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broke: everyone calls Hawke by surname bc the game can't get people to say your custom name

woke: nobody in Kirkwall knows Hawke's first name

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Just losing my mind at the implications that the companions have all been trying to help Rook grieve Varric, and Rook doesn’t know

Emmrich, wise and long-familiar with grief, being told by Neve and Harding what happened; understanding why sometimes he overhears Rook’s muffled voice in the Infirmary, talking to no one. He takes Rook to the Memorial Gardens and mentions he talks to his parents, thinking Rook might be comfortable with the same. Rook lights candles and rings bells but Emmrich watches, sorrowed, to see Rook still seems in deep denial.

Neve takes Rook to the Wall of Light; a Shadow Dragon Rook knows just what this means but any Rook can understand the solemnity, the power of remembrance. Neve reenergizes Brom’s light and looks to Rook, hoping Rook will mention wanting to make one for Varric. Rook is kind and comforting to Neve, but Neve is lost in wondering why Rook doesn’t take the chance to open up. She can’t figure it. Maybe Rook just can’t face it, not yet. Maybe Rook does something privately. She isn’t sure but it nags at her.

Davrin’s not big on talking about feelings. He’d rather just move on. But he sees the way Rook seems a little hollow sometimes, a little distant; he sees how Rook takes so quickly to Assan. “Hey Rook,” he says, and invites them to come with him and Assan to safe places in Arlathan, where the woods are clean and green and growing, where real sunlight dapples through the trees. Rook always seems to love these outings, seems lighter afterwards. But Davrin feels a little confused in that Rook never seems to realize the outings are mostly for them.

Taash is another person not big on feelings. But they know how much feelings can twist you up and mess with your head. When Lace tells them about Varric they feel badly for Rook, and think to how they feel when they’re struggling. Epic fights, dragon fights, drinks with the Lords. Taash is perfectly capable of doing all that on their own. But maybe bringing Rook along will help get them out of their head a little bit. Does it help? Taash isn’t sure.

Bellara’s double-versed in grief after what happens to Cyrian. Rook helped her through trying to reach him, and Bellara wonders, in her own pain, if she can help Rook a little bit too. Especially if Rook is elven, teaching Rook about the braziers and the challenges is another tool she can share about her or their people, another way that might help Rook with their grief. Neve’s told her that the Wall of Light didn’t seem to help Rook much, but maybe a different funeral tradition could help them instead. Rook helps her light the braziers and Bellara feels her heart lightening, though she wonders at Rook, who seems more moved by Bellara’s reactions than anything else.

Lucanis is nearly as allergic to dealing with feelings as Davrin is, but he immediately clocks how Neve and Harding are acting, and asks what happened before he joined them. They tell him about Varric and that they’re worried about Rook, that Rook seems to just be shoving those feelings down without dealing with them. Lucanis is no stranger to that, but while it’s fine for him, he doesn’t want to see someone who risked their life to save him share that struggle. He brings Rook to Caterina’s funeral planning to show Rook it’s okay to admit the loss and honor it. When that doesn’t seem to make a dent, he falls back to his standard - lavish meals, small gifts, coffee. He knows it would help him. He just wishes it helped Rook too.

Lace hurts the worst after losing Varric and Lace is where Solas’ magic comes the closest to faltering. Rook can see Lace is down, she’s quiet, she’s afraid after what happens with the gods escaping; but Solas’ magic holds and Rook can still never see quite why. Lace would love to sit over drinks one night and share stories about Varric, but she sees that Rook doesn’t seem ready, and she doesn’t want to push. Instead she writes letters to Ma, to the Inquisitor, to Cassandra, to Aveline, maybe even to Hawke. She writes out her stories with Varric’s old quill and she carries a bolt of Bianca with her. A dozen times she goes to talk to Rook about him, and when she tries Rook turns away or changes the subject. It hurts, but Lace knows she can’t make Rook talk about him, and she hopes in time it will get better.

