#“But...but...what he did to Alina...”
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Alina rested her forehead against his as she moved up and down on him. She heard water sloshing around them as they moved against each other and she moved harder against him. She wasn't sure what it was, but she felt so much closer her edge faster now than she had the first time they did this. Maybe it was because of the different position or just everything that was going on with the day and in their lives, but she was felt so good against him and as he said to keep going, she did just that and let out several cries of pleasure. @enriquemarrero
He held his hands upon her hips, rolling his own to find a rhythm to match her. His lips parted slightly, allowing her tongue to enter if she so desired, his eyes closed so he could take in every feeling. The way she moved, sent shockwaves of pleasure throughout his body. As she increased her speed, he could feel himself getting closer, as he let out a moan which echoed throughout the bathroom. Hearing her say his name egged him on as his breathing picked up, "Alina, keep going." He said nearing the edge. @alinaceyhan
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Today I will rant because I want to about that character and how he's treated by some
Lately the rapist comments about him and how he was selfish are getting multiplied which makes me both angry and sad.
When you have the author itself say that she saw the King and Queen as the real villains and that we can make a case about the Darkling's worst crimes then how do some people indirectly call him the worst thing that happened to Ravka and to Alina?
They only treat Aleksander as a villain, emphasizing his sexually creepy moments and selfish motivations and completely disregard the human side of him or his traumatic past.
The Darkling did not spend 500 (and possibly more) years of his life to protect his people and stop the wars for you to call him a selfish evil man. If you want to call someone selfish then look at Baghra that stays warm in her hearth and not giving a single fuck for Ravka. If you want to call someone selfish then take a look at the King and Queen who grow fat and rich while their people and starving and think that being orphaned is "marvelous". If you want to call someone selfish then look at Mal who wanted to leave Ravka and never look back (and in the meantime, it was his country that was in danger) or even Alina.
The Darkling was quite literally the only person that decided to take action for a persecuted group of people without wavering once.
You don't give a single glimpse at his tragic elements. You ignore them. But his isolated and traumatic childhood, abusive mother figure, near-immortality that made him witness people he loved die, rare powers that have isolated him further and desperation to see the Grisha being respected and accepted says hello 🙋.
You call us fans of the category "The Darkling did nothing wrong". Well, just because we don't talk about his crimes every day does not mean we don't know about them. We just decide to talk about the Darkling in our blogs as a human, tragic figure that was much more complex than his "evil" actions. If we wanted to read about the Darkling and his evilness we would read KoS and RoW everyday. Zoya, Tolya and Genya were orators of that. But maybe we just decided to look deeper than this. To cast light to the parts he kept hidden and were so human and still valid.
Some call us even misogynistic for judging Alina. I didn't know that just because we judge one fictional, female character means that we hate all women. Wow. For your information, most of the times we judge the way she was handled by the author more than the character herself.
But having people making the Darkling a simple villain with no humanity is probably one of the worst butchering of a character I've ever seen.
Some people literally took an intriguing, complex character with selfless motivations and turned him into a power-hungry tyrant. Bye guys 💀
I don't know. If you expect from me at least to post about how the Darkling was evil, a tyrant and a rapist then you are on the wrong page. I only write about the Darkling as human most of all. With tragic elements and human emotions and vulnerabilities that were actually there. But some people cannot read past the word "villain".
#“But...but...what he did to Alina...”#What he *really* did to Alina was to open her eyes to the truth and she only kept them closed until the very end#The fact that you are stuck only in his “sexually abusive” ways is stupid and childish#the darkling#pro darkling#aleksander morozova#pro aleksander morozova#alina starkov#darklina#pro darklina#shadow and bone#grishaverse trilogy#grishaverse
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...why the fuck do i keep getting darkling apologists on my dash
#what the fuck#he's an interesting villain character sure but#but please#he's not a good person#i'm reaching my limit for darkling apologist posts on my dash#gnawing at the bars of my enclosure#shaking the bars of my enclosure#please listen to me he did so much fucked up shit#please listen to me i also understand that alina has her problems#but alina's problems don't magically make the darkling a better person#olease i'm begging#please#shadow and bone#grishaverse#alina starkov#the darkling
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This is one of the main things that pisses me off in fandoms. The traumatised teen girl gets called whiny and a crybaby when she acts like a traumatised teen girl while her toxic (usually older) love interest gets glorified.
