You can call me shin or whatever works lol - 30s - Veilguard lover (she/her/any)
I'm reclaiming my day (at 3pm) and I've decided it's gonna be a good one. Today's word comes from everyone's favorite rafter dweller, Batty! (@notyourmamasdeerbat)
• rejection of a proposal or idea • denial of the truth or validity of something.
Remember,
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Ok, Jasper (@ratbagjasper ) tagged me, Jess is back, I think it's time to celebrate. I'm not sure this will stay as it is, but that's why it's a wip, right?
From my letters exchange between Ayanne and Adahlen, this is actually the first one :o (come on, it is 5 sentences if you don't count greetings and signatures)
Adahlen, I really need to talk to you. As a Keeper and his old Second friend, you know? I'm not sure if you've heard, but Strife kicked me out of the Veil Jumpers some months ago (please don't say anything), and I'm now traveling with two dwarves from the South —they're amazing— to help them with… saying it's something unsettling is an understatement. I just cannot write this in a letter. Can I… if I come by to the clan, will you have ten minutes to spare for me? I swear it's important.Love,Miss youLove, Ayanne
Gentle tag for @sugar-peanut-cat @mythals-whore @davrinsleftpectoral @bronzieinthedas @handsignals and whoever wants to join :)
Author: BronzeAgeLove (@bronzieinthedas) Rating: M Pairing: Qunari Rook Laidir/Taash Approx. 46'000 words No Archive Warnings apply, please heed the tags This fic is complete and updated Tuesdays
Summary: Almost a year after defeating the Evanuris, Qatesh 'Rook' Laidir hoped she could settle down in Rivain and heal from everything that happened, but tormented by nightmares and voices whispering in her head, she decides to embark on a journey of her own back to the Tevinter workshop she was enslaved in— an attempt at uncovering a little more of a past that keeps haunting her.
Big shout-out to @stealingpotatoes who did this absolutely amazing cover. I love them so much 🥰
Summary: Illario isn't having the best of times at a party thrown by the Dellamorte family to celebrate Treviso's freedom when he becomes embroiled in bad manners and unsanctioned murder. Thankfully, Neve Gallus is on the case.
Chapters: 13/13
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Blood, Murder
Relationships: Illario Dellamorte/Neve Gallus, with minor references to Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook de Riva, Emmrich/Strife, Viago de Riva/Andarateia Cantori
Characters: Illario Dellamorte, Neve Gallus, Caterina Dellamorte, Josephine Montilyet, Lucanis Dellamorte, Rook de Riva, Caterina de Riva (named Rook,) Viago de Riva, Andarateia Cantori, Chance Candide, Jacobus Egrativi, Emmrich Vokarin, Bellara Lutare
Crow Parties are Murder is the second story in a series with Illario Dellamorte, set after the events of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It is not necessary to read either of the other installments to read this one.
Series information below.
Varien edition as promised! Tagged everyone over on Rowan's post so I won't bother y'all again.
VARIEN ALDWIR
1. He got his last name Aldwir from the little family unit he fell into at the alienage. Yes I have previously said he took it with the Veil Jumpers but I'm on my way to edit that post. The fam was a single mom and her two kids, a boy roughly Varien's age and a younger girl. He travels back south to find them post-game.
2. Varien is a type 1 diabetic. Sad lore time: his father (Taralin) and grandfather (Sylvas) both died fairly young from an unnamed illness that the Dalish couldn't cure, so Varien grows up under the impression that his days are numbered. (Some of the reason why he's so reckless? Perhaps. He figures if he's going to die anyway, he might as well go out with a bang, and of his own volition.) It's Emmrich who helps him get a diagnosis, once Varien finally breaks down and tells him that he's been experiencing symptoms.(@in-the-drowning-deep helpfully reminded me that if the ancient Romans knew about diabetes, then it's reasonable for Thedas to have some knowledge and treatments as well, most likely in Nevarra!)
3. He's a nug enthusiast. Chances are slim that he'd ever get to meet Leliana, but you best believe they'd be trading nug stories for hours if he did.
