Aveline Vallen/Dialogue

Aveline's dialogue contains a list of conversations she shares with her companions.

Aveline and Anders

 * Aveline: I hear good things about you, Anders. Not what I expected.
 * Anders: For a mage, you mean.
 * Aveline: I didn't say that.
 * Anders: How else would you judge me? What else am I a shining example of?
 * Aveline: I don't know... other Fereldans lurking in Darktown? Mage or not.
 * Anders: You... have a fair point.


 * Anders: So you married a templar, huh?
 * Aveline: What of it?
 * Anders: Are they all as dirty as they seem?
 * Aveline: What?
 * Anders: Did he ever ask you to play “the naughty mage and the hapless recruit?” Maybe the “secret desire demon and the upstanding knight?”
 * Aveline: That's disgusting!
 * Anders: I hear it's quite popular!


 * Aveline: I could use your consult Anders.
 * Anders: Bring it to Darktown, and I'll get you a salve or something.
 * Aveline: What? No! I need to know some things about mages.
 * Anders: Why?
 * Aveline: I'm a guard. I'm the first person who has to deal with... trouble.
 * Anders: You want help killing people like me.
 * Aveline: Not every mage can be trusted.
 * Anders: Nor every guard.


 * Anders: Do you ever miss Ferelden?
 * Aveline: Of course! It was home. I would never have left willingly.
 * Aveline: But I'm not going to be my father and spend my life trying to live a memory.
 * Anders: I didn't think I'd give it a second thought once I was gone. I mean, what did Ferelden ever do for me?
 * Anders: But I do. I think about it. There's something here that just doesn't feel right.
 * Aveline: You mean how mages are treated?
 * Anders: No... I think there's not enough dog shit.


 * Anders: I suppose you're just thrilled how the knight-commander's basically stepped into the viscount's seat?
 * Aveline: She can't stall the process forever. It's not her place.
 * Aveline: Leaving the viscount's seat empty will just tempt people to fight for it. It will cause more trouble than it prevents.
 * Anders: Well. You've got a brain in there after all.
 * Anders: I was convinced that headband was to keep it from falling out.


 * Anders: Your husband agrees with me.
 * Aveline: About what?
 * Anders: He thinks the knight-commander's mad. He told me she's gone behind your back to investigate guardsmen she suspects as secret mages.
 * Aveline: Even if that were true, he wouldn't tell you.
 * Anders: He won't fight for her when the time comes. Would you turn against your own husband?
 * Aveline: I don't know if you're lying or crazy.


 * Anders: So, I never expected to be palling around with the captain of the guard.
 * Aveline: we're not "pals."
 * Anders: We're not? What about the time we painted each other's toenails?
 * Aveline: Do you want something?
 * Anders: Love, life, and liberty. What more does a man need?
 * Aveline: You're in a jolly mood.
 * Anders: Well, when you're here, I know you're not leading men into Darktown to arrest me.


 * Aveline: You're glaring, Anders. Is there a reason or is it one of your moods?
 * Anders: Your term as captain hasn't been particularly "mage friendly."
 * Aveline: I've only turned a handful over to the templars.
 * Anders: Every despot starts somewhere.
 * Aveline: And yet I allow an abomination to whine at me! Credit where it's due.


 * Aveline: So you're two people, Anders and... Justice?
 * Anders: That's not strictly accurate.
 * Aveline: But you are of two minds.
 * Anders: Many people are.
 * Aveline: Now you're the one not being accurate.
 * Anders: I thought those were the rules of this game.
 * Aveline: I never know who I'm talking to with you.
 * Anders: Then it's fortunate it doesn't occur often.

Aveline and Fenris

 * Fenris: I talked with Donnic.
 * Aveline: Since when do you talk with my husband?
 * Fenris: He...comes to the mansion every week? We play diamondback.
 * Aveline: What? Why am I not invited to these games?
 * Fenris: He says you get angry when you lose.
 * Aveline: I do not! All right, perhaps I do. Still, that's no reason not to tell me.
 * Isabela: Perhaps he longed for less masculine companionship?
 * Aveline: Shut up, whore.


 * Aveline: Thank you for that tip, Fenris.
 * Fenris: You caught them then?
 * Aveline: Yes -- a whole nest of slave runners working out of the Undercity.
 * Fenris: I imagine you imprisoned them?
 * Aveline: Sadly, they never made it to prison.
 * Fenris: You always know how to make me smile, Aveline.


