Sometimes, after the rest of Skyhold has retired for the evening, Dorian and Inquisitor Lavellan might be found sharing a quiet moment in the library. (Dorian finds his amatus’ eyes particularly striking in the moonlight.)
Thank you thank youuuu to @theredtrails for this absolutely stunning commission of Dorian and Rowan! You captured the boys so beautifully and I am truly over the moon about this 🤍🤍🤍
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Decided to give this a go for my boy and his LIs ✨ Original template can be found here!
Yapping + gentle tags below the cut if you'd like to play along :)
Rowan/Dorian (DoriRo)
Skipped the trope section on both of these cause identifying/naming tropes and sorting my OCs/ships into boxes just isn't my forte 😅
Kinda struggled with the triangle thing in the middle there? It definitely wasn't intentional for either of them, but Dorian was the slower fall for sure.
When I say 'attachment' for Rowan, that doesn't mean clingy. It just means that he's, well, super attached. Has a hard time letting go of the things he cares about, even if it doesn't look like it on the outside. It hits him especially hard after Trespasser.
(worth noting on the attachment front that he’s been wearing the same scarf for 40 years)
They are both SO BAD at emotions (see also: the open/closed off slider lol)
I wasn't 100% on a love language for Dorian, but touch seems like it suits him (giving and receiving) since he's an affectionate guy in general. I think quality time is a very close second.
On gift giving: I really couldn't choose! I think they both like to do it, not necessarily in a grand sweeping gesture way but more of a "I saw this and thought of you" way. Rowan is notoriously hard to buy for but he can always use more practical things for his travels (new clothes, a new satchel, toolkits, journals, etc) and Dorian will usually have something waiting for him when he visits Tevinter post-TP. Dorian is easier—a book, some wine, some jewelry, and you're golden. But Rowan does also like to make things, mainly little beaded crafts, and Dorian considers his letters the most precious gift of them all :)
The Ship Sleep Dynamics meme I did for them ages ago goes into a lot more fine detail on the 'sleeping in' front. TLDR; Dorian has a hyperactive mind and doesn't sleep great. Rowan is a very Tired Boi against his will.
Dorian is only reading conspiracies because he thinks they're stupid and wants to prove them wrong
On punctuality: Seems like something that would have been instilled in each of them from a young age, Dorian especially given how he was raised. Rowan grew up with a strong sense of duty and obligation, then ofc had to be even more mindful of it as the Inquisitor, but I can see him starting to slip on that front after Trespasser (in part due to the memory issues).
Rowan/Davrin (Davro)
I searched high and low and could NOT find a reliable source for Davrin's age, but he reads as late 20s/early 30s to me so that's what we're going with lol. Ditto for his height, but I thought it would be funny if he was one single inch taller than Dorian.
No question at all that Davrin's love language is quality time, given that half his outings are getting Rook to take a walk and touch grass
Just ignore the triangle thing i had no idea what i was doing
No choice on the 'burn dinner' because I think they're both pretty capable there? For Rowan at least, there was usually consequences for that kind of thing so he's careful not to do it. Idk if Davrin is that into cooking but he doesn't strike me as someone who'd be terrible at it. Years of eating Warden gruel might inspire him to pick it up post-canon, who knows.
Ditto on the 'talks too much' front—we KNOW it ain't Rowan lol and I don't think Davrin is a huge yapper unless he gets going on his monster manual stuff, but Rowan is not viewing that as 'too much' (he thinks it's very hot)
I really don't see Rowan as a conspiracy-reader, but we know it definitely isn't Davrin "the fade isn't real" Dragonage
(jk we know he’s bullshitting Emmrich lol) (on a serious note, we know that Davrin doesn't like unknowns anyway. "Can't carve it till I know what it is" etc etc. and I do like that banter chain in general, and how it reiterates that he’s someone who prefers what is tangible, what he can physically observe and study)
The disparity between the Rowans on 'more likely to start a fight' is so funny to me. Very telling imo (Edit: you know what actually I should have put both Ro and Dorian for this one cause Inky!Ro CAN be petty. But I think Shadow Ro is pettier.)
Same as DoriRo re: punctuality. I imagine Davrin is used to that kind of rigidity from being in the Wardens, meanwhile Rowan is used to consequences for tardiness from the time he spent enslaved. If either of them says they're going to be at a certain place at a certain time, they'll be there.
(and I'm sure Assan does not let them EVER forget feeding time.)
You learn not to hope for more. It would be foolish to.
So let's be foolish.
Hard habit to break.
I'm good at breaking things.
Hopefully not everything.
It's done it's DONEEEE after 10 hours (not including the initial sketch). Cutting myself off here otherwise I'll just keep messing with it.
Overall I'm honestly... so happy with how this came out? Even though I used my excuse of being scared of clothes to keep them nakey (which they deserve) and used a screenshot for the background, or I would have spent another ten hours on it. I learned a ton from this, the most important being that hey, I can do this art thing, actually.
Thank you for the tag, @woundedsoul12 🫶 and @tevivinter tagged me in a WIP whenever last week too I think, so consider this a response lol
I’ve decided to get a head start on some Dorian Week stuff, bc June will be here before I know it. So, been grappling with this for the last couple nights:
cropped bc it’s just a ✨sneak peek✨ but the full thing is v v cute, trust. or it will be, if I can pull it off. I’ve been fighting with that formalwear for two days 😭😂 ngl I’ve almost given up a few times and gone a different direction, BUT I think it’s important to still try things that you feel are way above your current skill level. you might surprise yourself 🤷♀️
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Thanks for the tags @chaosherald and @kogarashi-art 🤍
Wasn’t sure I wanted to post anything this week buuuuut why not, I guess. I kinda like how this has been coming along, so.
What I would really like is for this to be a companion to the Dorian/Ro kissfic (this one) I’ve been working on thinking about since…. July? Not likely, but we’ll see.
Special shoutout to @babydinosaur930 for helping me figure out Rowan’s face lol
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