#eivor × tarben

[fantalpacca]

.Testing quick 2 color shading. This sketchs was a quick cute doodle.

I don't care if female Eivor is cannon. I like male one and I like the idea of short, tank berserker and the baker.

I know its not as popular but still MY FANART CAN BE IT MWAHAHA

Eivor X Tarben

[flysafepapi]

personally I find it super rude that they haven’t yet made all romances in AC: Valhalla affect the story other than Randvi, or go more beyond being able to kiss them/take them to bed/spend time with them and nothing else

It’s really ruining the whole story I’ve concocted in my head where I go off the battle and come back to my adorable baker husband and my small army of children we have together, it’s mean.

[rayless-reblogs]

I approve of men preferring to bake instead of fight, so I like Tarben and enjoyed his quest. Here we are riding during the quest. For some reason, on the same horse. I'm pretty sure he was supposed to have his own horse?

Ah, yes. I think that's it back there, way off in the distance.

Can't blame him though. Eivor's Kyrr is an excellent horse, runs like the wind, jumps like a deer, swims like a trout.

Things progressed in the quest, and later on, Tarben did grab his own horse. Maybe Eivor was disappointed, but she didn't make any kind of deal out of it, just turned Kyrr's head towards home and plunged into her powerful gallop, Tarben thundering behind her. Soon, they came to a river. Undeterred, Kyrr dove into the water and began swimming, as she'd been trained to do. Literally trained, that is. Been taken to Rowan's stable regularly and had her swimming ability boosted and everything.

Apparently NPC horses don't do that.

With a brief but abrupt little flip, Tarben was in the drink and his horse wasn't going anywhere. Didn't swim towards the far shore. Didn't return to the near shore. Just Artaxed there in the water, uselessly.

You can lead a horse to water, but you definitely can't make it swim.

And Tarben?

Our brave baker man didn't get back on his horse.

Apparently if you want a quick and painless way to completely derail a quest, wait until your friend is on a horse and then lead him into deep water and watch while nothing you or he does results in him getting out of the water, nobody can go home and wrap up the quest, presumably your baker will tread water until Ragnarok, and no one gets bagels.

I ended up resetting the save and salvaging the quest by crossing in shallow water and going back to the thorpe and then Tarben became Eivor's baker with benefits. If Tarben sometimes looks up from egg-washing his buns and has a sudden, hazy memory of dark water and a useless Artax horse and Eivor riding wordlessly away on her very capable swimming horse, well, he must just shake it off and go back to baking.

[owlidragonage]

Eivor tribute - Meet me at the top - Assassin's creed valhalla

This blog was lacking a bit of life, here's a bit of novelty. I've been playing Assassin's creed valhalla for the past few months and have created 6 game music videos about the Eivor story. Here's the first about the raven clan with the great music of Unsecret. I'll be posting more soon. (I did the romance with Tarben and Randvi). (I was a bit surprised that at the end (at Yggdrasil) Sigurd doesn't blame Eivor for the romance with Randvi, he doesn't even mention it. I deduced from this that if we don't make any 'bad choices' that would damage our good relationship with Sigurd he doesn't mind… so Sigurd goes back to England with Eivor). FR : Ce blog manquait un peu de vie, voici un peu de nouveauté. J'ai joué à Assassin's creed valhalla ces derniers mois mois et j'ai créé 6 gmv sur l'histoire d'Eivor. Voici la première sur le clan du grand corbeau avec la très bonne musique d'Unsecret. J'en posterai d'autres bientôt. (J'ai fait la romance avec Tarben et Randvi). (J'ai été un peu étonné qu' à la fin (à Yggdrasil) Sigurd ne reproche pas à Eivor la romance avec Randvi, il n'en parle même pas. J'en ai déduis que si on fait aucun "mauvais choix" qui diminuerait notre bonne relation avec Sigurd, Eivor peut romancer Randvi, ça ne le dérange pas… donc Sigurd rentre avec Eivor en Angleterre).

[teecupangel]

...You really took "Hytham is Desmond's ancestor" and rolled with it. I can't even - I hope you realize I am going to wholly and utterly blame you for my brain now trying to churn out 1297362935 scenarios of how that can go in a story. Please expect a "Hytham and Desmond at same time, in Ravensthorpe, giving everyonefuzzy feelings but with a side of can-kill-you"

The short Eivor x Desmond/Hytham chapter where Hytham is Desmond's ancestor.

This gives me an excuse to talk about my headcanon about how Hytham is Desmond’s ancestor from the Al-Sayf side.

