#effie rook

[little-elf-wanders]

Why did Varric let her in the group?

[briarfox13]

Effie Rook, Marine and Deputy 

Finally decided on a name and look for my Deputy when I get Far Cry 5 <3 

[little-elf-wanders]

I just realised how bad Effie and Solas are going to interact.

Like, they will straight up not agree, and this time it isn't even because I just don't like him - because there's potential for him to further explain what he meant with his plans and for me to change my mind if it makes sense, however, so far all we have to go off of doesn't paint him in a good light. No matter what romanticists say to defend him. We don't have the facts. Specifically for a Rook. It paints him very much as destroying the world. Multiple characters have reacted like that's what he's doing, the biggest example being Varric himself when he outright says it in the comic. So those of us who aren't reading into every little comment he made takes it for what he said it as. Which hasn't been much. And it's pretty alarming of a concept without absolute assurances. I don't take his 'lol trust me' message well, because I don't trust him.

But what I know for a fact is Effie's Mournwatch beliefs directly conflict with Solas's. And it'll be interesting to see if that has any weight in game.

They both care about spirits, that's about the biggest connection they have. The issue is they both have differing views on how that care takes place.

Solas, of course, created the Veil, but he hasn't been around to properly see what it does with spirits in this world. We see a reaction to mages binding a demon like it's the first time he's seen it. He's reactive and horrified - one Mortalitisi he even killed somewhere else, though I believe it was because of an idol they were using and for making a wisp stir their tea. Fair play to him with idol tampering and knowing abuse of a spirit.

He's seeing spirits be twisted against their nature and it is his fault. The mages doing the binding are people who don't have the same understanding of how spirits operate, though, so you can't under any circumstance blame them for thinking they're doing what was taught to them is alright. You cannot kill those mages in blind anger for not knowing what you know.

When confronting the mages, he tells them he's not helping them. Tell me why the fuck it's an ego brush he prefers about being smarter and not 'He's right, there's something about this you don't know!'

The rifts are opening everywhere spitting out demons, and they are terrified, they are hunted by rogue Templars in a mage/templar war that left a lot of angry outliers, and his only thought to them not knowing other than doing what Circles taught them is they deserve death? If they knew better sure, but very clearly they did not.

I'm showing this because Solas is extremely knowledgeable and could have chosen to teach that spirits are different from demons and that pulling one from the fade and binding it just warps it against its nature, then shown them how it went back to being a spirit. I'm aware this was his friend, so some aggression and reactiveness is understandable. But tell me why there wasn't an option to talk him down? Or to have the option to give him a way to see that some people don't understand? It was simply 'let him murder these people for which he'll love you, or disagree and he'll hate it.' And I'm not sympathetic to that at all, I would have respected him more if we got given literally any other reaction besides murder them for his approval. The mages were scared and upset, that isn't a reason to murder them. Were they wrong? YES. Obviously. But it could have been something so much fucking more. Lavellan knows this. Or she should.

Now back to Effie. We know this about Solas, she does not. The thing is, the Mournwatch seems to respect the dead. And spirits. Maybe not all of them hold those views like a certain Mortalitisi but I'm going into this believing Effie certainly does, and I suspect Emmrich does too given Manfred. She believes when someone dies a spirit is shunted from the fade. If this is true? Effie will be furious at Solas for creating the Veil without a shred of thought for it just to use the spirits as an excuse to break it. He cares more about the spirits than people. His own people are just the exception but you can't threaten what he has and only accept some. I'm curious how this might play out, if it does at all.

His biggest aim was to lock away the gods, but it completely disrupted how Thedas now operates, including how it grew - and how some countries have zero information to work with because they fear the unknown. While some respect it, like Nevarra and Rivain. Even Avvar hold a huge respect for spirits. Effie see's it as part of the ecosystem, now - which might be a wrong thought to have but those spirits are now part of that and have been for long enough there will be a significant issue or problem if it's suddenly removed. And that's entirely Solas's doing. Maybe I'm wrong to believe there'll be an issue, a magic fix it seems anticlimactic when they've built up his whole scheme to be apocalyptic.

So, if he gets mad at how the Mournwatch find the spirits suitable bodies and handle the supernatural issues from said spirits going berserk, she's fully going to tell him he's the reason why they need to find them bodies in the first place and he doesn't get to judge or break it because it's hard to stomach. They do this so they DON'T turn into demons.

