#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

[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 ?

[mayhemforlace]

[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)

[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.

[ambrosia-vinca]

Am I tripping or are many people misreading Mary Kirby's answer re: Spite's confusion about the almost-kiss between Rook and Lucanis?

Spite doesn't think Lucanis should have kissed Rook in that moment. Spite is a demon of “Gleefully not giving people what they want.”

Rook wanted Lucanis to kiss them. Lucanis didn't kiss them.

Spite, as a demon of nope, then goes: Yes! Good! You denied them! Wait. Why are you sad?

[mohntilyet]

rook being such a nobody and surrounded by more influential companions right after the obviously well known inquisitor could be really cool actually. that conversation w solas 'what will they call you after this is done' <- NO FUCKING CLUE LOL!! the idea that this millennia long, world-ending story of gods and a herald being controlled for a moment by a nobody is incredible. they start as an irritant and end having saved the world. nobody thanks them. they go back home. maybe they're literally wiped off the face of the world when they're trapped in the fade with the dread wolf! and most of all, their name is not remembered. literally, because they become a 'rook' to the inquisitor's king.

like i’m actually really liking the idea that the inquisitor and rook get conflated into the same person by the public and by history, and what little agency they had is taken away. you were never in control of this story. your narrative will be written by other people, just like every figurehead that came before you. you are not the chosen one. the choice to have faded out and see the irrelevancy as a boon, or struggle to make your name known (not rook, not the nickname, not the title) would have been so. interesting.

veilguard is a heroic story (and the game doesn’t even let you be rude most of the time) that has to end heroically (the evanuris are defeated in some way, the last archdemon dies, and most rooks climb down from minrathous to literal cheers and applause) but the hero themself is forgettable. narratively that could have been so funnnn. but it wasn’t on purpose so it just feels hollow.

[rin-hanarin]

He's got that irresistible Mysterious Italian Attachment Style(c) with social awkwardness sprinkled on top.

[vaguely-concerned]

the barista lady in the treviso café fucking giggles every time you buy the fancy coffee lucanis likes from her btw. can't believe the game is calling out rook and me like this

[qwakque]

CULINARY CRUUCIBLEEE

[vigilskeep]

the lucanis romance pacing is kind of objectively terrible, no idea what the writing thought process was, but it’s so funny in-world that it basically circles around to a win for me

[crows-of-buckets]

Rook: I'm really worried about Davrin and Lucanis, they keep arguing with one another... Its very bad Varric, what if it effects them in battle?

Varric, remembering that one time Fenris broke Ander's nose then took a knife in the back for him in the same night: I'm sure they'll be fine kid. They're barely even arguing if you ask me