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Not to be a downer but I do think Kai goes into a depressive funk after the Revolution ends. He was so busy while the war was happening that he didn't have time to process his emotions. So when everything settles, he's back in New Beijing as emperor, his girlfriend is 300,000 kilometres away, his friends are scattered around the universe, and his father is dead.

He's consumed during the day with his ruling duties, but at the end of the day he comes back to an empty home, eats dinner alone, and spends his evenings aimlessly. He had no time during the war to truly grieve his father, all his school friends drifted away because he was so busy, and it finally catches up to him. Because of the time difference, Cinder is still working during his evening, so she's not always available to talk. He catches up with his friends over comms sometimes, but it's sparse with their busy schedules.

As a result of this--not to mention the trauma from the past months--his evenings become unbearable. He spends a good chunk of them lying on the couch, absentmindedly watching netdramas and trying to tune out his thoughts. On bad days, he just cries.

Eventually Cinder and Torin notice his mood and unknowingly team up to help him. Cinder changes her work schedule so that she will be free during his evenings, and they eat over vid comms at the same time--their ports propped up like they're at the same table--and watch net-dramas together. She encourages him to pursue hobbies he used to enjoy; he gets back into piano, motivated by the song requests Cinder sends him.

Torin also helps. He contacts his old school friends and arranges a dinner with them for Kai. He shifts Kai's endless legislative duties to community-based events where he can connect with his citizens.

Gradually, Kai comes back into himself and works through his loneliness and trauma with the aid of a counsellor. Along with rekindling these old friendships, Kai contacts the Rampion Crew more often and goes on 'diplomatic trips' to the countries they're in to catch up. He and Cinder talk through comms as much as possible and become incredibly close. Anyone that works in New Beijing Palace or Artemisia Palace can attest to the fact that 90% of the time you see the emperor or the queen they'll be gabbing away to each other.

So only two years later when they reunite for Scarlet and Wolf's wedding, they are so sure of each other--already each other's family--that proposing isn't too soon at all. He's never lonely when he's with Cinder.

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*sighs, visibly frustrated* let me put this in words you can understand: meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

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Posting on AO3 is like, I'm doing this for myself, but also immediately refreshing the page every 5 seconds to see if you get any hits comments or kudos. But totally only writing for me.

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I hope you have a nice Christmas

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happy december 25th to everyone else who does not give a fuck about christmas and has never celebrated it

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CROOKED KINGDOM: AQUIRED

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The one detail in Penultimate Peril that I will never, ever get over is that Lemony Snicket smokes. He shows up and offers to take away the Baudelaires, and he's smoking a cigarette.

All through the series, fire is the ultimate Bad Thing. The good guys are firefighters and the bad guys are firestarters. Arson is the worst crime. And the Baudelaires' descent into moral ambiguity is shown through them starting multiple fires.

Lemony Snicket might as well be the poster boy for VFD. He was raised in it since infancy. He lost Beatrice because of the consequences of being a volunteer. He has been on the lam for at least fifteen years because of his dedication to it. He lost both of his siblings to it. There are plenty of people in the series who question VFD and its motives, but for all it's done to hurt him, Snicket is very loyal. He does point out some flaws, but not as many as you'd expect.

And yet Lemony smokes. Lemony starts fires every day to feed his own addiction. He carries a lighter or matches with him at all times, just like the villains do. He regularly engages in a massive fire hazard. He says himself that a man who smokes cigarettes is somewhere in between wicked and noble. I want to know how someone so deep in VFD even started smoking.

I think the one thing I am the saltiest about Netflix not including is that. Truly Lemony being a smoker is everything to me.

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Obsessed with the way Krithika Shah fell in love with someone who tried so hard to change his fate but chose not to in the end and then years later her daughter fell in love with someone who didn’t even fight to change his fate but got to live in the end

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wait guys i think i know who rosalind's lover is (i have not yet finished ove)

ITS DIMITRI ITS DIMITRI VORONIN AND YOU CANNOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE IT IS LITERALLY HIM AND I NEEDDDDD TO BE RIGHT ABOUT THIS OH MY GOD

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not evil anymore i want to be loved now

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oh my god, i just finished cress, and every fucking time i reread cress, i will never be over the conversation that happens with kai and cinder because it shows how willing they are to fight for each other and their relationship. and what i love is that they don’t just move past their conflict but instead they have a really hard (and fucking healthy) conversation before they kiss and i love them and i—

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guys i'm going to watch the tayvis-inspired lifetime christmas movie for science. will report back with my findings x

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christmas eve what about christmas adam

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Ok guys, I have shit to say and y’all need to listen.

@furrygladiatormusic is a perv

He said he’s going to “leak” @theodditylacey when she didn’t even do shit. Lacey and I think he’s going to leak a random girl and say it’s her, please everyone either say something or mass report him. He’s insane, he was sending PORN to a 13 year old and calling me a fag when he himself is one!! He’s extremely homophobic when he is literally part of the community and he’s a republican. Please everyone watch out and do something about him.

Lacey and I wanted to post this so if any girls are being harassed by him they can come forward and we as a community can do something about it.

Please reblog this to get the word out