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Colorful OC Asks
a big collection of questions based on color language! all questions under the cut 💕
❤️ RED ❤️
1. What is the easiest way to make your OC angry? 2. What aspects of a person—appearance, personality or otherwise—are attractive to your OC? 3. Does your OC enjoy sex? 4. How important is the concept of strength to your OC? 5. Is your OC vengeful? 6. Are people afraid of your OC? If so, is that fear warranted? 7. What would others consider the most attractive part of your OC?
Harding saying Rook is great while she's still healing from the danger they got her into 🥲
What do you think of the people who’ve gathered? [2/2]
The Crows, and Lucanis as First Talon
or: brood has had many thoughts about the crows and lucanis for a long time now
While this meta is about Lucanis and Veilguard, I need to begin with Zevran.
In DAO, Zevran takes a job he knows he cannot do. But after the Warden unexpectedly spares him, he becomes a Crow on the run—and he stays a Crow on the run for the rest of his life. It is important to consider this, and to consider that Zevran is no one in particular, not politically. He is not important to the Crows' politics or to any politics outside of that organization. Essentially, he's one of many.
Despite this, the Crows hunt him.
There is no choice for anyone to stop being a Crow, ever. It is a lifelong commitment for even the most ordinary and unremarkable (again, speaking politically, although also in terms of skill) among them. For Lucanis Dellamorte, grandson of Caterina, the current First Talon? For Lucanis Dellamorte, who has been trained and groomed to succeed Caterina? For Lucanis Dellamorte, who is uniquely skilled amongst the Crows, so much so that he got his own unique moniker and was the immediate recommendation for Rook's team?
once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)
There will never be another character like Blackwall Dragon Age. He's a Grey Warden. The first time you meet him, he saves you from being kirked. He's an idealist. He's a romantic. He's a war hero and a protector and a knight in shining armor. He's a liar and a bullshitter and a coward. He's a family man. He's traumatized by his family's tragedy and his own failures. He's a sports fan. He hates nobles. He's trying to impress nobles. His best friend is a lesbian half his age. He made a suicide pact with his coworker. He's a fuckboy. He genuinly likes women. He helps his friends get laid. He makes toys for children in his free time. He's a child murderer. He always lies about who he is. He always tells the truth about who he is. He gets psychoanalyzed by Varric without either of them realizing it. He fucks so loud it scares the horses. He idolizes courtly love. He's not a Grey Warden. He's every Grey Warden that ever walked on Thedas.
Haha hehe im giggling like a little freak
He's so horrible and traumatised <3
More of him :3 btw
The Inquisitor and Solas - Agents of Change
These are the slides after DAI, before Trespasser. The Inquisitor was seen as "a leader of a changing world order" with the "power to shake kingdoms".
And the message is clear - anyone who becomes capable of changing the existing order is treated as a threat by the institutions that benefit from that order.
Whether you disband the Inquisition or place it under the Divine, the independent power disappears - an independent force capable of reshaping the landscape can't be allowed to remain independent.
Whether it was intentional or not, the parallels with Solas continue strongly even in this.
Solas stood against the established order of his age. He challenged the Evanuris and inspired rebellion. History remembers him through propaganda and he becomes a monster, a liar, the Dread Wolf.
The Inquisitor experiences a version of that same process. Once their influence grows large enough to threaten the status quo, they too become someone whose power must be limited and whose legacy is rewritten by those in authority. In Callback (but starting in Trespasser), the established powers don't see the Inquisitor as a hero anymore. They see someone with too much influence. Skyhold is taken away and the Inquisitor is spoken about as though they're a dangerous, charismatic figure whose power must be contained.
Which makes me think of Rook, and specifically how I view Rook.
While I would have loved the Inquisitor to play a much bigger role in VG, looking at it this way makes their absence make more sense to me. By this point, the Inquisitor has been deliberately diminished by the existing powers. They can't set foot in Minrathous without the Venatori trying to assassinate them, and the Grey Wardens don't trust them. The Inquisitor isn't free to move through the world as they once did because they have become too influential and too dangerous to the established order (like Solas). They are indeed too powerful because once again it is the Inquisitor who naturally assumes leadership in the defence of the south with people rallying around them.
