#multiple rooks

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

Ok, the Grey Wardens have been receiving reports of people going missing, at first they think the Darkspawn is responsible, but when they send a team to investigate they instead find a new enemy, Mind Flayers.

"That is a flying ship," Warden Andy Thorne said, tilting their head to stare at the machine above them.

"No, I thought it was in water," drawled Brynja Brosca. The Hero of Ferelden propped her hands on her hips with a long sigh. "Fuck, and here I thought after Solas things would get easier."

"I mean he's banging his girl in the Fade," Andy shrugged as Davrin, a fellow Warden and Andy's husband, approached them with his griffin Assan. "Guess we needed some other big fuck all villain."

"Couldn't find anything," Davrin said apologetically. "I've never seen anything like this."

"Me either," a new voice joined. Riley Cousland, Brynja's fellow Hero of Ferelden, had walked up to them, her own husband Zevran close behind, eyeing the other assassins keenly. "And I went hunting for the cure all around Thedas. Saw weird shit."

"Tis a bizarre thing," Morrigan voiced, looking up from where she'd been searching some books. Her husband Naomahn was quietly speaking with their son Keiran. "I've never seen these tentacle beings..."

"Seems to be a new form of Darkspawn," Thom Rainer, once known as Blackwall, said. The Warden motioned to where their former companion's body lay. A tadpole had been inserted into her, and it took only a few days for the form of one of the tentacle beings to come from her body. Killing it was hard, and they didn't know what to do with the body.

"Flying ship," Andy said dryly.

"Still," Thom shrugged.

"First Warden!" a voice shouted. Evka, nearby and half ignoring the banter going around, looked up.

"Report," she said to the scout.

"We got a group of people coming. One looks like an elf, really pale. Then two people with horns? Some sort of Qunari? Then another elf, a yellow-skinned person and a dwarf," he reported. "They seem to know what these things are, heard them call 'em Mind Flayers."

"Let's go meet them," Evka decided.

[rookanisstuff]

Lucanis’s Logbook, 4

Nearing Midnight:

- Reading

If I have lost an hour this night, it is only to Rook. But lost is wrong. It is an hour found. An hour more clear than any other.

[tiiracotta]

There was a lot of loot on that final beach. And also water.

[corviiids]

(persona 5 / persona 5 royal spoilers, part something or other, i dont know)

(i ended up writing a fic about this one but there's no kombucha in it)

can't shut up about goro akechi: phantom thieves team bonding edition

[invinciblerodent]

if you wouldn't drown each other in a spoonful of water for exactly one copper piece, are you even really (half-)siblings

[too-many-lavellans]

Rook thoughts, commence

[manfred-volkarin]

Inner Demons

[savoredsins]

sorry let me just be delusional and pretend i know how elgarnan looks by zooming extra hard on those two screenshots

[amxrany]

!! CHAPTER 7 / DIASOMNIA ARC SPOILERS !!

Going into Vil's dream now lesgoooooo (warning i cannot find a lot for vil's segment for some reason so if i miss a lot of information im so sorry):

So I understand why they released Tapis Rouge before this update, because we are now in The Queen's Film Studio, where Vil tells everyone to look forward to live broadcast of the Diamond Film Awards (this is most likely a reference to another Diamond in-game)

(sheesh new vil outfit again)

But basically yeah Vil's dream is to be the fairest of them all and he got Neige as his assistant 😭

Rook sees that it is indeed Neige, and the group tries to get closer to Vil. But Vil called Grim a stray cat and shooed him away, he's now sad :((

Vil assumes we're paparazzi and tells Neige to throw us out, and we find out that Vil just abuses Neige. So the group tries to convince him to report Vil, but Neige becomes blot and tries to fight the group

(I like their weapon it looks neat)

They defeat Neige but security is now after their ass, and it's revealed that Diamon Film Awards is a type of awards show for actors and that in reality, Neige was the one who won the award. But in this timeline, it's Vil who wants the award. Not understanding how Vil changed, Idia mentions that Malleus's magic allows them to experience happy dreams, and those dreams can also release any resentment you hold deep inside.

We then go to Vil receiving his award, but Rook stops him by telling him his time in NRC, but Vil tells him he doesn't know what he's talking about; and we go through the dizzy-but-is-trying-to-remember-everything segment again. However, the darkness was swallowing Vil up, and we couldn't save him in time because Neige managed to sink him down even further but Rook used his unique magic to follow Vil

So basically this next dream is the "What if Vil succesfully poisoned Neige and won VDC" scenario, we're in the part where Neige actually drank the poisoned apple juice and yknow, dies, and the dwarves are surrounding him crying

Epel uses "Sleep Kiss" to see if there's still a chance in saving him and let's just say it's the most Snow White reference I've ever seen. Oh and Rook is on the verge of breaking down

On stage, Vil's team has won VDC, but Rook and Epel come in to stop Vil by reminding him how he overblotted, and that causes Vil to wake up. Vil is back to normal and he's grateful that Rook and Epel came to save him and Epel said of course, we're your hunter and poisoned apple after all

The darkness comes back again to swallow Vil, but Rook and Epel aren't letting go. But idia orders Ortho to tell Rook and Epel to let Vil go. So you guys remember that one part during the last update where Idia fight his own phantom in OB!Form? Yeah we're doing that too but with Vil.

