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tagged by @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai!! Lucanis and Isadora's 7-10 year age gap starts to show when texting...

Lucanis WOULD sign off every text like he thinks rook will forget who she's texting, and Rook would think it's cute to respond in emojis (she's teaching him and he's trying LOL)

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Bonus spicy one below the cut (or well, rook is trying to be spicy)

tagged by @serialsforbellara!! i was going to draw this which is why i left it a couple days and then realised actually i have no time so i just went screenshot diving at lunch HAHA

some of these pics are by my beloved @cravingcoconutredbull who is far cleverer with the mods and the camera than me HAHA. I think I got a variety of expressions there!! (altho funnily enough her most annoyed expressions come from scenes with viago or lucanis...)

tagging if you haven't already and want to @strawberrypinky @tkwritesdumbassassins @brainwyrmz @woodlandeelf @vixenofcadmea @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai @cravingcoconutredbull @onlyslightlypsycho @serensama @khayr @serialsforbellara @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai @doctormur @bigshrimp365 @crowslady68 @nirikeehan @therivercrow @slothquisitor @chaosherald

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tagged by @chaosherald!! how can it be june already... I thought i'd finish my longfic Rookie by now (i was aiming mid this year) but im getting there and only 3 chapters left!! furiously writing so i can post this chappy before i go on my work trip next week (where i will be unable to write and draw for 5 days 😔)

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Rook and Viago say goodbye as the Crows march for the final battle at Minrathous.

"I'll command the Crows today," Viago told her seriously as he stopped before her. He was wearing more armour than Rook had ever seen—and she could see the many pouches attached to his person were bulging with poisons and potions and antidotes and acids. "You focus on your team." "I will," Rook promised. "Viago—you take care of yourself out there. Please." Viago nodded once. "As will you. Don't be careless. Use your head. Stay alive. That's an order." Rook nodded rapidly—the reality of the situation of her Crows marching onwards into a warzone that depended on her team's success was descending all too fast. Viago paused. Then hesitantly held out a gloved hand towards her. An outstretched hand—not to a subordinate, but to an equal. Rook's eyes stung as she reached back to clasp his hand and shake it. "One more day. And we go home, Viago," she promised fiercely. "I swear it." She tried to convey all her feeling through the squeeze of his hand. Viago was gripping her back just as hard. "We're going home," he said firmly—as if the statement could bend the universe to his will. "This contract will be finished today." It was with great reluctance they finally let go. The last of the Crows disappeared into the Eluvian with a flash of feathers and swirls of cloaks as Rook pinned her House crest to her chest with blurry eyes. And Viago was gone. His absence as always, left a buried emptiness in her heart—but there was no time to linger on thoughts.

I'm sad every time I have to write them parting ways 😭 thats their emotional support Crow!!! (both ways)

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tagged by @serialsforbellara !! I also saw this go around and thought it wasn't for me bc I almost only exclusively listen to musicals but yknow what who cares I'm just going to put musical songs on this list!

I'll use LucaDora for the name and this sick album cover pic @cravingcoconutredbull took for me!!!

L - Letters | Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 In nineteenth-century Russia, we write letters / We put down in writing what is happening in our minds / Once it's on the paper, we feel better U - The Underworld | EPIC: The Musical All I hear are screams, every time I dare to close my eyes / I no longer dream, only nightmares of those who've died C - Carneval Del Barrio | In The Heights Maybe we're powerless, a corner full of foreigners / Maybe this neighbourhood's changing forever / Maybe tonight is our last night together A - All I've Ever Known | Hadestown I was alone so long, I didn't even know that I was lonely / Out in the cold so long, I didn't even know that I was cold D - Doubt Comes In | Hadestown Orpheus, I am right here, and I will be to the end / The coldest night of the coldest year, comes right before the spring O - Open Arms | EPIC: The Musical This life is amazing when you greet it with open arms / Whatever we face, we'll be fine if we're leading from the heart R - Remember Them | EPIC: The Musical Remember them when the fire begins to fade / for the fallen and afraid / We are not to let them die in vain / Remember them A - All I Ask of You | Phantom of the Opera Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime / Let me lead you from your solitude / Say you need me with you here, beside you / Anywhere you go, let me go too / Christine, that's all I ask of you

Noooo Viv and Dora will serve cunt at Caterina's fake funeral. All the Crows tremble in awe!!! Lucanis is shell-shocked. Illario is laughing. And I believe Caterina fellow girl!boss is watching reluctantly amused from the Maker's bosom.

