ZevWarden Week
| Challenge | |
|---|---|
| Name: | ZevWarden Week |
| Date(s): | 2016-2017, 2020- |
| Moderator(s): | zevranology, zevraholics (since 2020) |
| Founder: | zevranology |
| Type: | fanfiction, fan vids, gif sets, fan edits |
| Fandom: | Dragon Age |
| Associated Community: | zevranology; zevraholics |
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ZevWarden Week was a fanweek challenge dedicated to the Zevran/Warden pairing in the Dragon Age fandom.
About
ZevWarden Week? What is that?
Exactly what it sounds like! A week to celebrate and share the love for Zevran and his Grey Warden.
How do we participate?
Anything goes! Art, fic, edits, meta, you name it! If you’re not artistically inclined, consider just posting what you love about this pairing, or reccing some of your favorite fics, art, or bloggers! The sky’s the limit!
Tags:
To make it easier to peruse all the lovely Zevran/Warden content to your heart’s content, make sure to tag your posts with: #zevwarden week
2016
All Zevran/Warden content is welcome, but if you want a jumping off point for your contributions, here are some daily themes to get you thinking!
- Monday, August 1: “The Grey Warden dies here!”
Zevran certainly does make a… unique first impression. What were your Warden’s thoughts towards him, at first? Did they actually trust him, or was recruiting him a purely pragmatic decision? What were those first weeks like?
- Tuesday, August 2: “Arr, pirate Zevran reporting for duty!”
AU day! I would personally be eternally grateful to the person who actually brings us a pirate Zevran AU, but any AU goes!
- Wednesday, August 3: “Again? What must the others think?”
In the tent! (Or bedroom, or random closet, or… just about anywhere, really). Who invited who the first time? What sort of shenanigans do they get up to behind closed… er, canvas? Obviously this theme lends itself towards NSFW contributions, but that is by no means required!
- Thursday, August 4: “I failed to kill you, so my life is forfeit. That’s how it works. If you don’t kill me, the Crows will.”
How do your Warden and Zevran handle the looming threat of the Crows? Do the Crows come after them again after the encounter with Taliesen? Do the Crows ever target your Warden to get to Zevran?
- Friday, August 5: “It’s meant a lot to me, but so have… so has what you’ve done.”
Today’s theme is Zevran’s earring. How did your Warden react? How did it affect the dynamic of their relationship? Did Zevran have to pierce their ear for them? Feel free to interpret this one however you’d like!
- Saturday, August 6: “It will be fun. I will make it fun.”
Sparring time with the Warden and Zevran. Do they get competitive with each other? Considering Zevran’s probably definition of “fun”, does their sparring turn into foreplay?
- Sunday, August 7: “All I need to know is if there might be some future for us, some possibility of… I do not know what.”
Post-game! Where do your Warden and Zevran go post-game? Do they have kids? How does their search for a cure for the Calling go? (Or for the angsty route: if your Warden made the ultimate sacrifice, how does Zevran cope? Where does he go?)
2017
- Monday, July 31: Massage
The sort of skills that one only learns growing up in an Antivan whorehouse. Whether it continues beyond just massage is up to you!
- Tuesday, August 1: Domestic
Zevran and his warden live exciting lives, but what about when the world isn’t ending?
- Wednesday, August 2: Fancy Dress
Balls, disguises, you name it. How do they react to seeing each other in special clothes?
- Thursday, August 3: AU Day
What it says on the tin.
- Friday, August 4: Character Development
From failed assassination to close friends and lovers, Zevran and the Warden go through a lot together. How do they change in that time?
- Saturday, August 5: Family/Papa Zev
Zevran and the Warden having kids, Zevran meeting the Warden’s family, found family, whatever direction you want to take it!
- Sunday, August 6: Commitment
“That sounds like a proposal.” Zevran and the Warden’s relationship may start as a physical thing, but it evolves to something much deeper. How do they navigate that change?
2020
In 2020, zevranology "passed the baton" to zevraholics to resurrect and organize the ZevWarden Week.[1] Fanworks made for the week can be found in an AO3 collection and a Tumblr tag.
There are TWO prompts per day so pick whichever one inspires you! Tag your content with #zevwarden week 2020 and it’ll be reblogged here. Any art found to be whitewashing Zevran will not be posted
- Wednesday, July 1st: EYE OF THE BEHOLDER [identity][admiration]
- Thursday, July 2nd: LA PETITE MORT [death][weak spots]
- Friday, July 3rd: “OH MAKER” [faith][first times]
- Saturday, July 4th: CANDLELIGHT WHISPERS [opening up][pillow talk]
- Sunday, July 5th: ANTIVAN BAD BOY [tattoos][kink]
- Monday, July 6th: BLOODSTAINED CLOTHES [injury][dressing up]
- Tuesday, July 7th: #RELATIONSHIPGOALS [flirting][the future]
2022
- Day 1 - Sunday, September 4 - Culture
Culture shock “Now, if it is all the same to you, I would prefer not to speak more of Antiva. It makes me wistful and hungry for a proper meal.”