So, the headcanon stems from the idea that the Al-Sayf is an Assassin family with a long history in the Brotherhood (and the Hidden Ones) similar to the Auditores, and Hytham married into the family after returning from Ravensthorpe to Alamut. Then one of his descendants followed Al Mualim to Masyaf (most probably either Faheem or his father).

And Malik’s son, Tazim, married into the Ibn-La'Ahad family by marrying Sef’s youngest daughter as it’s highly plausible that Tazim is around Sef’s daughters’ age and that’s how Desmond is both the descendant of Malik and Hytham.

[volkra]

Back at it again with Eivor x Tarben. I drawn them older

[ivarr-s]

tarben: i was just about to sink my line in the river

me, speaking as eivor: you can stick your line into something else if you want

[monstersandmaw]

Update that no one wanted:

I am now romancing the cinnamon roll teddy bear Tarben the baker with a dark past and his soft looking tummy and his dinky manbun. And they’re so s o f t together. Uhhhnnnffff

Playing AC Valhalla for the first time and I’m now officially obsessed with absolute cinnamon roll teddy bear Tarben the baker with a dark past and his soft looking tummy and his dinky manbun.

[hel777]

Eivor and Tarben commission 

[vikingnerd793]

In my (possibly last for some time) playthrough, Eivor slept with Ciara before the Randvi date thinking she’d be alone forever. Then was devastated when she realized Randvi loved her but she couldn’t do anything about it out of loyalty to Sigurd.

So while she is absolutely developing as a leader and becoming beloved by her allies, she is wandering aimlessly romantically thinking she was destined to be alone as part of her fate. So she does have a few one night stands, but she also rejects romantic approaches by Petra and Tarben. There’s only one “love” and she thinks she can’t have it, so out of loneliness she doesn’t turn down Estrid (who reminds her of Randvi), for example. Or even Vili. Both seeking a little bit of comfort but realizing that was NOT going to work beyond that….

Little does she know, all is NOT lost! And yes, Randvi senses she has some flings and she’s pained and jealous about it — but she also knows she hasn’t pursued a single romance, and even turned down a couple suitors. She maintains hope, despite being told “now is not the time,” that one day the time will come.

[ghostofvalorie]

Your AC Valhalla piece was wonderful!

I loved that you chose Tarben! I felt like they had so much chemistry in game 🥹 I also loved your decision for Eivor to be the one who’s cared after and more “bottomish” instead of Tarben because I think a lot people would have written it the other way around and it was cool to see him being cared for and “softer” for once 💕

It was beautifully written and it flowed well, it was a wonderful piece especially since you said it was your first smut. I think it was executed well and you did a brilliant job ☺️ Your art and your writing skills make you a very talented individual indeed ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you for sharing it

OMG thank you so much for such kind words!!! ❤️

About making Eivor the bottom here, i just feel like the guy needs a freaking break, you know! The whole game is just go, go, go!

WHO takes care of Eivor? Well Tarben, quite clearly 😏

Thank you so much for reading ❤️🙈

edit: god i had a skim through that, and let me tell you TWO years of writing improves your skills, hu.

Once i've stoped cringing i might re-write that to what i'd NOW consider passable 💀

Still, thank you, for reading and for being nice ❤️

[avastyetwats]

No one can make me feel shittier than my own parents. Feeling down and out at the moment so I started rewatching Black Sails. The first episode is making me so happy, seeing all of them again. Especially Flint. And Billy when he was so sweet and pure lmao. His “he never listens to me” and Flint’s “who’s Billy?” makes me laugh every time.

I’ll try doing some writing tonight. Just not feeling well at the moment but this is giving me Flint muse. Been fighting the temptation to write as Eivor and/or Petra and Tarben from AC Valhalla. But my Stede muse is feeling good. Just wish I wasn’t feeling so shitty right now ugh.

[reiverreturns]

the woman the myth the legend eivor varinsdottir herself for the ask game!

MY SWEET CHEESE, MY GOOD TIME GIRL

a song that reminds me of them

in dreams by ben howard really hits those eivor vibes for me, from odin's voice in her head (always a riddle inside my head) to her adventuresome spirit (it's a big old place for me, yeah, it's a big old world indeed) to her loneliness and displacement from her home (i live alone without you here)

what they smell like

honey and woodsmoke if you ask ship writer me. if you're not then dried blood and horseshit probably (i love her but i am CERTAIN she would have to be convinced to bathe sometimes)

an otp

eivor x vili now, then, and forever. if you could custom design a ship dynamic exclusively for me it would literally be theirs. i love them so much that i don't even mind them eventually parting ways canonically because. like. the love doesn't fade. no matter who they are, where they are, how long they're separated, they will always love and understand each other like nobody else in their lives does. i lose my mind over that

a notp

eivor x tarben. fuck that white bread tasteless man. NEXT.

