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encouraging people with lich emmrich romances to consider that their rook could end up like audric! 2gether 4ever, skeleton lovers until the heat death of thedas
this is actually a multipurpose suggestion because for angst enjoyers you could write it as emmrich trying to grab rook's soul and stick it in a skeleton so they can be together, but never ever being quite sure that it's actually them or a spirit that's mimicking them. Came Back Wrong sort of deal.
encouraging people with lich emmrich romances to consider that their rook could end up like audric! 2gether 4ever, skeleton lovers until the heat death of thedas
was thinking about that ask about how Manfred learns curse words from taash bc rook doesn’t often curse but I think Manfred would pick up other things from Rook. Like yelling and staring into the void.
nevarrans love their gold (and so do the lords of fortune) ✨✨
what it feels like to take emmrich and davrin with you as your team
it's basically just emmrich 'gentle parenting' volkarin vs davrin 'tough love' the warden
Different dads, different techniques
This has no right being so funny to me
I went through all companion banters on DanaDuchy's channel after playing the game to write down all facts about companions/the world that I haven't seen brought up anywhere in the game as a writing reference (and for funsies).
Note: This list may not be exhaustive. I might have missed some something or didn't write it down because I considered it common knowledge. If you have anything to add, please DM me or send an ask! (do specify what banter the information is coming from, though)
Note 2: Posts from this series (mostly) don't include information from banters specific to quests or between companions and faction members. I plan to do another playthrough to capture more of those and will add any relevant info to the character posts.
Emmrich field research outfits??
Emmrich falling so hard and fast for Rook that it scares him oh my god my precious angel ;w;
Continued:
He doesn't expect someone to truly love him back MY HEART AAAAA
While Rook is trapped in the Fade prison, Johanna and Emmrich are forced to help each other overcome their own regrets. DRAGON AGE | EMMRICH & JOHANNA; EMMROOK | WORDS: 4,553 | RATED: G
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It’s pathetic, really. Volkarin has always been a soft touch, but this snivelling is something else.
Despite her own prodigious knowledge of anatomy and the undead, Johanna had not known the human body capable of making such a hideous racket prior to the events of these past few days. Corpses do not weep, and even if they did, she hardly cares.
The worst part isn’t even that she’s reduced to mere ornamentation in the already ostentatious study of one of Nevarra’s greatest necromancers, forced to watch him burn a hole in the floorboards with each anguished thump, thump, thump of his feet as he teeters at the edge of a nervous breakdown borne by the weight of his own misplaced compassion. No, this part was inevitable. Volkarin had always been destined to crack one day—she just wished she could have been the one to cause it.
No, the absolute worst part, worse than having been denied the opportunity to gloat over her lifelong rival, is that despite the circumstances, the lovelorn fool’s dedication to his Watcher duties have been thorough to a fault. Johanna has of course tested the wards binding her soul to her remains multiple times; she’d been trying to escape before this most recent escalation in their circumstances, it would be downright idiotic not to try when facing down the end of the world as they know it. Especially while her only hope at salvation rubs his red-rimmed eyes and mutters inconsolably under his breath, unwilling to accept that it is in fact his infernal meddling which has doomed them all.
Emmrich and Johanna's dynamic is just fascinating to me.
I've said before that her skull banter in the lighthouse sounds like a divorcee who's bitter at the person she admires for not turning out the way she'd wanted. And I still stand by that.
In Emmrich's short story, Johanna thinks it's a waste of her time and effort to travel the Necropolis just to figure out what a screaming skull (that's too weak to become a demon) is going on about. But Emmrich cares and he's going to figure it out, so she goes with him because someone has to make sure he doesn't get himself killed down there.
By the end, they discover the man whom the skull belongs to wasn't buried with his recently diseased wife, as he and his wife had wished. Johanna scoffs at such pointless fury. Emmrich makes a comment about "enduring friendships," which Johanna also scoffs at. But the two are described as walking back "in companionable silence."
Also in the story, Johanna compliments Emmrich's corpse whispering. She says he "possess[es] a grand talent" and that he's successfully honed his skills. And Emmrich beams at the compliment.
In the boss battle with Johanna, there's a bit of banter where she says she'll make sure to bury Emmrich and his friends (or his "new lover") in the same tomb. And this could just be a dig at Emmrich's compassion, but I actually believe she means this. She wouldn't want him to be a screaming skull in the afterlife.
I have so many thoughts about them! More below the cut for length and my inability to organize them.
Ok in a lot of video games, you'd have someone in your group that can do something cool, like talk to corpses, and then you never use it. Why do they do that.
Veilguard gave us a guy that talks to corpses and legitimately everyone in the group is solving problems by having this guy talk to corpses. He's talking to corpses left and right, I just had three separate cut scenes of corpse guy doing his corpse thing and I love it.
i received a vision of their life like 5 years after veilguard
always interrupted(in a true gomez and morticia fashion)
modern AU where corentin forgot to turn the radio volume down before shutting off his car so emmrich's life flashes before his eyes when he's hit with 4 seconds of eardrum destroying hyperpop
