#rooklas

[lyndibs]

EXTRA DreadRook vibes today!

The sexiest part ab this oshamir moment?

It’s not the slutty thumb rubbing. Or even the greater significance of him accepting her hand and she his. It’s the fact that he presented the saber to her with the lethal side facing himself rather than pointed at her

[lyndibs]

This, but it's DreadRook. (14)

[deliriousreverie]

"Wolfkiller"

I swear this counts as solrook, my take on this ship and my canon is just...very hostile, they'll never get to be a couple but it's still very much homoerotic. Also this piece is red riding hood and big bad wolf inspired btw🙈

And uh someone please comeup with a proper ship tag or I'm just gonna keep using solrook

[lyndibs]

I am still obsessed over the fact that they intertwined Solas and Rook's theme songs. Like.... COME ON!

I will never not talk about this.

I'd like to focus on the soundtrack specific to the Atonement Ending.

Ever since I watched it, I've had a strange sense of vague familiarity that I couldn't pinpoint or put into words until I got through all endings and realised what caused that feeling. It was the music.

In the three endings where Rook has to fight Solas the final cutscene always ends with "Not The Chosen One" (Rook's) theme, but this finale differs in many ways.

The timestamps below might not be accurate to the point, but they should help you navigate:

Beginning - 00:55 - Dragon Age Inquisition Epilogue theme

The next piece starts somewhere around 01:01 (at least this is where I was able to catch it). As far as I can tell, it's a variation on the "Not The Chosen One" theme specific to the Atonement Ending. It's also what gave me that déjà vu feeling I was talking about at the beginning. Sadly, there is no telling what the name of the melody is, because it's not on the official soundtrack

01:40 - 01:52 - I'm fairly sure it's the Inquisition theme, although it sounds a bit altered; it marks Morrigan's appearance in the finale

02:34 - the Lost Elf theme

03:12 - 04:17 - Rook and Solas' themes intertwine with Rook's leading the way and Solas' hidden beneath - but still present

04:17 up to the end - the Lost Elf; Rook's theme is no longer playing. This is the only time when the final scene ends with Solas' theme.

So, we have this finale where Rook - with extra help - convinces Solas to give up his Grand Restoration Plan and leave this world be, and not only does Solas finally see reason, but also binds himself to the Veil willingly, and all of this - the characters, the dynamic - are wrapped in the music, echoed in it, and it makes such wonderful, deep, multi-layered story that could never have been told through visual means alone.

And yes, all that is written above is my personal view. I might be reading it wrong. Or digging too deep. Or both.

But at least I got it out of my head.

[atimefordragons]

I think they should've kissed. Listen, I love Solavellan, I do, but my canon inquisitor is Trevelyan, and these two match freaks. Bitch to bitch communication, I love that insane shit.

[humpi]

«We're forever»

[boomturkey]

Congratulations Dreadrook shippers. Made it to 100 hundred fics in under two months with nothing but a dream and a recognition of some vibes ™️

Proud of us

[opheliac]

hear my call

[vulprits]

my comfort enemies to friends to lovers to enemies to lovers to

[shoyoackerman]

Enimies to lovers but they still would absolutely kill each other. Like holy shit this bastard is mine to love and they love me back and nobody else is allowed to hurt them BUT me. And no not in an abusive way (just to make clear) but where they’d clown their s/o for doing something stupid, or if they were caught unaware in fight. Actively laughing at their lovers pain and stupidity whilst burning the mf who hurt them in the first place alive.

THIS. This is the typa dynamics i live for and i beg for more to be written.

(Yes i am 100% talking about solrook here bc you really don’t think Rook wouldn’t not be on their knees laughing every time their all-mighty elven god lover had his shit rocked. Or vice versa? Both would be pointing and laughing and i love this for them i really do)

[fangbanger3000]

im working on a dirty little piece of rooklas dubcon hatefuck smut but i do not know if i dare to release it with the way the rooklas discourse is going rn..

[lyndibs]

This, but it's DreadRook. (15)

@fenrelmercar suggested Bellamy/Clarke and I did my best to deliver! 💓

[frizzlelamb]

i'm gonna admit something about my early dreadrooking times.

when i first got to the solas memories i completely misunderstood what was happening and thought that it was rook reliving their past life.. and so when the reveal came that they were "playing" the spirit of disruption that died fighting for the revolution i thought: "omg, so rook is a reincarnation of one of solas's spirit soldiers!? and in this life they're kinda fighting for him against the gods again!!?"

of course things were cleared up eventually. but i'm admittedly a bit slow... but it does make a good AU headcanon i think!

here are some of my own dreadrook screenshots with said headcanon in mind, grabbed from my bsky since i posted these there first. much to think about!!

[deliriousreverie]

The girls just can't stop fighting, I fear.

Also if anyone's wondering, yes I already know the ending and what kind of atrocities Solas did, still on my hateship/"I hate him with my entire being but can't help but feel like he's the only one that understands me" propaganda tho

[atimefordragons]

she really said that, trust.

[humpi]

Wolf always took care of Ivy, even if they didn't get along well at first. In the beginning, Ivy didn't have a scar on her neck. But in the end I added it. I imagined how Ivy got it...((