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*'''Isabela:'''There was a brothel on the sunny side of Antiva called "The Bone Pit". It was entirely different from this. |
*'''Isabela:'''There was a brothel on the sunny side of Antiva called "The Bone Pit". It was entirely different from this. |
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*'''Isabela:'''I really should have gone to the privy before coming here. (during [[Haunted]]) |
*'''Isabela:'''I really should have gone to the privy before coming here. (during [[Haunted]]) |
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+ | *'''Isabela:''' Watch out for the squirrels. They can be vicious little bastards. <small>(on the Wounded Coast)</small> |
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Revision as of 01:45, 15 June 2011
Isabela's dialogue contains the conversations she shares with The Warden in Dragon Age: Origins and with Hawke's companions in Dragon Age II.
Dialogue: Dragon Age: Origins
- Isabela: "Hmm... strong hands. Could I entice you to leave your order and sign up as one of my crewmen? I could use those strong hands at my... helm."
- Warden: "I don't know anything about sailing."
- Isabela: "The ship is the best teacher. She will guide you with her sighs... her shudders, her gentle swaying as she rides the crests of the waves."
- Isabela: "She's quite feisty, isn't she?"
- Warden: "She bites too."
- Leliana: "I do not!"
- Isabela: "And you said she was a cloistered sister? I dare say the cloisters must be teaching things other than the Chant of Light."
- Leliana: "Oh, no, no... I learned those things in Orlais. Bored noblewomen often come up with various methods of self-amusement."
- Isabela: "She's quite feisty isn't she?"
- Warden: "I thought her performance was lackluster today."
- Leliana: "Lackluster! Well, that's a fine way of complimenting a lady!"
- Isabela: "Ha! You might be many things, sweet Leliana, but as you have proven today, you are no lady."
- Leliana: "L-let us never speak of this again."
- Isabela: "Yes, I agree."
- Zevran: "I don't mind never speaking of it again, as long as we could do it again."
- Leliana: "That's a thought..."
- Isabela: "Am I getting old, or has Zevran become even more depraved over the years?"
- Zevran: "I've been about Grey Wardens. Perhaps the taint has rubbed off on me some, hmm? (Chuckles)"
- Isabela: "My dear, you wouldn't consider...leaving Alistair with me, would you? Perhaps let me borrow him for a week every summer? I'm sure we could work out a deal."
- Warden: "Would you lend me your ship?"
- Isabela: "Of course not! You would misuse the ship-- Which, I suppose, is exactly what I would do with Alistair, though I suspect he would enjoy it while the ship wouldn't."
- Alistair: "Not that the idea of being borrowed isn't terribly fascinating, but let's not forget the darkspawn. There may not be a week every summer, or any summer."
- Isabela: "Darkspawn! Is this the only thing men think about these days? What about the good old obsessions? Breasts, firm buttocks, wet frocks?"
- Alistair: "Hmm... wet frocks..."
Dialogue: Dragon Age II
Isabela and Hawke
During Fools Rush In
- Hawke: "Stab first, ask questions later?"
- Isabela: "Trust me, it's better this way."
Act III
During No Rest for the Wicked
Beginning of quest, while talking about how to fool Velasco
- Hawke: "You haven't exactly thought this out, have you?"
- Isabela: "I haven't exactly worked out all of the kinks. Step one, we find Castillon... step two, I don't know. Something exciting happens. Step three, profit. Any questions?" (Possibly a reference to the South Park episode, "Gnomes")
In the Blooming Rose, before pretending to hand Isabela over to trick Velasco
- Isabela: Now, this needs to be convincing. And you'll need to get creative—call me names, even hit me.
- Isabela: Stick with it, no matter what I do. Velasco's a clever son of a bitch. If you waver, he'll notice.
(Diplomatic choice) I'm not sure about this.
- Hawke: I don't know if I can pull this off.
- Isabela: Come on, haven't you ever wanted to slap me? Just a little?
If other party members present
- Aveline: Absolutely.
- Fenris: Yes.
- Anders: Yes.
- Varric: Yes.
- Merrill: Yes... wait, what are we voting on?
- Sebastian: Is that a trick question?
- Isabela: I wasn't asking you people!
- Varric: Face it. You set yourself up for that one.
OR (Humorous choice) You seem a little eager.
- Hawke: I'm worried about you. You're enjoying this a little too much.
- Isabela: I am, aren't I? (Giggles)
OR (Aggressive choice) This will be fun.
- Hawke: I'll make it convincing, not to worry.
- Isabela: Er... now you're making me nervous.
If Hawke spent the night with Fenris, speak to her in The Hanged Man
- Isabela: Speaking of romance... You and Fenris, eh? That taut, controlled body, the brooding demeanor and intense gaze... I hear he still wears the shackles from his life in bondage...under his clothes. You know what they say about men like that, don't you?
- Hawke: (Sighs) I'm going to regret asking you to continue, aren't I?
- Isabela: He can't find a saw. (Laughs) I had you there! You thought I was going to say something dirty! (Laughs)
OR
- Hawke: I haven't seen any shackles. You're just making things up.
- Isabela: Oh. But... I had this joke lined up.
- Isabela: You're no fun.
OR
- Hawke: Keep it to yourself, Isabela.
- Isabela: You're no fun.
If Hawke romanced Merrill, speak to her in The Hanged Man
- Isabela: Speaking of romance...
- Isabela: You're interested in Merrill, aren't you?
- Hawke: I have feelings for her/I'm that obvious, am I?
- Isabela: Well, that's good. She always seemed a little lonely.
- Isabela: I get the feeling the girl's messing in something big and dangerous.
- Isabela: Look out for her, will you? Make sure she doesn't hurt herself.