4. He's a trickster and loves a good prank. So much that he gets a Dread Wolf tattoo on his left arm for the lolz. Totally regrets that later.
5. Varien gets terrible seasickness/general motion sickness. I came up with this for his Laidir iteration in Rook By Any Other Name and decided to keep it, lol. Thank the gods for Eluvians, but he hates that boat in the Crossroads.
Thank you for the tags, @rooks-dagger (Ray’s crew here) and @chaosherald (Amara)!!🤍
Rules: post 5 random facts about your OC. It can be fun or tragic, spicy or not, short or long, with or without explanation, fascinating or mundane, your choice.
I’ve probably talked about most of these before in asks or random lore dumps, but I suppose this keeps them them all together (and my newer moots might not know some of these, so.)
Varien’s post here!
ROWAN LAVELLAN
1. Rowan got his vallaslin and his facial scar on the same day. To make a long story short, he gets into an argument with his mother because she disapproves of his choice (she expected… or, uh, told… him to choose Andruil or Ghilan’nain, but he went with Sylaise for #reasons). In true Rowan fashion, he runs off into the woods where he later finds a halla stuck in a hunting trap. When he tries to free her, she wallops him in the face with her antlers and—yeah. Not pretty. He isn’t completely blinded by the injury, but it does result in blurry/double vision and a complete loss of his peripheral sight in that eye.
2. He had a speech impediment as a kid. He stuttered a lot and had a difficult time pronouncing Rs. He grows out of this as he gets older, obviously, but sometimes it’ll pop up again if he’s really nervous or stressed (thinking about him totally fumbling the first Inquisitor speech at Skyhold). It’s part of the reason he’s so quiet.
3. Speaking of baby!Ro, allow me to officially canonize the origins of the red scarf. It started off as a blanket—the one his mom had him wrapped in when she dropped him off at the clan. It was put away for a while in his family’s aravel, until little Ro finds it one day and just gets wildly attached to the thing without knowing where it came from. Probably just liked the color, and feeling like it was something that was his and no one else’s (I imagine that, nomadic as they are, the Dalish don’t have a lot of belongings that are actually personal). When he’s little he likes to wear it around as a cape (he was a strange child ngl), but at some point he gets too old for that and his dad tailors it into a scarf for him instead. It’s always his favorite, but after the clan is gone… yeah. He’ll deny any and all sentimentality about the thing though while he carefully and lovingly repairs any holes or loose threads. It probably ends up more patchwork than anything else tbh.
4. While he didn’t pick up any flair for fashion from his tailor father, Rowan does enjoy beading! It’s not something he does all the time, but he likes making little crafts for the people he cares about—hairpins, bracelets, accessories, etc. He makes a beaded grip for Dorian’s staff, and Dorian has no idea why Ro was so flustered upon giving it to him until he later learns about Dalish courtship rituals, lol.
5. Rowan has ZERO tolerance for alcohol. None. Don’t ask him why he took every shot with Bull after that first dragon hunt. He was trying to be cool and majorly regretted it. Exhibit A:
Don’t ask me why he’s wearing that idk what I was thinking. Laundry day ig.
Passing along some tags to @the-archons-moustache @in-the-drowning-deep @tevivinter @babydinosaur930 @serbarris @serjory @lunastarhawk @davrinsleftpectoral @handsignals @grand-crow @sandcastlekings & anyone else who’d like to play!
I've seen this one hit the dash before, but this is the first time I've been tagged in it. :) Thanks for tagging me, @wolfsong-the-bloody-beast!
Who or What inspired the creation of your OC? A little game because I'm curious to see how everyone created their character, whether in personality, appearance, or aesthetics!
I'm like Wolfsong in this one: a lot of the time, my characters are born in the character creator based on which options I like, and then fleshed out further by just...playing them. But I can still talk about what went into some of the choices, and how certain traits built up.
And yes, all four of them. 😏 You know the drill by now. And we're bringing out the pics of the old versions again, because.
