#this is my first dragon age game

[rawrsatthetree]

I wanna trust Solas so bad but I’m still recovering from my trauma from The Emperor.

[qursidae]

Girl I love you 🥺

[Carrd 🃏]

[zaahvi]

"in my arms lies eternity"

you too, dear reader, can make veilguard into an elgarook enemies to lovers story if you think hard enough 😌

[crows-of-buckets]

Zevwarden friendship is so important to me... I love them so much

[mogwaei]

i forgor to post him here - Zevran meets Hades!

[elvyn]

Welcome back, master of the worst plans.

[kittyoperas]

Wanted to draw Taash again now that we have better references of them ^_^

[vaguely-concerned]

on the one hand I think inner demons could stand to have a bit more romanced rook specific content, but on the other hand the underlying in-built implication that 'yours is the one true voice of comfort and safety in my inner world' is a sentiment and intimacy so way beyond the romantic or the platonic or any secret third thing you could care to name that it makes me lose my entire poor little mind a bit. it's so big and fundamental — near-existential — that in that exact moment at least the distinctions kind of seem irrelevant.

all the people lucanis' mind conjures up along the way are relationships he has that are unavoidably mixed and fraught in some ways even when they're also full of love (they are fraught BECAUSE they're full of love) — the good in them inseparable from things that hurt him at the same time. (it's about: the basic disorganized attachment patterns this poor guy is dragging around with him. careful with those, they're dellamorte heirlooms. what you love also inevitably hurts you and you won't be allowed to have one without the other, you have to surrender parts of your soul to hold on to what little you have left: this is the story up until now.) and the idea that rook isn't that to him — that beneath the fear of wanting them when romanced (which is more its own separate thing because within this psychology, actively wanting something and not just clinging on for dear life to even a meager status quo lest you lose it is in itself dangerous bordering on catastrophic), this is a relationship where there isn't resentment, or guilt, or shame, or dread, or rage, or self-hate, or any of the other emotions that keep him paralyzed, unable to move this way or that. no debts, nothing owed of yourself and your soul's substance except what you can freely and safely and happily give. love and freedom don't coexist — but, I mean, you're almost starting to make me think........... unless...👀👀👀. the unconditional and undramatic 'you are here and I am here with you, you can be exactly how you are right now with me and it's safe for us both even though you're afraid it won't be, I'm not going anywhere' acceptance rook shows him here that he returns to them in the big romance scene, when it's rook who needs it. the way he's just. standing there in the center of it all, like a child desperately helplessly waiting to be found, hiding in the place he hopes you'll know to look first. (rook does know. it's one of the first things they say in there.)

in short the most important room in his little mind palace for the romance is the very first room — the one where rook isn't. where, in fact, rook cannot be, because they disprove the entire structure of the place with their existence and presence in his life. with everyone else he's putting words in their mouths about what they think of him, and rook is the one who actually gets to come in to speak their own words to him — and have him listen. ('he'll listen to you, he always listens to you', 'your voice is a comfort'.) of course rook isn't present anywhere else in there — at the risk of stating the obvious to a tedious degree, they aren't one of the locks, they're bringing the key. in the very finest 'the messenger and the message' sort of way.

[brightaxe]

I'm pretending and planning an immediate ending 'cause I'm all choked up in the middle of a fall. | ❝ snow song ❞ by blake rouse.

[fenharel]

💀

[aezyrraesh]

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD [1/?]

I knew him as Solas. Smart, thoughtful, loved to hear himself talk. But long ago he had a different name: The Dread Wolf. Ancient elven god of lies, or heroic rebel against tyranny, depending on which story you believe.

[felassan]

The Rook

[thimblings]

rook [after drinking several bottles of bad wine together and listening to them trying to one-up each other]: "that's nice boys, but i could take you both! at the same time!" (davrin is gonna be smug because he managed to get BOTH these idiots to finally rest for once) (spite is letting lucanis sleep, he's hanging out with assan) (these two are my main party, and lol guilty pleasure ot3, and lucanis is still demi - he loves both!! of them!!)

[timethehobo]

They’re judging your decisions.

[ai-no-kokuhaku]

if you had to get something off your chest, surely a demon isn't a bad option to vent to

[lizzybeeee]

Can someone give me a reason why all the Dalish just accept that the elven gods are the evanuris and tyrannical evil mages??

Are you telling me that my devout Trevelyan Inquisitor went up to them, told them "your gods are really evil mages lol" and they...believed them?!