- Isabela: Oh, and if you do anything nasty to her, I'll cut off your balls. (male Hawke)
if Hawke has slept with Isabela
- Hawke: "So when do I get the grand tour?"
- Isabela: "Haven't you already - Oh, you mean the ship."
When entering the Blooming Rose for the first time
- Isabela: "The difference between whores and courtesans is...well, they have nicer shoes."
- Hawke: "I don't think anyone's looking at their shoes."
After the events of All That Remains and if you romanced Isabela
- Isabela: "I... uh. I feel I should say... something."
- Hawke: "I know you're not good at... emotional stuff."
- Isabela: "At least your mother loved you. Not everyone can say that."
- Hawke: "Mother was all I had left."
- Isabela: "You don't really think that, do you?"
- Isabela: "Family's not just the people you're related to by blood. There are other people who care about you."
- Isabela: "Like... Aveline."
Isabela and Anders
ACT I
- Isabela: Hello? Is Anders there? Can I speak to Anders?
- Anders: You can stop yelling. It's always me.
- Isabela: Oh, good. I didn't want to talk to that other guy. You know, the stick-in-the-mud.
- Anders: He can still hear you. Justice and I are one.
- Anders: Anyway, you wanted to talk to me?
- Isabela: Not really. I just wanted to make sure it was you.
- Anders: I keep thinking I know you from somewhere...
- Isabela: You're Fereldan, right? Ever spend time at the Pearl?
- Anders: That's it!
- Anders: You used to really like that girl with the griffin tattoos, right? What was her name?
- Isabela: The Gray Warden?
- Anders: That's right! I think you were there the night I—
- Isabela: Oh! Were you the runaway mage who could do that electricity thing? That was nice...
- Hawke: Please stop talking. Now.
Or if Varric is in the party
- Varric: I don't think I need to know this about either of you.
- Anders: Isabela, you never talk about the mages' plight.
- Isabela: What's there to say?
- Anders: There's plenty to say.
- Isabela: And you say enough for the lot of us, don't you think?
- Anders: So you're telling me you have no opinion on the matter?
- Isabela: None whatsoever!
- Anders: That can't be true.
- Isabela: No, I'm afraid I'm really this shallow.
- Anders: Sometimes, I think you have the right idea.
- Isabela: Handcuffs, whipped cream, always be on top?
- Anders: I never used to give two bits what anyone thought of me.
- Anders: Justice once asked me why I didn't do more for other mages. I told him it was too much work.
- Anders: But I couldn't go back after that. Couldn't stop thinking about it.
- Anders: Sometimes, I miss being that selfish.
- Isabela: Huh? Were you talking? I was still at "whipped cream."
ACT II
- Anders: What makes this relic of yours so valuable?
- Isabela: The same thing that makes anything valuable. Someone's willing to pay for it.
- Anders: That's not evasive.
- Isabela: Look, I didn't get where I am by showing my hand, you know?
- Anders: No, your hand isn't what I hear you've been showing.
- Anders: Do you ever have any regrets?
- Isabela: About what?
- Anders: Anything? Everything? I can't figure you out.
- Isabela: The past's past. I learned that young. If it can't bring you gold or giggles, what's the point in dwelling on it?
- Anders: Maybe the chance to fix a mistake? Make things right again?
- Isabela: Eh. Our mistakes make us who we are.
- Anders: That was almost profound.
- Anders: So, this relic you lost... how is it you don't know what it is?
- Isabela: It was in a box.
- Anders: And you didn't open it? You managed to resist the urge?
- Isabela: It was locked. It was a locked box!
- Anders: Hasn't stopped you before.
- Isabela: What do you want me to say?
- Anders: Nothing. I just found it curious, that's all.
- Anders: You do have an opinion on mages, don’t you?
- Isabela: Of course I do. I just don't feel a constant need to bring it up.
- Isabela: (Sighs) Mages don’t worry me. And I don't believe the templars when they say I should be worried.
- Isabela: I’m more likely to be shanked in a bar than eaten by an abomination. You can hear those coming a mile away.
- Isabela: "Grr. Argh!" "Oh, is that an abomination coming to eat us? We should get out of here!"
- Anders: Abominations don't go, "Grr. Argh."
- Isabela: They don't? I should rethink the whole thing, then.
ACT III
- Anders: You're not nearly as selfish as you pretend.
- Isabela: Hey! You take that back!
- Anders: You had your relic. You were gone. There was no reason for you to come back and face the Qunari.
- Isabela: I still don't have a ship. I thought I could get one.
- Anders: From a bunch of shipwrecked Qunari?
- Isabela: From the Viscount. I just got here late.
- Anders: I always knew you had a heart of gold.
- Isabela: Shh! Don't tell anyone.
- Anders: I don't know how you live the way you do, blithely ignoring the consequences of your actions.
- Isabela: This is about the Qunari thing, isn't it? I'm not ignoring it. I just recognize that it happened years ago.
- Isabela: There's this fantastic thing called "moving on." You should try it sometime.
- Anders: Has it occurred to you that Kirkwall is only just recovering from the Qunari attack?
- Isabela: And you want me to... what? Flog myself daily?
- Isabela: Has it occurred to you that maybe there's no justice in the world? Other than that voice you keep in your head.
- Anders: I can't believe you're still not taking sides.
- Isabela: I told you, I only like to be on top.
- Anders: I mean against the templars! You like freedom, right? You hate slavery.
- Anders: Why wouldn't you side with the mages?
- Isabela: Maybe I just don't like you.
- Anders: There is justice in the world.
- Isabela: Is there? You want to free the mages. Let's say you do, but to get there, you kill a bunch of innocent people.
