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The first time Rook holds Lucanis while they lie together on Rook's chaise, he cries. Nothing dramatic, nothing intense. Just tears slowly slipping to dampen the fabric of Rook's shirt beneath his cheek.

Spite—who has only ever felt Lucanis cry under extreme duress, when the torture was too much for him to prevent his body's physiological reaction—begins to squirm and struggle to pull away, and he and Lucanis briefly tussle for control.

"What's wrong?" Rook asks.

"Lucanis! Is! Crying!"

Lucanis hides his embarrassed flush in Rook's shoulder. "I'm fine."

"But? Why?" Spite demands.

Rook strokes Lucanis's hair as they explain. "Sometimes when someone has been in pain or in danger for a long time, they cry when they feel safe again."

The body in their arms relaxes back into the embrace as Spite considers Rook's words. When the spirit replies, his voice is small and wondering.

"Lucanis? Feels? Safe?"

Lucanis's confirmation is a quiet confession: "I do."

They all fall quiet. As the peaceful moment stretches on, Rook and Lucanis begin to doze, leaving Spite to contemplate this amazing new feeling.

Safe.

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Never stop dancing at inappropriate moments!!!

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Gotta love Lucanis' duality where he fluctuates between romantic, grandiloquent, poetry-worthy declarations (like a kiss goodbye, if all the gods have to die for you, etc) in a sultry tone that sorta fits your first impression of him— taciturn, mysterious, tortured kind of man— and the comical anthics of a Very Done and Very Tired assassin trying to use their strokes of chronic bad luck to make his teammates laugh: IS THAT AN ANGRY ROCK!? HARDING, WHAT DID YOU DO TO PISS OFF A ROCK?!

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Ignore me I need to yell for a second about the almost kiss because I just watched it again and I might have gone a little crazy with the screenshots

Ok so we have Lucanis sauntering over acting suave. Because he is.

But then look how genuinely Happy he is to be there too! Look at how he's looking at Rook! Look at how much he likes them!!

^she has never been more in love btw. He makes her stupid. The wall lean has put her into a catatonic state.

Then obviously there's the look at Rook's lips. I do find it interesting that this happens After Rook touches him so it's not the touch that makes him hesitate. The touch only spurs him on.

Bonus I caught the face scrunch

And then look how close they get!!! I didn't even notice they got this close!!

Devastating. His eyes are still closed when he pulls away. He wanted to kiss them so fucking bad. I have very many thoughts on what might have happened here but I'm saving them for the fic. This screenshot made me take psychic damage.

Like look how much effort it takes him to pull away. He Knows he's hurting Rook. But also this has to happen, because he's not ready. I do always wonder if he's like... taking it upon himself to try and protect Rook from themselves a little bit too? 'At least I know I'm doing it' -> Rook might like me but they don't know exactly what they're signing up for so I have to pull back for both our sakes rn. Also I don't think Spite had anything to do with this. All the other times Spite said/did something it was a lot more jarring. I could be wrong tho that's just my interpretation. It's even worse when you compare how happy he just was! And he's not letting himself have that happiness!! Lucanis!!!

Homocide

Double homocide

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Saw you asking for asks and it was just in time cause I had an idea and wanted to talk to you about it. So, picture this, Solas between DAI and DAV events, "training montage " in his mancave (aka Lighthouse) lifting and mewing for 8 years straight to regain his chisselled jaw and w i d e back. XD

Dragon Age: The Chad Wolf

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i made the veilguard boys (plus illario) and their rooks with this picrew! everyone come look at my babies aren’t they so cute together

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also one murder of crows detail I've never noticed before is that while Viago does most of the job pulling Illario up, he actually starts getting up from his knees on his own even before Caterina finishes speaking. like he already knows what she will say, or what she expects him to do here

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might fuck around and start playing inquisition…

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Taash the Crow 🔥🔥

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actually in tears over how Lucanis kicks the door to the opera hall saying that Illario can ally with the venatori "over his dead body" only for Illario to say "that can be arranged" like. buddy you are here in this stupid mess because you could NOT arrange that. be real with me for a sec.

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Johanna presents her sinister invention for the first time...

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Spite doesn't know how to style Lucanis' hair, that's my headcanon now

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Confession: more people should open their eyes to davrin bottoming

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The Wigmaker Job, p.267 of the Tevinter Nights e-book

while i'm going through my WMJ notes, a slight correction on a widely held (and bizarre tbh) misconception

i often see people misquote this scene, and claim Illario genuinely was just screwing around and only cared about the food. Look at Lucanis's actions/thoughts here.

It is obvious that this is a bit they're doing. That is what the text is telling you.

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dragon age players: I want more conflict with the companions I want them to say more mean stuff it's funny to me

Neve Gallus: makes a justified snarky remark about being fucked over by you personally

dragon age players: no I only like it when boys do it

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Forever bitter over the fact that Lucanis lived in a city with GONDOLAS and we didn’t get a scene on them. It's VENICE INSPIRED! ITS THE MOST ROMANTIC MEAN OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE MOST ROMANTIC CITY IN! THE! WORLD! HELLOOO!