Mara Tabris X Zevran - Tumblr Posts
Hi Crabs! How about "strange is the call of this strange man" for Mara x Zev? Happy writing!
ALRIGHT SO. I really just took this prompt and ran away with it in a completely different direction. The original quote is from a song, and its about Euridice being tempted into the underworld by Hades who is promising her safety from poverty, y'know sad n tragic n all that good stuff.
I however, in all my genius, bring to you: Zevran trying to do a crow impression.
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A Crow by Any Other Call. 479 words.
“Do you even know what a crow sounds like?”
“Of course I do mi amor! I am one after all!” They were only slightly drunk. Well, to be more precise, Mara was only slightly drunk. Zevran was one drink away from the dictionary definition of ‘plastered’. Scratch that. Half a drink.
Mara snorted, “okay, so do it again.”
Zevran cleared his throat, stopping in the middle of the pathway that led to their rented accommodation. “Okay, here goes. Hcaw! Hcaw!”
The laughter burst out of Mara’s stomach out of nowhere, enough that she saw several globules of spit fling through the air. “That is not at all what a crow sounds like Zev.”
He wobbled over to her, with what his imbibed brain likely though was a seductive smile, though it would have been more effective if he did not keep readjusting it to a look that was somehow even more ridiculous than the last one. He leaned in close and draping his arm over her shoulder (for balance even as he tried to cover that fact up), whispering right into her ear, “should I try again my dearest most loveliest Warden?”
“I have a feeling you will try no matter what I say,” she said, attempting to talk through the waves of laughter that were rocking through her.
“Mmm quite right indeed.” He leaned back, tilting his head back to crow into the sky, at first removing his arm from around her, but quickly recalculating when he began to tip backwards. He sucked in a deep breath even as Mara was spluttering with laughter next to him. “CAw-ghhh!” His impression caught in his throat and he coughed violently through the words, still attempting the impression even as his lungs betrayed him.
Mara laughed, her belly aching, and started pulling him along with her back to their rooms. “Okay, well that was somehow worse than your first three attempts!”
Zevran just looked at her with a love struck grin, and pressed a sloppy and wet kiss to her cheek, “have I ever told you how beautiful your- your- ears are!”
“Ears? That's what you’re going with?” Mara asked, her eyebrow discovering new heights.
She wasn’t sure if his brain just didn’t process her words or he just ignored them, “your ears are the perfect shape, and the- the- angel- no. The- the-.”
“The angle?”
“Yes! The angle! Perfect! Wonderful! Absolutely and truly sublime!”
Mara grinned, scrunching up her face to the favour, a kiss on his cheek, long and lips pressed hard against his skin, releasing him with a loud ‘mwah’ sound. “Compliments aren’t going to get me to say your crow impression was good you know my love.”
“Ah well, it was worth a shot,” he said. Though since Mara turned away, neither her nor any other being was able to witness the puppy dog eyes of love that Zevran gave her as he beheld the magnificence of her ear, pale against her dark hair with a simple golden earring hanging from its lobe.
For tabris & zevran from the oc couple asks Who likes forehead kisses? Who likes hand kisses? Who likes neck kisses?
100% Zevran is all for hand kisses. The man reads you bad Antivan sex poetry, and hand kisses are such a good trope of like chivalric romances. He would probably start off doing it to be silly, realising he actually loves it, then continue doing it more while trying to pretend its just him being silly (and failing).
Mara on the other hand is all for the neck smooches. She has such massive black cat energy, that she would just love a good snuggle with her head tucked under Zev's chin which gives Optimal Neck Access™