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Jasmine, Filli, and Kree

#yessss #i feel like out of the art i've seen of jasmine this one captures her aura the best? maybe? #i love this #art #jasmine #filli #kree

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i think the funniest thing deltora quest ever pulled off was in shadowlands (? i think?) where the main characters are running around in a series of caves and they stumble onto a massive presumed to be extinct gold dragon that's just like. snoozing. and these protags fight every generic fantasy trope in existence, look at each other like 😶, quietly back out of the cavern and never talk about it for the rest of the book. just refuse to engage. like i know they address the dragon stuff in the next series but it's still funny that it happened.......the second funniest thing was the evil live laugh love wall hanging

#OMG TRUE as a kid i was like um?? are they gonna do something about that?? but this was so much better #other fave funny moments for me include barda having a moment about chocolate and them using a fighting spider to track down jasmine and #the other fighting spider

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Jasmine loomed above him. She was breathing in great, sobbing gasps. Her brow was beaded with sweat, and tears were pouring down her cheeks. But her mouth was set in a hard, straight line.

This is literally so so much yes it sucks for lief to have his face basically ripped off but jasmine has always had his back and what does it mean when having your back also means inflicting incredible pain to stop you from losing yourself?? Has she even sobbed before? The way shes still determined to save him even if for all the information she has the mask has already fused permanently?

ALSO it's insane all of this (lief recognising the adult masks were permanent, the rest of the troupe trying to attack, rust letting the moths loose, jasmine ripping the mask off lief's face) happens in twelve seconds

#aaaaaaahhh you're so right

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I’ve been thinking about how to properly convey this for a while but like... the older I get, the more I feel for Endon. When I read the books as a kid I never paid much attention to Endon’s leg injury and the fact that he was supposed to be the one to go on the quest before that happened - I just thought of it as a plot point that enabled Lief to go on his journey and allowed the story to happen. But having a chronic pain condition now and knowing the daily reality of having one’s mobility impacted by that has made me think about how that must sting for Endon, especially paired with Lief being so young when he goes on the quest. Like... imagine having to gamble with your own child’s safety like that by sending them off to do something so fraught with danger; something that you were supposed to be the one to do. Adding that to the fact that so much of Endon’s life has been characterised by powerlessness... he was powerless when his parents died and he was coronated (which I think happened when he was around thirteen but that’s another story for another post), he was powerless when the belt was taken, he was powerless when Jarred gave up his home in order to give Endon a chance... and on a trope subversion level that’s clever of Rodda because, like, kings are supposed to be powerful, right? But on a deeper level, I mean, damn. That really stings. DQ is one of those stories that I can read over and over again and learn something new every time and it’s so heart-wrenching but so permeated by hope, like, every difficult decision the characters make, they make because they have hope. At the end of Return to Del when Endon tells Lief that he is happy and that his life is fulfilled, it’s such a hopeful moment. When he talks about how he wanted Lief to learn to know and love the people and be one of them, it’s clear that he’s a wise person and a great parent, and that’s immensely powerful in itself. His message to Lief feels reminiscent of how wolves lead their pack from behind, not in front. And his role in the story feels reminiscent of that too. Anyway, this has been a long post but TL;DR I have a lot of feelings about Endon.

#deltora quest #meta #endon

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Finally drew the boy in a last minute effort to create something for Roddacember

#this is gorgeous

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Not for the first time he felt a stab in his heart as he thought of all he had left behind in Del. He thought of his room-tiny, but safe and full of his own treasures. He thought evenings in front of the fire. Running wild in the streets with his friends. Even working with his father at the forge.

WHYYYY would his friends like never get brought up again after this/that time in the above-ground raladin where he thought theyd probably make fun of him for crying

#exactly #like #did he just ditch them?? because that would be very uncharacteristic of him lol

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This is canon right???

#she!!! #they!!! #i’m so glad barda’s life outside of the quest wasn’t neglected lol #lindal #barda #quest fam

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The dark-haired young serving man [...]

I was just gonna leave it at 'oh this bitch' but the possibilities here.

