#while rook goes to harding like. girl help

[himbopunk]

society if i posted anything at normal hours when people r awake. Anyways. Here's bellara trying to wingman lucanis into situations where rook takes their clothes off for completely innocent reasons and rook being a himbo about it ig

Typed out dialogue/text under cut in case my handwritings ass

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Bellara: Ah!

Bellara: Thanks, Rook

Bellara: ?

Rook: [She is not paying attention to what Rook's saying]

Lucanis: [*looking @ Rook wistfully*]

Rook: Bellara?

Bellara: ...ohh.

Rook: ?

--Later--

Bellara: I didn't expect to see this much of Treviso's...rooftops.

Bellara: Did you, Rook?

Rook: Well

Rook: I've actually been here a few times with my old pirate crew! Saw a /lot/ of the city then. Even got a tattoo!

Lucanis: Really?

Bellara: Really?!

Bellara: Which one?

Lucanis: (what is she up to...)

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Rook: I don't think I can show it off right now, haha...

Rook: It's on my thigh...

Lucanis: That is alright, Rook. We can--

Bellara: You can just show us at the lighthouse!

Lucanis: Qué?!

Lucanis: That...works too.

Spite: YES!

Bellara: Oh, hey, actually Rook...

Bellara: You have soooOo many tattoos, right?

Bellara: Maybe you should just do a full tattoo tour!

Bellara: Don't you agree, Lucanis?

Lucanis: (Mierda, she's worse than Teia.)

Rook: Oh, yeah sure I guess?

Rook: If you're sure you're okay with it--

Lucanis: Yes.

[yuri-is-online]

For all of the yutu's, which ones are more papa's boy(s) and which ones are more parent's (yuu) boy(s)?

Ah good question lets see... I think most of them start out having Yuu as the favorite because that's who raised him, but that changes after they finally get to meet their dad. For some of them anyway.

notes: this is part of my fyuuture kid au, information about which can be found on my masterlist under the series section.

Heartslabyul

Riddle

Bad timeline! Riddle Yutu is Yuu's little baby with massive daddy issues because it's hard to be a papa's boy when he's not around ;-;. Good timeline! Yutu is a Papa's boy, he wants Riddle's approval so so so badly, he's always bringing his tests home to be hung up on the fridge so he can be praised.

Trey

Yutu likes Yuu best, Yutres is a daddy's girl, and Yushi says she has no preference but her favorite parent is whichever one is going to give her permission to do what she wants at that particular moment.

Cater

Doesn't have a preference. He loves both of his parents equally and just wants them both to be together in the same house. He relates to his father heavily, but one of the things they have in common is how fun they find it to be around Yuu.

Ace

Ace! Yutu takes after his father in a lot of ways! One of those is that Yuu is his favorite person and everyone else is mid in comparison (he does love his dad too ofc he just enjoys getting under his skin.)

Deuce

Bad timeline! Yutu is very much a parent's boy but I think good timeline! Yutu is actually a grandma's boy. I can see Dilla spending a lot of time helping Yuu and Deuce out and she just screams that she would be a cool grandma. Hopefully Yutu also really likes eggs.

Savanaclaw

Leona

Daddy's boy. Leona! Yutu loves Yuu don't get it twisted but he wants to be like his dad so badly. There's just something about that grumpy lion that makes little kids ask "is this a role model?" and then not wait for an answer before trying to climb all over his back while he pretends to swat them off.

Ruggie

Bad timeline! Yutu is a parents boy, good timeline! Yutu has no preference. He loves both of you so much! His dad is so cool and Yuu are the best, how could he possibly pick which one of his parents is better?

Jack

Doesn't have a preference. He acts super aloof about it, like he's beyond the need for his parents but really he wants to make the two of you super proud with how self sufficient he is. It makes his tail wag really fast.

Octavinelle

Azul

Parent's boy. He does mend a lot of his issues with his father in the good timeline, but he just likes being spoiled by Yuu no matter what timeline he's in.

Jade

As previously established the only form of authority Yutu respects is his parent, Yuu. He does get softer on his dad in the good timeline, but Yuu is still number one in his heart.

Floyd

Depends on his mood. Sometimes Yutu is a daddy's boy, other times he's yuu's baby. There's no real rhyme or reason to when or why, unless he's in serious trouble then he always goes to Floyd because he's at least got a 50/50 shot of leniency there.

Scarabia

Kalim

You are both his favorite. His father is wonderful and so full of life and his parent loves him so much. He thinks you are both the most important, and gets very defensive about it.

Jamil

Good timeline! Yutu is a parent's boy as a baby but grows into a daddy's boy as he ages and comes into his own. He loves both of you so much it could be a burden under the wrong circumstances.

Pomefiore

Vil

Daddy's boy. It runs in the family and Vil embraces it wholeheartedly. A part of him has always wanted this, he didn't think it was possible to be even more grateful for your love than he was but Yutu is such a gift he swears he's re-learned the meaning all over again.

Rook

Roland is the daddy's boy, and Yutu is the parent's boy. It makes Rook weep to wonder about what would happen if perhaps if you had a little girl? ( •̯́ ^ •̯̀) no? ( •̯́ ^ •̯̀) he just thinks that maybe it would be fun to see what would happen- (he is on his knees begging please please please he wants to be a girl dad so bad)

Epel

Parent's boy. He has an alliance with his dad though, it's super sweet to see them run up to you in the middle of the fields with apple blossoms they spent lunch picking to give you. Your boys love you very much.

Ignihyde

Idia

Uncle's boy. He loves both of his parents equally but Ortho is easily his favorite person and can you really blame him? Idia doesn't he's really happy to see Ortho embraced by his son as part of the family.

Diasomnia

Malleus

Princess Tamago is daddy's little princess of course, but I think both of the kids like Yuu best. Malleus isn't jealous at all, no not at all say Yuu, he is your favorite right? Because you are his too and he was here first-

Lilia

Silver is his favorite person, but Yuu is a close second. Lilia likes to fake cry about this because baby Yutu would get all offended and scream about how he was being silly because he loved him too! Ah yes but he's not Yutu's favorite oh woe is him.

Silver

Daddy's boy in theory, parent's boy in practice. He loves his dad but they're both a bit dense so connecting with each other can be difficult sometimes. It doesn't diminish the strength of their connection any, but it does cause some angst in those teen years.

Sebek

Parent's boy. Sebek Yutu thinks of Yuu the same way Sebek does Malleus, but he's much more normal about it as he gets older than Sebek ever was. (He does think his dad is cool but he doesn't want to admit it.)

Extra

Rollo

Parent's boy but Rollo is absolutely whipped for his child. Rollo isn't always the best at communicating his feelings, and he's very determined to not have the same thing happen to his child as happened to his brother. When Yutu looks up at him with his little eyes and calls him Papa... it melts him. He's very proud of him he's just not always as loud about it as Yutu might like.

[the-banana-0verlord]

ahahahahaha I liked mc's request at a girls' sleepover jiji I would like to ask for something similar, for vile schoenheit, when mc fem deliberately excludes him from the sleepover, telling him that he can't go because, at the sleepover they will do girly things "like putting on makeup , wear masks and gossip" duh~ ....but the truth mc only said it as a trap/joke to see if he would come anyway or not xd idk a casual joke to the queen ✩ε(´｡•᎑•`)っ 💕 thanks!

How Vil would react to getting denied to a sleepover

Notes: Fem Reader. Vil is a spiteful little mf

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👑Offended? Him? Of course not, hahaha, why would he, Vil Schoenheit, be offended?

👑He is 100% offended. He is absolutely outraged. So, he does the next logical thing: he goes with Rook to the spa to rant about it.

👑If you're going to have a sleepover without him, then he's going to the spa without you. Take THAT!!

👑And why would you even think he wouldn't like it if it was girly???? He's Vil Schoenheit, for crying out loud, he would wear the most sparckly dress ever if it was fashionable!

👑As you repeatedely try to call him to tell him the joke, he's busy getting his nails painted bright pink while a beauty mask and cuncumbers rests on his face.

👑After a good mud bath, his nerves are finally calmed down, so he comes home to his dorm.

👑There, he sees all of the missed calls you left. Still, he doesn't call you back and lets you wait a bit more before calling you back. What did you expect? He's extremely spiteful.

👑And since he doesn't answer to his phone anymore, you decide to call Rook instead, because it's almost certain they're together.

👑Who to choose? You or Roi du Poison? Hard choice indeed, Rook.

👑In the end, he chose both as he helped you organize another sleepover, inviting Vil this time.

👑When he finally arrives, you get the chance to explain everything to him. He forgives you... But now he's throwing a boy's sleepover, and you're certainly not invited.

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Hope you enjoyed!

Have a good day/night!

[twstbookclub]

Petals of Poison

TW: Blood and major character death/s

Summary: Hanahaki Disease. Taking innocent, unrequited love and crushing the life of the unfortunate. This is not a happy story. Don't expect a good ending. POV: 2nd Pronouns: Gender neutral Admin/Writer: Kai⚔️ Tags: Epel Felmier, hanahaki disease, star tear disease, heavy angst Word count: 2,958

Being 100% truthful... I cried writing this, and I got super depressed after lol. I've never done Hanahaki disease as a trope but I've read about it. I've only heard about Star Tear disease and it's very rare to use, but it's a sister trope to Hanahaki.