What's interesting is that this pattern even extends to Dorian. His desire to reform Tevinter grows out of his time with the Inquisitor and with Solas. Inspired by what he experienced there, he returns home and co-founds the Lucerni to push for meaningful political change.
And what happens? Once more, the movement of change becomes a threat to the established order. Maevaris is framed for treason, the Lucerni is dissolved, and the work continues underground as the Shadow Dragons. It's just another reminder of the Inquisition's influence and how dangerous it was. It inspired people across Thedas to challenge the systems they had always accepted. Just as Solas' rebellion was dangerous and inspired in others the same. And this makes sense why both Solas and the Inquisitor have become figures that many people want removed from the board.
So now Rook. Unlike Solas and the Inquisitor, Rook isn't an agent of change like they were. Rook doesn't challenge the existing order or try to build a new one. Instead, Rook's role is to bring people together. They convince factions with very different interests to work toward a common goal because, with Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain threatening the entire world, there really isn't another choice.
I could argue that Rook succeeds because they aren't carrying centuries or years of history and political baggage (yes, they challenge their own faction, I'm not talking about that, they are a relative unknown compared to the Inquisitor). The factions can rally behind Rook because they aren't a threat of a changing world order in the way Solas and the Inquisitor have become. They're simply someone everyone can work with against a common enemy.
And it's interesting to me that Rook can respond to Solas and the Inquisitor in very similar ways, seeing them primarily through the roles they have played in the world rather than simply as people. Solas is blamed for creating the current crisis, while Rook can accuse the Inquisitor of having to clean up their mess. In different ways, Rook places the burden of the world's current state on both of their shoulders.
Even the help Rook asks of them reflects the same parallel. Rook asks the Inquisitor to use their influence to gather armies and information, yet the Inquisitor can't. Solas faces a different limitation. Trapped within the prison of regret, all he can really offer is his knowledge and guidance. Both are reduced to supporting roles, not because they have nothing left to give, but because circumstances have left them unable to lead the way they once did.
If the Inquisitor had tried to lead the same charge as Rook, I imagine many would have viewed them with suspicion. They're a political or religious figure whose motives are constantly open to interpretation (like Solas). I'm sure many would assume they had their own agenda, especially an Inquisitor Lavellan who romanced Solas. In a world already filled with rumours and propaganda surrounding both of them, it isn't difficult to imagine those stories being weaponized to undermine the Inquisitor's leadership.
And yet, despite it all, Solas and the Inquisitor are still doing what they've always done, just in the background. The Inquisitor leads the defence of the South, while Solas spends those few weeks fighting alongside the Shadow Dragons. Neither has stopped acting according to what seems to be their nature. Whatever their larger goals or whatever the world chooses to believe about them, both continue trying to prevent unnecessary suffering and protect others wherever they can.
And as always, I welcome any new insights or things I might be wrong on. This is only my perspective.
actually there is a Rook who picks that thread off political action up - Mercar, whose origin story and faction are all about challenging the status quo. which is one of the reasons I love the Mercar-Solas dynamic so much (especially with an elf/mage Mercar) because here you have someone with a very similar history of standing up for what they believe to be right despite overwhelming odds, and being driven into exile for it. the First Warden calls this out explicitly - they have a detailed criminal record! - and tbh I wish the game had leaned harder into that baggage.
with the elf mage detail, you can go further - Rook and Solas have both held a position of tenuous power (mage in Rook's case, part of the Evanuris for Solas) and benefited in however small a way from the very systems they set out to destroy. there's a shared history there.
when Solas looks at the Inquisitor, he sees someone bound up by the systems of power they threatened to destroy - much as Mythal was (which hits extra hard for an inky who drank from the Well). when he looks at Rook, he sees himself as he was when he was younger. that balance of personalities didn't work the first time around, but this time the two of them make it through and show Solas how to break out as well.
The third prompt for Doriaweek was "night at the ball". I have been wanting to redraw one of my old arts from 2017 for a long time and the pose seemed very fitting for this one.
Rookdex: Varien
Varien for @maagisterpavus
The wheel chose Varien for today and oh my god he’s literally so prettyyyyy, I loved drawing him sm!
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Thanks to @velnat004, @epiphany-jones and @ratbagjasper for the tags!! Remembered that Rook Appreciation Week is very very soon the other day, so I'm scrambling to get this gifset done. She's looking pretty good so far!
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