favorite platonic/familial relationships

sigurd but only when eivor punches him in the face

ok my obvious answer is hemming (and its the answer my heart desires) but thinking about it i actually really enjoy her friendship with valka. eivor seems to really respect her and is so happy when she makes the crossing for norway to england!

a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with

i'm not certain i've seen any eivor-specific ones that i thought were exceptionally dumb tbh. i think some readings of her character in the fandom lean too heavily into the softer parts of her nature. like eivor is helpful and kind but only to people she has motivation to help (like children), or when she thinks she or the clan can get something out of it. there's a general fanon dulling of her sharp edges that i don't always agree with

the position they sleep in

starfished on her belly with a different animal under each limb

a crossover au i’d love to see them in

PACRIM PACRIM PACRIM. give me eivor and vili bicker-flirting in a jaeger or give me death

my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn

i am terribly boring but i really enjoy just the plain/not upgraded ravensthorpe armour!

send me a character and i'll tell you some things

[rayless-reblogs]

Tarben just standing there with his foot on the blazing hot cooking pot. Sure, that's fine. As long as the bagels get baked.

[puppy-steve]

Tarben's thoughts during Eivor's fight with Dag

for all my asscreed girlies (gender neutral) <3

[teecupangel]

You know what would be funny?

If Desmond didn’t get to Ravensthorpe by accident, he was invited there.

By who?

It would be easy for it to be Eivor but it would be funnier if it was Hytham.

So now Hytham has this sense of responsibility to support Desmond in this (covert) bake off.

He’s usually the one who gets Desmond the ingredients he sorta remembers (“It makes food red.” “A lot of things makes food red.” “But it doesn’t affect the taste!” “I don’t think that kind of thing exist?” “Well, I guess get me all the things that can make things red then?” “I… I’ll see what I can do…” - smashcut to Azar feeling things were going to get profitable very, very soon).

He helped Desmond get the lay in the land because Desmond, in his own words, believed his idea of what the land looks like isn’t correct… right now.

But the most important thing… he was Desmond’s taste tester. Or, as Desmond liked to call it, his guinea pig. Any experiment Desmond made, as long as it tastes edible and cooked, Hytham would more or less taste them to give Desmond his honest opinion. They never tasted bad since Desmond always tasted them before giving them to Hytham but ‘okay’ was a word that Desmond did not accept.

Not because it was bad to just be ‘okay’ but… Desmond surprisingly has a competitive side to him. It doesn’t appear all that much but baking?

Oh, yes, his competitive side shows up in that regard.

But he and Tarben are cordial with each other.

… like rivals respecting each other’s skills but doing everything they can to not lose.

Tarben’s style is to keep making the same bread over and over again, perfecting his skill to a frightening level.

Desmond’s style is to keep bombarding Ravensthorpe with every and any idea he had, making it a unique experience every single time.

What Desmond lacked in perfection, he makes up with the ‘novelty’ of his breads.

As Desmond says it “Tarben is a basic bitch and I’m the manic pixie dream girl.”

… Hytham has no idea what Desmond meant about that but Desmond tended to use a lot of phrases and words Hytham didn’t understand. If Hytham was to translate it, Desmond must meant that Tarben’s bread is a staple, something every person should have in their home, while Desmond’s bread is more of a luxury, something one eats as a treat.

But it was clear who some of the people of Ravensthorpe side with.

The most obvious ones were the parents sided with Tarben while their children sided with Desmond. It really helped that Desmond likes to ask the children for favors in exchange for bread. Just simple stuff like foraging the nearby forest for berries or fishing in the docks. The children love it because they get to do something and be rewarded for it. The parents hate it because their children always have so much energy after eating Desmond’s breads.

Desmond doesn’t care though because “children are the hope of our future” and Hytham was pretty sure he got that line from someone else.

Octavius also preferred Desmond’s breads because they, according to him, were the food of the Romans! Desmond doesn’t like that all that much because Octavius likes to request the same bread over and over again and Desmond’s setup is more of ‘today’s bread is whatever I felt like making!’.

Other than that, Randvi is in Tarben’s corner mainly because his bread always go well with the feasts (although a lot of people go and eat Desmond’s bread afterwards as dessert anyway) and his breads are also the ones being made into rations. Tarben is just better in making rations that can last for months.

Then again, Desmond doesn’t really like making rations in the first place because he preferred the ephemeral beauty of fresh bread.

