Ship Tournament — Round #2 / Match 32 of 44
"loved them bickering with each other. a simple guy davrin and a deadly assassin who kills people for money, also with a dangerous pet demon. a heated sparring session would not fix their situation but damn they had to give it a shot anyway. + height difference"
"The closest thing Veilguard gives us to rivals to lovers among your team! Both start off at odds, Davrin not trusting the man who MURDERS FOR MONEY first off but also HAS A DEMON IN HIM. And Lucanis for his part being one of the few people who doesn't trust the reputation of the Grey Wardens and as it turns out in Davrin's quest is completely correct to be suspicious. They snipe at each other constantly, criticizing while egging the other on to do better - the only person Lucanis has more combat voice lines for is ROOK. They couldn't come from father apart in walks of life, but over the course of the game they find common ground and even comradery as Davrin also has to learn how to live past an expected death, something Lucanis is kind of familiar with. If Davrin is the one to sacrifice himself against the Gods, Lucanis is devastated. Forget being First Talon, Lucanis' happy ending would be co-parenting and spoiling a pack of griffons with Davrin. They push each other to grow so much as people, to be better than they start with."
"I felt like they had really good banter together during missions, especially as they both tripped over each other trying to sacrifice themselves instead."
"i think they should work out their differences by kissing 👍👍👍"
"They go from hostile to distrust to brothers in arms, and then something more?"
"fandom all about enemies to lovers until it's two victims of oppression learning from one another and finding common ground for some reason"
"it’s such a disaster. they hit every raw nerve in each other on sight - ideology, trauma, control, freedom, survival - and that means every interaction feels like it’s one bad sentence away from either a knife fight or a breakdown. but that’s what makes it interesting!! there is so much there. they understand things about pain, bodily autonomy, rage, and being made into a weapon that most other people around them just don’t."
"It's one of those pairings where the appeal is that it would be difficult, volatile, and almost unbearably charged. They're both carrying enormous amounts of trauma, both furious at the systems that shaped them, and both so deeply stubborn that neither would know how to approach the other gently at first. But that's exactly why it works for me as a ship. Under all the arguing and ideological conflict, there's an incredible amount of thematic overlap: violation of bodily autonomy, living with something inescapable under your skin, anger sharpened by suffering, the question of what freedom even looks like after being used by other people. It would never be easy, but it would be intense, tragic, intimate, and unforgettable - which is basically catnip for a Dragon Age pairing."
Which is the better ship?
Davrin/Lucanis
Anders/Fenris
Voting ended onMay 2
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