This just absolutely crushes me the more I think about it 😭

Edit: Varric’s death is Rook’s personal companion quest every other single companion tries to help them with, and can’t 😭😭😭

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Veilguard Companions + Rook, don't.

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When I tell you I’d rip open the Fade for Emmrich.

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Fuck, it’s been a while since I’ve done these.

Berk. Dalish companion. Certified idiot. Dragon Age roleplayer.

Rping for way too long, but I always come back for more. Official account is gradient-ravens.

Not super selective. Semi-active.

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SENTENCE STARTERS | DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION

❝Darkness closes in. Will you stand against it, or lead this world to its bitter end?❞ ❝Deer should not bend that way…❞ ❝So, listen, I’ve caught the hints. I get what you’re saying. You want to ride the Bull.❞ ❝How does compassion become such a deadly killer?❞ ❝Okay, that’s BADASS!❞ ❝Ah, the wilds. Lush, beautiful, and full of things that want to eat you!❞ ❝Bow before your new God, and be spared.❞ ❝Where do you get all your arrows? You must have hundreds!❞ ❝We’re going to restore order, with or without anyone’s approval.❞ ❝Are you ashamed of your given name?❞ ❝You’d be surprised what a man armed with a rock and a headache can do.❞ ❝I just don’t understand why your people choose to look like that.❞ ❝The big demon? It’s nearby? Well, shit.❞ ❝Ah, I was wondering when the demon army would show up.❞ ❝I will not suffer even an unknown rival. You must die!❞ ❝You stared it down. You actually stared it down.❞ ❝The eyes of the entire court are upon you. Don’t forget to smile.❞ ❝You killed everyone who was in charge!❞ ❝I came here to stop you. Nothing more.❞ ❝Is that all you’ve got?! I lived through war, you pieces of shit!❞ ❝You answered the death of your clan… with a goat?❞ ❝You! I told you to stop spying!❞ ❝Hush. Just look pretty.❞ ❝Did you just grab my bottom!?❞ ❝I don’t want to have to watch your walk of shame back to the barracks…❞ ❝You’re never more alive than when you’re about to lose your pants, my friend.❞ ❝I need to have words with you. The first will be “you” and the second will be “bastard”!❞ ❝Just how much gold are you stealing from me?❞ ❝Is that all you’ve got?! I’ve heard worse from ____!❞ ❝See? This is what manners look like!❞ ❝Everything that happens to you is weird…❞ ❝I don’t kill that many people…❞ ❝Are you joking? I’m only surprised you didn’t kill someone walking over here.❞ ❝Are you sassing me~? I didn’t think you had it in you!❞ ❝I’m sure nobody at the party would mind if you and I went missing for an hour.❞ ❝You have any idea how much this place is worth?❞ ❝Are you going to put me into any of your stories?❞ ❝Look, it’s a natural thing to be curious about!❞ ❝Do you feel that? My magic-sensitive nose is tingling.❞ ❝Just once, we should enter a cave and find normal sized spiders!❞ ❝Why do this? Why risk everything we’ve built? Why risk your life?❞ ❝Maybe I shouldn’t bring this up, but bears and I traditionally don’t get along.❞ ❝Look, I have to complain, or you’ll forget I’m here and trip over me! I’m providing a service.❞ ❝You may be a weird squirrelly kid, but you’re my weird squirrelly kid.❞ ❝My love… I will never forget you.❞ ❝Nearly crushed three of my ribs with that ridiculous hug…❞ ❝It’s dangerous when too many men in the same armor think they’re right.❞ ❝This is what I am. A murderer, a traitor… a monster.❞ ❝Whatever happens, I wouldn’t trade the years we’ve had together for anything. I love you.❞ ❝Our people aren’t tools to be used and discarded.❞ ❝At this moment, you are the only threat I see.❞ ❝Sometimes the best path is not the easiest one…❞ ❝You might want to watch yourself, it’s raining demons out here.❞ ❝What kind of viscount would I be if I didn’t abuse my position to give shit to my friends?❞ ❝Nothing creepy about a bunch of old abandoned caves. Nothing creepy at all.❞ ❝If you ever need an ass kicked, I’m with you.❞ ❝I’m here to set things right. Also? To look dashing. That part’s less difficult.❞ ❝At any rate, time to drink myself into a stupor. It’s been that sort of day.❞ ❝Watch yourself. The pretty ones are always the worst.❞ ❝For all your experience, you don’t carry yourself like a soldier.❞ ❝Sometimes to achieve the world one desires, one must take regrettable measures.❞ ❝I hope you can take care of yourself, should we encounter anything outside your experience.❞

