Relationship: Rook/Lucanis, Rook/Spite/Lucanis
Rating: E
Wordcount: 200k words, 47 chapters, COMPLETE
Tags: Graphic Descriptions of Violence, Veilguard sequel fic, Post-Canon, Established Relationship, Antivan Crows, Smut, Grief/Mourning, Past Abuse, Blood Magic, The Chantry, Codependency, Complicated Relationships, Tranquility, Rook and Lucanis are both traumatized to hell and back, Self-Harm, Eventual Happy Ending
Summary
Solemn, devoted Lucanis. He doesn’t know how heavy his regard is, how the force of his attention sends shivers down her spine.
Dutybound Lucanis, who would never ask her to stay in Treviso; does he think it’s kinder that way? That the question, once vocalized, might clip her wings?
He offers deaths at every turn, like each life is a bauble that caught her eye at market. The world holds perhaps a score of throats he wouldn’t slit at her word. It's sweet, in its way. Comforting, sometimes, having the most fearsome Crow in Antiva at her shoulder. Galling, occasionally, when people look at her and only see the threat of Lucanis’s shadow.
Lucanis, holding her after the latest round of nightmares. Anchoring her to sanity with his soft beard against her cheek, his hands on her ribcage while her heart tries to beat itself out of her chest. Every night in his arms is another night she’s grateful she outlived the gods.
Life would be simpler if she loved him a little less.
Or: The gods are dead, the world's a mess, no one is happy about the new Talon, and Rook's haunted by regret. Rook, Spite, and Lucanis figure out how to live despite it all.
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The Create-a-Thon is an event where DA fandom creators and DA fandom appreciators will be put into teams to try and win the most points for their team! Winning points has two phases:
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Fanwork appreciation period: Interim points will be tallied and then teams can earn extra points for commenting on fics in the collection (limit 1 point per user per fic), writing and posting recommendation lists (1 point per user), or creating works inspired by others in the collection.
The winning team will be announced with all members and will get a custom banner for their team (and bragging rights).
What kind of works can be posted?
Any DA fanworks that were created during the creation period and can be posted to Ao3. Crossovers or AUs will be accepted as long as there is at least 1 DA character. Please try to tag works as accurately as possible, so that others can seek out works they’re interested in during the appreciation period or avoid those that they may not wish to engage with for whatever reason.
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Anyone in the DA fandom who is 18+ and has Ao3 and discord accounts, creators or otherwise! Commenting on fics also earns points for teams, so producing something isn’t necessary to participate! We’ll try and keep the teams even between creators and appreciators.
i have many hot takes like "i dont like the popular character" or "the acclaimed scene isn't that well written" but i have a positive hot take for once : i really like the fade in dao. it's in fact one of my favorite parts of the game, i like the exploring and backtracking and unlocking. i like being a creepy spirit and a little mouse for a bit... i think it's fun
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RULES & ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS: Please take the time to re-read our Rules and the requirements for assignments before signing up. RATINGS: If you are interested in receiving or creating Mature/Explicit level works (see Ao3 rating(s)), you must "opt in" by checking the "E" box for both offers and requests. Please note you must be 18+ to offer/request/create Mature or Explicit level gifts. For a more detailed explanation, click here. TREATS: If you are open to receiving treats, or a specific type of treat (single-recipient, multi-recipient, fanart, fanfic), you must "opt in" by saying so in the sign up description box. This field does not apply to your offers. For a more detailed explanation, click here. "OTHER ROOKS": Because there are so many different options for Rook, we are allowing participants to opt-in to a wider range via the Optional Details box so long as they'd be considered eligible. For a more detailed explanation, click here.
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Once nominations are finished, you'll be able to sign up. In your sign-up, you'll specify the works you'd like to receive and the works you're willing to create. (They do not necessarily have to be the same!)
You must fill out at least three requests and three offers. You may only select each pairing once, but may give multiple ideas per pairing in your prompt.
If you are interested in receiving Mature- or Explicit-rated works, you must be at least 18 years old and opt-in by checking the appropriate box ("E"); this is not a guarantee you will receive a higher level.
You will have to fill out several fields on the sign-up form:
↳ Relationships
Here you can write in the relationships that you wish to request. As long as it is part of the tag set/eligible nominated pairings, it should be able to be selected here.
