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LunaFancy wrote...

I'm not sure what it says about me... but I LOVED him from the get go! :)

I always play male PCs (for the eye candy) so I was left with no choice but to indulge in a little M/M romance with him, since none of the females appealed to my Warden, who was/is (playing same char on PC as I did on PS3 because I get attached) rather amazed that he turned out to be bi curious lol! happily so, however.


It was like that for me as well. My Warden was supposed to be het, but between Leliana and Morrigan... he chose Zevran. >.> 

At first I didn't trust him, but I was friendly - and I was surprised by his replies. And sense of humor. He's the only character that can laugh at himself. He also proved much more loyal and reliable than I expected... and soon, my Warden was totally infatuated. xD

The next thing I knew, I was writing M/M romance. :D

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To be fair, all of Bioware's companions have off-putting characteristics. Some are more blatant than others, and some have more 'good' features to offset them.

Zevran hitting on Leliana and Morrigan in his banters (legitimately, I think, whereas he's mostly pulling Wynne's chain every time she starts moralizing at him) can come off really badly, if one is sensitive to unwanted sexual attention. In real life, the line between a fun, flirtatious person and a tone-deaf, lewd boor has a lot to do with social context and situational clues that you're not going to get in a video game banter.

Aaand I suppose you can even argue that Zevran would like to be taken for a lewd, insensitive boor, since that helps to rule out messy emotional entanglements - but I have a hard time judging the people who don't like him for that reason. It means he was written well enough that his strategy succeeded and the player never had a reason to get to know him further.

(Full Disclosure: On my first playthrough of my first cRPG, before I learned that you're supposed to talk to everything that moves, my husband had to insist that I go talk to Morrigan. "She disapproves of everything I say!" I protested. "Why would I want to keep talking to her?" She'd been written as a cold, stand-offish character who did not invite closeness and guess what? It worked!)
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#7778
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Ah Klidi, it seems we are kindred spirits! I too have been inspired to take a walk down the m/m romance path because of Zev and my ranger! :)

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Testing testing...let's see if anyone from Team Zev has migrated over to the new forum...



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Head still spinning, but present...

 

Edit: What, sig file and avatar are gone?  At least my fic list made it over...



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Reporting in the Zevran thread! I was just checking the new forums, and I am happy to se we are still going strong! We truly are ridiculously awesome  :)

 

On a side note, I am now playing Origins on PC (I used to play it on Xbox) and after years it's still so nostalgic and good, I just love the characters and the dialogues... I'm romancing Zevran again, of course, can't help it.


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Head still spinning, but present...

 

Edit: What, sig file and avatar are gone?  At least my fic list made it over...

 

Yeah, sigs and avatars have to be re-uploaded, and any BSN links you copy over will point to the old forum, for however long it still remains accessible. o_O


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Here! :D I like this much better than the old place. :D



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I'm here, although I haven't posted here in so long it probably seems odd now. (I also finally changed my display name, which I had been wanting to do since 2007 or so.)

Yeah...

I'm considering replaying through both games with the same characters again to cement in my mind all the choices they made, since I'll be having to enter them into the Keep instead of porting saved games, but I don't usually like to replay the same character (though that's the only way I'll ever replay DA II). Perhaps I'll just replay DA:O and that should jog my memory as to what things I did differently first.

Are you still doing the whole challenge thing in here? Did anyone ever manage to fix the Zevran-related bugs in DA II (guessing not on that one)?
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We haven't done the challenge in a while. I think people lost interest or didn't have time; lots of people have moved on to other things since DA2 as well.



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Maaaan, all my PMs are gone. Some of them were fairly important. :/ BSN needed an upgrade for years and never got one, so I didn't think they were in danger. Damnit. :|

 

Also, hi Zevthread~ I skimmed what went on since my last poke in.

 

Some thoughts; I like Zevran's canon DAO appearance better than any mod (or his cameo in 2, shudder). I take great pains to draw him like canon DAO even when the results due to angle and expression are going to be 'ugly'.

 

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I'm more fond of that picture than anything else I've ever drawn of him, even the super beefcake sexy stuff. 8D

 

...Crap, now I don't remember what else I was going to talk about.


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Darn, I wish there was a wedding mod for city elves. =(



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Oh great! Now I'm thinking about how fantastic a city elf wedding, like the one in the Origins, would be with the Warden and Zevran. Music, decoratioins, feasting, drinking, dancing, flowers, family, and the added prestige of being the saviors of Ferelden... Why hasn't anyone made a mod like that?! T_T


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ooh I didn't know forums were moved! Yay, ZevThread is still alive!

 

I'm still the same Zevfanatic I was, and currently looking for prompts. :D So if anyone is willing to do challenge, I'd be happy to participate.

 

Faerunner - I think Zevran Open Wedding includes city elves. Did you try it?

