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actually solas loves cock its in datamined files. he says this. he says "god i wish i could swallow a fat one rn" and then he does. it was meant to be a secret ending

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Things Solas does that show Rook he loves them:

Make sure to come up with creative new ways to ridicule them. Rook only deserves the best, so this really gives Solas the means to show he's thoughtful and attentive.

Lock Rook up in a prison to protect them. This way he knows Rook is safe and sound and not getting in his way hurt.

Lie to them. He knows the truth would hurt Rook, and he can't have that. So lying makes sure Rook stays blissful unaware, because that means they're cooperative happy.

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thoughts of a solrook situationship nature... a kind of repulsive/magnetic attraction to each other... this mortal reminds you of all the good things you once tried to be and it pisses you off to the point of fascination... this ancient being is stuck in your head and it should be infuriating but he's so sad and so guilt-ridden and he pulls you in the second he opens his mouth... dancing around that white-hot little pulse of the something between them... the verbal jabs and the teasing and the "and i suppose i had you" and the betrayal and the "part of me was excited about proving myself to the dread wolf" and oh my g o d

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reblog if you don't mind being tagged in tag games even if you're not a mutual

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i'm sexually interested in whatever's wrong with you

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baby i could treat you so good you just have to get past my strange and off-putting demeanor and my kubrick stare and my inability to behave like a human and the 40 layers of icy fortress walls i have up and answer my riddles three

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fucking jumpscared by dragon age 2 on CW SUPERNATURAL

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genuinely something so delightful about getting obsessed with your own characters. what do you MEAN I can turn my headcanons for my characters into Official Real Lore. that's so fucking cool are you serious

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I love when a character wants to be someone's dog so so bad. Dont mean it in a sexual way (although that can also be a part of it) I mean like. Let me be your loyal companion let me stay by your side give me a purpose in exchange for endless unconditional love let me stop being a person love me like it's my only use. Love me like that's the only thing I was made for. As you can tell. I'm normal.

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She would not fucking say that. Yes she said that in canon, but I perceive a greater truth unaffected by her writer's misogyny

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do it scared. do it whimpering. do it whining and pleading. do it with a raging hard-on

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ZEVWARDEN WEEK IS BACK!!!

What is it? ZevWarden week is a prompted week event to celebrate Zevran Arainai and his beloved Warden. We will be sharing newly created fan works during the event! Please keep in mind this event is 18+! When is it? In 2025 ZevWarden week will be in August, 17th-23rd! How to participate: You can follow the daily prompts for inspiration or post new ZevWarden content! We will be reblogging all kinds of fan works: fics, art, edits, gifs, meta - anything goes! Please remember to properly tag your post, including nsfw, content warnings, and trigger warnings. Tag your content with #zevwarden week 2025 or tag @zevraholics on your post and we will reblog it!

If you're not sure what to tag, here's a link to what we tag for!

*Note: Any art, edits, etc. found to be whitewashing Zevran will not be shared.

Here are this year's prompts (full descriptions under the read more):

Sunday, August 17: Wealth, gold, relationship with money

Monday, August 18: Family, legacy, etc

Tuesday, August 19: Bondage, bdsm

Wednesday, August 20: Loyalty

Thursday, August 21: Purpose

Friday, August 22: Growth, reform

Saturday, August 23: Favorite features

Day 1 - Sunday, August 17 - Wealth, gold, relationship with money

"Ahh, an untouched treasure! What wonders await us here?"

How well-off are Zev and the warden after the Blight? Do they come across any trove of wealth or do they live modestly? What is their relationship to money? Do they pamper each other? What is your HC for the Warden giving Zev the bars of gold we see in canon?

Day 2 - Monday, August 18 - Family, legacy

"And what of family? Of children? Life does not begin and end with yourself."

What are their thoughts on children? Do Zev and the warden ever have or adopt any of their own? If so, what kind of parents are they? If not, are they ever around other people's children? 