 * Aveline: Do you feel like a citizen, Fenris?
 * Fenris: Excuse me?
 * Aveline: You've been in Kirkwall as long as I have. Does it feel like home?
 * Fenris: It feels. That itself has been a surprise.
 * Aveline: I think I know what you mean.


 * Fenris: I understand you're named after a famous knight?
 * Aveline: Everyone always brings up the name.
 * Fenris: I've not heard of Ser Aveline--is she very famous?
 * Aveline: Really? They don't tell of her glorious downfall in Tevinter?
 * Fenris: Not to slaves.
 * Aveline: Pardon me for saying so, but thank the Maker for that.

Aveline and Isabela

 * Isabela: Do men find you intimidating? What about Wesley? Did he?
 * Aveline: Isabela...
 * Isabela: What? Too soon?
 * Aveline: Too soon, too personal, too... everything coming from you!
 * Isabela: Ooh, sore spot?
 * Aveline: If you don't shut up, I'll give you a sore spot


 * Aveline: So, Isabela. You're a captain?
 * Isabela: That's right, big girl. What of it?
 * Aveline: I don't remember your name on any registries. Every ship that docks has to declare.
 * Isabela: I never docked, and you're no port authority.
 * Aveline: And you... are no merchant.
 * Isabela: Ooh... scrutiny.


 * Aveline: I had trouble with another of your women, Isabela. She stole from a... distracted client. You're lucky she wasn't jailed.
 * Isabela: My women? I am but a shepherd. And what free enterprise are you oppressing now?
 * Aveline: Theft is not enterprise.
 * Isabela: Opportunities insufficiently guarded. Victimless crimes.
 * Aveline: Except for all the victims.
 * Isabela: Details. Victimless details.


 * Isabela: You have such pretty hair. What a lovely color.
 * Aveline: Other children used to laugh at me for having ginger hair.
 * Isabela: Really? Aww. I bet you were cute. Did you have pigtails?
 * Aveline: Sometimes.
 * Isabela: How precious! Little Aveline, running around the village with her flaming orange pigtails streaming behind her...
 * Isabela: ... and little boys all scattering and screaming for mercy as she approached.
 * Aveline: Shut up, whore.

(After The Way It Should Be)
 * Isabela: Well. "Captain." Can I call you captain? You can call me captain.
 * Aveline: I won't be doing that.
 * Isabela: Neither will I. Because you're a guard captain. No real authority. Not like on a ship.
 * Aveline: Well, you would know about having a large number of men under you.
 * Isabela: You've been waiting to use that one. Did you practice?
 * Aveline: Shut up.

(The following two dialogues are just vague impressions, will need an update with exact wording)
 * Aveline: How come you are always so successful with men?
 * Isabela: If you cast your net wide enough you always catch something.
 * Aveline: (Laughs) At least you are admitting it.
 * Isabela: Trust me, I have heard "Go away pirate hag" more than I would like to count.
 * Aveline: How can you bear that?
 * Isabela: Well, they don't know me, I know me.


 * Aveline: You were right.
 * Isabela: About?
 * Aveline: About knowing yourself.
 * Aveline: As a captain, I see myself loyal and strong, and I don't look that bad when naked.
 * Isabela: So, what would you say when I tell you that you are a mannish, awkward, ball-crushing do-gooder?
 * Aveline: Shut up, whore.
 * Isabela: That's my girl.


 * Isabela: And then he says...he says, "I swear I had two when I came in here."
 * Aveline: You are horrible. Every inch.
 * Isabela: Hawke.
 * Aveline: She's not so bad. Except when she is.


 * Isabela: How's marriage been treating you, big girl?
 * Aveline: It's been good. No, great. I'd forgotten what it was like to-
 * Isabela: Be flipped ass-over-tits and hammered like a bent nail?
 * Aveline: To. Be. Loved.
 * Isabela: Oh. Right. Of course.
 * Aveline: Not that I'm complaining about the other thing.

(After completing the quest The Long Road (quest) and she got together with guardsmen Donnic Hendyr)
 * Isabela: So, how good is Donnic? Is he cocksure?
 * Aveline: (Sighs) Just... get it out of your system.
 * Isabela: Did he curl your toes?
 * Isabela: Pudding your peach?
 * Isabela: Dampen your Divine?
 * Isabela: Kaddis your Kate?
 * Isabela: Praise your Maker?
 * Isabela: Explore your Deep Roads?
 * Isabela: Gray your Warden?
 * Isabela: How about "satisfy a demand of your Qun."
 * Aveline: Yes, all right? He is an incredibly proficient lover. Happy?
 * Isabela: Well that's rather personal, don't you think?


