#Namor thoughts

[free-for-all-fics]

Namor fic ideas free for the taking! Just please tag me if you write something inspired by these. More than one person can pick the same prompt, and multiple prompts can be used by the same person. There are no rules.

1. Despite his hatred for the surface, Namor kidnaps adopts a surface dweller child. He whisks her away to a secret cave where he teaches her how to paint stories on the walls and builds a home for her there, giving her all the love and fine things she could ask for. Jewelry, dresses, books, anything her heart desires is hers. He gives her the best education he can provide, teaching her the language and history of Talokan. He’s recognized her as his heir despite the outrage and confusion it may cause. But as his daughter grows older, she becomes lonely and sad from being cooped up in the caves all the time and/or watched by Talokonil guards since she can’t breathe underwater. She can’t go anywhere alone. She misses the sun, dislikes not having any real friends, and struggles with feeling like an outcast. Namor keeps reassuring her that she’s Princess no matter what, that he’s working on something so she can breathe and survive the pressure underwater to be able to live in Talokan and take her place as Queen one day, but she feels undeserving of all that she’s been given.

She doesn’t remember her life before Namor, but starts to question what it must’ve been like - who her birth parents are, did she have friends, does anyone miss her?, etc. She doesn’t feel worthy of being Princess, future Queen, or even his daughter. Namor is at a loss, having kept his precious daughter hidden from the dangers and evils of the outside world for as long as he could. But maybe it’s time to show her the land and the sky? He’s heard from his mother about a place where the air is pristine and the water… a protected land where people never have to leave or change who they are…

2. Little Mermaid AU where Namor’s daughter is very curious and in love with the surface despite her father’s warnings and strict orders that she stay away from the land. She sneaks away a lot and goes undetected for a long time, but slips up and gets caught eventually. When Namor finds out, he’s so angry. The anger comes from a place of love and fear of losing his daughter and only child but still. They get in an argument and despite reader imploring her father to reconsider declaring war and attacking Wakanda, he won’t listen. She reluctantly gears up for battle and steps up to fight for her people as is her duty as Princess and heir to Talokan.

The reason Namor yields to Shuri is because his daughter, who didn’t want to be forced to choose a side like this, gets trapped in the aircraft with him and dried out, her injuries far worse than his. Despite her weakened state, she still stood her ground on the desert beach, trying to stop Shuri and her father from killing each other. She gets hit by the fighter aircraft explosion instead of Namor after pushing him out of the way. Namor, seeing his daughter lying near-motionless in the sand from the heat, her skin burned from the fire and littered in wounds, is scared for his only child’s life. As she flickers in and out of consciousness, he agrees to the alliance and Shuri helps get them both to water. Back in Talokan, Namor watches over and reconciles with his beloved child as they both recover from their battle injuries.

3. Tangled/Rapunzel AU: Reader grows up on the surface, raised as human all her life. She’s had a hard existence because she was born with pointed ears and got bullied and harassed because of it. She wears beanies and hoods all the time to hide them. Weirdly her family forbids her from swimming or going near large bodies of water - even to the point of having lived in landlocked areas most of her life. During a certain time of year, around her birthday, the waves and current seem more volatile and violent, the wrath of the sea unrelenting - causing many disappearances and deaths at sea. Sometimes the bodies are never found. As dumb, thrill-seeking, rebellious teens/young adults often do, she and her small group of friends go against her family’s orders and sneak out for night surfing/swimming. Things go to hell when weird white feathers start sprouting from her ankles and she wipes out on the waves, only for a man to start talking to her in a language she doesn’t understand. She realizes she can breathe and hear underwater. Wait, what? What the hell?

The strange man tells her not to worry about the feathers; she’s just a late bloomer. What does that even mean??? She’s freaked. Nope. This isn’t happening. No. This is too weird. She’s concussed. The waves must’ve hit her head too hard and she’s hallucinating. Or maybe she hit her head on the surfboard? Things go from bad to worse when the strange man with features like hers claims to be her father. He’s scoured the sky and sea for her all these years, and now it’s time for her to come home. She’s the long lost Princess, the King’s only child, kidnapped from Talokan as a baby. And the feathered serpent god wants his revenge on the surface dwellers who stole his sweet baby girl all those years ago. He wants his daughter back. And he won’t let anything or anyone stand in his way of taking her home or carrying out his vengeance. She’s coming back with him to Talokan, whether she likes it or not.

