#eru the real villain

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

#tolkien's legendarium #eru the real villain #tolkien #lord of the rings #silmarillion #lotr #jrr tolkien #fantasy #tolkien memes #lotr memes

[zweetpea]

Freedom or Anarchy? Part 1 of 2 (hopefully)

You guys wanted this you better read it cw: there’s some swears, and allusion to sleep drugs

The air was so crisp, the so grass vibrant, the sun was warm on your skin as you took in the scenery before you. The crystal blue of Starfell lake was gorgeous, and the fish were flipping about in the water; even the squirrels and Crains seemed at peace. Despite this lovely picture you were panicking.

“Heh, POV got sucked into your favorite video game and you don’t know if you’ll ever get home.” you shrug. “Guess I’ll die!” You walk over to a tree and pull on a branch. “I suppose that I should try to defend myself.”

As you say that three pyro slimes appear and chase you down the hill towards Venti’s Statue. “Hehehe, Why are you running? Why are you running?” You walk up to the statue and touch it, but nothing happens. “Wow! Honestly, I thought as a bard you would understand the mentality of “I F’ed my way into this mess, and I’ll F my way out”. Not gonna give me a vision, a shitty knock off of your power, a sword?” As you sat yelling at a lifeless statue (a/n: WTF WERE YOU THINKING? THAT IT WOULD TALK BACK?!) you heard something coming towards you. You looked to the sky and saw Dvalin flying straight toward you. “Oh shit…” You say as storm terror land next to you and rawrs in your face. “Haha, I’m in danger.” He brings his face towards you and you begin to shake  in fear. “Mr. Stark I don’t feel so good.” You whisper to yourself as tears of fear and regret stream down your face. 

Dvalin inches closer and you close your eyes only to feel something cold and wet on your face. You open your eyes only to close them again as Dvalin licks you. “Ew! Slobber!” He whimpered. You hold your hand out to pet the poor baby. “Oh it’s okay. Just let me clean up first.” You wipe off your face and go back to Dvalin. You go to pet him and a beautiful light shines from your fingers and flows through his fur. 

“Dvalin!” Someone called to him and he picked you with his tail and curled it around you so you’d be hidden and sage as he took to the sky. 

“Wait! Wasn’t that Venti? Don’t you like him?” He took to the sky and bounced you around unintentionally. 

After about 20 minutes you were finally released and found yourself in stormterrors lair. “What have you brought back?” A distorted voice echoed as a cryo abyss mage entered. 

“She is the special. She can heal me.” Dvalin responded. (A/n: do you guys remember that? Dvalin spoke) 

“You fool! Only the abyss Order can save you!” 

As the two fight you try to sneak away but you step on a twig and they look at you. Dvalin quickly pulls you by your hoodie back to his side. “I agreed to help you because the Archons abandoned me as they’ve abandoned you. I still will but it doesn’t seem like you all have found a way to cure me. I need to be at full strength to fight for you.” 

“Dvalin? I thought you liked Venti.” 

“Venti, is that what the barn calls himself now? I used to, I know that he cares for me but he didn’t ever try to help me. I have suffered for 500 years and he now shows his face. Khaenri’ah was destroyed simply because they chose to forsake the Archons. Why should we care for them?” 

You looked down, not knowing what to say. “How am I supposed to help?” You finally said.

“You can heal me.” 

“But if I do, you’ll hurt the innocent people of Mondstadt. Listen, the Tsarista is plotting a rebellion against Celestia. Celestia’s the real villain here.”

“Even so the Archons still chose to destroy Khaenri’ah.” 

“Then take it up with them, please. Those people have nothing to do with it. I’ll help you in anyway I can but please for their sake don’t hurt them. If not for them then for me.” 

“If it’s what the adored one desires then I shall deliver it unto you.” 

“What’s that supposed to mean?” You asked suspiciously. 

“Funny. Now heal him if you REALLY can!” The abyss mage, snarked from the corner. You climbed on top of Dvalin and put your hands on his horn. White light erupted and Dvalin’s head fell to the ground as he’d passed out. You fell off and the abyss mage ran out of the room screaming about how the day of reckoning was upon them or something. You fell asleep nuzzled into Dvalin’s side and dreamt of lots of yummy food. 

When you woke up you found a pyro abyss mage, and hydro abyss mage cooking some kind of fowl meat. Over a makeshift campfire. The pyro abyss mage brings it over to your and the hydro abyss mage hands you the food and some water. “Is this clean?” You ask the two and they nod.  You take the food and water and start to eat. “Thanks.” You say after you’re finished. 

“Dvalin. Do you want to head out somewhere?” 

“Where would you like to go, Adored one?” 

“Would you hate me if I said Dragonspine?” 

“If that’s what you wish.” He picks you up and flies you over there. 

You direct him to a cave in the side of the mountain. 

“Honey! I’m home!” You say as you saunter into the cave. “Albedo? I guess he’s not here.” You say as you turn to leave. 

“Incredible. Stormterror sitting right outside of my Laboratory.” He only roars at the blonde. 

“Sir Albedo?” You inquire as you step out of his lab. You pet Dvalin to put him at ease.

“Hello, may I help you?”

“Sorry I don’t mean to snoop in your lab, I was just wondering if you were here. I have a bit of a conundrum.” 

“You wish to go home.” 

“How did you-” 

“How did I know?” He cuts you off. “I’ll explain in due time. Please step into my laboratory, I’ll get you some tea. Word of advice though, it can get kinda cold out here so you might want to send Stormterror away before he gets cold.” 

Dvalin growled. “I’ll be fine. You can come get me later tonight okay?” He nodded and flew off. It was about noon so you figured that you had a while before the twins would steal the harp and try to take down Dvalin. 

“How did you manage to tame him?” Albedo asked, as you sat on a stool near a campfire. 

“I healed him somehow.” 

“So Gold’s stories were true.” 

“Rhinedottir knows about this?” 

“Yes, she’s the one who told me. Someone would come down from Celestia and they’d tame the beasts of Teyvat as well as the members of the Abyss Order.” He hands you the Tea and you drink it. 

“I still don’t understand how you knew I’m not from here.” 

“I just told you Gold told me you’re from Celestia. Unless of course, you aren’t.” 

“Dvalin referred to me as the Adored One. Do you know what that means?” 

“Adored throughout Teyvat and the realm above. You are the honored one no?” 

“I don’t… what…?” You started to get lightheaded. “Albedo?” You sloshed as you fell off your seat. 

