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It's been a while since I did an updated pinned post and I think it's about time I cleaned this up and made it presentable for company (i.e. you).
You might know me here as gatesofminrathous, but you can also call me Rosa - it's not my name, but it's been my online name for long enough it might as well be. I also moonlight as throneofthegods on ao3. I'm a Dragon Age fic writer and occasional fan artist and you can find all my work in the below.
🗡️No Rest in This World | E | Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook de Riva | 350k (complete) | post-canon, angst, established relationship, slow-burn divorce, slavery, antivan crow politics, past trauma, mental health issues
Rook de Riva never expected there to be an ‘after' to this job. For twenty-two years, Rook was an Antivan Crow by circumstance, not by choice. While returning to the yoke of the Crows after so long away proves a bitter pill to swallow, it is life with the new First Talon that forces a reckoning with past wounds left unhealed.
When Tevinter's new Archon seeks out the Crows to eliminate the remaining Venatori, Rook is quick to jump at the contract for an escape, even as it claws at the darkest parts of her past. As tensions grow and truths come out, Rook must ask herself how much she's willing to endure for love.
🍸Last Call | E | Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook Thorne (and kind of Mercar) | 50k (complete) | modern au, romcom, humor, the hanged man is a dive bar, the antivan crows are lawyers |
What do you do when your whole life falls apart? You move to Kirkwall.
Reeling from a personal betrayal, Lucanis Dellamorte is looking for an escape, one he hopes to find as the new line cook at The Hanged Man. As closing shifts with Rook—the bar's enigmatic bartender—lead to friendship, which leads to something more, Lucanis must decide what he wants more: the life he's always known, or the unknown of a fresh start.
🥇Everything and Nothing to Lose | M (for now) | Lucanis Dellamorte/Neve Gallus/Davrin | 12k (in progress, updating weekly) | real world modern au, men's gymnastics, sibling rivalry, mystery, angst and humor, bisexuality, mid-life crisis |
Lucanis knows gold. From golden child to gold medals, there's one last gold he's chasing: the all-around Olympic gold that's eluded his gymnastics dynasty family for the past sixty years. At twenty-eight and rapidly aging out of the sport, the upcoming Olympic trials are his last chance.
Then came Worlds. After a catastrophic accident nearly ends his career, Lucanis is five months into an ill-advised, painkiller-fueled comeback. As if things couldn't get worse, an anonymous source has hired a PI to investigate potential foul play in Lucanis' accident, and now his carefully planned life is turned on its head. Add in a former competitor with an olive branch extended in friendship and a bitter, lifelong rivalry with the cousin for whom Lucanis' injury might mean his own last chance at victory, and suddenly Lucanis is wondering how much that one last gold is really worth.
💀You Only Feel It When It's Lost | T | Gen (technically Emmrich/Rook) | 2.6k (complete) | character death, regret, hurt no comfort, immortality, lich emmrich, character study, grief/mourning |
Immortality is a heavy burden to bear alone.
When the last of the Veilguard passes on, Emmrich stands alone and questions if the price of lichdom was worth it.
🥃To Be Seen By Your Eyes | T | Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook de Riva | 2.8k (complete) | pre-relationship, feelings realization, fluff and angst | *this is a prequel to No Rest* |
Rook had many questions for the Demon of Vyrantium after his rescue from his underwater prison. She had not expected one to stir up new feelings.
🩸Where Our Hearts Hunger | M | Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook de Riva | 3.8k (complete) | hurt/comfort, flirting, unresolved sexual tension, blood and injury, undressing, partial nudity | *this is a prequel to No Rest* |
Left bloodied and injured in the aftermath of Zara's death, Lucanis is forced to grapple with the implications of Illario's last words.
Rook has her own ideas for how to distract him.
📝Where Shall I Begin? | M | Cullen Rutherford/Female Trevelyan | 69k (in-progress/hiatus) | during canon, epistolary format, letters, many POVs, slow burn, coworkers to friends to lovers, lyrium addiction, sibling bonding |
For Cullen, the Inquisition was a chance to atone, to make peace with a Templar's regrets. For Evelyn, it was the chance to live a life free of the Circle's restraints and to reunite with the Templar brother she has not seen in twenty long years.
But even in the midst of chaos that follows, there are always quiet moments. Letters from a brother to a sister, separated by time and circumstance. Notes passed between friends, reveling in the gossip that surrounds a burgeoning hero. Strange figures met on the road...and sometimes closer to home. And the friendships and love that grows between the unlikeliest pairs.
This is the story of the Inquisition as told through the letters of its people. And the story of a former Circle mage and ex-Templar who, despite it all, find hope - and the chance at a future - in one another.
🫂Nothing He Wrought Shall Be Lost | T | Cullen Rutherford/Female Trevelyan | 5.2k (complete) | family reunions, fluff, first meetings, pre-DLC |
Thirteen years after entering Kinloch Hold and three months after the fall of Corypheus, Cullen Rutherford and Evelyn Trevelyan make a visit a long time coming, and Cullen is forced to reckon with the question haunting him for the past decade: just how unconditional is a family's love?
🐶The Things We Do For Love | G | Cullen Rutherford/Female Trevelyan | 750 (complete) | mabari, domestic fluff, post-canon, humor |
Cullen knows that sometimes love means sacrifice. He'd just prefer if that sacrifice wasn't sharing his side of the bed.
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