#varric deserves better

[crookedsaladdressing]

It would be so disrespectful to Varric if he died in the prologue to the Veilguard. Imagine all new players only knowing him, the legend Varric Tethras, as “the tutorial guy” 💀

“varric should have died” delete ur account, disconnect ur internet, throw ur laptop away. nobody wants to hear that.

[momochanners]

*rolls up sleeves*

Already got my work cut out in 2025 it seems

[fireboltcrystal]

Just a little bit of salt...

Honestly every time something new is revealed about this game since it's reveal. The more I am so fucking thankful I didn't fool myself in to wasting my money.

Even after all this time waiting after Trespasser, almost 10 years.

The back and forth, up and down. Only hearing scraps about the chaotic development. Hoping with little hope that the skeleton crew could make thing work.

Then finally it's revealed/released only to be completely saddened by the husk that appeared shambling around in faux Dragon Age skin.

What a tragic waste of a series...

I'll just save myself further heart break and ignore Veilguard's existence and just sever it from the series. Maybe one day when the distaste and disappointment has passed, I'll revisit the Trilogy with a lighter heart.

"Ah, yes Dragon Age. My favorite game trilogy. A shame that it ended on a cliffhanger. I would have loved to see what happened!"

But I guess we will never know.

Oh and on Varric (who is a alive, safe, happily enjoying his retirement, writing down his adventures and having a strong drink at The Hanged Man) deserved better than being wasted on what the team must have thought was truly 'clever' and 'thought provoking' 'twist'. Bleh...

I will never forgive Bioware & it's writers for that bit of complete and utter nonsense!

[treviso-nights]

solas fumbling a beautiful, empathetic, and politically desirable Lavellan (who he essentially gave skyhold to) only to gain a half-rabid and Very Confused random named Rook (who stole his super secret magic hideout) is what he DESERVES

[vaguely-concerned]

so for obvious reasons, rye is not generally all that popular with most of the senior watchers. however. I think there is a certain type of younger watcher to whom he is The ultimate hot badboy icon and fantasy. (we're talking about a group of extreme indoor kid goth nerds who've barely been outside. it doesn't take a lot ot achieve bad boy status in this context and the only thing in this world that lasts forever is a bad reputation in a small insular group like the watchers.) it's SO funny because rye thinks of himself as such a disappointing fuckup of a son of the grand necropolis. and meanwhile there are novices kicking their feet and giggling as they're like

'Ingellvar is so cool. no one knows where he's from he was found down here as a baby. mysterious orphan appeal. he could be a secret dalish prince or something for all we know. (*annoyed extra nerd watcher novice voice*: umm actually the dalish don't have princes, merrivar?? read a real book sometime maybe???) he's a rebel. he doesn't care what the senior watchers think no time for politics he just gets the job done. (*small sad rye voice* I care a lot what the senior watchers think actually. a pathetic amount, in fact. it just rarely seems like it helps anything at all) I heard he graduated almost top of his class even though he spent all his time as a student partying up in the city and having a torrid affair with the son of a noble family. sometimes in his spare time he wears a cool punk leather jacket but like the fantasy version of that. he has tattoos apparently but no one's seen them for years. yuh-uh it's true too, I know someone who knows someone he dated once. they say he saw a knife fight once. like, in a bar brawl, with living people. all that, and he's even sneakily emotionally unavailable. *starry-eyed sigh* what a dreamboat'.

needless to say this only grows worse with the events of the game, after he takes out the formless one and rumours start to spread that he maybe killed a god or something too???? and this being nevarra, more importantly he's out there killing dragons with his sworn companions?? like a fucking fairytale prince but with that devil-may-care rebellious streak???? he's the safely unavailable first crush at a distance of many a young watcher. now imagine the reaction when he shows up home for the first time in a year after the war of the banners accompanied by The one true bad boy fantasy to rule them all: literally the sad brooding crown prince of the crows of antiva in leather pants who has WINGS and a dark tortured side of his nature that he has to constantly battle against for the sake of those he loves.