“I’m sorry Adored One, but I have to put Klee first. Now that you’ve heeled Stormterror you’re a threat to the people of Mondstadt. I’m going to hand you over to the knights for terrorism and endangering the public.” 

#sagau #genshin impact x reader #genshin #albedo #dvalin #stormterror #genshin impact #genshin x reader #sagau cult au #genshin cult au #crack #pop culture #pop culture references #abyss #abyss order #abyss mage #genshin crack

[verecunda]

8, 9, 10!

Thanks! :D Sorry for the delay - weekend turned out busier than I expected.

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

I will die and decompose on the hill that Thingol doesn't deserve nearly the level of hate he gets in fandom. No, he is absolutely not a blameless cinnamon roll who did nothing wrong in his life, and like most of the characters who come to sticky ends, his downfall is partly spurred on by his own actions... but the hate seems disproportionate, especially when you consider that most of the fandom faves are routine mass-murderers. Yeah, I know, I know, "the war crimes are imaginary but my annoyance is real", but give the guy a break. He does actually try to learn from his mistakes, his relationship with Túrin is genuinely lovely, and he makes Dad jokes to put Nellas at her ease during the trial. He has lots of good qualities, too! And however insulting he was to the Dwarves, that's not exactly a great reason for them to turn round and straight-up murder him.

He's not even one of my top-tier faves, but geez, I see some takes on him that just have me sitting there like "um. what??"

9. worst part of canon

Of all the fandoms I consider myself in (or at least, hanging out on the fringes of), I will never, never forgive the writers of Hornblower for "Duty". What a horrible episode. Bleak, joyless, mean-spirited towards Bracegirdle and Styles in particular... ugh, I despise it.

10. worst part of fanon

ohohoho where to start? 😅 But tonight I'm going to say the blorbofication of Melkor. Forget the Ainulindalë, this is my villain origin story. Tolkien gives us this amazing villain, the personification of primordial evil, a fallen god full of arrogance and wrath and envy, who sows discord among the Elves so masterfully that they don't even know where it's originating - so masterfully even Fëanor, who hates him, still internalises his lies - who metes out the most horrific, calculated vengeance on Húrin, who even at the height of his evil is spiralling towards his downfall.

ALL THAT... and fandom goes "awww big dumb himbo king, totally useless, can't tell a lie to save himself, can't even tie his own shoelaces without Mairon there to help him" (often with an extra scoop of "Eru was sooo mean to him unu"). OH MY GOD I WANT TO BITE THINGS. I love Melkor, I love laughing at his Wile E. Coyote moments, I love that he genuinely trusts Sauron, there's so much going on with him, so why, dear God why, is he always reduced to this toothless, brainless chump?

...as you can see, I am completely normal and rational about this. 😅

🔥 choose violence ask game 🔥

#meme #fandom wankery #(for safety!)

[zhannelann03]

i thought i would be going towards the acceptance stage now, well it seems not yet.

at this point, i still think of Sunghyun (Eru's real name). day by day. i'm crying coz it still hurts. the pain & anger as well as sorrow are still here. the disappointment and regret that are still lingering on. it's still upsetting me. not only me but also the people around. you don't have any idea how that huge issue affected me a lot. i still can't understand why it had to happen. i mean, we were about to go to the most exciting part of his career. if that nightmare did not only happen, then we could FINALLY see his new side as a villain in a drama for the first time. and it was supposed to be his first MAIN role now! however... why did it happen?! WHYYYYY?! (oh yes, those feelings of yours are still valid also. it's okay to feel whatever you're feeling right now.)

the pressure was really too much for him that it must be tough to cope with things around. people have no idea how it was difficult for him to deal with his personal matters. he was never like that, and he didn't intend to do that on purpose. for sure, he was disappointed in himself too for what happened. maybe that thing and the timing was unexpectedly happened coincidentally. (gawd i can't even express this properly.. damn.) yes, what he did was definitely wrong, and a huge NO. but did we know the reasons behind?

then you would still see people talk about that shit again when the person already apologized & reflected on his mistakes, even though it wouldn't be erased in history. like what the FKKK?! they should be given some lessons too. like what Eun Seo Yeon said in "Vengeance of the Bride," "those who prosper with their words will also meet their downfall with their words." i hope the harsh words and hurtful thoughts that these people said will eat them alive. i hope bad karma will come to them as well. i mean, stfu.

January 2023 is like an extension of the 3rd week of December 2022, the time when the nightmare happened. the darkest era for him and for us. i honestly don't know what to expect for the next days as time goes by. it's still difficult for me to do SNS although i'm slowly keeping on going back like the usual. i don't know what to do. i may be thinking in advance but... i don't even know how i will celebrate the special days as they fall from July to September, and my special day in August as well. no year-end specials. parties no more... for now.

i'm already on a break for my postings on the fan account for the time being. however, everything is still triggering me. i'm trying to avoid encountering the negative energy. i'm also preparing myself for the future either. oh gawd, help me...

and for him, we hope to see any signs or a survival report someday. there people are still waiting for his comeback. just don't mind the negative comments and ignore them. better if he closes his comment section if ever he continues to be active on IG. just show them good action & performances as revenge to those who would like to drag him down, the bashers

anyway, i may be late but... happy new year. i hope you are all doing well & stay healthy.

#personal

[dreamyourselfxbackagain]

Look who just woke up- is that CHARLIE VICKERS? No, I must have been mistaken, that’s SAURON from LORD OF THE RINGS. I heard they are APPEARS 31 and stuck here just like everyone else. Even in the 20’s, he still give off a the road to hell is paved with good intentions, always wanting more, confidence that could kill, five steps ahead, the nightmare you tell your children about impression. But here, they are working as A POLITICIAN. They’re known to be quite CHARISMATIC & PATIENT, but have a tendency to be MANIPULATIVE & CRUEL on their bad days.

Gender/Pronouns : Male / he/him

How long have they been in Sydney : In his memories, 3 years. In reality, 2 months

Which suburb do they live in? Darling Point

Personality description : 

Strangers - he is a little cautious with strangers. He knows given his job people dislike him sometimes, but he won't try and be rude straight away. Often he will try and charm. He will definitely manipulate

Casual friends - He is still cautious, though a lot more relaxed. If he needs to manipulate them then he will, but for the most part he is at least pretending to just be a normal person

Loved ones - he has very few of those. Though he does try to be honest, more often it comes over as he can give them power, not always something they want.

Enemies - adding this one, because a lot of people aren't going to like him. He doesn't really care too much about that, if people need a villain he is happy to be it. If only because he knows now, no one really is going to listen to him.