Dain had to apply for the job fair and square

They bonked the last person on the head

Theres so many people they hire he was able to just walk in and noone cared about the new temp and assumed he was someone elses responsibility

#i think it’s the last one as well #especially if he just #picked shit up and started helping #the other staff would be too stressed to not accept it #they’d just be like oh thank god

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Deltora: official owl fancast

Lief:

Jasmine: 

Barda:

Doom:

Dain:

#xDDD

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Lief: Impulsively removes mask, recklessly exposing himself to infection

Doom: Ah, Barda warned me about this

#OOOOOOO snap

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I am so sorry for all the Deltora posting today but I am NOT over it. I am not over how Rodda can write a character and make me fall head over heals in love with them in 6 pages or less, when other authors can't do the same in entire books. I am not over the wonderfully intricate world building and how little details come back around to be important in ways you never realized they could be used. I am not over how carefully and thoughtfully she constructs plots so that the inevitable twists seem to blindside you but somehow make complete sense at the same time. I'm just not over any of it!!

#true that

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Barda: Wow, if I had a gold coin for every time I was attacked by carnivorous plants, I'd have two gold coins - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

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omg yes

deltora quest modern au where jasmine wears scene eyeliner, barda has tattoos like that cat whisperer guy and lief drinks eight cups of coffee a day

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in-universe deltora quest memes

nevets becomes the equivalent of the T R I G GE R E D meme. even Steven starts to laugh at this after a while. sometimes with two voices

‘hey can you do this thing for me’ ‘make kree do it. he can do anything’

The Doom Man Exists, I Fought Him Behind A Tavern In Rithmere Once (credit to @dragonloverdoran​)

*something goes horribly* well its better than doom’s handwriting

How Fast Can Jasmine Make Lief Blush: it doesnt matter that they’re married. usually all it takes is ‘remember that time i rubbed salve on your chest’ and. whoop. there he go pink

lief grumbling “i didnt die for this” when he’s mildly inconvenienced by kingly duties (lbr his death in Hira went largely unappreciated)

barda mocking lief with this until he remembers that he, too, died in the forests of silence and he begins to use this phrase unironically

i love you but not as much as lindal loves her spear collection

Quality Brand labels slapped on things that are definitely not Quality Brand

this is very exploitable and evolves into something like the ™ symbol

*something breaks* Quality Brand craftsmanship

“how was your nap” “Quality Brand”

*doom verbally destroys someone* Quality Brand

until everyone hates it

the worst was when someone shouted ‘Quality Brand’ at lief and jasmine’s wedding after they kissed. And We Do Not Use That Meme Anymore.

the ghost of queen adina guards the basement levels of the palace. do not anger her. do not touch her suit of armor. do not go looking for her. do not

the trio convinces people that things that absolutely Did Not Happen actually happened on the quests. these fake things sound no stranger than the things that Actually Happened, to the point where no one is sure what actually happened on the quests

No Shoes Required: the Queen’s Non-Discriminatory Clause

every new person who comes to the palace is Lief’s Distant Cousin. i am sure marilen started this meme

jasmine: does something mildly rude like put her feet on the table barda: i did not raise you to be like this

“its not a weird habit its an ancient Mere superstition”

doom always makes window references to sharn. no one knows why

B E E S

#DOOM ALWAYS MAKES WINDOW REFERENCES TO SHARN I'M - #I'M YELLING

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YASSS

deltora quest modern au where jasmine wears scene eyeliner, barda has tattoos like that cat whisperer guy and lief drinks eight cups of coffee a day

#gonna picture him with fingerless gloves from now on

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tag yourself i’m caw

#deltora quest #tag yourself #lief #jasmine #barda #doom #kree #filli #dain #the shadowlord #(i needed an eighth one and the shadowlord seemed appropriate)

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i just started watching the untamed and xiao zhan as asian!lief would be such a vibe

#i picture most of the characters as sort of mixed when i'm reading #blond!lief really grew on me after the anime #but asian!lief is growing on me now too and it makes sense with him having mostly toran blood #the main thing with lief is the personality and xiao zhan could absolutely match his personality #caring-sensitive-street-rascal-turned-conscientious-boy-king yep he could do it for sure #i know there's never going to be a live action but it's fun to imagine y'know