tao-kan:

does anyone else ever think about how zevran deliberately tells stories of his failures to the warden in order to seem less threatening? that in fact everything he does in those first interactions, from flirting to making silly jokes, are defense mechanisms built around a lifetime of needing to seem small and harmless, not just to perform his job but in order to stay alive in a highly competitive and deadly atmosphere where one wrong word could leave him floating in the river for a second time?

because i do

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