Having deeper feelings to someone who is actually indifferent to him is much more challenging for him as a character. The prospect of Belkar developing deeper feelings for someone who actually returns them means his investment in the relationship is getting an obvious payoff (a satisfaction of his desires). In The Order of the Stick, we follow a band of six merry adventurers: Roy Greenhilt, the capable yet irritable leader Haley, the treasure-obsessed and giggly rogue Vaarsuvius, the insufferable wizard of ambiguous gender Elan, the goofily crazy and overly dramatic bard Durkon, the no-nonsense and incredibly-scared-of-trees dwarf and Belkar, the psychotic and bloodthirsty halfling who may. Belkar is a character who has – until recently at least – been defined by his impulsive, selfish behaviour his motivation for acting has generally been to satisfy his immediate desires. In fact, now that I come to think on it, I think it’s more interesting to me if V doesn’t reciprocate. Like I said, I can’t really imagine a romance developing because I don’t think V would ever be genuinely interested in Belkar that way (and they are clearly still in love with Inkyrius), but it’d be nice to see them become friends, maybe explore Belkar’s feelings a bit further. All in all, this is an intriguing set up for the final book, and I’m definitely interested in seeing how that relationship develops. It’s an interesting thing to explore, how this apparently new, more substantial and less objectifying experience of attraction might impact on Belkar.Įxcept now of course, both characters are beginning to develop in a new direction, each making an effort to move away from their darkest natures (though it is unclear to me whether V has truly acknowledged this shift in Belkar – I’m guessing to a certain degree they have, but they still seem to be perpetually annoyed by him much of the time). Comic 696 is a decent example of this – I like the way Belkar transforms from being angry and accusatory to just darkly amused by V’s behaviour. This doesn’t reflect all that well on V of course, since it’s clearly the darker side of V’s nature that draws Belkar in. What’s intriguing to me is that unlike pretty much every character Belkar has lusted over throughout the course of the comic, I think he actually might be attracted to V on more than a purely physcial level. I just find it very hard to envisage a situation where an in-character Vaarsuvius would reciprocate the attraction (though if anyone has different ideas on this, I’m happy to hear them out).īut from Belkar’s point of view I really am intrigued. Scruffy to be his animal companion.I’m kind of into it but also not, by which I mean I really can’t get behind it from V’s point of view. Though he's often believed to be unintelligent, even to himself, he's occasionally shown as cunning if in danger. Belkar's loyalty to the Order fluctuates with his mood, and, despite frequently thinking about it, he never actually betrays them.
After Roy is dead, Haley, who becomes the Order's leader, states she'd abandon him if she didn't need all the help she could get. The Order does not abandon him, despite his bloodthirsty tendencies, due to Roy's belief that he must keep the violent halfling under control. He joined the Order to escape justice from a deadly bar fight in which he knifed fifteen people. While ostensibly the party's tracker, he is astoundingly bad at most of his class skills, including tracking. Belkar is an erratic, casual killer driven by a variety of selfish impulses. Belkar Bitterleaf is a Chaotic Evil Halfling Ranger/Barbarian.
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