- Isabela: What about them? Don't they then deserve justice?
- Anders: Yes.
- Isabela: And then what? Where does it end?
- Isabela: It's like a bar brawl. People are continuously pulled into the fray, and nobody remembers why it started.
- Isabela: Justice is an idea. It makes sense in a world of ideas, but not in our world.
Isabela and Aveline
ACT I
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
Only if you complete 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.
When entering the Blooming Rose for the first time
- Isabela: "The difference between whores and courtesans is...well, they have nicer shoes."
- Aveline: I think your shoes are fine.
- Isabela: Look at you being funny! That might even get you a man someday.
ACT II
- Aveline: I had trouble with another one 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.
- Aveline: How are you so successful with men? You're not that pretty.
- Isabela: Cast a wide enough net, and you're bound to catch something.
- Aveline: (Laughs) At least you're willing to admit it.
- Isabela: Trust me. I've heard, "Get away from me, you pirate hag!" more times than I care to count.
- Aveline: Doesn't that bother you?
- Isabela: Why should it? They don't know me. I know me.
- Aveline: You're right.
- Isabela: About?
- Aveline: About knowing who you are.
- Aveline: I'm the captain of the guard. I'm loyal, strong, and I don't look too bad naked.
- Isabela: Exactly. And if I called you a mannish, awkward, ball-crushing do-gooder, you'd say...?
- Aveline: Shut up, whore.
- Isabela: That's my girl.
During The Long Road. Isabela must be in the party when you speak to Aveline after posting the duty roster, and choose, "You've been alone this long?"
- Hawke: So you've been by yourself since we came to Kirkwall?
- Isabela: Wait, you've gone four years without? You must creak like a rusty hinge.
- Aveline: Many people have their lives because of me.
- Isabela: But poor you, no life of your own.
- Aveline: We both place others above ourselves. I happen to do it clothed.
(Isabela approaches Aveline)
- Isabela: You're splitting hairs, but wishing someone would split yours.
- Aveline: I've had enough of your loose lips. Like many, I'm sure.
(they get in each other's face)
- Isabela: Oh, touché. Prig!
- Aveline: Slattern!
(Hawke steps in)
- Hawke: If I might put this back on track.
After completing The Long Road
- 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 will say four of the following at random:
- Isabela: Dwarf your beard?
- Isabela: Arl your Eamon?
- Isabela: Shank your Jory?
- Isabela: Praise your Maker?
- Isabela: Grope your grinder?
- Isabela: Establish his canon?
- Isabela: Kaddis your Katie?
- Isabela: Dampen your Divine?
- Isabela: Pamper your Paragon?
- Isabela: Grey your Warden?
- Isabela: Pudding your peach?
- Isabela: Float your frigate?
- Isabela: Explore your Deep Roads?
The fifth will always be one of the following:
- Isabela: How about "satisfy a demand of your Qun."
- Isabela: Or did he Cup your Joining?
- Isabela: Or master your taint? That's an old one.
- Aveline: Yes, all right? He is an incredibly proficient lover. Happy?
- Isabela: Well that's rather personal, don't you think?
ACT III
- Aveline: You didn't come to my solstice dinner party.
- Isabela: Look at you! Dinner parties, cooking... do you have a lace apron yet, or should I get one for you?
- Aveline: Don't change the subject. I sent you an invitation, and you didn't show up.
- Isabela: I thought it would be... I mean, I don't know. I just don't do family gatherings.
- Isabela: Besides, one day you and Donnic will have children, and I'll be the last person you want around them.
- Isabela: Imagine all the awkward questions you'd have to answer. "Mother, what's a Slattern?"
- Aveline: I'll just point at you and say, "That's a Slattern."
- Isabela: So, Donnic was in the Rose.
- Aveline: He was not!
- Isabela: Easy, big girl. He wasn't shopping for himself. You're lucky to have a man who wants to please you.
- Isabela: But, maybe you could indulge him more. Are there areas of intimacy 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.
The last line depends on who else is in the party:
- Anders: Just... no.
- Fenris: (laughs)
- Merrill: Ew!
- Varric: Ah, that old chestnut.
- Sebastian: Ugh. Maker.
- Hawke: (Coughs)
- 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.
- Aveline: You know, Isabela, if someone had told me that I'd put up with you for all these years, I'd have punched them flat.
- Isabela: And if someone had told me I'd still be here, I'd have done the same.
If No Rest for the Wicked has been completed
- Aveline: You have your ship, what's stopping you?
Otherwise
- Aveline: Save your bits, you'll have your ship one day.
- Isabela: And what would you do without me as a constant headache in the Rose?
- Aveline: Someone would rush to fill the hole. You know, like you never left.
- Isabela: That's my girl.
- Aveline: Maybe you win once in a while.
- Aveline: (Laughs)
- Isabela: And then he says...he says, "I swear I had two when I came in here."
- Isabela: You know, those stains never did come out.
- Aveline: You are horrible. Every inch.
- Isabela: You love it, big girl. And you owe me for the bottle.
- Isabela: Hawke.
- Aveline: She's not so bad. Except when she is.
- Aveline: Isabela, I realize that you are always prepared for a sudden random phallus, but for your own safety, shut your mouth!
During Champions and Captains, and you choose "How was the honeymoon?"
- Hawke: You never said how your three weeks in Orlais went.
- Aveline: You're right. I didn't.
- Isabela: Ohh. Shivery.
During On The Loose, when talking with Emile de Launcet
- Isabela: Aww, he's like you were. Do you remember, Aveline? When you were stupid over Donnic?
- Aveline: Yes, I remember. Thank you.
