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My dream is to have someone looking at me the same way as this man.

i can't be the only person who doesn't think Lucanis was imitating Illario during the "almost kiss" scene, right?

to me, it felt more like Lucanis trying - not for the first time in the game - to recapture some of who he was before the ossuary; his confidence. he's been trying, over and over and over, to pretend like he could pick up the pieces of his old life. but he doesn't fit in the mold anymore. Lucanis is trying to give rook the person he used to be - the person he thinks he needs to be - rather than the person he is now (because he doesn't know how to accept that yet).

and when that comes up against how much he realizes he wants them, he snaps away.

you can literally see it on his face. the realization. the sadness. he doesn't want to pull away. but he can't accept rook without accepting that he can't go back to his old life, and he's not ready for that yet.

the person he's imitating isn't Illario.

Lucanis is trying to imitate himself.

okthisway

I thought I'd never see you again

kaeoticneutral

Why does it feel right every time I let you in? Why does it feel like I can tell you anything?

love them 💜 art by ZombieCat

emmavakarian-theirin

so i managed to save edit my way into getting lucanis' romance scene to trigger and did some flycam shenanigans and discovered something

so usually with game cutscenes, all the characters involved will be loaded into that scene from the beginning but some would be hidden away off camera until they're meant to appear, and i thought maybe that's what was happening outside rook's room and that he'll just suddenly appear inside

but it turns out he's actually animated to stand there before he physically opens the door to enter (the door itself however is not animated to open and so he phases through it, although we do hear the sound effect of the door closing behind him)

and we know he has the line "i cannot believe we found you" but what we don't get to see is that disbelief on his face before he says it while he's entering the room

and then it cuts to when he is on camera and we see the weary teary eyed smile he gives to rook after he's made his presence known

and i know a lot of people like to headcanon that he's ended up in rook's room while they're gone at least once, either through his own intentions or spite's possession, and i think having this expression of disbelief as he walks in and sees rook is actually there this time supports it

epiphany-jones

OP thank you for this set of screenshots, which inspired—and then served as the Rosetta Stone for—a maximum-pain Tearstone two-shot. You have my eternal gratitude 🙏🏻

(it's here)