#so does rook

[niceminipotato]

I keep picturing this scene in my head where Neve is making Rook leave her room so she can concentrate on her work and then Rook being their dumb self is walking backwards down the steps with their goofy grin while Neve shakes her head before they step right off the stairs for not paying attention to where they were going. And then Neve living through a few panicked seconds before the Caretaker appears holding an ashen faced Rook like a sack of potatoes and dumping them in front of Neve.

Neve: Forget trouble, you’re just a walking disaster. *exasperated and with her palm on her forehead*

Rook: *breathing shakily* You know how I said I wanted to fly with Assan?

Neve: Are you rethinking that now?

Rook: *grinning like an idiot* I can’t wait!!!

Neve: I’ve fallen for an idiot. *shaking her head with a pained expression*

Rook: *stands up and kisses Neve’s cheek* I’ll let you work, love you. *runs towards Assan* We need to practice boy. C’mon!

Meanwhile Neve is there trying to get over what Rook just said and also coming to terms with her feelings for the idiotic fool.

[dragonagebrainrotblog]

Okay I’ve got some things to get off my chest as a Solasmancer after part 1 of the ending of Veilguard, MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW

I loved Solas in Inquisition and was so committed to a redemption arc in Veilguaed, but this motherfucker has made it so hard.

He manipulates your Rook to think that your mentor is alive when he fucking killed him in cold blood, just to get you to cooperate with him and serve your purpose for him. And then he waits until you have experienced devastating, back to back loses and tries to make you believe that it’s all your fault and you’ve let down so many people and you could never be the true hero of this story, all to trap you in his prison of regret so he can be the Real Hero.

That is one of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen an antagonist do. I’m so pissed at him for this. Especially when he’s branded as a “villain who isn’t really a villain and is complex and just needs to be saved from himself”. It feels so icky now.

I still have to finish the game but there needs to be something BIG for me to believe he’s worth reuniting with my Inky. He essentially murdered the Inquisitor’s right hand who has been chasing him for years with the intent to change his mind and heart. And then immediately uses it as a manipulation tactic. Even if it was “accidental” the implications are still so fucked. I’m so disappointed in his character.

[mooreaux]

Love Undying

[sketchytea]

this was supposed to be a new years picture but we're way past that already. so now this is just. an ode to a found family 💜

[mellosdrawings]

So, I'm not all that caught up with canon lore yet, but one thing that annoys me at times is when people blame Rook for his bad new style (it's not even bad. He looks cute, look at him smiling so much he's so baby). Rook has been shown several times to do things on his own volition without even warning Vil (like, you know, changing dorms?!) and you'd expect me to believe he's not the one to have chosen his new style ?

Anyway, leave my man and his bad haircut choices alone. What's the point of having hair that can grow back if you don't have some fun with them while you're still at school ?

[vonspe]

i think you’d have to cut off my hand to stop me from drawing copious amounts of emmrook

[mayhemforlace]

[karawra]

It's fine, no one will notice

Edit: bonus follow-up

[vaguely-concerned]

the strength it must have taken for illario to not immediately go full 'lmao since when have you even had a kiss hello lucanis' sibling violence mode during the café talk. inspirational. rook and lucanis really were doing all that right in front of his salad huh

[timethehobo]

Rook just won’t stop flirting. 💜

[revvethasmythh]

The way Veilguard approaches the concept of leadership is so interesting, actually. Because in previous installments, leadership is something that just happens to the main character. The Warden is volunteered for a leadership position by Alistair because he doesn't want it and also for the video game mechanic of "you are the main character." Hawke leads presumably out of sheer force of personality--how else could they hold all those disparate personalities together and actually get anything done? The Inquisitor is made leader due to the magical MacGuffin in their hand, but beyond naming what the Inquisition is for, little of their leadership technique is directly interrogated.

Rook essentially receives field command of the team after being Varric's second for half a year. The uncertainty of that is palpable. This is not someone who's meant to be in direct command, but finds themselves in that position anyway and the narrative is interrogating that. Thoroughly, even. Solas asking what their role here is, the way they have to mediate the group, multiple conversations about the actual mechanics of being a leader--it's very interesting, because previous protagonists unequivocally were leaders but this is the first time it really feels like I, as a player, have access to the levers that control what that leadership looks like. How someone tries to keep a crew functional and working together and make hard calls while trying to minimize the pain it will cause the rest of the team (and often failing at even that). It's a fledgling attempt at leadership in the worst possible moment and you can feel that. More than anything, it makes the Veilguard feel like an exploration of the work it actually takes to tie a crew like this together and make it possible for them to face world-ending odds, and I'm really enjoying the experience

[artschoolglasses]

Ghost of Yōtei (2025)

[heylittleriotact]

No wonder Emmrich.exe stopped working when Rook asks if the tea in the memorial garden at the end of their outing was set up to impress them.

Death-man brought Rook to this place to try and help them sort through some of the feelings they need to confront in order to healthily mourn the death of someone who presumably meant a great deal to them.

The “light refreshment” was waiting at the end as a deliberate part of Emmrich’s care as a death professional. When I was in funerals we had coffee, tea, and freshly baked cookies waiting for every family that came in for arrangements, visitations, services, or after-care meetings: they’re comforting little gestures that people tend to really lean into during a difficult time.

So yeah. Given the circumstances and the reason for the outing to begin with, it would be a lot like someone showing up at the funeral home to make arrangements for their mum, looking at my spread of coffee and cookies and being like “Ooooh… are you hitting on me? 👀”

I would have had the exact same reaction Emmrich did lmao

[egophiliac]

@enderfore replied to your post “What do you think of Rook's savanaclaw card? <333”:

Chenya pic where???? I can barely see anything in that room there so much going on, rooks such a lil freak (affectionatr)

​he's under the row of flags on Neige's side of the room, next to the big Neige poster with the yellow background (look just to the right of the hand holding the apple)! he's REAL little; once you know he's there you can kind of see him in-game, but I only noticed him in the first place because I took a screenshot and was having fun zooming in on all the details!

I think that's either Hop or Snick and Dominic on either side of Neige, but if the others are meant to be anyone in particular I don't recognize 'em. though I do love all the absolutely terrifying implications of Rook having this. was this some kind of officially-published merchandise (and if so, why) or did Rook like...go hunting through the RSA trash to find this random student lineup just because it included Neige, and has had it hanging proudly on the wall ever since. (I mean, he definitely did do this, I don't know why I'm asking. the real question is why he hasn't cut out little pictures of his own face and stuck them over everyone else's yet.)

there is seriously SO MUCH in this room. how did Rook manage to keep this hidden for three years. also, somebody give this background artist a raise immediately.

[sexygayvampire]

hey does anyone else ever think about archon!dorian and lose their minds

[minaharkers]

imagine being loved by me.

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