 * Aveline: I know you have to be prepared for the random phallus, but for your own safety, please shut your mouth!

(With Anders in party) (With Fenris in party)
 * Isabela: So, Donnic was in the Rose.
 * Aveline: He was not!
 * Isabela: Easy, big girl. He wasn't shopping for himself. You're luckyto have a man who wants to please you.
 * Isabela: But, maybe you could indulge him more. Are there areas of itimacy you haven't explored?
 * Aveline: Why? Why do you give me these doubts?
 * Isabela: Aveline. If you shove your thumb up his ass, I win.
 * Anders: Just... no.
 * Fenris: (laughs)

Aveline and Merrill

 * Merrill: You must really like the Hawke family.
 * Aveline: Why do you say that?
 * Merrill: You came all the way from Lothering with them, no? And they're not even your clan!
 * Aveline: Humans don't have clans, Merrill.
 * Merrill: Exactly. You didn't even have a Keeper to make you get along!
 * Aveline: So the Keeper tells you to behave, or she'll turn the aravel around?
 * Merrill: Sometimes she also tells us to stop pulling hair.


 * Aveline: You're incredibly talented, Merrill. I can see you are meant for great things.
 * Merrill: Thank you!
 * Aveline: But, you're stupid.
 * Merrill: I'm sorry, what?
 * Aveline: Don't you think it would be better to work on where you are now instead of recreating old glory?
 * Merrill: No, no that's kind of the opposite of what I've been saying. I'm the stupid one? Whatever.

(In Act III, if Hawke is romancing Merrill)
 * Aveline: I didn't expect you to stick around for this mess Merrill, this is nothing to do with your elves.
 * Merrill: I love Hawke, I wouldn't go anywhere.
 * Aveline: But it's not your fight.
 * Merrill: I love Hawke.
 * Aveline: You said that.
 * Merrill: I say it a lot. It makes things clearer, takes away doubt when everything is crazy and people are dying.
 * Aveline: I understand.
 * Merrill: Oh, good. Someone should.


 * Merrill: I'd like to know more about being a guard, Aveline.
 * Aveline: I don't think that's the job for you.
 * Merrill: I know, but it might help me not get caught.
 * Aveline: You probably shouldn't have said that part.
 * Merrill: Why?
 * Aveline: Just... never mind.


 * Merrill: Did Lothering have an alienage?
 * Aveline: It wasn't a big enough village to have a wall around it, let alone a place for elves.
 * Merrill: Where did the elves live, then?
 * Aveline: Stables and outbuildings, mostly.
 * Merrill: I think I like alienages better.


 * Merrill: Why don't you arrest us, Aveline?
 * Aveline: What?
 * Merrill: We break the law, I'm pretty sure. There are laws for almost everything.  You're not a bad guard, are you?
 * Aveline: No!
 * Merrill: That's good. Is it because you're fond of Hawke?  I kind of am.
 * Aveline: How very nice for you. Keep it to yourself.
 * Merrill: I'd rather keep it with her.

Aveline and Sebastian

 * Aveline: So you’re a prince, are you?
 * Sebastian: That is apparently true.
 * Aveline: There’s doubt?
 * Sebastian: I have accepted the burden, that’s all that matters. Why do you ask, guard captain?
 * Aveline: The entitled types are always trouble.
 * Sebastian: In that case, I’m glad I don’t count myself as one.
 * Aveline: They never do.


 * Sebastian: I understand you are of noble birth.
 * Aveline: My father was a chevalier. He had to flee Orlais when his patron was murdered.
 * Sebastian: I’m sorry.
 * Aveline: I wouldn’t have been suited for the life of an Orlesian noblewoman anyway.
 * Sebastian: But surely you wish it could have been different? To be a lady of Orlais and not a guardsman?
 * Aveline: Not for one moment! I’d rather kill a bandit and save a merchant’s family than know the correct dance steps and which rouge is in fashion.

Aveline and Varric

 * Varric: A Fereldan in the guard, what will they think of next?
 * Aveline: You have a problem with that?
 * Varric: Me? My family's not native either. Just surprised, lot of old prejudice in the guard.
 * Aveline: I'll give them plenty of reason to change their minds.
 * Varric: You know, it's possible they're just scared shitless of you. That's my theory anyway.


