#well it's not really Rook then

[luniidae]

[1] I recently came up with the idea of Luvia being a Nevarran princess (Luvia Clavarie then...?) who rejected all of her suitors for years and spent her time studying sciences and arts instead.

Guess who's gonna teach her magic...? 💀

[snarkspawn]

anyway I'm going for some old man yaoi next

[vaguely-concerned]

rook falling asleep on the red couch in the lighthouse dining room while lucanis is making dinner....... they were helping out by keeping him company and peeling and chopping potatoes for a while there but then the potatoes are done and the room is so safe and warm and smells like coffee and good food and lucanis is trying to explain something to spite and his voice is low and soft and good to listen to and rook's eyes only slip closed for a moment. they'll get up to save the world again or whatever in a second just. one moment. while the world is warm and kind. and then they're being shaken gently awake an hour later because it's time to eat and everyone's starting to drift hopefully dinner-wards

[r-aindr0p]

See this is one of the reasons I love this guy so much. Literally anything insignificant happens and he's just like "hell yeah :D !!!"

There he is, the everything and everyone boyfriend, the appreciator of the entire world, here for anyone and nobody at the same time the Rook Hunt

[timethehobo]

Still really like these lil sitting buddies (and silly Rook). May clean them up to make charms / standees.

Would folks be interested maybe? Hm.

[secondary-colorentimy]

looks pretty french to me … 🤔🤔

[luciasatalina]

Carmina de Riva, my Rook ;___; almost done with the game. I've been bawling my eyes out

[robo-milky]

The Coffin of TWST

(I’m sorry for my bastardazation of their style- I just thought it was so cute 😭)

Ahhh this has got to be my highest effort spoof- I told myself I’d just draw my faves in the style but no- I present to you coffined Ramshackle

[Ramble]

Okay… but talking more about the actual worldbuilding of TCOAAL? THERE’S MUCH POTENTIAL AS A DYSTOPIA! We got corrupt government, capitalism, cults, and demons! So much to dig into-

If I were to make an actual AU… I think it’d be interesting if it plays out as episode one. The setting of the apartment alone already has enough ideas to work with- Yuu, who was supposed to be visiting, gets quarantined into the apartment as others are convinced they have the parasite. Will the rest of the TWST cast be neighbours or guards? Both would be neat. (Grim’s just an entity a nearby cultist summoned that is demanding Yuu to give him their room for a shelter-)

[heliomanteia]

I'm honestly so glad they introduced a new protagonist. Not just because Rook is a darling, but also because Inquisitor would have been a horrible choice for the story they wrote.

[raviollies]

Rook projecting their period cramps onto Solas

[sweetbunpura]

Yuu, after hearing Neige sing in VDC: So, what's the plan for this one? Vil: Clearly we're switching to Plan B Yuu: What was Plan A? Vil: Murder Yuu: ...What's Plan B Vil: You. Get in there, Potato, and sing to get the crowd on our side. Yuu: How did you- Vil: Rook Yuu, sighs: Rook...

[lionheart-waltz]

[vaguely-concerned]

the strength it must have taken for illario to not immediately go full 'lmao since when have you even had a kiss hello lucanis' sibling violence mode during the café talk. inspirational. rook and lucanis really were doing all that right in front of his salad huh

[r-aindr0p]

Alright Alright on a more lighthearted note that's how it happens when the creature forgets he's a vampire and just goes for it and rams head first into the rosary (or was it all part of his plan ?)

(andouille = dummy)

[by-ilmater]

hey.

emmrook bodyguard au. political upheaval in nevarra puts mortalitasi and especially the mourn watch at risk of violence. emmrich, being a high-ranking member of the watch, has bodyguard rook hired to shadow him. cue usual shenanigans: emmrich thinks the entire situation is silly and unnecessary until an attempt on his life shows him how important rook is, and how far they're willing to go to protect him.

[kaija-rayne-author]

Did not think I could possibly dislike Epler and his 'hate/revenge on Solas Fanfic', more, but I actually could.

Read some confirmations of some of the rumors about, yeah, he really does hate Solas, and the entire game was based on that. (Anyone with two braincells can see that.)

But Varric dying, the blood magic fooling of Rook, soooooo much of it was used just so the player would hate Solas. Epler is on record several places actually saying those things. I'm not pulling it out of my ass.

Anything sympathetic is locked behind certain characters and certain interactions. And there isn't that much empathy to start with.

Is it wildly disturbing to anyone else that a supposed professional lets their own viewpoint of a fictional character in a game ruin a whole 250 million dollar project?

Because it's pretty obvious at this point that DAV has tanked soooooo bad. I've said all along that I was shocked that Trick wrote Solas like that. But maybe it's really the best Trick could get past Epler's hatred? IDEFK. I could still be giving Trick more credit than deserved because I actually trusted Trick to write a good story that didn't villanize Solas. It was half the reason I even played DAV. I know Trick can write better than what we got. They've said they love Solas too.

But that is not what we got. We did not get a well-written story where the writer obviously loved the character.

I want to stop thinking about Veilguard. But it was a special interest for years, and the absolute destruction of that makes it almost impossible for me to move on. I keep trying to figure out whyyyyyy? This would be (one of) the negative portions of having an autistic special interest, for anyone following along.

Is Epler the reason they scrapped Joplin? Was it too sympathetic to Solas?

Would it actually have required deeper storytelling that made Solas and the elves' rebellion a sympathetic cause?

Argh.

Bad writing annoys me to start with, but having something I love as much as Dragon Age (and Solas) besmirched this way really pisses me off.

Whoever put Epler into the position where he could have that much control over a game franchise people really loved made a huge mistake.

I was starting to wonder if I was blaming the wrong people, but no. It looks like Epler does actually just hate Solas. Is irritable because people didn't like DAV, and has gotten pissy on main about it. Grow the fuck up.

As a professional creative? You're supposed to make a product most consumers who love the thing will at least find acceptable. Not... this.

We deserved better and so did Dragon Age.