The person afflicted with Star Tear will cry stars, and slowly become blind, but it isn't like Hanahaki where the affected goes back to normal. No. The person keeps the damage.

I hope you all enjoy this Epel angst and trust me, this is still pretty light, even with a character death. This one didn't take me too long but it took a lot of planning and adding, truly one of my proudest works.

Petals of red carnations and aster spilled onto Epel’s hand on such a bright morning, the sun shining through his windows and lighting up his room beautifully. His face looked shocked and panicked, but he wasn’t in an urge to figure out what was wrong. He dropped the petals out of his hand and saw a small splatter of blood in his palm, but once again, no immediate reaction. He only sighed and got ready for his morning.

It was never like this, but not uncommon to one’s knowledge, either. In this world, magic and myth were big things, and the Isle of Sages was no stranger. Recently, the town had been talking about cases of victims who had recently passed away due to unnatural causes. Unnatural, being that their lungs were filled with roots and flowers, marking their deaths as undetermined in autopsy reports. 

Rumors had been circulating that these victims were in love with others, but never received the love back, then were found dead just days later with the same scenes as the others. The Isle began to find death as common as finding a penny on the ground, but still as tragic as ever for these young lives. Epel could be the next.

He did have someone he loved, but being in the same year as you meant nothing. You barely looked at him, only hung out together when he was invited, and you were completely out of his league. Not even close.

This had started months ago. Epel had met you at the mirror chamber on orientation day, and he became pretty curious. You weren’t from this world, yet you looked like you fit right in, too. You were quiet and confused, which he found interesting, but he would only see you from afar for now.

He was finally able to get close to you, but his attention was easily taken when Deuce started calling him a girl. At that moment, he heard your laugh. It was a beautiful sound that he had no idea would bless his ears the way it did.

One day, you came into the Pomefiore dorm, catching them teaching him about proper tea etiquette and rules. When Rook corrected him, he quickly grew embarrassed and stuttered slightly before fixing himself, hoping that you hadn’t seen him mess up. He didn’t need you to not find him able. He wanted you to like him.

Coming back from winter break, Epel hadn’t stopped thinking about you for any moment of the day. He began to doubt if you liked him, especially after seeing him mess up during classes and after-school clubs. As soon as he arrived back, he was met with more flight training and prim etiquette.

He was running through campus while trying to run away from his housewarden and vice-housewarden, not exactly caring where he was running. Suddenly, Epel felt a hard chest and fell over with a loud wham to the ground. He could only sniffle and rub his head from the pain. When Epel looked up, he saw your eyes on him in concern, and he felt himself become frozen, frustrated with himself about the situation before him. 

Deuce offered to help him, but Epel looked away and mumbled “dagnabit” under his breath. The other first-year grew confused and repeated what Epel had said, but Felmier felt embarrassed for looking so pathetic in front of you. Before Deuce knew it, Epel ran off and disappeared just as quickly as he appeared.  You were left with confusion and questions but didn’t pay much attention to it once he was gone. 

Once he was gone and in a place where one could see him, he felt a slight clog in his throat and coughed, surprised to see a few petals of aster and white carnations fall onto the ground at his feet. “Flowers? What in the…” He whispered with a confused tone, and he didn’t know where this had even come from. 

Soon, he was singing to practice for the Song and Dance Championship behind some bushes, but he coughed and sighed when he couldn’t reach enough, causing some small petals to spill onto the grass. When he heard the voices of others, he perked up and turned around, his eyes landing on you. 

Did you hear that? Oh, for the love of the Seven, please tell me you didn’t hear that.

You only stared at him as he interacted with your friends, but the thought of you finding him in such a pathetic scene lingered in his mind. He didn’t need you to look at him and laugh, especially not after everyone else found him cute and small. After witnessing how his housewarden kicked the asses of the other first years, Epel took a glance at you before being dragged away into more practice.

As soon as he entered the door to Pomefiore, he covered his mouth and coughed up more petals, the sound grabbing the attention of Vil and a few others who were in the lounge. Aster and… Red carnations. This one was new, but his heart did ache. It ached with a pain that poked in his chest, yet the bright red mixed with the purple and pink petals of aster felt comforting.

He felt something for you. He knew you probably wouldn’t like someone as pathetic and hard-driven as he was, not with this small body and cute face. He couldn’t get his hopes up.

Epel had caught himself coughing these petals now and then, but on rare occasions, a few of them had blood spots, nothing too concerning. At the same time, more and more cases of citizens being found dead, surrounded by flowers and roots, were becoming big online. Everyone made this phenomenon have a name, Hanahaki Disease, and it was spreading like wildfire. 

No one could figure out its symptoms. Other’s tried, but would get shut down about their theories. One person, at least every week, was in the headlines about this. Police thought it was a serial killer laying down his victims in a beautiful way, and citizens thought it was karma towards the person who died.

Epel’s symptoms only got worse the more you were around him and looked at him. You spoke to him in such a kind way, treating him as your friend. He noticed that your uniform and face had different sizes and colors of stars. He found it cute and it suited you, at least in his eyes.

Right. Only a friend.

He kept his feelings hidden, and it was only right. Epel knew the situation, and he was okay with it. You didn’t belong in this world in the first place, nothing wrong there. He had a life and family waiting for him in his hometown. He had to get over this.

But the world gave him no time.

Crowley had summoned everyone to the mirror chamber to bid you farewell. You were leaving. No warning. No time. Something felt wrong, and Epel ran to be able to hug you first. Everyone surrounded you two after that. 

Epel heard a twinkling sound, so he looked at you and noticed how small stars were on your cheeks. He was confused, what was even happening? He noticed these stars before, but they came from your eyes this time? He couldn’t ask, not before Crowley had to break it up before the portal closed.

As you looked at everyone one more time, “Come back here soon!” Epel screamed, making everyone slowly begin to agree with him. Then, you left. That was it. Your presence was there, but not your body or soul.

It was a moment of sorrows and grief, which only equaled to Epel coughing up blood-spattered petals of marigolds and purple hyacinth flowers into a napkin. He could tell that this was getting worse, but what in the world could he even do?

Epel spent that night trying to distract himself by researching everything he could about this Hanahaki Disease, coughing up occasional petals. He had found a few stories of victims who survived the disease, reading about how the symptoms stopped after they got together with the person that they loved. 

Reading more about how it got worse if one believed that the other didn’t like them back, but after a certain point, even thinking about the person they loved made the symptoms dire. There was no natural cure, at least not from what was written, but Epel did find something.

Surgery.

Getting surgery to make it go away. 

No.

That’s all Epel needed to read. He wanted nothing else about that subject to come up. It was absurd, even for the most desperate of people. Brain surgery to make the symptoms go away, but you’d forget about all the feelings you felt for the person. He could never, not when it was about you. 

Suddenly, he became curious. The scene from earlier crossed his mind.

Why does someone cry stars?

He searched it up, but… Nothing. Unknown. Sites to just people boasting about how their tears have the sparkle of stars, but it wasn’t the same. You had the shape of stars coming out of your eyes, and they were beautiful.

Epel sighed and shut his phone off. He didn’t need to see anything else for the rest of the night.

For a few weeks, the campus was in an awkward atmosphere due to your leaving, but soon enough, everyone began going back to normal. Not Epel, though. He missed you the most when he sat on his bed after school. He constantly thought about how you could be doing and wondered if you were ever thinking of him. 

He began to smile while thinking about you, remembering every moment he did get to save with you. His birthday, campus traditions, especially being there to watch him perform for the Song and Dance Championship. Thinking about everything made him suddenly gag and the next thing he knew, a pool of blood and different petals were at his feet.

His eyes were wide, but he vomited more blood, less petals. The puddle was red but cluttered with red and white carnations, mixes of purple and pink aster, yellow daffodils, and violet-blue salvia. This was the worst that his condition had gotten. Epel fell back and clutched his chest, trying to breathe silently but with enough force to get himself back on track. It was a silent night after that.

Time would come to take their youth, and before any of the first years knew it, it was graduation day. The day was bright and looking pretty on a day like that, and it kind of made the day better.

The ceremony had gone well, with old students coming back to congratulate and celebrate with the other students, and professors even admitting that they’d miss some students.

After all celebrations were over though, Epel stayed on the campus grounds, standing at the well that caused him the most time with you. He simply stared down the well, letting the sunset almost blind his vision. One memory of you caused a loud cough and blood to spill from his mouth, petals following after. 

It hurt. The pain grew worse than ever before. He’d rather suffer than forget the love he felt for you. His body was falling, faltering to keep itself up, and he landed on his back against the ground.

“The love I feel for you… Is so beautiful, but—” He whispered, petals of sweet peas falling from the sides of his mouth now as his coughs got shorter and harsher. “I can’t breathe.”

Epel could only clutch his chest as he tried to find the proper breathing pattern. He looked up at the sky and wiped the excess blood from his mouth. He smiled. Like he always did when he thought of you.

Epel could cry. He could feel it. You were so close. Just a little farther.

The sounds of struggling became quieter, and a bed of flowers grew. Cyclamens, sweet peas, heliotropes, white carnations, crimson roses, forget-me-nots, and black roses all grew from the ground. Its roots and vines surrounded the body of a recently graduated boy, who simply loved someone that he knew he couldn't have.

