Some DA ship of your choosing. Mermaids, since it's mer-May, apparently?
going with f!Tabris x Zevran for this! <3
She wasn’t much to look at, at least to start with. At first she was just the rather skinny thing who stomped across the beach twice a day with a bucket full of rejected sea food to throw angrily to the gulls. At first he didn’t even recognise her as a young woman, all straight edges and close cropped hair behind an aggressive expression that seemed to suggest the world as a whole had done her some great disservice. It wasn’t until she spoke that he really had an inkling, and even then, a slightly softer voice wasn’t much to go by in this vast and varied world.
It’s funny to think back to that time, now that she’s the most important thing in the world. At least as far as he’s concerned. She’s not beautiful, not conventionally, but that’s part of the appeal.
She found him lounging, purposefully, one summer evening across the pebbles on the far side of the rickety dock, basking in the remaining sun light that reflected off his scales in a golden sheen. If this had been a grand romance the kind of which inspires trashy romance novels, that would have been the moment she fell in love with him. It wasn’t. In actuality she swore, threw a bucket at him, and scrambled back about ten feet. Reasonable, he supposed, but still the bucket had been painfully accurate in it’s trajectory.
Not perfect then. He could concede to that, especially when what they had instead was so much more real-- fitted perfectly to their own unique kind of awkwardness.