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various starters

❛  you’re a weapon and weapons don’t weep.  ❜

❛  hurt me once, I’ll kill you twice.  ❜

❛  never trust a survivor until you learn what they did to stay alive.  ❜

❛  death is the only god that comes when you call.  ❜

❛  I am teeth. I am royal. you are nothing to me.  ❜

❛  the sun will rise and we will try again.  ❜

❛  we’re just kids. we aren’t supposed to be heroes.  ❜

❛  I like my women like I like my Absinthe: bitter and intoxicating.  ❜

❛  what doesn’t kill me better run.  ❜

❛  she wasn’t looking for a knight. she was looking for a sword.  ❜

❛  don’t dehumanize bad people, because it’s their humanity which makes what they’ve done so terrifying.  ❜

❛  she isn’t just pretty. she is otherworldly and vaguely threatening.  ❜

❛  magic is not good or evil. is a knife evil? only if the wielder is.  ❜

❛  I don’t want your crown. see, I’ve come to burn your kingdom down.  ❜

❛  they broke my wings. they forgot I have claws.  ❜

❛  all that blood was never beautiful, it was just red.  ❜

❛  what do you do when there’s no hero in the story? simple. you kill the monster and crown yourself.  ❜

❛  how terrible it is, to love something that death can touch.  ❜

❛  you may not be interested in war, but it is interested in you.  ❜

❛  I feel divinity in my bones like aching. like fire.  ❜

❛  you make me feel and I don’t like it. I want it to stop. now.  ❜

❛  you are losing my interest and that is very dangerous.  ❜

❛  she will burn your kingdoms down, herself with it, if it means your ruin.  ❜

❛  it’s okay to be scared. it means your about to do something brave.  ❜

❛  she looks like divine absolution.  ❜

❛  I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find and impossible to forget.  ❜

❛  be careful with words. they can be forgive, but never forgotten.  ❜

❛  you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself.  ❜

❛  I’m tired of fighting. for once, I want to be fought for.  ❜

❛  never run back to what broke you.  ❜

❛  I was quite, but not blind.  ❜

❛  your gut knows what’s up. trust that bitch.  ❜

❛  we all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.  ❜

❛  do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.  ❜

❛  I’m just a girl, standing in front of a salad, wishing it was a donut.  ❜

❛  you can miss something but not want it back.  ❜

❛  you can’t save people, you can only love them.  ❜

❛  I came, I saw, I made it awkward.  ❜

❛  we buy shite we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like.  ❜

❛  you’re always one decision away from a different life.  ❜

❛  my brain has too many tabs open.  ❜

❛  I’m not saying I hate you, just that you’re like the Monday of people.  ❜

❛  there’s no ‘we’ in fries.  ❜

❛  apology accepted, trust denied.  ❜

❛  death and I have been scandalously intimate for some time now.  ❜

❛  life happens. coffee helps.  ❜

❛  I am mine before I am ever anyone else’s.  ❜

❛  I rely a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony.  ❜

❛  very early in my life it was already too late.  ❜

❛  is that a threat or are you flirting with me.  ❜

❛  was the use of force necessary in completing your objectives?  ❜

❛  I’ll let you drag me to hell if it means you’ll hold my hand.  ❜

❛  I do bad things, and I do them very well.  ❜

❛  you drink too much, you cuss too much and you have questionable morals. you’re everything I ever wanted.  ❜

