I found adorable your short with warden and Anders on a hot night. I'm curious with your Warden and Ogrhen relationship development. Care to share?
Ahh, I’m so glad you liked it!
I’ve actually got two Wardens, and neither of them got off to a good start with Oghren. Itha, the Hero of Ferelden, came perilously close to knocking his nasty little ass into the lava when he decided to turn his sexual harassment on Leliana. It wasn’t until they were out of the Deep Roads and back in the camp that they began to bond over Berserker tactics, their shared bitterness at the world, and drinking. Eventually, he stopped trying to get into her pants, stopped making awful passes at her girlfriend and best friend, and settled on whatever bones Wynne was willing to throw him.
By the end, somehow, they were fire-forged friends. And he named his daughter after her.
For Ain, the Warden-Commander after Itha turns down the job offer, Oghren is the living embodiment of everything horribly wrong about the situation he finds himself in. They told him he would be promoted to the Commander of all the Ferelden wardens and that he would be in charge of an entire keep; he arrived to find a fortress on fire, his new troops largely wiped out, and in their place, a disgusting, drunken dwarf who both calls him a woman and openly considers that to be a bad thing. For someone like Ain, who aspires to greatness and has laid out careful plans to get there, dealing with a drunken Oghren passed out in the dog kennels when important dignitaries are coming up the road was almost more than he could bear.
But Oghren’s got two things working in his favor. Number one is that he’s not hopelessly incompetent…throw a filthy, awful job his way as punishment for fucking up? He’ll do it, and do a damn good job of it, just to make a point. Throw him at the darkspawn and he’ll make a fine paste of them. For all their talk about only accepting the best of the best, the Grey Wardens are carried on the backs of the dregs of society, and there’s no better example of that than Oghren.
Two is that he’s both surprisingly open-minded in his piggish Oghren way (Commander says he’s a guy? Well then, the commander’s a guy with a great chest) and a relatively okayish person deep down. He’s loyal, unpretentious, and the kind of person you want to have behind you in a fight. The dude really is all bark.
As time goes on and Ain starts to have more faith in his patchwork band of misfits, he and Oghren start to grow on each other, eventually considering each other friends.
Helps that Oghren’s kid is adorable.