Memories of their real life : 

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and once upon a time a Maia named Mairon did have good intentions. Created by Eru, he was good and uncorrupted. However he wanted order and perfection, and soon realised the quickest way to archive this was by working with Morgoth. To begin with, keeping this a secret so he could gain information but before the end of The Years of the Lamps, his true intentions were revealed. Mairon was no more, instead he became Sauron.

Throughout the First Age Morgoth unleashed terror onto Middle Earth, with Sauron doing his bidding. During one battle, he picked up an insignia off a dead man. However after a defeat, he all but vanished. Morgoth was defeated, and Adar claimed he had killed Sauron due to his cruelty to the orcs.

Perhaps the story would have ended there. Sauron had indeed survived, but now lived under a fake name Halbrand, claiming to be a man running from orc attacks. He wanted to repent for what he had done, but also knew very few would believe him. It may have worked, if Galadriel had not ended up on the same raft.

They ended up on Númenor, where she learnt the insignia he carried belonged to the King of the South. He told her the truth, that he had found it on a dead man, however she didn't believe him. Meanwhile he became a blacksmith, his intent was to remain in Númenor, a peaceful life. But Adar was in the Southlands, and the thirst for revenge soon became overpowering. However when they did return, Galadriel prevent him from getting his revenge, believing Adar could tell her where Sauron was.

Míriel informed the people there that he was their long lost King, and suddenly a feeling he hadn't had in a long time came back. Power. If they were willing to give it to him so easily, perhaps it would be enough. But then Orodruin erupted and he was gravely injured. Whilst he wanted to stay and fight for the Southlands, Galadriel realised he would die from his wounds, and they left.

In Ost-in-Edhil he said something, phrases she had heard Adar use about Sauron, and she finally realised Halbrand was Sauron. After a confrontation he left, returning to the Southlands.

What was their fake life like:

Born into a normal family, it didn't even occur to Sauron to want for power. He was planning to spend his time as anyone in the 1900's would. Except a war broke out.

Like many his age, he ended up serving and it gave him a hatred for how the world was if this was what could happen. There was also horrors he saw out there. In his eyes, the world needed to change and likely the current one would need to burn for that to happen.

On returning, he opted to go into politics, starting at the bottom and slowly working his way up. He wanted to make the world better.

But then his memories came back, and suddenly he had centuries of memories. Had he been wrong before? With getting his memories back at the same time Mairon's thoughts were strong again, as were the ones of wanting redemption. Yet hadn't his point been proven here as well? The world cannot change unless it is broker first.

Optional, please pick at least three and interpret them however you wish ::

Location they work in: Parliament House

Theme Song: Gonna Know My Name - Diamond Dust

Quote: You don't know what I did, you don't know how I survived

#thebridge: intro #Sauron | intro #tldr: he's set just after ROP so I'll probably redo graphic when more awake I just couldn't think of anything else for it #kind of in his wanting to repent for what happened in the First Age but also remembering what power feels like #and 100% he does not know what hobbits are

[otomelavenderhaze]

Seduce the Villain's Father is baaack.

Y'all gonna call me crazy, since they haven't really changed much about the character's desing after their 1/2(?) apart, I know I know, but god, Erudian looks so good with short hair 😳😳 and Yenni does looks older, also, the way she misses Eru I am like 🥺🥺 and Raulus calling Eru spiritually so he rushes to Yenni's side because she misses him so much 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Also when she thinks about what she really wants after have actually archived her initial goals (that was saving her sister's daughter and her sister's and then saving Eru by preventing his marriage with Elard) and the thing she thinks about is being with him 🥺🥺 because he knows the real her 🥺🥺🥺💕

Uuurgh, I missed it kkkkkk

I'm looking so forward for when they meet again.

#seduce the villain's father #personal #Eru looks so good like 🤤🤤🤤 #the short hair suits him so well #we have seen him with his hair pulled back and off his face and he looked handsome so I knew it we knew it #even so #I guess I was really expecting this part of the story too #so I'm excited about it #Raulus and Yenni are so cute too #he's so sweet with her kkkkk a real good doggo

[faustandfurious]

Eru is the real villain, literally everything bad that happens is his fault.

Blaming God is a cop-out in a world where free will exists

#anonymous elf #answered #silmarillion

[beautifulterriblequeen]

I keep thinking about Silmarillion, and I was wondering : what do you think of Fëanor ?

I don’t know exactly how it should be seen...

Ooh, Fëanor. Gosh, okay, let me change the channel in my brain.

Fëanor is, at heart, a Capitalist Inventor. He's Dark Tony Stark. He creates endless things for the world to use, but what truly drives him is the bone-deep belief that he and his chosen ones deserve his most prized possessions more than anyone else. And he's willing to kill anyone on both sides to get them back. He swears an oath to fight until he gets what he wants, and thus seals the doom of untold thousands he'll never even meet.

That's an antagonist. Which is not the same thing as a villain. But Fëanor is very much an experience to be survived - or not - rather than any kind of ally. Much of what he does in the Silmarillion is imbalanced, driven by emotions he doesn't seem willing or able to control. And because he's an elf among elves, and they all live a very very long time, the effects of his choices carry forward for thousands of years. This one dude got a lot of people killed, directly and indirectly, including his whole family. For an elf was supposed to love the stars, he wasn't very stellar. Our Man in Valinor was way more into fire.

The part that bothers me about his character - and this is a modern take looking back at JRR Tolkien and his world in the last millennium - is that Fëanor is born this way. He is flawed from birth, and he's just Like That, forever. No chance to change, no encouragement to be different, to be softer, to be better, to corral his spirit of fire into something more light than heat. He's just dangerous chaos from start to finish. He comes into the world sucking his mother's spirit dry so she dies, he lives his life disagreeing with everyone around him except his sons, and he goes out encouraging those sons to hold to their unholy oath to retrieve the Silmarils or die trying. Which they do - the "die trying" part, anyway.

He's a piece of work.

He was also a brilliant, god-tier craftsman. I guess that's what happens when you study under the Vala Aulë himself, who literally shaped the physical world into existence.

He created the Silmarils, capturing the combined light of the Two Trees into three brilliant gemstones in a way no one ever did before or since.

He crafted the palantíri, which not even Sauron could replicate later.

He invented Tengwar script, which is the swirly elven writing we all associate with Middle-Earth.

He crafted the mysterious Feanorian lamps, which are crystals that emit blue light and cannot be doused.