Epel looked like a charming prince with how peaceful he looked.

The world was cruel. Too cruel even.

Those young adults, now grown up, were gathered in a reserved restaurant. They all stood up when they heard the door, Silver bringing you in.

You carried a white cane and carefully moved it around, your eyes staring forward with occasional blinks. Everyone knew the situation, but there was still a tension that you could feel by just sensing it.

Your irises were close to white but had a faint hue of your original eye color. You were blind. You had explained to everyone before that you had “Star Tear Disease”, which explained why you cried stars when you left the world of Twisted Wonderland that day.

It was rare. Only a few had it, and you were the unlucky one that did. You could feel everyone's eyes on you, but you smiled nonetheless. It had been years since you had last been with the boys, and you were quite excited to meet them again.

“I'm fine, guys. It's just a little impairment, but I'm still me.”

The room stayed quiet, and slowly, one by one, they all came up to let you touch their faces and reintroduce themselves. Ace tried making you laugh by contorting his face, but you hit his shoulder. “Hey! Quit that. I'll pull your ear if you keep doing it.”

Goofball as always.

Once everyone had a turn, you felt weird. Someone was missing, and you slowly made your way around the table. An empty chair.

“Who's missing?” You asked, clutching the arm of the chair.

Silence once again. No one wanted to tell you, so you remembered everyone to figure it out.

Your body froze as you realized it, but you could feel your heart drop. “Epel.”

Tension grew in the room again and you could hear a sigh, then followed by Leona. “He's dead.”

Whispers with the others calling out Leona for saying it, but he simply grew irritated with their lack of sense. “Oi, what the hell are we supposed to do, eh? Keep it from them? They're blind for Seven's sake!”

“You didn't have to say it so bluntly—” Followed Lilia, not wanting everything to become a problem.

“All of you, shut up!” You yelled, the starry tears forming in your eyes as you clutched the chair harder, digging your nails into the wood.

Everyone went mute. You couldn't even believe it. 

“How...” You whispered, the sound of twinkling from your tears filling the eerily quiet room. “How did he die and when?”

Deuce stood from his chair this time. “On our graduation day. He died of some… illness called Hanahaki Disease.” 

Your world was crumbling. Hanahaki Disease. You heard of it in your world. It was made of fiction, but who knew it'd be turned into reality. The same could be said for Star Tear Disease, but you developed it here, and it followed you into your world.

You let out a few tears as you kept thinking, your arms practically wrapped around the chair. “Who was the cause? One of you knows.”

Vil spoke as he moved closer, trying to be careful with you. “That part isn’t necessary for you to know—”

“It was you. Vil told us all after he died.” The gruff voice from Malleus filled the room with those three words, and they somehow sounded painstakingly beautiful. Vil’s breathing pattern changed once the truth was revealed. You knew those words were true.

“... Take me to his grave.” You asked after a short moment of silence, sounding like you were pleading, so they took you.

Standing in front of it now, you gently touched the tomb, then the texture of the cement, until your hands touched the lettering.

“E P E L   F E L M I E R”

It had his dates, a small obituary, and designs of apple trees. It all felt cool to the touch. You could only imagine it, but then you remembered that you brought something.

A flower bouquet. Baby's breaths, blue salvia, lavender roses, and cyclamens were composed neatly, you could feel it. Anything for him, especially since he meant so much.

“Hey Epel…” You whispered, kneeling down in front of the tomb. You took a breath and it was already hard, the disease making your eyes sting. “You know, you're the only one I didn't get to touch today.”

“I'm sure you look the same. You never changed.” You said with a smile, gently feeling the cold cement under your fingers. You heard his laugh in your ears, imagined his smile, and you felt a warmth on your hand. His warmth. You knew it.

At that moment, you began to cough really hard, blood spilling onto your hand and petals came out of your mouth. You were unfazed. You knew what this was. 

You set down the bouquet and moved to sit on top of his grave, leaning back against the tombstone as you felt a sharp pain around your ankles.

“Why didn't you tell me? I loved you too. That's unfair…” You whispered softly, feeling your eyes close as your breath struggled slightly.

“We could've survived together.” You said with a faint voice, your body becoming lifeless as your hands and ankles were tied down with vines.

Red roses, carnations, and aster grew on the vines. The twinkling of your tears filled the soundless cemetery, stopping with a drop of a star on your clothes.

[therealeagal]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Just finished.

I quite enjoyed it, although I wish there was more stuff to connect it to previous games. The identity of Divine Victoria for example. Red lyrium is barely a thing at all in this game. And what happened to the crew after Inquisition? Either Cassandra, Leliana or Vivienne - we don't know who - became Divine Victoria.

Dorian shows up here and there, and Harding and Varric are on the new crew. And of course Solas is hanging around, being terrible.

None one else gets more than a few get passing mentions, if even that and nothing about what they're actually doing. Helping the Inquisitor, presumably. I don't think Vivienne or The Iron Bull or Blackwall or Cullen even get mentioned at all. Poor Cullen.

Anyway, for a lark, let's see how Veilguard stands against Inquisition and Numero Dos. I never finished Origins. I meant to, but you know how that goes. Something came up, then something else, then something else. And by the time you've got free time you've completely forgotten about its entire existence until you're writing a tumblr post about its third sequel.

Oh well. Que sera sera.

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As to combat, Inquisition's was better. I got sick of Veilguard's combat after only a few hours. Switched down to the lowest difficulty and have no great interest in turning it back up again.

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Inquisition's story was more interesting. Just felt like it had more oomph. Maybe it picks up again in the last ten minutes or some shit. Idunno.

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Music. Didn't even notice the music half the time. I guess put Inquisition down for better music.

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Now the important part. As to characters, my Inquisitor was much more charming than my Rook to my mind. Elf and Dwarf alike. Never played a human Inky. Or a Qunari Inky for that matter.

My Dwarf Inquisitor was much more handsome (at least in the Inquisition art style) than my Dwarf Rook, but I will admit that I think my Elf Rook is better looking than my Elf Inquisitor, in both art styles. Elf Rook has a better ass than Elf Inky.

Don't really have any advisors like Leliana, Josephine and Cullen in this game. All we've got is Solas. And Solas is terrible. And I guess Varric. But he mostly just hangs out in bed all day. I can't blame him for wanting to sit this one out. He's already been through two catastrophes and is getting too old for this shit. Gotta let the new kid lead the troops.

As far as the companions go:

Resident Dwarf rogue. While Harding, a recurring secondary character from Inquisition, is no Varric, she is a good egg and she's a good choice if your party is in need of a rogue. She was in my team for the final battle, actually. Also her side-story is easily the most interesting and probably the most connected to DA lore. 10/10. The goodest of good beans and certified best girl.

A snarky and fashionable female Tevinter mage who fights the bad guys and doesn't afraid of anything, Neve is like a cross between Dorian and Vivienne, and the whole is greater than the sum of her parts. None of Vivienne's characteristic haughtiness and none of Dorian's unfortunate defense of slavery as an institution. Yeesh. Anyway, 10/10 for Neve. No notes.

Bellara, a elf mage and an archer. She's kinda like a cross between Solas and Sera, except that Solas is terrible and Bellara isn't terrible. Bellara is charming and friendly and not terrible. 10/10. No notes.

Lucanis... Cole had a hat. Lucanis doesn't have a hat. Eh. He's a good bean, but honestly, Lucanis is probably the least interesting among the cast. Well that's not to say I dislike him. I just don't find him as interesting as the others.

Davrin>Blackwall. All day every day. Not even a contest. Even if you ignore Blackwall's sordid past. Even if you ignore the fact that Davrin is actually a Grey Warden while Blackwall is a faker. He just doesn't hold a candle to Davrin. Sorry, Blackwall stans. 10/10. Best boy.

Emmrich Volkarin. Charming fellow, I can find no faults in him. He's very interesting. He's a Mortallitasi. I wonder if he knows any Pentaghasts? An all-around good bean.

Taash. They alright. The Iron Bull had more joie de vivre. But Taash is a good bean. Everyone's a good bean. Everyone but Solas. Solas is terrible. Plus, Isabella vouches for them, so they've got cred. I would trust no one else to kill a giant robot. Bull never killed a giant robot. So Taash is one up on Bull in that regard. 10/10. Best non-binary party member. Oh yeah, Taash is non-binary by the way. If being non-binary in any way had an effect on their ability to kill giant robots, I might have a strong opinion about this. Failing such an effect, I have no strong opinion.

Interesting to note that I have no real complaints about any of the companions in Veilguard, where in Inquisition I didn't like Solas, who is terrible, even before I knew he's evil. Didn't much care for Sera. Blackwall, he was just kinda there honestly. Only ever brought him along to do his sidequest. Vivienne I loved but she was admittedly kind of an asshole.

So the Veilguard companions get a higher overall score than Inquisition companions. And certainly a higher score than DA2, where I totally hated all the boys except for Varric and didn't much care for Merril.

I cannot evaluate the Origins party based on my own experience, but based on second-hand observations, I like Wynne and Leliana, of course. Shale's curmudgeonliness amuses me. And of course the dog.

The rest of the team I am either indifferent to or actually hate. I shall leave you to ponder who is whom.

