#N sewell

[lalizah]

But also damn woman you just want me to incinerate my mans pls 😭

So interesting tho that out of all the teams and their interactions, this one was slightly.... negative?

[inorheona]

f!UB i sketched as warmups over the week

[crownleys]

I just think that after 300 years the inside jokes have to be something else

[calnexin]

drawing request! wayhaven!alina...perhaps book 4 if you've played...

wayhaven Alina.. that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time

[redborowski]

You spent whole night doing mystery detective work and Nat was worrying about you. She tries to act like it’s not a big deal but she’s upset. Your actions??

[trixdraws]

"It seems you don't realise just how much you mean to me, ya rouhi. Allow me to show you how much."

[artsyaprilmr]

Nat's mirror scene for @nsewell! Thank you <333

[wayhavenmemes]

[napo-leo-art]

Ladiessss

[serenpedac]

Similar observations have probably been made before about A & N, but I wanted to write this down anyway.

To start off this year, I'm reading The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen. The book has a section on historical same-sex friendships that reminded me very much of A & N. These quotes in particular:

Men in the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries had same-sex friendships that---in one historian's words---"verged on romance."

And:

Not only were forms of affection out in the open; the emotional intensity and physicality that we now associate almost exclusively with romantic relationships was then a hallmark of friendship.

There's also a part about how students at women's colleges would basically woo each other if someone caught their eye, sending notes and gifts, "until [...] the two become inseparable."*

Thinking about A and N, who have lived through these periods, it's easy to see the signs of this kind of relationship in the way they interact with each other: all those touches between them, how they know each other so well they can hold entire conversations by exchanging a single look, how comfortable they are with challenging each other when they disagree (there's a lot of trust involved in being able to disagree like they do at times, I think) etc.

Their relationship blurs the lines between different forms of relationships (platonic, romantic), because their existence spans across centuries, all with their own views on and customs regarding those various relationships.

*Considering the history of erasing queer relationships, I think it's important to note that some of these relationships were sexual, but, as mentioned in the book, we shouldn't overcompensate and assume that all of them were.

[oo-bb]

hi so this is how i feel towards n sewell okay byeeee

[zutaralesbian]

It’s been a minute since I’ve talked about Wayhaven but that post about N Sewell I just reblogged got me thinking.

I think it’s interesting that N and A essentially switch roles when it comes to the MC in book 3 during the love triangle route.

N is deathly afraid of something happening to the MC and losing them. Thus, they get overprotective and want to keep MC out of the action as much as possible.

A, on the other hand, goes in the opposite direction. Obviously, they don’t want anything bad to happen to the MC either. But they advocate for the MC to get the chance to protect themselves and not be kept out of the action. In fact, there are two separate occasions in book 3 where we see A get annoyed with N because they feel that they’re smothering the MC.

In book 1 however, N is the vampire who is strongly convinced that the MC deserved to know the truth. Whereas A was adamant that they be kept in the dark for their own protection.

I don’t think either one is better than the other necessarily (though I do have my preference tbh) but I think it shows that they love differently. Part of the reason A falls in love with the MC is because of how capable and strong they find them to be. The way they trust the MC to be able to handle themselves in a way they didn’t when they first met them is a form of love language for them.

N, meanwhile, becomes blinded when it comes to love as others have mentioned. I don’t think it’s a matter of them not thinking the MC is strong and capable. There’s plenty of dialogue in the books before 3 that show that’s not true at all. But they’re just so consumed with love that nothing really matters to them except making sure the MC is okay.

[crownleys]

A Kofi monthly subscriber reward for @nat-seal-well! They asked for Ava and Nat, and I loved the idea of the two of them on their way home from a tough mission in their past. Thank you so much for your support!

[malavies]

soooo embarrassing that unit bravo immediately knows when the detective has a crush on one of them…

[redborowski]

Natalie Sewell💕🩸

[trixdraws]

So.

How'd y'all survive the Love Triangle?

Because my red-haired detective was absolutely TORN BETWEEN THESE TWO