http://i43.tinypic.com/9zslxs.jpg, of course.
I don't expect many to understand or agree with my attraction to Eola. It's more her personality than her looks, but I'll be damned if her looks aren't great too,
Yes. I was toying with the idea of shacking up with some busty bard, because why not? After meeting Eola, everything changed.
To call her a "liberated woman" would be the understatement of the Era. In Skyrim, men are meat-eating tough guys and women (by and large) are barefoot and pregnant. Even the Nord warrior women come off as trying to prove a point about their equality. Eola buys into none of this, having total confidence in herself without having to wear either a push-up bra or macho man armor.
Speaking of her appearance, let's talk about her eye for a second. Instead of wearing a patch or otherwise trying to downplay her old wounds, she actually wears face paint to draw attention to her disfigurement. And this isn't some unattractive birth defect or something; it's clearly an injury sustained in the normal course of a bold and dangerous life lived without regret. (Seriously, can you imagine her harboring regrets about anything?) To put it another way, scars are cool.
Eola hero-worships me as the Champion of Namira; at the same time, I am not the center of her world. In fact she loves Namira way more than she could ever care about me. This really takes the pressure off while still giving me all the benefits of unshakable devotion.
She has plenty of interests outside of the house, and leads her own life. I can't imagine her ever complaining about "You never take me anywhere any more." She has her own friends to go hang out with when I want to be left alone in the den. Hell, she owns and operates a social club whose membership includes half the city of Markath.
Though her needs are straightforward, she has a complex and weird (some might say scary) personality that I can never completely understand. This will keep a sense of mystery and romance alive for years to come. Relationships like this can be very exhausting emotionally, but they are never boring. Plus, as mentioned, it's OK for us to spend time apart when it gets to be too much.
Lastly, and forgive me for being shallow, but you just know that Eola is possibly the most sixually uninhibited woman in Skyrim. Actually, don't tell her this, but this is my biggest reservation about her. Namira literally commands her faithful to do the most disgusting, twisted [censored] imaginable, and my tastes are somewhat more traditional. It's wonderful to be with a woman who is pretty much guaranteed to indulge my deepest fantasies, no matter how dirty; but I get the feeling that keeping up with
her freaky fantasies may be somewhat more challenging than a naked multi-dragon fight.