#about Ania

[alexiethymia]

Yor Briar, Yor, and Yor-san

I was reading an excellent post about the nuance in the original japanese and now I thought I’d take a crack at what this means for Loid (although other people have already made an excellent analysis on this).

Loid has only called her Yor Briar in the beginning and when he was suspecting her of playing him. But Fiona’s insistence on her full name, Yor Briar, and her notice of Loid’s seemingly stubborn refusal to use it seems to me that Loid had always previously referred to assets by their full name. It could also be pragmatic in that he knows Fiona wants the ‘role’ of his wife hence her stubborn insistence of using Yor’s maiden name, so he uses Yor-san to counter Fiona’s way of delegitimizing Yor’s role. But I don’t think Loid can sense the real reason for Fiona’s insistence, so while in his view Fiona may be acting unprofessionally, generally speaking, I think Loid would be the one acting unprofessionally in constantly using ‘Yor-san’ to refer to his ‘wife’ to his WISE colleagues especially if he didn’t use to do that before (which yeah it’s hard to imagine him addressing his other marks that way).

Although the audience knows that Fiona is acting far from being professional, with Loid’s limited knowledge of her feelings, wouldn’t she actually have a point in referring to Yor as YOR BRIAR in a working setting? Because isn’t that all she was supposed to be? An asset or a tool? And yet Loid seems annoyed by that and insists on humanizing her by calling her, Yor-san.

Now someone might say, that’s nothing to make a big deal about. It would have been a big deal had he referred to her as ‘just’ Yor without the honorific. Because using someone’s name without honorifics is supposed to connote a deeper sort of intimacy. But that’s the thing. It would have been a forced intimacy for show. ‘Yor’ is his mode of address when he’s putting on a show of being a loving husband, complete with that <fake> Loid Forger voice. Yor is what he calls her around her colleagues or his colleagues (Nightfall undercover as Fiona at the hospital) to present how they’re a completely ordinary, close and loving family. In a way, it’s a subtle cue to Yor as well that they’re in ‘family’ mode now or ‘husband-and-wife’ mode. Yor denotes her as being a mask.

Which is actually why Yor-san is perfect. If Yor Briar is her as an asset, Yor is her as a mask, then Yor-san is her as a partner. He’s used women to get to his goal before. The only thing different now is Anya and the fact that on some level he is also working together with Yor. Had he actually succeeded in his first honeytrap attempt with Yor when he thought she had fallen in love with him, I imagine that he might have started treating Yor the same way he did his other assets before. But thank goodness it didn’t succeed, and in my view, he ended up falling into the trap instead.

Yor-san is perfect because it parallels the way Yor calls him. It’s perfect because it conveys the perfect level of intimacy. They’re not actually a lovey-dovey couple as ‘Yor’ would imply, but unfortunately for Nightfall, she’s also not just ‘YOR BRIAR’ another tool to him. It’s perfect because it conveys respect which Loid has a healthy amount of for Yor. If he can help it, he doesn’t like using her. And Nightfall is right to be worried that this comfortable mode of address of Loid’s is bleeding over to Twilight as if to blur the two. Loid is supposed to be an entirely different person or character so what does it mean that Twilight also calls his wife the same way Loid does? ‘Yor-san’ and ‘Loid-san’ are partners in a lot of ways. Yor-san is whom he can let down his guard down around, and someone this perfectionist spy can ask help from and rely on.

So what about Yuri Briar? He doesn’t know the true nature of Yor and Loid’s arrangement. Shouldn’t he be calling her Yor in front of him to keep up the ruse? Again, I think part of it is pragmatic. He doesn’t want to further aggravate the siscon. But especially in light of Chapter 86 and Volume 10’s inner cover, I think (at least unconsciously) it’s because Yuri is family. I notice that Twilight hasn’t even kept up the Loid persona as much in front of Yuri anymore (which tbf can’t blame him cause how do you even react to Yuri) but it’s not as if Yuri is someone to be underestimated. Some way or the other, even if he doesn’t fully realize it, I think Twilight is starting to treat Yuri like how Yor treats him or at the very least he can’t treat him like any other enemy or bystander because he’s someone important to Yor. Which again as CH 86 would show, Fiona has already noticed, and Twilight himself is angry at himself about. I don’t think Twilight has realized any sort of feelings for Yor yet, but I guess to Fiona, his mode of address for her is and has always been telling.