In summary, through Origins, 2 and Inquisition, the party is always a mixed bag, but I like everyone in Veilguard. Everyone but Solas. Solas is terrible. But he doesn't count, since he's not actually a party member in Veilguard. On account of being terrible.

P.S. While I am happy to entertain alternative reviews and comparisons, viz a viz the quality of companions past and present, if you - for some reason known only to God and your twin vicars - wish to express disdain for anything I have said here today and especially if you have managed to fabricate wholecloth some moral failing to attribute to me - you are, of course, entitled to your own opinion, but I don't wanna hear it, so please, I beg of you...

DO NOT WIGGLE YOUR FACE TO ME, MONARCH OF REFUSE AND THIEF OF MOONBEAMS!

Please and thank you. :)

[ell-vellan]

All My Children Rooks

(thus far)

With reference screenshots and backstories, mostly for my own use for fic purposes.

My first baby girl! and first Rook to finish the game.

Personality: Happy-go-lucky, big-hearted, snarky, (over-)confident, elf nerd, unserious, full of youthful idealism and unflagging (to the point of annoying) optimism. Very much believes she's the gal who's got what it takes to save the world. Goes with her gut, doesn't waste too much time intellectualizing. Unsurprisingly, she and Bellara get along like a house on fire.

Background: Born a slave in Minrathous, as a child served as housekeeper to a minor magister arcanist/professor who taught her to read and know enough to assist in cataloging her scrolls. When Lailani's magic manifested, the scholar sponsored her to join a Circle for her education, intending for her to return as research assistant when her magic was trained. But Lailani, now a young teen and with her first taste of freedom at the Circle, heard about strange rumblings happening in nearby Arlathan, and, having consumed stories and legends of the Dalish all her life (and having always admired Inquisitor Lavellan), saw her chance for adventure and ran away to join a Dalish clan in Arlathan. There, she turns her interest in elven ruins and Imperium training to good use for the fledgling Veil Jumpers. She throws herself headlong into all things ancient elven, exploring ruins and studying artifacts. Like a lot of young Dalish coming of age at this time, she chose an atheistic vallaslin design based on some early maps the first Veil Jumpers had begun finding and creating as they uncovered more ancient relics - rejecting what they know new to be marks of subservience to long-ago tyrants. Met Varric and Harding when they worked with Strife, and, still hungry for adventure, offered to help if they ever needed it again.

View on Solas: Has a complicated relationship with elven culture in general. The Fade and all that ancient elves accomplished with magic is both exciting and fascinating; she wants to be proud of her people and see the good in ancient elves, wants to believe there was something good in the Evanuris, once. She gives Solas the benefit of the doubt because she respects what he was trying to do, but comes across to him like a defiant child who doesn't understand what they are up against.

Inquisitor: Ellawyn Lavellan (romanced Iron Bull)

World state: HoF Mahariel, King Alistair, Leliana is Divine, Celene + Briala rule Orlais, Cole is a spirit, Hawke is alive.

Romance: Davrin

Swashbuckling pirate hero.

Personality: "He a little confused, but he got the spirit" meme personified. Here for the vibes. Severan is a big softie, a chill surfer dude, and a terrible liar (his every emotion shows on his face) . More competent than he might appear. Doesn't take life too seriously, but is seriously good at what he does. Can't ever pass a dog or cat without giving it a pet, and can't ever let a serious moment pass without making a joke to ease the tension. Flirty and adventurous, he's here for a good time, not a long time. Doesn't really know what's going on with all this elvish stuff, but doesn't want the world to end, and he's got this dagger, so...

Background: A swashbuckling treasure hunter, as cliche as they come. He was born on the sea, climbing the rigging as second nature. He knows, and wants, no other life, even though he spent the first half of it enslaved by Tevinter. A chance run-in with Isabela gave him a chance for freedom in the form of his own ship and crew, and once he proved competent and trustworthy, he began treasure runs and artifact hunting with the Lords. It was a good life for a while, living it up with plenty of coin, sea air and white sand beaches - until some Venatori started trouble in a port tavern where Severan was drinking on a break between jobs. He thought they were there for him - the Venatori were always looking for relics lately and causing trouble for the Lords - and inadvertently came to Varric and Harding's rescue.

View on Solas: Fascinated respect. Sort of knows he's out of his league, sort of falls for Solas's lies, but thinks outside the box in ways Solas does not expect.

Inquisitor: Atish'anera Lavellan (romanced Solas)

World state: King Alistair + Queen Cousland, Leliana is Divine, Cole is a spirit, Inquisition disbanded

Romance: TBD

Older brother to the Inquisitor. Solas broke his sister's heart, and he's here for some personal revenge.

Personality: Quietly clever, crafty, and cunning Rasim (banal'ras + him "become shadow") thinks more than he speaks, analyzing situations quickly before jumping into the best course of action. Wise, but also a wise-ass. My personal reincarnation of Felassan. On the surface, he puts you at ease by seeming glib, relaxed, and sarcastic, but he has a deep, dark ruthless streak. Inherently mistrustful of strangers, he wants to believe in the good of his companions, and trusts those that Varric and Lace trust. He comes across effortlessly charming and likeable at first meeting. That is, until you cross him - but you wouldn't even notice the moment he's decided your life needs to end, because he'll keep smirking the whole time. Fast, agile, he could throw knives on targets in his sleep and shoot bullseyes blindfolded. The Crows trained out any hesitance to kill, as well as any lingering instinct for mercy, but he lives by his own set of ethics, and does not follow instructions from the Crows, or anyone, blindly. Despite being a Crow longer than he was Dalish, if push came to shove, his first loyalty is to the elves (but don't tell Viago). He's accepted Antiva as his home and choose not to return to his clan when he had the chance - he believes himself too changed to return to the Dalish way of life.

Background: Rasim was on a ritual hunting trip with other youths of his clan, seeking their first kill to earn their vallaslin, when they were attacked in the night. Those who fought back were killed, and the rest captured and taken north on a slaver's ship. On the journey they were kept overnight in a warehouse in Antiva. Rasim figured out how to open the cage they were in and waited for the right moment to strike back at the men holding him, but just before he could, the Crows executed a contract they had on the slaver. Rasim was free to go - but he was a bare-faced elf in Antiva, far from home, with no money or contacts and no way to get back to his clan. Viago was impressed by Rasim's "scrappiness" and his ingenuity in lockpicking his own shackles, so when Rasim asked to be trained as a Crow, he accepted him, despite him being much older than the usual fledglings. Though he had only joined the Crows for protection and to learn how to defend himself, his charm, his experience as a hunter, knowledge of Dalish uses for poison plants, and his agility helped make him a standout. But the Mage-Templar war soon broke out, and the chaos leading up to the Inquisition prevented him from finding his clan, as by now they could be anywhere. Years later, when he became a full-fledged Crow and had earned money and independence, he was able to make contact with the Dalish again through a nearby travelling clan, and finally get the vallaslin he had earned all those years ago. That clan put him in touch with his own former clan, and Rasim was able to reach out again to let them know he was still alive. And that's when he learned his younger sister Anera had, in his absence, become the First of the clan, and then, to his great surprise, the Herald of Andraste. Brother and sister finally reconnected again after the Inquisition, and it was Anera who recommended her brother to Varric, as someone already on the inside of things going on in the north.

View on Solas: The bastard elven god who slept with his sister, offered to take her vallaslin, and then broke up with her. His ex-almost-brother-in-law. Rasim has the urge to get a little revenge for his sister, but for her sake, he tries to keep an open mind about the guy she (apparently still?) loves. Rasim works the angles on Solas as much as Solas does to him, his sharp mind and insight from Anera on his psyche giving him a bit of an unexpected advantage that sets Solas aback. Rasim tries to see what Anera saw in Solas, he really does, and while he hopes to bring him to heel for her, he wouldn't mind roughing him up a bit in the process.

Inquisitor: Atish'anera Lavellan (romanced Solas)

World State: same as Severan

Love Interest: Either Bellara or Lucanis.

Based on Vessel from Sleep Token (in terms of visual design, at least)

Personality: A bastard-coated bastard with bastard filling. Doesn't see the point in sparing anyone's feelings and doesn't mince his words. Smart, independent, stubborn, doesn't listen to anyone who tells him to cool it.

In actual reality, has a deep sense of justice that is constantly being betrayed, leading to him being angry at the world, 24/7. He's angry, always angry, at the inequality he sees all around him, and the incompetence and corruption of everyone who he believes should be doing something about it and would rather ignore it. A problem solver who's used to only relying on himself and trusts no one else to do what needs done. Will cut to the chase and tell you - rudely - to get to the point. He thinks the world and most of the people in it suck, and that's why he's working to rid the world of those people, in the most efficient way possible. His esteem is hard-earned, but he has no trouble offering it where it's deserved, and he treats those few who he deems worthy with the respect of an equal. There is another side of him, but the only ones who ever see it - and only briefly - are the slaves he helps smuggle out of Minrathous, and the genuinely innocent victims, forgotten by the powerful of Tevinter.

