28 | She/her | Australia Welcome to my writing blog! I can only follow back on my art blog as that is my main blog and this is a side blog on the same account. Art account: marcell-arts.tumblr.com Ao3: @gradevus
tagged by @serialsforbellara!! i was going to draw this which is why i left it a couple days and then realised actually i have no time so i just went screenshot diving at lunch HAHA
some of these pics are by my beloved @cravingcoconutredbull who is far cleverer with the mods and the camera than me HAHA. I think I got a variety of expressions there!! (altho funnily enough her most annoyed expressions come from scenes with viago or lucanis...)
tagging if you haven't already and want to @strawberrypinky @tkwritesdumbassassins @brainwyrmz @woodlandeelf @vixenofcadmea @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai @cravingcoconutredbull @onlyslightlypsycho @serensama @khayr @serialsforbellara @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai @doctormur @bigshrimp365 @crowslady68 @nirikeehan @therivercrow @slothquisitor @chaosherald
tagged by @chaosherald!! how can it be june already... I thought i'd finish my longfic Rookie by now (i was aiming mid this year) but im getting there and only 3 chapters left!! furiously writing so i can post this chappy before i go on my work trip next week (where i will be unable to write and draw for 5 days 😔)
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Rook and Viago say goodbye as the Crows march for the final battle at Minrathous.
"I'll command the Crows today," Viago told her seriously as he stopped before her. He was wearing more armour than Rook had ever seen—and she could see the many pouches attached to his person were bulging with poisons and potions and antidotes and acids. "You focus on your team."
"I will," Rook promised. "Viago—you take care of yourself out there. Please."
Viago nodded once. "As will you. Don't be careless. Use your head. Stay alive. That's an order." Rook nodded rapidly—the reality of the situation of her Crows marching onwards into a warzone that depended on her team's success was descending all too fast. Viago paused. Then hesitantly held out a gloved hand towards her.
An outstretched hand—not to a subordinate, but to an equal.
Rook's eyes stung as she reached back to clasp his hand and shake it. "One more day. And we go home, Viago," she promised fiercely. "I swear it." She tried to convey all her feeling through the squeeze of his hand.
Viago was gripping her back just as hard. "We're going home," he said firmly—as if the statement could bend the universe to his will. "This contract will be finished today."
It was with great reluctance they finally let go. The last of the Crows disappeared into the Eluvian with a flash of feathers and swirls of cloaks as Rook pinned her House crest to her chest with blurry eyes. And Viago was gone. His absence as always, left a buried emptiness in her heart—but there was no time to linger on thoughts.
I'm sad every time I have to write them parting ways 😭 thats their emotional support Crow!!! (both ways)
tagged by @serialsforbellara !! I also saw this go around and thought it wasn't for me bc I almost only exclusively listen to musicals but yknow what who cares I'm just going to put musical songs on this list!
I'll use LucaDora for the name and this sick album cover pic @cravingcoconutredbull took for me!!!
L - Letters | Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
In nineteenth-century Russia, we write letters / We put down in writing what is happening in our minds / Once it's on the paper, we feel better
U - The Underworld | EPIC: The Musical
All I hear are screams, every time I dare to close my eyes / I no longer dream, only nightmares of those who've died
C - Carneval Del Barrio | In The Heights
Maybe we're powerless, a corner full of foreigners / Maybe this neighbourhood's changing forever / Maybe tonight is our last night together
A - All I've Ever Known | Hadestown
I was alone so long, I didn't even know that I was lonely / Out in the cold so long, I didn't even know that I was cold
D - Doubt Comes In | Hadestown
Orpheus, I am right here, and I will be to the end / The coldest night of the coldest year, comes right before the spring
O - Open Arms | EPIC: The Musical
This life is amazing when you greet it with open arms / Whatever we face, we'll be fine if we're leading from the heart
R - Remember Them | EPIC: The Musical
Remember them when the fire begins to fade / for the fallen and afraid / We are not to let them die in vain / Remember them
A - All I Ask of You | Phantom of the Opera
Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime / Let me lead you from your solitude / Say you need me with you here, beside you / Anywhere you go, let me go too / Christine, that's all I ask of you
tagging the homies and anyone else who wants to! @strawberrypinky @tkwritesdumbassassins @brainwyrmz @woodlandeelf @vixenofcadmea @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai @cravingcoconutredbull @onlyslightlypsycho @serensama @khayr @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai @doctormur @bigshrimp365 @crowslady68 @nirikeehan @therivercrow
okay going to be slowing down on doodle asks now 😅 been waking up early every day just to draw a bit in the morning but its already sunday here and we're hosting friends all day... and i still am midway through my next Rookie chapter which I also want out by next week.... and im trying to finish a book for book club... so will be juggling my 101 hobbies 🫡 but i will get to them one by one!
