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redrew that one Pedro Pascal photo with Lucanis heeheehoho click the read more for a surprise :3c

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He GIVES the best hugs, no past tense, I refuuuuse that, and I needed to see these hugs realized so, here, indulge 💖

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cassarric keeping me alive since 2014 💘

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« 'Cause you could be the beauty and I could be the monster. »

Full version on my Bluesky ✨

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Happy pridemonth

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To be cherished 💚

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on his way to stab some gods

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I think the main problem is that people are afraid to move on.

Veilguard is about how time has passed and you can't go back to the past. The language has changed with young people, weapons have changed while Emmrich still uses a staff, conflicts of ten years ago are just a memory. People have moved on. The world has moved on. Some bastard is trying to bring back the past because he hates this new world. People aren't going to bring up the Tranquil unprompted on the streets because chances are that the practice is completely dead.

And the fandom's reaction to Veilguard is poetic in that regard. It is really like that guy who didn't realize the war was over.

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tricking myself into doing studies...

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Gorgeous @molokokoart made another 3D art for me. Victory celebration in Treviso.

Characters (DAtV):

My Rook - Reina de Riva Lucanis Dellamorte

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I am a “Lucanis wearing darkened spectacles to hide spite flair ups from the other Talon’s” truther

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Dark red velvet, yes. With gold embroidery. It should be cut low in the front of course, we don’t want to hide your features.

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-Sunflower | Adoration- -Coreopsis | Always Cheerful- -Elfroot | ...Duh-

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Today’s “Yay Veilguard!” Stream of consciousness post is how much I love the writing with all the female characters.

Neve and Bellara and Harding all get very different plotlines and their emotional responses have such a wide range. Harding and Bellara are both the sort of cute adorkable party members but they approach it very differently. Harding buries her emotions and opinions to be likeable, whereas Bellara just blurts out all her thoughts. Meanwhile Neve is measured and thoughtful almost to the point of anxiety.

They all feel full and realized and not just weird feminine stereotypes. I especially love Neve being the in-between of the noir detective and the femme fatale - it gives her such a strong and interesting core. And then you add in her idealism and desire to protect the downtrodden??

I love that Neve feels the most cynical but Bellara and Harding are actually far more vicious. I LOVE that Bellara gets to BE vicious but she’s also conflicted when it comes to Cyrian- like if anyone else had done what he did, she’d be all for killing them, but because it’s HER BROTHER, it’s different. It’s nuanced! It’s complex! She knows what her values say but her heart doesn’t want it!

And then there’s the female villains. I do think with the exception of Hezenkoss and maybe Isseya, the companion quest villains are a little underwritten, but that doesn’t take enjoyment away from playing with them. I love that Aelia is an unapologetic powermonger. I love that Zara is totally morally bankrupt and willing to use anyone she deems as lesser for beauty and power. I love that Isseya is a visible monster but actually the most sympathetic of the villains.

Hezenkoss gets her own section because my GOD I love necromancer grandma so much!! She’s so funny, she’s so unethical and unapologetic about it. An older woman getting to be so unstoppably but affably evil is incredible to me. She’s got such a high level of arrogance and ambition and she’s always chewing the scenery and it’s so enjoyable every time she shows up!

My lowkey favorites though are the Problematic Mother Figures. Shathann and Caterina you will always be legendary to me. To care about children, to try to set them up for success but in ways that are initially harmful, to try to understand them and fail, to hold them to impossible standards and have to deal with their resentment but you do it anyway because you LOVE them- Veilguard isn’t necessarily trying to make a point about parenting (and motherhood in particular) but at the same time it IS with Morrigan and Mythal and Shathann and Ghilan’nain, mother of monsters. I love the depth of emotion they get to especially with Shathann and Taash when it comes to the complicated relationships of family. I wish Lucanis had gotten more of that with Caterina instead of everything being focused on Illario but that’s not the story they were telling so alas.

All this to say, I never felt like I was dealing with a feminine stereotype in the game. The female characters get to be a range of right and wrong, moral and not, peaceful and vicious. And there were so many!!

Bonus final shout-out to Evka, light of my life, love of my heart, leader of the Grey Wardens as far as I’m concerned!! Her calm, decisive demeanor is the best!!

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in the art book it's mentioned that they considered having morrigan and isabela as dai-style advisors, and you know what that means. ultimate-sacrificed or succumbed-to-the-calling hof-romanced morrigan and left-in-the-fade hawke-romanced isabela middle-aged widow yuri. is what that means.

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They invented romance.

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The Crows send their regrets

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What if everything felt too real? *Throws angst and runs away*