PROMPTS FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T USED TO KINDNESS * assorted dialogue, adjust as necessary
what are you doing?
i can handle that myself, you know.
you didn't have to go out of your way to take care of me.
i'm not used to this. this caring thing.
thank you. don't ever do that again.
i thought you hated me, to be honest.
i didn't ask you to love me!
no one's ever actually just... sat down and listened to me.
i didn't think people like you existed.
is this normal for you? going out of your way like this?
i told you i had it handled. you didn't have to bother.
i... should probably thank you for that.
i don't know what to say. this has never happened before.
wait, that's mine. you fixed it?
you did all of this... for me?
that was the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me.
i'm kinda at a loss for words.
i wasn't expecting this from you.
you did all this for me?
i had it under control.
when did this happen?
how long were you planning this?
i'm not sure what to say. i'm not used to this.
i owe you one.
that was... very kind of you. thank you.
i'm just not used to people going out of their way to help me.
usually people just look the other way, but you actually care.
this is weird. is this what caring about someone feels like?
i could have handled it.
this must have taken you forever to arrange. and you did it all for me?
it would be easier in the long run if we went our separate ways.
i hate being in other peoples' debts.
i didn't want this to happen.
people around me don't last very long.
i feel like i'm screaming and screaming and no one hears me.
i'm in your debt.
how did you find that? i lost that ages ago.
you actually... listened to me?
no one's ever paid attention.
no one's ever put that much time in effort into something for me.
when did i say that?
i didn't ask you to care about me!
i'm easily missed. people don't pay attention to me.
i'm invisible most of the time.
it's easier for people to look the other way.
do you do this often? help people?
i'm surprised you're still here.
if you're expecting something in return, forget about it.
you came back?
why do you care about me so much?
i'm a lost cause. you should just forget about me.
what's the use? there's no point.
i don't even celebrate my birthday. no one cares.
you can't just make someone care about you.
i thought you left.
what is it about me that has you so worked up?
you're making a big deal out of nothing.
thanks for patching me up.
you... brought this here for me?
but i didn't ask for this! i didn't ask for any of this!
stop smiling at me like that.
*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document
✨ First Times ✨
To spark some positive fandom enthusiasm, I thought I'd try creating a ~fun little ask prompt~, so here goes!
This can be serious ("the first time character A confided something in character B" / "the first time character B thought about kissing character A" / "the first time they dealt with loss together") or entirely silly ("the first time character A heard character B snoring" / "the first time character A's uniform was horribly out of place in front of character B" / "the first time they laughed so hard they cried together").
I encourage all writers and non-writers alike to participate however they wish! This isn't about creating mesmerizing prose, but about sharing in each others' love of the Characters™.
dragon age twt au? dragon age twt au. HAWKE X INQUISITION EDITION
sorry for not spacing these out more but i have worms infesting my brains and they’re all sending me psychic attacks related to dragon age.
Rook Story Time DLC: de Riva
An add-on for the Rook story time prompts, just for Crow Rook! Tell a story or draw something based on the prompt you are sent/choose. You can try writing in character, as Rook, if you want! Have fun!
Rook encountering Teia for the first time
Rook being assigned a target they don't want
Rook attending a function as a representative of their house
Rook helping Viago with his poison/antidote collection
Rook fighting against a Crow from a rival house
Rook taking out a contract on someone they hate
Rook is invited to dine with the family Dellamorte
Rook going on a mission where they need to serve as bait in some capacity
Rook encountering one of the Crows (or ex-Crows) from the previous games or other DA media
Rook helping clean up Treviso after the Antaam are gone
Rook escaping from a job that has gone completely wrong
Rook completing a contract with one or more of the following people: Teia, Viago, Illario, Caterina, Jacobus
Rook encountering an assassin from one of the other guilds around Thedas
Rook's most unusual contract
Rook being captured by an enemy
Rook rescuing one of the Talons
Rook's first solo contract
Rook killing someone who does not have a contract on their life
Rook meeting the new members of house Egrativi
Rook going on a contract to assassinate a Thedosian ruler
BONUS: AU where Rook is the Talon of another house
BONUS: AU where Rook is the one imprisoned in the Ossuary
time is fake and even though @lucaanis tagged me for a wip wednesday last week....i forgor :c but I'm posting now! and I'll even put two things in because i am nothing if not a juggler of wips!
