#ac valhalla leofrith

[mirendils]

The Kingmaker's Saga: Heavy is the Head

Your loyalty to Burgred is not a loyalty returned. He resigned the crown and fled to Rome. He's gone.

[b-plot-butch]

tumblr had me under the impression that leofrith was gonna be a MUCH bigger deal lmao

[artschoolglasses]

Well, I did promise I'd post more Leovor, so... Leovor battle couple.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

[leofriths]

read my 2 year old eivor/leofrith fic bc i have brain worms again and if it gets more love i might write a part 2 now 🤔

[abeautifulblog]

OH MY GOD, RIGHT.

The first time I was playing, I took it completely for granted that we'd be recruiting him at the end of that arc -- it was just so obviously what the game was setting up. Ceolbert needs a mentor; Leofrith would be a great mentor and is going to need a new job after we kill his king and subjugate his country. They already know and like and respect each other. Everyone (and I do mean everyone) volunteers without being prompted that Leofrith is Objectively The Best Dude Ever, and that he and his talents are being criminally underappreciated in his current position. Meanwhile, Eivor's ENTIRE job here is to make friends and help stabilize the new regime. It was so obvious that Leofrith would be joining the main cast as a dissenting voice to the Danish majority, seriously, the writers could not have telegraphed their intentions more clearly---

[John Mulaney "...AND THEN THEY DIDN'T".gif]

So when I got around to replaying it a year or two later, I was like, Okay, I must have misremembered. Surely Leofrith can't have been hyped as much as that. This was on gay ol' me; I had just seen a very tall Saxon and immediately gotten over-excited (forgetting that ubisoft is still run by a bunch of straight dudes who will disappoint you every time), and built him up in my head to be more important than the game actually made him out to be, but---

Nope.

For all that he gets five fucking minutes of actual screen time, that story arc is SATURATED with him. Every codex entry you pick up is written either by Leofrith, to Leofrith, or about Leofrith. Every conversation you have, Leofrith's name manages to come up somehow. Eavesdropping on some mooks while you're sneaking into enemy territory? You're about to be privy to the hottest gossip about Leofrith!

Seriously. o_o

Ubisoft, this one's not on me -- don't set it up if you're not going to spike it down.

sometimes a video game with a bad story has a good secret story that you can unlock if you pretend the bad parts aren’t there and make up a bunch of stuff

[abeautifulblog]

o gremble, i beseech thee, reveal to us your ac: valhalla ships

HAH, I could write a fucking thesis about the relationships in that game (and about Eivor's relationship with gender), it is all fascinating.

But if I were to write fic, it would start out with Eivor in a (stable, though slightly strained) poly triad with Sigurd and Randvi, and have Eivor/Leofrith as the endgame.

(Yes, we stan Leofrith and his ten minutes of screen time. Eivor the Tiniest Viking wants to climb that giant Saxon man like a tree. 😻😻😻 He is just so GOOD, and LOYAL, and THEY DON'T APPRECIATE YOU LIKE I WOULD APPRECIATE YOU. 😭😭 I KNOW WE'RE THE PAGAN INVADERS RANSACKING YOUR COUNTRY AND DEPOSING YOUR KING, BUT BABY PLEEEEASE I WANT YOU TO BE MY FRIEND SO BAD. I WANT TO TAKE YOU HOME WITH ME, I WOULD APPRECIATE YOU SO HARD ALL NIGHT LONG. 😭😭😭)

(Seriously. Like, I get that he would never become one of your viking raiders, but you should have been able to talk him into staying as a mentor/advisor to Ceolbert, they were already friends, ffs. There was so much fascinating potential for Leofrith's character, if he'd stayed in the story.)

(And also if Leofrith had been there, you know that That One Plot Development 🤬🤬 would have 1000% been averted.)

But yeah, in the early scene when you're first introduced to Randvi and Sigurd as adults, I took one look at the dynamic between the three of them and went, "Ah, so we're both married to Sigurd, got it," and rp'd the game accordingly -- which makes it absolutely fucking heartbreaking when he starts going off the deep end. Jesus, it's like you're losing a loved one to QAnon, just helplessly watching them turn into a stranger by degrees. 😐

(Seriously, that barely scratches the surface; the storyline with Sigurd is harrowing. Poor Eivor gets put through an emotional meat-grinder.)

So it would be interesting to see that story from Leofrith's POV, and see how it would change things if he were there and in love with Eivor. I've never written a story in which the love interest is straight up not single at the outset -- that they are already in a committed relationship, wholly devoted to someone else, and the complex, contradictory feelings as that relationship falls apart.

(Not that I expect to write such a fic; I don't have a clear enough idea of how I'd actually structure it, and I write slowly enough that any fic is a Commitment, but I am enjoying rotating these blorbos in the microwave of my mind.)

(There is just SO MUCH EXCELLENT MEATY CONFLICT to work with here. The cross-cutting feelings in the poly triad. How queer-coded/genderfucky Eivor is, canonically, completely independently of whether he ever fucks men. Leofrith's conflicting loyalties, and the fact that his very presence on their side would help legitimize the viking conquest, which he'd have mixed feelings about. The interplay between Eivor's faith and Leofrith's. Eivor being dtf and Leofrith not wanting to be just a casual friendly hookup. Sigurd's not-entirely-baseless jealous paranoia of Eivor and Randvi, and how that would land on Leofrith too if he were there and in love with Eivor.

Nnnnnngh, I am feral, I am gnawing on the furniture.)

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[velvet-coalmine]

Svartalfheim, Kara's Domain

Tumblr killed the quality. Click for high res

[spartan-officer-brasidas]

I may be a broken record BUT Ubba Ragnarsson is actually the love of my life (at least in Valhalla) and Leofrith is a very VERY attractive man with an equally good personality. So I would like to put out a plea for help. If anyone takes or knows someone who takes photos of Ubba or Leofrith, please PLEASE let me know. I can neither write nor draw in return BUT I can try to come up with something to pay back for pictures of those beautiful men 💜💜💜

I also need someone to....confirm this...is Ubba in his 70s? When Eivor meets him, he’s in his early 70s?

[berryshiara]

[mirendils]

ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA  ➤  Leofrith

I swore an oath to serve Burgred to the death. I fought. I lost. We both know how this goes.

[leofrith]

He watches Eivor sink into the role of drengr, the Wolf-Kissed one, the Raven Bearer, broad-shouldered and fearless, with eyes the colour of the kind of churning waves that dash ships against rocky shores. It fits her comfortably and with ease, the same way Leofrith’s fingers fit around the well-worn grip of his father’s sword. This is the famed shield-maiden who sows terror in the hearts of her enemies and inspires courage in that of her friends, and it feels strange that Leofrith can now count himself among the latter rather than the former, that this woman who was once such a fearsome adversary has brought him so much peace of mind in so short a time. – A Different Kind of Solace

[dirtyasscreedsecrets]

'Can Leofrith fuck me until I can't walk please and thank you.'

[artschoolglasses]

Bonus Eivor + Leofrith 🖤

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

[caernua]

”You’re a strong-willed thegn. Burgred was lucky.”

[ugh-my-back]

Mood playing AC Valhalla