#i have like three novel-length fics knocking around following zev and reyja from the beginning of origins through the end of trespasser...

[greyvvardenfell]

Zevran Appreciation Week: Day 2

Question of the Day: What is your favorite other relationship with Zevran?

Honestly, I feel like Zev kind of falls out of touch with the rest of the Origins crew when they scatter after the Blight ends. I like the relationship that he and Leliana develop (she says it herself in one of their banters: they have a lot in common with he an assassin and she a bard, and both being non-Fereldans), and I do like that they kind of stay in contact with each other even if the Warden doesn’t romance him by the time Inquisition rolls around, but I don’t think he ever gets that close to anyone besides the Warden.

But in my canon worldstate, my Hawke (Adam) and Fenris actually leave Kirkwall with Zevran after defeating Meredith, and he helps them go on the run as he makes his way back to Amaranthine, where Warden-Commander Reyja Brosca is still waiting for him. Adam, Fenris, and Zev bond as fugitives even in the short time they spend together and eventually Zev introduces Reyja to them as well, after Fenris and Hawke find a safehouse and get settled enough to contact him. All four of them stay friends for many years. I’m planning a fic where they meet my canon Inquisitor, Jakariel Lavellan, and his LIs Dorian and Iron Bull too...

Long story short: Leliana is my favorite canon friendship, my Hawke and Fenris + Zev is my favorite kind-of-canon-but-not-really friendship