and a low-stakes low-pressure tag fooooor: @guacamolleee @lottiesnotebook @the-bear-and-his-sunbird @griffongrey @veilguardiumleviosa and YOU if you are so feeling it!
below the cut: some cousins Dellamorte from my wip Courting Habits, and then a zesty little Nova and Caprice palate cleanser from a Thedas Weekend fill I'll be posting on Saturday
“So where is our lovely Rook?” Illario asks, languidly swirling his wine in the glass. Lucanis looks up at him, cautious. Perhaps he has every right to be. “She has business in Rivain,” Lucanis says. Illario watches as something shutters in Lucanis' eyes, something soft and vulnerable swiftly hidden away. Well, isn't that intriguing? “You two seem to be attached at the hip these days,” Illario comments offhandedly, casually flagging the closest waiter for an order of cicchetti. “Or, should I say, you seem to have your hands full with her. She's a lot of gaatlok in a little barrel.” “It’s…not like that,” Lucanis says, lips pressing thin together. “We are colleagues. That is all.” “Surely you are friends at this point,” Illario says, even as an unexpected bitterness chokes his throat. Surprising, and unpleasant. It nearly sets him off his wine, the idea that Lucanis is making friends with the assortment of people from all over Thedas that Rook seems to be collecting. Since they were boys, it has always been the two of them, together against every odd. The two of them, helping one another survive Caterina's brutal care and the demands of her training, then the jobs they took as full Crows. Master Dellamorte and Master Dellamorte the Lesser. Another one of Illario's little private jokes, but one can only stand overshadowed and unfavored for so long before they simply stop laughing. He loved - loves Lucanis. He wanted Lucanis dead. Part of him - most of him, the part that knows a Crow always finishes the job - still does. But if Lucanis is out making friends like the social butterfly Illario knows he isn't all of a sudden, where does that leave Illario? “I owe Rook my life,” Lucanis says softly. “But I…there is nothing more than that.” Illario considers. If Lucanis had taken a lover, at any point in their lives, Illario would know it. Certainly he knew when his cousin was nurturing a crush - all two or three of them, and only one of them serious enough for him to try and act on it - but there's more to this. More that Lucanis isn't revealing. “And here I thought you simply had a taste for de Rivas,” he comments, falling quiet as their waiter approaches with plates of cicchetti. “Well, if it is as you say -” “When have I ever not meant what I said?” Lucanis asks wryly, rolling his eyes. “I said I would grow a beard, and look at me now.” “ - of course, my mistake, how could I have forgotten you're a Crow of your word?” The familiarity of their banter makes Illario's guts clench. “But if there's truly nothing between you and Rook, because you mean what you say, then perhaps I ought to…” “Ought to what?” “See if she might like to be attached at the hip to me, as well. Physically, rather than metaphorically. But only casually, of course.” Lucanis falls silent, and that silence tells Illario everything he wanted to know. Illario allows the silence to linger, to build, to let Lucanis get a little uncomfortable with the idea while Illario fusses with the plates, making sure the edge of his sleeve doesn't drag in the sauces. He is very fond of Fonte’s cicchetti, each little plate arranged for maximum aesthetic desirability, each flavor chosen to compliment the wine at the table. “I don't think that is a good idea,” Lucanis says at last, in the same tone he might say thanks, but I'd rather die than voluntarily drink this tea.
“You want me to come up with new verses for the Chant of Light about the Crows, while wearing a Revered Mother’s robes and getting you off at the same time?” Nova says flatly. “I'm sorry, would you also like for me to juggle Viago's adders while I'm doing all of that?” “It doesn’t have to be the whole set of robes,” Caprice points out, opening the balcony door and gesturing for Nova to take her leave first. “It can just be the hat. And listen, you don’t have to come up with them on the fly. I can help.” Nova snorts, leaning against the finely-wrought railing of the balcony and enjoying the night breeze. It’s still warm, still uncomfortably muggy in her leathers, but the night is young and she’s with her lover, and they’ve just killed a very rich man who absolutely had it coming. The whole of Val Royeaux spreads out before them like a tapestry, wondrous and exciting. Dangerous, even. “Go on then. Dazzle me.” “Blessed are they who fly before the corrupt and the wicked and do not piss themselves,” Caprice says. Their Orlesian accent is far worse than Nova’s, but they haven’t let something like a bad accent stop them before and they certainly won’t let it stop them now. “Blessed are the paid killers, the champions of the Just Desserts.”
This is the most handsome man I've laid eyes on
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