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Rook and Lucanis' banter during the Siege was a highlight

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hold on guys i just. i just need a minute

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Davrin's romance is so funny. "I'm all about the thrill of the chase" bro I told you you looked cute one time and your icon immediately changed to a little heart meanwhile I could show up in Lucanis' pantry completely naked and he'd at most ask if I wanted coffee

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can’t stop thinking about this. lucanis’ position as the attacker vs the complete vulnerability in his face and voice. lucanis putting his trust in rook to help him in a moment of desperation and illario forcing his own version of “help” that’s founded on a betrayal of lucanis’ trust. lucanis’ terrified concern for what he might do to illario and illario’s absolute lack of concern as he takes control of lucanis’ mind and rook’s immediate concern at what illario’s doing to lucanis. illario telling lucanis not to come home because he’s too dangerous and rook being totally, unquestionably willing to stay by lucanis’ side despite the danger, even as lucanis gives him a million chances to back out. something something the queer experience of being rejected and shamed by your family for the same things your lover embraces as part of who you are. i can’t quite put it into words please tell me you get it

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took lucanis on harding's quest and these may be some of my new favourite lines from him eknjgndkgnd

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i knew everyone was calling lucanis a short king but i wasn’t expecting “slightly shorter than my elf who’s as short as the slider would let me make him” levels of tiny. he’s SO small i love him

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they’re so normal about each other (all of treviso can tell they want to jump each other’s bones)

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rook thinks he’s being so subtle and chill about how much he likes lucanis (he’s not)

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harding knows exactly what rook wanted to say (“i wasn’t expecting you to be so fucking hot”) and she’s trying so hard to save him from himself (it’s not working)

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folks i am officially down BAD for lucanis…

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rook has only had harding for a day and a half and if anything happens to her he’ll kill everyone in this game and then himself

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wyll ravengard as self-contained panopticon

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everyone say hi to taren “rook” aldwir, the trans veil jumper warrior who came here to save the world and annoy as many people as possible in the process!

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finally got datv and played it for like… almost ten hours straight today and i’m about to become so insufferable about it

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i like gale with his hair up 🤤

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not to gush too much abt neil newbon's performance as astarion (and stephen rooney's writing for him) but like. he's discussed on streams before how conscious the decision to make him feel like he's constantly performing is (regardless of outcome; theatrical spawn astarion & operatic ascended astarion), and how stephen rooney leaned more into the whimsy and fun of the character based on things he saw in his portrayal (hence astarion progressively getting funnier and more charismatic through game development). but the thing that drives me absolutely mad tbh is the moments where all of it drops and he's suddenly so sincere, because it hits you like a truck to the face.

his voice going all soft and quiet and brittle when he describes cazador instructing his spawn to torture themselves. his mannerisms shifting from seductive and playful to a little more nervous. but the one that always gets me is in the graveyard romance scene, talking about what cazador has taken from him, how it was taken by force; "but he did take it," in this voice that's so full of sorrow that it almost sounds hollow, muffled by none of his usual pomp and theatricality, when even in cazador's palace his admissions of upset were sandwiched between attempts to brush it all off. dear god.