#☾ ┊ headcanons. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 you cannot harm me. i'm not afraid . 」
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“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
#☾ ┊ visage. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 a smile like the sun coming out from behind a cloud. 」#☾ ┊ headcanons. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 you cannot harm me. i'm not afraid . 」#not a headcanon but this is such a summary of who she is#and what she can do#she is delicate and sweet#and usually speaks softly and quietly when necessary#but she can and she will kill if provoked#and god she is so dangerous#☾ ┊ my edits. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 i decided to overlook it for now . 」
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considering delenn’s canon speech pattern, and the way she says certain words, i just know her reading dr. seuss books would be amazing. little david on her lap, clutching the john teddy bear, as she reads green eggs and ham.
#☾ ┊ headcanons. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 you cannot harm me. i'm not afraid . 」#see the bear is not just shit posting its also cute stuff
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the thing is — delenn, first and foremost, is a protector of life. and she understands that to do that, she must have power. so she is power hungry, she does hold a lot of power and finds ways to gather even more in her hands because she needs it.
but she is discriminate with it — she refuses to become the leader of minbar ( twice ! ). that is not the power she requires. while it would be important to help her people, she works at a larger scale, she is working for all of the souls of the galaxy, all of them have the same equal right to live and she cannot turn her back on them and focus on minbar.
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hmm, i’m rewatching ds9 and thinking of the parallels between the shows ( or copies, depending which side do you believe ) and i’m in the episode where the other emissary comes back and tries to recreate the caste system to bajor. and of course that led me to think about the minbari caste system.
the bajoran system is very strict, it is ingrained in the legal system and does not allow for change. there are also very limited professions one can participate in, depending on their caste. as the castes on minbar seem to function as separate governments as well, there doesn’t seem to be such a division in their society: there are leaders in all of them.
and, with the minbari, changing the caste while not common, is seen as an acceptable act. people are allowed to change caste if their chosen path / their devotion does not match the caste they were born into. we have branmer, who was of the religious caste but during the war became a warrior, proving himself to be a capable soldier and winning the respect and adoration of the warrior caste.
which is why i think the caste system on minbar continues and thrives, while on bajor it ended, and became impossible to reinstate after people tasted freedom. all living beings, regardless of which species they are, desire to choose their own paths.
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since the death of Marcus, and given the danger involved. I think John would be reluctant to send someone close to me on a mission like this.
i actually have a lot of thoughts about marcus and delenn and what their dynamic could have been. marcus’s interactions when it came to work were usually with sheridan, and i think while for the show it made sense to have them both in the scenes, and while sheridan and delenn share control of the rangers in the area and she does take that partnership more seriously than anything, i feel like marcus and delenn as a dynamic, as ranger and leader, as friends could have been so much better explored.
it would have been such a great contrast to her relationship with lennier, marcus as her human aide, not connecting her to her ambassadorship but to her duties as ranger one. delenn as a war leader and tactician, delenn as a fighter, and it could have explored the contradictions she feels within.
she is half-human now, while she was minbari born and raised, she has feelings and emotions that are foreign to the minbari. marcus was human born and raised and when he choose to join the rangers, he adopted so much of the minbari practices and beliefs.
they would have had so much to talk about. we rarely see delenn really engaging with her humanity outside of grand conceptual ideas. while, sure, she is incredibly busy, and very much loves her minbari heritage, she transformed into a human for a reason, and she wanted to understand them. to miss out on the opportunity to have her learn about several touchstones of human culture — literature, music, history! she was curious, and did her own research as we saw in the season 4 flashback, but it’s one thing to do research and another to have a human present the culture to you.
marcus specifically i think would have been interesting considering how obsessed he is with older history / knights, which i think is something that very much reflects minbar’s own culture and would be something delenn would be interested in.
it was really such a wasted opportunity.
#☾ ┊ headcanons. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 you cannot harm me. i'm not afraid . 」#this is something between a headcanon and some thoughts
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delenn is so good with children. she is caring, warm and treats them very maturely, does not talk down to them. as minbari life is so closely connected with religion and religious groups, delenn spent a lot of time with children of all ages growing up, and when she grew older, she very much enjoyed helping the younger children through the rituals and daily chores.
#☾ ┊ headcanons. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 you cannot harm me. i'm not afraid . 」#i'm watching and posting watching and posting
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thinking about this thing i read in a fic where when minbari get hurt, bone forms underneath their skin to protect them. a warrior who has been fighting for years, his skin is thick and has long lost most of its softness and that is a sign of strength and experience. but that the bone can be broken, that minbari are trained to massage the skin in a way which breaks the bone after the wound has healed.
thinking about the wound on delenn’s back from the knife, that lennier as a religious acolyte may not have learned the ritual and delenn did not feel comfortable with anyone else touching her to break the bone ( it is a ritual usually performed by very close friends / lovers ) so despite the fact the wound has already healed, the bone underneath the skin remains.
since delenn usually wears flowing robes, it is hard to see it, but when she wears more earth clothes, or her green dress ( usually worn in battle / in the white star ) there is a bump on her lower back, off to the side from where the bone formed.
