Ballister in the opening scenes is so wound tight and so restrained, he puts up with Todd getting all in his space and is the one to hold Ambrosius back and just radiates control and holding himself up to outside standards. even his affection towards Ambrosius is small touches and Ambrosius coaxing him to open up.
and by the midpoint he's just loosened up so much even in the midst of a fight there's a relaxed confidence about him that he just didn't have before that I think comes partly from Nimona's influence and partly from the fact that he's already lost everything he was trying to hold onto with his control and he's already tried the controlled way of getting it back and that didn't work so he's letting himself go back to his core from being a kid that gatecrashed guard training to fight for what he wanted
and it just makes me think about Ambrosius, who is such an exuberant dork when it's just the two of them and prods at Ballister for being mopey/thinky, but who also definitely has some degree of understanding public/private face seeing how he is with the other knights and in the market scene but he's overall a lot freer with his actions.
After everything, will Ambroius look at the person Ballister is now and the person he was when they were together as knight-candidates, and have to think about how maybe that was the happiest Ballister could be under those circumstances but if they'd been knighted and got that conventional happily ever after, even when it was just the two of them and Ambrosius could drop the weight of public expectations, Ballister probably never would have been as confidently joyful as he has the potential to be and Ambrosius would never even have known what they were missing because Ballister had been holding himself in for so long that everybody (including probably Ballister himself) just assumed that restrained was part of his personality.
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I missed you. I love you. I’m sorry. I missed you. I love you. I’m sorry. I missed you. I love you. I’m sorry. I missed you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I
I’m so so sorry
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Oops, all words.
Do you like industrial espionage and coffeeshop aus lovers to enemies to lovers? Do you like Nimona but wish Bal and Ambrosius fit the above stated dynamic? Give my fic a try!
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So I know I have a million WIPs and I will get back to them eventually but I’ve been in a real writing slump and I have Nimona brain rot so I started a new fic cuz I have so many questions about the logistics of a fully isolated city. Where are they getting their food from if no one goes outside the wall? What about metals? Cloth?
The political structure that was established in the movie is so full of plot holes so I grabbed my plot spackle and I’m here to fill them. The fic is called The Blackheart Beats if your familar with my other works you’ll know this is going to be pretty much pure self indulgent worldbuilding.
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your honour their married and thats their child
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Go watch it!
Edit: It isn't a rickroll guys 😭 idk why some of you think that 😭
EDIT 2: THE YOUTUBE VIDEO WILL ONLY BE UP FOR A WEEK! WATCH IT AS SOON AS YOU CAN!
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One thing I want to point out about nimona is that it captures tenderness in such a visceral way that I haven’t really seen in 3D animation before? Like the way the characters curl into each other and melt makes me go INSANE
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I was gonna draw something more serious but sometimes u just gotta draw memes
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also the way that the nimona movie showed that hate is a taught behavior?? the way that gloreth, the hero worshipped for slaying monsters, was fully accepting of nimona until her mother told her what to believe? until that generational bigotry was passed down? the way the director’s motive wasn’t even power like most evil government figureheads in media, but rather a fear of monsters destroying the kingdom because that hate had been instilled in her too, like it had in gloreth? the way ballister was also indoctrinated into hatred of “monsters” until he was just as outcast as one? because only then was he willing to change and learn?? and how even people with good hearts and good intentions like ballister and ambriosius and even the queen herself are still capable of perpetuating bigotry and unnecessary violence when they don’t take the time to understand or learn about the “others” they supposedly hate????????? i need to lie down
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Hi! I am 4 days in and now I'm writing a coffee shop AU. A slippery slope, indeed.
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