Babbling Rook

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BabblingRook's Masterpost

Guess it's about time I do one of these...

Find me on AO3 at BabblingRook or by the same name on TikTok.

You'll mostly see me yapping about the Rook for my current long fic in-progress, my beloved chaos gremlin, Dana Laidir.

I draw now too, I guess???

I try to participate in tag games as much as possible when I get tagged, so feel free to include me in what you've got going on!

Links to my fics below the cut!

Title: Parallel Lines Pairing: Rook x Emmrich x Lucanis Rating: E Status: In-process Summary: “I think it’s too late anyways. I think I’ve already painted you both on my heart. And I’m terrified.” Dana Laidir has never been one to deny herself the things she wants. Not after going from slavery to servitude to the well-intentioned but overbearing adolescent years in the care of her adoptive aunts and uncles. Not when she’s spent adulthood perfecting how to obtain the things or people she most desires. But what she finds herself wanting the most, who she finds herself wanting, is not so easy to obtain. It’s more than the fleeting lust or desire she’s familiar with, and she knows that should scare her.

Title: Fault Lines Pairing: Rook x Emmrich x Lucanis Rating: E Status: In-process Summary: “It's like if a teen drama happened to 3 mentally ill chain-smoking semi-alcoholic 25-52 year olds.” Aka my Emmrookanis modern day restaurant AU (that is really just an excuse to offload my almost 15 years of restaurant related trauma).

Title: Intention Pairing: Rook x Emmrich Rating: E Length: ~6.9k word one-shot Summary: There was no denying Emmrich Volkarin was handsome, polished, put together, but such was the expectation of those who donned the vestments bearing the symbol of the Mourn Watch. He wasn't necessarily unremarkable, but to Rook, Emmrich appeared as any of the other senior professor who wandered the halls of the Grand Necropolis. Yet, a chance encounter, a careless mistake, affords Rook the opportunity to discover just how remarkable this man might be.

Title: Like a Matchstick Pairing: Rook x Lucanis x Spite Rating: E Length: ~157k words Status: Complete Summary: Rook had lived a peaceful, relatively secluded life in the Grand Necropolis. It had been that way for years, long enough that she thought she'd finally found her purpose. But good things never last, do they? Somewhere along a series of never-ending missteps, she found herself in charge of a team tasked with taking down two escaped elven gods. For someone who claimed to not believe in fate, there were entirely too many things that had to go wrong in order to bring her face-to-face with the man who would end up changing her life. With the help of Lucanis and the spirit possessing him, the mysteries of her past start fitting together. But sometimes remembering hurts worse than the unanswered questions ever did.

Title: Distance & Meaning Pairing: Rook x Lucanis Rating: M (mind the TWs) Length: ~3k word one shot Status: Complete Summary: In a world not unlike our own, Lucanis watches as the woman he loves slips further and further away from herself after losing a close friend. She wears her grief like a scarf wrapped tightly around her neck, and he spends each day pulling at the fabric with gentle, guiding hands. But healing is not linear, and he's unsure how much longer he can do it alone, isolated from the rest of the world on their rooftop terrace.A brief study on mourning, healing, and the double-edged sword of finding your soulmate.

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And I oop—

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A bit of a personal post incoming…

Last fall, I got laid off from my comfy remote corporate job. Since then, I’ve been struggling to find work due to how abysmal the job market is currently. This last year has been rough to say the least, and my creativity has suffered greatly because of that. Though I have not been successful in finding a job in my field, I did finally get a job offer last week!

The catch: I got my old serving/bartending job back. The very job that I drew a lot of inspiration from for my Emmrookanis modern AU, Fault Lines. So bad news is, I’m stuck working food service again after escaping it for years. Good news, I’m gonna have soooo much fresh material to draw from while working on the AU 😅

I also want to give a special shoutout to @incessantstar and @emmi4793 for all of their support in getting me through the Struggles recently. You both mean the absolute world to me ❤️

Can’t wait to have some fresh hell to put Dana, Emmrich, Lucanis, and the whole crew at the Lighthouse Bar & Grill through.

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You ever fall in love with someone else’s OC and just wanna draw them over and over again? Cause I fear that happened to me with @incessantstar’s Rook.

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This is your friendly reminder to keep your sleep-deprived assassin caffeinated at all times.

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Fault Lines - Ch 8

Chapter 8: Flames is now live on AO3! Read it HERE.

Now featuring artwork done by the insanely talented @vampiric-arts <3

(This new chapter contains NSFW sexually explicit material, please mind the updated tags.)

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Five Sentence Friday

Thank you for the tag @falonwithbenefits <3

Here's a little peek at the next chapter of Fault Lines, where Dana and Emmrich visit Lucanis' (or more correctly, Caterina's) home for the first time.

Throwing the gentlest of tags to: @incessantstar @mirufiyu @woundedsoul12 @davrinsleftpectoral @emmi4793

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This has got to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever drawn. A little screenshot redraw of one of my favorite Dana Derps™️

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What's good bitches, I'm not dead, look at this sexy comm I did for @babblingrook 's modern au

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LOOK AT MY BABIES!!! Ghost absolutely brought modern Dana and Emmrich to life in this, and I fear I’m never going to recover from how unwell I am about this piece.

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A very sapphic Rook x Rook piece in honor of Pride Month, featuring @incessantstar’s Anna de Riva (and Dana’s legs).

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Emmrich Volkarin

Why sleep when I can draw a cunty Emmrich, I apologize now for spamming art but I’m hyper-fixated on this new style of drawing and I can’t stop!

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Happy Pride!

From me, Dana, Ophelia, and Amir 🏳️‍🌈

(No new art yet, but I’m hoping to have at least one new piece completed this month)

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Fault Lines - Ch 7

Chapter 7: Plans is now live on AO3! Read it HERE.

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Professor Volkarin 🚫 Please ask before reposting!

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Barking and gnawing at the bars of my enclosure. LEMME AT HIM!

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WIP Wednesday

Thank you for the tag @woundedsoul12 <3

I am very slowly but surely working on the next chapter of Fault Lines, so here's a little peek into the beginning of chapter seven. I'm terrified excited to be exploring a bit more of Lucanis' complicated relationship with Caterina within the AU for this one.

Gentle tags for my dearies: @incessantstar @falonwithbenefits @emmi4793 @mirufiyu

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Gentleman in the streets but a freak in the sheets type beat.

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Thinking about them again…

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I've been having a blast playing with these outfit and pose pack mods made by @flowersforthemachines. Here's some of my fav pics I've taken of mine and my friends' Rooks recently.

Little Dana beach episode:

These shots of @incessantstar's Anna de Riva:

And these of @emmi4793's Velena de Riva:

Thanks for letting me place dress up with your girls <3