Background: He hates his adoptive father with a cold passion. He was never going to fight for the side of Tevinter, so they were always at odds. He learned to sneak out of the house at an early age, where he was mostly surviving on his own - it's where he learned to be sneaky, and learned to navigate the underbelly and dark alleys of Minrathrous. He doesn't use the given name from his adoptive family but goes by a codename, Vessel, as he prefers thinking of himself only as a vessel for justice (and sometimes, vengeance.) Learned how to blend in easily with other groups and factions; a one-man spy operation, working mostly independently so as to be untraceable, with occasional trusted contacts in the Shadow Dragons. Keeps his face and identity secret as much as possible, so that his doings don't get reported back to Mercar or that connection used against him. He only uses his surname when the weight of the title could be useful. He's a loner who isn't used to working with a team, and struggles with how to trust and connect to others, as he's worked hard to never need anyone.

Antaam-turned-Warden, my interpretation of a "What happened if Sten from Origins went the way of Iron Bull from Inquisition?"

Personality: Still...developing. His personality for most of his life was reduced to "kill things for the Qun" and he was heavily disincentivized in thinking about anything else. He's innately curious, and learning it's okay to ask questions, but he still has the instinct to hit first, ask later. Surprises himself with random moments of wanting to do things the Qun wouldn't have wanted him to think, care about, or do. Things that have no purpose, like the urge to admire the view, pet a cat, or save an innocent civilian. He means well, most of the time, but tends to stick his foot in his mouth, as he's still learning how the bas talk to each other. He's not used to talking, in general.

Background: Among the earlier waves of Antaam that broke from the Qun to invade on their own, Basreth was just a cog in the Qunari war machine, not an individual who had been allowed to develop many of his own interests or opinions about much. His squad of fairly new young soldiers were sent to investigate a report of rogue darkspawn, and they were caught by surprise and overwhelmed. Basreth was the sole survivor, though left infected by the Blight. he had accepted death, as he was no longer pure in the Qun - when the Grey Wardens showed up to investigate the same darkspawn. Impressed that Basreth had finished them off alone and survived, they offered for him to join the Grey Wardens, convincing him that dedicating his life to killing darkspawn was a better use of his body than letting it rot to bones that served no one, and therefore a more honorable choice in the eyes of the Qun. He accepted, and became Basreth, "thing that protects." He is not Tal-Vasoth, but neither is he truly Qunari anymore. Instead, he's thrown his entire fledgling identity into that of a Grey Warden, channeling all the single-minded loyalty that used to go to the Qun into his masters.

Created solely to romance Emmrich, lol

Personality: A scientific, creative open mind paired with bull-headed stubbornness when she knows she's right. Studious, rational, curious, who loves intellectual debate and schooling others she sees as less well-read. A bad-ass mage who likes showing off. Dry wit. Reads obscure high-brow literature and offers to discuss it, acts surprised when others have heard of her favorite scholarly papers.

[thelazyhermits]

Got some info about my Yuu that I wanted to share, which I'll put underneath the cut

I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before, and y'all probably already know this just based on certain scenes I've written, but Yuu can be pretty oblivious when it comes to people's feelings about her, more specifically the feelings of people who actually like her/think favorably of her.

The only exceptions are Yuu's sons since she knows her boys so well and understands that they love her very much. Plus, their feelings are so obvious when she showers them with physical affection lol

However, Yuu doesn't know that Ace and Deuce have crushes on her since nothing about their behavior around her comes across as being romantic, which is understandable since Deuce is just as oblivious about his crush and Ace is in total denial about his 😂

Regarding the faculty, Yuu really doesn't understand that they all have a soft spot for her since she's so distrusting of them at first, and for a while, her thoughts when around them were focused on gauging what kind of threat they were to her, seeing if they were anything like the adults from her past, etc.

Whenever they're nice to her, Yuu, after realizing there's no hidden ulterior motives behind their actions, just assumes they treat her well cause she's one of the only students who actually behaves in class and cause she's a girl since they all seem like the type of guys who were raised to be gentlemen.

Regarding Yuu's upperclassmen, Yuu knows that her older friends care about her, but she has a tendency to underestimate/downplay those feelings since the majority of the guys are so dishonest about their feelings.

Kalim/Silver are exceptions since those two are always honest and never hide anything from Yuu, and so is Ruggie cause he can't help but make his feelings about Yuu obvious due to how overprotective he is haha

While Rook is also very honest, he also can be hard to read at times, so Yuu doesn't completely understand him/can't fully read him and his intentions sometimes.

Her obliviousness is why Yuu never believes Ace/Cater when they say she's Riddle/Trey's favorite first year since she really doesn't realize how much those two favor her and she has no idea how Trey would absolutely spoil her rotten if she ever gave him the opportunity lol

It's also part of the reason why Lilia's desire to adopt her goes over her head. Like the main reason is that Silver/Sebek told her not to take Lilia seriously, but they were able to succeed in convincing her cause Yuu doesn't realize that Lilia likes her so much to the point that he wants to make her his daughter.

The reason Yuu is oblivious about so many people's feelings about her is cause, after going most of her life being unloved and dealing with all of Mumei's abuse, she has really low self-esteem, which makes it hard for her to believe that people really do care as much as they do about her.

For so many years, she received the bare minimum and she didn't even always get that much so she's more than satisfied to get at least that from her friends and tries not to ask for/expect more.

Plus, Yuu gets so much love from her sons, more than she ever thought would be possible for someone like her, so her need for physical affection/love is easily met through them.

This lowkey makes some of the upperclassmen envious. Like they don't want to be in the first years' shoes cause no one wants to constantly deal with Yuu's mothering and all her "embarrassing" physical affection.

However, they DO want Yuu to rely on them more and seek out their affection/attention. A lot of them are kinda like cats ngl lol 😂

It kinda strokes their egos whenever Yuu seeks them out since she's normally more independent around her upperclassmen, so in a way, it's also all about bragging rights cause you can bet the majority of the upperclassmen would hang this over the heads of the other guys, like what Leona always does whenever his dorm is one of the only ones that never harasses Yuu lol

[elcor-thespian]

the magician and the tower for the rook asks!

yesyesyesyes very good. Let us begin.

The Magician: What are Rook's thoughts on Solas? Do they change as the story progresses?

I don't think that when the story starts Nephele has thought much about Solas as a person or even as a "god". She knows what Varric has told her and that overall the objection is "stop that egg, but try not to crack him". She accepted that. She's very comfortable following orders from people she trusts. Why think about it too hard if someone else has already done the research and leg work?

Of course things start to get a little more complicated after they interrupt the ritual. First off she just gets the vibe that this is a guy that refuses to admit he fucked up, or god forbid someone else could have a good idea. She isn't going to outright argue with that guy, because there's no point - he's never going to see your point of view. But we can fuck with him a little bit (You have traded verbal barbs core)

But also, she's not stupid or reckless. They don't really understand HOW the connection works exactly, or the limits of what he can do with it. So we can poke the bear a little, but we don't want to do anything that might make him decide to just explode our head (just in case).

Through finding the memories and regrets, she doesn't develop sympathy per se, but definitely context. She understands while his actions are ultimately incredibly harmful, the reasoning behind them is a little more complicated than "I think I know more than you". Doesn't make him that much less annoying, but she is more patient and understanding when she speaks with him.

HOWEVER.

WHEN THIS FUCKING EGG.

DO WHAT HE DO.

Fuck this man. Fuck everything about this man. Fuck his stupid smarmy attitude. Fuck his vendettas. And fuck the Bog Unicorn he rode in on. Nephele has a long fuse, but when it's out, it's OUT.

She goes in to the final battle fully ready to kill this asshole. But at the last second...I don't know...does killing him really do anything helpful? It would make a couple of people feel better, but ultimately, they would still have to deal with the problem of a damaged Veil, with very little understanding of how to do that. Also, if he dies, he never has to deal with ACTUAL remorse. He never has to come to terms with what he's done, he never gets to make meaningful reparations. Maybe he won't anyway. Maybe his attitude after talking to Mythal is still a trick, and we'll be back where we started 8 more years from now. But no one can say she didn't try.

The Tower: How does Rook respond to unexpected catastrophe?

Bad.

Well I guess it depends on what we mean by catastrophe. Plans go wrong? This girl is a master improvisor. She can not be phased. She doesn't have a Plan B (was there really a plan A?), but she is great at making it up as she goes. Even if it STILL doesn't work out...eh, such is life. No one's batting 1000 all the time.

But if her actions lead to other people's death, that is not something we can shrug off and say "ah well, better off next time".

Nephele is a Shadow Dragon, and choosing to save Treviso, even though she believes it was the right choice, nearly broke her and altered the way I played her and watched her develop as a character for the rest of the game.

If you don't allow yourself to have deep relationships with people, or let them get to know you beyond a surface level, it's easy to believe you can't hurt each other. Nephele was never hurt by not forming meaningful relationships. But she also wasn't healed. And she absolutely hurt a lot of people while trying her absolute best to do the right thing and be a good person.

But she's not naive. She knows someone has to make those choices, and like it or not she's the one that has been put in to the leadership role, whether or not it's something she's in any way qualified for.

So she's not looking for sympathy, and she's going to compartmentalize and keep going. She NEVER cries in front of other people. The last time she cried in front of someone else she was four years old and her step dad made sure she never made that mistake again.