At this point, Hytham was pretty sure Desmond was liberating using dramatic words just to mess with him. He doesn’t use any of these words or phrases around others.

A lot of the other people try to keep an open mind (and reap the rewards of both sides), especially Yanli who profited from both of them (and gave Hytham the stink eye when he helped Desmond find spices using another merchant) and Petra who do get requests for her hunts from both of them (although Desmond likes to request meat as well while Tarben only requests animal fat).

And then there was Basim.

The first time he visited Ravensthorpe, he beelined to Desmond’s bakery immediately where he and Hytham stared at each other while Hytham was eating bread. After that awkward silent “what are you doing here?” “what am I doing here, what are you doing here?” stareoff, Basim sat next to Hytham and ate bread as well.

Hytham wasn’t surprised.

For some reason, Desmond just… He has this bread that taste like home.

Not home as in the home Hytham had as a child but home…

As in the Hidden Ones.

To be more presence, it tastes so similar to the bread baked in Alamut that Hytham had to try and check if Desmond had ever been to Alamut.

Desmond just shrugged as he said that it was the first few breads he learned but it wasn’t from Alamut.

And he knew…

With this single bread…

Desmond definitely got Basim’s attention.

‘What if desmond time travels and has to deal with such and such, or turns into an animal, or gets hurt, or-’

What if Desmond time travels and learns how to bake bread!! Huh!!? What about that!! What if he opens a super successful bakery, and solves all the worlds problems with the best fresh baked bread every!!

(This is /j but like. 👏🏻 anons let Desmond have peace challenge👏🏻 (but also don’t cause I love reading all of them I’m just like ‘how did you even come up with this? Sometimes lmao))

Anyway, since we already have a Desmond is a baker in Renaissance Italy idea, here’s Desmond is a baker during the Third Crusades instead:

So in this setup, Desmond would say fuck it and just open a bakery in Acre.

Jerusalem was too much of a hotspot at the moment and Acre had ports which meant there would be new customers that Desmond could lure in with the smell of freshly baked bread. 

And it worked.

Maybe a bit too well because…

Kadar visited while he was out looking for information for his brother’s current target. 

They both stared at one another for a moment and then Desmond just did his usual ‘Welcome! Are you looking for anything specific or would you like to hear today’s recommendations?’ spiel while Kadar just stares at him.

When Kadar went “Altaïr?”, Desmond just gave him his best bartender ‘I’m being respectful but also distant so you’ll still tip me’ smile as he goes, “I’m sorry, we don’t have a bread called ‘Altaïr’.”

Then he showed Kadar the star-shaped pull apart sweet bread he’s just perfected and go “But maybe I can interest you in this pull apart start bread? It’s sweet and fluffy and freshly baked.”

And sweet poor Kadar leaves the bakery with a basket of breads instead because Desmond was good at using both Ezio’s charms and his bartending social skills to get customers to buy more than they should.

Hey.

A man needed to profit to keep the roof over his head while trying to experiment for the upcoming debut of his sugar-free pastries.

The next day, Malik entered the bakery but Desmond was ready.

Desmond had planned for this!

“Welcome!” Desmond greeted, giving Malik his sweetest smile that he knew would completely unnerve Malik.

Desmond weaponized the similarity between him and Altaïr to unnerve Malik to the point that he cannot focus on observing Desmond, distracted by such a sweet smile that looked so disturbing in his eyes because he’s imagining Altaïr doing such an expression and it was horror beyond Malik’s wildest imagination. 

Okay.

Desmond was exaggerating but that got Malik to not ask too many invasive questions and leave the bakery after purchasing two baskets worth of bread so Desmond was going to consider that a mission successful.

And then…

His greatest adversary entered his little quaint bakery.

And Desmond was ready for him.

“Welcome!” Desmond greeted happily, “Are you looking for anything specific or would you like to see today’s recommendations?”

Altaïr simply stared at him.

But that didn’t matter.

Desmond held all the cards.

Because he knew one of Altaïr’s greatest weakness…

Altaïr secretly loved sweets.

“Today’s a special day!” Desmond clapped his hands in practiced joy that wasn’t over the top, “Today’s the debut of our dessert line! Here.”

Desmond took out a tray of sweet deserts, glistening in either honey or fruit jams. 

“Would you like a taste?” Desmond asked with the sweetness of the snake that tempted Eve to take a bite.

And Altaïr…

Altaïr left the bakery with a basket filled with desserts and pastries, quietly sinking into the shadows before anyone could see him and ask for one of the forbidden sweets he had acquired.