On blowing Emmrich Volkarin

I have to imagine that at some point, it becomes difficult for Rook to focus on saving the world. To clarify: I'm talking about the moment Emmrich first cums down their throat. It rearranges their priorities in a way that is concerning to all of Thedas.

This would be at some point after their dinner date. They've had sex once, and it was romantic and almost ceremonial - Emmrich wanted to make absolutely sure their first time together would be special. He likes to plan these things. To show Rook what they mean to him, firstly, but also because the anxiety of a first time at his age, with someone like Rook, is easier to manage if he can dazzle them first. And so he did.

But Rook is an impulsive person. And so even if Emmrich would have liked to plan and arrange their every night together as intricately as the first, he doesn't get the chance.

Their second time happens after a dinner with the others at the lighthouse, as he walks Rook to their room, and he doesn't even get the chance to plan ahead. They are talking and Rook is making flirty jokes and Emmrich catches himself *giggling*. He is giddy and a little breathless. The feeling brings painful memories of disappointment, but it is hard to think of lessons learned when Rook looks at him like he is something precious.

And all of a sudden they are at Rook's door. Emmrich is sure he had some intention of a chaste kiss, but before he remembers any of this Rook's hands are in his hair and, oh no, why I never, his tongue is down their throat. Making out like teenagers in a darkened doorway. When Rook's clever fingers undo his belt, his head still hasn't caught up with any of it and the only reaction from his base instincts is a jubilant "oh yes please". He thinks about Rook touching his cock on a nightly basis. Usually, it involves a quick wank followed by lengthy ruminations of how he might make it happen again in a tasteful manner.

Still, when they drop to their knees he protests. It's a reflex as much as anything: He wouldn't want them to think him selfish, of course. He doesn't want them to think he expects *anything*. Any desire he expresses ought to be draped in silk and rose petals.

But Rook smiles and pouts a little and bats their eyelashes at him like they're asking him for a favour, and who is he to say no then? And five seconds later they are running a hot tongue up his shaft and Emmrich is grabbing blindly for the nearest pilar for balance.

What follows is earth-shattering to Emmrich because it is so far removed from his kind of courtship. He's had a lot of sex in his life, but never the kind where someone just spontaneously sucked him off when his highest of hopes had been a kiss goodnight. It's sloppy and unplanned in a way that has him spinning somewhere between exhilaration and panic. Rook is giving their best attempt at sucking out his soul through his cock and Emmrich, somewhat manic, bemourns the fact he didn't even think to break out his calligraphy set for the occasion. Surely this is not how these things are supposed to go?

Again: This is also a transformative experience for Rook. Because Emmrich, despite all his efforts to remain gentlemanly and composed, is just too emotive for his own good. He pants and shivers and the fact that he tries to stifle the noises he makes only makes him sound more desperate. Rook can see, hear and *taste* the impact of their every move on him, and nothing has ever turned them on quite as much. Emmrich lasts a little short of two minutes, which shouldn't make it hotter but oh, it does.

He tries to warn them, but they only seem to take it as encouragement. Emmrich comes in their mouth and has to steady himself on the wall *and* their shoulder to keep his knees from giving out. He starts to apologise as soon as he can form words again. Rook seals his mouth with a kiss, the taste of his come still on their tongue.

In the weeks that follow (and for the rest of their lives after) Rook takes every opportunity to repeat the experience: In private moments, in between missions - whenever they have five minutes (because it never takes longer than that). To Emmrich, every single time marks a small existential crisis. It cannot be that easy. Rook cannot want him *like this* when all he really has to offer is his experience, the refined manner, the verbosity, the flourish. The way he is driven out of his senses every time they do this to him cannot possibly be attractive to them. It is lifechanging, twistedly romantic in a way that never even occurred to him. Every time Rook swallows his cum he swallows a confession of undying love.

Rook knows nothing of this. They are having the time of their life. And even if it's not half as imaginative as the grand romance Emmrich conjours up for them, at least he seems to like it, so they reckon it's a way of giving something back.

Davrin at some point watches Emmrich stumble out of an alleyway with a dreamy smile on his face. He walks straight into Taash as well, too distracted to notice them standing there. Rook comes after him and shoots them both a grin. Davrin is smart enough to realise what is happening - but he really wishes he wasn't.

^tagged by @soctherapy but the post was getting too long

this isnt a win for me.......