And that maybe there's some other way to fix it that doesn't involve shady ass schemes and with-holding vital information that could change how systems do teach these subjects. But I don't know. She loves spirits more than people, she appears apathetic to people but she doesn't want them to bloody explode or be ripped apart.

[little-elf-wanders]

So for Effie, I've been thinking about it. Ruminating it in the brain soup, if you will. I could go the easy Morticia and Gomez route with her and Emmrich, it's right there... ripe for the picking after all. But I had spotify on, on her playlist and I got smacked with the memory of what Alistair said about being a Grey Warden.

Shorter lives. Blighted. No kids. And oh... Oh, Davrin, with his bold and charming personality to offset the tragedy in that. Effie could see the death that surrounds him and waits for him and see the beauty in it, in how he fights endlessly and still retains a personality. I could see her be drawn to the life in him, it could balance out her deathyness - plus recycling the corpses of darkspawn seems infinitely more creepy than working side by side with another necromancer. A gals gotta make her own name, y'know?

I can picture Davrin and Assan slaying a bunch of darkspawn, titled and famed as a monster hunter, just for my own little monster to be trailing along in his shadow using her Death Caller magic like a little ghoul.

Him, trained to see and fight monsters looking into her black sclera eyes and not seeing one, just seeing a deeply hurt woman who survived some horrors and built her own identity to cope with it. Like he pulled up his shield, she pulled up the shadows.

It could be very sweet.

And wherever a Warden goes, death does follow.

[little-elf-wanders]

For Effie's romance I'm torn. On one hand I'll have this:

Because yes besides Laudna from Critical Role the main inspo for Effie is Morticia Adam's, and Emmrich is so Gomez coded.

But on the other hand:

Black cat and golden retriever energy potential with Davrin. If he turns out to be different personality wise, Effie does give off the energy that she could shatter like glass, and I 100% see Davrin taking that personally to be a protector type. (Or he mistakes her for a monster and is deeply apologetic for it)

Davrin's gonna be the wildcard because I don't have a full beat on his personality. But either way choosing between them is going to be tough.

[briarfox13]

I was tagged by my friend @starsandskies to use this Picrew to make some OC’s! Thank you <3 

Top Row-Aneirin aep Morgana (The Witcher 3, Blood and Wine) and Kita von Barre (The Witcher 3)

Second Row-Effie Rook (Far Cry 5) and Hope Anderson (Detroit Become Human)

Third Row-Saskia Shepard (Mass Effect) and Merrin Ryder (Mass Effect Andromeda)

Bottom Row-Enna Hawke (Dragon Age 2) and Blackie Trevelyan (Dragon Age Inquisition

I tag @occorner @slothssassin @eliza-betho @lechatrouge673 @mimikoflamemaker @jeannedarcprice @darth-salem-emperor-of-earth @ravenqueen89 @effelants @agentkatie but no obligations <3 

[briarfox13]

OC Stats

Effie Rook

PLACE IN SOCIETY

✖ FINANCIAL – wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty

✖ MEDICAL – fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged

✖ CLASS OR CASTE – upper / lower / middle / working / unsure

✖ EDUCATION – qualified / unqualified / studying

FAMILY

✖ MARITAL STATUS – married, happily / married, unhappily / engaged / partnered  / divorced / widow or widower / separated / single / it’s complicated

✖ CHILDREN – has children / no children / wants children / adopted children

✖ FAMILY – close with sibling / not close with siblings / has no siblings / siblings are deceased / it’s complicated

✖ AFFILIATION – orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by both parents

TRAITS & TENDENCIES

✖ disorganized / organised / in between

✖ close-minded / open-minded / in between

✖ cautious / reckless / in between

✖ patient / impatient / in between

✖ outspoken / reserved / in between

✖ leader / follower / in between

✖ sympathetic / unsympathetic / in between

✖ optimistic / pessimistic / in between

✖ hardworking / lazy / in between

✖ cultured / uncultured / in between

✖ loyal / disloyal / in between

✖ faithful / unfaithful / in between

SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION

✖ SEXUALITY – heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual / omnisexual / demisexual

✖ SEX – sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable

✖ ROMANCE – romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable

✖ SEXUALLY – sexually adventurous / sex experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious / uninterested

ABILITIES

✖ COMBAT SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

✖ LITERACY SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

✖ ARTISTIC SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

✖  TECHNICAL SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

✖  MAGICAL SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

[briarfox13]