#lusander

[ludarklina-fan-spot]

When love is doomed gifs by @ladylrbloom

#netflix shadow and bone #jessie mei li #alina starkov #the darkling #ben barnes #my gifs #gifs #aleksander morovoza #darklina #lucy ursula griffiths #lucy griffiths #Lusander #Darluda #luda

[jomiddlemarch]

For the five sentence fic, Stars please. And Darklina or Lusander.

The tent that had been erected for them had only the faintest similarity from those Alina recalled from her days in the First Army and she could not help thinking Nikolai had had a hand in the design, a teasing, fond hand if she went by the camp-chairs draped in black velvet embroidered with little gold suns like Aleksander’s kefta, the richly patterned rug that had been laid over the earth, the canvas panel directly atop their bed that could be pinned back to reveal the night sky full of stars. So I’m a romantic, he’d shrug if she ever mentioned it, Sasha’s not one to sneer.

“That is the dragon and that is the swan,” Aleksander said, pointing at the constellations with the arm that was not wrapped around her. “The swan was Luda’s favorite, she thought it meant good luck, an easy birthing if she saw it when she was called to a woman’s labor.”

“You waited up for her,” Alina said, feeling his hum of agreement, her cheek laid against his bare chest, adding, “That was better than any luck—it still is.”

#darklina #lusander #why not both? #five sentence #alina x aleksander #luda x aleksander #memories #romance #stargazing #same canon au future where Nikolai is helping rule Ravka

[kensthjerte]

take me back to the night we met

#shadow and bone #shadowandboneedit #the darkling #darklingedit #lusander #darkling x luda #aleksander x luda #lucy griffiths #ben barnes #benbarnesedit #grishaverse #grishaverseedit

[midwinterspringwrites]

more of my night

Rated T | Lusander and Ludarklina

Moments of softness and comfort in the moonlight, across the years.

Written for the Darklina Discord Server's April Mishmash event and the Picture This Darklina Fest.

Moodboard by me.

Read on AO3

#my fic #shadow and bone #lusander #ludarklina #ludarklina fanfic #aleksander morozova #alina starkov #luda #aleksander x luda #aleksander x luda x alina #shadow and bone fic #shadow and bone fanfic #comforting after merzost and nightmares #fluff

[glitter50000]

just something for an AU idea I have where he managed to create the Nichevo’ya a lot earlier

#shadow and bone netflix #shadow and bone #Sab crack #luda shadow and bone #aleksander morozova #the darkling #lusander

[ladymelisande]

Aleksander waking up in green glass of the old sanctuary that was there before it became the Fold. Thinking how he failed to protect his people but Luda running from the church and hugging him, telling he did everything he could.

#lusander #aleksander morozova #sab #at the end Luda was really the only one that truly loved him #that's canon in the show #you can't call the murderous executing 'Sankta' loving now

[esssteee]

rage against the dying of the light

T | Oneshot | 3.5k | F/M

The moment he touches her, naked skin against naked skin, something unfolds―beyond the warmth of his fingers, beyond the frenetic nerves pulsing with pleasure at the first human contact after so many days without, it is the wave of immense power roiling within her that steals her breath away. As if called by a voice not her own, low and soft, its timbre resonating as she stifles the cry that wants to tear out of her heaving lungs, it submerges everything else.

With his touch, fear morphs into rage.

One fateful encounter between two strangers, both fleeing the threat of widespreaded hate and violence. From this meeting will create a new path, a new future―and a ripple, unbeknownst to those at its heart, leading to the heresy which shall leave its indelible mark upon the world.

― rage against the dying of the light, a lusander/shadow and bone fic for @mal-zoya​!

As requested in their prompt for Luda and Aleksander’s first meeting, here is my Grisha Rarepair Exchange gift! Hope you will like this little fic as much as I had fun writing it <3

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #grishapairexchange #my fic #lusander #the darkling #aleksander morovoza #luda

[fangirlingsimp]

I WANT MORE LUSANDER IN SEASON 2!!!!!

There I said it.

#the darkling #lusander #darklina #shadow and bone #ben barnes #alina starkov

[littleladybirdsblog]

If I could hold you for a minute

“He had never been afraid of dying. He had pictured it happening on a battlefield, in a hospital bed, or even in his own room with a rope tied around his neck. However, his hope had blinded him, created an opportunity for a different fate, a crueler one. […]”

OR Aleksander “The Darkling” Morozov returns to the Making and manages to find peace in the end.

Find it on AO3 here

#shadow and bone #the darkling #aleksander morozova #luda #lusander #yes i am joining the lusander fandom and i have brought angst #fanfic

[xadenviolct]

the darkness is too thick without you I’m lost in the dark without you

#lusanderedit #ludaedit #aleksandermorozovaedt #thedarklingedit #grishaverseedit #sabedit #lusander #luda #aleksander morozova #the darkling #shadow and bone #grishaverse #my graphics #messing with photoshop

[greensaplinggrace]

🔥 Luda & Aleksander

I don't really know of any unpopular opinions about this? Just because I feel like it isn't talked about enough. But here are some of my thoughts:

The flashback with Luda and Aleksander was decent, but it failed to convey the exact traumas which drive Aleksander, and the core motivations that make up a large part of his character. If they'd had the Lusander flashback whilst also adding the DiTW flashback at a later time, I wouldn't have minded, but since they only included the Lusander one it felt as if it really flattened his character.

The specific brand of trauma that comes with growing up without touch, being completely isolated, and being shunned for being both grisha and shadow summoner within your own community, is largely glossed over in the show.