Tags!: @rae-unbeloved @lil-gae-disaster @fictionalcharactergraveyard @livelaughlovelams @alexanderhamiltonhasafatass

Tysm for the tag Sheep<33 u rlly won w Dick I’m jealous… meanwhile I’m stuck w this mfer😭😭😭 I refuse to take this as a sign….

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i’m taking the kaiser thing as a sign. I’m planning your divorce already Dei

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tagging: @birinboom @hayatoseyepatch @shroomerr @moments-in-film and anyone else who wants to!

I’m actually scared who’s the most recent in my camera roll let’s see…

AHHH not mad not mad not maddddd at ALL it’s my sweet little baby angel Neuvi ( ˘ ³˘)♥︎

Wow, I-

This is not my man. He's just a man.

1. Absolutely no one is surprised it is Kyo.

2. You will not hear a single complaint from me about having to marry that man!

3. And only partially because my mouth will be full of his...

No pressure tags: @onwinedarkseas @weeaboo-god @nalufever @hojoslutoru

I accept Sylus whole-heartedly as my husbando 🥰

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I don’t save a lot of character pics so this meme IS the most recent lmao feat @caughtnyact yours truly 🪿

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It ended up in my camera roll, because the preview of Tumblr links didn't work properly. It's this work, if you're interested.

Shall I marry both of them? Would be hard for such a monogamous person as myself, but I like both Neve and Lucanis!

Tagging @roguishcat @auroraesmeraldarose @pavuslavellan @amatus-lavellan

@maagisterpavus @mageswithcats without any pressure!

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tagging with no pressure:

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The last character in my camera roll is Helena and I would marry her and do her bidding any day.

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@rooks-dagger

Id rather kill myself but i think hed be faster, either by violence or by smashing eggs

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inconceivable

LMFAO I THINK POISON

never apologies @emmg @by-ilmater @razildor @holdingontojupiter @thequeenofthewinter I feel like I saw a ton of others get tagged for this. It’s making the rounds. Fuckin show us everyone I’m checking reblogs. I mean no pressure lol

LMAO INCONCIEVABLE, AL

Loved this. I believe I was also tagged recently by @caughtnyact and I just hadn't gotten around to doing this.

The last fictional characters in my camera roll are an art a friend @rachelajoseph did of her Rook (Yarina) and mine (Iris). Honestly, I am very okay with this. 💜

Tagging: @rachelajoseph @razildor @draco-illius-noctis @theyearningghoul and anyone else who wants to play

was tagged by @thequeenofthewinter and actually I expected it to be Emmrich bc literally my whole gallery is full of him👀 but Gale is also my husband!

tagging: @heiligequelle @falesiastuff @lineusss and anyone who wants to participate!

I’ve been thinking about the argument between Taash and Emmrich. And I think Taash’s side of it makes perfect sense and is pretty well explored in the game (creeped out by death + it brings up bad memories of their mother), but Emmrich on the other hand… I mean yes there’s the hurt of his culture and life work being insulted, yes, but there’s one line in the exchange that just isn’t making sense to me: Emmrich’s distaste for talking about dragons.

I mean, yes, feelings are running high in that scene, but even so, that comment did feel very out of place to me. It isn’t really in line with his character arc or anything we have been told about his backstory, and while I agree that the exchange is more about Taash then it is Emmrich, I do still wonder about his motivation.

Emmrich is a curious person. He asks the other companions about their culture, their homes. When asked about why he wants to live forever and why he would not fear the inevitable changes in the world he says: “There's always something to discover in this world. A fresh marvel. A new friend. I think I should never grow tired of that.”

Odd for someone who feels that way to be outright dismissive of an entire subject of zoology, wouldn’t you say?

So why would Emmrich not care for dragons?

Nevarra has a lot of history with dragons which could explain his negative feelings. He might be ashamed of its rich history of dragon hunting, or maybe the subject of dragons is one that is so painfully overdone that he is simply tired of hearing about it (imagine it as someone being really into talking about the weather, what’s for dinner, or your plans for the weekend. You’d be interested enough to start with, but eventually it would probably get dull).

But, looking into what we know about his backstory I theorise that there could be a different reason.

We don’t know exactly how old Emmrich is (bear with me, this is relevant). The text of the game would suggest he is somewhere around 50. I would probably say 52 specifically, seeing as Hezenkoss is described to be 50 and two years his junior.

The point is that this would place Emmrich’s birth right around the end of the Blessed age or at the beginning of the Dragon age.

If we get a little bit more meta about it, Emmrich’s main writer has recently been quoted as saying that after having seen his game model they would consider him to be somewhere around 55-60 years old.