4. Reader has a hard time adjusting to being the future queen of Talokan. The many history, etiquette and language lessons, exhaustive combat training, and culture shock of having to rule over a whole kingdom of underwater people that she may not have known existed until recently and keep them safe and happy is a lot on her shoulders. Homesickness may kick in as she feels the stares or hears the whispers of gossip from passerby about doubts of her being a good queen since she was born a surface dweller. Angsty as the wedding day approaches and reader is so stressed and gets pre marital jitters so bad she considers breaking off the engagement because she doesn’t think she’s worthy of being queen. But Namor shows her that she’s perfect for the title.

5. Andromeda myth AU where reader is chained to a large rock by the sea as a sacrifice to appease a sea monster. Namor is either the sea monster she’s sacrificed to or he’s Perseus and is the one who saves her. Or perhaps Namor is both her sea monster and her savior? Dark? Angsty? Fluffy? It’s up to you.

6. Namor isn’t new to being a king and leader. But he is new to being a father. Balancing both his roles has proven to be more challenging than he originally thought. Especially when his one and only heir is just a baby/toddler who gets scared/separation anxiety when he has to go away to attend to pressing matters too complicated for such a small child to understand. His little one cries up a storm that’s so loud he swears it shakes the palace walls. His child is inconsolable any time he must leave them. Namor has tried to comfort his baby by telling them he’ll be back soon, only for their crying to start up again when he tried to hand them off to another Talokanil. He feels so guilty about leaving his child so often that he’s started bringing them with him whenever he can (only if he deems it safe enough, of course). He sits them on his lap/knee or cradles them in a sling he drapes across his shoulder and torso, made of only the finest fabrics. Holding them close while he’s on his throne or in a meeting, using one of his arms to play with his baby and keep them entertained/distracted with a toy (It’s his heir; he doesn’t want them to cry again and it’s good for them to listen in on Royal affairs sometimes since they’ll inherit the throne one day.)

However, someone isn’t very pleased at seeing Namor with a baby on his lap and has the nerve to voice it out loud. “K'uk'ulkan, we must— Is that your child??” And when Namor is about to introduce the little Prince/Princess, this person digs the hole deeper and says something along the lines of, “Remember your place, K’uk’ulkan. You’re a king first and a father second.” And hoooooo boy Namor is not having that. How very dare this person not only have the audacity to tell him to remember his place while forgetting their own, but how to raise his child? Incensed feathered serpent god, protective loving father.

[heartoferebor]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Men’s Tits edition

[aolechan]

“He embodies so much of what I had read Namor to be.” Joel Harlow - Makeup Dept Head & Special Makeup Designer.

Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Namor in ASSEMBLED: THE MAKING OF BLACK PANTHER WAKANDA FOREVER (2022)

[pizzee]

In the final battle between namor and shuri, when namor is fighting to win and shuri is fighting to kill, she’s about to end it when she stops. When her all consuming quest for vengeance fueled by an anger that’s turned from inward to outward (anger at herself for not noticing her brother’s illness, for being too slow, for not making the heart shaped herb fast enough, for not being able to save him, for not being there when he died).

And the shots reverse. The destruction is undone, everything goes back to normal. But not because she kills namor, but because she doesn’t. Because she puts an end to the cycle of destruction, of colonialism turning peoples against each other, of generational trauma, of grief. Because Queen Ramonda speaks to her, and namor’s mother reaches out to him.

She demands he yield but it’s more than that. He yields but it’s more than that. It’s ending the ceaseless grief that’s been haunting them both for so long, it’s ending the violence that would’ve haunted their people for eternity. Stopping the violence the oppressors who seek to exploit them want to see, and the violence they themselves want to inflict. Namor adds a new painting to his wall, imoritalizing the end of something ancient. Shuri burns her funeral robes, marking the beginning of something new. And while they’ve both loved and lost and lost so much more, death is of course, not an end. It’s a stepping off point into something new. Beyond grief and rage. Into healing.