What does Zevran think about life in Ferelden that we don’t get to see in-game? If your Warden and Zevran ever travel anywhere else, what’s familiar and what comes as a surprise?
Cultural exchange “Loving a place is not the same as never desiring to be elsewhere.”
Either at home or abroad, do the Warden and Zevran experience new foods, festivals, or traditions together? How do Zevran and the Warden deal with their cultural differences and similarities?
- Day 2 - Monday, September 5 - Gold
Trinkets “You do seem to stumble onto treasure on a regular basis, somehow.”
Between the infamous earring and all the looting the Warden does over the course of the Blight, it’s easy for the pair of them to accumulate quite a few trinkets. Are there any things in particular they each collect? What kinds of things do they save for each other?
Money “Ah, the bustle of a market district! The pickpocket’s home away from home!”
We know a little bit about Zevran’s relationship to money, but what about the Warden’s? Do Zevran and the Warden have enough of it, post-Blight? Do they have more than they know what to do with? How do they make a living and how do they spend what they’ve got? Also fun for this prompt: stories about stealing or bartering.
- Day 3 - Tuesday, September 6 - Fights and Reconciliation
Arguments “You are a very frustrating person to deal with, do you know that?”
Do the Warden and Zevran ever fight, either verbally or with weapons? Perhaps your Warden or Zevran (or both) get into a disagreement with somebody else. How do they resolve it or fail to resolve it?
Kiss and make-up “Running a bit hot and cold, are we? Fair enough. Let’s get back to business.”
What helps the Warden and Zevran deal with tension after a tough moment? Are they quick to forgive or does it take them a little longer to work things out? Do they prefer to work things out with conversation or more physically?
- Day 4 - Wednesday, September 7 - Alternate Universes
Variations on DAO “Taliesen offered to come to the ambush with me and I said, ‘Taliesen, I don’t need any help. This Grey Warden is a new recruit. How hard could it be?’ But then, if I had been more open-minded to his help, either you would be dead or I would be. So it was better I refused. Huh.”
What would happen if Zevran met your Warden before the contract? Does your Warden end the Blight in a way the game’s endings don’t allow? This version of the prompt is for reimagining the story of DAO in a new way.
Completely new setting “I feel like we’ve just entered a Grand Cleric’s bedchambers, where no one has gone before.”
Got an idea for the characters as vampires, mermaids, or living in a painstakingly historically accurate Qing Dynasty, China? The crew playing D&D in a college AU? Go wild.
- Day 5 - Thursday, September 8 - Promises
Promises kept “In truth, for the chance to be by your side, I would storm the Dark City itself.”
Which promises do Zevran and the Warden make to each other? How do they come to make those promises? Are there ever moments when there is a price to be paid for keeping a promise?
Promises broken “What are promises? There are many kinds, spoken and unspoken, and yet we break them all the same, yes? They do not matter.”
Do Zevran and the Warden ever break a promise made to each other? Why do they break it—is it for a good reason? How does the other party react?
- Day 6 - Friday, September 9 - Death
Near-death experiences “I landed in the river and nearly drowned. I was fished out by some urchins who robbed me blind. Made off with my boots, too. At least they didn’t cut my throat.”
Zevran and the Warden meet for the first time in a failed assassination attempt. Whether dramatic or humorous or some of both, Zevran and the Warden have had many brushes with death in their adventures. Share a moment from one of those times.
Laid to rest “It’s unfortunate, but death comes to us all. If not me, then some wasting disease. Or a fall down the stairs.Or at the hands of a darkspawn. It’s all relative, in the end.”
No one escapes death. This is the prompt to share a moment of triumph after a battle, complex feelings after a successful assassination, or offer a character a peaceful death at home.
- Day 7 - Saturday, September 10 - Seasons
Seasons of the year “In Antiva it rains often, but the flowers are always in bloom… or so the saying goes.”
Do Zevran and the Warden celebrate holidays together? Which, and how? Does Zevran struggle with Fereldan winter, and the Warden with Antivan summer? What specific activities do they enjoy doing in each season?
Seasons of life “It’s true. I live a charmed life. One of the prostitutes that raised me was a fortune teller. Said I wouldn’t die young. She was rather startled by that.”
As characters hit new life milestones and grow older, what is a significant event that happens in their lives together? Did either of them expect or even wish for that milestone to happen in their life?