It's giving these three in the absolute best way 🩷

Chapter 4 is here – Enjoy a sweet conversation between Emmrich and Lucanis, where Emmrich learns that he might not have been imagining the affection behind his recent actions, before things take a turn he wasn't expecting. 👀
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#emmcanis #lucarich #veilguard

Chapter 3 is up! Enjoy a slightly unhinged and exhausted Emmrich venting about the research process, bragging about his son, finally admitting he needs help, and trying not to get his hopes up at the way Lucanis keeps bringing him tea. archiveofourown.org/works/630622...
#emmcanis #veilguard

Perhaps those who donate their bodies get wages sent to their loved ones in exchange for their labour? I have SO MANY QUESTIONS about this that I'm never going to get answers for.

There's also a possibility that it works on a volunteer basis. Maybe you fill in a card like you do as an organ donor that explains exactly how you would like to be laid to rest, or that you're willing to donate your body to the betterment of the Necropolis in whichever way they see fit.

I imagine that Emmrich would take issue with this if that was how it worked. He seems to be one of those people determined to do as little harm to those around him as possible. Or perhaps it's so deeply ingrained as just part of the culture that it doesn't seem all that wrong to him?

Or is the wisp worker factory what happens if you don't have money for a grave? Is this what happens to those who don't have family to make those arrangements? Is this what they do with prisoners? With their Johns and Janes Doe?

I imagine money might have something to do with it. Emmrich says he only laid his parents to rest in the memorial gardens long after they died, once his career was starting to take off. I doubt just anyone gets a spot in the memorial garden. This would imply that there are pauper graves too.

Everywhere else in Thedas burns their dead, so we can reasonably assume that all the bodies and skeletons we see in the Necropolis are Nevarran citizens. This being the case, how does it get determined what happens to your body after you die?

And then others are unceremoniously Frankensteined into wisp-powered servants and put to work. Right as you arrive you see that they use these skeletons for hard labour.

Some, like the Nevarran king and the skeleton chefs who make your romantic memorial garden meal with Emmrich, are allowed to continue on as they were in life. Some, for whatever reason, are set up like museum displays.

I'm busy writing about the Necropolis in my fic and it's just occurred to me how wild the ethical implications of it are. It really feels like there's a discrepancy in how different bodies are treated. Some are laid quietly to rest in the lovely memorial garden or a separate burial chamber.

Reader, I wrote it: archiveofourown.org/works/630622...
Happy Veilentine's Day 😉🩷 #emmcanis #lucarich

...they're doing alright, and maybe some kissing and then some more than kissing between all three of them. 👀 A little bit of body horror, a lot of hurt/comfort. Is that something some of you would read? Because I have plans.

...by essentially duplicating the body. Basically creating a second Lucanis cell by cell, this one with Spite permanently at the wheel. And it's really long and painful so Emmrich is there the whole time making sure they're both okay. And afterwards there's a ton of cuddling and making sure...

Is there a market for a fic where Lucanis wants to be separate from Spite, but he knows Spite wants a body so he agrees to let him stay, until Emmrich says that he might have something that suits both of them – an extremely old and extremely painful ritual where you separate two entities...

There's always a cat precisely where I don't need a cat to be.
#gimlitheorange #orangecat

I'm obsessed with this Lords of Fortune armor for my Rook because it makes me imagine that, after being introduced to the concept of grave gold by Emmrich, the two of them exchange pieces so that they'll always keep a bit of each other close by forever.
#emrook #emmrichvolkarin #dragonage #veilguard

It's almost unfair how fine he is. How are any of us supposed to stand a chance? 😭🩷

SIR. If you keep looking at me like that while you're leaned up against the desk, we're going to be late for our next very important mission.
#emrook #emmrichvolkarin #veilguard

He's like if Christian Bale and Luke Pasqualino had a baby 😂

Ohhhh my god 😭🩵🩵🩵

Reader, I romanced him.
#emrook #specklaidir #emmrichvolkarin

This is one for the refrigerator door 🥹🩷
#manfredvolkarin #skeleson

So I've fully given into romancing Emmrich this playthrough and I think it's because, as a theatre kid, I've seen this exact couple in every community theatre group I've ever been a part of. That's the director and the set designer (and builder) right there.
#datv #veilguard #emrook #dragonage

Why is this Zac Oyama 😭😂
#veilguard #dropout

Realised today that we have a Treviso coffee maker and it makes me so happy to imagine offering Lucanis a cup coffee made with it and the way he'd literally hiss.

Oh man, I can't wait for the season finale of the four fucking decades of January we've had this year.

If I had a nickel for every time my purple-haired elf Rook romanced Emmrich, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.