#teen girl protagonists I am so sorry your fandoms do not deserve u#elena gilbert#bonnie bennett#caroline forbes#alina starkov#rey#tvd#anti damon salvatore#anti stefan salvatore#anti stelena#anti delena#yes i know stefan was abused by katherine but that still doesn't excuse what he did to elena#then there's damon the literal confederate#anti kylo ren#anti reylo#anti darkling#anti darklina#fuck the salvatoads
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local silly is learning so much guys...<3
#arknights#arknights kal'tsit#arknights doctor#arknights amiya#arknights spoilers#in the tags i mean. you get it. anyway.#ahem*#BRO YO KALSIT...SHE HATES US HATES US I THOUHGT EVERYONIE WAS MEMEING YA'LL AR DOWNPLAYING????#ALSO NOOOOOOOO TALULAH!!!! WHY DID THY TAKE ALINA ROM HE R ITS SO UCKED YALLL#what...what am i...WHAT is happening....#i dont wanna se her down fall....also!!#when i saw those chacter show cases with talulah the fighter i thought we got her on our side for a limited time or something#not us playin in the past. was fun! i also liked reading the small stage blurbs before you head in#it fucked me up.#also L on my part but i found out...how to access the old side stories...#just yesterday...in the special operations/public records archive....#im so smart guys i have more reading to do!#anyway have fun with the rerun everyone! its mt personal fav summer event (gameplay wise)
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Scorched sea verse for the title game!
This is a doc where I’ve jotted down several supplementary ideas for the Darklina Roleswap AU where Nikolai is just hanging out as their third lol
There was a lot of backstory lore that didn’t make it into the fic proper that seemed fun to explore. The entire segment where the Apparat builds her up as a saint before Grisha are at all accepted in Ravka and the higher stakes of that. Then things going south, Mal dying and her turning to Ilya Morozova for help. And the vague Baghralina that happens then falls to pieces after the falling out with her father lol.
I also had ideas for two future separate scenes, that would probably be one shots in a collection. Alina being driven to tell Nikolai that she’s not actually going to human sacrifice herself in the next couple of years, can he please stop being so damn melodramatic about it???
The main fic wrapped up before the actual collaring so I also had some loose ideas for that. Here’s a snippet of it!
#my TGT manifesto is that the Darkling would fold like a napkin if anyone used his own tactics on him#and also that he says that particular soulmate tinged stuff to Alina because that’s what he wants to hear lmao#there’s also a scene vaguely down the line where she’s just tested out doing merzost through him#and it’s kind of fucked him up! she claims she only ever did it because she must!! it’s just something they should be ready to use!!#he isn’t quite convinced but he has his head in her lap and she’s stroking his hair so he’s like… actually this is fine#(worst mommy issues known to man!!!!!)#grishaverse#shadow and bone#grisha trilogy#darklina#alarkling#wip title game#ask game#all the bendy punctuations#a string of words
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anyways the show removed one of the best parts of the books, which was that alina was fucking haunted by the darkling. there is nothing more interesting about their relationship than his existence as a ghost inside the halls of her mind
#shadow and bone#grishaverse#alina starkov#sab#aleksander morozova#the darkling#darklina#kinda#myramblings#the darkling is a ghost the darkling is already dead the darkling exists always as the specter of the man she is going to kill herself#his death is inevitable and it is inevitable because of the things he's faced the things he's done because of what was done to him#he is an example of everything wrong with the world that made him that way#and he is a tragedy#the show hardly did this correctly because it was all dream visits and no REAL haunting#that scene where alina is in his rooms is SO visceral#and they didn't include it#and of course that removed the fact that she struggles to reveal to her friends that he's haunting her#because what does that say about her?#and what will they think of her? for having this darkness inside of her. will they think she's like him?#but again it's just another complex facet of her character that's erased 🙄#whatever#all of these characters deserved better but especially alina and genya
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i am going to shake all the darklina shippers so hard until their brains fall out. Stop It
#grishaverse#shadow and bone#alina starkov#the darkling#anti darklina#i hate the darklina shipping so much. did you read the book. do you have any thoughts in your head ever. he was a terrible person#darklina shippers DNI GO AWAY I WILL BITE YOU#they are not an “aesthetic couple 🥺🌘☀️” their relationship is 100% fully and unequivocally toxic and bad#and not something you should be romanticizing#he Was Using Her what’s not clicking#it is an intentionally unhealthy relationship and leigh did not write it as such for y’all to turn around and go “awww so cute”#also stop hating on mal you Losers he is Better Than You
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Also what are your overall opinions on the Darkling?
