#BATTLE COUPLE

[sunflowersinheaven]

[tippenfunkaport]

POV: you messed with the wrong friend group

[dramaticnia]

Right. So I captured this while making gifs, and now I can't get it out of my head (つㅠ﹏ㅠ)つᯓ♡

Wolfs 2024 | Dir. Jon Watts

[i-lavabean]

Wrapping up the All About Kotallo month prompts with an action shot

[colleybri]

Bix going Full Rebel in season 2 was top of my wish list along with her getting back with Cassian so this trailer is giving me all the feels. Their S1 relationship is a little unnoticed or underappreciated but this clip from the season 1 production brief (quoting Tony Gilroy ) emphasises just how important they are to each other. Very old and close friends? Check. Kinda-sorta sibling figures, with Bix entering Cass’s life just after he lost his own sister ? Check. On-again off-again lovers only unable to be long-term before now because of Cassian’s unresolved trauma? Check.

I’m expecting some more bonding, Bonnie and Clyde vibes and maybe even a riff on The Americans series where she becomes more radical than him. Don’t know the nature of their inevitable “goodbye” but it’s going to hurt like hell. “Be ready, be ready,” says Diego Luna.

This backstory indicates they have probably bonded over shared trauma before, with Cassian’s return from youth prison and military service (a romance being probably the only happy thing that has happened for them in years) … I can imagine Bix wanting to help him through his trauma and in turn him supporting her when her father dies.

Adria Arjona got a stick-and-poke Bix tattoo on set from her make-up artist. A tiny “x”. As a tribute. I’m trying to take comfort from the idea that that indicates a noble and heroic end of some kind. She clearly feels great affection for this character.

He does. But he will have to eventually leave her behind again. In some sense of that phrase. 😞

[fistfuloflightning]

I’ll never get there, but if I put the work in, maybe I’ll get close enough that I can chase just behind perfection — and have a front-row seat as you achieve it.

Chapter 20, Cultivate by @neonghostcat

[braime-won]

BATTLE COUPLES + yours JAIME & BRIENNE | GAME OF THRONES (2011-2019) RICK & MICHONNE | THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE (2024)

[blightedbutdelighted]

I've got your back,❤️🖤

[dailyayao]

[besttropeveershowdown]

The Best Trope Ever Showdown: FINALS

Found Family

Propaganda:

Well all know it, we all love it

the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb

Forming a bond with friends or strangers so deeply they become your family!!! Choosing the people you want to support you, to be your backbone, to care for you and be cared for by you in return!

literally the experience! characters may not come from the best past but they grow together and give each other the support that they can't get otherwise. the attachments that form are usually amazing and I guess just. yeah! + platonic/doesn't need romance involved which I guess is a plus for myself???

Because its so cute! It's sweet, and kind, and forgiving, and just asdfghjk its just the best. Without FF we wouldnt have shows like The Owl House so think about that okay?

I mean, come on. A pair or group of people that know little about or nothing about each other become fiercely protective and loving towards the others. They consider each other family through shared experiences and traumas, loving and caring for each other as if they were kin.

Battle Couple

Propaganda:

Two people fighting side by side, or back to back, trusting the other to have their back, even while bickering. Amazing. And if they kiss, surrounded by enemies… perfection ❤️❤️❤️

Reformed, but Not Tamed

They're not Evil anymore. But like, they're also not Nice really. Still a jerk about it. (No TVTropes page submitted)

Propaganda:

All the coolness of a redeemed villain but without losing the spicy villain jerk charisma they had before. Often called The Vegeta. Get to have your cake and eat it too.

who doesn't love a villain kinda sorta turning good but being annoyed about it the whole time

We all love it when the bad guy joins the Plucky Team of Heroes because it is a) hilarious or b) reaaaaally interesting character dynamics, and "reformed but not tamed" is the superior way to achieve this. You get all the fun of having the bad guy join the team WITHOUT having to sand down everything that MAKES the bad guy interesting. In this house, we like a "domestication" arc more than a "redemption" arc. He's still an awful little shithead, but now he's OUR awful little shithead.

[velvet4510]

Beren/Lúthien 🤝 Cassian/Jyn

Guy who was hunted for years by the Enemy + Gal who escaped imprisonment = Battle Couple who rescue each other constantly, infiltrate the Enemy’s fortress undercover, and, via masterful teamwork, steal a priceless item that changes the entire course of the future, before sharing the same fate by accepting mortality together.

[dramaticnia]

Okay so I love every single bit of this movie, granted, but this scene with the two of them wearing glasses is definitely something else ~

(つ╥﹏╥)つ⋆｡𖹭⭒˚｡⋆

Wolfs 2024 | Dir. Jon Watts

[i-lavabean]

I finally got around to cleaning up the animation!

[robin-buckely]

NANCY WHEELER & ROBIN BUCKLEY 4.09 | Chapter Nine: The Piggyback

[keldae]

I scored a commission in a giveaway from the lovely v.bloomstudios (Insta) and I could not be more delighted with this! Look at this badass gorgeous power couple! Gale and Devi make for a sexy force to be reckoned with. <3

Wizard/rogue battle couple FTW!

[the1701trekkie]

I realize that I never posted this on my own blog? I'm a tumblr baby, please forgive me 😭

It's from my ongoing WIP A First-Hand History of the Witches' Revolution, on my AO3 here!