He was constantly thinking up new ideas and crafting them. Eru only knows what he made that has been lost. You'll notice none of these things he made are swords. Yet he led an attack against the Teleri on his way out of Valinor, and the Teleri defended themselves, so I kind of assume he was also a weaponsmith, trying out new ideas in metal form if nothing else.

Brilliant and misguided, a flawed juggernaut, destined to drag the entire world and countless lives off course. The earlier these characters show up in the timeline, the more destructive chaos they end up causing.

I do not like Fëanor. He's a White Guy, doing as he pleases with no thought for the consequences, to himself, to those of his family he actually likes, or to anyone else. He holds enough privilege and power that people keep following him into disaster, and then he just goes and does it again, without learning a damn thing from his imbalanced approach. He even dies thinking he did nothing wrong ever in his life. Like... Bitch.

Having power is no guarantee that you deserve power, and Fëanor is a prime example of why.

This has nothing to do with the objects he made. Those are just tools, free to be taken and used for good or evil, as the palantíri were, and as every message ever written in Tengwar was. Would the world have been better off without the Silmarils at all, or the palantíri? Would a different language script have somehow altered the world for the better? Since it's fiction, we could just decide that Yes, Yes It Would, or No Actually Not.

What's not fictional is my distaste for presumptuous assholes with a bit of power but no self-awareness, because I've already met too many of them who weren't fictional, either.

You want my unvarnished opinion of Fëanor? He's a billionaire. And I'm glad he got eaten. It wasn't nearly soon enough.

Eat your billionaires before they get all crusty, kids. They taste best fresh and plump. Nom nom.

Still here? Oh, then it's time to compare Fëanor to TDP! Because as much as I despise him, he makes for excellent storytelling angst and conflict, and vicarious conflict is how we learn to avoid it in our real lives - if we're paying attention.

I've said before that I'd like to see some kind of Oath of Fëanor effect in TDP. The absolute horror at seeing good characters get yoinked into bad deeds just because they promised? Ahahaha, horrible, thank you, I'll have some more. If the Moonshadow assassins have something like that behind those creepy binding ribbons, I'm gonna be cackling in between my tears, fam.

But Fëanor himself? Oh, do you see, that's Aaravos! He's even got that craftsman side, since he made the relic staff, and boy is it swirly.

(Does that make Ethari a Celebrimbor type, separating himself from the dark deeds of his forebears yet still massively talented, creating amazing magical devices?)

Aaravos is the main villain of TDP, as far as we've been told. He's crafty, in both senses of the word. Did he have some angsty complex family life with half-siblings and a mother who died because she birthed him? Maybe. Stars can be born from the detritus of other stars that exploded and died, so there's a sciencey metaphor there already.

Of interest: Fëanor had seven sons, and the world of TDP has seven kinds of magic. Aaravos created at least one of them. Did he create primal magics too, from the deep magic that came before? Might there be some kind of oath involved there, with the first elves to wield differentiated magic?

How about those primal stones that look like palantíri? How many of those did Aaravos craft? Can he use one from his library to spy on people who have them or something? That would mean he could already know a ton about Viren even before he came to the Storm Spire and stole the mirror. Woah.

What about a Silmaril equivalent? Are there especially glorious magical gemstones in Xadia? Did Aaravos wear them in his crown and now he's mister Grumpy Glam without them?

Did he create the original runes that diverged into all the elven languages? With his sloppy handwriting? Heh, the other elves must've been very patient.

You know... Aaravos has been called a Promethean figure, gifting humans with knowledge and skill they didn't have. But that gift was the gift of fire. A tool. A tool employed by craftsmen.

Fëanor literally means "Spirit of Fire."

In the end, Fëanor was consumed by his own spirit. He never learned to vibe with it, and it destroyed him and many others. Sounds a lot like dark magic.

Maybe the real Oath of Fëanor in TDP is one you have to speak backwards.

#asks #Fëanor #tdp #tdp speculation #silm #oath of feanor #just fantasy things #aaravos

[absynthe--minded]

opinions on the recent russingon meta? tbh i love russingon, i love black fingon headcanons, but i do agree that it's a little weird when fingon gets totally sidelined in fics as just Maedhros' Emotional Growth or the Black Nanny. i mean, russingon really lends itself to hurt/comfort, which is fine, but i think ppl sometimes neglect fingon's arc. thoughts as a russingon writer? (no accusations, love your work, but wanted your perspective on other ppls russingon works)

(Wow this got long, lol.

Full disclosure - I haven’t read the recent Russingon meta, or offered any substantial response to it. Quite a lot of people I know have, but I’ve not had the time and my brain hasn’t been cooperating with me to read large chunks of text over the last couple of days. I have opinions on your ask as I’m seeing it now, and that’s what I’ll be responding to. I’m also not black, though I’m not white either - my ethnic group is one that has troubling stereotypes associated with it of caring for white people/acting as sage dispensers of advice/etc, but I can’t speak to the breadth and depth of the black experience when it comes to being a ‘black nanny’ in fiction, and I’m not going to try to.)

So, Fingon being a cardboard cutout/emotional support animal for Maedhros and Fingon being perceived as black by large portions of the fandom are two things that arose completely independently of one another. Fingon being Maedhros’s support animal is a trope as old as Russingon itself, and possibly is as old as the published Silm itself. I’ve read Russingon fics that were almost as old as I am, Russingon fics published last week, Russingon fics that vilified the Nolofinwëans, and Russingon fics from the turn of the 21st century when the Fëanorians were seen as uncomplicated villains. Fingon being a cardboard cutout is ubiquitous through all of them. It doesn’t matter how old the fic is, it’s basically guaranteed.

The reason for this is that Maedhros is far and away the most popular character in the Silmarillion, and his pain and angst and mental strife and trauma are front and center in many writers’ lists of priorities. If it’s not Fingon propping him up, it’s Maglor, or another brother, or an OC - this is a very common genre of Silm fic and it’s not limited to Russingon.

But.

This is my least favorite Russingon trope and it’s the entire reason I’m writing Blessed Hands and why all my Russingon fics are at least majority-Fingon POV. I can’t fucking stand it, and it completely kills my interest in a story. I’m super picky with my Russingon fics because of this trope, and because of its ubiquity, and I’ve talked about it on my blog many times before. For me to love a Russingon fic, it has to be about how they anchor and support one another, and how their mutual and equal investment in their relationship is the foundation of their lives. This trope’s not nearly as common as it used to be, thank Eru, but it’s still around, and I cannot talk enough about how I Hate It, lol. It’s also old enough and omnipresent enough that the majority of fics feature it, and - interestingly - the majority of fics also feature white Fingon.

