#Malvina Thorburn

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Alright, huge commission I made for a fanfiction I’ve been working on for a while now

This amazing and detailed piece is by Cj_KhalifP on Twitter.

I still can’t believe how detailed and thoughtful it is (although tumblr does lower the quality slightly)

I don’t know when my fanfic will be ready for posting, but this is a scene from it!!!

What I can tell you, is that it���s a crossover. The characters of All of us Villains placed into the world of book series A Song of Ice and Fire, by George RR Martin, aka, the books that inspired Game of Thrones.

It will have romance, drama, dragons, magic and politics. Aouv and Asoiaf are both passions of mine, so I’m glad to share this with you :)

[castlelair]

my all of us villains nationality hcs bcs why not;

briony thorburn: india 🇮🇳 + cuba 🇨🇺

idc she was described as pale in the books, she's a desi girl with a collection of saris in all shades of blue (that's what she was wearing to the tournament) and her sister's name is literally inés LIKE COME ON.

gavin grieve: iran 🇮🇷

he's 100% middle eastern the blonde gene just popped out of nowhere. bro flirts in farsi without noticing.

carbry darrow: belgium 🇧🇪 + egypt 🇪🇬

the library of alexandria was here there's literally nothing to add or discuss.

isobel macaslan: argentina 🇦🇷 (irish ancestry 🇮🇪)

miss girl's father's is as british as the queen but she's their #1 hater and everytime she has to visit that part of the family she wears a shirt that says "las malvinas son argentinas"

reid mactavish: scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

his literal fucking name??? he and isobel got together over their hate towards the uk. bro pulled his girl using that independence rizz.

alistair lowe: belarus 🇧🇾 + vietnam 🇻🇳

no one has any idea how his parents got together but they made it work (and then his dad died). he can't speak vietnamese bcs he died pretty young but hendry has an habit of talking to him in viet when he's bored (he understands nothing).

elionor payne: south africa 🇿🇦 + philippines 🇵🇭

even if her african side is white, she's so good at braiding that finley's locks for the tournament were made by her. she dyed her hair black bcs it matched her whole goth vibe.

finley blair: ivory coast 🇨🇮 + australia 🇦🇺

my boy has the whole cowboy vibe and none can deny it (he's not from texas) like look at me straight in the eye and tell me he can't weild a sword while riding a horse.

[luckloveandwaterfalls]

In response to my AoUV poll, here we go! This will be long and I might have more to come later, but thanks so much to everyone who participated, it was great to see your thoughts :D

First of all, I'm so grateful that no one picked the Lowes. That would have been terrifying.

For the others, I'm going to share my thoughts on each of the families because I've thought about this extensively. But obviously it's just my personal opinion, and all of them are at least a little fucked up in their own way. It is Ilvernath, after all.

The Macaslans. Isobel has my whole heart, I swear she does, but the Macaslans as a rule are atrocious. Showing up to every funeral in the city and stealing magick from dead bodies as they're put in the ground is beyond tacky and disrespectful, and Cormac is beyond slappable. His "how many ways can we commodify Isobel to make money, 15% goes to the champions" bullshit gets me so upset. We haven't met many Macaslans but if he's the representative, hard pass.

The Grieves. I disagree with the people who picked them, but I do understand. I've talked about the Grieves a lot lately, so I'll just summarize and say that they're in a truly awful situation where they have few options other than to give up. None of that excuses what they did to Gavin and, tbh, their other kids too. This family is a hot mess.

The Thorburns. They're serial killers. They lie and cheat and cut deals with the government to control high magick, and murder people in Ilvernath and drain them of their life magick and frame someone else for it. Then they call themselves the heroes, enforcing this idea so strongly that their champion causes an insane amount of damage trying to live up to it. I really struggle to get past this.

The Blairs. They won the poll, and I absolutely get it. They're straitlaced and dependable, and they keep to an honor code. My issue comes with the severity of this honor code, and the collateral damage that comes with it. Blairs keep the code and their word, but all that honor and protection is for the cause of...the exact same cause that everyone else has. They do better things than the others do, but only to pat themselves on the back over it and claim their prize. Their honor code blinds them to everything that isn't black-and-white—see how Finley's moms respond to him suggesting there's a way to break the tournament. Don't get me wrong, they're way better than Elder Malvina, but the Blairs are not saints, and I think part of what makes them so insidious is that they make it look like they are.

I'm briefly grouping the last two together, because they're the families we know least about and that (in my opinion) seem like the most reasonable. I'm going to preface this by saying that yes, the Paynes and Darrows trick Briony and the others by swapping their stories in All of Our Demise. Yes, this causes problems for them in the tournament.

But honestly, can you fucking blame them? Their kids were just murdered, and these people who are trying to stop people from being murdered do not seem to care. From the Paynes' perspective, their champion died brutally and Briony and the others mentioned her literally zero times in their appeals for help. From the Darrows' perspective, it's even more justified. Briony killed their champion and then she and Isobel publicly lied about it, responding with little more than an "oh oops" when they're called out on it. I don't blame the Darrows and Paynes for not wanting to help them.

Taking a closer look, these two families want high magick for very different reasons from the others. The Lowes and Grieves want it for power, the Macaslans want it for money, and the Thorburns and Blairs want it for glory. Granted, we don’t get to see too much of the other two, but by all appearances they’re more interested in how high magick works.

The Darrows are all about studying, keeping records, and learning. It seems like they’re interested in figuring out the what and why of high magick for the sake of knowledge, not necessarily using it. As for the Paynes, All of Our Demise reveals that they’re inventors, which explains so much. They make things. And sure, there’s no guarantee that they would use high magick for good, but the general vibe we get from them is that they want to make things and be left the fuck alone. So even if the Paynes and Darrows originally agreed to join the curse with the other families, the current situation heavily implies that they’re doing it for far less selfish and destructive reasons.

All of this is to say that, in my opinion, it would be between these two. And I’d give the edge to the Paynes for two reasons, one being that, I’m sorry, any family that picks Carbry as a champion for a death tournament needs a reality check. If it turns out that there were literally no other siblings or cousins, I will apologize. Don’t get me wrong, I like Carbry, but he is not death tournament material. Also, firsthand knowledge is admirable, but it’s kind of a flimsy reason to send your kids to be killed every twenty years. None of the families are really morally defensible here, but at least you could make the argument that one of them has the means of and interest in using the high magick for something practical. So ultimately, that one family is the one that gets my vote.

Long story short, I wish we got more information about these last two families. But considering the information we do have, and the dots that are left to connect, I would have to pick the Paynes.