#rook: aloisius ingellvar

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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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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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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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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.

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I must say, I do get jealous on my Rook's behalf when the other companions flirt with said Rook's love-interest. Seeing how my canon Rook romances Lucanis, of course, I am going to want Lucanis to be with my Rook. I actually entertained the idea of a polycule thing with my Rook, Lucanis, Davrin and Emmrich at one point, but it crashed like a lead balloon.

The dynamic of a found family among the Veilguard and my Rook still working on his own trust issues made it very hard for him to want to even entertain the idea of Lucanis also being with Emmrich and/or Davrin along with him, because he knows he'd explode all his relationships with them out of jealousy if he entertained such an option.

He's just like me in the way that, "That is my future husband you are flirting with." while he also says "Mine." in the same cadence that Spite does regarding Lucanis. 💀 At least I headcanon that Lucanis finds it hot when my Rook says that. It's no wonder why Spite likes my Rook so much.

I can see Spite saying, "Rook doesn't share." around Davrin after Lucanis has had flirtatious banter with either of them. That said, I adore both Neve and Davrin, I just personally like Lucanis with Rook more than any companion pairings, fandom or not. That said, I like Lucanis with Neve almost as much as I like him with Rook.

I headcanon that Spite pushed Lucanis to flirt with Davrin in that massage dialogue so that my Rook would become more jealously possessive of him, almost like a reverse psychology kind of trolling? And it worked, because that dialogue fired for me after my Rook and Lucanis got into a relationship. (I will touch on this in my Rookanis fic.)

My Rook is kind of a hot-head, so I can see him confronting Lucanis about this and asking him what was that about when asking Davrin for a massage? It turned out to be Spite being a little chaos gremlin, but it was enough to make my Rook so more red than a blighted world redecorated by Ghilan'nain and Elgar'nan.

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How can I stop talking about these two since they've been rattling around in my head since June.

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Part III, finally... it was everything that I wanted it to be for them.

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Part II of that scene that I was waiting for a very long time for.

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The scene finally happened. Part 1.

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I can't wait to explore the topic of devotion that corrupts between my main Rook and Lucanis in my writing, because my Rook's truly unhinged core is not something touched on in the game's characterization of Rook. There is so much to be said about how attached he gets to Lucanis to the point of obsession and to the point where he grows paranoid that Lucanis is going to cheat on him with Davrin (as an example), because he's claimed Lucanis as his in his mind.

Lucanis is his person, his significant other, no one else can protect him like he can, no one can love him as deeply as he can, no one else can appreciate him as much as he can, and taking into account my Rook's deep-seated abandonment issues and his trust issues as deep as the Void itself, he is in no position to even entertain sharing Lucanis with any of his team-mates, not in the way that he has him. Not even his own parents wanted him, hence them leaving him in the Necropolis to die.

My previous post is only a fraction of what my Rook is capable of doing in the name of obsessive love. He is still recovering from his divorce two years prior to the game, and how none of his relationships before that have measured up, nor have the flings he's had in between, and into his life swoops Lucanis who is so closed-off, yet so sensitive and hurt underneath it all. Lucanis actually wants him in the same way that he wants him.

He wants to be the one to hold Lucanis in his arms, only he is the one to stroke his hair at night as he falls asleep at night, only he is the one who is going to recount the tale of their relationship as he reassures him that he's actually back and that he'd never leave his side, and that no Gods can come between them. Finally, Lucanis matches that energy when he tells him he'd kill any God if he can fall asleep in his arms, though.

That confession comes after months of paranoia on Rook's end that Lucanis would look elsewhere, that Lucanis would consider another one of their companions over him. What if I am not enough for him? What if I mess up like all of my previous relationships? I've never wanted anyone as deeply as I want Lucanis Dellamorte, and I am willing to take a dagger to carve his name into my chest (metaphorically.)

I want to meld with him completely in mind, body and spirit. Only Spite can come between us, only Spite. Maybe I can talk with him one day like Emmrich does. What if I am coming on too hard? What if I scare him off? Is there a life worth living for if I lose him? I have to do all I can, for him, even if it means just one more night sleeping in his arms. I'd lay waste to all of those who'd dared to hurt him.

The thing is, Lucanis is having the same kind of thoughts about my Rook. He thinks that he's done nothing to deserve him, and he doesn't know what my Rook sees in him. My two emotionally constipated babies do not know how to communicate this outside of the most unhinged confessions of devotion. I'd kill a God for you, I'd kill all the Gods for you. The Gods can't come between us.

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These two are so beautiful together. Did I mention how good Lucanis looks in the armor and in the clothing from this mod. I chose the color red because he took the Path of Vengeance, and I wanted it to be symbolic. That being said, I can't get enough of them together.