Day 3 - Tuesday, August 19 - Bondage, BDSM

"Are you sure you do not wish to tie me up? Not even a little?"

Do you HC Zev as saying such things as flippant jokes or as real interest and desire? Do Zev and the warden get up to any kinds of kink? What are their preferences in that department? How do they develop that kind of intimate relationship? 

Day 4 - Wednesday, August 20 - Loyalty

"I am a very loyal person. Up until the point where someone expects me to die for failing."

Was Zev loyal to the warden from the very moment he promised to help them, or does that loyalty develop with time? Is that loyalty ever tested? What about the other way around? Is the warden loyal to Zev from the start, or are they suspicious of him at first? If so, when does that change?

Day 5 - Thursday, August 21 - Purpose

"What we are doing here...stopping the Blight. I cannot think of anything i have ever done which is so worthy."

At what point does Zev start thinking that what they're doing is truly worthwhile? In what ways aside from fighting does he support the warden through such an insurmountable task? How does he feel, when it's all over? Does he recognise the part he played or does he see himself as a sidekick?

Day 6 - Friday, August 22 - Growth, reform

"My name is Zevran Arainai, adventurer and occasional assassin."

When does Zev go from calling himself an Antivan Crow to seeing himself as an adventurer? What does ‘occasional assassin’ look like in your HCs? What contracts does he still take? Do Zev and the warden adventure together or do they keep a long distance relationship while the warden runs Vigil’s Keep and he travels?

Day 7 - Saturday August 23 - Favorite features

"He didn't say how handsome" "Oh, so you've noticed! I credit my high cheekbones and pouty lips."

What are the features and traits, physical or not, that they each love the most about the other? How do they express that admiration? What do they like the most about themselves? Are they both confident, or are there hidden or obvious insecurities?

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"solrook doesnt have any of the chemistry solavellan has" bestie. rook and lavellan aren't actual characters. you realize this right. no one has chemistry with your character you made it up. bestie. bestie it's a roleplaying game.

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Next Dreadrook Event?

Hey there, Dreadrook and Solrook nation, and all you unaffiliated lovers of this endlessly frustrating, intriguing pair!

We are preparing for the last Dreadrook event of the year (highlighted because next year we'll have events again, don't fret), and this time we decided to ask all of you what you'd love to be a part of most.

Choose your poison treat!

Follow us for updates on the event that will win the race and for the eventual surprises we have in store, because yes, there's more! 😏

*And as always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to DM us!

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on solavellans against dreadrook

i'm a yapper i fear, so i'll try to organise this with extra information in a sort of footnote system and shit. also, please keep in mind that i'm writing this as a person who is a solavellan first and a dreadrook second. i love solavellan and my lavellan is my favourite oc of all time. not that it matters, but since some of you love pushing the ship war idea, i thought i'd mention it.

there's this one post [1] that's currently going around on tumblr that seems to have been written without malice by the op, but the reblogs have been hijacked by batshit solavellans who, for some reason, feel personally targeted by the dreadrook ship even existing in the first place.

i'd also like to point out that none of these people seem to understand what a crack ship actually is, so let's start there:

A crack ship is a ship that is highly ridiculous, bizarre, disturbing, and/or unlikely to ever become canon. The characters don't have any chemistry, never interact, are in different canons or timelines, are different species, one is an inanimate object, etc. via fanlore.org

you might not find the ship appealing, and your headcanon of solas might not give rook the time of day, but these are factors entirely conditional to you and your imagination. calling it a "crack ship" just because you don't like it and can't see it happening in your own hc is flat out bad fandom etiquette.

especially since, when you strip dreadrook to the bone, the ship comes down to this:

protagonist with antagonist [2] stuck in their head (have none of you played cyberpunk??? silverv??? come on!!!)

