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Zevwarden for the ship ask
I actually never did Zevran’s romance path, but from what I heard it’s really good. I know a little about Zevran’s story, so I really like the idea of the Warden helping him reevaluate himself as something behind just a person to be used and discarded. So, 10/10.
I feel like everytime someone tells me that Leliana’s only romanceable in Origins, a part of me dies. Like, I love Leliana, whole heartedly, but but I can never romance her in Origins. You have wonderful characters like Zevran and Morrigan. I haven’t romanced Zevran yet, but I have heard that he’s one of the better written romances. I have romanced Morrigan though, and there is something about seeing such a cold and proud figure soften and confess the sweet, foreign feelings of romantic affection.
Morrigan grew up in an abusive, controlled household, and you can see that well enough in her dialogue with her social inexperience. She used her witty retorts to shield and protect her, to keep away any form of companionship romantic or otherwise. Even when characters are trying to be civil, she attacks; and that’s because, I think, she grew up in a hostile environment, with a controlling, belittling mother. Her attacks are her weapons of defense to keep away anything that may harm her, such as love. It’s nice seeing the Warden tear down that cold extortior to revel the soft, loving woman that she truthfully is. (You can very well see that with the way she cares for Kieran in DA:I)
In DA:I, Leliana becomes Morrigan, in a sense. She’s cold and pragmatic, distant and harsh. The sweet, sympathetic woman has all been snubbed out by the time the Herald wakes up in Haven. But Leliana from DA:O is still there, lingering, tied down by guilt and regret, conquerored by the false justification of the necessity of pragmaticism. In the course of the Inquisitor’s interaction with Leliana, you could dismantle that pragmaticism, recapture the tender woman that had sang and laughed from Lothering, all as a friend. But Leliana already has that in Josephine, and, to an extent, Cassandra. What Leliana truly need, and this is all my opinion, was a romantic companion. Sure, people romanced Leliana in DA:O, but others didn’t; and with the Dragon Keep, it’s entirely possible for Leliana not to be romanced by Inquisition. BioWare could’ve easily locked Leliana as a romance option, if that was the case. And, even if you go by BioWare’s loose canon, the Warden has been dead for over a decade. Romance is still an option in this situation.
Think about it: if Leliana is romanced and the Warden is dead, as is BioWare’s canon, then a soften Leliana is alone. If she’s soften even if she was never romanced, then she is still alone. So, if we think about it, Leliana’s only real relationship, if ignoring the Warden romancing her, was with Marjolaine, and we all know how well that went. If you romanced the Warden, and they are dead, then she lost one lover and was abused by another. That isn’t really setting an idea of a stable, soften Leliana and her desire to prompt love above all else. She’s left alone, just more kind and merciful, never knowing a truly loving touch, or in the dead Warden’s case, never regaining that loving touch. (And this still leaves it open to the Warden being a dick, which is also a possibility)
BioWare should’ve let the Inquisitor love Leliana, after all, in your heart shall burn a sweet love than all pleasures on earth.