☠ OC in what they would wear to a funeral!!!! Surely Isadora isn't showing up in the clown suit to a funeral ..................
Noooo Viv and Dora will serve cunt at Caterina's fake funeral. All the Crows tremble in awe!!! Lucanis is shell-shocked. Illario is laughing. And I believe Caterina fellow girl!boss is watching reluctantly amused from the Maker's bosom.
(Also bonus clown funeral shitty photoshop bc its too funny. They could pull it off tbh)
juefkjrkj what a fun idea! how about Meira and Isadora + 👻 OC in a really bad disguise?
Both Meira and Dora dressed up as Viago for Halloween.... and he was not impressed. (Everyone else found it hilarious tho and Teia gave them a high-five)
tagged by @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai !! getting a headstart on the wip wednesday train - i have not been writing this week but i HAVE been drawing like a maniac!! so last seven lines/panels drawn??
comic incoming feat zio illario ;) I'm on the last couple of panels now but here's a few WIP comparisons hehe. i was very amused with my initial sketches
and one more bonus bc i can't stop laughing at this one
Send one of the following symbols and one of my OC’s names and I’ll doodle:
👀 OC in their typical underwear
💤 OC in their sleep attire
🔞 OC in something sexy
🏄 OC in what they would wear to the beach/pool
👔 OC in what they would wear to a formal event (such as a wedding)
☠ OC in what they would wear to a funeral
👖 OC in what they would wear to a casual event (such as a birthday party)
👑 OC dressed as royalty
🚪 OC in what they wear when lounging around at home
💕 OC in what they would wear on a first date
❌ OC in something they would absolutely never wear
🎃 OC in a costume they’d wear for Halloween
🎄 OC in an ugly Christmas sweater
🚓 OC in a prison uniform
🚲 OC in athletic gear
🐰 OC in a kigurumi of their favourite animal
❄ OC in what they’d wear on a very cold day
🔥 OC in what they’d wear on a very hot day
👕 OC in a T-shirt with something stupid printed on it (think Zazzle)
🎭 OC in another OC’s typical attire
📦 OC wearing something that isn’t clothes (such as a fig leaf, a barrel, etc.)
👻 OC in a really bad disguise
📷 OC in a stereotypical tourist getup
🙎 OC in something embarrassing
👗 OC in something from the 50’s
💀 OC in goth/emo/scene attire
💃 OC in some radical 90’s clothes
🌁 OC in a hoodie
🌋 OC in camping or adventuring gear
♠️ OC in their armor (or in some sort of fantasy armor if not applicable to their story)
🎨 OC in a cartoon character’s outfit
🏨 OC in a maid outfit
🏥 OC in a nurse uniform
🐑 OC in farmer wear
👍 OC in a crop top
Viago asks Rook out of everyone she's met, 'why Lucanis?!'
"You could have had anyone," Viago said slowly. This close, they could not mistake any meaning in each other's eyes. "Anyone at all," he continued with forced calm, "and I could have accepted it. The mountain of Crow marriage proposals on my desk. Any of your team members. Even the Grey Warden—though he would have been a bit of a stretch—I could have forgiven in time." He gripped her hard—then took a sharp breath. "But why Lucanis?" he shouted, shaking her. "WHY?!"
"Because I love him too!"
Viago stomach dropped at the confession. A pit of despair. "Rook…"
"I can't choose who I fall in love with," Rook told him fiercely, "but I know now that I love him more than anyone." A lance of hurt jolted through Viago's heart—but she went on as if she had not considered the impact of her words. "Viago, he didn't fuck me," she cried, "We made love. Because I asked for it. Because he wanted it too. It's what we both wanted after everything we'd been through. At the end of the world."
"Rook…"
"Don't I deserve this?" she cried desperately. "Viago, after all I've been through, can you not give me this one thing?" More tears spilled down her cheeks. Viago tried to pull back his hands—but Rook was there clutching his sleeves and holding him tight. Holding him to the weight of her beseeching, wet eyes. "Don't I deserve this love," she asked slowly through her tears, "now that I've finally found it?"
Viago's stone cold heart was stirred once more. He released his breath shakily. Swallowed back the lump in his throat. "Rook… I don't…" He shifted uncomfortably. "It's not that I am opposed to you finding solace in another," he tried to say more gently. "It's just that Lucanis—"
"What has he ever done to you to make you hate him so?" Rook pleaded. "He has only ever been kind to me. Gentle. Thoughtful even when he hasn't had to be. He has taken care of me every time I needed him: in battle, in tears, in moments where I've felt alone and tired and afraid."