Thank you so, so, much for the tags @serialsforbellara, @chaosherald and @jukkaricity !!! I absolutely loved reading about everyone’s Rooks 🥹
Thank you so much for starting this one @sorcerousadventurer - I had a lot of fun!! (I am 100% sure I am crediting the correct person this time 😭)
“Rules: post 5 random facts about your OC. It can be fun or tragic, spicy or not, short or long, with or without explanation, fascinating or mundane, your choice.”
I really really love talking about my girl so I’m very grateful to have been tagged in this one!! 🫶🫶🫶 (although I struggled with keeping under just five facts 😞). I’ve tried picking things I either haven’t mentioned before or haven’t mentioned in detail.
1. Queenie has a brother! I included him on my family tree and mentioned him in passing on my Crossroads Island AU introductory post - but didn’t really elaborate 😭. I am very indecisive about his name but I think I’m sticking with Rían to keep with the “royal” theming. I had made him in Veilguard but I’m having issues with my computer at the moment and my game crashed while in CC so um 😬 - have an extremely rushed artistic recreation!
Tagged by @redaresss and @kogarashi-art - this is perfect timing as it is on topic for my long fic's next chapter + beautiful commission I still intend to post today. Thank you!!
From the days Gemma knew him before the events of VG, she was always taken by how beautiful and brutal Lucanis was, but when she heard of him saving elven slaves, she was lost. It all came back and then some when she first saw him in the Ossuary – with WINGS. It didn’t take long for her to realize her infatuation had never truly faded but when it returned, there was a new twist to it – Spite. Because Gemma could hear Spite, he fascinated her from the beginning. The day in Arlathan where they first talked and she taught him what friendship was when she was drawn to them both.
Lucanis may have known Gemma before VG, but he didn't know her. When he met her again, he appreciated the ease of being led by another Crow, but what drew him to her was her confidence and her joy. She was an excellent Crow, but he had never seen one so happy before. This was the start of the connection between them.
Spite was drawn to Gemma immediately because she was familiar to Lucanis (not panic inducing) and so different from everything he had experienced in the Ossuary. She was joy and warmth and not afraid of him.
They both have the fear of falling too hard, falling too soon and scaring the other one off. Before each other, neither of them had truly felt love before, though it scared Lucanis more than it did Gemma.
Spite has none of these fears and thinks the two of them are idiots. Fear and Love are two separate emotions and he doesn’t understand how Lucanis and Gemma have combined them.
When it’s quiet and they’re alone. When they have the chance to not worry about anything or anyone else and are given the time to just focus on themselves, the three of them share a closeness that is like no other.
Gemma and Lucanis fight about purposeful omissions. Not lies. They don’t lie to each other, but sometimes, each of them maybe don’t tell each other the whole story about something going on. Neither of them likes to ask for help. They’re both independent and stubborn and neither wants to burden the other with whatever they’re dealing with.
They make up by finally communicating and likely with a bunch of kisses and cuddles (and more).
Spite doesn’t see the purpose in fighting and is often trapped in agreements with Lucanis about not being able to tell Gemma the things he’s omitted, so he just sighs a lot and waits for the kisses and cuddles (and more).
For Gemma, the realization was in two stages. She was immediately attracted to him (again) right after the Ossuary, much to Harding’s annoyance, but her heart wasn’t really in play then. It wasn’t until the moment that Lucanis found a connection (described below), that she realized this was something different for her too. She didn’t just want to jump into bed with him and have some fun – she wanted more. Having her hold her hand was enough, for the first time ever. (Which did not truly make Lace less annoyed.)
For Lucanis, he realized he had found a connection with Gemma after Coffee with the Crows. After they left Illario, she took him to her favorite bookstore and then to her second favorite spot in Treviso to watch the sunset.
For this, Lucanis and Spite have the same moment because Lucanis struggles through these newfound feelings of attraction and desire and then needs to teach Spite both emotions while he’s reeling from them himself. Spite likely had an earlier deciding moment, but he didn’t understand it until this moment.
