#velle

[vellecann]

just the sweetest

[jelliyfishlight]

Hello, Ms. Velle

Pardon my sudden visit but I've come to ask for some... assistance.

Particularly with information on how to perhaps persuade the gods into reviving someone. Perhaps pardon them from death?

-Dr Abyss ( @the-heartbreakerrr)

Oh uhh, Mr abyss! Fancy seeing you here. Come on! I'll go get some documents real quick in regards to your query.

[rainyfey]

Quick sketch titled: “Pretending to Understand”

Lucio has absolutely Zero Clue what Velle is talking about or how this particular spell book is relevant to his ghostly situation, but he’s quick to plaster on a smile and nod along whenever they look up at him.

Finished version: here. 💙

[roselightfairy]

From @mcquaden on the DVD commentary post:

"I don't have the specific paragraph, but it's from your collab with DeHeerKonijn, Velle? Specifically the scene where Gimli and legolas are saying goodbye and the other elves are like "bold of you to get married and then go celibate but you do you boo"

I will go ahead and paste in the scene I think you're talking about here:

Only when Gimli turned a corner out of sight did Legolas finally turn back to the assembled crowd of his friends and companions, many of whom were muffling snickers behind their hands. “Hush,” Legolas mumbled, and shuffled over to his horse.  They had groomed and prepared Arod for him, a kindness that meant he could hardly complain about their teasing, and now Arod stood patiently waiting, whuffing in greeting when Legolas laid a hand on his neck. They did not hush, of course.  “My, Legolas,” said Damion.  “Such a demonstration!  We had thought you might at least leave something in store for the wedding night!” Legolas could feel himself turning scarlet; his cheeks, ears, and the back of his neck flooded with heat all at once.  He fumbled for something to say, but his silence incriminated him well enough: as one, he could see them realizing it. “Oh,” said Damion at last, weakly.  “I see.” “Last night?” said Faimes, her eyes wide. Legolas could only nod.  What was the use of denying it? “You decided to” – She broke off. “You needn’t sound so shocked.”  He did not mean to sound so defensive; he tried to soften his tone.  “You knew we were betrothed; I merely – I did not want” – He fell silent.  How to explain the way their parting had loomed before him, threatening to hollow him out; how he had yearned for at least the memory of a wedding night, the promise of a marriage, to fill it?  Those thoughts were for him and Gimli alone. But perhaps he had made himself clear enough, for Faimes nodded to herself in understanding.  “Oh, Legolas,” she said, laughing a little and shaking her head as if in pity.  “I am so sorry.”

Hehehehehe I'm so pleased you asked about Velle, because this story was so much fun to write and @deheerkonijn and I combed over so much of it so carefully! So let me see what I can do here.

All right, so opening the commentary with an overall mention that Legolas's friends laughing at him was always, always part of the plan. It was in the very DNA of the story and the thing we giggled about when discussing the premise before we even realized that we were going to do it as a collab.

“My, Legolas,” said Damion.  “Such a demonstration!  We had thought you might at least leave something in store for the wedding night!” So most of these characters, but perhaps most prominently Damion and Faimes, are very minor background OCs who originated in the Finding a Voice 'verse, just because I needed people to fill out Legolas's company. We talked a lot about which characters to include and how to write them in this 'verse; we wanted it to be its own distinctive thing without too much crossover. So, for instance, Legolas's friend and my OC Eleniel feels too much a cornerstone of FAV to bring her over meaningfully into a new universe, so I decided to leave her over there; similarly, we didn't want to use Tauriel, who plays a role in modverse, because we wanted to distinguish this from that and from movieverse. So DHK let me transfer Damion and Faimes and Hadril over from FAV, and give them a more major role in our shared universe. And their role ended up transferring over to modverse, as well! This is the beginning of us experimenting with these two, who we came to call the Hot Siblings as a joke. (But, like, not really.)

He fumbled for something to say, but his silence incriminated him well enough: as one, he could see them realizing it. “Oh,” said Damion at last, weakly.  “I see.”

So fun fact about this: initially, it just started as a joke, but we realized that we were writing Damion consistently as the one who was most weirded out by the reality of sex, and we've come to decide that he would fit in the category of sex-repulsed. He's the squeamish one of the group of friends, and was actually very Not Chill about Faimes's own nuptial period. ;)

“Last night?” said Faimes, her eyes wide.

Hehehehehehehehe. :) This was just a ton of fun. We had come up with the "oh no" long before, and actually getting to write it was such a treat.

“You knew we were betrothed; I merely – I did not want” – He fell silent.  How to explain the way their parting had loomed before him, threatening to hollow him out; how he had yearned for at least the memory of a wedding night, the promise of a marriage, to fill it?  Those thoughts were for him and Gimli alone.

One of my very very favorite things about DHK as a creative collaborator is how much we are both into Crack Treated Seriously as a fanfic trope. She does such an amazing job of weaving humor with genuine sentiment, and I really felt like I was just writing to keep up with it! Velle in particular is I think our crowning glory in that respect; the way we were able to balance real feeling and the seriousness of feeling out of control and lonely and unhappy with the funny crack premise of the story is something I'm still really proud of nearly four years later. I had a ton of fun writing these lines and veering between the emotions.

Faimes nodded to herself in understanding. “Oh, Legolas,” she said, laughing a little and shaking her head as if in pity. “I am so sorry.”

And so Faimes begins her multi-story journey as a Mom Friend. :)

Thank you so much for asking this!! I'll kick it to DHK too to see if she has anything to add, but I had a ton of fun!

[sonka]

2023 - Olasz

[deheerkonijn]

This is your last chance to get in on printed or digital copies of Velle!

Yins’ response has been so incredible while preorders have been open, @roselightfairy and I were proud of our collab to start with, but now we are twice as proud to be able to donate almost 2K to WHO ... 

We’d love to go that final distance to 2K in donations - preorders are open until midnight PST TONIGHT, August 28, 2020. Can we get there?!

Check out our bigcartel here for info!

Fast readers wanna try before they buy? The whole fic is on Ao3 here for free, but there are fun extras if you buy a physical copy!

[pepermintcandy]

Warm up practice.

Meet velle my dalish mage for a dragon age tabletop game.

Known for using walking bomb many times (including once a misfire to a team mate and a virulent walking bomb that a teammate got caught in and died from) also for adopting an npc child who's surprisingly good with daggers

[causticclockwork]