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Neve/Rook (Warden) 'Something's Coming' Romance Dialogue

Caught this dialogue between my Warden Rook and romanced Neve while fighting the Blight Eruption from the 'Something's Coming' quest. The distress in 'Rook! Talk to me!' is absolutely precious.

Here are screenshots of the dialogue:

I'd love to know if there are other Romanced Companion/Rook interactions like this one.

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Have you seen brown eyes so beautiful you fall down the Lighthouse floating stairs? *raise hand*

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Right on top of those notes

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Them

Just them <3

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this blog hates donald trump

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Love youuu and your blog!

I have my criticisms about the game, but I also have my joys (getting ready to start my 3rd play through... why would I play a game I "hate" three times? lol) and I could not imagine disparaging someone so badly who brings so much to the DA community.

I don't get online as often as most (I'm old and have rESpoNSiBiLiTiEs) but I look for your posts and those from @hyperions-light as much as I can.

This world is too ugly not to share a little joy, y'know?

Hi other Veilguard lovers! I did delete the weird hostile anon I got(don’t worry I keep receipts) cause ya know we all don’t need to see that shit. I’ve been called worse and will be again probably I’m not shy about my opinions. It’s fun to dunk on weirdos but also eh? The vitriol to this game is disproportionate to what it is and I am going to combat that where I can but I am more interested in building up a fandom community that’s actually fun.

I do want to say that if a queer positive game with a diverse cast is making you so angry ya gotta call people names and go out of your way to fight them you should probably unpack that offline I don’t think social media is good for you. That’s not snark I mean it! Protect your mental health!

Anyways thank you to the friends I’ve made here and I’m looking forward to making more!! Gonna do that Rook Storytime Ask by the lovely @hyperions-light game a lil later so if you want to send me more asks go for it!! Or if you wanna send me writing prompts in general I’m so down.

Keep an eye out for my writing challenge tomorrow and there’s a super special fan event coming up I cant properly announce just yet but if you’re a Davrin, Bellara, Taash, or Neve fan I think you’ll be very happy in the coming weeks! Let’s keep creating and keep our chins up!

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Ingellvar Rook learning their speech patterns from Vorgoth, they've learnt to speak "normally" but every know and then when they are tired or emotional they slip back into "THE PORRIAGE WILL BE COOKED"

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These Golden Ashes

Or Ch. 19 of Today Could Be the Last. Or the beginning of the end, if you will. Click the link to see it on Ao3 and preview under the cut.

Rook took another sip of wine, eyes locked with Neve's. The hand had come down to her and the detective. Taash had decent cards, but not good enough. Bellara might still be able to take it. Her eyes tended to give her away, widening before she could remember to mask her expression. But she was better at it than Emmrich, whose tell tended to be a small twitch of his fingers. Davrin had gone back to carving, chatting with Harding, occasionally one or both would throw her an eyeroll and a smile. Assan had grown bored, falling asleep by the cookfire. Lucanis was back to attemtpting to feed them. The scent of garlic and onion and oil in the pan together made her mouth water, and he he’d just gotten started.

Neve smiled sweetly, eyes flashing. Rook bit her lip, trying and failing to hide her own smile. Neve glanced at Davrin, and back at Rook, arching her eyebrow. Rook tilted her chin to Lucanis and she chuckled warmly. Her happiness felt dangerous, so bright a flame, and so fragile in the coming storm. But she laid her cards down anyways. Taash cursed.

“Damnit I thought I had you.”

“Rook’s got a tell.”

Davrin’s eyes slid over to hers. His smile slow and flickering, catching her alight.

“What’s my tell?” She was smiling back, arching a brow.

Harding snapped her fingers in front of his face to get his attention and he ducked his head, trying to hide his laughter.

Bellara laid down her cards with a sigh. “I lose again too.”

Emmrich shook his head, turning his cards to Manfred. “See? This would be another losing hand.”

Davrin snorted. Rook’s eyes were back on him for a moment, enjoying seeing him relaxed and happy. Lucanis walked around to Neve’s chair, leaning over her shoulder.

“Mmm. Interesting.”

“You going to lose on me Rook?”

Harding had abandoned him go wrap her arms around Taash, whispering something in their ear that had them standing up.

“Welp. I’ve lost enough of Lucanis’ money for the night.”

“Wait Lucanis was bankrolling you….?” Rook threw him glance and he shrugged.

Bellara sighed. “Me too. Sorry Lucanis.”

“Someone around here needs to learn how to cheat better than Rook.” He sighed.

Neve laughed, eyes twinkling in her mirth. “Don’t look at me. I don’t cheat.”

“Neither do I.” Rook winked.

Lucanis kissed Neve’s cheek and went back to plating food for the rest of them. Emmrich and Manfred got up to help. Rook wondered if Lucanis always made too much on purpose, now that the fight was going so hard. All of them were feeling the strain, but it had banded them together tighter than ever. One by one, their enemies gave way. Rook just needed to keep her friends going, and alive.

Simple enough.

Davrin was behind her, hands on her shoulders, touch light and teasing and smile knowing. 

“Are you sure you want to go with that hand?” He laughed.

“Hey! Don’t you trust me?” She leaned forward, searching Neve’s face. “You never said what my tell was.”

“And I won’t. Where would the fun be if I did?”  

Neve held her ground. Rook laid her cards on the table. The detective gave her that crooked smile, shaking her head.

“I don’t know how you do it Rook. You always call my bluff.”

