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Veilguard finding out Xiu Ying "Rook" de Riva used to be the Inquisitor's pet fox: Part 3

Part 1 || Part 2

Lucanis: You know, this whole time, I thought Spite was crazy when he kept talking about your tails.

Xiu Ying: He could see them? Even when I had them hidden?

Lucanis: It seems so. He kept asking why we couldn't have our own tail. I thought he was talking about the times you tied your hair up in a ponytail

Spite: WANT. SOFT. TAIL.

Lucanis: Mierda, Spite- we do not need a tail.

Xiu Ying: You know, vhenan- you're welcome to touch mine whenever you like

Lucanis: Rook...

Xiu Ying: :3

Emmrich: Incredible. We have records of your kind within the Mourn Watch archives, but I never once thought I would meet a living specimen.

Xiu Ying: Not sure how I feel about being called a specimen- but more importantly... there were more of my kind in Thedas?

Emmrich: We only know of three others but those records are centuries old. We believed they were part of Ancient Elvish lore but they were completely out of place.

Xiu Ying: ... I wonder...

Emmrich: Would you mind terribly filling up a little questionnaire for me?

Xiu Ying: Sure, why not- Emmrich... eighty pages isn't "little"

Taash: So- you can actually make gold?

Xiu Ying: Pretty much. You breathe fire and I spit out gold.

Taash: Why don't you just spit gold out all the time?

Xiu Ying: Swallow a jagged piece of rock and tell me how that feels

Taash: oh.

Harding: I'm pretty sure I remember the Chargers putting you in a trebuchet-

Xiu Ying: -head in hands-

Harding: We couldn't see you when you were in the air but we could pinpoint where you were based on the screaming.

Xiu Ying: I'm going to throw up on Krem the next time I see him

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Writing modern au emmrook where Emmrich is still battling with the guilt that his gf is younger than someone of his college students

What do you mean you just turned 20 two weeks ago-

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\o/

I'm back on my bullshit lol

Chatting with the girls, and more lighthouse shenanigans

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am drew a cutie

I'm back on my bullshit lol

Chatting with the girls, and more lighthouse shenanigans

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Fiorella de Riva went from having never felt an ounce of attraction for anyone her entire life to being absolutely feral for this senior citizen the moment she saw him do the glowy skull thing

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I don't really post photos of stickers I make here but happy pride

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I loved this mission because Fiorella can't swim because she has a crippling phobia of krakens. Girl had one eye staring out into the dark depths of the water at all times because what if Kraken

Replaying the Ossuary knowing that Rook can't swim is hilarious because they are already having the worst day of their life for too many consecutive days, and now they are surrounded by all that water they are probably terrified of (honestly knowing how to swim wouldn't save them if the wards failed, but it's the mental factor you know), looking for that guy who is only MAYBE alive. MAYBE still the skilled assassin other people think he is bc gods know what the Venatori even did to him in that entire year.

And then, against all odds, Rook finds Lucanis alive and (visibly) well and is like "WHEW we can leave now" only for him to say "no we are NOT leaving the underwater torture facility actually". And the blood thing is reasonable at least, but a *contract*?? He's been in that prison for a year, that prison (that is UNDERWATER) is coming apart at the seams (they are all going to DROWN!!), and he cares about some fucking contract???

That was not love at first sight I'm afraid. Idk about other people's Rooks but Lucanis is lucky mine didn't just knock him out and drag him back to the boat

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Lucanis: Fiorellina, please. I know for a fact you are independently wealthy. Please stop.

Fiorella with wooden splinters in her messy hair: ᶦ ᶠᵒᵘⁿᵈ ᵃ ʳᶦᵖᵖᵉᵈ ᶜˡᵒᵗʰ

Lucanis hearing Viago rant about what a gremlin Fiorella de Riva is and assumes he's exaggerating.

Then he meets her and learns that if anything- he was understating it.

Lucanis is wondering how it is they are trusting the fate of the worlds to the woman who's throwing herself face first into pots and crates for a handful of scraps

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Lucanis hearing Viago rant about what a gremlin Fiorella de Riva is and assumes he's exaggerating.

Then he meets her and learns that if anything- he was understating it.

Lucanis is wondering how it is they are trusting the fate of the worlds to the woman who's throwing herself face first into pots and crates for a handful of scraps

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I FORGOT HER FUCKIN VALLASLIN. SHE'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE DIRTHAMEN'S VALLASLIN BECAUSE SECRETS

dum meme with Xiu Ying “Rook” de Riva

her during Inquisition vs her in Veilguard. Solas is baffled to find out the shithead who ruined his ritual was his Vhenan’s pet baby fox who used to eat his books and knock over his paint out of spite

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OC wardrobe

The always amazing @motleymercurialmarionette tagged me in this awesome game which allows me once more to make a collage. This time it's a vibes board that reflects Cara's wardrobe aside from armor. Of course I went overboard with it but at least it doesn't look all black and assassin by default. I also considered that she has to do a lot of flexibility and dexterity training which I imagine to consist of a lot of stretching, contortion/acrobatics and yoga practice. Of course she's equipped for this with a variety of clothes. Another portion of her wardrobe is for negotiation business. She likes to dress formal but extravagant for those occasions. (Yes I am a sucker for the "girls in suits" fashion and it shows!) The third portion of Cara's clothes is mostly casual. Loose pants and sleeveless vests, often leather are a staple in her wardrobe. If I tag you at the end of the post, please note that no one expects/asks/demands for this kind of elaborate shit as mine turned out (again!)