The way he internalizes what happens, the way his trust is explicitly fostered and then broken, the way he craves connection and friendship so much he abandons all caution. The way he was going to be killed not because someone hated him, but because they were so desperate for survival they thought the only solution was to literally betray him and wear his bones. The absolute perverse and invasive way he would have died and been desecrated. Like there is a specific brand of horror to his situation that was lost with the Luda and Aleksander flashback. In fact it practically erases all significance tied to being an amplifier at all.

The lack of the DiTW flashback also serves to erase half of his character and the depth of it. We never get to see how his immediate response to Annika trying to kill him was to offer help and to offer protection - completely selflessly and not in any way as a means of manipulation to save himself. He underwent a horror so extreme and all he could do was wish he could make her situation better. So that she would never have to hurt him, and she would never have to be afraid enough to do so.

The way his empathy and compassion and protectiveness is shown. The way he internalizes his trauma in such a way that all he can think about is creating a safe place for his fellow grisha and for himself, and the way this also just severs his connection to mortality and mortals so completely. The Lusander flashback just doesn't touch on it at all, and even Luda's mortality and the realization of it feels off, because it should have happened to him ages ago.

I thought the Lusander scene was decent at showing the persecution of his people, but it lacked any real horror. And the way he acted with Luda was just slightly too off for me, although I can understand how it fit into his show character more, and maybe if Luda is his first real love in centuries after his trauma with Annika, it would make more sense.

But all in all, I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion, but I'm not really a fan of Lusander or the way they did the flashback. It was okay, but I'm not giving it any awards. At least it properly conveyed how fucked up grisha persecution and the lantsovs are, and at least it gave a more reasonable explanation for the fold not being the tactical boon it could have been.

I also like how the existence of Luda in his past creates some compelling ways for him to relate that trauma to the people in his life. Like I think he sees Luda in Mal, and he sees his relationship with her in Alina and Mal's relationship. It could have been done well if it was incorporated with his book history, but as it is, it feels like the writers took the easy way out.

send me a 🔥 for an unpopular opinion (x)

#aleksander morovoza #the darkling #shadow and bone #sab #grishaverse #sab critical #lusander critical #??? #idk aklsjdflds #i've never posted about it before #myramblings #sab meta #demon in the wood #asks and answers #ty for the ask nonny! <3 <3 #anon #ask games

[ludarklina-fan-spot]

Petting zoo and bone.

Alina could have been Sasha's Will Graham or Clarice Starling .... we were robbed!!!

Gifs by @ladylrbloom

#petting zoo #netflix shadow and bone #jessie mei li #ben barnes #alina starkov #the darkling #aleksander morovoza #my gifs #gifs #darklina #flashing tw #gif #eyestrain #petting #flashing lights #genya safin #daisy may head #daisy head #genyalina #shadow and bone #lusander #luda shadow and bone #lucy ursula griffiths #lucy griffiths #darluda

[starlsssankt]

@an-endless-saga​ / * 

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐑 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐀𝐋𝐋, and he knew that. Aleksander frowned at Luda’s outburst, but then it connected for him. ❝ You feel the same, ❞ he repeated, and maybe that’s what kept him there, as he shook his head. 

❝ I am not patronizing you, Luda. On the contrary. ❞ Another glance over towards the fire, to where Anastasiya danced as if she was more free than she’d ever been before. ❝ She doesn’t... ❞ He sighed, shook his head again, and leaned back against the tree he’d been standing near. 

The night was a cooler one, now that the sun had set and the stars twinkled in the sky. The clouds didn’t hide the sparkling lights, and the smoke from the fire drifted upwards as he stood and watched her dance. Watched others join in, as he turned back, then, to Luda.

❝ She has never said one single thing to indicate-- She deserves someone else. Someone that can give her an easier life than this. ❞

#anendlesssaga #verse / made to be a part of me ;; lusander / closed (anendlesssaga) #verse / blessed with too much power ;; closed (siderealxmelody)

[kensthjerte]

maybe… just maybe… in another universe nothing will separate us

#shadow and bone #shadowandboneedit #the darkling #darkling #luda morozova #luda shadow and bone #aleksander x luda #darkling x luda #lucy griffiths #ben barnes #benbarnesedit #grishaverse #grishaverseedit #lusander #leigh bardugo

[midwinterspringwrites]

trouble me (let me know what I can mend)

Lusander | Rated T | No archive warnings

You can't save them all, he wants to say. They'll all be dust, his mother would say. No. Not yet. Not this time.

Moodboard by redbelles.

Read on AO3

#shadow and bone #lusander #aleksander x luda #luda #aleksander morozova #my fic #fanfic #softness #pre canon #fifteen years before the fold

[glitter50000]

I could talk of Luda dying unjustly thus breaking the final straw causing Aleksander to create the Fold vs Mal dying willingly in order to help Alina destroy the Fold

#i dunno i dunno #I’m just thinking of them again and the self indulgent part of me wonders what it would be like if they met like maybe after Mal died idk #There’s differences between the two obviously but they share that common ground of our lovers are powerful as fuck but we love them anyway #I dunno it’s the cruel irony in Luda looking for ways to live longer with him but then dying before she really could #and Mal CHOOSING death despite wanting to live with Alina for the rest of his days if it means he can help her #Idk I should sleep #shadow and bone netflix #shadow and bone season 2 #mal oretsev #luda shadow and bone #malina #alina x mal #lusander #darkling x luda