Alongside this, Black Fingon arose out of a non-Russingon intracommunity discussion among the artists of the Silm fandom, in about 2013. I saw this play out in real time on my dash, and so while I can’t source posts reliably, I can promise this is as accurate as I can make it.

The paradigm shift came as a result of content creators realizing that several of their number weren’t white, and quite a few people in the fandom weren’t white, and yet 100% of art and fics featured white elves with zero real diversity (and a number of very troubling, somewhat stereotypical older illustrations of Men as the only significant examples of people of color in Middle-Earth). There was concern as to why this was being accepted as the norm when there was ample opportunity for representing both one’s own ethnicity and other people of color (and a lot of concern about unexamined racism in white artists who found themselves unable, for various reasons, to picture heroic elves as anything but fair-skinned) and the general consensus was that we had more consistent information from HoME draft to HoME draft about hair color than skin tone, so why were we all picturing our heroes as white?

Fingon in particular was headcanoned as black due to a discovery by a fan (whose URL escapes me, sadly) who I’m certain was black themself. There’s a passage in The Peoples of Middle-Earth describing Fingon as wearing his hair in plaits braided through with gold, and this fan made the comparison to hairstyles worn by IRL black people. The idea was that he was the most uncomplicatedly brave, heroic, and noble person in the Silm, and look, he could be a man of color! There was also a sort of gentleman’s agreement to refrain from making explicit connections beyond that to real human ethnic groups/cultures/races. The logic behind this was that if the generic Eurofantasy aesthetic was kept, white artists would be encouraged to draw diverse elves without concern for cultural appropriation, as well as steering racists away from caricature and the ability to twist a well-meaning effort into a stereotypical attack.

When these ideas first emerged, there was a lot of resistance. Arguments were made that those of us who advocated for diverse elves and specifically black Fingon were discreetly accusing other artists of being racist, or were acting purposefully holier-than-thou, or just wanted to start drama. There were some people who claimed we’d attack anyone who didn’t agree with us that elves were brown. This was an exhausting mess to deal with and it was a major part of my disillusionment with discussing racism in the Tolkien fandom - the majority of voices were reasonable people but the minority was loud and obnoxious. I bring this up to say that diverse elves were genuinely progressive and forward-looking in 2013, even when it was more or less explicitly stated that they had no real ties to existing human races and they had no change to their characters.

Black Fingon, agreed upon outside the Russingon fandom, and Fingon the cardboard cutout, the most reliably present version of Fingon in Russingon fic, sort of ran into one another. No real change was ever made to Finno’s character upon making him black - this would have been seen at the time as unnecessary because his character was just fine as-is, and the whole point was that he could be exactly as he’d been before and be black or brown, that men of color had the exact same range of emotion and depth of character that he did when he was perceived as white. 

The problem is that there hasn’t been much examination of the idea that Fingon being a black man who exists to prop up a white man is uh. Really racist and kind of fraught.

All I have to say really is that this wasn’t a conscious decision by anyone to be racist - the opposite, actually. As I mentioned above I can’t speak for black people, or for other BIPOC, but my opinion is that it’s an unfortunate and unconscious choice that has nothing to do with Fingon’s race and everything to do with the fact that his character has been seriously neglected for decades now. It opens the door to a lot of really frustrating tropes and plotlines that smack fans of color in the face with how bigoted they are, and it’s something that I’m glad is being discussed, if only because I’ve been trying to push for a reevaluation of Fingon’s personality and general role for a long time now (though of course I’m also glad that this is actually getting acknowledged as a harmful thing real people now are at risk of doing).

My solution? Same as ever - “write Fingon like a real person with interests and desires and goals of his own, and treat his family like they matter, and flesh out the world he lives in. Listen to people of color if you’re white, educate yourself regardless, and learn to avoid harmful tropes.” If that becomes the fandom norm? I’ll be a happy Absynthe.

#replies #anon replies #RUSSINGON #absynthe's meta

[forerussake]

How the Fëanorians deal with loss

Fëanor fights it. He refuses to acknowledge it, because acknowledging it makes it real, and it isn’t. He runs away from it and charges at it with equal ferocity. His mother might be gone, but Fëanor will never lose her as long as he keeps her memory alive. His father might’ve died, but Fëanor will never lose him as long as he himself still lives, because he is his father’s mirror image. Fëanor fights loss at every turn, because it is the thing he’s most afraid of and as long as he keeps fighting, it will never drag him down. He dies, but it doesn’t matter, for he has left his mark on the world. His body will be gone, but his legacy will never be lost. Being alive in people’s memories is the only life worth living.

Maedhros accepts it. He hates the feeling of loss with a passion, but it has become a part of him. As if to make up for the loss of his hand. He carries that pain with him wherever he goes. The guilt, the gut-wrenching nausea of knowing that everyone he’s ever loved will die eventually, because they’re all cursed, lays heavy on his spirit. Sometimes it becomes too much to bear, and he rages, and curses the world and the Valar and Eru himself, and he screams until his throat goes numb. And he moves on. Because it doesn’t change a thing. He could run away from it all he likes, but it doesn’t bring his loved ones back, and it doesn’t help protect the ones still left alive. Loss is a part of Maedhros as much as his visible scars are.

Maglor ignores it. He goes through the motions of life and acts like he’s unbothered. He smiles, but the smile never reaches his eyes. He keeps silent and moves on with a grace none of his brothers can muster, not even Maedhros. But inside he’s cold. He’s angry, broken, scared. He will never admit any of that to anyone, so his opponents on the battlefield are the ones who bear the brunt of his inner turmoil. They, and his harp. During the day he plays what is expected of him. The ballads, the great songs of glorious battles, of heroes and villains, life and death. He leaves his loss for the nights. At night he cracks, his mask of cold grace breaks away. At night he plays his best pieces. The laments he plays into the early hours of the morning to relieve the unbearable ache in his heart. They never really do, so Maglor goes silent and moves on.

Celegorm rages at it. He screams and curses and fights anyone who gets in his way. People learn to stay out of his way. Even his brothers. He hates it when people try to comfort him. He doesn’t need comfort. He isn’t sad. He’s angry and needs something to work his anger out on. Celegorm is always angry. He hides it well most of the time, but sometimes he explodes. When he does he gets himself out of people’s ways. He goes out into the wild on his own and doesn’t return for days on end. When he finally does return his hair is a mess, twigs and mud everywhere, his clothes are torn and dirty, he doesn’t speak for a while. Whether that is because he doesn’t want to or because he has forgotten how to is anyone’s guess. Sometimes he’s gone for weeks instead, but none of his brothers ever worry. It’s just how he is. Celegorm loses, gets lost, then finds his way home.

