#viago and rook

[trialsofthedas]

Lucanis, trying to sneak out after spending the night with Rook:

Viago, twirling a vial of poison: What are you doing here?

Lucanis: …I could ask you the same question.

Viago: I live here. This is my house.

Lucanis: I should probably ask you a different question.

[part-time-pixie]

that one b99 cold open

[thatwavephenomenon]

me: i sure hope the crows are not gonna be solely depicted in veilguard as a brave force who 'fight for all' when they are at their core a criminal organization who is known to buy children to indoctrinate them and turn them into assassins, by putting them in overcrowded warehouses and making them fight for scrapes in order not to starve, to later torture those who reach adulthood to finish their initiations and kill them anyways if they dare to try getting out

bioware: i cooka da pizza

[housederiva]

I’m in tears

Edit: the tears have increased

[rin-hanarin]

I love Viago, he's so funny for no reason.

[felixora]

Rook and Lucanis, always there to get on Viago's nerves just by breathing.

On side note - I'm glad that that little mishap was generally well received (and no-one game Zach a hard time about it), it's all fun in good faith

[marzely]

Last night I sat up in bed so fast because I remembered an incorrect quote that fit this tweet from Mary Kirby.

[anotherramblingfangirl]

Viago: I am at a loss for words-! Rook de Riva, narrating: Though he claimed he was speechless, Viago yelled at me for 45 minutes.

[kabsey]

lucanis: i am stuck with a demon who is reckless, impulsive, and never listens to me

viago: (sighs) i know exactly what you mean

crow!rook: (wanders over) what are we talking about?

viago: you

[thismission]

these two gossiping about their love lives is so fucking cute

bonus lucanis confirmed canonically having had a crush on viago!!!

[high-dragon-bait]

Viago's opening letter to a de Riva Rook is the funniest goddamn thing

"Dear Idiot,

You are so fucking stupid and everyone is still complaining about that stupid thing you did. But none of them are complaining more than ME, you moron, you disgrace. I cannot believe I raised you. Anyway, if you die I'll kill you. Come home safe. But not soon

Your (Begrudging) Father Viago"

[trialsofthedas]

SPOILERS FOR VEILGUARD —>

For those of you who have played and/or watched the scene that takes place after the dragon attack if you are a crow!rook who chose to save minrathous, you know this little line Viago throws at you?

“Because you always think of something. You always do. Except this time.”

Once again, I’m asking you guys to think about Lucanis having to tell Viago that rook is missing post-tearstone island. Because they don’t know where Rook is. They don’t even know if Rook is alive. All they know is they killed one of the gods, they did it, but the smoke cleared and solas is free but Rook is gone. and it’s WEEKS according to that Bellara romance scene.

Viago refuses to believe Rook is gone. Not Rook. Not the stubborn little idiot who had more lives than the feral street cats of treviso they so loved to pet. Not the little crow who spent years following Viago around with one hand always fisted in his cape until it was beat out of them to not show that kind of weakness. Not the little scrap of a being that succeeded for always being quick, but fell for their mouth that ran that much quicker. Not Rook, who he sent away to learn patience, to get them out of the hot seat and away from the other houses who wanted their head. Rook, who fought and won against gods and dragons and the blight. Not a crow who always completes their contract. Not Rook who was supposed to come home.

Not Rook. So Viago refuses to believe it. The first few days he clings so hard to the mantra. “Rook always thinks of something.” And they will come back and laugh and laugh and laugh at how worried Viago was and Viago will sigh and ring their neck and slip poison into their food to make sure they’ve been keeping up with their daily antivenoms— and Rook will be there.

But those days turn into a week, and then into two, and Viago hasn’t received any update from this so called ‘veilguard’ and all of the sudden “Rook always thinks of something.” is crumbling because what if this is the exception? this is the “except this time.” Because it is always until it’s not. and there is no time to truly mourn is there? there is still one god left to slay and very little time left to do it.

And Viago will fight. The loss of his… the loss to House de Riva is felt, but Viago is a professional. His wings are not clipped. ( his feathers are broken, hard shafts digging in and pulling blood from oozing cuts. they need clipped, groomed, removed. but his wings still work. they just hurt. ) He will finish this contract, in their name if nothing else.

But Viago let himself forget. “Rook always thinks of something.” And he let himself doubt and underestimate when he swore he would never be caught by those things again. but maybe this once, it’s okay. it’s okay because Rook stands in front of him, alive. Broken, but alive.

because a Crow always completes their contract, and a Rook will always come home to bother Viago.

Until they don’t

[eidothean]

My Crow Rook headcanon is that sometime during the story Rook goes home for family dinner and is like ‘… so I’m seeing someone … he’s a Dalish grey warden’ and Viago spits out a five hundred euro mouthful of wine (which Rook has poisoned just to see if he notices) and experiences one million catastrophic war flashbacks to the last time an Antivan Crow was ‘seeing’ a Dalish grey warden and gets up to find a quill to put a contract on Davrin’s life and Teia yanks him back by his coat and is like ‘ooh is that the handsome one’ and Rook is nodding enthusiastically while Viago stares into his dinner plate like it’s the abyss

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

Viago, when playing as Rook De Riva: you IDIOT you were my favorite fledgling why did you have to make a mess of this now I have to jump through all these convoluted hoops to keep you safe. Teia stop telling Rook how much I missed them it's not funny they could have DIED. also your room is exactly the way you left it please come home

Strife, when playing as Rook Aldwir: Why hasn't this weird bug i kicked out of our camp ages ago died yet :|

[antivanwine14]

The realization that Viago sent Rook De Riva away not because he was angry (though he was very angry) but because he knew the other Talons were angry and he needed to protect Rook from them is real punch in the gut.

Viago got Rook the hell out of Antiva and then had to spend that time making sure no one was going to try and kill Rook for blundering such a major operation. Death was a very real possibility for what Rook did and yet by the time Rook gets back everyone is just like, ‘oh hey, it’s you. Viago missed you.’ Of course everyone knows that, Viago had to fight to make sure Rook didn’t get a dagger in the back for their actions.

Some of Viago’s anger is probably less ‘how can you be so stupid and mess up our operation’ but ‘how can you be so stupid and almost get yourself killed’. Viago really meant it that if Rook got themselves killed he would come after them in the fade and I think that is perfect.

[psin314]

i think murat and teia are besties too. they haven't known each other for very long, but they get along well. when these two are together, every brain cell of theirs evaporate and only one remains, capable of nothing but flirting and getting on viago's nerves. original