malin-tension

[malin-tension]

The song, Nothing Fucks With My Baby, and surely I'm not the first to tag it as an Arya anthem, from Gendry's pov. Like, she was already an obsessive murder prodigy when they met as kids, and Gendry's the guy who just totally into it.

In my head, if she tells him about having cooked a Frey pie, then Gendry's the only person who'd take that way too normally and casually and ask which of Hot Pie's recipes she used, because he was always going on about browning the butter to both of them, and that's shared history. He's more interested in smithing than killing, but he's remarkably unbothered when he has had to murder

“I really enjoy it as a love story ‘cause it’s just standing in awe of this very terrifying, terrifyingly strong person. But also I kind of just wanted to subvert the idea of being in love with somebody and feeling like, oh you must be the protector, certainly. Like, as a dude, ‘Nothing can harm you, et cetera. I’ll protect you.’ In this it’s not. It’s, ‘You can’t be harmed. It’s nothing to do with me.’ This person is just genuinely terrifying. And you love them for it.”

— Hozier, on NFTMB

[malin-tension]

So the Darkling says that TIME will take Mal from Alina...

*Book spoilers for Ruin and Rising*

:readmore:

But, my dudes, knowing what Mal *really* is, why assume the Darkling is an accurate narrator? Morozovas Stag has apparently been crashing around the wilderness, evading hunters for about 500 years.

Mal surviving near death experiences all the time isn't a plot hole, it's a clue...

Wouldn't he be EXACTLY as mortal as Morozovas Stag was? 🙄