Caranthir laughs at it. He scoffs and turns his back. He will not let it hold him down. He has better things to do with his time than mourn. Taxes don’t collect themselves; treaties need the signatures of both parties; trade requires the same. Unlike those, life doesn’t bargain. It’s really quite simple and refreshing. Life only pays and collects what’s due. So he smiles his brilliant smile, collects his payment, pays in kind, and moves along. He’s called the dark and has a temper to match, but never because of anything he’s lost. His sense of humour is the best of all his brothers. He can laugh at anything. Even his own misfortune. He laughs and gets dressed in his impeccably cleaned and pressed, expensive clothing, and moves along to sign another treaty. If occasionally Caranthir does show up to the council table with dark rings under his red-rimmed eyes then no one bats an eye.

Curufin uses it. His loss is but a thing that makes him stronger. He grows with it and lets it teach him what it will. His pain is but a momentary thing. An annoying ache that leaves him hollow for a while, and then takes him to heights as yet unknown. He thinks he’ll fall, sometimes. He thinks a time will come when he has climbed so high the only way is down. But until then he’ll use his losses as the stepping stones that lead him to the top. Even if every single of those steps tears at his heart, cries out for him to stop. You’re hurting me. Forget me not. Please stay! He moves along, and every time a silent tear escapes that he can’t stop, he takes it and he crafts it into something else. A thing of beauty, a necklace or a bracelet, or a dagger with sharp edges he can stab into the backs of anyone who gets in his way on his silent stairwell to the top. Curufin’s loss makes him stronger. He does not forget, but he cannot stay.

The twins are loss personified. One is already lost, the other remains behind to feel the loss forever. 

Nerdanel cries. She cries when she first loses them, and then each time she feels that aching hole within her soul grow larger. She cries each time she feels that one of them is gone for real.

#feanorians #tolkien #silmarillion #hc #feanope #maedhros #maglor #celegorm #caranthir #curufin #amrod and amras #nerdanel #my stuff

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

#another victim of Eru Ilúvatar #Eru the REAL villain #silmarillion #tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr rop #lotr #lotr trop #fantasy #the hobbit #jrr tolkien

[souleater]

hello, i read yubisaki to renren bc i saw you reblog it and i really liked it, so i wanted to ask if you have any other manga/manhwa recommendations? i also enjoy positively yours so i think we have similar tastes! thank you!

im glad you like them!! i’m not sure if there is anything specifically you are looking for but i’ll recommend some stuff that i feel are good but you can message me again if you have a more specific you want to read

Our Relationship Is/ Something About Us: is something I always recommend

A Business Proposal/ Office Blind Date: this one is silly but the art is nice and everyone is good looking

Bunny and Her Boys: despite being a reverse harem it’s so realistic sometimes it hurts

Miss Time: not many chapters out but still cute

Tsuki no Oki ni Mesu mama: this isn’t much like the others but I won’t stop recommending it because it’s silly and cute

1/24 Romance/ One Hour of Romance: Dojin is cute enough said

Love Your Enemies/ To Love Your Enemies: the main couple is cute

The Girl and The Geek: ideal gamer husband?

Takane no Ran-san: is super sweet and reminds me of Kimi ni Todoke

Seduce the Villain’s Father: the art is pretty, the characters are great and Eru is there so...

Once More: the ML is pretty sweet and patient

Honnou Switch: nsfw? but the couple is sweet

She’s My Type: I really like the main character she’s just trying her best

I Hear the Sunspot: it hurts

The Omniscient Point of View of an Unrequited Love: people communicate lol

Koimonogatari: it hurts

Tsun-Ama na Kareshi: super sweeeeet

Short Cake Cake: by the same author of Yubisaki to Renren and it made me cry

You Got Me, Sempai: captures the melodrama of a real teen romance pretty well

Touch Your Heart: only a few chapters out but it has a drama and I like it so far

Inso’s Law: also read this webnovel because i haven’t been the same since Jiho

I have more suggestions depending on tone or genre or age group but I think these are sort of in the same sphere

#if this is more than you wanted sorry i have mental illness #Anonymous #recs

[thebladeblaster]

Vanguard If Episode 10 reaction

Card game anime logic

He says it as if Aichi’s just goofing off with the Cardfight club😂.

Holy crap! Eru actually has powers in this altered time line!?

OH MY GOD!!!! The original anime existed confirmed? I’m pretty sure V series Eru didn’t fight Leon yet we saw a flash of it (a fight that happened in the original). So is the original actually still canon?

If breaks the fourth wall again😂.

Blaster Blade looks like a giant here.

Okay theory time! Eru mentioned a third set which may be the original Vanguard. When Shuka says the world’s are sacrificed I think she means rewriting them (essentially sacrificing them). Maybe, Shuka or someone or something else with a similar power rewrote the original timeline creating V series. I believe whoever that is (Shuka or someone else) is the true final antagonist of If. I don’t remember if I mentioned this but I don’t think Aichi is the final antagonist. I think he’s just being manipulated or controlled by the real final big bad. It would make sense considering he seems to be a victim of the distortions. And I highly doubt he’s behind the jammers. For the supposed boss he hasn’t really done much which makes me a bit suspicious. One thing, I think will happen at some point is that they will fix Aichi and he’ll join their party or help them out Tuxedo Mask style (like Ren). I think it would probably be around the halfway point though I don’t know how many episodes If will have. I think they’ll beat Aichi then everything will seemingly be over and then the true villain reveals themselves. (It may be Shuka pulling a Vector 😂)

Looks like we’re seeing some G and Shinemon characters next episode. I was never really asking to know how Vanguar-ou was created but okay.

So, it looks like their teaming up with Ren in the next episode. I’m surprised they are pulling out Majesty Lord Blaster already. I thought that they’d save that for the Aichi fight.

#cardfight vanguard #vanguard if #v series #emi sendou #shuka #kouji ibuki #suiko tatsunagi #eru #blaster blade #theory #shuka is shady af #blaster dark #my reaction #ryuzu myojin #kanzaki #vanguarou #aichi sendou #leon soryu

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

Daenerys Targaryen & Varda Elentári

This post is more for my own pleasure than anything, as someone who loves both Dany and Varda. It basically sums up the similarities and/or parallels that I see between the two characters. Anyone else who has anything to add is free to do so.