enemies to reluctant allies to lovers (whether this is hero falls in love and is convinced by villain [2] to join their cause or vice versa)

some will graham/hannibal lecter type of love

literally just basic, classic enemies to lovers

why are some of you acting like this is the craziest most outrageous thing you've ever heard of? like its very existence is offensive to you? like your lavellan is being dragged to the cuck chair against her will? i think it should be obvious to pretty much anyone that dreadrook is not a crackship.

and yet, posts like the one i'm referencing at the beginning cross my dash all the time, saying all kinds of weird bullshit like dreadrooks having "an amusing illness", "delusions", some kind of agenda, or "a need" to do this or that when all it is is just. shipping two fictional characters. two fictional characters whom a developer admitted to having chemistry [3]. i don't know how to say this without sounding patronising, but you need to calm the fuck down.

this obsessive aversion to dreadrook is so odd to me, because i cannot to save my life figure out where it's coming from. is it feeling possessive of solas? is it the same homophobia that fuelled the m!lavellan x solas insanity? is it misdirected anger at the game bc it didn't turn out the way you'd hoped? because you're angry with people who dare to enjoy something you hate and feel let down by? because you're bald and you're torturing people who have hair?

i genuinely don't know, because it doesn't make any sense to me. why do other people have to respect your feelings about your headcanon? why is your loudest response to someone having a different opinion than you to assume that you're being attacked? why do you insist that you and your perfectly popular ship is being attacked?

in case you weren't aware; there are plenty of dreadrook shippers whose inquisitors had nothing to do with solas at all, and who don't have solavellan as a part of their hc. this is going to sound harsh, but again, i don't know how else to say it: dragon age is so much more than just solavellan, and the fandom doesn't revolve around you. it doesn't revolve around praising you, and it doesn't revolve around tearing you down. people shipping the pixel man with someone you wouldn't ship him with should not warrant this weird and obsessive anger from you.

i am incredibly tired of this narrative, especially because this reputation of people shipping dreadrook either out of spite or because they hate solavellan is so untrue. i am especially tired of it because i suspect this reputation is based off of the actions of one (1) insane and weird person months ago who, by the way, has been thoroughly disowned by the dreadrook community [4]. me and my beloved oomfs did not fight that person tooth and nail about their misogyny and entitlement and hatred and weird self-proclaimed "essays" just to be continuously smeared by their shit. i cannot explain to you how frustrating it is.

i'm not making this post because i want to stir up some kind of fight. i'm also aware that the solavellans who do participate in this behaviour and in these conversations are nothing but a loud minority, and i'm also aware that i should not let it bother me at all. i'm just so sick of seeing it because i've never seen anything like it anywhere else (except for the fucking one direction fandom about larry stylinson, which.... is not a good look for y'all), and i don't see any other so-called "crack ship" [5] be treated with the same venom as dreadrook. it's weird and i wish you would spend your time in this fandom looking for and creating joy and fun instead of this.

"footnotes"

[1] i don't want anyone to go bug anyone on that post, especially not the op. it's simply an example picked out of an ocean to demonstrate the type of discourse that always seems to be circling this ship.

[2] idc about how you personally perceive solas' role in dav, i'm basing this entirely off of what happens in-game. i'm a veilfall enthusiast let go of my hair

[3] i do not give a fuck if you completely disregard that ama. i understand why you would. corinne still said what they said, whether you agree with it or not.

[4] yes, i am in fact talking about dirthavhen, who would post long weird essays that were anti-solavellan and misogynistic and aggressive as hell for no apparent reason. i know my moots and i have been accused of scapegoating as well lmao but i can't exactly prove any of this to you, so think what you will. you'll have to take this and my word for it i fear.

[5] by that i mean other ships that meet the same criteria as dreadrook, ergo: no canon option for romance. other dragon age ships that meet this criteria include: rook x any npc, inquisitor x any npc, hawke x any npc (yes, that includes varric) and so forth. npc x npc too. lots of "crack ships" out here all of a sudden, huh?

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big fan of a character seeking comfort in the arms of the thing that’s going to kill them. and i am psycologicalily normal too.