It takes Gemma and Lucanis a while to find each other and longer to admit their feelings for each other, (which annoys Spite), but this was the start of it all.
Tag a friend or complete on your own to share insight about an OC and that person's love interest.
Thanks for the tag, @the-arcane-archivist! I'm going to go ham on this one and yap about all four of my protagonists. (Sorry folks, but I'll at least use a cut so this isn't long on your dash! And headers/screenshots so you can skip to the protagonist(s) you care about most.)
All the yapping you want (or don't) below:
OC hairstyle meme
I’ve finally done this one, too!!! Can’t remember who tagged me cause it’s been a while, but for sure. @pixiedurango and @rooks-dagger :)))
I’m tagging @bronzieinthedas @wolfsong-the-bloody-beast @casa-dei-corvei and, why not, @blackwall-my-tiny-husband and @davrinsleftpectoral!
Ayanne is really attached to her long hair, so just know you made her really unhappy in the short hair one :P
This was super fun to do!! I feel like the only one she would actually use is the bun, if she’s home and don’t have time to make her braid. When younger she used to variate the braid style daily, more or less intricated, but always a braid nonetheless.
I’ve just discovered she’s kinda cute with bangs, but that gets her vallaslin covered, so again it’s a big no.
She would so much, instead, pick random flowers and put them in her hair whenever she’s taking a long relaxing stroll in the forest (very appreciated both by Davrin now, and Adahlen in the past ^^).
I said before that I'd be posting when I update "What You Strive For" (my Dragon Age: Origins longfic) with the second of two chapters I really like for Alistair and Castelin. Well, here it is. (And because Tumblr is having issues creating the link preview, I'm just going with good ol' formatting here.)
Go check it out, but if you need some convincing first, a preview:
“Excuse me,” Castelin said when she’d finally regained her courtly mask. “I should...see if Oriana needs help with Oren.” Without waiting for a response and ignoring Thomas’s protest at the interruption, she swept away as briskly as she could without being wholly rude to their guests. Behind her, Fergus distracted Thomas with another tale of sailing with the Mac Eanraig kin. Castelin slipped into the shade of the apple trees and away from the gathering, and let the relative silence of breeze and birdsong sink into her chest.
And gasped as an inexplicable pang of grief, bone-deep and sharp like daggers, clutched at her heart with icy claws and caused her breath to seize in her lungs. Tears pressed at her eyes, threatening to overwhelm her, drag her down into a morass of emotion so powerful and so cloying she would never resurface, never feel whole again. Everything around her faded beneath the muffling rush of her pulse in her ears, drowning all else.
She pressed a desperate hand to her chest, fighting to force air into her lungs, vision narrowing to a random point in the middle distance and sparking around the edges. Pressure, like a massive stone weight on her ribs. A flare of ice just above her collarbone.
Legs weak. Buckling.
Hopeless.
With a wheeze, breath and clarity returned in force, and with it the sounds and smells of the garden. She sucked in air like a drowning woman, scrubbing at the sweat that had beaded on her skin and leaning against a tree for support.
What in the Maker’s name had that been?
Did you like that question I sent around a bit ago about what your Warden would have dreamed while trapped in the Circle Tower? Then I think you'll like this chapter.
(Also, should I keep posting when I update this fic, with teasers here? Leave a comment below.)
Chapter 21 has the scene that matches my commission from @kogarashi-art. (Missed it? It's here!) If everything I edited today looks reasonable tomorrow, I will post it then. First, there's a corpse to interrogate.
Chance Candide does let out some Rook secrets Spite is very interested in. Emmrich does his corpse whispering on Zara. Rook and Lucanis head to Treviso with a thin thread of hope about Illario.
From the secret drawer in the dresser, she pulled out the blue crystal butterfly brooch. “This is what I wanted. The first gift he surprised me with.”
“I remember him buying this,” he said in surprise. He took it out of her hand and inspected it carefully. “That day in the market, the one I told you about, where we spent hours looking at gloves. He bought this that day.” A smile played on his lips. “I told him whoever was receiving the gloves would not like this. It wasn’t elegant enough.”