honestly I'm suchhhhh a darkling anti sorry bestie 😭😭
if you've looked through my tag I'm sure you've seen some of these thoughts before, but imo he's not only a terrible person but also a failed revolutionary
like you say his methods worked a lot of times, but in canon he basically achieves NONE of his aims - by the time of the books, he's had over 300 years of power, and grisha are still being persecuted etc. obviously this isn't entirely his fault, but it does prove that whatever he's been doing isn't particularly effective
politics is one of my fav topics tbh and one that I've talked a LOT about especially with regard to the darkling, and my general point is that there are so many other ways he could have achieved his goals more effectively, and that his actions in canon actually damaged ravka considerably more than they aided it
#not 'i could fix him' or 'i could make him worse'‚ but a secret third thing (i could be a better politician than him)#see i dislike him on a personal level (what he did to genya‚ how he treats alina etc) but ALSO#any time we see him make any kind of political decision i lose my will to live bc he just makes Really Bad Decisions#sorry if this is too harsh btw 😭😭😭#grishaverse#mayhem.txt#answered#anti darkling
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The Darkling trying to weaponise the Fold was an understandable course of action for him to try and take but I don't think some of you guys are ready for that conversation
#“but it's evil :(( alina and the grisha triumvirate will fix the prejudice against grisha without doing something like that :((”#*the darkling laughs in the distance*#DON'T YOU GET IT??#THAT'S WHAT HE DID#HE CREATED THE LITTLE PALACE TO GET RID OF THE PREJUDICE. TO NORMALISE GRISHA. TO HUMANISE THEM#he tried to be diplomatic. he tried to be polite. he tried to be nice#but that DID NOT WORK#he is THOUSANDS of years old#he's tried it all#weaponising the fold was literally a LAST RESORT#in demon of the woods it's clear he set out with good intentions#but they were corrupted along the way#because GOODNESS. NEVER. SUCCEEDS.#“pls stop killing me and my people :((”#THAT WON'T WORK.#and somewhere along the line he understood that#it doesn't excuse what he did to genya. it doesn't excuse what he did to the grisha. it doesn't excuse what he did to alina#but he was absolutely 100% understandable in this and i stand by that#if that's controversial idc#the darkling#pro darkling#or more. pro his actions#like i said i don't excuse what he did to alina and genya etc.#grishaverse#shadow and bone
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Was Aleksander power-hungry or wanted power to use it for the protection of his people?
This question is one of the most hotly debatable in this fandom and I decided to clear this out not by analyzing his words through the POV of other characters (who don't believe him and therefore the reader finds him a liar) but through his own perspective in "Rule of Wolves".
So let's take an objective look inside his own thoughts and find out.
His very first thoughts were how could he reclaim his powers, describing the whole experience as somewhat painful and confusing to him. His second were about Alina.
And these are his third ones. He explains how utterly worthless Nikolai and Zoya are to save Ravka. How immature and weak. Aleksander finds himself to be the only one able for this task. His powers, experience and general abilities are testament to that.
But note how he calls Ravka "his country". From the carved woods decorating his bedroom to his knowledge of "every pebble and branch" of it, this country is special to him. He loves it, feels a connection to it and wants to protect it.
(You just can't call the Darkling "unpatriotic")
He displays bitterness for his loss and Ravka's new state just verifies to him that his plans would only prevent this decaying fate.
Yuri: "Sankta Alina who gave her life for Ravka"
Aleksander: "Am I a joke to you?"
And indeed is he?
Aleksander displays a very strong resentment for the lack of recognition he has gained. His statement: "I gave my life for Ravka" probably doesn't only allude to his death from Alina's hands but also his total commitment in the protection of the Grisha and Ravka that lasted for centuries. He gave his life away by pushing his personal happiness and well-being aside and wholly dedicating his life and skills to a selfless goal. He wasted years, allies, soldiers, endured otkazat'sya Kings that rule him, a bitter mother and his own immortality only for others to hurriedly erase any memory of him once he's gone.
So it seems that his desire to be seen only stems from his long-awaited and secret wish for his actions to be recognized.
Based on the last screenshot, he views his actions as justified not because of a "power-hungry nature" but out of his efforts to help others. Whether these actions are justified or not depends on the reader.
I believe this is one of the most concrete evidence that Aleksander truly cared about the Grisha.
He felt intense anger for those who were ignorant and apathetic towards the Grisha's fate and he himself cared about who was gonna sit the Ravkan throne.
No matter how much humanity he shed as the years passed, it seems that he didn't shed all of it by the time of these books.
Apparently Aleksander had two main goals in this book:
- To protect his people and country as he always strived to do.
- For others to finally give him some credit and have their acknowledgment that yes, he has done something for this country all these years.
In order to help the Grisha and change their fates he needed to be in a position of strength, hence his desire to take the throne. He views himself as a fatherly figure towards his people. A protector and guardian.