Isabela and Bethany
- Bethany: What were you before you were a pirate?
- Isabela: I had a husband. He didn’t beat me, that’s about the best I can say about it.
- Bethany: So you left him?
- Isabela: He was murdered. By my lover. It was all very... Antivan.
- Bethany: Oh. I don’t think I’d like to live in Antiva.
- Bethany: So you've... been with women. In bed?
- Isabela: I know. Shocking, isn't it?
- Isabela: You see, sweetness, men are only good for one thing. Women are good for six.
- Bethany: Six? Which six?
- Hawke: Isabela!
- Isabela: (Laughs)
- Bethany: I guess you've been with a lot of men.
- Isabela: Men. Women. Elves. A dwarf in drag once, but I don't recommend that.
- Bethany: Oh.
- Isabela: Aw... you're blushing! Why? How many lovers have you had?
- Bethany: I-I never—
- Isabela: You're a virgin? Hawke, you've been holding out on the poor girl! Get her a night at the Blooming Rose. On me!
- Bethany: That's, um, very generous.
- Isabela: I'm a giver.
- Bethany: That book you were reading this morning, "Hesserian's Spear"— I don't think he had a spear in the legends.
- Isabela: He does in this one. Read the description.
- Bethany: "Andraste knelt before no man but her Maker, but she hadn't counted on the archon Hesserian."
- Bethany: "Can Hesserian penetrate the tight-knit defenses of the warrior-prophetess? Will she be prepared to face the full blast of his... power?"
- Bethany: Wait a minute... Isabela! This is a vulgar thing!
- Isabela: You want to borrow it?
- Bethany: No!
- Isabela: You sure? It has pictures!
- Bethany: Not listening! I'm not listening!
(When entering the barracks)
- Isabela: Coming here of my own free will feels wrong... Like diddling a sister.
- Bethany: Why? Why do you say these things?
Isabela and Carver
- Isabela: I saw you at the Blooming Rose the other night.
- Carver: What? No you didn't.
- Isabela: I suppose someone else stole your chin to romance Faith?
- Carver: (Scoffs) That's unlikely. She wasn't even working.
- Isabela: Mm-hmm. Got you.
The next line changes depending on your third party member:
- Aveline: Carver!
- Varric: Oh ho! Nicely done.
If one of the previous lines didn't trigger, and Hawke has not slept with anyone in the Blooming Rose:
- Hawke: Carver, what would Mother say?
- Carver: You're just... that's not what I... shit!
- Carver: So, Isabela. You captained a ship? That's a lot of men to handle. For you to command.
- Isabela: Well aren't you just adorable fumbling for a topic.
- Carver: You say that like I'm harmless.
- Isabela: As harmless as a pup that will someday grow into its fangs and sink them deep.
- Carver: Sure, keep teasing. I'll show you how much of a pup I am.
- Isabela: I know. That's why I do it.
- Isabela: You look like a man I once dueled.
- Isabela: He was a little intimated by my reputation as a vicious pirate, but rose to the challenge.
- Carver: He looked like me, you say?
- Isabela: It went on all night, under the stars, the waves lapping at our ankles.
- Carver: On the beach? In the surf? How did you get proper footing?
- Isabela: We didn't. There was quite a bit of tumbling around, and we were soaked and sore by the time the sun came up.
- Carver: Did you... win?
- Isabela: I managed to get on top in the end, but I considered it a tie.
- Carver: Why is it always about sex with you?
- Isabela: It's not. Sometimes it's about sex with other people.
- Carver: You see? It comes up every single time we talk.
- Isabela: We're just talking, Carver. If it comes up, that's not my fault.
- Carver: What? I mean... that's not what I meant. It... it doesn't!
- Carver: I hate you so much.
Isabela and Fenris
ACT I
- Isabela: So what's with that magical fisting thing you do?
- Fenris: I'm... sorry?
- Isabela: You know, when you stick your hand into people.
- Fenris: Oh. That. Yes. It's a... talent.
- Isabela: You could make so much coin with that.
- Isabela: This one time, I was sailing to Llomerryn, and there was a fight between two of my men.
- Isabela: It was over a dice game, or the last piece of toast, or something. Sailors—they’re touchy about their toast.
- Fenris: Is this going anywhere?
- Isabela: It will if you let me finish.
- Isabela: So, there’s a knife fight, and Jim ends up with a broken-off blade stuck in his shoulder.
- Isabela: It’s buried deep in there, and we’re out at sea, at least a week from the nearest port.
- Isabela: If you were there, you could've reached in and plucked that blade right from his flesh.
- Fenris: That’s your whole point?
- Isabela: Pretty much.
- Isabela: I enjoy a man with markings like that.
- Fenris: You've enjoyed many, I suspect.
- Isabela: Where I come from, they're called "tattoos." Sailors get them all the time.
- Fenris: Not made of lyrium, I'd imagine.
- Isabela: Not a one. And the pictures are different—usually breasts.
- Fenris: I suppose a pair of lyrium breasts tattooed onto my chest would make things better.
- Isabela: That's me. I'm a helper.
- Fenris: So this relic you mentioned losing...
- Isabela: You have pretty eyes.
- Fenris: I... have pretty eyes.
- Isabela: You elves have such pretty eyes, even the men. It makes me want to pluck them out and wear them as a necklace.
- Fenris: I wouldn't suggest trying.
- Isabela: Oh, I would never try. Not without reason, of course.
- Fenris: Forget I said anything.
- Fenris: So you freed a group of slaves?
- Isabela: Would-be slaves. They weren't slaves yet.
- Fenris: Still, you did the right thing. Many would turn a blind eye.
- Isabela: Don't read too much into it, all right? It just seemed a good idea at the time.
