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endlessly funny to me that the main dragon age antagonists are an old general, a lady with a big sword, and a mage from ancient times with immense power. and that last is by far the least threatening because fails every step, of every plan, when he is even here and not just name dropped by one of his equally idiot minions. i forgot he existed half the time. during the boss battle i fell before the fight started and in the 30 seconds it took to get to him he was half dead already. anyone else just feels bad for the man at this point

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still think about that post that’s like dragon age characters are always breaking character to go on suspiciously detailed centrist rants. it’s so funny. what if that happened to all of us

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me: :(

zevran aranai:

me: :)

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carver hawke isnt a deserter he had to be dragged off the field and slapped to his senses and forced to run bc he was so determined to stop the darkspawn coming after his family hes not a deserter

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People will really say everything Cullen did is fine because he spent a week or two in like demon hell mind prison but deny that Anders spending upwards of a year in solitary confinement is like. relevant

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The simplest way to tell Varric Tethras is a writer is that we never actually see him write anything. 

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The origins in DA:O changed how characters/players interacted with the world. Context made you feel differently about places, quests, and people.  A random npc might incite joy or heartbreak or even a blinding rage in one warden, but to any other…it’s just another person.

I just…I guess it’s small details like that and just how much of a difference they made that I miss the most in DA2 and DA:I. 

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If you try to pick pocket Zevran he says “No” and it’s just the funniest thing because he is the only companion that says anything and I can just picture him smacking the Warden’s hand away like they are a child reaching for the cookie jar.

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Men want what Zevran has

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I know Wynne’s comment about Zevran’s romance involves how “half the camp can’t sleep at night,” but what if all that noise didn’t stem from sex?

What if laughter rings out to Morrigan’s tent because the Warden borrowed The Rose of Orlais from Wynne and they and Zevran take turns reading it aloud with the most exaggerated accents, making the already cheesy romance novel even more hilarious?

Or what if it’s the Warden’s first attempt at speaking Antivan that’s so funny, and their saying “flesh” instead of “chair” or something combined with the look they give Zevran when he first start snickering only makes him laugh in a way he hasn’t in years, and the Warden can’t help but give in and chuckle too?

What if it’s the sounds of boots scuffling against the earth and knives flying through the air, sometimes mixed with the satisfactory thud of hitting a target, because they’ve stayed up late practicing together? If the Warden is a mage, Zevran could be teaching them an alternative method of combat for when their mana runs out.

I know all of these situations could lead to something more, but… Please, give me more fluffy bonding moments with Zevran

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Tfw you go into the Zevran tag and see someone implying that Zevran isn’t a competent assassin.

My dude, Zevran’s first and only failure was when he faced the warden, and that’s because he took a contract that all the other Crows deemed suicidal because guess what, he wanted to die after SHTF with Rinna and Taliesin. Every other contract he’d done up until then, he killed his mark(s).

Zevran is a very competent assassin, although I know we fans either forget that or focus more on his flirting and tragic backstory. It’s canon from WoT that he’s such a good killer and so politically savvy that post-Origins, he’s either killing Crow Talons or getting them on his side and taking the whole organisation down more or less singlehandedly. All because he doesn’t want hundreds of children to suffer like he did.

But nah, Leliana’s clearly the better assassin of the two and Zevran’s just a pretty face.

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So you know how Graves in the Fade during "Here lies the abyss" list biggest fears of DAI companions? It probably was asked already but let's make it more interesting: what gravestones would list for your Warden, Hawke and Inquisitor (or any DA OCs?). What is their biggest fear?

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that one fucking concept art of the dragon age races that depicts dwarves like this:

you suck and i defy you

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Also the "Morrigan talks to Alistair directly" scenario leads to the possibilty of them just, doing the ritual and never telling the warden about it, which is unfortunately super funny to me.

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Hot take: Zevran is like… one of the top three romances in the Dragon Age franchise and anyone who hasn’t romanced him is missing out

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friendly reminder that zevran,

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I’ve just seen the most incredibly wrong thing about Zevran on my dash and I need to say something.

Zevran was groomed from childhood to be a killer. He had no choice in the matter. Kill or be killed, that was his life.

Now I see where people would be coming from, saying he’s done so without remorse if they never bothered to get to know him, but here’s the thing. He takes an impossible mission to kill two Grey Wardens, who are famed warriors of great skill and are not to be trifled with. I say impossible because that’s what he wanted. He didn’t want to succeed. He wanted to die. Your character sparing him is a mercy he neither expected nor wanted when it was given.

If you go down his romance path, or even just get to know him well enough to get him to stay after Taliesen confronts you, you would know this. You would know he does this because he’s filled with a profound guilt after he allowed Taliesen to murder the woman he loved because he trusted the wrong man. He laughed and spit on her corpse and when he found out he was wrong, he became suicidal. That is not the reaction of a person who lacks remorse.

And frankly, with this in mind, his humor is no longer the trait of a callous person. It’s the defense mechanism of a person so broken by what his past made him that he has literally zero faith in himself as a person. He can’t see himself as a good person, he hates himself for what he did. He’s aloof in his interactions with the Warden because he doesn’t think they would believe him.

LIke at the end of the day, Zevran did shitty things, but those things tore him apart. He’s not happy with himself and it takes the literal entire game, which spans the course of a year, to believe himself worthy of love or respect.

And that’s it, really.