zora-zen:

swevani:

a reminder of things dorian pavus has done that get swept under the rug in favor of “he’s gay and sassy”:

• helped invent time magic that actually worked with the catalyst of the breach
• invented a medicine that extends the life of someone infected with the blight, meaning he created the start to a potential cure for both the blight and calling
• threw away centuries of tevinter isolationism to join a heretical southern army because “it was the right thing to do”, even when it meant potentially getting one of his oldest friends and former teacher killed
• (depending on player choices) stayed with the inquisition and fought against corypheus even when the inquisitor proved to be a heinous douchebag only interested in power who may have been just as dangerous to the world as corypheus was, because he was fighting as much for the world as for the reputation of his homeland, even after all it did to him
• (depending on player choices) overcame his fear of letting someone know he wants more than “passion” or “fun” and learned to be comfortable in an openly loving relationship after years of being told that the way he loves was deviant and wrong and “must be hidden”, to the point he regularly flaunted his relationship with the inquisitor as the reason he remained so strong once he moved back to tevinter – which, even considering the pda he shows the inquisitor already, is groundbreaking in a heavily homophobic society
• went back to his wartorn homeland filled with remnants of people who still wanted him dead, who had murdered his father just a few weeks prior, and started a powerful organization of magisters dedicated to reforming his homeland that put tevinter on the brink of civil war with how much influence it garnered
• slept around with elves, got kicked out of nearly every circle in tevinter, was a drunken mess for most of his young adulthood, and still managed to be a successful and well respected magister purely based on his genius and talent

so can we stop pretending that sass and fashion sense are all there is to this man because honestly

Dorian Pavus is a huge nerd and I’m tired of people writing him as a sexy hairdresser.