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alt text for some of the rookanis-focused lucanis storyboard art shared by Nick Thornborrow on BlueSky! i think this adds some delicious context hehe

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Four screenshots of text

Lucanis with Spite wings out kissing Rook in the rain. This sketch was meant to portray an intense moment in the midst of going into a battle we don't expect to survive.

An intimate moment between Rook and Lucanis in the hot springs at the Dellamorte Estate.

Lucanis holding Rook in an embrace but looking warily back at Spite's wings protruding from his own back.

Rook and Lucanis having a wholesome (read spicy) experience in a secluded tunnel on a gondola. Lucanis's back is to us and his shirt is half off. Rook is obscured by Lucanis but the two are kissing.

One screenshot of storyboard pics with the text "Don't think for a second I haven't seen your fan art. 👀]

BONUS bc this one just made me laugh

[alt text: Ilario being seduced by I forget her name. But the villain in Lucanis's story. The villain is in a glowing red pool and drawing Ilario towards her who sits on the edge. Lucanis spies in the foreground.'

housederiva

I’m still thinking about this tweet and more specifically what it means if Viago is giving away a Crow Rook. Viago de Riva, the only son of the king who chose to be a Crow over being banished and who holds a bit of resentment knowing that he could be ruling the country better than his father and that he has more power than he does

It was summed up beautifully here but I want to know how much of that lecture would entail what it means for a de Riva to marry into the Dellamorte's. As much as Lucanis and Rook love each other, that's not what the foundation of their wedding would be in the eyes of every other Crow. Lucanis is on a downward spiral to being the sole member of a failing house, he's not going to make it as the First Talon, nearly every other House will have a blade at his throat the second Catarina dies. It's not even a position he wants and it's not one Illario is qualified for

But Viago ticks off both those boxes and I'm thinking about the amount of responsibility/sway he and Teia have to the point Teia is the one planning Caterina's funeral and how they seem to be the Talons leading the resistance against the Antaam

I'm thinking about how Lucanis could essentially use the de Riva's as a shield willingly or otherwise. Because no one's going to target him if he has a well known alliance with de Riva because they have a well known alliance with Cantori. It would be a domino effect leading to another civil war within the Crows and the wedding - the act of Viago giving Rook, his protege, to Lucanis would be the clearest signal of that I can think of