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one think i've been thinking about recently is that the first time you go get coffee with Lucanis, freshly freed, he's in his armour. the second time, he's in his casual clothes

after what mary kirby said about lucanis never being relaxed it really highlighted the change... when you go the second time, he's out and about in treviso, but he's in his casual clothes. he's not in armour. he feels relaxed enough to do that, now. he feels safe with spite, and safe around rook.

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I heard Lucanis appreciation week is upon us

(@datvcompanionweeks)

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just lucanis being unnecessarily handsome.

that's it. that's the post.

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The hidden areas of the Lighthouse make me laugh because I just imagine Rook getting up there and companions seeing them and losing their shit. "Rook, how the hell." Bellara looking up and seeing Rook at the library balcony like "???"

Davrin walking behind his house and seeing Rook on the floating building and going "Rook get the FUCK down." Can't leave Rook unsupervised for five minutes

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do you ever think about the first time lucanis' heart fluttered at the sight of rook? perhaps it was during battle with a well executed move. or rook running their fingers through their hair after accomplishing a difficult task. or when they're on clean up duty after dinner and they're washing and drying stood side by side and he gets a glimpse of rooks smile while they're telling a story. or the first time he saw their eyes and remembered what kindness looked like after so long in the ossuary.

i think about it a lot

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This has to be canon

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What I love most about Emmrich is the very heart of him: his softness.

He is tender in a world that tells men to be anything but. A gentle soul, kind and thoughtful, with a mind as rich as his heart is open. He honors the living, and he reveres the dead. He is sweet without irony, sentimental without shame. A romantic in the truest, quietest sense. He loves fully, without condition or calculation.

Emmrich wears his heart not just on his sleeve, but in everything he does.

He is an orphan who built a family from the idea of home and a pile of bones, who chose love and warmth when the world gave him none. He is what we’ve been starved of in stories for too long: a male character allowed to be openly affectionate, unguarded, kind. A soft man cast as a love interest, not despite his gentleness, but because of it.

He’s not brooding in a corner, growling threats, or pinning someone to a wall with a smirk and a “kitten.”

He’s knitting a scarf to keep Rook’s neck warm in winter. He’s making tea. He’s listening.

Once more, and this matters: he is soft. He pines, he longs, he yearns, he picks flowers.

And we need more men like him in fiction, because we need more kindness in the world.

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Lucanis sleeps with the wyvern tooth Rook gifted him

He already 'slept' with knives anyway, he reasons to himself. There's nothing behind how he grips the hilt of it like a lifeline while he rests. Knowing that whenever he closes his eyes, however briefly, that weight and the memory of how it got there will help him to settle. And also stab anything unwanted that comes through the pantry door

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Something that really stuck with me while I was playing Mass Effect 2, and that I feel was so important to understanding the relationship between Shepard and Garrus, whether you romance him or not, is that Garrus is your only companion from ME1 who never moved on.

You died. The crew watched you die. Assumedly they grieved you, there was a funeral service, there were tears and all five stages of grief. Things were rough, but eventually life took on a shade of normalcy again.

Kaiden/Ashley got reassigned and continued their work for the alliance. Liara fights tooth and nail to get your body to Cerberus, but then it’s out of her hands and she becomes an information broker. Tali goes back to the Floatilla, like she was always supposed to. Wrex becomes a clan leader. And yes, they’re all fundamentally changed by their time on the Normandy, but no one seems as stuck as Garrus Vakarian.

Because he doesn’t go back to the Citadel. He doesn’t join the Turian Hierarchy. He ships himself off to Omega, one of the most dangerous places he could be, and makes a life out of pissing off the most dangerous people there. It’s kind of a suicide mission, especially after what happened with Sidonis. He kind of figures he’s going to die doing this, but what else can he do?

There is no normalcy for Garrus in a world without Shepard, and I think that’s why he’s always immediately ready to come back to the Normandy. The Normandy, and Shepard, are home for Garrus and that’s why I think romancing him feels like the natural conclusion for so many femme Sheps, because Shepard feels that way too.

Of all the companions, no one needs Shepard to live more than Garrus, and no one needs Garrus more than Shepard. They’re perfectly matched, as lovers, as friends, as soldiers, as whatever they are in your universe and when you’re that perfectly matched with someone, you never quite feel whole without them.

No Shepard without Vakarian.

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Nothing itches my brain more than Spite getting pissed at Solas at the end, like, YESSSSS buddy, we love you, fuck that guy❤️

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Xavier girlies...How are you all feeling?😭

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is it just me or do the companion skills kinda come into frame more clearly as themes when they're being romanced. or even platonically too

davrin reaches for you, he and assan bring things down from great heights. he grounds you, opening the way, taking down obstacles in both your paths. his inner harmony is what guides the way in helping those he loves most

lace moves aside the obstacles, breaks down walls, lifts you up, tackles the immoveable and is your sure, steady rock. it doesn't come naturally to her, at first - until it does

taash ignites something in you. they'll blast through anything to find you, create a flame that burns bright, their light illuminates the way. this is what they were made for

lucanis needs help, at first. he doesn't know how to approach this, how to help you. but spite does - he builds bridges. he pulls from the fade and fills the gaps, and together they give you something solid to help you cross the chasm

emmrich soothes. he placates and soothes and talks with tenderness and kindness, he uses his words and his vast breadth of knowledge to display his love for you

neve untangles the delicate threads that hold you bound. she makes you feel solid when needed, she makes you melt otherwise. if there's an answer out there, she'll find it

bellara fixes. she knows the problem with a single look, and she gets to work - nothing broken is broken forever, and it's almost instinctual how she helps find the solution needed

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Rook: So Lucanis, has Spite always looked like you? Or was he just reflecting you in your mind?

Lucanis: In the beginning, no. Over time he molded himself to look like me. Why do you ask?

Rook: Well if you're my handsome man, then in turn so is Spite. Because you two are the same

Lucanis: Rook, you don't have to entertain him.

Spite!Lucanis: Yes! Handsome! Handsome man for Rook!

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I do think it's incredible that every scene after Murder of Crows has Lucanis walking towards/reaching out towards Rook instead of the other way around

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gale's reaction to mystra telling him to blow himself up is obviously heartbreaking but on the other hand it is deeply DEEPLY hilarious when Gale, Learned professor of renown, is like "if there was another way to defeat the absolute don't you think the goddess of magic would have thought of it" and the band of badly socialized half-feral murder children he's running with just go "well maybe the goddess of magic is stupid, gale"

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