//I'm just going to go ahead and mark this as spoilers for Zevran's romance//Hollorous wrote...
Zevran does not grow if you do not romance him. He's still the same character. I'm assuming you know what he does if you do not spend the time to getting his rating up. Name me one other character that does this to you. Zev needs nurtured and possibly lust to even begin to consider changing, and considering you spared his life, you need to pamper him or get him interested in your character for him not to do the thing he does.
You are wrong. Zevran will develop whether he is romanced or no. And if you consider getting a characters approval up through talking/gifts "pampering", then I fear to know what the state of any of your character relationship are like. O_o Zevran is actually proven to be the EASIEST character to +100, you can get him to +40 through dialouge alone the first night in camp with him, give him either boots or gloves to unlock his next batch of diaouge, which pushes you to at least +70 or +80. The rest of the gold/silver bars you get, and the fact that he approves of nearly EVERYTHING you do in game (Or at least doesn't take dissaproval hits, he's very easy going.), makes getting +100 with him a breeze. I had a much more difficult time maxing approval with characters like Oghren or Alistair. (Try playing through a morally ambigious playthrough with Alistair as your main tank, if you want to talk about nurturing or high maitenance characters.)
But actually, my first playthrough did not romance Zevran at all, I turned down his offers because I was focusing on romancing a different character, and never had him beyond (Interested.) And yet he does develop. He takes your friendship
very seriously. Friends are something the crows do not have, and something he does not view you as unless you try expanding on your relationship with him.
I'm just going to highlight the parts of his character that stood out the most for me;
You kill Talisen in Denerim, and later in camp, Zevran thanks you for doing it, as it's saved him from the crows. You tell him, We're friends, I was glad to do it. He tells you "You say that so easily, and yet it is such an odd thing for me to hear. In the Crows, we do not have 'friends', and yet here we are, and I cannot help consider you such." You say "We are Comrades-in-arms." (Note the very distinct lack of romance in this?) And he comes out with:
"Then allow me to say this. What we are doing here, stopping the blight, I have never done anything in my life so worthy. I intend to see this through to the end with you...after all, someone has to stop your untimley death, a suitable task for a friend, yes?"
The conversation can continue after that, but that is a line that really stands out that Zevran has changed. He originally came to Ferelden to kill you, because he had just killed the only woman he'd ever loved in cold blood, and then found out it was for nothing. He wanted to die, so he threw himself into the contract of killing you, because he was sure it would mean his death. Instead, you allow him to live and give him the chance to start a new life. He goes from a character who just doesn't care and treats your PC like a piece of meat like he does any other person, to a character that truly values your friendship, and is willing to "storm the dark city's gates, if only to be at your side." Unromanced, he ends the game at your side, devoting his life to rebuilding the grey wardens along with you. Should you choose to fully romance him, and make the ultimate sacrifice? He mourns your loss in Denerim, serving the throne to distract himeslf, but when that doesn't work he goes back to Antiva. He takes over the crows, but even then he remians distanced from all your other companions. And "Despite the offeres of many bed mates, never loves again."
Even the fact that no matter what to choose to do with your character at the end of the game, he stays at your side, should count for something. He will help you rebuild the Grey Wardens. He will help you as you help Alistair rule as king. He will stay as your "mistress" if you become king/queen. He shows a loyalty that NONE of the other charcaters show you. (Alistair's crisis moment at the landsmeet. Wynne and Leliana's crisis moment with the urn of ashes. Shales crisis moment in the Deep Roads. Morrigan's crisis moment during the dark Ritual.) The only "crisis moment" Zevran has, is if you do not have high enough approval when Talisen makes an offer, in which case he will betray you, but imo, you deserve it. If you do not care to have him as a friend, why should he care to have you as a friend in return?
And I'm assuming that, for the crisis moments I listed, you have the characters at 100% approval.
So yes, obviously he is a very shallow charcater, and lacks any kind of loyalty or development at all. /sarcasm.
Modifié par qw12po09, 16 janvier 2010 - 05:29 .
Colour me intrigued.
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But I take it as Zevran's point of view, the life he lead before, and the oath he swore to you.