That would put his birth more definitely in the Blessed age. Somewhere around the 8:89-8:94 mark, probably.

Now I need you to think about what very important thing that happened at the end of the Blessed age, something so shocking that the Divine chose to name the next age after it?

Now, forgive me if this is wrong, I had to rely on what’s available on the dragon age fan wiki for the exact details.

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The dragons returned in Nevarra in 8:99. Emmrich would likely have been 5-10 years old at the time.

One final piece of the puzzle. One of the first things we learn about Emmrich is that his parents were killed when he was a child. He was old enough to remember them, but only dimly for the most part. They were killed when their home collapsed. And sure, there’s a lot of reasons that might have happened, but given the timing…

Look all I’m saying is, if you were travelling with someone who constantly told you about dragons, the creatures that killed your parents and traumatised you so thoroughly that it gave you a lifelong phobia of death? Probably wouldn’t be too keen on hearing about them either huh……

its just embarrassing when you make a fandom related post and it doesnt get any notes like okay. so no one want to play tuoys with me. no one wants to play with our little guys together. okay thats fine. yeah its cool... puts my hands in my jacket pockets. kicks a beer can that was on the side of the road a little

another WIP! I want to add colors, but It already looks great. I decided to draw this sketch from an art book, which I found very funny.

here is the original!

i can't be the only one who's just straight-up ... bored with women hating themselves. my mom keeps lamenting to me how upset she is about her gray hair. my friend stares at her laugh lines every day in agony. my sister loses sleep over the horrible unbearable thought of looking fat. and every time these women i love open up to me, i can't help but think ... then stop staring at yourself? stop drowning yourself, narcissus, and just fucking live your life instead of sitting in front of a mirror obeying cosmetic corporations' lies. just stop it. this is getting ridiculous. you're too smart to be falling for this bullshit. "oh no but these men who hate women told me that if i'm ugly i'm worthless!" girl if you actually believe that then good luck. but i am getting worse at being supportive of people whose nonsense worldviews keep them trapped in pain. stop looking at yourself start fucking living i am pleading you deserve to be happy and it is stupid that you disagree

Someone in the comments said "you really said just stop being insecure" and yes :) make an effort to stop spiralling about your looks, challenge insecure thoughts and stop doing things that lead to you feeling insecure.

I always come back to this: Do your insecurities match your morals?

Do you truly believe that having belly fat makes people disgusting? That the media should have final say on how you feel about yourself? If you don't believe it and there is a mismatch between your moral beliefs and your gut reaction to your appearance...

Then yeah. Stop being insecure. It's work but it's worth it.

Promoting @sarkywoman 's tags as that's a perfectly distilled mantra:

I am not the exception to my beliefs

For my best friend @nechestiv with her sweet little Odette

Alright I'll bite. Who's Talos

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I feel like this wasn't necessary but congrats or I'm sorry that happened

oh this is not just any ordinary physics , no ... this is ... fizzics !

Manfred just standing there like, "Dad, I threw up."

thinking waaay too hard about that one throw-away line that Emmrich has right before the final battle

where he says that Nevarra is more resistant to blights because you can't blight the dead

so okay like

this implies that the sentient(?) bacteria/virus whatever that is the blight cannot live/propagate in dead things. So anything that can be blighted is alive. therefore:

also how long does the blight persist within the body of a dead person? in DAO the warden kills darkspawn and takes their blood to use in the joining-- for the purposes of the blight, is blood simply ALWAYS considered 'alive'? The taint persists within the blood and bones of the archdemons after they are killed for seemingly an extremely long time (since wardens use it in the joining + Isseya was going to use it to blight the griffons) or are the archdemons simply unique as former repositories of the immortal souls of the evanuris?

also it is possible to cleanse the taint in several ways, including however Solas does it (probably magic), whatever it is that happens at the end of DATV to the remaining wardens + the blighted companion (maybe bc in that case the blight was tied strongly to elgar'nan and then he died? idk, seems like it would work for the companion but not the wardens. it was clearly a proximity thing, so potentially had something to do with the Veil?) and the thing that happens to Fiona in The Calling (which seems to be like... the progress of the disease was artificially accelerated and surviving it cured her? but it has to be something to do with the magical acceleration, bc the wardens in reverse weisshaupt have persisted past the end stages of the taint and they are not cured, and neither is Isseya)

If don't romance Emmrich the conversation is different when you "meet his parents" in the most sad way.

never chosen this dialog cause I'm always romancing him🙂‍↔️