Dorian Pavus Thread "He's More Handsome Than A Cockroach"

A bit, yeah.

There have been periods of history, at least in my culture, where romantic relations between two boys or two girls were treated as safe and harmless practice for marriage and the forming of a family later on, and where clinging onto such relationships after the point of maturity and adult responsibilities was seen as childish and embarrassing. So that part doesn't necessarily strike me as untrue or unrealistic by itself.

But I don't think Dorian is the kind of person who would be in denial about something like that. He seems too level-headed and conscious of his own culture's shortcomings. If it was the case then he would accept his homosexuality as actually being embarrassing to his family by default and not take it quite so personally, and be more incensed at the insane lengths his father was prepared to go to to labor that point instead of moving on rather than his father's inability to accept his choices in and of itself.

You have to put them in the same party for a sufficient amount of time that the various flirt banter between them triggers. Eventually you discover that Dorian has visited Bull in the night. Then later (after the Arbor Wilds I believe), if you are friends with them both, they will separately talk about their relationship. Dorian tries to pretend he isn't that committed but the Inquisitor can call him out on that.

Then in Trespasser it turns out they are still an item, even if Bull is still a fully paid up member of the Qun, which I do find hard to fathom on Dorian's part and to my mind in that case is creepy rather than cute. (Of course it ends badly). There is also a cringe-worthy exchange between them (that other people find sweet but I feel Bull is patronising) when Dorian has an allergic reaction to strip-weed (that doesn't occur if Bull is not present). That's about it really. Apart from the epilogue slides where a Dorian/Bull relationship gets way more coverage than Dorian/Inquisitor and particularly Bull/Inquisitor.

For those interested, I’ve posted three new fics to my ongoing Judah Trevelyan/Dorian Pavus fic series, The Meaning of More.

Read on AO3.

I think you mean, when he invited you to Quarters and it's a full blown scene? Where you tell him you like him, want a relationship, but no sex right now?

I am pretty certain No. It's specifically for folks who wanted to skip a sex scene, and the conversation where you state you want a relationship that follows the declination is The Scene at that point

phoray Hold on. I remember watching a clip on Youtube where Dorian opens up about how hard it is for love to happen between men in Tevinter.

And that happens during a sex scene.

So if the Inquisitor asks Dorian to slow down, you never get that important conversation?

In my last playthrough, I played a human hating Vashoth. Someone who went as far as refusing to save anyone in Haven, because he figures they wouldn't do the same for him.

But then Dorian comes along and after spending time with him, he slowly realizes: "Hold on. This man is surrounded by people who hate him, but he still is doing what is right for the world. Am I the asshole here?". And from that, he started to change.

So as much as Dorian talks about how the Inquisitor inspired him to do more, the opposite was also true for my character.