Romance in Dragon Age: Origins, Attempt the Fourth

by sqbr

Summary:

Dane Amell's attempts to do better at romance than my first character do not go according to plan. Comic with transcript, fairly spoilery for the end of the game.

Notes:

Crossposted to DeviantArt.

Panel 1:
Me: Ok, let’s avoid a repeat of the whole Alistair disaster. No getting overinvested, and no writing schmoopy self insert fic.
I’ll play a man, have a nice low commitment relationship with Zevran, and maybe be inspired to write some thinky gen.

Panel 2:
Several quests through Ferelden later..
Morrigan (to Dane Amell): Whatever happens, after this battle spoilers spoilers spoilers. I wish it could be otherwise... my love

Panel 3:
Dane: Right, you heard her the only solution is for me to not fight this battle.
Riordan: But...the archdemon!
Dane: I wouldn’t be in such a hurry either if I were you, Frenchie McRedShirt.
Zevran: You know, you’re lucky I’m not the jealous type

Notes:

First off: I don't actually have a problem with self insert-ish fic/comics etc, it's just annoying that they seem to be pretty much the only ideas for this fandom I actually get around to drawing/writing :)

And yes, really, I haven't progressed that playthrough past that point :) EDIT: Now I have. And it resulted in me being inspired to create a whole series about the three of them.

 

Also, the reason Zevran doesn't show up much in this is that romancing him didn't fail and was a lot of fun ^_^ Why Morrigan was still in love with Dane after he'd dumped her half the game ago I don't know.

Series this work belongs to:

• « Part 4 of the Various Attempts at Romance in Dragon Age: Origins series »