Estelle Vincent Companion and Romance

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Broad Overview

A short time after completing the Crimson Fleet questline, Estelle Vincent will become available as a companion if certain conditions have been met. She has 247 lines of lip-synced dialogue, which are 100% vanilla voice assets. No AI has been used. However, since Estelle has the same voice actress (Linsay Rousseau) as several other characters in the game, I was able to incorporate some decent variety into what she can say.

Romance is optional, and includes a very short mini-quest. After entering into a relationship with her, a few of her more flirtatious dialogue lines will be unlocked, and you will get access to a small pool of dialogue where you can ask how she feels about your relationship. She will also make suggestive comments when waking up, and will share your bed, but only if it's a single bed. If it's a double-wide bed, she will not use it with you. (I couldn't figure this one out.)

Her morality is the same as Mathis and Jessamine; she has no issues with you committing crimes and will actively help you if you get into a fight with security. If you have Command NPCs, you can command her to steal stuff for you. Just remember to release her from command state afterwards.

A separate Creation is available that allows her to have conversations with some of the robots included in my other mod, More NPCs Have Routines.

On top of the usual combat barks and taunts, she can comment on:

Drinking alcohol Doing drugs Picking locks Using Starborn powers Boarding enemy ships Walking around Neon Walking around without clothes (may have to go through a loading screen for these comments to trigger) Going to her room on The Key and stealing her Velocities or Chimeras, which she explicitly specifies are off-limits Estelle has one rank of the Theft skill, and will periodically give you credits

Prerequisite Conditions for Recruiting Estelle

To recruit Estelle, you have to side with the Crimson Fleet, and both of the following conditions must be met:

You didn't rat her out to Benjamin Bayu during the quest Absolute Power
You chose one of the three options to give her money during the quest Absolute Power

You will not be able to recruit Estelle if you do any of the following:

Rat her out to Bayu
Refuse to give her any money when she asks you for it
Turn in the evidence against her to Lt. Toft, and then go to talk to her in the Vigilance's brig

It is still possible to turn in the evidence against her and get her thrown in the brig, but then side with the Fleet. If you complete the optional objective to release prisoners from the brig during the final battle, you will still be able to recruit her as a companion afterwards, as long as you never talked to her while she was imprisoned. The reasoning is that as long as you don't talk to her, she has no way of knowing you were the one who turned in the evidence. This can be considered the evil way to recruit her. She will fight alongside you until you reach the Vigilance's cargo bay, after which she will stay put, then return to The Key after the battle is over.

How to Recruit Estelle - How This Mod Works and Why You Should Care

This mod has been designed to minimize vanilla form overrides, in order to minimize the potential for mod conflicts and breaking vanilla quests. Vanilla Estelle Vincent is completely untouched, and this mod is inactive until the entire Crimson Fleet questline has been completed. This means that if you have other mods that change vanilla Estelle's appearance or anything else about her, or if you have used the NPC Enhancer gun on her, these changes will not carry over to companion Estelle.

As of version 1.2, the recruitment process has been greatly simplified. After you have secured the UC Vigilance for the Fleet, go to the Last Nova at any time, and an objective will be displayed to read a data slate at the bar. Read the slate, then talk to Estelle.

How to Romance Estelle

As of version 1.2, there are now 2 ways to romance Estelle.

The original method is still an option - ask about her relationship history, then navigate to the end of the dialogue tree and choose the option to ask her out. Estelle will then give you a data slate.

There is also a new option to skip the entire relationship conversation, and ask her out directly from her main dialogue tree. Similar to the option to ask about her relationship history, this new option will not be available if you are currently inside the Astral Lounge. After asking her out, she will give you the same data slate.

Read the slate, then follow the quest objective and take her to a specific location. Once you have reached the location, talk to her, and you will have the option to either friendzone her, or enter into a relationship. Your choice here is permanent, there will not be a second chance.

How to Break Up With Estelle

To break up, Estelle has to be dismissed (not actively following you) but still has to be assigned to your ship or an outpost. As long as those conditions are met, there will be a dialogue option to break up with her. If you choose it, you will have a final chance to change your mind. Should you choose to proceed with breaking up, there will be fireworks, and she will refuse to travel with you for the rest of the game! The only way to get her back as a companion will be through new game plus. You can still keep her assigned to your ship or an outpost, but she will not be happy to see you. If you unassign her, she will then refuse to be re-assigned through dialogue, although you can forcibly override this by using the crew assignment menu if you want.

Compatibility With Multi-Follower Mods

The Gang's All Here - compatible, although she will not show up under the Elite Crew tab and can't be commanded individually this way. However, she will still respond to commands given through the Command All Followers tab. Estelle's trigger comments on various actions will not be affected by any of this mod's settings for trigger comments, and will play regardless.

Liga of Followers - compatible

Swiftly Order Squad - compatible

Load Order

This is a small master and is mostly load order neutral. The only vanilla form edits are for some generic affinity events (drinking, lockpicking, etc.)

There is a separate version of this creation that allows you to recruit Estelle after completing the Wild Card ending for the Crimson Fleet questline. If you have that installed, but you plan on going for the Crimson Fleet ending, load this below it.

Credits

MVP award for this one goes to both Modding Yak for Starfield Voice Tool and JRamos Works for tutorial videos.

Additionally -

Bethesda for Creation Kit Elminster and his crew for xEdit Perchik71 for Creation Kit Extended Darkfox127, 510Deshawn, and Joseph Russell for additional tutorial videos