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Alignment of Priorities in Complex Systems by pursuitofeverything
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
24 Jun 2025
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After the excellent dinner date in the Memorial Gardens – and an equally great time had after the fact – Rook decides that it's his turn to organise a date. Emmrich has spent so much of their relationship revealing deep, vulnerable parts of himself; Rook feels it only right that he offer something of himself in return. Arriving in Minrathous with little information as to what their evening might entail, an off-balance Emmrich neglects to mention his own plans for the night.
This work contains a brief allusion to a potential past sexual assault of a minor not related to the canon characters (ch. 2), and has some cartoonish depictions of violence (ch. 1). Neither is explicit, but I chose to mark the work as non-warned and cover this here so that you can make an informed choice. Chapter 3 is entirely free of archive-warning-relevant material, and also includes the smut. Do with that information what you wish.
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- Part 4 of The Big Emotion Boys
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3 enormous words; OR ‘the big emotion boys blunder through love and fear together’ by pursuitofeverything
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 Jun 2025
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Rook is willing to give everything and everyone a chance, even if they deal in terrifying and unnatural arts like necromancy. There's a difference between open-mindedness and instantly falling in love, however. And this feels worryingly like it might be the latter.
An incredibly indulgent piece in which 2 people who feel very bigly, well, feel very bigly. Sort of around each other, and eventually at each other. Follows the events of the game, and the resultant relationship beats, very closely.
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Feel free to read Chapter 4: Folding Flowers as a standalone if retreading the game's beats is not your thing.
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- Part 1 of The Big Emotion Boys
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A Collaborative Exploration Pertaining to the Required Maintenance of Requisite Instruments by pursuitofeverything
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 May 2025
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Emmrich discovers that 3 weeks without sufficient sleep or nutrition is not conducive to the proper functioning of his body. “Breakfast” is ruined.
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- Part 5 of The Big Emotion Boys
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Epilogue: what it is not by pursuitofeverything
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
30 Mar 2025
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Everyone talks about what love is, but at the end of it all, Emmrich finds himself musing on what love is not.
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- Part 6 of The Big Emotion Boys
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Blatant Disregard for the Sanctity of the Scientific Method by pursuitofeverything
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
22 Mar 2025
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In which Emmrich borders on several existential crises, but burns out his fears for long enough to enjoy some DIY pegging from a man who stopped listening to words as soon as he acquired a dick.
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- Part 3 of The Big Emotion Boys
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The Big Emotion Boys by pursuitofeverything
Fandom Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
24 Jun 2025
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This House, This Ghost, This Girl by EmmG
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
01 Aug 2025
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"But then you would see me."
"And is that so dreadful?"
A pause, silence not as absence, but as presence withheld. He fears he’s said too much, or worse, exactly the wrong thing. Foolishly, he touches the wall again, as if it might soften, peel away, let him through. It doesn’t.
"If you saw me," she says at last, voice quieter now, stripped of its earlier irony, "we would be breathing the same air. Sharing the same... dimensions. I do not—" her breath hitches, "I do not share space, Professor. It constricts. Collapses."
"What does?"
"The space," she replies, flatly. "I already told you."
In a house untouched by ghosts, Emmrich Volkarin falls irrevocably in love with a girl who hides behind the wall.
Bookmarked by pursuitofeverything
02 Aug 2025
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Ozol Adaar by agaybloodmage
Fandom Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
15 Feb 2026
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Originally an arvaarad, Ozol Adaar fled the Qunari with his saarebas when he was unable to tolerate the way that the Qun was being twisted to justify his saarebas' suffering. Once in the South, he renamed himself Özil, but, with time, he slowly became "Ozol" thanks to the non-Qunari accents of his newfound kith. Despite being one of the most physically imposing of the Valo-Kas, Ozol devoted himself to a life of pacifism and budgetary management, much to the confusion of the Inquisition.
As the Inquisitor, Ozol does his best to shoulder his new responsibilities. As a once-was-arvaarad, he knows what it means to be the one that holds back evil. This time, however, it's actually true.
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Bookmarked by pursuitofeverything
15 Jul 2025
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A Night Like This by Crowtoed
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
02 Jul 2025
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Dorian's long-time friend, Emmrich, has had his narrow yet bounteous ass dumped (again), and there's only one thing for it:
Goth Night at The Pawn Shop, the fourth-most popular gay bar in Minrathous, where he might hopefully meet a rebound (some fellow Mae and Varric know named Rook).
Only problem is: There's this annoying little punk buzzing around trying to pick up Emmrich, and Dorian is honor-bound to protect his friend.
A farce of queer friendship, verbose cattiness, Goth music, mistaken identities, eyeliner, tequila, and... love (ugh).
Bookmarked by pursuitofeverything
02 Jul 2025
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these hallowed bones by porgthespacepenguin
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
21 May 2025
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Skull, skeleton, sickle in hand,
this absurdity, all lies:
Death will come,
and she will have your eyes.
— J. Brodsky
As long-buried secrets are uncovered and a tapestry of lies begin to unravel, threatening all that he holds dear, Emmrich must make a choice that will forever change the course of his life — and Rook’s. (Complete)Bookmarked by pursuitofeverything
03 Apr 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
All pain, until it's not. Intense (occasionally frustrating) Emmrook pining, intense (
occasionallyoften horrifying) traumatic experiences, intense (loving) resolution. -
Too Late for Antique Vows by BeaBabbling
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
08 Jun 2025
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Forensic pathologist, Emmrich Volkarin, meets the woman who has been hired to landscape the cemetery that neighbours his home. As their paths intersect and they grow swiftly closer, Emmrich finds himself battling his feelings. Battling his feelings, and growing dangerously close to failing, something Rook only seems to encourage.
And it wasn’t just her forthright, sometimes clumsy, always charming physical overtures, which were already staggering: to be desired by someone young and splendid. It was her trust. The way she looked at him like he had all the answers. The way she opened her heart to him, even as he held his back by a leash. It couldn’t be as it appeared: it simply wasn’t possible. No matter how pure her intentions, women like her did not settle for men like him.
Bookmarked by pursuitofeverything
16 Feb 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Well-written modern Emmrook with a solid emotional narrative, and a conclusion that refects on its major themes.