If your chosen relationship is in the tag-set but isn't auto-completing, this is unfortunately a bug on AO3's end that we cannot fix -- but if you copy and paste your relationship from the tag-set into this field, you should be able to submit. (Please contact moderators via email at [email protected] if you get an error and let us know what the error was.)
We have increased the amount of allowed Requests per participant from 30 to 40!
You may list between 1-4 pairings in the same Request field. That does not (necessarily) mean you want all four ships in the same fanwork. We allow multiple pairings in the same Request Field because it allows participants to request up to 40 unique pairings, rather than just 10. Some people group thematically, or by character.
Example of someone requesting three, non-connected pairings. The participant here loosely grouped their "platonic" ships together into one Request Field.
Example of someone requesting a pairing.
↳ Additional Tags
This field is to mark if you're open to receiving fanfiction, fanart, or both (check both boxes), for this request.
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If you are open to receiving Mature- or Explicit-rated works, please check the box to indicate your interest. We use the AO3 ratings guide as far as judging what each rating entails.
Any participant under 18 should NOT indicate interest in M or E works, as those are intended for 18+ audiences only.
Please choose your ratings carefully! Indicating interest in receiving higher rating works does not mean you are guaranteed to receive them, just that other people will be allowed to gift them to you in this exchange. If you're not comfortable with that possibility, do not check this box.
This recipient did not check the "Explicit" box; they will not receive any Mature or Explicit level works.
↳ Letter
This is a place to put a link to a letter, if you have one. A letter generally is a completely optional, longer version of the description field, and might include more details you'd like your creator to know, or things like pictures that are hard to paste into the description box.
Letters are commonly hosted on Dreamwidth, Tumblr, Google docs, or other such freely accessible websites.
Please note that the moderators cannot enforce any DNWs you put only in your letter.
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Please feel free to use this field to go into some detail about what you would like; this helps give the creator of your work some different ideas about what they could make for you.
If you are open to treats, please indicate interest. See "Treats" for more.
Because there are so many different options for Rook, we are allowing participants to opt-in to a wider range via the Optional Details box. If you've participated before and used our Treat template, this is a similar idea! Post here explaining how.
Examples of prompts or helpful information you could share with your recipient (reminder, your creator is not required to follow your prompts/likes):
General trope likes, e.g., Fluff, First Kiss, Dwarven lore, There Was Only One Bed, Enemies to Lovers, etc.
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"What If?" prompts, especially open ended ones, e.g., "What if Blackwall did the Joining ceremony with the Hero of Ferelden in DAO? Or met HoF in the Deep Roads during the Jaws of Hakkon DLC in DAI? Would they have similar perspectives, or different?"
Rating restriction clarifications, e.g., interested in E rated smut, but not E rated violence
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Example Description. This person has NOT opt into treats and cannot receive any. Please see here for more help formulating your DNWs.
4. CONTINUE TO THE “OFFERS” FIELD
The process to Offers is similar to Requests when it comes to pairings and denoting interest in creating fanart and/or fanfic. However, there are a couple differences one should make note of:
↳ Ratings (Offers)
If you are interested in creating Mature- or Explicit-rated works, please check the box to indicate your interest. We use the AO3 ratings guide as far as judging what each rating entails.
Any participant under 18 should NOT indicate in creating M or E works, as those are intended for 18+ audiences only.
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If you want, you can write notes to the mods, but this isn't required. Some things you might want to include:
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Please do not use this field to ask to be matched with a specific person.
↳ "Any Relationship" Box
If you would like, you can offer to create a work for "Any Relationship."
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The only qualifications you can make are the category of pairings (i.e. F/F, F/M, M/M, Other, Gen, or Multi) or by DA game (i.e. DAO, DA2, DAI). You cannot differentiate by any other qualification or request.
An example of someone offering to draw fanart for any F/F pairing.
An example of someone offering to create fanart and/or fanfiction for the pairing "Fenris & Donnic Hendyr," but requesting not to be matched with a specific user.
5. A NOTE ON MATCHING
After sign-ups are completed, creators and recipients are matched based on their sign-ups. Matches are one-way; that is, while it is possible A may write for B and B may write for A, you are more likely to have A writing for B, and B writing for C, and C writing for A.
You will be assigned to someone who has at least one request that matches at least one of your offers for the below two fields: relationship pairing and type of fanwork.
