#Amondi Blunt

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for the ship ask meme - zevwarden and/or thane/shep!

Ship Ask Meme

Yesss good Bioware ships okay

Zevwarden (I'll be using my canon Zev romance, Sereda Aeducan, for this)

falls asleep on the couch

Sereda. Zevran's not big on naps, and if he plans on sleeping, he wants to do it somewhere comfortable. Also, if he's going down for a nap, he'll probably try to take Sereda with him.

makes friends with the neighbors

Zevran! Sereda is pretty blunt and the "mind your own business" type, so she doesn't bother the neighbors with her shit, and she doesn't care to be bothered with theirs. Zevran, however, is, as we all know, chatty and personable, and he sees a benefit to being on good terms with their neighbors.

Also, in any post-canon/AU where they have neighbors, I feel like Zevran would be so delighted to have something as normal as regular neighbors living around his normal regular-people house that he would go out of his way to be friendly with them because he's just so pleased to be living his best life.

is the adventurous eater

Zevran. Sereda doesn't really care for a lot of food on the surface, so she's found a few human dishes she's okay with and mainly sticks to those. Zevran, being Antivan, is used to very different cuisine, so he's had to be adaptable to eat in Ferelden. Good thing he's also more willing to try new things, even when it ends badly!

hogs the covers at night

Zevran. He gets cold more easily so he's a lot more likely to bundle up in the covers and leave Sereda trying to jerk them back over to his side. Fortunately for her, she's stronger, so if she gets ahold of them she can usually keep them XD

forgets to do the dishes

Sereda. As princess of Orzammar, she never had to do her own dishes. On the road, she and Alistair and the rest bounced chores around, but if she were settling back into a more "normal" life I can easily see the dishes slipping her mind again.

tries to surprise their partner more often

Zevran is definitely the more spontaneous one. He likes taking Sereda out unexpectedly, or bringing flowers, or making something nice for dinner. Sereda is not really one for doing unexpected things, and she's also not super creative in the "romantic spontaneity" department so she usually leaves this sort of thing to Zev.

leaves dirty laundry on the floor

Zevran. He's not bothered by this at all and is perfectly comfortable throwing his clothes around when he takes them off. Sereda usually leaves them for him to collect later, and is not overly sympathetic when he later can't find things as they're getting ready (she is, however, generally entertained).

stays up til 2 AM reading

Sereda. She reads more of the two of them in general and Zevran is less inclined to let hobbies get in the way of his proper rest.

sings in the shower

Zevran, for sure. Sereda's not much of a singer. Zevran is most likely to do it if he's trying to bug Sereda, or if he's just in a very good mood, which isn't uncommon.

takes the selfies

Zevran. Sereda will pose with him if he asks, but Zevran is usually the one to bust out the camera.

plans date night

Zevran, again. He's the more romantic one of the two of them. Sereda is more practical and views Zevran very much as a partner, while Zevran definitely leans into the romance and would be the one to plan special nights for the two of them that don't involve killing Darkspawn or digging up old Warden treaties or politically sparring with heads of state.

Shrios (with my canon Thane romance, Amondi Shepard)

falls asleep on the couch

Both of them, but Thane probably more often :( As his illness progresses, he tires out very easily, so he often takes naps during the day.

makes friends with the neighbors

Neither of them is very neighborly tbh Shepard is busy and she's not really the gregarious social type, and Thane is intensely private. However, in the interest of not standing out too much, Thane might occasionally have a conversation in passing with a neighbor, where Shepard probably will avoid it.

is the adventurous eater

They're both pretty practical, so I think it's less that they're adventurous and more that they'll eat what's in front of them because they need to eat to function and do their jobs.

hogs the covers at night

Thane. His blood runs a lot colder than Shepard's, so he will unconsciously cocoon himself in their blankets, even though he's warmer when he's under them with Shepard. He also clings to her, asleep and awake, because she's warm.

forgets to do the dishes

Shepard, but it's not so much that she forgets as that she trusts Thane to take care of it. When Shepard does get to visit him on the Citadel (otherwise they'd be eating in the mess on the Normandy), it's usually very brief, so chores go by the wayside a bit and it's also the only chance she has to rest from work. Thane enjoys being able to relieve her of chores for a few day--it makes him feel like he's helping--so he doesn't mind doing it.

tries to surprise their partner more often

Neither of them really do this, I think. They don't have a lot of time for romance, so the most surprising they get is Shepard dropping by Thane's place unannounced because she happened to be on the Citadel, and that's enough for them. Since they have limited time, with Thane's illness, they don't really need to make things exciting--they're happy just to get to have time together.

leaves dirty laundry on the floor

Neither, again. Thane is fairly fastidious in his living space, and Shepard's gotten used to keeping things ship-shape after a lifetime career in the navy. She also doesn't really have enough clothes to be leaving things on the floor--if it's not dirty she's wearing it. If she leaves things on the floor, it's to pick up and put back on not much later.

stays up til 2 AM reading

Shepard. Girl's a classic workaholic and the more problems pile up for her and the Milky Way, the less sleep she gets. Often it's work, but other times it's stress and insomnia keeping her up. She'll call Thane and because of the time difference--or occasionally because his Kepral's is keeping him up--she manages to catch him, and they'll talk for a few hours. But even if she can't get him, she'll find something else to keep her hands or her mind busy with, because she just can't sit still.

sings in the shower

Neither. Shepard doesn't sing. Thane doesn't shower. However, he might hum a little bit to himself while oiling his scales. Shepard likes listening to this, but she's never said anything to him about it.

takes the selfies

Neither of them is big on it, but Thane would probably do it more often. Drell don't put a ton of weight on mementos, given their natural eidedic memories, but he is very aware that Shepard could conceivably live the other 50% of her life after his death (healthy humans average 150 years; healthy drell average 85 years), and knowing that human memories aren't great, and get worse with age, he worries sometimes, in short, that she'll forget him. So I think he probably really tries to leave her things to remember him by--photos, voice recordings, letters, etc. So the selfies--and he'll usually try to get Kolyat or Shepard or one of their friends in it too--are not really for him, but for him to leave behind for Shepard after he dies.

plans date night

Again, they don't really have a ton of time for this. It's probably reasonably even--Shepard wants to make sure they have some plans before she gets into port, but she also wants, generally, to do what Thane wants to do, being as his time is limited. So she'll usually toss out an idea ("Let's go to dinner"/"Let's see a movie") and then let Thane pick the details (The restaurant they go to, the movie they're seeing, etc.). Sometimes Thane will have an idea of what he wants to do with her when she gets in, and they'll do that, but generally they're very low-key about their relationship.

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