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DAREDEVIL | SEASON 2 (2016) Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page

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Anya Chalotra as YENNEFER OF VENGERBERG The Witcher, 3x08 "The Cost of Chaos"

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Anya Chalotra in The Witcher (3.05) as Yennefer of Vengerberg

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A few facts about Mercar Rook's canonical family background, in case anybody missed these tidbits:

Rook says in a conversation with Tarquin that their father "commanded legions near Ventus." Rook was found on a battlefield as a baby, likely near Ventus, and adopted into a military family.

According to a letter from Maevaris to Dorian, there is a high-ranking Soporati named Charon Mercar, who serves in or near Ventus as a "Legatus" in the Tevinter military. (In ancient Rome, a legatus was a high-ranking military officer equivalent to a modern-day general.)

Given the previous information about Rook's father commanding legions near Ventus, it seems likely that Charon Mercar is Rook's father.

EDIT: I should have said adoptive father here to make it clear that Rook is not Charon's biological child.

Charon Mercar has "privately expressed support for reform" and has influence with the current Imperator of the Tevinter military. (In ancient Rome, the title "imperator" was used to indicate the highest rank of military command.)

It makes sense to surmise that despite not being mages, Rook's family is as highly ranked in Tevinter society as a Soporati can be and has some influence in Tevinter's military and political affairs.

Obviously you don't have to take any of these facts as canon for your Mercar Rook, I just wanted to share them for anyone who might be interested.

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Assorted headcanons about my Rook, Evrion:

Born in 9:10 Dragon, making him a year older than Dorian Pavus and Carver Hawke. As of the events of DA4, he is 42 years old.

Was found as a newborn near a battlefield healer’s tent during a skirmish between the Tevene army and the Qunari on Seheron.

His adoptive mother was a spirit healer for the Tevene army, his adoptive father a soldier hell bent on rising in the ranks but hindered by his own lack of magical talent.

Both parents were very religious which is why they named him for Andraste’s second stepson. It’s also why Evrion himself is decidedly a-religious but well versed in religious texts common to Andrastianism.

Left school at 16 to enlist in the army after his father died of a heart attack and left the family without enough income to do more than barely scrape by.

His adoptive mother died of Blight at the height of the Fifth Blight, leaving him with no home and no living family. (That he knew of, at least.) After she died, he began to get involved with anti-slavery groups now that his meager income wasn’t needed to support her and no one was left to be upset at his choices.

Was dishonorably discharged from the Tevene army aged 34 for ‘suspicion of being involved in illegal activities’. The army brass never had enough evidence to throw him in jail, but over the years Evrion helped many slaves held by high ranking Altus members of the army escape. After his discharge and an introduction to the Viper, he started working with the Shadow Dragons.

He was only able to enlist in the army due to a quirk of the enlistment system that allowed him to join based on his wholly human Soporati parentage, at least on paper. This did not make him popular with the other members of his battalion or the officers.

Cannot swim, absolutely terrified of drowning, yet unwilling to learn to swim.

Hasn’t rented or owned a home since his mother died and their apartment was sold to cover her debts. Lived in barracks or hostels during his army days, and lives out of the bunkhouse portion of The Shop otherwise.

As a consequence of this, he lives wholly out of his pack and owns very little by way of personal belongings.

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My sweet cheese, my good time boy having not the best time trying not to die at Weisshaupt. It's fine. Probably. Whatever.

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YENNEFER OF VENGERBERG The Witcher, 'The Invitation’

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The Inquisitor (at least the Solasmancing one) is so calm in game. And that’s you know, nice for Rook given the amount of stress they’re under, but I’ll be real with you. My Inquisitor would not be calm. My inquisitor would be two steps away from tearing a hole into the Fade to smack Solas with a sandal for most of the game plot. Fenera Lavellan never let Solas get away with anything important that she disagreed with, not without at least one angry lecture about why she disagreed. She’s had ten years (plus two) to stew over what exactly his problem is, and she’s fairly certain she’s figured it out, so no, there would not just be polite letters to Rook. There would be ‘can you please tell Solas this next time you speak’ sort of messages. And he’s lucky she isn’t the one delivering them, I tell you what. Yes, she loves him, and yes, she understands most of where he’s coming from, but she did not wade arse deep in the Fallow Mire and fight a blighted magister to let everything go tits up again. At least not without giving Solas an earful about it.

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The relationship between my Rook and Emmrich is just…it’s very funny on a number of levels. Emmrich is so open, so kind and gentle. Never curses, never uses a harsh word or gesture towards anyone. Whereas Evrion Mercar is a person who thinks nothing of distracting a foe by calling them a wankstain or fuckstick, then kicking their legs out from beneath them before the final blow. Emmrich is clearly well educated and cultured. Evrion was forced to leave school at 16 and join the Tevene military but reads widely. Emmrich is a shepherd for the dead and spirits both in the sheltered environment of the Necropolis. Evrion hunts slavers and leads their victims to freedom outside of Minrathous. Then he meets this gentle necromancer and just…melts.

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Remade my main/favorite Rook now that I have a better hang on who he is and who he should romance. Local 45 year old Tevene elf with a smart mouth immediately gets huge crush on dapper Nevarran necromancer, more on that later. (Probably via fic.)

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Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout 3

Relationships: Deacon/Female Lone Wanderer

Additional Tags:  Not Canon Compliant, Slow Burn, Angst and Feels, Post-Traumatic Stress  Disorder - PTSD, and not acknowledging said PTSD until it causes them  PROBLEMS, callout post for deacon and katie being bad at self care

What if Deacon’s little side project ‘Code-name Wanderer’ was actually about…the Lone Wanderer? Ten years on, the girl who saved the Capitol Wasteland is a divisive, legendary figure across the ruined landscape she once roamed. Some blame her for the suffering that the Brotherhood inflicted on the people of the wasteland afterwards, fewer trumpet her achievements and try to turn her into a living myth. The Lone Wanderer herself just wants to have something, anything in life worth living for after losing everything to Project Purity. So when a mysterious holotape shows up in her garden shed with a plea for help from a familiar group, she heads north looking for purpose. She finds far more than she bargained for.

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Rating: Mature

Fandom: The X-Files

Relationship: Fox Mulder & Dana Scully & William | Jackson Van De Kamp

Characters: William | Jackson Van De Kamp, Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, Jeffrey Spender, Cigarette Smoking Man (X-Files)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, mainly because chris carter is a shithead about certain things, dana and fox deserve to know their kid chris

Summary:

Plagued by dreams that give him only bits and pieces of his birth mother’s life from day to day, William Scully III is thrust into direct contact with her by chance. Now he has to decide if he should reveal to her just who he really is or hide behind a false name and identity to get to know his birth parents. Little does he know that this, like so many things in his life, won’t be that easy.

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Chung Thanh Phong 'I Dreamed a Dream' spring 2025 collection

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Why do something productive when you could analyze Dragon Age’s elven design elements?

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When you start opening up to people

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Remade Ruadhán after a long process of clean uninstalling and reinstalling BG3 and though he's closer to how I see him in my head, I may have made him too hot. RIP Gale, my buddy my guy.