In front of The Hanged Man
- Fenris: I still don't get the name. Did they hang someone here?
- Isabela: It means being drunk.
If Varric is in the party
- Varric: Actually they used to hang men there. By their feet...until they starved.
- Fenris: Well, good thing they were drunk then.
While speaking to Jethann in The Blooming Rose during the quest The First Sacrifice
- Isabela: Ooh, I like him. He reminds me of someone.
- Fenris: Can't imagine who.
In the Hanged Man
- Fenris: Sour ale, vomit, and the smell of desperation.
- Isabela: I live here you know.
- Fenris: Then I stand corrected.
ACT II
- Fenris: So I hear you think mages should be free.
- Isabela: Everyone should be free. Not just mages.
- Fenris: Not everyone's dangerous.
- Isabela: It's not about who's dangerous. It's about having choices made for you.
- Isabela: Don't you wish you had the choice not to have lyrium stuck under your skin?
- Fenris: I do.
- Isabela: (Sighs) This is silly. I don't want to argue.
- Fenris: Do you want to guess what color my underclothes are again?
- Isabela: Oh, yes, that's much more fun.
- Fenris: You keep staring at me. Is it my eyes again?
- Isabela: You're very lanky for an elf. I like lanky.
- Fenris: From what I gather, you like a lot of things.
- Isabela: Nonsense. But when I see something I like, I go after it.
If Hawke is romancing Fenris:
- Fenris: I suggest keeping your distance.
- Isabela: Now you're just making it challenging.
If not:
- Fenris: Do you intend to go after me, then?
- Isabela: Will you take off all that spiky armor you're wearing?
- Fenris: It's been known to happen.
- Isabela: Then forget it.
- Isabela: So what duties did you have? As a slave, I mean?
- Fenris: Not this again.
- Isabela: I heard that Tevinter slaves are kept oiled so they glisten. Did your master oil you up? Did you glisten for him?
- Fenris: I was his bodyguard.
- Isabela: Always close at hand. Always within reach. Glistening.
- Fenris: You have an entire story written in your head already, don't you?
- Isabela: Mmm.
ACT III
- Isabela: You seem especially broody today.
- Fenris: Does it bother you? Should I stop?
- Isabela: No, don't stop. But could you add some smoldering to the routine? Just for me?
- Fenris: Smolder?
- Isabela: Oh, and while you're at it, perhaps some cold insolence.
- Fenris: You want me to smolder and be cold at the same time? Those don't go together...
- Isabela: Shush. Don't distract me with your logic.
- Fenris: So you engaged a Qunari dreadnaught in battle.
- Isabela: They engaged me in battle. I was just trying to get away.
- Isabela: Sailing into the storm was a gamble. Took care of the dreadnaught, but it did us in too. Can't win them all.
- Fenris: Where I come from, we would call that insanity.
- Isabela: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Fenris: I still can't believe Hawke saved you.
- Isabela: You've been saying that for years. Would you have turned me over to the Qunari?
- Fenris: No, but I know what they do to their prisoners.
- Isabela: Execute them horribly, I imagine.
- Fenris: The Qunari waste nothing. They would reeducate you into a loyal follower of the Qun.
- Isabela: Pfft. Could I refuse?
- Fenris: There's always qamek, which turns you into a mindless laborer. Like I said, they waste nothing.
- Isabela: Oh.
- Fenris: If you wish to thank Hawke, he's/she's standing right there.
If neither is in a romance with Hawke:
- Isabela: That night, I can't stop thinking about it.
- Fenris: Well, then I'll see you later.
- Isabela: That was direct.
- Fenris: I thought I'd get straight to the point. Were you expecting flowers or something?
- Isabela: Don't be absurd.
- Fenris: Then I'll see you tonight.
Isabela and Flemeth
- Isabela: Friend of yours?
- Flemeth: You speak the word as if it were cheap coin, meant for spending.
- Isabela: You don't know me.
- Flemeth: Oh, I know your type.
Isabela and Leliana
If you romanced Leliana in Dragon Age: Origins and had a threesome with Isabela:
- Isabela: Leliana?
- Leliana: Isabela?
- Isabela: "Sister Nightingale," indeed. I remember it didn't take much to make you sing.
- Leliana: *laughs awkwardly*
- Merrill: I like singing! Were you in a choir together?
- Isabela: Not exactly, Kitten.
- Varric: Is there anyone in Ferelden you haven't slept with, Rivaini?
- Merrill: Oh, is that what she... oh. Oh.
- Leliana: Perhaps we... should get back to the reason I'm here.
Isabela and Merrill
ACT I
- Merrill: How do you do that?
- Isabela: Do what, Kitten?
- Merrill: You sort of... swagger when you walk. I've been trying, but I trip over my own feet when I do it.
- Isabela: You just strut. It's not something you practice.
- Merrill: How do I learn it, then?
- Isabela: It comes to you. Usually at night. It's like a lover... or maybe a burglar.
- Isabela: Either it ravishes you or runs off with all your jewelry. And you have to run it down and stab it in the heart.
- Isabela: And... that metaphor got a bit away from me, didn't it?
- Merrill: I think it did, but it was certainly exciting!
- Merrill: Do you really like sailing?
- Isabela: Like it? I love it! The salt spray on my face, the wind whipping by my ears, the gulls screaming overhead—I love it all.
- Merrill: Don't you get sick? I was so sick on our trip across the sea.
- Isabela: Were you in the hold?
- Merrill: Everyone was in the hold.
- Isabela: There's your problem. You need to be up on deck, under the sky, with nothing between you and the horizon.
- Isabela: Sailing is like sex. Do it wrong, and it'll make you sick.