She laughed pushing the money towards Neve. “Go on. I know Ashur asked for more help against the Venatori. I’m sure Lucanis would rather it go to a good cause.”

“I wanted it to go to buying Neve a present.” He grumbled.

“Rook did. She got me this lovely frame for the evidence of-”

Davrin was still rubbing her shoulders, finally applying pressure, and suddenly she had lost all interest in anything else.

“Welp.” Rook rose, stretching and yawning and the others paid them no mind as Davrin grabbed her hand and led her back to their room.

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Reblogging posts is also a good way to keep your fan fic authors around and writing. Don't want AI writing fan fic? Then please at least consider - not a hard requirement, but please consider - reblogging their posts for their fics. Too many authors stop writing because they can't get their posts to get shared.

This is one of the few places left where authors can promote their fics. No one reads fics if they don't know they exist. And no one knows they exist if no one shares the posts.

You don't have to comment anything. You don't have to say anything at all. Just a click of the button. It really, really, really helps.

to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

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OMG I would talk about my Rook ALL. DAY. LONG.

But I'm getting ready to leave the house. So, reblogging to return to this.

I know my Rook very, very well. Do people even read fic about OCs? I dunno. But I'd love to write about him. In the meantime, here's some of my favorite pictures.

Here is Basaari Thorne.

btw anyone who talks about their rook in my notifs goes straight to heaven. i literally went to the golden city and asked solas and he said it might even be a necessity. so you have to do it now

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Headcanon: Rook is a serial napper and falls asleep everywhere

- on the green couch in the team meeting area

- in Bellara's room on her cot, listening to her tinker and talk to herself/explain in big words what she's working on

- on Neve's floor while she's shooting them with theories/complaining that if they're so tired they should go to his own room to rest

- in the kitchen at the table while watching Lucanis cook dinner, surrounded by the comforting aroma of ground coffee beans

- in Davrin's room on his bed cause it's the most comfortable thing in the Lighthouse and once their head hits the pillow they're dead to the world

- Curled up on Harding's chair, surrounded by the smell of dirt and flowers and the soft scurrying of creatures and birds twittering

- on Taash's back after betting that they couldn't do 100 pushups without breaks

- Having a soft blanket draped over them after trying and failing to listen to one of Emmrich's lectures about fade mechanics

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It has to be exhausting having Solas in your head

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Denerim! Or at least a small farm to the north and west of Denerim =) It may sound mundane, but as a Warden, Basaari has done quite a bit of travel, across most of northern Thedas at least.

But Basaari Thorne is romancing Neve, and it's my head canon that after the game she uses her skills at finding missing people to help him finally find the mother he thought he'd lost, the woman who gave him his name (see the answer to one of your more recent previous questions, the one about the significance of their first name). The woman whose kerchief had landed on his shoulder, ultimately saving his life.

Amelia Thorne had been returning to her farm at the end of the blight when she'd met Basaari. But of course, since it was obvious to anyone who'd been familiar with the Qunari Antaam at the time that Basaari was a saarebas, and knowing that their ship was to dock in Ferelden where apostate mages were illegal, the templars met Basaari at the docks. So technically Basaari has been to Denerim, but he only got to see one harried trip through it before ultimately departing for he would be remanded into the custody of the mage circle at Kinloch Hold. His story diverged when they were waylaid on the road by a stray, leftover swarm of darkspawn and when he was rescued by the Wardens that were tracking them after his captors had been killed, he begged them to let him join them instead of finishing his journey to the Circle.

But he never got to see Amelia again, or her farm. She told him that no matter where he went in life and no matter what happened to him, he could be safe in the knowledge that somewhere out there he had a place to come home to, and a mother who loves him. So! That's the #1 first place he would go, completely for his own self. He would find that little farm and find Amelia Thorne. He would go home, to a home he's never seen =)

Salutations! It’s Friday, which means it’s also Rook Intro Hour! Yaaay! 🎉🎉🎉

How it works: I ask you a question about your Rook(s) and you answer it with as much brevity or verbosity as you desire. You can do this whenever you want, and I’ll reblog it + add some comments! There’s no time limit— if you want to do the older ones, they are collected here! (The post is updated on Fridays!)

Today’s Question(s): If your Rook could go somewhere they’ve never been (for fun, not for work), where would they go? Why? Do they want to see or do something specific there? Who would they want to go with, if anyone?

Have fun! Thanks for sharing !

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This reminds me of a song about people who never thought the leopard would eat their faces or something.

ok i need people who are happy about the tiktok ban to understand your opinion should actually have nothing to do with the fact that it’s tiktok. like you can hate tiktok. but supporting the ban is supporting censorship, full stop.

like, i fucking hate twitter. it’s a hellhole. would i celebrate if it went bankrupt and shutdown? probably! would i celebrate if the GOVERNMENT BANNED IT? ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. because the government SHOULD NOT be making decisions about how and what people are allowed to talk about on the internet. full stop.

“i don’t like the precedent but im happy if it’s just tiktok” stfu and think for a second if they only ban tiktok and nothing else ever that’s still censorship

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Neve may be an ice mage but she CHARRED the man

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Basaari Thorne Sliders

I've gotten several compliments on him sooooo I thought I'd pop his sliders out there for any and all to use in case you want to make your own sad, beautiful man to obsess over for 1600+hrs or so.

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requested a cameo from gdl and asked him to make solas say 'fuck'. enjoy.

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I have =)

Have you hugged your emotional support griffin today?