s/o to the person who told me i make Lucanis look lethal, this one is for you
Scenery in Dragon Age: Inquisition 28/??
without dismissing the ways in which zevran DOES have an ability to be v conscientious and kind and tactful, i think sometimes we tend to ascribe his respect of the warden's boundaries or shaping his tactics around protecting the warden or general charm to those things being kind of instinctual and inherent or romantic. but while balancing this w the fact that there's no reason he can't be good at those things simply bc he's good at them or that his motivations remain static, 9/10 at least certainly at the beginning of his relationship w the warden, he is doing those things bc he wants to be in the warden's good graces. he does not display the same restraint and care for the other companions from the get-go, nor do the stories he tells abt himself indicate he bestows those abilities on the mage he gets credit for assassinating, for example, or, more pertinently, rinna.
he's not in love w the warden from the start. his motivation wrt warden from the start is: make this person like me so they'll protect me. he's trying to be whatever the warden needs so that he isn't disposable. it can get romantic later; it seems a real disservice to his whole arc to say that where he ends up by the end of the game if you've taken the time to get to know him is simply who he's been the whole time.
I missed the pirate queen :( <3
"I played the weakling and batted my eyelashes at the captain of the guard. Child's play."
Day 3: Yearning
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