

Depending on how you read into their relationship, the way the two interact can certainly be seen as more romantic than was probably intended. Velvet and her village friend Niko have a large amount of subtext between the two of them.This acts as a Bookends since Eleanor was crying the first time she met Velvet and now she is crying when she sees Velvet disappear. She is also the only one besides Laphicet to begin crying at the sight. Eleanor is the only party member besides Laphicet who receives a closeup of their reaction to Velvet's sacrifice. When Velvet is committing her Heroic Sacrifice, Eleanor is the first one to understand what Velvet is doing.Then Magilou buts in and asks Velvet to put sunscreen on her back to which Velvet is less enthusiastic to agree to. In a DLC skit, Velvet happily offers to put sunscreen on Eleanor's back which Eleanor happily accepts.The game outright tells you to look at Eleanor checking Velvet out. The achievement text asks where Eleanor's eyes are looking now. At the moment you get the achievement for completing the quest, Eleanor is visibly looking at Velvet's chest.In the Mother's Hope quest, it ends with Velvet making a very interesting comment to Eleanor.Afterwards, Velvet and Eleanor playfully comment on how Eleanor has an oath to obey Velvet's orders and Velvet remarks she is glad she kicked Eleanor's butt. She entrusts Laphicet to Eleanor in case anything happens to her. Velvet speaks with Eleanor one-on-one during the traditional night before the final battle rather than with anyone else, including Laphicet.Afterwards, Velvet is left to muse which one of them is more stubborn. She interrupts Velvet's self-loathing and makes it clear to Velvet that she is far from the only reason why the world is messed up. When the party is heading towards Hellawes to prepare their plans for waking the Empyreons to weaken Innomiant, Eleanor speaks to Velvet after Velvet wakes up.Additionally in later skits, Velvet and Eleanor can be seen standing next to each other more often than they were early on. Later on in the game, Velvet playfully remarks she is glad she 'captured' Eleanor, and Eleanor actually thanks Velvet for doing so much to Velvet's surprise.In one skit, Eleanor strangely wishes to meet a man that Velvet could have fallen for.Eleanor describes that she would think that Velvet was a strong hard working woman who took care of her brother which gives the impression she visualizes Velvet in such a role.While they are in Aball, Eleanor even mentions she didn't think that Velvet had the ability to smile.You would think they were denying to being each other's girlfriends.

After they arrive in Aball both Velvet and Eleanor loudly shout they aren't the others friend at the same time much to the vendor's amusement.At Titiania prison, Velvet gets angry at Eleanor and their faces come really close as Velvet breaks every illusion that she had over the Abbey's actions.Notably before this moment, Eleanor generally addressed Velvet as 'Daemon' to her and started referring to Velvet by name after this event.Additionally, the positions they place the characters in the skits makes it look like Eleanor is staring at Velvet's breasts, and Eleanor appears to be lightly sweating while doing so. The exchange gets more interesting from there. It starts off with Eleanor describing Velvet's abilities until she then starts to get fixated on Velvet's clothes and makes more than a few interesting observations about them until Velvet begins talking to her and Eleanor offers to mend Velvet's clothes. After joining the party, Eleanor gives a summary on Velvet to herself which most of the party overhears.In the animated opening, party members, namely Rokurou and Eizen, are depicted having brief fight scenes with other key characters, but the opening has quite a bit of extra focus given to Velvet fighting Eleanor even after showing Eleanor being a member of the party as if to give a possible sense of Foe Yay.Eleanor becomes Velvet's confidant towards the end of the game and Eleanor cries as she witnesses Velvet commit her heroic sacrifice to seal Innominat in a Deep Sleep. They go from being enemies, with Eleanor specifically wishing to take Velvet's life to uneasy traveling companions to eventually friends. They arguably have the biggest change in their relationship out of any characters in the party. These two get quite a bit of this throughout the game.
