#Minbari

[mortalstrife]

Animals! Brutal! They deserve no mercy. Strike them down! Follow them to their base and kill them, all of them!🔺I did not realize similarity was required for the exercise of compassion. They are afraid. We wish only to do what we can.

minvember prompt 3: crowd

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[vertigoartgore]

Babylon 5's Jason Carter (Marcus Cole) & Bill Mumy (Lennier) hanging out in their B5 costumes on a sunny day in Los Angeles.

[kat]

i was born warrior caste. but i see now... the calling of my heart is religious.

[midgeonsmidgeon]

[proximafleet]

Minbari ships on a mission.

[wiishopchanelboots]

This may not be a new take at all, but since I'm new to the Babylon 5 fandom, has anyone talked about how the Minbari seem really queer-coded? Like (show spoilers ahead), the most obvious thing being Delenn transforming (transitioning) from Minbari to Minbari/Human.

Especially if you consider that the Minbari were originally supposed to be Androgynous, as seen in the pilot:

Forever lamenting the fact that we coulda had a textually trans character way back in the 90s even her robe had trans colors lol

But even outside of Delenn, one of the big arcs for the Minbari at large is breaking out of their rigid caste system. You're a member of the Worker, Warrior, or Religious caste, and what you're allowed to do in Minbari society is strictly determined by what caste you're in.

One of the major plot threads towards the end of the show is the dissection and dismantling of that structure. We even get that dramatic moment where Neroon, poster child Warrior caste boy,

cries out: "I was born warrior caste. Now I see the calling of my heart is RELIGIOUS. The war is OVER! LISTEN TO HER! LISTEN..." dramatically sacrificing himself in order to save Delenn.

And I dunno that all just feels very Queer to me??? I don't know how much was actually intentional on the writers' part, seeing as the show has a *mixed* history with handling queer characters and topics (Justice for Talia ✊). But come on, aliens actively questioning and dismantling the rules and roles that society gave to them, all being spearheaded by a trans-coded woman who thrives in challenging the system??

I mean, hello 🏳️‍🌈��️‍⚧️

[ivoryvines]

marcus and lennier came to SERVE the rangers fr

[woodsfae]

Babylon 5 S03E17 War Without End: Part Two previous episode - table of contents

Emperor Londo of the Great Victim Complex. 

And so the fall of Babylon 5 begins, with two idiots deciding to take on Ivanova! 

DUDE sick fight moves by Susan Ivanova. And Marcus  must be internally fist-pumping that he pulle off a drop-out-of-the-ceiling attack. Style points: 1 Marcus, 100 Susan.

Zathras sees all. Zathras knows all. Poor Zathras. 

Oooooooo. Future John and Delenn have a baby! How exciting. Delenn calls Sheridan's time "so many years ago" and references the "terrible, terrible price," That's something for me to chew on. I wonder if it will be revealed this episode or is foretelling for the season 3 finale or even later. I am really not sure how the pacing on B5 goes or if they'll still be fighting the Shadows into season 5. 

The Shadows are only visible when they sleep? That's cool and unsettling information, but I'm not sure how that tracks with Londo's next reveal, which is that he is also possessed? So perhaps Londo tries to turn on the Shadows at some point and is leashed instead. 

G'Kar!! Down an eye and plus a sick leather patch. Must be time for Londo's death vision! I hope G'Kar gets to live to enjoy it. Londo caused a lot of death for the universe and the Narnuan people. Aww and then he didn't. I am a bit bummed that G'Kar's end appears to be with Londo, dying together as the Shadow possessing Londo kills G'Kar back. It is pretty punk rock of G'Kar, though. Who else has choked a shadow-possessed Centauri emperor before?? No one except G'Kar of Narn.

Right before Sheridan is pulled away, she tells him not to go to Zha'dum, but all these prophecies seem to be self-fulfilling and an inescapable part of the paradox. 

Uh-oh, why's that spacesuit doin' stuff. Ah. Never mind, it's a "yeah, Sheridan's back!" Someone slap a time stabilizer on him before he gets yote into the timestream again. 

And there goes the theft of Babylon 4!! Time heist! 

There goes Sheridan. Shoulda put a time anchor on him! 

Revised Sinclair prediction: his aging as they move towards their own time aging him is the/a reason why he gets the ole Minbari physical transformation since Minbari live so much longer, to extend his lifespan. 

Oop, Sheridan's back again. Or the space suit he was wearing is, at least. 

Yeah Susan Ivanova. she can do anything. Ivanova has B4's command station. 

Delenn in the blue spacesuit?? Plot twist!!

Hmmm, so some of what I thought Sheridan was going to do (fight 1000 years in the past) is actually Sinclair's plot. That makes more sense, actually. 

Zathras makes it all very clear: "You (Sinclair) are the one who was. You (Delenn) are the one who is. You (Sheridan) are the one who will be." 

Babylon 4, A Thousand Years Ago

Valen?? Sinclair has always been the prophet Valen!! I did not see that coming. What an entrance! Appearing to Minbar flanked by two Vorlons, arriving in a vast space station in a flash of tachyons...Sinclair is Valen. fuck, that's cool. 

Next!

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One detail I love about Babylon 5 is the Minbari headbones. For the religious caste, as Delenn is - the females of the religious caste have a smooth rounded headbone, like Delenn has. Meanwhile, the males of the religious caste, as Lennier is - have a pointy headbone, but still fairly smooth. Like Lennier has.

Now take the headbones of the warrior caste, like Neroon is - their headbones, for both male and female, are pointed and jagged, like Neroon's headbone is.

And this is something I've never really heard talked about or referenced.

[tallysgreatestfan]

Found an old empty photo book in the bulk trash, and because I wanted to put my printed out colorized artwork in a photo book since quite a while, I took it and painted it with the symbols of my main fandoms of the drawings time.

[mortalstrife]

minvember prompt 2: shame

back to my concept of branmer being a really scrappy kid who kept getting into trouble for fighting in temple

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Devil in the Dark by Euderion

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IYKYK

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Prayer

Mayroon rushed through the streets, bare feet painfully slapping the ground as she ran towards the scene of the accident, clutching her healer's kit. The first victim she saw was an achingly familiar figure, lying in a growing pool of blood.

"In Valen's name...Va'Mala. Va'Mala!"

She knelt by her father and rifled through her bag, silently praying to Valeria, to Valen, to any god or gods listening, but in her heart she knew it was in vain. There was blood everywhere, on the crystals below, on her father's clothes, staining her robes...she didn't feel prepared for this. She had only recently completed her training, had been a full-fledged healer for barely a week. The young woman pressed a hand against the wound on his side, trying to stem the flow, to do something. It was coming in spurts, she realized, an artery.

"My little ball of starstuff, a hela'mer," Mayroon heard a weak voice say beneath her, and looked down to see her father looking at her with a faint smile despite his pain.

"Va'Mala," she choked out in response, tears flowing as she frantically tried to do anything to help. "Va'Mala, please...I am afraid."

"I know, nhe'Mhayroon. You know as..." he took a shuddering breath, "as well as I that we will meet again in the next life." He reached a bloody hand up to caress her face, seemed to want to say more, but he exhaled as his hand fell.

Mayroon was speechless for a minute, trying to process what just happened. Another healer came by—she numbly realized many had been passing by, busy with other victims—and he put a hand on her shoulder.

"There will be time to mourn later," he said. "Right now, we need to help others." Nodding dumbly, Mayroon stood, following her mentor and tearing her gaze away from her father's broken form.

I accidentally erased part of it without realizing so I had to fix it lol

[midgeonsmidgeon]

delenn my beloved. :)