- Isabela: But do it right, and there's no feeling in the world like it.
- Merrill: Do you have a parrot, Isabela?
- Isabela: What would I want a parrot for?
- Merrill: What about a peg leg? Do you have one of those?
- Isabela: You can see that I don't, dear.
- Merrill: Eye patch?
- Isabela: I'm disappointing you terribly, aren't I? And no hook for a hand, either.
- Merrill: Seems that Varric's pirate stories are awfully inaccurate.
- Isabela: He knows, Kitten. He likes them better that way.
- Isabela: It's not always fun and games on the sea, though. There are storms and hostile pirates.
- Isabela: And it's trying being cooped up with men who haven't seen a woman in months.
- Merrill: You're a woman.
- Isabela: Exactly. And I don't usually let them touch me, so they get... frustrated.
- Isabela: I insist all of them get alone time. Helps with the crankiness.
- Merrill: But they're already lonely! Why would you insist that they be alone some more?
- Isabela: Merrill.
- Merrill: What? Did I miss something?
- Isabela: Go think about it. Maybe it'll come to you.
While speaking to Jethann in The Blooming Rose during the quest The First Sacrifice
- Isabela: Ooh, I like him. He reminds me of someone.
- Merrill: He does? Who is it?
- Isabela: Think about it, Kitten.
- Merrill: Well, you couldn't have meant Varric, because he's not even an elf—oh... Ohh! You were referring to yourself. Sorry!
- Isabela: See? I knew it'd come to you.
ACT II
- Merrill: (Sighs) Why do you even like me? I must seem so dull.
- Isabela: What brought this on?
- Merrill: Your life has been... so exciting. The adventures, the duels, the passionate love affairs.
- Merrill: Compared to that, my life is a stale, dry biscuit. (Sighs) I wish I had your life.
- Isabela: No. You don't want my life.
- Merrill: Why?
- Isabela: Because you have a good heart, and you deserve better.
- Merrill: What was Llomerryn like? I’ve never heard of a Dalish who’s been there.
- Isabela: I don’t imagine your people travel between islands much.
- Merrill: Not really, no.
- Isabela: I wouldn’t start waterproofing your wagons, then. I don’t think Llomerryn is ready for the Dalish.
- Merrill: What do you mean? Would we upset the people there?
- Isabela: It’s not really the kind of place where one turns down a tumble. Even refuse a fortune teller, and they’d run your lot out of town.
- Merrill: How do you suppose the Qunari scratch their heads with those horns in the way?
- Isabela: Why do you think I would know?
- Merrill: Because you know lots of things! I wonder if they rub their heads against tree trunks like halla do.
- Isabela: I'd pay a sovereign to see that.
- Merrill: No wonder they seem so cranky all the time.
- Merrill: You've had many lovers, haven't you?
- Isabela: Fewer than some think.
- Merrill: But you never stay with them.
- Isabela: No, why should I?
- Merrill: But the act of lovemaking is so... intimate.
- Isabela: I don't "make love." What I do is only skin-deep, Kitten.
- Isabela: Don't worry your pretty little head about it.
If Hawke is romancing Merrill
- Isabela: You and Hawke... something's there, isn't there?
- Merrill: He's clever, strong, and wonderful. How can anyone not love him?
- Merrill: She's so amazing and beautiful. How could anyone not love her? (if Hawke is female)
- Isabela: Oh, I could give you a list, but that might just bore you.
- Isabela: So... did you get naked?
- Merrill: Isabela!
- Isabela: Ooh, look at that blush. That good, huh?
If Hawke also romanced Isabela:
- Isabela: How could anyone not?
- Merrill: <gasps> It's me. I said something wrong, didn't I?
- Isabela: No, of course not. You could never say anything wrong.
- Isabela: I'm happy for you, Kitten. You've been alone long enough.
ACT III
If Hawke has accepted Isabela's love
- Merrill: I think Hawke likes you, Isabela
- Isabela: I certainly hope so!
- Merrill: Of course, it's not surprising at all that anybody would love you, but it's nice to see you two happy.
- Isabela: Merrill, sometimes you're so sweet I could eat you for dessert.
If Hawke hasn't accepted her love yet
- Merrill: I think Hawke likes you, Isabela.
- Isabela: You think so, do you?
- Merrill: S/he looks at you all the time, and then s/he looks embarrassed and pretends s/he's busy with something else.
- Hawke: I can hear you, you know.
- Merrill: (Giggles) See?
- Isabela: Hmm. I'll have to think about that...
- Merrill: Do you think you'll leave Kirkwall someday?
If Hawke has romanced Isabela
- Isabela: I might if I can persuade the right person to come away with me.
If not
- Isabela: Of course I will! As soon as I get myself a ship, I'm sailing wherever the sea takes me.
- Merrill: I'll miss you. You'll write to me, won't you? Do pirates write letters?
- Isabela: Badly. Hook hands make for awful pennmanship, Kitten.
If No Rest for the Wicked & Questioning Beliefs have been completed and Hawke accepted Isabela's love
- Merrill: Why are you smiling?
- Isabela: No reason.
- Merrill: Ooh, ooh! It's something dirty, isn't it? Tell me, tell me!
- Isabela: It... it isn't anything dirty. I'm just... happy.
- Merrill: Oh. That's good, too, but I was hoping for something dirty.
- Isabela: Come by the tavern later. I've got stories that will make your toes curl.
Isabela and Sebastian
ACT II
- Sebastian: Is this getting you any closer to your ship?
- Isabela: Huh?
- Sebastian: I just... don't understand why you're working with Hawke. You don't seem to care about anything we do.
- Sebastian: What's keeping you here?