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Known as the Queen of the Stars and the Star-Kindler, among other titles, Varda is the queen of all of Arda, a planet of the universe Eä created by Eru, the Creator and All-Father, which the Valar and many of the Ainur inhabit. She is the wife of Manwë and considered one of the most powerful beings in the entirety of the Tolkien universe. Varda is intensely beloved by the elves especially due to the fact that she created the stars. It’s said that she’s so beautiful that she can’t be described in words, and that the light of Eru shines from her face.

Not much is known about Varda personally, as the direct appearances that she makes in Tolkien’s works are few. Off the top of my head, I can only recall her being mentioned in person in The Unfinished Tales and The Silmarillion. In all other instances, she is only prayed to, but one can get a pretty good understanding of just how revered she is.

The following is a Sindarin poem directed to Varda, A Elbereth Gilthoniel, by the elves, which they were heard by Frodo saying as they departed to the Undying lands.

Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear! O Queen beyond the Western Seas!  O Light to us that wander here  Amid the world of woven trees! 

Gilthoniel! O Elbereth! Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath! Snow-white! Snow-white! We sing to thee In a far land beyond the Sea. 

O stars that in the Sunless Year With shining hand by her were sawn, In windy fields now bright and clear We see your silver blossom blown! 

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees, Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

—The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring

With a basic idea of who Varda is, let’s get into the similarities between the two. Some of these are likely just a coincidence, but I find it fun to explore anyway. 

Beautiful

This one is the shallowest, and the easiest to draw comparisons when it comes to the two characters. Varda is said to be unbelievably beautiful:

With Manwë dwells Varda, Lady of the Stars, who knows all the regions of Eä. Too great is her beauty to be declared in the words of Men or of Elves; for the light of Ilúvatar lives still in her face.

—The Silmarillion, Valaquenta

Dany, too, is extremely beautiful, described as some to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

Her silver shied as the merchant prince Xaro Xhoan Daxos rode up to her; the horses could not abide the close presence of camels, she had found. "If you see here anything that you would desire, O most beautiful of women, you have only to speak and it is yours," Xaro called down from his ornate horned saddle. 

—A Clash of Kings, Daenerys II

The most beautiful woman in the world, thought Quentyn. My bride-to-be, if the gods are good. Sometimes at night he lay awake imagining her face and form, and wondering why such a woman would ever want to marry him, of all the princes in the world. I am Dorne, he told himself. She will want Dorne.

—A Dance with Dragons, The Merchant’s Man

Granted, many times, people are trying to flatter Daenerys when calling her that. Nevertheless, Valyrians are known for their otherworldly beauty, and Dany is also undoubtedly beautiful. 

Good judges of character

I can confidently say that Varda is also probably quite a good judge of character. Before any of the other Ainur, she was able to see the darkness of Melkor, a Satan-like figure in the Tolkien mythos who was once the most powerful Vala but rebelled against Eru out of pride and became Morgoth. Thus, Varda distrusted Melkor, rejected an offer that he made to her, and Melkor was said to see her as his greatest rival. 

Out of the deeps of Eä she came to the aid of Manwë; for Melkor she knew from before the making of the Music and rejected him, and he hated her, and feared her more than all others whom Eru made.

—The Silmarillion, Valaquenta

This is pretty impressive, considering that it’s possible that at the time referenced, when Varda “knew” Melkor, even Melkor didn’t know that he was heading down a path of evil. Yet Varda could see the darkness inside him. Besides, Melkor is said to be very good at deception, so the fact that Varda could see through this is a testament to her skill in gauging other people. 

Dany is also a good judge of character. At just thirteen, she’s able to see through much of Illyrio’s flattery and lies when her significantly older brother Viserys was unable to:

"They are your people, and they love you well," Magister Illyrio said amiably. "In holdfasts all across the realm, men lift secret toasts to your health while women sew dragon banners and hide them against the day of your return from across the water." He gave a massive shrug. "Or so my agents tell me."

Dany had no agents, no way of knowing what anyone was doing or thinking across the narrow sea, but she mistrusted Illyrio's sweet words as she mistrusted everything about Illyrio. Her brother was nodding eagerly, however. "I shall kill the Usurper myself," he promised, who had never killed anyone, "as he killed my brother Rhaegar. And Lannister too, the Kingslayer, for what he did to my father."

—A Game of Thrones, Daenerys I

She’s also aware that people are much more treacherous than depicted in the books she reads:

"I'm cold," Dany lied. "Bring me the book I was reading last night." She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and other places. The fat leather-bound volume was full of songs and stories from the Seven Kingdoms. Children's stories, if truth be told; too simple and fanciful to be true history. All the heroes were tall and handsome, and you could tell the traitors by their shifty eyes. Yet she loved them all the same. Last night she had been reading of the three princesses in the red tower, locked away by the king for the crime of being beautiful.

—A Storm of Swords, Daenerys VI

Opposition to evil

Significantly, Varda’s realm of power is the light:

With Manwë dwells Varda, Lady of the Stars, who knows all the regions of Eä. Too great is her beauty to be declared in the words of Men or of Elves; for the light of Ilúvatar lives still in her face. In light is her power and her joy.

—The Silmarillion, Valaquenta

Other titles for Varda, besides Queen of the Stars, include Snow-White, Lady of the Stars, and Star-Kindler. There’s an obvious association with light here, especially because stars are the most beloved form of light by the elves, not to mention the earliest sources of light in Arda. 

Melkor, meanwhile, being the overarching villain of the entire Tolkien universe, is associated heavily with darkness. 

Last of all is set the name of Melkor, He who arises in Might. But that name he has forfeited; and the Noldor, who among the Elves suffered most from his malice, will not utter it, and they name him Morgoth, the Dark Enemy of the World.

—The Silmarillion, Valaquenta

Other titles for Melkor include The Black Foe, The Corrupter, The Marrer, The First Dark Lord, and Lord of the Dark. It’s pretty glaringly obvious how strongly Tolkien meant for us to picture him as being the embodiment of darkness. 

This places the quite literally brilliant Varda in direct opposition with him in terms of their elements. In other words, she is heavily associated with and symbolizes something that is the very antithesis of everything the main evil of Tolkien’s works is associated with. 

Just like Varda is heavily associated with light, Dany is heavily associated with fire. It is the element of her house, but beyond that, it’s a personal element for her.

They filled her bath with hot water brought up from the kitchen and scented it with fragrant oils. The girl pulled the rough cotton tunic over Dany's head and helped her into the tub. The water was scalding hot, but Daenerys did not flinch or cry out. She liked the heat. It made her feel clean. Besides, her brother had often told her that it was never too hot for a Targaryen. "Ours is the house of the dragon," he would say. "The fire is in our blood."