Instead she waits as long as possible to go back to Minrathous. Like literally I did every side quest possible before going back there. I was fucking around in Arlathan looking for chests, I was upgrading shops. Anything to keep the game from moving forward and making Nepehele face the reality of the impact she could have on others. Which made it even more awful when she finally saw it. And she almost never took Neve with her on missions. Not because she was afraid of Neve hating her or yelling at her (she SHOULD scream at her), but because she assumed Neve didn't want to be around her and she was trying to be respectful. Which is heartbreaking as well because they are SO similar in so many ways and were really starting to form a solid friendship.

Things are a little better after Davrin and Assan's death. If Solas had stuck her in that prison after Minrathous' attack, she never would have gotten out. And tbh I don't know if anyone would have gone looking for her. But the moral of this story is that building relationships with others allows you to see yourself more clearly. It allows you to see all the good you bring to people's lives, and all the ways they would hurt if you weren't there.

Davrin's death was not her fault, nor was it her responsibility. Shit happens. Bellara being taken was not her fault, but if she wanted any chance of getting her back, she needed to get over herself and find a way out. Wallowing isn't going to help, but you can feel sadness without letting it overcome you.

I also can not overstate the importance of Inner Demons in relation to this moment. I haven't done a full play through yet where you save Minrathous and it is BONKERS to me that you just don't get it if you do. This was my favorite companion moment, not the least of which because I romanced Lucanis. But the entire time she was in the regret prison, she was able to say "Would I allow people to talk this way to the people I care about, and if not, why would I let them do it to me?"

You deserve the same grace as other people. And maybe a bit of that trickled down into why she let Solas go. It's harder though when you're the one that's been hurt. She's not perfect. She's a little Spiteful.

[darkspellmaster]

What types of students do you see attending a Night Raven sister school? Characters based on the princes, minor villains or what?

For the sister schools...I'm still trying to figure them all out as I have some ideas.

RSA sister school has: Florian -based on prince Florian from Snow white.

(Friend of Vil's, they have an interesting past together with Jack as the three of them are friends.)

Robin Hood -goes to that one as a girl

(I don't have much on her other than she's as good a shot as Rook and has won a number of competitions.)

Arthur/Wort -Sword in the stone girl

(Not much on her yet, she's still learning to be a swordswoman)

A spoiler character as I'm working out her chapter but she's part of the little mermaid.

NRC sister school has:

Magica DeSpell -Ducktales

(Bratty and self serving. Always looking out for number one, but also very cunning and will help out if it helps her.)

Amara -Once upon a Time in Wonderland

(Skilled junior with an eye on making a name for herself)

Dodger -Oliver and company

(She's got a heart of gold but it hides under sticky fingers.)

Cassandra -Tangled the series.

(There's a connection to a freshman that will be showing up in the second year for the group) That's who I have now. I'm still trying to consider how the girls school would be but it's called a Conservatory, while the RSA one has Prep in the name.

Most of my female characters stroll in when they feel like it. I haven't really thought long and hard on their schools since I haven't had plans, yet, in going to the school, but at some point I will.

[queenmuzz]

Working on a detailed history of my Rook.

Zea Ingellvar (Mourn Watch, Warrior)

Abandoned at the necropolis by her destitute widower father, who had run out of options, and assumed that her recently deceased mother’s spirit could gently guide the infant's soul to the afterlife.

Taken in by the Mourn watchers when dancing wisps helped a particular young necromancer in training locate her, snug in the arms of a skeleton.

Thus, despite her lack of magic, she somehow has an affinity for wisps, and also has an easy relationship with the undead. Deep down though, she wishes she was a mage.

In her teens, she was saddled with the burden of escorting a rather pompous young exchange student from Tevinter. They had a quite antagonistic relationship, with him looking down on her for not being a mage. And her looking down on him for being unable to do the most mundane tasks because he was accustomed to having slaves do it for them.

It came to a head when he makes one too many snide comments about how he has to listen to a girl who can’t even conjure veilfire, and she punches him square in the nose, taunting him that he must be used to having his slaves take the punches for him.

Afterwards, they become less antagonistic with each other, with the teenage boy extending an olive branch by claiming to the mourn watch that he ‘tripped’, to save her from getting in shit.

She’s actually sad to see him go when he ultimately decides necromancy isn’t his passion, and takes a position with another Tevinter magister.

War of the Banner happens in the midst of her hunting down some Venatori that have been disturbing the undead. That’s how she meets Varric.

The Mourn Watch wishes to remain neutral, but she decides that while she respects the (un)dead, ultimately, that cannot come at the cost of the living, and breaks ranks with her fellow watchers to stop the battle before it grows out of control.

This gets her in hot water, and the head council has a majority decision to exile her.

This is seen as a death sentence to her, as the necropolis is all she’s ever known. Had Varric not given her a purpose, to hunt down a powerful mage whose actions would undoubtedly sow chaos with both the living and the dead, she may have just died out of despair.

The first few months are rough. She can count the amount of times she left the necropolis on one hand. The sun hurts her eyes, her skin, and she constantly wears a hood during the day.

The nights are not much better. Varric jokes that between him, Harding, and her, it’s the HUMAN that is worried she’ll get sucked up into the sky. Eventually she calms down by imagining those stars are wisps twinkling above her.

Varric also helps by telling tales of his adventures. He’s surprised how much she loves hearing stories about Cassandra, a fellow Nevvaran, as opposed to Hawke or the Inquisitor.

He’s less surprised at how much romance literature she consumes. He assumes it must be a Nevarran thing.

She can read, fight, and observe with very little illumination, although as she adjusts to the daylight, she becomes less proficient at it.

She’s also friendly, almost to a naive degree, which drives Varric up the wall at times. More than once he had to drag her away from giving a con man her savings because he apparently had a crippled foot.

That being said, she can hold a grudge, especially when people fuck with those she cares about, or disrespect the dead.

Has never fallen in love with anyone, despite being in her early thirties, because most people she deals with are a) mages, who tend to keep to themselves or with other mages, or b) they are undead. She’s always felt like an outsider, even in the home she misses terribly, that her lack of magical talent makes her somehow ‘lesser’ in the eyes of other watchers, even if no one believes that of her.

Which means when she meets Emmrich, a man of prestigious talents, complimenting her, she goes weak in the knees. (And that's how she discovers she has a praise kink.)

[aquaburst3]

Enchanted Rose University

Saw others make posts like this, so here are some of the major OCs at my all girl's fan school and the counterpart to NRC.

Things to Note:

I'm listing student characters from most important to least important to the main plot of my own fic series.

This post will reference my own worldbuilding where NRC and RSA are universities. So if you are wondering how the hell a girl can work at Mostro Lounge and why I'm spouting out random country names, that's why.

Everyone mentioned in this post is 18+.

I might make a part 2 of this if there are enough OCs from this school. Either way, I'll make another general OC post sometime, because there are a lot more than what you'd think.

(Warning: This post will contain spoilers for upcoming characters in my TWST fics. You have been warned.)

Enchanted Rose is respected and prestigious all-girls university in the Land of Pyroxene. It honours King Adam and his princess consort Belle. The school is even in their former estate. Students come from all walks of life, and many go on to excel in their careers.

Staff

Ava Smith

Twisted from Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet

She's a cat beastwoman and a former ship captain with an interest in science, especially astronomy and astrology. After she retired from the military, she got her doctorate and became vice-chancellor at Enchanted Rose. She has a sharp wit, enjoying to tease people and have fun with her friends, including Divus Crewel, during her off time.

Ruth Warwick

Twisted from Prudence from Cinderella 2

She's the headmistress' secretary. She's a very prim and proper woman, being rather uptight about her job and a stickler for the rules. Despite her being...a lot, Ava places a lot of trust in her.

Students

Alyssa “Lyssa” Étienne

Twisted from Princess Tiana

She is a hardworking and resourceful young woman from Port of Jubilee. She originally wanted to attend a uni closer to home. One day her best friend, Carlotta, suggested they should both attend Enchanted Rose to be closer to Royal Sword and Night Raven to meet rich hot guys. At first, Alyssa dismissed the mere prospect, especially if it was such shallow reasoning behind it. But after her mom urged her to go, she decided to take Carlotta up on it, wanting to have a bit of an adventure and to bond more with her cousin, Sam, who she hadn't seen in years.

Alyssa now attends Enchanted Rose while working part time at the Mostro Lounge, visiting her cousin at his shop and swimming in her little spare time. She often works herself to the bone, taking on more than what she can chew. But she thinks it's all worth it in the end, so she can earn enough money to open up her own restaurant and help out others in her community.

Love Interest: Azul Ashengrotto

Mahina Kapule

Twisted from Lilo from Lilo & Stitch

One of her teammates for SDC, who takes Rook's spot and goes to Enchanted Rose. She's a bold, spirited and compassionate oddball, who will do anything for her close family and friends. She's also rather rambunctious, emotional, doesn't always think things through, has a thing for getting into trouble and has a hard time seeing other's perspectives. She is also close friends with Makoa, her adoptive brother, along with Jade, Floyd and Reille.

Aurelia Cadwaladr

Twisted from Princess Eilonwy from The Black Cauldron

She is princess of Prydain, one of "rose leaves" next to Rose Queendom, and heir to the throne. She takes her duties seriously, wanting to learn how to become a good future queen, sharpen her magical skills and fiercely protective over those she loves. Her stubborn, brash and hardheaded nature sometimes gets in the way of this goal. She is also quite sporty, enjoying to do magift, archery and fencing in her spare time, which are things she bonds over with Maisie and Leona over.

