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I like seeing my favs happy as much as the next guy but like sometimes it’s not about a happy ending for me it’s about the most interesting conflict and Lucanis sticking with the job and all the drama that comes with it is ten times more interesting in that regard if I want a runaway crow I simply already have Zevran

#lucanis dellamorte #I also just do not see Mr. Lucanis ‘I’m not losing anyone else’ Dellamorte as being ready to just up and leave any time soon #his relationship with his family and his job is complicated and I need the nuance I need the paralyzing ‘don’t wanna go don’t wanna stay’#of it all to live #A happy ending is an ending I need to keep putting him in situations #I just don’t wanna take the easy route of Rook being like ‘let’s go!’ and because he loves her he’ll just abandon his own feelings on the #matter and be like ‘okay sounds good I just got my family back and running away means if I see them again they’ll probably be trying to kill #us both for leaving an organization we’re technically not supposed to be able to leave :)’#on top of not putting him in that position I don’t think she’d do it to Viago either #at the end of the day between the people they care about and that all they know are the crows I think they’d both choose the devil they know #taliesin de riva #I should really come up with a ship tag to stick these posts in rip #dav thots #💕; you me and spite makes three #the fabled ship tag

The thing is I think in-world the explanations for spirits and demons are deliberately dichotomous because most people want easy answers for things that are not so black and white. Solas tried to explain it even back in inquisition. (Thoughts about spirits and Spite under cut, sorry I get wordy)

Emotions are messy and nebulous, but people separate them into good and bad anyway because they don’t want to think about how they’re actually neutral. The actions you take because of these emotions can be used for good or to harm, but the emotions themselves are just natural responses to the world.

Spirits are entities that embody emotions, so if people believe there are good and bad emotions, that means there are good and bad spirits. They call these bad spirits demons, but in reality demons are just spirits reacting to emotions in ways that are often harmful. This can take many forms which means some demons will be very dangerous and some might be just a little mercurial. There are no hard and fast rules that just because a spirit can be considered a demon that means they have to cross a certain threshold of bad behavior.

We’re conditioned to think of spirits and demons as two separate things or at least two sides of a coin because we learn everything we know about them through very biased rhetoric. We start the story in southern Thedas which is very wary of magic and the fade. Even in the North they aren’t much bigger fans of “demons”.

But the thing is emotions are not only nebulous and hard to understand, they are also fluid. They change often and sometimes drastically. That’s why spirits are so easily influenced and ‘corrupted’ by outside variables.

Just like you can be a little annoyed or consumed with rage, or a bit upset or so depressed you can’t get out of bed, I don’t think all demons embodying negative emotions are equally dangerous. That’s why I dont necessarily agree with people who think it shouldn’t have been so easy to reason with Spite. Or that he should have been more volatile and dangerous.

Just like when you’re angry there are things you can do to calm down, when people (namely Lucanis and Rook) begin to listen to what he is saying and making an effort to understand him, Spite mellows out. He never really gave off the energy of the Rage or Pride demons you can fight as mini-bosses, but he calms even more because there’s less to fuel his negative emotion. I don’t think he ever stopped being a spirit of determination or passion or whatever he truly was before, it’s just that under duress emotions like that can evolve into more negative outlets even if at their core the emotions are the same.

I think most spirits are as much demons as they are spirits because I truly believe the only thing that changes is how they express themselves and their corresponding emotion. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

#lucanis dellamorte #spite #I think spite was well written actually I just think are understanding of spirits and demons is intentionally flawed #our* wowee….#thinking thots rn #dav thots

I don’t personally think it’s so difficult to believe the companions didn’t grasp the full extent of what was going on with Rook and Varric.

“Varric” spent most of his time in the infirmary—where the real Varric’s clothes were being kept along with the pieces of Bianca. It was effectively a shrine, the closest thing they had to a grave without a body or ashes, unless they went back for him and got that too (edit: come to think of it they had to to get his jacket soooo my bad). Harding and Neve probably visited too, and it was probably pretty widely accepted that if someone’s paying their respects or “visiting his grave” as it were, you kinda just give them space. If someone hears Rook talking to him they likely assume that’s what they’re doing, visiting the grave and “speaking” to him. Without further context who would jump straight to the assumption that Rook is under the impression he’s still alive?

#rook #varric tethras #veilguard spoilers #I understand where people are coming from when they assume the group kinda side eyes rook and thinks they’re being weird #there are definitely times in between where someone’s Rook could mention Varric in passing in a way that tips them off and makes them pause #but also I don’t think it’s terribly unlikely that it was a house of cards that just never got knocked down either #talking to him in the infirmary could just be seen as visiting his grave and if they catch snippets elsewhere #it could be seen as a ‘oh Ariana were really in it now’ type thing because again #even in a world of magic I don’t think the first thing you would consider is that you’re friend is seeing ghosts #dav thots

It’s still pretty annoying to me when people downplay issues with the Lu romance as wanting a Latin lover type of archetype because idk about them but I enjoy different types of romance and the one thing that unites everything from slow burns to the raunchier love affairs is that Good Romance is as much about the build up as the pay off and A Lot of People agree that there was Very Little Build Up in Lucanis’s route

#lucanis dellamorte #me saying ‘I liked it but it could have been much better’ does not qualify as trying to shove him into an archetype he does not fit #it’s that I have read and enjoyed slow burns for about as long as I have interacted with fandom spaces and this Was Not That #it’s also about capitalism and its effect on creative industries and how it’s impacted the writing throughout the whole game #but just because you personally enjoyed a subplot as it is doesn’t mean other ppl aren’t allowed to take issue with it #also another unrelated but not really sort of thought people disagreeing with something writers have said is not the same as attacking said #writers those are two separate types of people and there are ways to politely disagree #disliking someone’s writing choice is not immediately a personal attack #some people just don’t know how to act #dav thots

I made that post before I’d ever seen this because I don’t read through every codex entry I get ever, but Zara gets me forreal

#Zara Renata #except the difference is I was arguing that demon is an arbitrary concept where she’s arguing about how many different ones there can be #whatever the point is that the game is offering an intentionally flawed perspective and spirits are interesting as hell lmao #dav thots

I do love the geometrical aesthetic the veil jumpers have going on, I love when magic is basically just fantasy math

#dav thots #maybe that’s why I liked watching the magicians so much too #bellara lutare #it’s funny because I hate irl math #but like yeah really easy way to demonstrate how mages are smarter than basically everyone else love that for them

I think veilguard lends itself to possibly make multiple rooks like I did with my hofs but as much as I’m tempted I kinda like it being unique to the first game

#dav thots #I mainly did it because technically all the other hofs technically exist and just don’t survive in origins #so I just framed it in a way Duncan made it in time for a few of them #random spark of inspo as opposed to just doing it now because I did it before