But he also wants to become a Saint and king. For people to look up to him. So many Saints had done less than half in comparison to Aleksander and they still won people's love. Now it's his turn and he thinks he deserves it.
I'm adding a short parenthesis here.
His concern didn't only extent to the Grisha but to his blind, otkazat'sya followers as well.
He cared about what would happen in the battlefield and seemed ready to create nichevo'ya to protect them. Merzost is extremely painful but this "selfish" villain is ready to use it to protect his naive but innocent army.
A hundred of years ago Aleksander refused the King's gold as payment for his services. Instead he opted to plead for the construction of a palace. A home and haven for all the Grisha that were hiding out of fear from the persecution against them.
He saw his chance and took it to make the lives of his people a little better.
So this whole "the Darkling created the Fold out of his desire for power" was bullshit after all.
He wanted power but only to use it to end the wars. Ironically, the result of it (aka. the Fold) only aggravated the problem.
And the Darkling's dream never came entirely true. He gave them a home but never a safe life. Ravka was almost always at war, Grisha were never accepted, the Ravkan kings never paid much attention to the Grisha's problems regarding their role in society which placed them almost at the bottom of the food chain.
All these things worried Aleksander and pushed him to action both when he created the Fold and when he started the Civil War.
The Darkling has a very different mentality than those who don't have the burden of immortality on their shoulders.
Aleksander uses time as an advantage and has a remarkable patience. He bides his time and strikes when he sees the opportunity, leaving other people to die since they're only just a part of a whole. He probably thinks: "Well, I'll meet plenty more new otkazat'sya in the future so why should I be concerned for this bunch here?"
But the bleak future of the Grisha make him stop and think. They're the only reason why he stays and fight and why he proclaimed Zoya a Saint.
So it's obvious that Aleksander only used power for the benefit of his people and country.
- When king Yevgeni offered him a handsome reward, Aleksander turned it down and chose to appeal for a better future for the rest of the Grisha.
- When the wars didn't stop coming and Grisha were again getting killed, he tried to use merzost to augment his powers and put a stop to it.
- When he tried to use the Fold as a weapon with Alina at his side, he did it to place Ravka in a stronger position in comparison to his enemies.
- He viewed Nikolai and Zoya dangerous to the rest of the country.
- He was concerned of what would happen to the Grisha if Demidov became king.
- He was determined to save Ravka and lead it as their king and protector.
- Even though he thought of leaving, he stayed out of concern for the Grisha (again).
Contrary to the people who say that the Darkling began selfless but by the time of these books became selfish, it seems that he never lost his selflessness. He still kept thinking about others and his last moments he was unrepentant for his crimes since he did them for others not for himself. It's true that he had pride and an ego but rightfully so. No one else was as powerful or as capable as him to make a change and, honestly, no one else made a decent effort but him.
He also displayed a strong bitterness for the fact that others were so quick to forget him and his actions. He felt wronged that after all he had done, none wanted to acknowledge his own part in the protection of Ravka. He wanted to be seen and appreciated. His anger and indignation came from a place of injustice as he saw it. Whatever he did was labeled as wrong and people only feared him, never feeling gratefulness or love towards him. The Darkling wanted others to give him his due for what he went through, did and tried to do. Recognition after so many years of feeling invisible and hated.
It was something that even his enemies admitted about him:
The strongest evidence of his yearning to shield his country is how he willingly gave his life for it at the end. He would be tortured forever but at least his people wouldn't forget him and he would have fulfilled his desired role as a protector of his country.
#the darkling#pro darkling#aleksander morozova#shadow and bone#it's like you work your ass off for years on a project and somebody else gets all the credit and love#Alina did nothing (+ is still alive) and people worship her#all the other Saints never troubled themselves about the Grisha but they were still revered#but what about him? why can't they see that he sacrificed much as well? much more than all the other Saints combined#his exasperation is completely understandable#people wrote him off so quickly without admitting that he too played his part in the protection of the Grisha#but the rest of them couldn't see it because they weren't alive back when Grisha lived in caves. were burned in the stake#and killed each other to survive#classic ungratefulness#on another note I got out of my hibernation mode! see ya again in another six months 🫡😭#pro aleksander morozova#grishaverse#rule of wolves#ruin and rising#alina starkov#anti zoya nazyalensky#nikolai lantsov#the darkling meta#meta#grishaverse meta
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Could I have an incorrect quote with Alina and Carter? XD
Alina Foley, I assume
And yes I did just realize I chose a name for a side character thats also the name of a highly popular book character
Anyway-
Alina: Why can't you and Joel just get along?