(the perception vs. reality situation for both of these characterizations is. so unspeakably hilarious needless to say. consider how much of the above lucanis characterization is accurate to the person he actually is and then you've basically found the level of distortion lens being applied to rye as well. is most of it technically true? sure. 'technically' is having to do a whole world of heavy lifting there tho fhdfska)

what I'm really saying here is that there is a subsection of this group that's been ferociously writing rye/lucanis rpf from the moment they were seen trotting down into the necropolis depths together (other pairings within the lighthouse gang as a whole, caught in tantalizing glimpses as they visit the necropolis, of course having their own devotees), and when this fandom subgroup eventually discover they were right it's with all the insane glee of a sixteen year old fanfic writer on wattpad (is that still where the kids are these days. idk i'm getting old folks) finding out that their dark mafia prince AU is basically true. varric might be gone but the legacy of friendfiction lives on after him. the king of thedas rpf being the shoulders of titans that young watchers are standing on to write fevered WILDLY inaccurate depictions of the private life of two of the most low-key domestic quietly devoted and undramatic people on the continent, one of them being varric's own poor little meow meow slash mentee, is something that can actually be so personal. rye does not end up terribly famous in the end considering the shit he manages to get done in this game, and he thanks his lucky stars for it. but to a tight-knit community of mourn watch fic writers he is blorbo from my apocalypse. it's all I could have wished for him.

(funniest possible outcome of all this: myrna gets so fucking tired of trying to understand what the novices are being so tittery about that she asks rye 'watcher ingellvar with the realization that this is a long shot and the admission that vorgoth and I have exhausted all other avenues of investigation: do you possess secret insight about what an 'x reader' is. and also 'ship war'. your name seems to come up in this context a surprising amount'. 9000000 points of incoming psychic damage about to hit the fan.)

[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.

[aghostwithnoname]

I'm not even a Varric lover and I legit feel bad for you guys in solidarity.

[missmajored]

❝ 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐘 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 ❞

[cinnalock]

Dragon Age culture is having a slew of romance options in each game, but preferring to rip your own heart out of your chest, swallow it whole, shit it out, and use it and your intestines to hang yourself than go against Varric Tethras.

[gravedigg]

I’m trying to like veilguard so hard but the writing makes me miserable. Like I’m gonna bear through it cause I bought the game and I’m curious what happens but it’s just not very fun. Honestly just wanna play dai :-(

[shipperwolf1]

Everyone: NOT BIANCA!! NOOOOO

Me:

[moondustocean]

Even if it's only as a headcanon and even if Varric dies midway through the game my new protag is gonna romance him. I don't even care at this point.

[thewardenisonthecase]

I need to continue my replay of da2 but the emotional pain this game gives me

[angelknives]

The thing is, Varric isn't even my favorite, but I HATE that we can never see anyone who cared about him mourn properly, because of the twist. I don't think him and Solas were friends, but we've seen a lot of Varric's friends over the past games and we see no one mourn him.

It's just frustrating. If they wanted him dead, which I can't see working in this game but maybe it did back when it was still going to have Inqy as the protagonist, just make it so Rook knows she is only imagining Varric and it's her guilt that keeps him appearing in the lighthouse.

With how it is now, you often wonder why Varric is even here and it feels like bad writing, because they have to avoid the twist making no sense in the end.

(I know some people think it makes no sense that he narrates the game, but frankly I wouldn't mind if Bioware kept that in, even in the next dragon age.)

[nerevariine]

is this a safe place to discuss varric.

[boghags]

I won't be saying anything else on the matter of DA4 until after the trailer drops tomorrow, but as of right now I do NOT like the chosen art style or most of the companions, going off visuals and what I've read alone. Cautiously optimistic about the story and gameplay going forward but man :/ I waited 10 years for this? Fear. I am experiencing fear and terror.

Anyway Bioware better drop a CC demo or else I am WALKING idc. I need proof that my Rook (and Inquisitor apparently!) won't look like shit. If they've gotten rid of sliders I'm so out sorry 😭