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the attempted mod i mentioned in which i tried to give lucanis varric's shirt + chest hair

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OP thank you for this set of screenshots, which inspired—and then served as the Rosetta Stone for—a maximum-pain Tearstone two-shot. You have my eternal gratitude 🙏🏻

(it's here)

so i managed to save edit my way into getting lucanis' romance scene to trigger and did some flycam shenanigans and discovered something

so usually with game cutscenes, all the characters involved will be loaded into that scene from the beginning but some would be hidden away off camera until they're meant to appear, and i thought maybe that's what was happening outside rook's room and that he'll just suddenly appear inside

but it turns out he's actually animated to stand there before he physically opens the door to enter (the door itself however is not animated to open and so he phases through it, although we do hear the sound effect of the door closing behind him)

and we know he has the line "i cannot believe we found you" but what we don't get to see is that disbelief on his face before he says it while he's entering the room

and then it cuts to when he is on camera and we see the weary teary eyed smile he gives to rook after he's made his presence known

and i know a lot of people like to headcanon that he's ended up in rook's room while they're gone at least once, either through his own intentions or spite's possession, and i think having this expression of disbelief as he walks in and sees rook is actually there this time supports it

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I’m supposed to be writing, have some memes instead

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Assassin 💜

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Memeguard dump

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here’s two pictures of viago for good luck

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My 5’7 boyfriend wants to be taller than me sooooooo bad…….king, get down. you’re stepping on that nice lady

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so my first veilguard playthrough i picked coffee as Rook's favorite drink because 1) i do like coffee and 2) i'm an agreeable bitch, but picking tea or hot chocolate is soooo much better and for two completely different reasons like— TEA: lucanis ACTIVELY is like "EUUGHH" when you choose this which is SO funny. like we BARELY know each other and he's basically like: "alright you ill-bred tasteless freak, i'll get you some boring ass herb water."

and THEN this makes his unique gift of an antivan tea set all the more amusing because instead of it just, not making sense, its like "HERE'S A FANCY ANTIVAN TEA SET BITCH" and he's like "for me?" and we're like "YEAH it's for you. EDUCATE YOURSELF. 😎🍵"

and then its so SO much sweeter when he actually makes you a whole dinner and dessert based around a drink that he probably spent the whole game researching???? my heart.......my sweet acts-of-service-ass boyfriend.......i love him

HOT CHOCOLATE: first off i love rook as a hot choccie ass bitch. but also its so sweet when he's like "oh yeah, I really liked that as a kid actually" and then later in a banter with emmrich when you learn that lucanis basically learned to cook solely because he really fucking loved churros and wanted to learn how to make them????? UHGHhhhhh......my heaort........and then he makes them for us, probably the first silly little recipe he ever mastered..........ouuuuuugghhh...........

send help i'm experiencing emotions about a beverages and a fake man

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besties please allow me to bestow upon you this baby Taash /Lucanis scene that tragically didn't make it into my rookanis fic.

i'm just so fond of these two together—i can feel the autism spectrum glowing every time they talk to each other and it warms my miserable little heart. (taash's pronouns / gendered descriptions reflect the point in the game ofc)

Upon returning from a two-day mission in Arlathan forest, Lucanis opened the door to the pantry to find a Qunari woman leaning against the shelf reading his Fade-manifested copy of The Joyous Wyvern.  She didn’t look up from the book as he entered. “You guys are out of hot sauce,” she said. Lucanis frowned at the stranger, hand hovering over his blade. Not waiting for him to respond, she said, “I don’t get it—why would a kid want to read a book about wyverns when dragons exist?” “I…” Lucanis closed his eyes and shook his head. “Sorry, who are you?” “Taash,” she said, as if that explained it. She shut the book and inspected the cover. “What’s the point of having wings on your legs if you can’t even fly?” “Wyverns can glide quite efficiently,” Lucanis said. “That’s just less cool than flying.” Taash placed the book back on the shelf and folded her arms. “Plus, dragons are smarter. Way smarter.” “Ah,” Lucanis said, the puzzle pieces finally snapping into place. “You are our new dragon hunter.” “Yep,” she said. “You’re Lucanis, right? Rook says you’re a big deal in the Antivan Crows.” Lucanis sighed. “She exaggerates, but yes. That is me.” “You guys really wear those skimpy leather jumpsuits and the capes with all the feathers and shit?” “If the occasion calls for it, yes.” “Cool. I used to want to be a Crow when I was a kid.” “I wanted to be a wyvern.” Taash snorted. “Dumb choice. Should’ve picked dragon.”

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was hoping i would finally get this done before leaving for this vacation, but i AM in the home stretch. all the lines for the background are done at the very least

bon appetit mon freres

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"aww is the rook scared of heights?"

"shut it"

rook has some great idling animations when standing near the precipice. bonus points cuz i caught lucanis smirking

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Wicked hearts and wicked eyes

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'i believe it's true 'cause nothing matters when i'm all wrapped up in you'

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Tracing Names in Ash

A (complete) post-Tearstone Island twoshot

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

Rating: M

Relationship: Rookanis

Words: 4,799

Warnings: Descriptions of canon-typical violence, heavy angst, dissociation

Summary: The sky is bloody, and this is not something anyone can solve with knives. He’d seen this. He’d known. He’d said, “Don’t make promises you might not keep.” The rising wind had moaned in his ears.

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Lucanis goes to her as the rest scatter like leaves, the broken tension blowing each of them to their own preparations. Rook turns as light as a dancer at his fingers on her arm. It is the first time they have touched since Tearstone, and his skin burns against the fabric of her filthy sleeve. Spite’s a physical need clenching in his hands and a frisson clawing its way up his spine. There is too much he—they—he wants in this moment. He wants to weep, and hold her, and scream, maybe not in that order, maybe all at once. He wants to say—the bright thing—anything, everything. He opens his mouth. The words that come out are, “Are you alright?”  The disgust that surges through him is equal parts his own and his demon's, but he can't find anything else to say.  Rook looks at him for a long, thrumming moment out from her baleful mask. Her eyes are less rain-washed sky than they are chips of glazed tile: flat and dead under their shine, more than weary or mourning. Then she grins. It is an awful thing. “I can collapse when this is over,” she says easily. 

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♚ Cullen Rutherford