 * Varric: So, what do you do, Aveline?
 * Aveline: You know I'm a guard. Why are you asking?
 * Varric: I mean in your off-duty hours. You've heard of it, I hope.
 * Aveline: These are my off-duty hours.
 * Varric: And the trend of you scaring the piss out of me continues.


 * Aveline: Maybe I should put you to use Varric. Have you pen some warnings for the lawless.
 * Varric: Whose that for? Are most criminals big readers? Seems like pacifying the nobles.
 * Aveline: Pictures then. It was just a suggestion.
 * Varric: Well how about a giant sign that just says "Don't". You could hit people with it.
 * Aveline: Thank you. I get the point.


 * Aveline: Do you do anything, Varric?
 * Varric: Am I the next stop in your career examinations? Joy of joys.
 * Aveline: You watch and you talk. Is that it?
 * Varric: You are dismissing hallmarks of both the utterly ineffectual and the incredibly dangerous.
 * Aveline: I don't know what you mean.
 * Varric: It means coins flow when I talk and when I shut up. It's like if you were told to guard or unguard.
 * Aveline: That makes no sense.
 * Varric: Good.

Act 2
 * Aveline: Blondie, Sunshine, Daisy, Rivaini... What am I?
 * Varric: Beg your pardon?
 * Aveline: You don't call anyone by name except for me. Where's my nickname?
 * Varric: That's not true. There's Hawke. And Bianca.
 * Aveline: 'Hawke' is a family name and Bianca is a crossbow. Don't change the subject.
 * Varric: Haven't thought of a good one yet. What do you think of 'Red'?
 * Aveline: Too common.
 * Varric: Well, when you think of one, let me know.


 * Aveline: You know the Tethras family businesses are registered in your cousin Elmand's name?
 * Varric: You don't say?
 * Aveline: But I can't find any record of you having a cousin Elmand.
 * Varric: I'll introduce you some time. He's a little on the shy side.
 * Aveline: Varric. He's imaginary.
 * Varric: Which makes him a much better head of the household than I am. He never misses the Merchants Guild meetings, for one.


 * Aveline: You, Varric, have a very large mouth.
 * Varric: And here I've always looked up to you. What is it now?
 * Aveline: There were fistfights in the barracks over who is the model for your guard serial.
 * Varric: Hard in Hightown. Riveting stuff. Everyone loves a dirty guard on the edge.
 * Aveline: Varric.
 * Varric: Fine. I'll start his big finish. Three chapters until Donnen Brennicovick retires and opens a tavern on the coast.
 * Varric: I sure hope he makes it. He's getting too old for this shit.


 * Aveline: You are very close to losing your printing blocks, Varric.
 * Varric: Once more I am falsely accused of whatever it is that I am accused of. Falsely.
 * Aveline: Someone swapped the text of my recruitment poster with some filth from the Blooming Rose.
 * Varric: That does sound pretty good.
 * Aveline: Sure, fill barracks with whores. But you've also filled the Rose with guards.
 * Varric: It's true what they say. The best comedy comes from tragedy.

Act 3
 * Aveline: Why are you still here, Varric?
 * Varric: Starkhaven's too pretentious for me and Cumberland's too boring.
 * Aveline: You always say you hate commitment, but here you are, six years later, still at Hawke's side.
 * Varric: Aveline, I thought you'd have noticed by now: I lie a lot.


 * Aveline: Strange, I always thought I'd wind up arresting you some day.
 * Varric: If I ever decide to get caught, Aveline, you'll be the guard I let catch me.
 * Aveline: "Let catch you"?
 * Varric: "Decide to get caught" didn't trip you though. Good to know!


 * Aveline: You're too quiet, Varric.
 * Varric: I'm thinking of switching to romances. Nothing? Not even a foreboding frown?
 * Aveline: I am content. Write what you will.
 * Varric: Well that certainly takes the fun out of it. Contentment in the barracks? Who'll pay to hear that shit?
 * Aveline: Then I should have thought of it years ago.


 * Aveline: How are you at finales, Varric?
 * Varric: I intend to get some practical experience pretty soon.
 * Aveline: Make it a good one, will you?
 * Varric: For you, madam, endless sunsets and roses.
 * Aveline: Varric.
 * Varric: And the swift hand of the law sweeping all aside. I thought that went unsaid.