If Hawke and Isabela have slept together:
- Isabela: Mostly the sex. Hawke is an absolute tiger between the sheets. I mean all night, every night.
- Isabela: Oh cute! You're blushing.
If not:
- Isabela: Mostly the Blooming Rose. I'm paid up through the end of the year. I'd hate not to use it.
- Sebastian: The... brothel?
- Isabela: What? Women can't go to brothels, too? You're just not using your imagination.
- Isabela: Oh, look! Now you are. You're cute when you're blushing.
- Sebastian: I notice you talk about... vulgar things quite a bit.
- Isabela: Do you want me to stop? Do I make you... uncomfortable?
- Sebastian: It was just an observation, really.
- Isabela: It's a bad habit I picked up, spending years with foul-mouthed pirates.
- Isabela: Pirates only care about a small number of very specific things: the sea, strong drink, and booty. Both kinds.
- Sebastian: I used to be like you, you know.
- Isabela: You used to be a woman?
- Sebastian: No!
- Isabela: That explains a lot.
- Sebastian: My family put me in the Chantry because I was giving them a bad name.
- Sebastian: It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I found peace. I found a purpose.
- Sebastian: Before I came here, I used to be out to all hours, drinking and whoring. I didn't believe in anything except my own pleasure.
- Isabela: Why couldn't I have met you then?
- Isabela: All right, let's just get this over with.
- Sebastian: A duel?
- Isabela: No, the sermon. The finger-wagging, the guilt-trips, telling me how an unexamined life isn't worth living.
- Sebastian: I wasn't going to—
- Isabela: You weren't? You weren't going to tell me to comfort the needy and give freely of myself?
- Sebastian: From what I hear, you already give yourself quite freely.
- Isabela: Ooh. You got me there.
ACT III
- Sebastian: That was very brave, coming back to face the Qunari.
- Isabela: It was idiotic. They would have killed me.
- Sebastian: And you returned anyway. You couldn't face the thought of so many innocents dying for something you could prevent.
- Isabela: Tell that to the viscount.
- Sebastian: It's frightening, isn't it, to realize you have the potential to be a better person?
- Sebastian: You've been watching me all day. It's getting a little... distracting.
- Isabela: Merrill's right. Your armor is shiny. I can see myself in it. Look!
- Isabela: Shit. Oh, shit. Is that a wrinkle? Is that a wrinkle between my brows?
- Sebastian: Um. I don't see—
- Isabela: Hold still!
- Isabela: So, I've never understood why the Chantry says if you're good, you'll be taken up to the Maker's side.
- Sebastian: Those who die with the sins cleansed from their souls will walk beside the Maker in eternity.
- Isabela: That doesn't sound fun!
- Isabela: If they really want people to be good, shouldn't they offer an afterlife with... lakes of wine and a dozen naked virgins?
- Sebastian: Anyone who wants that will be going to the Void.
- Isabela: Sounds like that's where all the good parties will be.
- Isabela: It's been years, and not once have you tried to get me to repent or turn to the Maker.
- Sebastian: Preaching seldom works, Isabela. To change a person's heart, one has to lead by example.
- Isabela: Huh. That makes sense. I can respect that.
- Sebastian: I grew weary of the strings of nameless lovers and the nights full of mindless pleasure. You will, too.
- Isabela: (Gasps) That's the cruelest thing anyone's ever said to me!
- Isabela: I think I'm going to cry.
Isabela and Varric
ACT I
- Varric: I shit you not, Rivaini, it was this big.
- Isabela: There's no way. Impossible! I've had hundreds of those in my hands, and they're never that size.
- Varric: Would I lie about something so critical?
Next line is dependent on third party member
- Anders: I can't stand it anymore—what are you two talking about?
- Aveline: I'm afraid to ask, but... what are you two going on about?
- Carver: What is wrong with you two? Can't you ever have a conversation that isn't dirty?
- Hawke: What are you two talking about?
- Varric: We're discussing knives, of course. Well, daggers, technically. I never remember the difference.
- Varric: Why? What did you think we were talking about?
- Varric: Rivaini, stop looking at my chest. My eyes are up here.
- Isabela: But the chest hair...
- Varric: Do you know how much I suffer under your gaze? I am a person, not an object!
- Isabela: Uh, Varric?
- Varric: (Laughs) Just shitting you.
- Varric: You know, Rivaini, you promised me you'd tell me how your ship wrecked.
- Isabela: I was drunk. I thought the reefs around the Wounded Coast were made of candy.
- Varric: Oh, come on.
- Isabela: And a demon told me to do it. It bet me sixty sovereigns and a bottle of port.
- Isabela: You're not the only one here who can bullshit, you know.
- Varric: I'll let you run your fingers through it, if you want.
- Isabela: Your chest hair? My fingers? Oh, Varric, stop! You're making me quiver.
- Varric: You know you want to.
- Isabela: Oh, I do... I can't resist you. No woman can.
- Varric: I know. It's a terrible burden.
ACT II
- Varric: Were you listening to that guy in the Hanged Man last night?
- Isabela: "Your eyes are like bumblebees, flying into the window of my soul." (Laughs)
- Varric: My favorite was, "Your lips are like the wings of sparrows. Red ones. With no feathers."
- Isabela: "Oh, speak! And send the plucked wings of your lips soaring."
- Varric: I'd buy the guy a drink, but I don't think he needs one.
- Varric: You have got to tell me what was in that box, Rivaini.
- Isabela: Which box? I've opened so many...
- Varric: Well, those too. But later. Right now: that Qunari relic.
- Isabela: I'll make you a deal: I'll tell you what was in that box if you tell me how Bianca got her name.
