#the tenderness they deserve

[savegrisham]

so you can sleep

[chlorophyll-tints]

ok im done crying. they’re so in love

[an-established-butt-dent]

“Lines on a map we’ll learn to memorize again and again.”

> Solas discovering how many new scars Lavellan has since they were last together

This promps @varricscheticles send me, made me lose my mind!!!!

[vaguely-concerned]

the things it adds to both of the characters involved that lucanis used to have a thing for viago could not have been more tailor made to be for me. literally the ideal thing to come out of this game for me personally and specifically and spiritually. I mean I'm teia x viago trash until the day I die and nothing will ever change this (and with the best will in the world and even the power of lucanis' big beautiful soulful eyes, that would never have worked out even if viago DID somehow understand he was being propositioned. which I'm not convinced he did. the mutual 'so. snakes are pretty cool huh. and. knives. also' awkward energy without someone of teia's charisma and people skills involved to mitigate it... it would have been dire), but on so many levels I find it so incredibly charming for what it says about them both that the (one-sided) attraction was there once.

what's more, it means the man about whom this legendary paragraph was written:

Viago was not a typical Antivan. He liked facts—checklists, numbers, precise measurements. Heart palpitations, clammy hands, tight pants—Viago did not like these things. In fact, he would go so far as to say he hated them. Mild curiosity was his favorite mood.

has got some of the hottest coolest deadliest people in thedas down so catastrophically bad it's got them acting unwise. teia had to wait a UST-drenched decade for him to be ready to take his fucking gloves off for her. and she did!! the tetchiest most neurotic least approachable little vetinari knockoff of a man you ever saw has game for days and days and lives rent free in heads for years. in eight little talons viago consistently feels so inadequate up against dante and it's like. man I'm shaking you by the lapels you have what he'll never have. the ability to bewitch body and soul with your terrible personality and long thin legs. do not waste the gift you've been given go get her she's waiting!!!

(lucanis is really good at reading people, so I wonder if maybe he saw through all of that to some of the steadiness and incredible capacity for warmth and tenderness in specific interpersonal relationships you see viago have with teia when he finally opens up enough, and maybe that was part of it. either way it's so perfect that both he and teia have regarded viago with this affectionate intrigued amusement. lucanis still seems pretty fond of him in a 'viago continues to be exactly himself no matter what else happens or goes wrong. comforting universal constant' sort of way, he brings him up quite a lot in party banter.)

you've seen lucanis' game in this day and age, arguably or at least hopefully older and wiser -- can you imagine how catastrophically bad it must have been back when he presumably handed viago, most paranoid man in thedas all years running, a knife like this expressed everything it needed to. people give him so much shit for the cake moment being his big romantic lock-in, but considering where we started that is GROWTH and I for one am so proud of him fhsdkjaf.

also I wonder at what point vis-a-vis that whole Situation teia and viago met for the first time, leading us to ask... just how much was it a matter of lucanis simply being ignored out of a lack of interest on viago's part (tbf, not entirely unlikely). how much was it lucanis truly not managing to make himself understood. (all but certainly. literally how would one understand that. I think it says some sweet things about rook and lucanis' dynamic that they -- somehow -- DO pick up what he's putting down in a similar scenario presumably b/c they know him pretty well by then haha.) how much was it viago interpreting the romantic move as a death threat from one of the most dangerous people alive and freaking out. (1000% and indubitably.) and how much was it andarateia steal-your-girl cantori turning up and thus setting off whatever spectacular, volatile, awesome-in-the-original-sense chemical reaction between the substances of her and viago's souls that goes on to this day and makes everything else kind of a side note at best. a gentle mix of several of these things, perhaps. ...god I love all these characters so much

[time-woods]

breaks can be nice

[cellyjubes]

Raiden softly topping old snake because he deserves to be taken care of for once <3

[usertoxicyaoi]

"I say we keep going. I want to be with you forever. I don't want to stop this."

TAKARA NO VIDRO (2024). EPISODE NINE.

[nihildenial]

i bet tobias is losing his mind rn

HE GOT INBETWEEN ANAKIN SKYWALKER AND HOUSE

[ninjigma]

QuinObi Week Part 1/5 - Next

Day 1: Tender Kiss Track: 'Young Blood' - The Naked And Famous (Spotify / YouTube)

A lot better than the last cave they were in, and with a much nicer outcome too. Love ourselves a nice tender first kiss for the first post of the week.

Enjoy!

@quinobiweek

[paradimeshifts7]

⚔️ 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 ⚔️

Epilogue: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓

Link here

The final installment for our heroes.

[shalmonsdraws]

wispy woods

[whollyjoly]

i just have a feeling / you're better off than you think you are

(song insp.)

[phy-be]

I wish you a pride month full of joy, kindness, euphoria, and love in all its many shapes and forms 🌈 

[valeron99]

Haptic Dean.

[pealingpetals]

Snuggling can get kinda awkward when you're dealing with the whole wingspan, but they make it work.

[bilberry-jam]

Since we talked about Ciri I would love to see her doing magic studies with Yennefer or something. Just anything with a young Ciri having a good time for once

Okay so this isn't exactly what you asked for but it sprung into my mind when I set out to draw the ask