thinking about Nimona’s face in this scene because she already knows how this plays out, she’s lived this already and while Bal has the hope that she once had in his eyes, she KNOWS what happening before the sword is even raised. She’s NOT SURPRISED she’s NOT SHOCKED she’s only DISAPPOINTED that Ambrosius can turn on the man he loves because she’s already played this out with Gloreth
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*I worship you Tumblr don’t remove it
Once upon a time
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(more thoughts on nimona since the last one exploded and proceeded to make the other things i think about the movie ding around my brain like the dvd logo again-again)
the fucking parallels between everyone and everything and the little connections and god holy shit fuck piss balls.
these.
these.
these.
THESE.
THESE.
THESE.
FUCK.
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Totally normal about the possibility that Gloreth didn't actually found the Institute.
That it was the adults around her that did. Propping her up as a figurehead as they constructed a narrative about what they thought they saw (with clever memory-holing about their role in it). A narrative that would snowball into a story that turns this literal child with a wooden sword into a full-grown knight in shining armor.
And as that narrative formed, Gloreth just kept quiet. Kept quiet to everyone including her own kids.
Maybe she initially protested, but such protests would be dismissed as modest... or looked at suspiciously until she shut up.
Maybe once she and the narrative got the attention of the nobility, she enjoyed the boost she got in status too much to complain... or maybe she didn't want to risk it for the sake of her family.
Maybe as the narrative grew, she herself eventually grew to resent Nimona... or maybe she'd continue to wonder what could've been had she not picked up that sword.
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That awkward moment when the kid that your boyfriend adopted is actually your great great great something grandmother’s ex
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Notice the small details of Nimona
When Nimona first sees Gloreth, she creates an appearance similar to a peasant girl to approach and her eyelights are parallelograms like Gloreth's.
this detail is repeated throughout the film including in its last scenes.
When Gloreth betrays Nimona, her diamond eyekights appear, this is visible in the vision of all the knights of Gloreth, including Ballister and Ambrosius before the queen's death and they officially part ways.
When Nimona and Ballister meet they have the same parallelogram of eyelights
And when Ballister and Ambrosius become rivals establishing themselves in society as hero and villain, their eyelights become square and triangular respectively.
I'm fascinated by these details 🤧
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nimona and gloreth as powder and ekko
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it’s so interesting how gloreth is seen not only as some great noble hero, a warrior who bravely slayed the monster, but also as an adult. a grown-up knight who knew what she was going. when in reality she was just a little kid. a kid who didn’t know what she was doing, not really. a kid with a wooden sword. a kid under her parents’ influence. a kid who only started seeing nimona as a monster because that’s what she was told. and yet she ended up depicted as an adult in the statue, in the storybooks, in the scroll used to justify trying to kill nimona again.
at the beginning of the movie when she’s being introduced via storybook, she says “go back to the shadows from whence you came” in a courageous, commanding voice, even though that’s not quite what happened! in reality her voice was scared, and a little bit uncertain. the narrative was always twisted in her favor because she was seen as the hero.
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Welp, They’ve Done It Again
I know people already pointed this out the “sword pointing” parallel before, but this isn’t talked about enough!
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look at how happy she is
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Nimona and Shera are from ND Stevenson so I'd like to think that if Gloreth turned around for Nimona (in my Reconciliation Au) their dynamic and look is similar to Catradora ☝️ coincidence? i think not!!
Also, I would love to participate in the stuff people tag me on but I'm on a rush on doing stuff for uni (i just rushed this piece today even after working on it for like 15 mins a day for a week) so I'm just saying thanks for remembering me 😭
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