It’s actually interesting to think that perhaps it’s when he’s calling her ‘Yor-san’ that he’s most like himself - like Loid, Twilight and the boy before there was Twilight all at once - with her.

#twiyor #spy x family #sxf #twilight #yor briar #loid forger #yor forger #anya forger #yuri briar #nightfall #it’s all so interesting #and subtle #since the english translations hardly cover the nuance #and if you can’t read japanese you would notice it only when watching the anime #just like the whole anya ania thing #well played well played #if not for nightfall reacting the audience might not have been cued in that it was something worth reacting to #twilight really is turning more and more into loid forger as the days pass #and I’m sure he’s panicking about it #but does he realize the deeper implications I wonder

[morkofday]

we are คือเรารักกัน ⤷ episode 1

#asiandramanet #asianlgbtqdramas #thaidrama #we are the series #weareedit #phumpeem #qtoey #countaspieceofme #userjjessi #mjtag #lextag #uservid #anialook #tusersilence #uservix #userhanyi #tosnimeat #ninisdarlings #tusermona #usertoptaps #userconcrete #lightmiup #uuh so idk who is watching this #but am stoked #about to giggle my way through this #(also ania i continue loving your sets) #(take this as my humble offering)

[soulsxng]

@arcxnumvitae and @fatestouch replied to your post:

WHAT?!

👀👀👀

"It is not an issue of having grown tired of my position, or anything of the sort...though it would likely be a lie if I were to say that I were not feeling somewhat drained."

There's a small hum, and Sivel finally lifts his gaze from the mage pools to regard Ranadi and Alsina, who had eventually begun with a steady (albeit nervous) stream of questions. Why he had brought this up. When he had begun to think about it seriously. Would it be temporary, or permanent? Who would replace him, and what he would be doing, instead?

...What had happened to make him want to abdicate in the first place?

"I love Vasyri...I do. And I love my people just as deeply. But over these past few years, I have come to wonder if, perhaps, I have done all that I am able to for them. Vasyri deserves someone with a fresh outlook on things. Someone who does not look at potential alliances and associations that could benefit us, or end up overly focused on how things might go wrong. Someone that does not feel compelled toward the need to do things on our own, even if we do have allies, so as not to potentially open ourselves up to further threats."

"I think about my home, and I think of what I need to do so as to not fail them again. How I do not think I could stand to see any of my people suffer as they did in the past. And no matter whether I realize that or not, I am never able to shake myself from being almost as overprotective of them as I am of all of you. Of my family..."

"That makes any growth or evolution difficult, if not outright impossible. I know that, and yet...I find that, more and more, I am unable to justify the risks necessary to see much worthwhile change take place. So...while I do not necessarily believe myself to be a poor leader, I feel as though things have grown to be stagnant."

"And all of that is without mentioning the ire that so many outside of Vasyri view me with. I worry that, as long as I am Luminary, the stigma attached to myself and my deeds will continue to weigh Vasyri as a whole down, as well."

He talks through everything in a soft, even tone. It's obvious to both Ranadi and Alsina that this is something he had put a good deal of thought into, since a year or two ago, when he had commented half-jokingly about it to the pair of them.

"Besides...I miss it. How things used to be, when we were younger. Being able to go wherever we fancied at a moment's notice. Exploring and experiencing things with our claim-- something that I have never had the opportunity to do with Ania or Cyrus even once. It feels like, by becoming Luminary, I somehow came to believe that I had to give up so much of myself that, even in my earlier years of ruling, I would never have imagined doing. As if I gave up a part of my culture, pieces of who I am, moments with my loved ones...I look at the person I have become on occasion, and oftentimes, I do not like what I see. What I turned myself into, simply because I thought it was for the best of everyone involved. Because I thought that people would be more impressed, or more intimidated."

"...I do not intend to leave Vasyri forever, nor is this something I intend to rush. I want to be sure that whoever I pass this title onto, they are going to be the right fit. I still want to be around here and there to offer my support and assistance, and to teach people where I can-- both the new Luminary, and whoever else may want to learn from me. And when I'm not doing that, I think I would like to start by going along with Ania, Cyrus, and Sivan on one of their expeditions. After that, maybe I will take them on a trip to some of the spots that mother and father used to bring us when we were younger, with Naya and Nesimah...perhaps Quella. Both of you as well, if it is something you would be open to? It would hardly be the same, otherwise."

"Going back to my abdication, however. As I said, it is not something I intend to rush. I...am coming closer and closer to the conclusion that it is simply my time to take a step back, is all."

