DAV Is About Trauma, Bonds, And The Importance Of Found Family. It's Not About Rook Having A Harem.

Ahh, I remember the day when I decided that my Rook and all of my future Rooks were going to romance Taash.

normal people going through a gender identity crisis: [to a trusted person] .....so i think i might be trans

taash dragon age going through a gender identity crisis: [to a heavily traumatized coworker] nice clothes, loser! are you wearing them to impress your mother????

I don’t understand Taash hate

I don’t know if I’ve said this before but I occasionally see people say “oh Taash is rude and mean, and they don’t respect others yet expect respect with their pronouns”

The respect part especially gets me because correct me if I’m wrong Taash never demands respect from anyone except maybe the Dragon King and their mom. Even with their pronouns, I don’t even think they do as much as correct anyone even in the scene with Isabela when they get it wrong

They’re not even rude either because like a lot of times when they’re talking about what other companions do, for example Emmirich’s “death mage stuff” and “corpse stuff”, it’s very clear, or very clear to me, they are saying it like that because they don’t know anything about it, the same way I would call what an IT guy does “computer stuff”

(Also used Emmirich specifically as an example because I’ve noticed Emmirich girlies, no offense to Emmirich girlies, get really defensive about anything that’s even sorta negative towards him. Seen it with Taash and Harding’s interactions with him but this is off topic.)

And if Taash is too mean of a companion for you to even consider liking them??? Bro this the game being criticized for everyone being too nice if they’re too mean I think you’d go into cardiac arrest hearing any companion dialogue from the previous 3 games. Not specifically someone like Morrigan or Fenris literally any of them

Honestly the way Taash acted in Veilguard reminded me of how Karlach acts in BG3 except Taash is just a lot more chill and less energetic

Also to say Taash has the worst story in the game is insane when Harding’s exists (no disrespect to Harding I just think that her questline sucks)

Back on the Emmirich topic except it’s on topic with Taash, Taash being weirded out or cautious about the shit Emmirich does is literally the most normal reaction to Necromancy.

Anyway I had a dream last night that there was a part in the Taash romance where they decided that the Veilguard wasn’t killing enough gods. They asked Rook to go scrounge up an extra god to take down. Why limit ourselves to two, after all?? My Rook was very amenable to the request!

I didn’t even question that this isn’t canon for a good half hour after I woke up

Taash's design is truly the hottest in any game ever oh my god they are so fucking sexy in every way it's incredible oh my god

I love the little slap Taash gives to their thighs as they rocket up from their seat during Thedas' Funniest Home Videos. It's just a neat little bit of animation.

Half the queer fandom being frothingly mad at the idea that the game unapologetically uses the words "trans" and "nonbinary" for their characters... While the other half compares Mary Kirby to JK Rowling for confirming what some people already suspected about her demisexual character though it's not verbally stated onscreen...

Like... Like.

I'm laughing through my tears.

If you are any sort of queer writer? Writing from an authentically queer perspective? Don't forget! There's no actual right perfect acceptable way to do rep and that is obviously YOUR FAULT. Whatever you choose, everyone knows you did it with malicious intent and could've done better but chose not to. And that's on you, babe! Prepare to be demonized by your own community until you die

Random but I love when Taash handles things. They might be young and a bit confused around some stuff but they're nothing close to unprofessional and that's genuinely such a fun and compelling character dichotomy to have.

Taash smiles

Leliana at the Battle of Denerim when I make her wear heavy armor so she can survive the Darkspawn