#theres a lot more i could say on this but i'm still emotionally distraught over arcane and ruminating over that bc what the hell

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Rook has the most Just Some Guy energy of all the dragon age protagonists and I love it. Rook doesn't get some fancy title or cool accolade, they're just Rook which considering Rook pulls off some of the most insane shit in the series is so funny. Solas is all like "what are they going to call you when this is all over?" and its just Rook.

Someone probably tried to come up with something but it just never caught on because then everyone remembers the time Rook tripped into a deep puddle and almost drowned or the fact that Rook is practically fingergunning their way through every conversations and dropping some of the worst jokes known to man (remember the hand puns in arlathan?) and they're just like nevermind. Rook is just so imperfect and downright human all the time that they can never be othered into something bigger than what they are which is Just Some Guy Doing Their Best.

The Hero of Ferelden, the Champion of Kirkwall, and the Inquisitor all become some figurehead of myth and legend whether they wanted to be or not and can never just be who they are rather than what they are but Rook who is dealing with problems of mythic proportion, fighting figures right out of actual legend, literally killing gods, just remains Rook, a person plain and simple and I think that's beautiful in its own way.