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character quirks and habits . . .
likes artificial watermelon. sleeps in what they are already wearing. eats their cereal with milk. listens to music with earbuds. hates the summer. can recite past the first four digits of pi. eats frosting out of the jar. doodles on their notebooks. can bake cookies. has a garden. has had a snowball fight. eats pancakes without syrup. prefers shorts over pants. can name more than ten superheroes. has a plan for the zombie apocalypse. uses the same password for everything. can’t hold their breath for more than fifteen seconds. watches anime. hasn’t read harry potter. can say ‘I love you’ in more than one language. prefers mechanical pencils. thinks space is cool. takes personality tests more than once to make sure. can’t tie their shoelaces. has a purse. likes salads. likes cool colours better than warm colours. knows how to braid hair. reads biographies. can ice skate. knows their mbti. reads astrology charts. prefers the star wars prequels to the original trilogy. plays video games. reads the newspaper. likes chocolate ice cream best. doesn’t cuss. memorizes song lyrics. collects coupons. has a preferred order at starbucks. likes movie theater popcorn. has seen a play. listens to music with headphones. owns a hoodie. would rather own cds than online copies. has written a poem. can shuffle cards. subscribes to a magazine. double dips when eating. drinks directly out of the milk container. keeps a journal.
#☾ ┊ headcanons. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 you cannot harm me. i'm not afraid . 」#she is an astrology bitch and we all know it#reads newspapers... hmm delenn#expressing undue curiosity again??
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connected to my last post, delenn’s entire season 4 arc is about dealing with the consequences of her actions (and it makes me insane that the season had to cram so much content in that they literally had to write her out at one point, but she had so much going on that i needed to be explored further, but neither here or there).
delenn has three big plots which interconnect:
her romance arc with john: delenn has to deal with the fallout of john dying and disappearing because he went to z’hadum. now, we can debate a lot on the necessity of john going there (if we take in world without end and that we learn the future without him going there is darker and more dangerous) she did keep a big secret from him for years. to her, it made sense, after all, no one who goes there comes back the same (which is also true for john), if anna survived, she was not anna anymore, not the woman that john once loved. but it was not her choice to make, she should have given him the full truth. which is what delenn struggles with, despite the fact that minbari do not lie, they are very adept at cloaking the truth and only saying what is necessary. she has to come to grips with her actions during the earlier seasons and the secrets she hid, and deal with the fact that since she is now half-human, and in love with a human, things will not be easy for her.
her arc with her caste and family: delenn underwent a big transformation, she changed her dna, made herself to be half of another culture, one she almost destroyed at one point. by becoming half-human, she has shamed them, as minbari do not marry into other species, and by falling in love with a human, starkiller sheridan, she has further disgraced herself and her family. despite it all, she is a leader of her caste, but while she has all of the power and influence that title confers, she is now separated from them, there is a wall and she has to actively fight back against it to become accepted once more.
minbari civil war: while it was the warrior caste which incited the war, delenn’s actions created the space for that. (i) she started the war in a pique of rage, in a moment very much more reflective of the warrior caste than the religious caste she represented, and ended it before they could have the victory they wanted, but that time representing the religious caste, her belief in minbari souls, an explanation not accepted by the warrior caste; (ii) the fact she has effectively created a second army within minbar which does not answer to any minbari of the warrior caste, tilting the power center to her own caste; (iii) she destroyed the council of nine. the power center of her planet for a millennia, she took the staff and destroyed it, leaving the country effectively without a leader for one year. she did all of that to win the war against the shadows and save the universe -- she risked her planet’s stability for the entire universe. she created the vacuum of power (by also refusing to take the role as leader of the minbari in season 1) which allowed the warrior caste to gain so much influence, and go against an integral belief of the minbari: minbari do not kill other minbari.
finally, we can also put the earth war as a consequence of delenn’s actions. while we cannot fault her for that, it was humans and the shadow’s influence which must be put at fault, the fact is, she once again set the stage for that to happen by allowing the earth-minbari war to take place. it was the first play, it opened the doors.
#☾ ┊ headcanons. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 you cannot harm me. i'm not afraid . 」#this is my long winded way of saying that yeah she is the central player of the show#all plots can and must be connected to her
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i think one of the most interesting aspects of delenn’s arc is that she could have accepted being the leader of minbar in season one. after years of mourning for their last leader, a revered figure, the person chosen to lead the new era was delenn. and she says no. and it speaks so much about how she sees herself within history, the continous theme of being at the right place, at the right time, with the right people. delenn saw staying in babylon 5, around sinclair, and later sheridan, as instrumental to guarantee the future of the universe, it was the place she could do the most good.
which is insane and yet makes complete sense! if she had been the lesder of the country, she could have diverted so much of their resources to build more white star ships, to fight the shadows. but that would have called attention to their plan! to continue fighting against them in the most effective way possible, she had to do it from the shadows herself; delenn built up an army, the strongest fleet known to history, and she did it all while being ostracized by her own people, without the institutional power she once held, and being questioned by her people if she was still one of them!
the plot of b5 is so tight, the decisions make sense. i love that. because turning away power while in the brink of a war you are actively fighting against might seem like a misguided decision, but once you put all of the elements into play, delenn’s decision is incredibly logical. it allowed the rangers to prosper, sinclair to build the bridge between humans and minbari inside of the rangers, for her and kosh to strategize and try to create the path which would save most lives in the end. her cause is life.