The gloves. The knot in her stomach tightened. Illario had bought the gloves for Zara.
The return of Lucanis’s Crow Mask told her he had the same thoughts. He continued to turn over the brooch in his gloved hands. “But it is pretty. It’s the color of your eyes,” he said softly.
“And it has wings,” she added lightly.
“I HAVE. WINGS.”
“Yours are the most beautiful, Spite,” she said.
Spite purred in response.
One side of Lucanis’s mouth quirked up. “He bought you jewelry when you do not wear jewelry.”
“He said I’d wear jewelry when I was given the right piece,” she laughed. “That was not it.”
A breathtaking smile broke over his face. It was hard to not to return his smile and impossible to stop herself from stepping in close. Tilting her face up to his, she closed her eyes as his lips met hers. The kiss was gentle. Soft. Warm. His free hand wrapped around her waist and pulled her closer.
Their chest armor clanked, muffled by the travel cloaks.
They broke apart, her giggles and his wry chuckle filling the room with life. The knot inside her fell away, leaving only determination behind. His smile didn’t fade while he trailed his fingers through her curls.
“Ready?” she asked.
“Ready.”
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Rules: post 5 random facts about your OC. It can be fun or tragic, spicy or not, short or long, with or without explanation, fascinating or mundane, your choice.
Thank you for the tag and the game @sorcerousadventurer! Also thanks @handsignals @davrinsleftpectoral @chaosherald and @serialsforbellara !
I'm including Callie in this one for the first time!! But Sabi first :)
Rules: post 5 random facts about your OC. It can be fun or tragic, spicy or not, short or long, with or without explanation, fascinating or mundane, your choice.
It took a while to figure out what I wanted to use that I haven’t talked about before but better late than never! Thanks @sorcerousadventurer for starting the game! And @kogarashi-art @serialsforbellara @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai @casa-dei-corvei @chaosherald @davrinsleftpectoral @grand-crow @handsignals @jukkaricity @in-the-drowning-deep @thatgaymerguyb @dudewheresmynug @niofo @seaglassmelody for the tags!
1.) Zalan stole his parents ashes from the crematorium (he hopes he got the right ones, he watched the place for a bit but it was a guess) and scattered them at the local memorial grounds because he didn’t have money to bury them.
2.) He knows exactly how long it takes to grow his eyebrows, beard, and mustache back depending on what alchemical mixture blew them off (he has Ilene and Hugo to thank for this) and how much less time it’ll take if he has Carina’s help
3.) He really enjoyed learning languages growing up, he knows trade and Antivan naturally, learned Orleasian during training, Elven when Ilene taught him after she learned Antivan, and a variety of hand signals that Ilene and he came up with while she was still learning Antivan so they could speak. I think if he’d had more free time he would have tried for another one
4.) For working on finger strength and dexterity Zalan learned how to knit in his crow training days. (I headcanon that they all learn some sort of fine motor craft- sewing, knitting, beading, braiding, origami, instruments, etc) He doesn’t really have time to make a lot of things but he has projects he works on. The year he was with Varric and Harding he bought yarn while they were in Rivain and started working on socks. He gave Varric his pair right before they got to Minrathous, Zalan figured this was good timing since the city is wet all the time.
5.) He owns several different braided hair ties (think braided friendship bracelet type things) that he deems as vitally important- two that Harding made for him while on their travels with Varric, one that Varric bought for him early in their travels after Zalan lost one in a fight, and a few from his crow family that he asked them to make him over the years with some… mixed results lol
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Gentlest tags to yap about the blorbos (no pressure) @waxlyricalmoon @aetherflowers @hedwigoprah @xkatchy @kabsey @bossuary @ratbagjasper @d7kyoshi @bronzieinthedas @maagisterpavus @pixiedurango @mushrooms-x-moss (link me if I missed yours!) and if you see this and wanna play- you!