 

I didn't play it yet because my laptop decided to die four days after I installed it. xD I should have a new one at the beginning of April, and I can't wait to replay the game and the mod (but I'm not looking forward to reinstalling all mods).



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I did decide to do what I said earlier I was considering, and replay both games with the original characters again. I've made it all the way through DA:O, this time with some dialogue fixes and such (made a nice difference), and have recently started on DA II. I'm already missing many things about DA:O all over again, of course. My main method of keeping track of choices has been to keep an in-character journal, since that seemed like a fun challenge to vary writing style between the two characters and all. Hopefully that way, if there are any decisions to be tracked that don't stand out to me, I'll be able to figure out what they were anyhow.

I remembered most things that I expect to be major about DA:O, it turns out, but so far it seems I really don't remember all that much about what went on in DA II. Replaying DA:O was fun, anyhow, so I can't complain. Maybe next time I'll actually make a dwarf character like I was planning long ago.

This time I tried to make Zevran more effective than before, with an attempt at a largely cunning-based build, but he still ended up rather noticably lagging behind my main character with his strength-based build. Was better at locks and such, though, and was certainly an improvement over the "all dex and use two swords!" idea applied to both from my first run through the game.

Shadow of Light Dragon -- Ah, that makes sense. Goes to show how long I've been away, I suppose.

Aroihkin -- I agree. I generally think all of the characters look the best (or at least the most right) unmodded. And as for the DA II appearance... well, the less said about that (and the elves in general) the better, if you ask me.

Klidi -- I'd be up for prompts. I haven't had as much time to draw (or write) lately as I'd like, and they're great for some quick inspiration.

Laptops dying is a pain. At least if your desktop dies you can usually just swap a card or two and keep the hard disk(s), but laptops? Not so much.

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Reporting in the Zevran thread! I was just checking the new forums, and I am happy to se we are still going strong! We truly are ridiculously awesome  :)

 

On a side note, I am now playing Origins on PC (I used to play it on Xbox) and after years it's still so nostalgic and good, I just love the characters and the dialogues... I'm romancing Zevran again, of course, can't help it.

Same here! Had no idea this thread was still going, I was such a squeeing fangirl when his first concept art and vague info came about. Remember when everyone just started have fits when the sexy elven assassin was announced (even before any bloody pics of him)?! Oh god, the nostalgia. I still love that sod to death, ha ha! Wish he had a few more romantic moments that could match Alistair's.



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Good news! I expect I'll manage to start drawing again and writing various fics again later this year. :D I'm finally moving out of this hell-hole at the end of May, though it's fully expected that my health is going to stay in the gutter for months after. Still, (distant) light at the end of the tunnel, maybe?

 

I keep getting the itch to do Zevran stuff, but no brain power.

 

While I'm here, random good art by someone else:

 

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The Crow by olivegbg


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Good news! I expect I'll manage to start drawing again and writing various fics again later this year. :D I'm finally moving out of this hell-hole at the end of May, though it's fully expected that my health is going to stay in the gutter for months after. Still, (distant) light at the end of the tunnel, maybe?

 

I keep getting the itch to do Zevran stuff, but no brain power.

 

While I'm here, random good art by someone else:

 

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The Crow by olivegbg

*pokes head in* theres always light at the end of any dark tunnel ;D just keep staying positive and look forward to the future.
you'll be fine aroi :3

and HOOLYSMOOKES i forgot how good looking zevran is >3> dat accent, and eyes....gawl



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So as has been mentioned before, but a long time ago, I'm who got the name "Zevran" on GW2.

 

Today, there was a patch that now lets us -- among a bunch of other things -- use glasses and the like as armor skins.

 

So I immediately threw a pair of aviators on Zevran.

 

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It felt right. XD


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*pokes thread*

 

I have a question, if I may...are there any DA2 mods that fix the Zevran romance import? I know of one mod but it doesn't sound like it fixed Zevran.

 

Thanks!


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*pokes thread*

 

I have a question, if I may...are there any DA2 mods that fix the Zevran romance import? I know of one mod but it doesn't sound like it fixed Zevran.

 

Thanks!

 

There's one but it doesn't work properly if the warden's alive. He aknowledges it but he thinks you're dead. :3



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Well that sucks. :(

 

Thanks for the answer though.



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Does anyone know where I can find some nice head morph options for Zevran. I've been looking on nexus and the choices aren't that great. I want to do a dalish elf in the future who romances him... don't really care for BW version. Thanks



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Nexus is generally the place to go. In addition to the individual morphs, there's... Dragon Age Redesigned, I think? The one that redoes every NPC? It's usually a top download, should be easy to find. You can selectively use morphs from that, too, if you want.

Are there any other elves in DAO that you do like? You can grab their heads and slap them on Zev.

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This is what I use for Zev. Elf like cuteness I wish I could take to da2.