#[Sivel -drabble-] #Just figured I'd put the full explanation here #tl;dr? He feels like he doesn't have that much to offer Vasyri anymore #because he can't let go of the things he experienced back before he was killed #and he also feels like he's lost a lot of himself since becoming Luminary...or had to cover a lot of things up to make himself more #'appealing' #so yeah! that's why he wants to step down #he has a few others that he wants to talk to about it #Quella Nesimah and Naya for one group #and then Ania Cyrus and Sivan for the other #but after that he'll probably be starting to talk to the people he views as potential candidates to become his successor #so he can decide who he (and the others) feel would be best and start training them

[polish-nt-gifs]

I thought that he did it just once and accidencialy, but he did it TWICE. He definitely has a thing to Mbappe ass.

#skskksks #i can't with him #how ania feels about it i want to know #robert lewandowski #lewandowski #kylian mbappe #mbappé #polish nt #poland nt #poland national team #my gifs #world cup #wc 2022 #poland vs france

[in-your-walls]

Brother, Ania Ahlborn / Michal Solarski + Tomasz Liboska, Cut It Short (1990s)

#brother #brother ania ahlborn #Ania Ahlborn #* #photo #photograph #photography #ik this isn’t accurate but look it’s about the vibes.. #fic inspo

[arcxnumvitae]

"Deprive Iomhar of his 'PILFs', oh how will he survive." No she's not still bitter.

#{Dash Commentary #soulsxng #can we talk about the real travesty here? No Ania and Cyrus! ;_;

[serenofroses]

Ania x Darth Marr: [6/?]

sw:tor Nevrakis legacy.

#swtor #serenscarlett edits #oc: ania nevrakis #darth marr #ch: darth marr #otp ania x darth marr #dont mind me--just gushing about my lesbians

[feraecor]

"Relationships just seem a bit...out of reach."

#{Ania -thread-} #~just a smol comment cause she didnt know how to feel about that headcanon/drabble

[oceanics]

i’m choking on this quote from the tower of nero because Percy got his eyes from his father

#ania speaks #txt #i dont wanna say it but im THINKING IT. #trials of apollo #percy jackson #the wikia says something about his grandma but unless someone can give me a quote on that...

[ssuckitlosers]

I’ve never really talked about Hws Belarus much but I fucking should. I want her to have friends so badly man, gimme the magic quartet pleaseeee.

I love whenever she has friends outside of her immediate bubble, if that makes sense. Like when she has made her own friends, instead of just having the same social circle as her siblings.

And the Magic Quartet is probably my favourite friendship group for her, because she’s not really the type to actively try and make friends.

But she’ll preemptively go to all of their meeting because they’ve accidentally summoned her brother so many times that it’s easier this way.

Romania would quickly dub her as their official fourth member once they find out about her affinity for magic- regardless of if she agrees or not. And he’d primarily be the one to actively seek her out in the beginning and convince her to help fix their latest disastrous spell.

However, England would also actively engage her in conversation by passionately asking her questions about tarot, ect. He also brings nice tea and good snacks to their meetings which is a bonus.

Norway would also have interesting discussions with her about magic, but in a slightly calmer manner than the other two. I feel like those two would have pretty relax conversations and comfortable silences.

And eventually she’d realise that she really doesn’t mind their dumb meetings and that maybe she actually enjoys the trios company.

Honestly, I really just want to read a fic where she makes her own friends and tries to figure all that out/learn to accept people into her life and have people that genuinely like her for her.

#idk what happened here. I was originally gonna talk about how I really like en*land and b*larus being friends but I went on a tangent lmao #i genuinely have no idea what points i actually wanted to make 😂😂 alas #hetalia #hws belarus #hws magic trio #hws england #hws norway #hws romania #idk if ro*ania is very ooc in this post. honestly idk too much about him lowkey #also note that I think she’d also have chill convos with ar*hur but when its a topic he’s passionate about I feel like he’s a lil eccentric #she’d probably be like wtf at first but he’s endearingggg. and also supringly on board with curses ect #jusstadraft #sshutuploser #hetalia imagines

[nathanexplosionbignaturals]

26-28 ilya

26) Have they met any of their heroes? Did they regret it?

i don't think he really looks up to anyone at all until he meets dethklok to be honest... most of the people in his life before then were NOT good, he never saw them as role models and instead chose to only rely on himself. his good qualities (being somewhat overly polite, clean-cut professionalism, etc) were scared into him rather than things he picked up naturally. they've always been coping mechanisms more than anything else

