon, Davrin."

To follow in the theme of my Rook being possessively unhinged beneath his calm facade, I can see his mind going "Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!" while he's calmly telling one of his best friends to not engage in any suggestive banter with his intended love-interest, with or without any not-so-subtle nudges that he's not messing around with the mention of the final part of a Warden's Oath. It's even harder for him to say that because Davrin is one of his best friends, but he's claimed Lucanis, as I had said in my previous post about this subject.

The flirtatious dialogue with Neve and Lucanis had already come and gone by that point, although to me, it didn't come off as overtly flirty as the dialogue between Davrin and Lucanis. A lot of that happened before my Rook caught serious feelings for Lucanis and developed something more akin to an obsession than a mere crush, although he didn't know that he was already a goner the first moment he met Lucanis in the Ossuary. His Lucanis fixation didn't start overnight, to say the least. It grew on him over time.

Davrin is like, "Okay boss." in his normally cool manner, and he tells Rook that he's not interested in messing with his love-life, and that he doesn't have to worry about this. Of course, my Rook is going through a loop of paranoia and obsessive jealousy, so he goes back to what Davrin told him about there being 'nothing between him and Lucanis.' in the way that he's convinced himself there is, because he (Rook) is so used to people either leaving him or rejecting him. He's conflicted, because he doesn't want to lose his best-friend, but he wants Lucanis for himself.

The worst part of this is that he's been the prophet of his own pain by thinking the worst of people and expecting either betrayal, infidelity or abandonment and the proverbial 'other shoe to drop' because he's never had a truly satisfying romantic relationship, and the closest one he had to the depths of what he finds with Lucanis that he got before was one that ended up a mess. I want him, I want Lucanis. He has made his own mind into a prison of sorts, not dissimilar to how Lucanis has done the same with his.