Love Interest: Leona Kingscholar

Astrid Benum

Twisted from Elsa from Frozen

She's a famous actress from the Wynderlands, who starred in plenty of queen bee roles, including some alongside Vil. Like the infamous Vil Schönheit, she has a reputation for being an icy bitch, but in reality she's loving, protective and fiercely loyal to those dear to her. However, she's also incredibly moody, secretive and insecure. Despite being Vil's ex, she is still on good terms with him and are still friends.

Aziza Hamed Faisal bint al-Asim

Twisted from Princess Jasmine

She's the crown princess of the Scalding Sands, and is forced to marry her cousin, Kalim, despite wanting to make that choice for herself. She is compassionate, outspoken, feisty and sharp-tongued, having a strong sense of adventure and longing for freedom. However, she's also rather sheltered and naive, reckless, stubborn, proud and has a hard time seeing other's perspectives.

Carlotta "Carly" Patin

Twisted from Lottie

A spoiled rich girl from Port of Jubilee and life long friend to Alyssa. She wanted her and Alyssa to attend Enchanted Rose in order to get rich hot boyfriends from RSA and NRC. After some convincing, Alyssa comes along for the ride. While can be ditzy, careless and selfish, she cares a lot about Alyssa and will do anything to help her out.

(As a side note, I wanted to make her a tanned-skinned blonde girl, but I couldn't find a model like that, so I went with that. Just imagine her as a blonde.)

Sana Al Siaf

Twisted from The Genie and Dalia

Sana is Aziza's retainer and trusted friend. She's a descendant of the same cursed Genie who was set free by Sultana Yasamina and Sultan Jafar. Despite this, she's fairly down to earth, gives good advice and is able to help a friend in need. That doesn't stop her from rubbing people the wrong way sometimes due her mischievous and tricky nature and her tendency to get herself into trouble.

Noémie Boumount

Twisted from Marie from The Aristocats

Noémie is a noble cat beastwoman from the Land of Pyroxene. She lives with her mother, stepfather and two brothers. Noémie is very girly, often opting for pink and bows wherever possible, and a huge romantic. Her upper class upbringing made her know proper etiquette. She even wants to get into theatre and has plenty of piano training to boot. She likes to believe she is as regal as her mother, however, she more often than not acts in a way that is rather unladylike. She never starts anything, but she most certainly has no problems joining in the trouble once it begins. She also has a tendency to stick her nose into other people's business and is a huge gossip, especially if there's romance involved.

Maisie Macanroy

Twisted from Merida

She's bold and fearless princess. She loves archery. Despite being brash, hot-headed and hating everything she deems as "girly", she is close friends with with Noémie and Aurelia along with Rook.

[obsoleteozymandias]

Hello, I would like to place an order for "Pair with one of the guys from Twisted Wonderland" (Sorry if the words are wrong, I'm not a person who speaks English, so I apologize).

Gender: female

Pronouns: she/her

Zodiac sign: Sagittarius

Personality: I am a quite diverse person, I am very sensitive, loving, I always listened to others Even if I get very angry, creative, I am always the one who wants to start something, I worry about others.

Likes: I love dancing, since I was a child I have always danced and my favorite genres to dance are KPOP, JPOP, CPOP, Ballet to Tango, Singing, music in general, fashion, I love wearing dresses or costumes that are inspired by my favorite Kpop groups, I am a fan of KPOP girl groups like TWICE, LOONA, TripleS, GFRIEND, LESSERAFIM, RED VELVET, Etc. I also like magical girl series, anime, sweet food like cakes and Facturas (Argentine sweets with Dulce de leche, Those are my favorites).

Dislikes: I don't like cheese, nor hard things, I don't like changing days, nor humidity, that people make fun of my tastes, that they don't respect me.I am a Spanish-speaking person, a person who was born in Argentina, of Spanish descent, I am a person who uses a lot the words that are used like "Boludo" "Che" "Que fachero" "Que genio", etc.

(I say this because of my culture)

And Reference for the couple can be anyone, personally I am a person who talks about many topics, but if they are about fashion or Korean music, they are one of my favorite talks and I can be talking about them until tomorrow.

I hope that helps, anything say if I should add more, have a nice afternoon/evening/morning.

Gotcha. Also no worries about language, I got what you’re saying.

== Twisted Wonderland ==>

I match you up with…

Rook Hunt 

I think Rook falls in love with your passion, especially about topics you enjoy. He’s a fanboy himself, and so when he hears you talking about groups you enjoy, he’ll quickly join in with his own obsessions or favorite musicians. 

He’ll also do extensive research about everything you’re passionate about just so he can keep up with you. 

He’ll also learn dances with you, whether they’re KPOP inspired or tango. He’s always thrilled to be spending time together with you, but any chance to be close to you is extra fun for him. 

He lovingly teases you while dancing relentlessly. He really just wants to see you flustered. 

He also matches your love for fashion. He’s an appreciator of beauty, after all, and every time he sees you he throws a million compliments filled with genuine love and affection your way. 

You two have fun critiquing other people’s outfits together, and in general just watching the world go about its business. 

He lets you take the initiative in the relationship. He fully believes himself safe and satisfied in your care, and he’s always pleased to do whatever you want to do. 

He also loves that you catch on to things quickly, especially his emotions. Rook is a man shrouded in mystery, but you read him like an open book, and he adores that you can understand him without him needing to speak. 

This goes both ways, of course. He knows exactly what you need before you know. 

[adrianasunderworld]

With Valentine's day, i want to make an event for the twisted princess for you. Since we already got a ball thing, i like to think that Crowley announce that they will be selling chocolate for donations.

Meg: Are you sure the donations isnt yourself?

Crowley: Quiet you.

Crowley wanted everyone to make chocolate and sell them inorder for donations as valentine's day is near. He also announce who will lead the chocolate in which is by getting longest stick (again)

Meg: Wow, be originally for once.

It will be funny that out of everyone, the one who doesnt care about love is Merida which it made her upset as having to deal with this holiday. Rook is happy and decided to help her out.

While Merida have to forcefully manage sell, the girls decided to make chocolate not just for the sells but for the guys too...in which floyd overheard it and spread it to the rumors that lead to craze antics. In the end of the event, Merida is happy that Rook help that she gave him chocolate. This made him feel happy. The reason i think Merida being the lead princess is ironic way for the princess who isn't into romance to have this not to mentioned her dressing up like cupid.

Merida Is pissed she has to do this. She tries to get someone else to do it, but Tiana is like "No you made a commitment, you have to see it through."

It doesn't help that her "Uniform" for this event is some frilly pink apron outfit for selling chocolates. She hates everything about it, Merida is miserable. Rook takes it upon himself to help her with the organization and selling of chocolates and it's Meridas main solace since it means she doesn't have to do everything herself. Maybe our sweet, secret romantic boy Jack also gets roped into candy selling and for another girl, maybe one of the classic princesses is also in it. Lets go with Aroura, we haven't used her much in this au. Now they all are organizing the fundraiser, prepping candy and place to sell it.

Merida is not a fan of all the mushy stuff, it's not her thing, but she doesn't want to rain on any of her friends parade. Meanwhile Aroura is making chocolates for not just Malleus, but for everyone. When Merida ask why, Aroura explains that love takes different forms. Her aunts used to give her chocolate for valentines and she would give them something in return. It's all about showing the love and appreciation for the people that love you in return.

Merida takes this to heart and after seeing Aroura and Jack work hard to help her with the fundraiser she gives them chocolates as a thank you and gives one to Rook too because he always goes above and beyond to help her, and even though Merida isn't super sentimental, she's not above showing she cares. Rook is over the moon about it and the fundraiser was a success.

[parallel-selfs]

Born As The Other in Twst (Book 6)

Andrew is pissed off because he just faced Vil's overblot, got scratched by Grim and now getting a warning for another overblot under 24 hours.

Crowley calls the dorm leaders, Ace and Deuce overhears Riddle, they visits Andrew to find out what happened. Crowley shows up and tells the group Grim has been captured and what blot crystals are, then rain on their parade at the possibility Grim not continuing to attend NRC.

A few days later, Vil gets the group together at Ramshackle and apologizes for what happened during the festival, offering to pay for their hard work and as a form of an apology. The team gives their share to Ramshackle to fix up the old dorm which Andrew is graceful and thanks them with a smile.

However, during their conversation of how Vil met Rook the school is under attack and captures the overblot victims. Andrew shouts out towards Grim before focusing his attention on the injured students.

He carries Deuce as Rook and Kalim got Ace and Epel to the infirmary, then attend a meeting with the vice housewardens and Professor Trein to understand the situation better. He goes to the infirmary with Jack and finds Epel is awake, but not Ace and Deuce.

Epel offers to house him until his dorm is fixed when they run into Rook and watch her take off for Vil. Epel decides to chase after her and convinces Andrew to come with, he does. (But he doesn't bring a weapon unlike Alice.)

The two find Rook and join her party, teases Epel for her growling stomach, gets a Pomefiore uniform to finally feel warm after an icy flight. Envies Rook. Follows Rook and Epel's lead and dramatically falls on the floor.

