#bellara banter

[ellie-writes-games]

DATV Banter: Bellara's Other Book

A headcanon I'm developing for a longer series of banters including Bellara, Lucanis, and Spite. I love the idea that Lucanis is super chill with accidentally stumbling upon Bellara's smut fics because he's a canon Romance book stan and her stuff is actually really tame by most standards.

***This is some fanfiction/fanart from an elder millennial (me) who is stuck in Thedas. These are NOT actual screenshots from the game.

[night-orchids]

[rpgchoices]

Rook trying to learn about the companions' backstories and personalities like -

[sky--phantom]

The struggles of writing an academic paper when your main source is "I saw it in this elven god's (whose house I've taken over) memories".

[hyperions-light]

hey no I’m not done obsessing over Bellara and Lucanis’ banter!

When she asks him why his family is just him, Illario and Caterina, and he says everyone else is dead and she feels SO BAD that she apologizes in a follow-up banter, but he brushes it off. And the way he says it, he really isn’t upset she brought it up.

AND THEN LATER, she’s talking about how dramatic the whole thing with Illario was, and he makes a flippant comment about how Antiva is just like that, and she starts going on about how it’s just like her serials and what if one day Illario dramatically sacrifices himself to protect Lucanis—

And THAT’S what gets him, that’s when he asks her to stop.

HIS VOICE ! He just says, “Bellara,” in the most pained tone ever ! And she apologizes and stops but like

EVEN THOUGH Illario did all of that to him, THAT’S what gets him. The thought that his brother might die for him.

AAAAAAGHHH !!!

LUCANIS. LUCANIS!!

(Thank you for getting all of the best reactions out of him Bellara, my love)

[squash-the-dork]

[dekarios]

[vaguely-concerned]

in his and davrin's banters, lucanis exhibits a certain little shit energy I don't think we see him have with anyone else other than illario and honestly I am living for this

[invinciblerodent]

[A subtitle saying "Taash: Doesn't matter how sad you are about doing evil crap if you keep doing it."]

Man, the literal kind isn't the only kind of fire that Taash spits. That's probably the most succinct summary of how I feel about Solas that any character has ever given in this story yet.

[3gremlins]

i love bellara and her random ambient conversations so fucking much (especially with emmerich, like she loves asking him hopefully if vampires maybe exist and he actually entertains her as best he can. i think she was asking how you can be partially undead here XD).

[ellie-writes-games]

DATV Banter: Spite Wants To Set A Flame (Bellara's Other Book)

Lucanis (and by extension, Spite) have been helping Bellara with her romance novel. Flowery language and smut metaphors lead Spite to some surprising conclusions.

As someone on the autism spectrum, I remember struggling with interpreting metaphor as a young person A LOT. As soon as it was introduced in Veilguard that Bellara was writing some smutty fanfiction, the first thoughts I had were "Oh, the neurospicy gang is gonna struggle." (Mainly Taash and Spite.) Part of an on-going series of fan-writings.

***This is some fanfiction/fanart from an elder millennial (me) who is stuck in Thedas. These are NOT actual screenshots from the game.

[night-orchids]

:')

[rpgchoices]

Both frustrating and interesting that so much information in this game is locked behind banter.

For example, each couple of character has a series of different topics they will discuss, some of them are different in the lighthouse.

Here are some examples I got till now by doing a super slow run where I keep returning to the fade over and over again and triggering the banter at the start of Arlathan forest/Treviso (keep in mind I usually did this with a few characters so I will update this)

Bellara and Emmrich: general science about elves (plus one cutscene triggered at the lighthouse where Emmrich tells Bellara she should sleep more)

Bellara and Harding: one banter sequence about an elven poem that mentions titans, one about Morrigan, one at the lighthouse about Harding's sex life and Bellara apologizing for prying (no cutscenes that I could find)

Bellara and Davrin: banter about the veiljumpers and about Davrin's past with his dalish clan (I am compiling all I can find about Davrin's dalish clan in a video), at the lighthouse they have some stuff about the gods (no cutscenes that I remember)

I am curious if some of these banters unlock scenes. I know that at least one banter unlocks this scene with Davrin training (a banter with Taash about climbing the archdemon), so I wonder if there are more hidden cutscenes...

[sky--phantom]

LUCANIS

[mosswiind]

Companions trying to pry into Neve and Rook’s relationship and getting Nothing out of either of them

Harding: You’re seriously not going to say anything?

Bellara: Nothing at all?

Lucanis: I know Neve will not crack, but surely Rook’s constitution is weaker.

Spite: TELL. US.

Harding: I bet it was super embarrassing. Probably for Rook.

Bellara: Obviously.

Neve: Good theory.

Bellara: Mythal’enaste, it was.

Neve: Could've been.

Harding: Or was it so steamy you can’t say anything?

Neve: Maybe!

Lucanis: Rook, you’ve been awfully quiet in all of this.

Davrin: Leave the man alone, you animals.

Rook: I’m not saying a gods damned thing.

[extended pause]

Harding: Awful. Monsters. Both of you.

Rook: Something about an exquisite, perfectly contained tingle.

Bellara: ROOK.

[a-whiff-of-a-dream]

Husband acquired!!