MY DARLINGS MY BELOVEDS they are everything to me!!!!! eivor/hytham are peak bi4bi marriage goals and the fact we couldnt romance hytham is a crime i will never forgive ubisoft for they are IT
what made you ship it? i love all their interactions but especially the kjtove fight with eivor standing between kjtove and hytham, and then of course the to serve the light quest i mean come on now the WINK
what are your favorite things about the ship? the parallels of it all, both living in the shadow of a father (or father-figure's) betrayal, both devoted to their duty, finding a new clan in each other after losing the ones they love to madness, walking the line between duty, destiny, and desire...makes me insaneeee. hytham dealing with his failure and disability in a contrast with eivor's intial longing for battle-glory, and then growing alongside each other as they become the leaders of their people, who eventually become one in the same, who see that peace and to lead lets them grow beyond the destinies other's had for them...brb losing my mind
is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? should have been canon sorryyyyy i would have given anything for siege of paris to be the hidden one hyeivor goes to paris and comes back married dlc
a song that reminds me of them: borders by kalandra. every kalandra song can be about eivor if i want it bad enough 💖
what they smell like: honey and wood smoke
an otp: girl has chemistry with basically everyone. kassandra vili randvi hytham estrid etc etc. but i'm feeling some type of way about leofrith lately (lately being the last uuuuuh six months rip)
a notp: sigurd. there's a few others that i can understand but just don't particularly care for but keep away from me with that shit in particular. they're literally siblings!!!
favorite platonic/familial relationships: sigurd in the deeper version of their relationship that lives in my head. varin because eivor's relationship with her father is one of the emotional through lines of eivor's character in the main game. rosta, my darling rosta, who doesn't get as much attention as she deserves, but eivor is such a mama's girl and it makes me a bit insane. also gunnar!!! he loves her so much and is so proud of her. styrbjorn and eivor's relationship is so interesting and i wish we got to see more of it. i'm just listing everyone now. valka and eivor's relationship is so sweet and there's a kind of trust and understanding there that i don't think eivor shares with any other character.
a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with: i don't know if there are really any specific headcanons that i dislike? i tried to write a few responses to this but they just feel really nitpicky so i stopped 😂
the position they sleep in: when she's alone, with her back to a wall with easy access to a weapon. when she's with a trusted partner she's the little spoon because she can rest easy knowing she has someone watching her back 😭
a crossover au i’d love to see them in: accidentally have been becoming very serious about my star wars au in which mandalorian eivor comes into possession of the darksaber and starts having visions because of it (the sword's haunted--) while also trying to lead her scattered people and ally with jedi hytham and basim, who are hunting a relic of the jedi order for their own purposes. if none of this makes sense to you because you don't know or care about star wars lore then i envy you 💖 just ignore this and read the fic whenever i finish it pspspsps it's all you need i promiseeeee
my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn: the berserker armour is my usual go to, but i also hate wearing it in wintery regions because eivor looks cold ahgsdfasdhf in which cases i'll usually rotate between the raven clan or mystical armor. would also wear the huldufolk armor if i had it !!!!!!
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God, my Bakar fic is not on par with my other works (which aren’t the best either) but I need to get it out. The smut is alright but I just can’t find much else to write or anything to lengthen the fic with. It may or may not be shorter than the others, depends on when I finish it. I am making progress with my Sharp one as well, so unfortunately it looks like my Sebastian one will be the last one to be published–again. I wish I could just finish the Sebastian one since I’ve had it on the backburner for a while.
Eivor's Herbarium: P4 - Raspberries from Grantebridge
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Outside the fine longhouse of our new ally, Soma, stand these delicious red berries. Octavian claims the Romans brought this berry here & into cultivation. I am surprised he thinks it grand enough for "the Empire!"
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As @vikingnerd793 recently pointed out, this game is a comfort game for a lot of us. And although it's a weird-ass hobby, video game botany is a comfort thing for me, especially in ACV. Set in places where I've lived but hundreds of years ago, it's a safe place away from the illustration I make for work & the current UK hellscape... So... I was properly pissed off when the sketchbook I'm making this herbarium in got water-damaged in recent studio mayhem. As if the leaking radiator wasn't enough.
The book dried out OK in the end - the water missed the plants on all the pages so far. This page is just a bit crinkly and writing the text I could see that the ink spread a little on that part of the paper. But it left me feeling a bit unsure of the whole thing for a minute...
Eivor spent a lot of time at sea, though. I'm sure she'd be chill about minor mishaps like water damage, wiping the blood of her enemies of plant specimens, etc. So I'm sticking with it.
Why are there giant raspberries in 9th century England anyway?
School history class told me the Romans brought raspberries around Europe, and that raspberry seeds have been found in Roman forts here. Raspberry plants (Rubus idaeus) are related to the cloudberries we also see in game, and are part of the same family as roses. Although spread far and wide as a food plant (since well before the Romans, apparently) it's thought that the domestic raspberry originated in Turkey. As Maria loves to tell me, raspberries are not actually a berry (a fruit with seeds scattered throughout the pulp) but an aggregate fruit made up of drupelets (sections of fruit, each with one seed).
The kind of big juicy raspberries seen in Grantebridge didn't exist until a lot more recently thanks to hybridisation & selection (sorry, Eivor!) Golden raspberries are a real thing though - not common in the UK, but found throughout AC Valhalla's version England.
Ravensthorpe has its own Roman empire fanboy in the form of Octavian, aka Osbert of Lunden. (It's impossible to get a pic of him looking anything but a biiit creepy, so sorry about that.) Anyway, his main issue with the house Eivor gets built for him is that it "lacks the grandeur of the empire at its peak." Rude, frankly. So I couldn't resist having Eivor reference his gripes about Ravensthorpe.
You can also find raspberries at the monastery in Grantebridgescire, and Gratian's villa ruins to keep up with the Roman theme.
I'm already working on the next page to finish up Grantebridgescire. It's going to be wildflowers from the cursed zone on the hill.
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