(Also bonus clown funeral shitty photoshop bc its too funny. They could pull it off tbh)

what is more touristy than wearing gondolier outfits in Venice Treviso??

tagged by @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai !! getting a headstart on the wip wednesday train - i have not been writing this week but i HAVE been drawing like a maniac!! so last seven lines/panels drawn??

comic incoming feat zio illario ;) I'm on the last couple of panels now but here's a few WIP comparisons hehe. i was very amused with my initial sketches

and one more bonus bc i can't stop laughing at this one

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Also Rook annoying Jacobus

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Viago asks Rook out of everyone she's met, 'why Lucanis?!'

"You could have had anyone," Viago said slowly. This close, they could not mistake any meaning in each other's eyes. "Anyone at all," he continued with forced calm, "and I could have accepted it. The mountain of Crow marriage proposals on my desk. Any of your team members. Even the Grey Warden—though he would have been a bit of a stretch—I could have forgiven in time." He gripped her hard—then took a sharp breath. "But why Lucanis?" he shouted, shaking her. "WHY?!"

"Because I love him too!"

Viago stomach dropped at the confession. A pit of despair. "Rook…"

"I can't choose who I fall in love with," Rook told him fiercely, "but I know now that I love him more than anyone." A lance of hurt jolted through Viago's heart—but she went on as if she had not considered the impact of her words. "Viago, he didn't fuck me," she cried, "We made love. Because I asked for it. Because he wanted it too. It's what we both wanted after everything we'd been through. At the end of the world."

"Rook…"

"Don't I deserve this?" she cried desperately. "Viago, after all I've been through, can you not give me this one thing?" More tears spilled down her cheeks. Viago tried to pull back his hands—but Rook was there clutching his sleeves and holding him tight. Holding him to the weight of her beseeching, wet eyes. "Don't I deserve this love," she asked slowly through her tears, "now that I've finally found it?"

Viago crashes out about Rook & Lucanis' relationship.

Viago de Riva was not an idiot.

Viago de Riva had seen the signs.

Viago de Riva had seen the signs and he had on these suspicions, confronted Rook more than once about her feelings towards Lucanis Dellamorte…

…And Viago had chosen to believe Rook's words every time. Over his own instincts. Over every glaring, little clue along the way; the way Rook defended the man as if her very life depended it; her unreasonable, emotional outbursts despite the fact he was not a Crow from her House; the way she couldn't help but mention him in almost every conversion; the way she would look at Lucanis, and the way Lucanis would look back at her—

Viago had pretended not to see it—pretended it meant nothing and that was simply how Lucanis always stared when giving his full attention… But even he would notice the Demon's gaze linger a little too long on his protegée. The intensity of it that fixated almost unblinkingly on her lips whenever she talked. The unnatural stillness in his focus except for the flicker of his eyes to watch whenever Rook flitted around or moved for the door.

Like a predator analysing his prey.

Or perhaps a master assassin hunting a younger, more foolish Crow.

(Or maybe just a besotted man in love).

Thanks for the tag @nirikeehan!! Fun little one to do! I think I've done one similar but not these exact prompts but whatever it was fun to do in my lunch break anyway.

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tagging @strawberrypinky @tkwritesdumbassassins @brainwyrmz @woodlandeelf @vixenofcadmea @cravingcoconutredbull @onlyslightlypsycho @serensama @khayr @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai @serialsforbellara @doctormur

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