Or at least, the start of it.

[valninja]

“Then keep me instead... I’d love to see your nation.”

“You can’t come down there in that.”

[livstarlight]

The conversation between Namora and Namor at the end of Wakanda Forever literally be the meme in another font of: "I know you think my judgment is clouded because I like her a little bit" "You doodled your wedding invitation" "No that's our joined tombstone" "My mystake"

EXCEPT HE MADE A WHOLE MURAL

[xfactor7aurora]

ARE YOU READY FOR A VAGUELY ALPHA FLIGT ART DUMP!!!

My beautiful wife....

Uhm did you guys know namor is the beaubier twins dad this is canon and true and you cannot change it. Also hi casual rora

Idc if pride month is over.... They're still special or smthn

Anywho.. more giant sized X men au purely bc it's stupid fluff... Laura is hyoerfixated on sonic btw idk if you knew it's real and true

Who's baby is that... Idk.... Who knows.... Uhm... Anyway

Honest to god it pains me knowing that I spent so much time on this but if y'all didn't know Walter (aka sasquatch aka roras ex) has an ex wife and grown son by the time he's in alpha flight. Which is. upsetting! But anyway drew him and Vanessa and their child bc I think it's weird that we never got it.. idk! Fuck you Walter

Anyway thanks bye... Sorry for the art dump xoxoxo

[aquavierra]

So, I have been thinking about this lately. If now TVA allowed every single branch to grow, wouldn't it be possible that millions of the branches are just smutty MCU pairings fanfictions?

[scarlethood]

when it comes to character comparisons between marvel and dc one i never see talked about despite the characters both filling lets call it an ecological niche are jason todd and namor the sub mariner who a lot of times are used as the 'friendly face antagonist'. these two jump back and forth from "good guy" to "bad guy" depending on the writer and by what the writer wants to use them for. both tend to have very extreme reactions to injustice that get them labled as antagonists even if theyre right, such as when pollution is the focus for namor and his people are being murdered by fishing companies who wont follow or dont have regulations but his response is to kill those guys or when drug are the focus for red hood and children in his neighborhood are being killed by dangerous cut product but his response is to kill those guys. these emotional reactionary responses keep them at the top of writers lists of 'good guy who intimately knows our hero amd challenges their worldview but can be used as a bad guy because they go too far' and i think theyre wonderful

[thevibraniumveterans]

“Black Panther Wakanda Forever” has a supporting cast of actors and actresses, without whom the story may not have been as effective. Sure, our main leads and the secondary characters are cool and awesome, and the story is amazing, but it’s people like the ones above who play small but very important roles in the story.

Having a young boy witness the trauma of his people be subject to horrors no child should be privy to, and hold on to that fear and rage with a grip so tight it transforms into vengeance that burns within a god-king hell-bent on protecting his people… little Manuel Chavez may not have been onscreen long, but his presence very much informed the charismatic K’uk’ulkan who is both filled with rage and kindness in equal measure.

Like Manuel, Irma-Estel LaGuerre and María Mercedes Coroy may not have been onscreen much, but their portrayal of a mother who, for the sake of her unborn son, must ingest a concoction to save both her and her people from the raging fires of colonialism resonates with many. In the film, K’uk’ulkan wonders what it is like to be a people in a pristine land who never have to leave. His mother loved him, cared for him, and wished for him to bury her in the land she loved so much, even if it was being desecrated by people who most certainly did not belong there to begin with. LaGuerre and Coroy portrayed a woman who had so much love to give, yet lost so much; it is to nobody’s surprise that her son adopted the name “Namor”, itself shortened from “el niño sin amor”, the child without love.

Without Josué Maychi, there may well not have been the inclusion of the Yucatec Mayan language in the film. Maychi’s role as the shaman who was guided by a god to retrieve a plant grown in Vibranium-rich soil to heal his smallpox-afflicted people is very important to the story, as without him, Talokan is as good as nonexistent. It is thanks to the shaman that Talokan was able to thrive as we see it do in the film.