❛  they will kill you, but first they will have to catch you.  ❜

❛  drugs might kill you but they’ll never break your heart.  ❜

❛  good girls are just bad girls that haven’t been caught.  ❜

❛  a pretty face doesn’t guarantee a pretty heart.  ❜

❛  no airbag, we die like men.  ❜

❛  true evil is, above all, seductive.  ❜

❛  it takes more courage to suffer than to die.  ❜

❛  you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. but the wolf? he only needs enough luck to catch you once.  ❜

❛  justice is vengeance in prettier packaging.  ❜

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the drowning will never not be funny. to me

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this would work on me.

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Continuing my tradition of putting glasses on my favorite fictional characters 🤓 Emmrich is looking extra professorial!

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Came for Lucanis

Stayed for Emmrich

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Evgeni Tcherkasski

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My husband sends me articles about Veilguard (after skimming through it so he doesn’t accidentally send me a spoiler) and sent me one about no spiders in Veilguard which thank fuck.

He knew through his phone what he was going to receive while at work and was presented a multi paragraph explanation on how it’s probably possible of them getting around this lore wise.

No, he did not ask follow up questions. Yes, he is fully aware that he married an absolute nerd.

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Li refused to give Solas the satisfaction of knowing that he was right. That they hadn’t thought it through-- except they had. Countless sleepless nights, the obsession bordering on mania, had all surmounted to this-- their blade stuck beneath his armor. “No one,” Li’s words were terse, their breath almost ragged with determination, as they twisted the blade where it lay sunk between flesh and armor.  “Has ever been fully on my side--” Not their Keeper, Not their Advisors, Not even the half-elf templar whose bed they’d fallen into til he’d taken the last of their heart with his disappearance. “Why should she be any different?” With a grunt of effort, Li tugged the blade from the other elf-- sparing a thought to mourn that it wasn’t serrated, but enough damage had been done-- and raising their arm to strike again. “I have never hidden the fact that I want you dead-- that I’ll see your last breath or die trying. What’s one more broken heart in a world you refuse  to see the good in? If she never forgives me, kills me, then--” the faintest hint of a shrug. “Then it’s fine-- because the rest of the world gets to live. Gets their chance to-- have families, love someone, fix things without killing everyone. Who are you to say their lives aren’t worth living!?”

Solas grabbed at his side letting out a yell as the knife was removed. It was obvious that any time he took even a small breath that it bit at his lungs. A small sliver of fear had crossed his face for a moment before returning to the neutral as he stared at Li's face then at their raised arm.

"i'm the fucking Dreadwolf."

It was said between clenched teeth. In that moment, silver flashed over his eyes before his body disappeared in a small puff in smoke. All that was left was a small statue of a wolf with a symbol carved in the bottom.

Berk had went to swing her own staff again, but couldn't stop as he disappeared. A blaze of fire shot out going over the balcony as cuss words fell from her mouth. Dropping the staff, she looked over at Li seeing if there was any injuries on them before jogging over and grabbing the raised wrist ignoring the statue completely. The grab was gentle enough to break out of, but also firm as to make sure neither of them got hurt.

"Li! Are you ok?" Her face was worried as she looked down at the Inquisitor.

“Li.”

It was a curt sound coming from a soldier’s mouth. They stepped forward to them shyly being new to the Inquisition and put a letter in front of them.

On the front was just a simple Skyhold written on it.

Inside the letter was Solas’ handwriting.

Hello.

I hope everyone is well. I know my departure was abrupt and probably caused a stir and I apologize for that. I write now to see if there would be a way to meet with you.

I know Vhenan would want to accompany you, and I would want to seize her from coming, but I know I would not be able to stop either you or her.

A letter would suffice with an answer. I realize there is no way for you to considerably return this letter, but I will get it in my own way.

Solas

The soldier had immediately left as soon as they dropped off the letter not wanting to intrude on the privacy of the letter.

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