...then why would he ask for mercy at the last minute, after you beat him? I haven't realized that until now.
If Zevran's reason for making an attempt on the Warden was to die...
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Posté 10 mai 2012 - 10:21
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Posté 10 mai 2012 - 10:37
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Maybe he changed his mind after having a near-death experience?
He probably also figured that if you went to the trouble of waking him up after beating him instead of just slitting his throat in his sleep, you would probably wanted to interrogate, torture, or come up with a more grisly method of murder for him. (Why wake him otherwise?)
He also really didn't want to be caught by the Crows, who would "kill [him] on principle" for failing to kill the Warden. Considering how ruthless the Crows are, one might infer that they may torture or brutally kill failures as an example to the rest, so he probably wanted to avoid that too.
Notice that he doesn't specifically ask you not to kill him. He cheerfully answers your questions so you don't have to torture the information out of him, asks that you not eat his remains or "anything gruesome like that" if you decide to kill him, and asks that you protect him from the Crows if you "aren't stuck on cutting [his] throat."
Just because he wanted to die doesn't mean he wanted it to be with an excessive amount of pain. He probably wanted to avoid as much agony and torture as possible, and tried to appeal to the Warden in the best way he knew how to ensure it.
This is just my very poor speculation. With Zevran, you never know.
He probably also figured that if you went to the trouble of waking him up after beating him instead of just slitting his throat in his sleep, you would probably wanted to interrogate, torture, or come up with a more grisly method of murder for him. (Why wake him otherwise?)
He also really didn't want to be caught by the Crows, who would "kill [him] on principle" for failing to kill the Warden. Considering how ruthless the Crows are, one might infer that they may torture or brutally kill failures as an example to the rest, so he probably wanted to avoid that too.
Notice that he doesn't specifically ask you not to kill him. He cheerfully answers your questions so you don't have to torture the information out of him, asks that you not eat his remains or "anything gruesome like that" if you decide to kill him, and asks that you protect him from the Crows if you "aren't stuck on cutting [his] throat."
Just because he wanted to die doesn't mean he wanted it to be with an excessive amount of pain. He probably wanted to avoid as much agony and torture as possible, and tried to appeal to the Warden in the best way he knew how to ensure it.
This is just my very poor speculation. With Zevran, you never know.
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Posté 10 mai 2012 - 11:31
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I don't think torture is much of a problem for Zevran, considering that torture was routine during his training as a Crow, presumably to test a recruit's pain tolerance.
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Posté 10 mai 2012 - 11:37
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It's different to die in a battle and to be killed crawling at the ground, like an old dog. Zevran is a proud guy, after all. He wanted to die, but he didn't just drink a poison or fell on his sword. He decided to die in the battle, fighting as much as he could.
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Posté 11 mai 2012 - 02:47
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Aluvious wrote...
I don't think torture is much of a problem for Zevran, considering that torture was routine during his training as a Crow, presumably to test a recruit's pain tolerance.
Didn't mean he liked it, or that he would go through it again if he could avoid it.
Klidi gave a better response than me though, so I'll probably go with that.
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Posté 11 mai 2012 - 03:24
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Well, there's wanting to die and then there's wanting to die.
I mean, why did he make an elaborate trap? Why did he hire help (or bring a crew of crows, whichever)?
He wanted an insurmountable challenge, he wanted to throw himself out there at danger and see what happens. He's very lucky in all his stories, maybe he figured throwing himself on the mercy of fate was the best way to break the routine he wanted to get out of, was willing to die to get out of but maybe not actually suicidal. Suicidal would have been pretty easy for a man who works with poison and carries a blade everywhere. He had something else going on that was more complex - it just gets delivered as "wanted to die" because that gives the general idea of not caring what happened (death being the likely bad result) without going into serious detail.
I mean, why did he make an elaborate trap? Why did he hire help (or bring a crew of crows, whichever)?
He wanted an insurmountable challenge, he wanted to throw himself out there at danger and see what happens. He's very lucky in all his stories, maybe he figured throwing himself on the mercy of fate was the best way to break the routine he wanted to get out of, was willing to die to get out of but maybe not actually suicidal. Suicidal would have been pretty easy for a man who works with poison and carries a blade everywhere. He had something else going on that was more complex - it just gets delivered as "wanted to die" because that gives the general idea of not caring what happened (death being the likely bad result) without going into serious detail.
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Posté 11 mai 2012 - 09:15
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My impression was that he never saw any other options until that moment -- when he realized he could escape his unhappy servitude to the Crows by joining the Wardens.