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seeing a lot of posts about fandom being an avenue to improve your craft and etc which is true but also you dont have to polish your work ever. no one NEEDS a beta. you dont even have to edit. you can just make stuff and its already worth sharing just because you made it.
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Welcome to the Lord's Lost Weekend, three days celebrating our favorite Pirates, Seers, and Treasure Hunters of Thedas! Take your Lord of Fortune for a beach episode. Give your Rook a taste of the Rivaini lifestyle with a faction swap! Tag us at @lof-weekend or #lofweekend and we’ll reblog all of your Lords of Fortune fan works.
This weekend will run from August 7 - 9 by @zennihilation, @davrinsleftpectoral, and @serialsforbellara! Special Thanks to @blackwall-my-tiny-husband and @davrinsleftpectoral for extra help with the assets!
📢📢@marbled-polecat @xkatchy @lemondelighted @casa-dei-corvei @apothe-cary uhhhh i feel like i'm forgetting some of my other friends with Laidirs?? but please spread the word! Also hmu if you'd like your Rook or Laidir to come to the party. Not entirely sure what Xiqaa's up to but you know it's something fun!
Edit @thecaryatid please say Ceridwen can come play with us
Drawing almost every Dragon Age character — Part 17, Isabela
Gorgeous, stunning, beautiful woman, no other words necessary. One of my faves in da2. Romanced her first and truly her support after Leandra's death was what got my Hawke (and myself) through it. For a person who doesn't do feelings and emotions she's sure as hell pretty good at those when it counts
So Captain America in the game is a tank, so to help communicate that he has some fairly bulky armor but in order to not fuck up his animations they kind of just beefed him up to roughly fit the silhouette of bulky armor Cap. But also it does make him look like Bara porn.
there's a thing you want to make, so you open a new document.
you come up with an opening line. you think, wait, there are so many other lines I could open with, I should think of all of them and then pick the best one. you realize that's crazy, and also that you can't pick the best one because you'll only know the best way to open the piece when you've written the rest of it. you start writing and realize after the first two paragraphs you have a better idea for how to open. you think, I knew I should have thought of all the possibilities first. no that's dumb. you re-start and get several pages in and the concept you began with starts to melt like an ice cube in a hot pan. what was it? did you ever even want to say something, or did you just want to look like you had important, meaningful thoughts and opinions? words are starting to abstract, like semantic satiation happening to your entire vocabulary. what are words? you're pretty sure people use them to express their thoughts, which would be helpful if you had any real thoughts. maybe you need to do more research to make your thoughts more real. you need to read more--not for enjoyment, purely so that you don't embarrass yourself as a person and artist. you need to acquire life experiences with the sole objective of eliminating the personal flaws that will be visible in your creative self-expression. as you are, there is not enough in you to make something good, no matter how many drafts you write.
you close the document.
later you open it and it's, like. it's fine. could use another draft and then you'll post it.
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i think ive been so enamoured with tragedy and unhappy endings recently because it's so common for us to take comfort in the idea that we're okay because we will be okay, you know, the whole "it'll be okay in the end and if it's not okay it's not the end" type thing, this desire to put our faith in things turning out eventually, and that's why people sometimes get upset if something doesn't have a happy ending that gives them closure. but i honestly think there's something equally or even more comforting in having to cope with the fact that in reality the happy ending can't always be counted on. in trying to accept that fact, you're sort of forced to find your comfort and meaning elsewhere, which is what tragedy is asking you to do. if you know a story is going to end badly, can you still invest in it? can you survive it for as long as you're asked to? because then you have to concede that the things that happen and the lessons you learn during the story still are meaningful and fulfilling even if they don't culminate. if the story is unfinished and the threads are loose and you don't get closure, can you still find a way to let this frustrating and unfinished experience mean something to you? you kind of have to. can you be okay with it if you aren't able to believe that things will be okay in the end? without looking forward, can you be okay right now
Cordelia's always been willing to eat pills no problem as long as she gets them with a few treats, but the antibiotics she's on right now are killing her appetite and she's refusing her pills.
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free the nipple has to make a resurgence for a number of reasons but bro look at our upcoming eternity of wet bulb temps youre smoking straight up cock if you think im keeping a shirt on when it hits 105° in new england
everyone tits out with a parasol is such a beautiful world to imagine that the fact it doesnt currently exist fills me with equal parts fire and misery
Someone faster at art than me needs to do a rendition of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" but where all the parasol-using people are tits out.
