Snapdragon and babies breath for the Rook flower asks!
you guys were on the same wavelength here haha thank you!! For the Rook flower asks :) for my Juniper Aldwir
Snapdragon: What’s the most selfish thing they’ve ever done?
Pre-game, Juniper definitely has some self-worth issues (being a veil jumper under Strife did NOT help there lmao), which she mostly covers up with bravado. I think she views the fact that she ended up leaving her former clan and the Veil Jumpers as selfish acts, even though the clan thing was complicated/Strife straight up kicks you out. so it's more regrets that if she'd been more agreeable/put aside what she thinks is right/compromise her personality, she could still be doing what she sees as an important job, rather than off traveling with Varric and feeling like she's not actually contributing where she should.
Post-game, she is going to fight to maintain access and control of the Lighthouse/Crossroads. While she has good intentions with this, she absolutely recognizes that a lot of it is because she's invested in learning more about them and doesn't want other groups coming in to fuck that up before she decides the best path forward for opening up access more.
Babies Breath: Would Rook want children? Do they ever have any?
I think she wants kids in a nebulous, far-off sort of way, and hasn't thought about the details/specifics much. I also think she is 1. reckless 2. impulsive 3. forgetful (or, preoccupied with 'more important things' is maybe a better way to put it), so is the most likely of any character i've made to get pregnant on accident. what even IS the birth control situation in Thedas??? there's bastards running around all over in the plots so we know it's not perfect. i haven't given any other of my DA protags children (what with Wardens having a hard time getting pregnant, Solas romance, and Hawke uhhhh well ive just put her through a Lot otherwise) so this is new territory for me lol.
So I do think at least the first kid she has with Lucanis was NOT planned, and only a year or two after the game events. I think this would also kind of force them to take a long hard look at their lives/work & Lucanis would have to have a crisis over raising his children as Crows or not. And Juniper about probably not putting herself in so many dangerous situations in Arlathan/the Crossroads. I haven't really worked out specific details in that regard, though I have considered giving them a pair of twins bc then I get to add in the extra chaos/angst Lucanis could have about siblings, but undecided if i wanna put poor Juniper through all that lmao. I DO think though that whenever the time comes to give birth she IS going to just ignore whatever Caterina's/Lucanis' elaborate Dellamorte Estate doctors and birthing plans were and fucks off to the forest to... idk i will invent some Dalish midwife or other from her clan or the veiljumpers. But yeah she lets them overplan and freak out and then sneaks off to the woods where things are practical and no-nonsense instead. She does send someone to tell Lucanis so he's still there in the end but lol. I just think its funny that he would be way more the detail-oriented plan for every contingency parent and she's more laid back and deals with the fuss by simply Opting Out.