—A Game of Thrones, Daenerys I

No, she wanted to shout to him, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE? With a belch of flame and smoke that reached thirty feet into the sky, the pyre collapsed and came down around her. Unafraid, Dany stepped forward into the firestorm, calling to her children.

—A Game of Thrones, Daenerys X

Ten thousand slaves lifted bloodstained hands as she raced by on her silver, riding like the wind. "Mother!" they cried. "Mother, mother!" They were reaching for her, touching her, tugging at her cloak, the hem of her skirt, her foot, her leg, her breast. They wanted her, needed her, the fire, the life, and Dany gasped and opened her arms to give herself to them...

—A Clash of Kings, Daenerys IV

Especially in the above quote, Daenerys is the embodiment of the fire, as acknowledged when she gives “herself” to the slaves that need “the fire”. In addition, fire as life is an ongoing theme in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. It’s shown above in the quote by “the fire, the life”. And the force in direct opposition to the fire is the ice, the cold, the death, which also stands for the undead, who are the main antagonists of the series. 

The real enemy is the cold.

—A Game of Thrones, Prologue

Similarly to how Varda, light, symbolically stands in opposition to Melkor, darkness, Daenerys stands in opposition to the Others, death, thanks to her association with fire, life. Their positions as important, central figures of goodness and hope are expressed through their association to certain elements which contrasts them directly with the elements that the great evils of their respective series are associated with. 

#daenerys targaryen #varda elentári #asoiaf meta #tolkien meta #a song of ice and fire #tolkien #tolkien and asoiaf parallels #asoiaf quotes #tolkien quotes #my asoiaf meta #my tolkien meta

[nurantarenendurath]

Villains

Angbang!

I’m quite sure, that everyone who has been in the Silmarillion fandom for a long time knows about Angbang.

If not: It is this cute little ship of Melkor aka Morgoth and Mairon aka Sauron.

And it is basically the most precious thing in the world

#protectangbang

But everyone, who has never heard of it would be like: “Wait aren’t they the bad guys?”

And this person would be absolutely right.

As much as I love Angbang I still have to admit, that there is no doubt that Melkor and Mairon are the bad guys, the villains.

The chaotic evil as some might say.

They kill countless people, they torture and curse, they burn and kidnap and are basically terrible beings in general.

Jet this is not my point. There is this quote that goes like: “No matter how good of a person you are, you are evil in someones story.”

This leads me to my maybe unpopular opinion.

Melkor as well as Mairon have a certain drive and motivation, that in their minds justifies what they are doing.

The problem is to find this motivation, since the Silmarillion is written in a form, that allows very view detailed looks at characters. Espacially when they are “villain” characters.

The only thing we get is the little quote from the Ainulindale.

It is explained, that Melkor used to wander into the darkness and began forming thoughts on his own, thus leading to his uprising song in the music of the Ainur.

His goal was to create something he himself could rule over. Something entirely made by himself.

But Eru prevents this and even scolds him for his action.

Now why would you opress creativity I wonder?

Thats possibly something Melkor thought too. And so he started to fight against the Valar and Eru, to gain his right to rule.

Some joined him. Mairon for example was a Maiar of Aule and may have had some ideas of his own but couldn’t express them and therefore decided to join Melkor, with whom he could be free.

I know that sounds kind of like fanfiction, but from my point of view there are no straight up evil and straight up bad characters. Everyone has their own reasoning for their actions.

Melkor and Mairon have theirs too. Their reasons might be difficult to understand and maybe even a little dark but for them, they are right.

The right actions for the right reasons

They might be the villains for a major part of the world, but for themselves (And for each other (Angbang is real)) they are heroes.

#Angbang #Silmraillion #Melkor #Sauron #Mairon #villains #Valar #eru #ainulindale #ranting #stuff

[otomelavenderhaze]

Now it’s time to talk about Chapter 41 of “Seduce the villain’s father light”, because I swear, Yenni and Eru nearly made me cry on that chapter, because it was so cute, so SOFT, so much angst too, he was so worried about her and I need to share how much that chapter got me. 

Can we talk about how Yenni straight up spill the beans and tell Erudian that her condition is due something that Elard did to her? CAN WE? Can we talk about how Erudian, that never saw any real evidence that Elard is a powerful dark magician, believed Yenni in a heart beat because he knows that she would never NEVER lie to him about something that important? 

Can we?????;; 

It’s all because he took his time to know her, bond with her and create a trust, he’s always analyzing her, learning about her and that’s why that trust feels so well earned. 

After reading that chapter 3 times, stopping to absorb every panel, every detail, I couldn’t even speak about it until I had processed everything, until I went back to the whole thing again, since the first chapter until the last one and, yep, I still love it, I still find Erudian handsome and love his and Yenni chemistry and dynamics. 

And I have been saying this for months, BUT HE’S SO IN LOVE WITH HER!!! And he thinks that she don’t quite love him D: and it broke my heart, because he’s kinda right kkkkk just kinda, because she really deeply cares for him and actually see him that way as well, however, I can see why he refuses to see it. 

Belgoat indeed is the worst place for Yennifer’s body and he don’t know yet, that he’s actually the reason why she won’t eventually die (that he’s actually the key for her cure in a long-term), he just see how much hurted she is for being in Belgoat, not how he was key for her survival and will be (not only because of his divine powers, but because of Raulus). 

He just really hates seeing her hurted and suffering G-G he thinks that her place is not in Belgoat with him, because despite his feelings, he just want to protect her and what is best for her G-G and when he learns that the best for her is indeed to be with him, not because of her healthy issues, but because she really loves him, HE WILL MELT SO MUCH. 

And Jelly!Erudian is so cute too, he’s normally so stoic and cold, but when he feels insecure or jealous he becomes so flustered!! For me this is one of the biggest “He fell for her” signals, if not the biggest of them all, because he’s trying so hard not to and keep his feelings for her in check, but jealous is the feeling that sparks on him so spontaneously; it’s something that happens without his control, without him knowing how to keep in the check because it’s a way to be attached!!

And Yenni is really so worried about him marrying Elard, worried about him getting fooled by Elard while she is unconscious. She really has no idea that Erudian is in Elard’s case since the start. That he never really trusted Elard. 

This season of the story will be full of my favorites parts from the light novel!! I will not share spoilers in this post, I was just talking about the chapter and such, but I’m so excited and hyped for it. 

#Seduce the Villain's Father #Seduce the Villain's Father Chapter 41 #spoilers #spoiler #personal