His gaze falls on Idia and instantly knew she's representing the King of the Underworld.

Amaze by the inside of Land of Grief, then sighs at Rook. "You destroyed my dorm and hurt my friends." Concern by Ortho's comment. (Movie night with the girls.)

Great googly moogly, the power is out! Andrew is the clown, and nervous around Rook now. Anyway, open the door and let's run to the control room.

Helps the staff out, but he freezes up and refuses to move. Andrew is dragging the guy and is ready to pick him up but it's too late. He closes his eyes and tenses up, then sees a dream of the King of Underworld to his confusion and soon wakes up to the girls.

High fives Epel for getting her unique magic. Walks into the control room and just waves to the surprised girls like a smartass. "Where's Grim?"

Processing the information on Grim. Spits out air at the phantom number. Asks for a weapon and gets a powerless Charon rowing stick. (Says what Alice said just sounding less energetic than her.)

Angry eyebrows. "Oh, so I'm suppose to stare at the wall and do nothing while being the only adult in this situation. No, I'm not going to continue being a coward."

Confusion to shock at getting a hug and kiss. A slight blush on his cheeks as Rook laughs at him. "And my darling apple."

Just whacking phantoms with a rowing stick. Chuckles at the tuna comment, then gets sad. "Why are you talking about nails?" Disappointed at no lore yet.

Andrew is concerned from that fact on phantoms. Oh shit, rock titan.

Runs in and helps find the spear, poking it out when he sees it. "That thing's taller than Andrew!" He throws his weapon to the floor and helps holding it.

Tease Epel for her monstrous stomach. Stuffs first-aid and snacks in robes.

"Speak for yourself, I'll pick up a phantom and throw it off the edge if blot wasn't an issue."

Slam phantom on the head for interrupting the lore. "You backhand complimented her."

"You were a part of Savanaclaw?" "Same, Epel."

Wait, wasn't the Fairest Queen a old woman in the dreams? Vil's phantom kinda looked like her. Gets smack against a metal box and takes a minute to get back up.

Lore time! Wait, she has freckles, where?

Andrew is upset and annoy, where's his cat?

At seeing the box destroyed, he starts looking around for any danger. Whacks it when pounces towards him.

"I guess you three are done for the day." Has Epel lean on his shoulder as he rests too. Has a heart attack.

Hops onto the chariot and realizes he can't help them fight. Another overblot... (You will regret those words later, Idia.) What?!

"Grim?!"

Smack some phantoms and jumps back on the chariot, then stand there confuse on what to do. The weapon falls as he reaches out for Grim. (She either calls him brother or by name.)

Rook yells out for Vil as his sight quickly fade to black and see memories playing in front of him. His heart hurts. He blinks his eyes when the black disappears and sees Vil as a old woman, being handed a sleeping Grim.

He exits the chariot with his cat in his arms, waiting for Idia to wake up and face his pissed off classmates. He notices Grim isn't breathing and panics, following Rook's instructions. He hugs her when she starts breathing, telling her they can go back to Ramshackle.

His ears are ringing after the three hour car ride. He thanks Malleus and asks Ace and Deuce if they're okay, just to get smacked on the head. His injuries are bandaged and lectured by Crewel before packing some things and passing out on Ace's bed.

The living arrangements for Alice are the same for Andrew. Tea party with Riddle, questions self because of Leona, tortured (affectionately) by the twins, carrying a passed out Kalim after partying hard, shrugging with Vil's standards, and camp Vargas.

He loves his new fixed up dorm, but disappoint at no improved bedroom. Oh, new student? Happily takes the gift and enjoys the hangout with everyone.

He talks to Mickey and finds someone else met Mickey, weird.

The same realization and blot issue happens to him, and gets taken care of by Malleus, the person he's afraid for. (However, he doesn't run a business like Alice, he took a job at an antique shop in the town.)

[in-finitesuns]

so my veilguard thoughts

perhaps unpopular opinion but i fucking loved it, it made me rework a lot of lore understandings i had in my head.

some end/late game spoilers ahead, so read on at your own risk.

the entire game i veered wildly in-between, ugh solas i missed you, and UGH SOLAS I'VE GIVEN YOU TOO MUCH GOODWILL BECAUSE OF INQUISITION, and most of the time it was just a mix of both.

when he temporarily fights alongside you in the last quest was fun as fuck though.

southern thedas getting wiped off the map as the in-game reason for why nothing we did mattered is actually the funniest (derogatory) thing bioware could've done.

my solavellan just leaving to join solas in the fade while southern thedas burns????

THE ENTIRE VARRIC REVEAL???? (and the fade jail.)

i'm pissed about harding or davrin being the ones to sacrifice - and i really thought i had doomed bellara to death when she got got by elgar'nan. (neve disapproved but i was like 'baby girl it's the curse of the romance interest you're always in my party!')

without guides i kept everyone besides davrin (I DIDN'T KNOW BUT I ALSO DON'T KNOW IF I COULD CHOOSE HARDING NOW THAT I KNOW) alive through the final bit.

got all factions, including the crows, back up to 3 stars, all heroes of the veilguard. i want to do shadowy protecter neve next because i like the legendary armor better.

when mythal goes 'i did not think my children would ever walk the dread wolf's crossroads again.' i had to lay down (also my rook had mythal vallaslin.)

when you're in the hossberg wetlands and you get the notification, "because you helped destroy the blight, the flowers can grow again." that about put me into the ground.

i loved bellara so much more than i thought i would.

i have neve brainrot. she's so sassy but under the cynicism is so much heaviness from the burden of responsibility and fear (the whole returned cultist questline and how afraid she sounded the entire time i wanted to hug her forever.)

i got got by lucanis, i'm gonna have to romance him at some point. the romances remind me more of DA2 format than DAI format, which I thought was a weird step back.

the companions doing so little damage had me grinding my gears.

i agree that act 1 is the weakest and act 3being the strongest.

absolutely foul that an elf romancing neve gets to be fake venatori neve's servant.

i was doing thousands of damage at the end, spellblade was so fucking fun. i'm gonna run a dual daggers rogue next and see how it works.

[darkrooklobby]

[✨Since i'll be keeping this blog now, here's some info about me, my likes, dislikes, fandoms, my personality, art techniques, and opinions✨]

General info:

-🍀Rook Lobby / DRL / " T " - ⚧️ They/Them - 🏳️‍🌈 Ace - 🗣️ I welcome criticism - ⚖️ Libra, INTP, True Neutral, phlegmatic

Tools I use:

Krita / Fountain Pen / Recycled Supplies / Acrylic / Mechanical Drafting Pentel / Ink / Watercolor / Photography / Whatever I get my hands on, occasionally.

Techniques:

I've used so many online tutorials in my lifetime, I can say with certainty that I'm self-taught, and that the internet helped tremendously. My art experiments are archived here.

I've only started receiving proper art classes in college... 😔

My Goals so far:

Create a portfolio! ⭐ I'm still a student, but I've taken commissions before & I've been accepted to colleges, although I need a job rn. I wish to one day become a video game artist or tattoo artist or illustrator or graphic designer. Anything that has to do with art, I'm eager to try!

My Concise Opinion on Art:

Art is a skill, not a talent. Talent, in my personal opinion, doesn't exist. What people call 'talent' doesn't get you far. Talent might be your liking of the subject - the rest is hard work.

People never see the 90% of the work we put in, attributing it to talent, which, again, doesn't do much for you!

Art is a method of visual communication, a universal language, if done properly. Art is an illusion, and goes against nature, since you try to trick the eyes to see & imagine something while looking at a 2D plane or at a 3D sculpture.

Art is short for "artificial" - but that word means "made & designed by humans". Humans are the only species on earth capable of recognizing "art", and that is what makes humans ... human.

My Fandoms:

[Tl;Dr] It's mostly video games... Although I'm known to like some anime / manga / manhwa occasionally + and older cartoons from my childhood.

fnaf 

fnac

wick

WTTG2 + Scrutinized

sonic games

BBIEAL

Layers of fear + dlc

CoF, AoM and Grey

Slender : the arrival

Genshin Impact

portal2

the crooked man - the RPG

tattletail

the girl's glass staircase

Identity V

Ib (RPG, 2012, didn't play 2022 yet)

Minecraft

Popgoes

scp

spooky's jumpscare mansion

SOMA

overwatch... 2...

Phoenix Wright TRILOGY ONLY

AAI1&2

Dai gyakuten saiban 1 & 2

NoxTimore 

Kraina Grzybów: The Apple Escape

EWTP

StanleyParable

The Quarry,

imscared (steamedition)

Mirror layers

dsaf

Danganronpa - fav executions: (After School Lesson, One-woman army, Strand of Agony)

dbh

persona 2 (Innocent sin + eternal punishment)

persona 5 ROYAL

Yume Nikki/Yume 2kki

.flow (dot flow)

Yakuza: Like A Dragon,

Little Hope

Witch's house

The theater - the indie horror

YTTD

Other Socials:

I've left Deviantart since they stole my artwork and sold it to AI. Greedy bastards 🫠

"X" is annoying to use

I have plans for uploading tutorials to Youtube someday

On ticktock I've only uploaded memes so far 😭