taliesen: [...] the crows will make you pray for death, you fool!
zevran: perhaps they will at that. but i'll take what time i have. you have a choice, taliesen. all of you do!
taliesen: traitor.
zevran: i won't fight against you, taliesen. we were friends once, and more. but i will leave you to your fate. good luck.
the version of the taliesen encounter where zevran doesn't rejoin the crows but opts not to fight is maybe my favorite version even if i never get it bc well. i'm a sucker, and he's never at a low enough approval for me to get this dialogue.
but the emphasizing of agency for everybody!! the utter lack of fear regarding death!! when you go back to camp, you can confront him abt letting you fight taliesen alone, and he says, "he was a good friend, whose only fault lay in his priorities."
which is both a bonkers thing to say, bc the priorities he's talking abt are like. rinna and himself. and yet this is also an extremely compassionate response. and yet in allowing someone else to kill his lover, he's reenacting rinna's death at the hands of taliesen while zevran did nothing but watch. and so maybe it's abt the acknowledgment that abdicating your agency is also sometimes a choice.
Zevran Arainai sketches, all in one place. He is such an handsome elf. I always imagined a young Antonio Banderas, on one part because of the voice, but also because Banderas has that fun masculine sensuality that Zevran posseses.
I made some changes to his tattoos, actually worked on them a bit instead of hurricaning through them.
A fic written for the Rara Avis Zine over on tumblr! This is a fic about Zevran, Rinna, and Taliesen. It takes place during their prime as an assassin triad!
They approached the red lantern district as the sun sank toward the horizon. The summer house was on the edge of town, east of the district. Rinna clutched Zevran's hand at the entrance to the street.
"Fight well," Zevran whispered to them. "May your blades strike true."
"And you," Rinna whispered back. "May your poison find its mark."
Taliesen and Rinna nodded at him and headed west. Zevran watched their silhouettes disappear before melting into the crowd.
Here's my contribution to the @raraaviszine! This is a pay what you can zine, benefitting Trans Lifeline! You can download the zine here!
This zine is about rare Crow ships and so of course I had to write something for the original doomed crowlycule 💜 full tags under the cut!
Rated E
graphic depictions of violence, threesome F/M/M, assassination, poisoning, cunnilingus, tit job, anal sex, brothels, elfroot as a recreational drug