María Telón Soc portrays a Mayan elder in the film. Her role, though small, is crucial as she is one of the guiding forces who help convince K’uk’ulkan mother to ingest the herbal drink to save her and her unborn son. Like the other actors and actresses mentioned above, she may not have been onscreen for long, but her presence informs the decisions we see the other Mayan-Talokanil make.

[wanderingmind867]

I swear, marvel just has characters who are way more relatable than DC. Probably because I find that a lot of marvel characters are lonely misfits or outcasts with issues like isolation, anger issues, depression, self doubt, etc. Marvel has so many characters like that. The Hulk, Doctor Strange, Namor, The Silver Surfer, Cyclops (the x-men more broadly apply, but cyclops is most relatable to me), The Vision, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Hank Pym, Iron Man (the man pushes friends away because of his heart condition), I could really go on and on. There's so many relatable characters at Marvel.

Are there as many relatable characters at DC? No. No, there isn't. Martian Manhunter and Red Tornado have the loneliness and outcast issue i talked about, and guy Gardner and Jason Todd have anger issues like me, but a lot of their bigger heroes just seem boring and well-adjusted. DC still has some characters I like, but it really feels like their big characters don't stand up to the big hitters at marvel. Which is probably why I do often want to just be able to restart DC from scratch. They have so many issues, for me.

[namor-shuri]

Me: I hope we get a future Namor x Shuri kiss scene

*casually comes across this video on Twitter*

Me:

Go on without me y’all. It’s been fun while it lasted✌🏾*reevaluates everything and changes blog theme to something entirely different*

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[romanogers-lyrics]

We need to talk about this moment more!

When Shuri is confiding in Namor about her grief and her anger, she turns to him and asks (can't remember the exact words) "what is the point of it?" Namor pauses. You can tell he's thinking of the right thing to say, the wise thing to say. He says- "I do not have the answer for that."

He does not manipulate her emotions to his own cause, persuade her to take his side, or fan her anger. In fact he shows vulnerability in admitting that he, A 500 year old GOD, does not have the answers.

If Namor was a villain or selfish or manipulative from the beginning he would not have given her such an honest answer. He treated her as an equal from the start you cannot convince me otherwise!!!!

[tenochconamor]

Shuri felt safe around Namor.

A year of her mom, her closest friends and family trying to get Shuri to open up about her grief was ineffective. However, after this King who everyone was afraid of, shared his life story, his history, his culture and his secrets with her she felt safe enough to share her complex feelings about her brother's death to him. Grief she had buried within for a year was laid bare, practically spilling her guts to him, in the face of Namor's own openness and vulnerability.

I think Shuri still longs for the connection she had with Namor even after everything that happened. She's more untethered than ever before and longs for the only person she ever felt that instant connection to but she can't go to him because it's not easy to forgive. So she goes to Haiti, the beach, as close to the water as she can and she cries.

[fandomsleaveuemotionallyscarred]

On the topic of the bracelet, there is something else I would like to point out.

Not only was it his Mother's bracelet(which in itself is a huge thing). That bracelet was made by the Shaman as a promise to his mother that her child would be the ruler of their people

And he gave that bracelet to Shuri. And he didn't just hand it to her, no, he placed the bracelet around her wrist as gently and as ceremonial as the Shaman did to his mother.

Moreover, while he told her that the quote "Shaman was convincing" and only after putting on the bracelet he stated that "It was made with the plant that saved Talocan". From this I'm guessing he didn't tell her exactly how the Shaman convinced his mother.

So I'm guessing Shuri didn't know that he just kinda made her the Queen of Talocan

[thegirloffans]

*Shuri watching a woman flirting with Namor from her Palace balcony*

Shuri, dead serious: We don't do executions anymore?

Okoye barely paying attention bc she's watching Attuma get hit on as well: No, my Queen.

Shuri: We might have to bring that back.

Okoye: We just might.