I gently invite: @alystrin03 @serensama @antivan-sprig @rookinthecrownest @rook-de-rivas @rookamell @badwolf626 @hyperions-light @becausedragonage @thedissonantverses @davrinsleftpectoral @therivercrow @bronzieinthedas @draco-illius-noctis @ezriell @ofcrowsanddragons @flowersforthemachines @lucinedoodles @raven-6-10

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Veilguard finding out Xiu Ying "Rook" de Riva used to be the Inquisitor's pet fox- (ft Solas)

Part 1

Harding: ... Didn't the Iron Bull used to throw you at demons

Xiu Ying: And dragons. Yes. He said I made a good projectile.

Taash: Wait, then can I-

Xiu Ying: No one is throwing me at anything anymore. I swear if someone tries picking me up again, I will start biting-

Neve: I bet the fur was helpful when travelling

Xiu Ying: Oh definitely, except when we were in the desert. Somehow I was shaking sand off for weeks.

Neve: They never thought to shave you?

Xiu Ying: -silent look of horror and disgust-

Davrin: So did the Inquisitor ever teach you tricks? Yknow, sit? Shake?

Xiu Ying: She didn't need to teach me anything. Just because I was in the form of a baby fox doesn't mean-

Davrin: -holds out hand- Shake

Xiu Ying: -immediately places her hand on his- ... I hate you

Davrin: Who wants a treat?

Solas: ... So you were truly sentient the entire time?

Xiu Ying: -affirmative grunt-

Solas: ... Then the time you left your... "leavings" on my chair-

Xiu Ying: I was fucking justified- you broke my sister's heart-

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The Veilguard finding out Xiu Ying "Rook" De Riva was a quasi deity who used to be Inquisitor Lavellan's pet fox-

Harding: So... You were the Inquisitor's pet fox?

Xiu Ying: Yes. And I am really sorry-

Harding: You chewed through my best boots

Xiu Ying: Yes-

Harding: Then you threw up in my bedroll-

Xiu Ying: ... In my defence, I was a baby-

Harding: ... What about the time you ate all of Dorian's cosmetics?

Xiu Ying: Oh, that was on purpose. They made me sneeze

Davrin: ... So... You have a tail-

Xiu Ying: shut up shut up shut up-

Bellara: How does it even work? Even the best mages can't stay shapeshifted for long, let alone decades.

Xiu Ying: My species start our lives as foxes. Our life force and our magic are essentially the same thing. If I use more magic than I should, I will need to turn into a fox again to conserve my magic.

Bellara: ... So you could technically be a fox right now permanently if you want to-

Xiu Ying: I am not fighting Venatori as a talking fox, Bell

Bellara: But what if-

Xiu Ying: No.

Lucanis: I'm glad you're back to normal

Xiu Ying: Thank you, vhenan.

Lucanis: I gave up trying to explain to Spite why we can't change forms. He's still angry about it.

Xiu Ying: Oh dear.

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When Fiorella moves in with Emmrich, Emil comes with her but she has a lock on his enclosure because Manfred was fascinated by the way the snake's scales glimmered in the sun.

Fiorella is immune to Emil by now but Emmrich most certainly is not. That was the most stressful hour of both Emmrich and Fiorella's life until she found the snake under their bed and put it back in it's enclosure

Fiorella: ... ⱽᶦᵃᵍᵒ?

Viago: Fiorella Argenta De Riva, if I turn round and see Emil biting your face again, I'm sending you to meet the Maker

Fiorella: ...ᶦ'ˡˡ ᵍᵒ ᶠᶦⁿᵈ ᵗᵉᶦᵃ

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Seraphina Ingellvar seeing the Despair Demon in the Hossberg Wetlands and for a moment there is a glimmer of recognition-

The spirit who possessed a mortal body to keep hope alive meeting its kin who had fallen into despair because all hope was lost.

Seraphina may not remember her time before she became Seraphina Ingellvar, but she refuses to give up trying to free her kin from its anguish.

Because hope can still blossom even in the darkest times

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Solas knew the fox was doing it on purpose to aggravate him because she only did it when she knew he would catch her.

She's just standing there on the scaffolding she should not have been able to climb herself, making full eye contact, before kicking over the paints.

She's chewing and ripping out pages from his books and notes and stands there defiantly waiting for him to come back to the rotunda to catch her.

Her antics ramp up once he breaks up with Lavellan because fuck you

dum meme with Xiu Ying “Rook” de Riva

her during Inquisition vs her in Veilguard. Solas is baffled to find out the shithead who ruined his ritual was his Vhenan’s pet baby fox who used to eat his books and knock over his paint out of spite

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dum meme with Xiu Ying “Rook” de Riva

her during Inquisition vs her in Veilguard. Solas is baffled to find out the shithead who ruined his ritual was his Vhenan’s pet baby fox who used to eat his books and knock over his paint out of spite