#DATVG

[pumpkinlass]

Expectation vs. Reality of playing Crow Rook

Atticus De Riva my beloved - please stop missing all your jumps.

[skelebellie]

the “and now, i die.” line from rook during weisshaupt is one of the funniest lines in the game because it represent how much they are that guy (tm) that just showed up. they know how ridiculous it is that their trying to fight an elven vape cloud god and it’s neo pet. they just are like “well fuck it, we ball”

[thesanityclause]

okay isabela hear me out i did what i had to do

[strangestblossom]

Shoutout to everyone forced to listen to me talk about Dragon Age but since I’m so excited to finally have a new game after a decade that I hyperventilate and have insane ramblings and I end up like this

[meowse]

He won’t speak of it, but I think he misses you. Very much.

really super quick speedpaint of something i’m hoping we’ll find in the lighthouse (we won’t of course but i can dream)

[ososull]

Full lil outfit lineup and portrait of my rook Faye lol

Gave her some 🎉armor🎉

[fukutomichi]

"This crew needs a leader. Someone we can count on. Someone that the world can count on"

[macklemorrigan]

the spiritual successor to ramen hair cullen for a new generation

[goethial]

[jb-nonsense]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Gender and Romance Poll Results

Last week, I a ran a series of polls to gather information on how tumblr had broken down with genders and romances in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. These are the results. I had to make adjustments for the companions to make their data proportional due to the inevitable outlier of cis women rooks on tumblr. I will post the differences under cut at the end of the post.

This is data to see if there are any patterns and can be interpreted by you. I merely gathered it to discuss with some friends after discussing patterns we had noticed in fanfictions and communities on tumblr. One takeaway I took from the data, though, is that while cis women rooks are highly populace, trans women rooks have a more proportional spread across the romances in Veilguard.

Differences between the not adjusted and the adjusted

Bellara Lutare

Range: 34 points (difference of +14 points)

Enby/Genderfluid/Genderqueer: 42% (difference of +13)

Cis Women: 27% (difference of +12)

Trans Women: 13% (difference of -17)

Cis Men: 11% (difference of -5)

Trans Men: 7% (difference of -3)

Davrin

Range: 20 points (difference of +6 points)

Cis Women: 28% (difference of +14)

Enby/Genderfluid/Genderqueer: 22% (difference of +8)

Trans Men: 21% (difference of -6)

Cis Men: 20% (difference of -7)

Trans Women: 8% (difference of -9)

Emmrich Volkarin

Range: 29 points (difference of +17 points)

Cis Women: 35% (difference of +16)

Enby/Genderfluid/Genderqueer: 27% (difference of +8)

Trans Men: 18% (difference of -8)

Cis Men: 15% (difference of -8)

Trans Women: 6% (difference of -8)

Lace Harding

Range: 32 points (difference of +11 points)

Cis Women: 40% (difference of +19)

Enby/Genderfluid/Genderqueer: 23% (difference of +8)

Cis Men: 16% (difference of -7)

Trans Women: 14% (difference of -17)

Trans Men: 7% (difference of -3)

Lucanis Dellamorte

Range: 39 points (difference of +24 points)

Cis Women: 43% (difference of +17)

Enby/Genderfluid/Genderqueer: 26% (difference of +6)

Trans Men: 15% (difference of -9)

Cis Men: 11% (difference of -7)

Trans Women: 4% (difference of -7)

Neve Gallus

Range: 32 points (difference of +8 points)

Cis Women: 38% (difference of +17)

Enby/Genderfluid/Genderqueer: 28% (difference of +9)

Trans Women: 14% (difference of -19)

Cis Men: 13% (difference of -6)

Trans Men: 7% (difference of -6)

Taash

Range: 45 points (difference of +15 points)

Enby/Genderfluid/Genderqueer: 49% (difference of +12)

Cis Women: 27% (difference of +11)

Trans Women: 11% (difference of -16)

Trans Men: 9% (difference of -5)

Cis Men: 4% (difference of -2)

[duppyfrsh]

the bisexual disaster himself

[pumpkinlass]

Nothing to see here; just a pair of narrative foils

[fruk-choosing-a-username]

lucanis "is that an angry rock? harding, what did you do to piss off a rock?!" dellamorte

my beloved

[calcium-draws]

close enough, welcome back hiccstrid

[skelebellie]

i like to imagine mourn watch rook as someone generally pretty good natured. major purple rook vibes and knows when it’s time to lend a helping hand. you have to be in order to work with nevarra’s grieving families. sure, they might get a bit frustrated/angry at the usual inequalities of thedas, but nothing out of the ordinary.

and then the team gets to weisshaupt, and you can see their brows furrow as they argue with the first warden. thinking about all the lives lost because this bald egg of a man (foreshadowing) can’t temper his pride. the anger almost invisible until it breaks like a thin string and their jaw clenches. their patience vanishing into thin air.

“you know what, i tried.”

before they knock out the first warden into next week, evka giving them control over the situation. and rook moves like a well oiled machine. not a stumble in sight as they start planning counter maneuvers.

and all of a sudden the team remembers that the jovial funny bone guy has been fighting hordes of undead and necromatic uprisings in the darkness of nevarra. digging their way out of bone and decomposing tissue just to see the listless green flames of the mourn watch.

[meowse]

hot dragon age take: solas’s self-imposed isolation isn’t funny or pathetic and we don’t need to take some random game journalist’s shallow opinion as gospel. there’s a very real reason why he’s practicing asceticism, it’s self-denial, he’s literally punishing himself with loneliness because the one time he walked among the people of thedas and let himself be seen as a person, he almost let go of his entire goal