Carter: it's not my fault your husband is the worst person i know
#carter doesnt actually mean that#hes just upset about what joel did#tales of arcadia#wizards tales of arcadia#hisirdoux casperan#toa wizards#carter howard#tales of arcadia oc#carterdoux#toa oc#toa ocs#half bloods and hunters#alina foley (hbah)#toa incorrect quotes#tales of arcadia incorrect quotes#incorrect quotes
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but literally the darkling saying that he accepts alina as she is and asking her if mal can say the same makes noooo sense in the context of this show where mal has continually been vocal about his support to the point that alina has never ever had any doubts about him, she never struggled with losing her power or becoming unhinged because of it and mal was never shown worrying about what that power and amplifiers were turning her into. of course show mal can say the same, he has never once turned away from alina
#neither did book mal but the books are from alina's pov so we clearly see her worries and doubts about his feelings#but she's his flag and his nation#he was literally willing to die for her#he became her blade#i don't know what more can i say about book mal to redeem him in the eyes of some readers#sometimes it feels like i read completely different books from them bc i could never see mal as some jealous possessive macho alpha man#shadow and bone season 2 spoilers#shadow and bone#grishaverse
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darkling scene smash cutting to kaz saying "when the chips fall....it'll give me some comfort to know that you're with me............In The Shadows" to inej
inej replying with "wouldn't miss it sexy also i'll destroy the man who wronged you bad one (1) time"
abby im banging pots and pans im gnawing the walls. kanej is their own thing but they're darklina if leigh or the show would just LET ALINA GET NASTY
there's a lot of overlapping imagery with the four of them that i find compelling even though the show doesn't have a handle on either of those pairings or what it wants them to be at this point much less how it intends them to thematically overlap or diverge but. one of the things that's very baked into the grishaverse is worship as love, devotion as friendship, the everpresent specters of saints and gods in the lives of people who live amongst filth and violence.... naturally kaz and inej and alina and the darkling all have their own versions of being Devoted and Being Violent they're working through as well as like. light/dark/fate/eternity.... and yknow. knives and blades (the cut is a blade). in a more coherent story there would be a lot to dig into but even now like. it's yummy! there's a lot to excavate from this if you care enough!
#bc again like it's not shipping#the darkling and alina are not a pair the way kaz and inej are#but they're grappling with a lot of the same things and they bleed into each other with alina and inej and the darkling#kaz thinks he is to inej what the darkling is to alina#which is what makes him very much Not lmao#shadow and bone#they have a TON of things going on separately like leigh cares more about inej and kaz than she ever did alina so they've got plenty unique#but i LOVE the overlap in images#this is JUST the show im not making real kanej posts until i read the duology
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Listen. I like toxic fictional relationships. I don’t like toxic toxic fictional relationships.
Hope that clarifies it.
#LIKE.#I don’t like malina. but I like darklina.#I don’t like relationships where one partner sucks the life outta the other one while pretending to ‘care’ about them#this applies to Ollie/Amelia as well#the entire five minutes they were interesting was when they were at each other’s throats to murder each other. in episode 4.#then they go back to being mellow. and it gets AWFUL again.#my bullshit#also their mellow is not the javi/Amelia type of mellow. it’s the ‘he’s secretly strangling the life out of her’ type of mellow.#I like it when the darkling and Alina are at each other’s throats.#I like a ship when hating each other instils such INTENSE emotions into someone#not a ‘oh I love em’ but they’re slowly draining you because they want you to fit you in what THEY want you to be like#mal wanted Alina to be like him#so did Ollie#and I think THAT. is the biggest drawbacks.#both of these girls can’t fulfil their entire potential with THAT GUY. but when they hate a person they can be driven to achieve#GREAT HEIGHTS.#Amelia becomes Red. Alina controls her Stag smplifier and so much more hakdjdksj#It’s not the love. it’s the hate.#and then we have Javi. and also Aleksander!SIMP VERSION#now THESE BOIS.#:3#I wuv these boys#they deserve the girls they bring out the best in them.#thank you glad you enjoyed my brain dump :D
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I could probably actually get behind mals ending hm.
#sab spoilers#shadow and bone season 2 spoilers#shadow and bone spoilers#I've been sitting with it instead of doing hw like i planned and the more i think about it#the more im like Actually#im a book alina ending stan so while im chill with the direction the show is going to keep her in it if there is a season 3#I'm still not about it (also like...it is zoyas sl)#and the ending made sense for mal in the books too but i care a lot about. mal needing to find his purpose now#and who is he now without this thing that defined him his entire life#who made him indispensable and excellent at what he did#and finding freedom in something that was also so attached to this Thing he had#idk i could be about it i just gotta sit with it more#meta: mal oretsev#muse: mal oretsev#this also might be a mal x inej agenda
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