Viago tried to regulate his breathing. "I know," he said stiffly.
"So what is it?" she challenged. "What is this one thing about Lucanis that nobody else has—that stops you from giving me your blessing?"
Viago crashes out about Rook & Lucanis' relationship.
Viago de Riva was not an idiot.
Viago de Riva had seen the signs.
Viago de Riva had seen the signs and he had on these suspicions, confronted Rook more than once about her feelings towards Lucanis Dellamorte…
…And Viago had chosen to believe Rook's words every time. Over his own instincts. Over every glaring, little clue along the way; the way Rook defended the man as if her very life depended it; her unreasonable, emotional outbursts despite the fact he was not a Crow from her House; the way she couldn't help but mention him in almost every conversion; the way she would look at Lucanis, and the way Lucanis would look back at her—
Viago had pretended not to see it—pretended it meant nothing and that was simply how Lucanis always stared when giving his full attention… But even he would notice the Demon's gaze linger a little too long on his protegée. The intensity of it that fixated almost unblinkingly on her lips whenever she talked. The unnatural stillness in his focus except for the flicker of his eyes to watch whenever Rook flitted around or moved for the door.
Like a predator analysing his prey.
Or perhaps a master assassin hunting a younger, more foolish Crow.
(Or maybe just a besotted man in love).
It had unnerved Viago but he had let it go because Rook had told him that she wasn't interested in anybody. She had told him the day after Caterina's fake funeral, that she would tell him if she ever had a serious interest in someone—and he had complete faith that she would.
(…Hadn't she said she would tell him?)
And he realised now with blood-draining clarity, that it wasn't Lucanis with his hand down Rook's pants—but Rook's. It was not Lucanis' bedroom they were caught in but Rook's. It was Lucanis' clothes in disarray—his belt being hastily rebuckled and his shirt being tucked back in—and not Rook's. It was not Lucanis on top of his protegée, but Rook sitting astride the Demon and it was her who he walked in on halfway to ravaging Lucanis on her bedroom floor—
Viago de Riva swayed a little at the thought of Caterina being right.
That it was his Crow who seduced Lucanis Dellamorte—and not the other way around.
The bag of potions that Viago had carefully selected, packed and brought her, clattered to the floor as his grip went slack.
Thanks for the tag @nirikeehan!! Fun little one to do! I think I've done one similar but not these exact prompts but whatever it was fun to do in my lunch break anyway.
Clothing Item they would wear
I've saved this inspo pic for ages but it's what I imagine Rook generally wears on a contract! Comfortable linens to move around in and keep warm, in unassuming shabbiness.
Texture in their Signature Colour
Feathers in indigo blue, as befitting of a Crow from House de Riva.
Animal that suits their Personality
A naughty kitten! Fun and playful and loves cuddles.
Environment that Captures their Story
The seaside of Salle. I imagine the crystal blur backdrop of Rialto Bay and the vine-covered, white terraces houses of the Italian seaside. This is where Rook lives as a Fledgeling and a Crow and she considers it her home in every way.
An Object in their Bag
A battered pack of playing cards. Never know when you want to kill time or practice sleight of hand.
An Interest of theirs
Gardening! Harding introduced them to it and now Rook likes to help tinker around in the dirt and watch things live and grow under her care.
An Abstraction that Captures their Vibe
Fresh air and sea wind that the birds fly on in the early morning or dusk.
Food or Beverage they Enjoy
Lemon tarte! Delightfully sweet and sour and a popular treat in Salle.
me reading @davrinsleftpectoral's Nug E Cheese fic had me (a poor australian) slowly deducing what the hell chuck e cheese was in the first place which led to me asking all my american friends all sorts of questions which eventually today led me to my brother giving me the whole summary of Five Nights at Freddy's + all the controversy on the car ride home 😭 what is my life
Every Rook is a Criminal to someone, and I will not believe otherwise. Who wants them? What did they do? Tag your gang. Steal the Dividers.
tagged by @serialsforbellara and i was so amused this morning that im doing this quickly before work
Isadora de Riva (The Rookie)
Known Crimes: Murder, serial murder, petty theft, forgery, illegal gambling, illegal impersonation of religious authority (chantry sister) illegal impersonation of personnel (a clown), illegal apostate, public nuisance
Wanted: Alive
Reward: $149,999 gold (+ monetary reparations for any money lost gambling, trauma, or therapy)
By order of: Governor Ivenci (with support from various Merchant Princes, chantries, templars across Northern Thedas & that clown)
