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YESSENIA “ROOK” INGELLVAR | They/Them - 38 - Mage
A Mourn Watcher who dreams of starting their own traveling funerary service. They’re probably more suited to being a court jester though, despite their appearance.
Finally got around to finishing this art of my first Rook. I always find that no matter how good the cosmetics or customization in a game I have my own vision for my player character.
Following my post about Neve's name, but this one about the Dellamortes.
In italian, "della morte" means "of/about/from death"
Personally, I'm getting the urge to start obsessively searching for more "names with a descriptive meaning in other languages"
Grown men crying over a small choice in a character creation, that grants you the possibility to have top surgery scars. In a world with a corrupted magic induced plague, your biggest problem are pronouns and top surgery scars. And a non-binary character whose story you obviously didn't finish.
Yeah, sometimes Veilguard's writing isn't perfect, it's a normal game. But duck, I love their tantrums. They are like big big babies.
So, who is weak now?
That thing in Origins was a masterpiece, I don't know what you're talking about. I think it was bigger than my dalish elf's face.
Now THIS is the biggest glow-up in Dragon Age history
Still confused if I should choose Bellara or Neve. I wish I could love both.
Also, if I could be poly I would add Emmrich to the mix. That man is a catch, and I'm saying it as a lesbian.
Personally, i think it's a crime. i can't be poly in datv.
“I work alone. That’s how it is — how it’s always been—”
“It doesn’t have to be that way. With me, I mean.”
“… I know.”
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Tell me you don’t recognize this look. 💕 I dare you.
Neve Gallus at her sweetest.
(Close-ups under the cut!)
This is my city!
I have this disease where i see pictures and have to draw Neve Gallus (this was a vogue cover i think)
Good job. You panned a great game with some of the most diversity in gaming history, a poc cast and a nonbinary character played by a nonbinary actor, and the ability to be trans or nonbinary yourself and talk about it in the game. Congratulations. If we don't get another game with this level of representation for years you know what the fuck happened.
Okay, let's talk about the coming out scene, because people are saying Taash was the one out of line.
Shathann is a sympathetic character. That does not make her a good person. She saved her child from a life of servitude by leaving the country she loved and tried to preserve that culture in her child. I respect that. I also wish there was a way to encourage Taash to embrace both sides of their culture.
BUT.
From the moment we meet her, Shathann criticizes literally everything her child does. Taash runs an errand for her, and Shathann criticizes their posture, pronunciation, gender presentation, AND sexuality, completely unprovoked, yes, in one fucking conversation. Shathann invites Taash over for dinner and then makes Taash cook that fucking dinner. And this has happened before, as stated in the dialogue. Taash is so affected by this behavior and probably worse they have endured their entire life that they say "you don't get to tell me who I am" at a simple question about their heritage, out of pure instinct.
Now to the actual scene.
Taash invites their mother to their new home and prepares a dinner for her, which Shathann immediately criticizes and has Taash make vegetables to go with. Can you imagine inviting someone into your home for dinner you prepare only for them to shit on it and ask you to cook more. And Taash does so, with a grunt. I'd be like bitch you're in my house, I cooked, eat. But they just do it.
Then they say it. "Im nonbinary." Shathann asks what that means, completely fair, and Taash explains that it means they're not a man or a woman.
Shathann asks if this is because she criticizes their gender presentation. Now listen. I have a parent who thinks nearly everything "wrong" with me is a reaction to their actions. It pisses me off. So Taash is getting reasonably frustrated, and insists that's not why. VALID. They were asked a question and they answered.
Let's talk about the Qun and gender identity. Yes they have a word for people who identify as a different gender than they were assigned. But this is implied to apply to trans men and women, not nonbinary people, so Shathann is asking Taash if they "just" identify as a man, because that's something Shathann can better understand, something more convenient for her to process. Sort of like when trans people come out to someone and are asked if they're "just gay."
No. And Taash says no. They have explained who they are. If Shathann was just having a hard time processing it that would be one thing, but she basically talked over Taash and tried to suggest that they were just a man, which they are not. Taash is being vulnerable. Taash doesn't even HAVE to tell Shathann this, but they want to, they think she deserves to know.
And what Taash says next is not purely to do with this one conversation, as explicit in the text. "why am I never enough for you." Never. Not now. We have seen Shathann critique Taash in every scene they share, and that's with a whole other person present who is not in the family. We don't know what happens in private. Shathann signed her child up for a fucking war without even talking to them about it. What Taash says is the build up of years of being talked over and criticized for everything they do, provoked by offering themselves to that person in a vulnerable position only to be talked over and criticized more.
"Why am I never enough for you."
And Shathann does not answer. She doesnt say "of course you are." Even if she disagreed with Taash's identity, which would be shitty, she could still affirm that they are enough for her. She doesn't.
She fucking leaves.
Maybe she thinks that's what Taash wants. Maybe not. But if someone asks you something like that, you affirm them. You say they are enough. Especially if they're your fucking child. But no, this conversation is too inconvenient for Shathann, she's not getting her way like she did when she signed Taash up for a war without their consent, so she just leaves. She could've said "I don't understand, but I love you." She couldve said anything. But she just left.
I'm sad she died. Im glad she accepted her child in the end. But no, Taash was not in any way out of line in this conversation.
Shathann was.
Slow progress on my Lof Rook.
I’m gonna make the chess piece look like the lighthouse.
Everytime an artist includes the mole on Emmrich's nose, I ascend to a higher state of being.
So insane to me that his merchant in Treviso has not one but TWO griffon skulls at their market stall. Did they raid the Cauldron or what?
Reblog to share awareness, because I certainly did not know THAT
Are you seriously telling me that I rawdogged 200 hours of Veilguard without upgrading my Rook's spells at the Caretaker