27) Has a chance encounter ever had an unexpected effect on them?

i mean .... he became involved with dethklok purely by chance. i'd say that's effected him quite a bit

28) Are they a #gamer?

maybe not in the traditional sense, though he could easily be introduced to something easy and calming like harvest moon or animal crossing... he made up a lot of games as a kid to help distract ania from whatever horrible thing was going on with their family and the church. probably doesn't remember a lot of them. ania does though, after realizing the true purpose of them many years later- she treasures those memories a lot but would rather die than admit it

#asks #oc: ilya #oc: ania #<- need to talk about her more

[emiliosandozsequence]

omg i forgot i made a brother playlist

#i just added a bunch more stuff to it too since i'm gonna maybe write a fic while i wait for robyn to wake up #emilio.txt #(this is about the book brother by ania ahlborn btw)

[iamthepulta]

Okay re: that WIP ask game, I'm super intrigued by Shrug A Thing!!

I COMPLETELY forgot every single thing that I planned for this fic. I opened the doc, read my guide/summary, and spat my tea out.

And honestly, I think that describes what I had in mind better than anything I could say here now. xD

#The top bit; #That's a quote from tumblr somewhere. I can't remember if /I/ wrote it in response to someone or #I just had a MASSIVE brain-shaking awakening when I was driving home and listening to Hadestown for the 234th time. #I think it was a response to someone. xD I'd have to dig through the Hadestown tag to find it. #I got one page into writing it though #and the whole page is just talking about the mining processes of Hadestown and how Hades feels about it xD #Honestly though if I went back to writing Hadestown fanfic #I would double down on the mining because I realized that Anias Mitchell grew up in the Appalachia and /knows mining/. #and I really really really want to revisit Hadestown looking at it from the lens of a girl from appalachia #Like a bazillion things clicked into place when I realized that; she wrote a song about a 2002 mining disaster in 2019 #she KNOWS #the train??? oh god I could go OFF about the train.

[soulsxng]

Sivel, how do you feel about Ania getting three bingos on Aur's card???

(Mentiones @feraecor and @arcxnumvitae)

"Mm...? Why would I care about that? It is nothing more than a game, and she has never once expressed interest of that nature in Camhlaidh. Not to mention the fact that I feel as though a vast majority of these games are not particularly difficult to 'win'. I could likely win a...what was it called, a bingo?-- as well."

#[Sivel -threads-] #Sivel is over here just shrugging #he feels like Aur would mostly leave Ania alone anyway #once he found out who she was #(plus he trusts Ania to be able to handle herself when she's meeting people and making friends and all that) #(and to talk to him about that kind of stuff if she starts getting a weird feeling about it)

[astral-catastrophe]

I really like how I tell people I m not super interested in dating while I’m very much crushing on that one friend

#Ania you’re a real one for letting me talk about her earlier lol #Anyway you guys that friend of mine is just so pretty<3 #And she holds my hands bc I have cold hands and hers are warm <3 #I just wanna hang out with her 🥺

[ayakashibackstreet]

You are not immune to nosey aunties trying to dictate how you live your life and commenting on your life choices...........

#Christmas time sure is a thing #anyways you know how it is #the wishes I received from her were like 'may you be healthy and also have luck in love matters' #auntie I literally cannot tell you how lucky I am in those matters (<- ace aro and single and very very happy about it) #please stop #auntie please stop you yourself don't have children why do you say that I will yet 'change my mind' #anyways my grandma was valid here #she pointed out that there's at least one person who didn't have children in every generation of our family she can think of #and that there's at least one that didn't get married too (sometimes the two intersect sometimes they don't) #so that maybe I'm just keeping the family tradition alive lol #yes yes that's it I'm That Guy exactly #but GOD the gossiping about my dad's twin sister #who also didn't have married and doesn't have children and just doesn't seem to do dating #and about how they 'can't figure her out' and all #leave auntie Ania alone #anyways I'm growing old surrounded by rabbits and my friends and that's final #when my mum gets sad about grandchildren I'll just shove a bunny into her face #anyways I'm feeling like playing Touhou and I miss Miko so I think I'm gonna try to 1cc Ten Desires again #I'm way too rusty to do it just like that but hey #maybe easing back into playing Touhou with a game that's relatively easy and that I've beaten before is a good idea