It's similar to that of the concept of Persona 4, where you learn how to accept yourself, even the ugly parts of yourself. Because Vil decided to use his weakness as his strength and overblotted to fight against his own phantom

MORE EVIL LAUGHTER AS VIL CELEBRATES HIS VICTORY DECLARING THAT HE'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THEM ALL. We are then transported back to the fake event with Dream Neige where Vil tells him that he is indeed the most beautiful of them all (that is so true queen go slay)

Pomefiore all go in for a hug, and the others join in as well

Sebek was surprised that Pomefiore wasn't just all about beauty, but they were really strong as well, and then Idia thought it was funny to show their Absolutely Beautiful cover in which Vil proceeds to ruthlessly criticize them for it 💀

Vil receives his own invitation of deafeating Malleus and that's where the update ends

HOOOO BOY where do i start, this update is so funny it honestly took me forever just to look for parts of Vil's segment. But assuming that we're going backwards the next update will most likely focus on Scarabia so manifesting that we get a Kalim card next so that we can complete the light trio fr fr

Anyways, see you soon in the next update!

Previous: Rook's Dream

[vaguely-concerned]

just for fun this time during 'sea of blood' I counted out all the venatori corpses I think we can be pretty sure were lucanis' handiwork before we show up (not including the ones he kills in his initial cutscene, and with an assumption that he's been at work mainly up and down in the areas we move through until we find him, not behind the locked door -- I think that's mostly the work of rampaging undead and other venatori-hoisted-by-their-own-petard suchlikes). can thus happily inform you lucanis has killed at least 32 venatori before rook and company get there. at least one of them he's impaled on their own weird crystal spike things the venatori mages cast as an AOE attack and that they're trying to keep him contained with when we find him. so he's clearly been keeping busy lol. that's my boy dispensing poetic justice and claiming some enrichment in his enclosure while he's at it good for him!

[mightierthanthecanon]

Solrook + "👍"

[too-many-rooks]

"Right now, River? The mission is you."

'Spook Street', Mick Herron, p. 426

[clairedelune-13]

Why hasn’t anyone made a multiple romance mod yet?

Hurry up so I can romance Emmrich and Lucanis and then Neve doesn’t become a homewrecker.

Everyone wins.

[uniquethingtastemaker]

The Rook x Observant Reader got even longer. I’m not even talking the current word count which is 39k. I’m talking I have more idea to fit in the end so the entire theme of the fanfic is more wholistic. Yes, there are core themes in this like real novels or short stories. There’s even foreshadowing. I intentionally use story structure to enhance the reader’s experience. I make sure that there’s no scenes that are not there for a reason. If I could take it out of the story and it would still make sense, I’ve banished it to the scrap pile.

I have no idea how this happened. I’m as surprised as everyone else. I’ve been in shock for the past 3 hrs.

Some of these things I didn’t even plan until I looked a little closer and analyzed it and went “oh my god! The parallels!” You’ll get it once you read it.

I’m still in shock but I have to share because wtf. I didn’t plan any of this. It just happened and it’s smart

[khayr]

the epilogue of something beautiful (ao3)

Relationship: Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook, Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook/Spite Rating: M (suggestive themes, no explicit smut) Word Count: 6,310 Tags: Grey Warden Rook (Dragon Age), Angst, Hurt/Comfort, But mostly hurt lol, The Calling (Dragon Age), Post-Canon, what if we just ignored that they changed the calling post veilguard, the Bad End fic, Established Relationship, Illario apologist squad

Summary:

“I hear it.” Rook spoke barely in a whisper. When she turned her head to look at him, he could see tears streaking down her cheeks. He pulled himself upright in an instant, his hands automatically going to wipe the tears from her face. Her eyes met his. Lucanis tried to ignore the way Spite buzzed at the back of his skull like an anxious dog. “Hear… what?” There was a distinct possibility he did not truly wish to know the answer. - Every Grey Warden must eventually answer to the Calling. Even Rook.

[kastalor]

rook was always in league with maul. he trusted her way more than he did saxon and that's why he had a plan with her to pick him up with the nightbrother in the siege of mandalore (the gauntlet pilot was voiced by vanessa marshall same as rook) while telling saxon to piss off and die