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MINBARI + TELEPATHY
for the purposes of this headcanon, and quite honestly the entire blog, i will be ignoring everything discovered about telepaths in season 5a as (a) i’d rather die than rewatch any scene which involves byron; (b) i had developed some of these headcanons prior to watching that arc.
most minbari of the religious caste are low grade telepaths. the most correct description would be touch-empaths — they are unable to read other’s minds, and never at a distance. if they come into contact with another person’s bare-skin, they can pick up on their base emotions. depending on the skill-level, they may pick up on some more hidden feelings, and a very persistent though, though that is very rare.
while technically anyone can be born into any caste, most of the time the caste you are born in, is the one you will die. minbari are a very traditional and family-oriented people, the path your parents have chosen, is one you usually admire and are taught your entire life to follow. there is no taboo against switching castes, but it is highly unusual.
so this skill mostly exists within the religious caste. the fact it is not prominent among all castes did affect the overall culture; the warrior caste and the worker’s class (to a lesser degree) were troubled by the idea there was this skill which only existed among one caste. while cultural shifts are usually led by the religious caste, a lot of the most prominent cultural markers of the minbari culture were not developed by them. most of the greetings are done at a distance, there is no touching, hands remain outstretched at a distance; and of course there is the clothing.
while minbar is indeed a cold planet, the way minbari clothing are made is not purely out of a fashion sense, or for the weather. layer upon layer covers a minbari’s body, so that is skins should touch, there is no exchange of information. however, your hands remain uncovered. all of it is to protect people’s privacy, but it is not supposed to punish the empaths. everyone follows the same clothing guide, and empaths may choose to touch other’s, it is just impolite (if you aren’t close) and very personal, if you are close.
[ image id: mayan’s hand over delenn’s chest as they part for the night. ]
by touching skin-to-skin, especially in public, you are basically telling every other minbar in attendance that you share a very close relationship with the person next to you, and that you have allowed them this closeness. it is usually reserved for very close friends, family and partners.
another element of this telepathy, is that is made the minbari especially sensitive towards the shadows. delenn was the only ambassador who realized what morden really was, she recognized him as a shadow, could see the darkness surrounding him. she immediately told him to get out, and the sign on top of her head, a marker of her position as a member of the grey council, meant to only shine when among the nine, close to objects of power, gleamed on her forehead. it was her powers, trying to protect her.
this particular trait explains why of all the new races, the minbari were the ones most involved in the two last shadow wars. the main thing the shadows do, is infiltrate planets to try and play them off each other, make them weaker so they can swoop in and dominate the entire place. the minbari immediately recognized their agents, knew they could not be trusted and kicked them off their planet.
when the vorlons realized this, they made the minbari their closest allies in the war.
[ image id: delenn resting her hand over john’s. ]
the last element which makes minbari touch telepathy special, and why there is no overall control over them, unlike in other cultures, is that it goes both-ways. the empaths also shy away from touching others as it also offers a glimpse into their own emotional psyche at that exact moment. the other person, no matter their skill-level, can feel a burst emotions from the place their skin touch.
in delenn’s specific case, her skill-level was diminished after her transformation into a human. she used to be very skilled, one of the reasons why the grey council took an interest in her. she is still considered an empath, but she only retains the power to feel the other person’s base emotions at that moment.
#☾ ┊ headcanons. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 you cannot harm me. i'm not afraid . 」#this is my fav headcanon about the minbari#i wanna explore the clothes more#i also need to do a careful watch to collect images of all the different minbari greetings
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delenn interpreting prophecy and deciding the correct interpretation and that it should be her that fulfills it is so iconic, and the fact it does not end up as her seeming self-centered really shows how well established her character is, and how good jsm’s writing can be. because we know, we see, we understand that delenn’s first commitment is not to her own future, but to the universe’s future. she has a commitment towards light ( which, does not always equal to good, pure actions ), and to take the step of entering the cacoon and turning herself into a hybrid, its not to put herself in the center of the story, it is not because she thinks it will lead to her gaining accomplishments and titles, it is because it is a chance to serve.
her people have backed away, they are scared and unsure and in the face of their non-action she takes drastic measures to make sure the prophecy is fulfilled; she serves it, she does not use it to serve her own goals.
it is the right thing to do, she believes. it will serve the universe, and as that is her life’s calling.
#☾ ┊ headcanons. _________ ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ- 「 you cannot harm me. i'm not afraid . 」#delenn schedules turning her life upside down between meetings#cause sure the universe needs to be served#but the minbari keep her busy geesh
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