A screenshot of a Tumblr Ask, referencing a Rook Ask Game I shared! The Asker's name and pfp has been cropped out incase they don't want to be shown on bluesky! Ask: The Empress and the Emperor for the Rook Tarot asks please 🥰 Answer: Hewwo!!! TYSM Red - I can't wait to dig my teeth into these! 🥰 Ask Game these are from <- feel free to ask me any of these I'll spend the next few days answering! 💖 Answers under the cut! The Empress: What does family mean for Rook? So I think the best way to describe what family mean's for Az is with the word "Bittersweet". He had a very not good upbringing, he loved his dad a lot and his dad loved him, he cared for his mum and his mum *did* care for him but she also... wasn't the best person tbh. His parents put him through a lot, keeping someone locked away for the first like 13 years of their lives will really do a number on them. There's a strong frustration & resentment that grows within them no matter how nice you are or how much they care about you. His dad was great but, not home much due to military stuff... and his mum was home frequently as a SAHM but she didn't originally want to be a mother and that kind of showed as Rook grew up. There were lots of wonderful moments with his mother {she introduced him to {continues next image}
Answer {continued}: of wonderful moments with his mother {she introduced him to alchemy and to gardening for example} but as he grew up more and more of those turned into awful moments as her stress revealed more of her buried frustration at not having wanted a kid and that in turn lead to LOTS of fighting, screaming matches, mean and awful shit said that you shouldn't say to a child. Then the one adult who was around more often than his father, and was nice to him died and well, the circumstances around that... and then what little he had of family was gone after a massive fight not long after and well... yeesh trauma truly. So for a while, Family meant shit to Rook. He hated the phrase, it mostly made him feel bitter and upset that he never really had a good one. BUT when he met the lighthouse crew. Taash felt like a younger sibling {Qunari, Trans & Queer? With Anger & Family Issues? Like a mini Rook truly!}, Davrin felt like a long lost friend, Neve was like a super cool older sister, everyone else felt like cousins and it all just created such a warm atmosphere that Rook couldn't fully hate the word Family anymore. Especially when Emmrich and Manfred came into the picture, then he didn't mind having a lil family with his paramour and his new skelly son either :3 So yeah, lotsa bittersweet feelings about it! {Continues next Image}
Answer {Continued} The Emperor: What does Rook's leadership style look like? A very "Motivational Speaker Whose Winging It" style. He is holding on with nothing but hopes & wishes honestly & he is just having an internal breakdown everytime they have to try a different strat for the 10th time on a mission. He does support everyone as much as he can though, and even though it's obvs he's winging a lot of it he doesn't let them see he's freaking tf out internally! TYSM for the questions this was a lot of fun! If you have any questions about any of this please feel free to ask & I'll reply ASAP! 🥰
"What Does Family Mean for Rook?" & "What's Rook's Leadership Style?" 🤔💖
These were so fun to answer, anyone got any more questions? I always love yapping! 💖✨
My Tumblr // The Ask Game In Question
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