#dragon age rook

[woundedsoul12]

This is why Lucanis is my perfect romance partner. Spite and I are buddies and Luc secretly adores us both despite his annoyance

[morbidstallion]

older neverook

[ad-astra-per-studium]

the edit at the bottom makes this perfect ☹️☹️

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 😭😭😭

[rinriya]

ROBBED We could have it all

[theladyofravenclaw]

I think putting Solas in a modern au would be really funny because imagine he's a professor at Rook's college, alright, and Rook thinks that he's annoying because he's one of those "no laptop, no cellphone, and no headphones" kind of professors. Rook is one of his best students and the two of them hate each other for it, especially because Solas has a notoriously difficult class.

But the minute they have an honest to god conversation, the lore that Solas drops on Rook is insane. Like "What do you mean you once threw a molotov cocktail at a police station and lit it on fire professor?" "What do you mean you doxxed mayoral candidate Elgar'nan to keep him from winning reelection, professor?" "What do you mean you're married to congresswoman Lavellan, professor!?"

Idk I just think the potential for unhinged modern au Solas is very good.

[blessed-pudding]

I want to draw Rooks!!!

If you would like to see your Rook in my style, please send an ask to my inbox!! I'll happily discuss Rooks with you too, especially if you want one of my Rooks interacting with yours!! :)

[onelooseskull]

my rook dreams abt pushing solas off those fade prison cliffs atleast three times a week

she hopes Solas watches those dreams

Inquisitor: I have unfinished business with Solas. Rook: [fresh out of the Fade prison] Yeah? Get in line.

[blearyfog]

worldstate reveal because I realized I never draw any of my other protagonists besides Sasha lmao. Also Veilguard Sasha reveal teehee

[kirsssche]

[loustica-lucia]

DATV — Alba de Riva Key Art🔥

My Rook Alba de Riva's Key Art🔥 (Based on VOLTA's Veilguard characters Key Artworks)

Entire process timelapse & alternative versions ⤵

I took a few pictures on my PS5 (yay 4K screenshots for a 4K edit, it helped so much xD) and then spend 13 hours editing the colours and drawing everything on top of it 🙈The background was originally red since his nickname is the Carmine Crow, but it felt too much XD After trying many other things, I ended up adding a layer in colour mode to make it appear like a greyscale and check the values, but I ended up loving the white/grey aesthetics and its symbolism! His other nickname is the "Dove" so white fits that aspect, blending with his mask and black/white is the perfect colour to symbolise his jack-of-all-trades self! Here's the original two screenshots that I used for this edit lmao The before/after is so wild🙈💗

Red, black and transparent versions if you feel like adding him somewhere, have fun! XD

[woundedsoul12]

A Word with Friends 6/16

I am happy to report I have made words. Not many but they are present

Thanks for the tag @officialnostradamus and thanks @hedwigoprah for the game!

Rules: Use the challenge word to write a sentence or scene and then tag a few friends.

This week's word is:

Assiduously (haha ass)

Showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application

Constantly; ceaselessly.

Well @viagoweek ends today and Hardingweek2025 begins! I decided to close out Viago Week's free day with the way I started it. Plus it just seems like such a Viago word.

For those of you who have been waiting on an update of Devastating Lessons well um... have a treat

Soft tagging @serensama @mythals-whore @davrinsleftpectoral @jenn2d2 @blackwall-my-tiny-husband @in-the-drowning-deep @aetherflowers @strugglinggranola @thedissonantverses @cute-ellyna @tacoteddy22 @kai-dimir @lotusfueltofire @nevesserialwriter @zennihilation @therivercrow @becausedragonage @brennacedria @amlusa

And if you are reading this...

You

NSFW below the cut

Viago thought about her. Assiduously. Constantly. An obsession without end. Her sweetness like honeysuckle still clung to his skin. The taste of her wildfire still fresh on his lips.

Their stolen moment in the Villa Dellamorte pantry would haunt him til the end of his days. Her cries almost as delicious as the nectar he lapped as he knelt before her. Not caring if they got caught. Not worried if Lucanis finally found out.

She was his. Belonged to him alone. His marks branded on her flesh in purple hue. Finger shaped bruises and bites wherever he could reach. To show where he had been, and would always be.

For now, Celeste might owe her loyalty to the First Talon and her grandson. But soon, he would have that little problem sorted. And then, he would never have to share his Rook again.

[finnfrei]

Just two wardens chilling. Nothing to see here.

[themildmahariel]

i'm normally not one for hats in da but......

[fenrelmercar]

a hot mess of a wannabe hero that attracts trouble and seduces the rest

Otherwise known as that horny Rook from Deliriously Lustful who mistakes all red flags for beige (they/them)

Roux (Rook) Laidir

[minkmalerei]

Helena and Viago for @khaelya

[jarinnards]

So I can understand why Rook is... Like that, especially after that article both confirmed what we already knew (EA ruins everything) and that it was actually even WORSE than we thought... I still think they're my least favorite aspects of Veilguard.

I mean, I always do a fair bit of headcanoning with my DA protags... But good God, the amount of mental gymnastics I have to do in order to make Rook livable is egregious. And it makes me so fucking angry because I know the DA devs wanted to give me all the character building and roleplay that I hoped for in this game, but they just got continuously stomped on at every single turn.

Like... Just read interviews with the devs, or the snippets from the Veilguard art book. They wanted so much to put the focus on the players and their choices. They wanted to make this the most reactive Dragon Age right from the get go. If it had been their choice, they would have cut down on the scope of the world to expand the depth of player choice, and you see that both in their initial concept for DA4 and in the devs own statements.

But nope. Fuck them. Corporate meddling and cash grab decisions over the passion, love, dedication and vision of the team that actually knows and gives a fuck about this franchise. Because letting the dev team assure they know their fans better than you is a terrible idea.

The fact that Rook got changed from "Star Lord in the Dragon Age setting" to "still incredibly jokey to the point of being invasive but it's not AS bad" in response to the criticisms shows me that, yes, they did care, and they would have done more reactivity and choice with Rook if those fucking ghouls hadn't committed themselves to being nothing more than a repeated obstacle at every interval.

So yes, I still don't like Rook. But it's MY Dragon Age now, and I'll do what the devs would have done if they weren't cock blocked by those worthless fuckheads at EA and make a Rook so personal and custom in my mind palace that God will be so moved he'll weep and rework the game so that every Rook can be that way.