"You could try me for true love's kiss, if you like," I whispered to Lucanis, feeling giddy and willing to be ridiculous. "I promise not to tell the princess." "Have you started drinking without me?" he retorted, as he finished wrapping the last of his weapons in fine cloth and placing them in a bundle. "You know what I have to say to that."

Chapter 22 gets to have a little bit of fluff. As a treat. #MagpieFiles #Rookanis

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In AWR Chapter 19 of The Lights Out Job: "I recall the words, 'It's going to explode if I look at it wrong' uttered earlier this day," he said. "I distinctly remember you using that argument to convince me to come on this charade." "Don't be like that, Luca. I'll protect you," I said, still grinning madly at him. "You needed to get out of the house, and I really did need your help with the key. Holding a magical forgery inside the lock for a little while is a far cry from trying to figure it out from scratch while defusing a magical bomb." He winced a little at that description. "How long can you hold it?" "Don't surprise me too badly and I'll be fine," I said, pointing into the leftmost cabinet of the drawer. "Speaking of surprises, I have bad news."

In A Working Relationship, a high-ranking stranger is all that stands between a young Rook and the Talon that plans for them to die carrying out a contract in Minrathous. #Rookanis #PrequelFic #MagpieFiles

In screencaps from The Princess Bride, where a masked Westley/the man in black is labelled as "Magpie" and Inigo Montoya is labelled as "Lucanis", the man in black holds his arms open in a gesture to the sky, saying, "The downside of a friendly spar with a master swordsman is that I'll inevitably lose." The scene cuts to the man in black being cornered against a wall, with Inigo/Lucanis's body pressed against his. The scene cuts back to a smug-looking man in black leaning against a rock, saying, "Depending on your definition."

In this week's chapter of The Lights Out Job...

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#MagpieFiles #Rookanis #fanfic

A quote from a story: "We stumbled. He righted us. He was faster than me with the blades. His sword kissed the back of my neck, touching against the braid as well as the skin, but my hand was wrapped around his throat. "Point to you," I breathed, my heart racing as I felt him swallow." End quote, from A Working Relationship #MagpieFiles. The background is a dark forest with mist.

From my #Rookanis chapter-in-progress from AWR/The Lights Out Job:

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#magpiefiles #crowwrites #lucanisdellamorte #datv #fanfic

Sworn enemies Magpie de Riva and Illario Dellamorte show up at the same party both wearing this. And THEN Illario finds out Mags has the gall to also be attending this party as Lucanis's date???

(From the Jeanne Friot collection that gave us the Gender Anarchy hoodie, wwd photo) #magpiefiles

Magpie "Mags" de Riva is a Teia stan first. This regularly creates friction with Viago, Lucanis, and (later) Catarina.

Friction with Illario is inevitable entirely because of self-recognition in the other (derogatory). And also that time Mags planned to assassinate him. #magpiefiles

Crowley, a demon from Supernatural, casually pulls a scroll of parchment out of his jacket while meeting with a business executive who wants to sell his soul for a contract. The parchment unfurls onto the floor and keeps rolling past the other man's chair and across the room.

I was asked on Tumblr, "Would your Rook make a deal with a demon?"

Mags de Riva, unrolling a contract:

#magpiefiles

Scheming Rook de Riva, pre-Sea of Blood:

VIAGO: What are you doing.

ROOK: Inviting the Demon of Vyrantum to join the Veilguard!

VIAGO: You already know that Lucanis is—

ROOK: Yep.

VIAGO: Are you trying to kill Illario again.

CATARINA, later: [drops bombshell]

ROOK: OK, new plan.

#magpiefiles

Day 3 - Taste

Pretend I didn't miss a day... #mywriting #magpiefiles

Magpie "Mags" de Riva is a grifter, forger, and assassin* with a habit of hiding useful items such as reference material, clothing, and supplies in Viago and/or Teia's offices and safehouses across Antiva. They know where everything is. Probably.

*also a mage

#myart #magpiefiles #daprotagqotd

Very funny that native speakers of a particular language in my fic typically just call all spirits "demons," but in a way where the tone would absolutely give you a distinction of demon (affectionate) and demon (derogatory). #dragonagefic #lucanisdellamorte #magpiefiles