- Varric: Fine, forget I asked. Evil woman.
- Isabela: Come to me, and I'll take you to places you've never been...
- Varric: Isabela... Are you talking to Bianca?
- Isabela: I think she deserves to feel a woman's touch on her trigger, don't you?
- Varric: Bianca responds to my touch. She'd never give it up for you.
- Isabela: That's what they always say, and I always prove them wrong.
- Varric: Stop it. You're confusing her. And me.
If you complete The Long Road
- Isabela: Psst. I've got some of it written down now.
- Varric: Give it here.
- Varric: "Her breasts strained against the leather jerkin like two wild stallions corralled against their will." (Chuckles)
- Varric: "She pounced—the smooth moves of a jungle cat—and locked her thighs around Donnic's waist. He—"
If Aveline is in the party:
- Aveline: What?
- Isabela: Nothing.
- Aveline: What is that?
- Isabela: Shh! (Giggles)
- Varric: Isabela just thought she'd celebrate your love affair with a... written dedication.
- Isabela: It's "friend-fiction!" I do it out of love.
- Aveline: I will never, ever be clean again.
If not:
- Isabela: Maybe you should read the rest of it in private.
- Varric: I think that's best.
ACT III
- Isabela: Varric, how does one get made a Paragon?
- Varric: The Assembly votes on it. Enough votes, and—BAM!—you're a living God!
- Isabela: You should ask to be made a Paragon. Of manliness.
- Varric: I like the way you think, Rivaini, but one doesn't just ask to be made a Paragon.
- Isabela: Why not? Everyone can see you're a paragon of manliness. It's just a matter of making it official.
- Varric: After all this, the life of a pirate is going to be dull, isn't it?
- Isabela: I know! I'll have to steal myself another Qunari relic.
- Varric: The scary thing is, I don't know if you're joking!
- Isabela: Of course I'm joking. I'm not getting involved with those people again.
- Isabela: No... this time, I'll steal the Queen of Antiva. There's no way that could go wrong.
If Hawke romances Merrill
- Varric: So, Hawke and Daisy.
- Isabela: I think they're darling together.
- Varric: It's almost too adorable. Well, except for the evil blood magic thing.
- Isabela: The most evil thing Merrill does most days is pick the flowers out of other people's gardens.
- Varric: I know, I have to bribe most of the gardeners in Hightown to keep it quiet.
During The Last Straw after choosing sides
- Varric: Just curious, does any of this make sense to you?
- Isabela: What? This whole "everyone's waiting for the world to end" thing?
- Varric: Yeah, that.
- Isabela: Not remotely.
- Varric: Good. It's not just me, then.
Isabela and Zevran
- Zevran: My dear Isabela, it has been a delight to see you again. You travel in fine company.
- Isabela: That's it? You're leaving? What about sex?
If in a romance with Isabela
- Zevran: *laughs* Still blunt as a dwarven hammer, hmmm? Well, why not!
- Hawke: Um, hello? I'm standing right here.
- Isabela: What? You can come too.
- Zevran: Indeed! The more the merrier!
- Hawke: Let's find someplace quieter.
If not in a romance with Isabela
- Zevran: Ah, Isabela. I did so miss you.
- Isabela: That's because you're a piss-poor shot. Thankfully, you have other uses.
The last line depends on party members:
- Aveline: I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
- Merrill: Ew.
- Anders: Ha!
- Fenris: Are we sure he was part of a guild of assassins?
- Varric: That girl has curious standards.
Quotes: Dragon Age II
- Isabela: Coming in here of my own free will seems wrong... like diddling a sister. (entering guard barracks)
- Isabela: There's no way this Javaris stole from the Qunari. That's hard... I heard.
- Isabela: Oh you don't want me in there - female troubles. (going near Qunari compound)
- Isabela: I need a stiff one... and a drink. (going near the Qunari compound)
- Isabela: Aww... an empty chest is like an empty bed. What a waste!
- Isabela: Must be something in the water.
- Isabela: If we kill them, we get their stuff!
- Isabela: (After battle) Hawke helped a little bit.
- Isabela: I like big boats, I cannot lie.(Being tempted by the desire demon during the quest, Night Terrors)
- Isabela: Oh, look at them! They're like kittens...who want to eat you. (referring to dragonlings)
- Isabela: I finally got on top in the end, but I still considered it a draw.
- Isabela: You're leaving? Just like that? What about sex? (To Zevran)
- Isabela: Aveline, if you shove your thumb up his ass, I win.
- Isabela: Looking for a ditch to lay facedown in? I can recommend one.
- Isabela: Something about this place in unsettling. It's like... underwear that never quite sits right. (about the fade)
- Isabela: Step 1: We find Velasco. Step 2: Something exciting happens. Step 3: Profit
- Isabela: Need a hand? Why yes! Yes I do! (when you find the severed hand in The First Sacrifice quest)
- Isabela: I'm sorry, I don't speak never-gets-sex-again.
- Isabela: I bet all he wants is to go chasing after thrown sticks. And someone to rub his belly. (referring to Ketojan)
- Isabela: The darkspawn smashed the chest, but did they really have to piss on it too? Those were my best boots. (during Fool's Gold)
- Isabela: Buck up, big girl. It's a wonderful day¡ (during To Catch a Thief)
- Isabela: I think I need a bath. Do you think I need a bath?
- Isabela:There was a brothel on the sunny side of Antiva called "The Bone Pit". It was entirely different from this.
- Isabela: You take me to all the nice places. (Bone Pit)
- Isabela:I really should have gone to the privy before coming here. (during Haunted)
- Isabela: Watch out for the squirrels. They can be vicious little bastards. (on the Wounded Coast)