#SAVE ME DEVASTATING LOVE LYRA X GRAYSON

[lyrakanefanatic]

OKAY SO I KNOW THAT THE GRANDEST GAME WAS JUST THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE SERIES, BUT I JUST WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY JLB HAS TO MAKE GRAYSONLYRAS LOVE STORY AS DEVASTATING AS POSSIBLE.

hear me out—a coriolanus x lucy gray type relationship. (except pretend corio is sane pls 🫶😊)

lyra keeps finding more and more evidence of what the hawthornes did to her father, drawing her away from grayson.

grayson keeps getting warned by family (prob alice), people who knew lyras father, etc. that being affiliated with lyra was a bad choice (kind of like how it was with corio’s grandma and also casca highbottom)

lyra feels that all this evidence is a sign that having any affiliations with the hawthornes is a bad bad idea, and we already see some of these realizations grow throughout the grandest game.

but grayson, on the other hand, is determined to (ignore the haters 😊) prove their accusations wrong, and still feels drawn to lyra no matter what.

i know that this seems like a copy of hannah x toby, but i really want a sort of lucy gray x coriolanus “haunting the narrative” type love that has a bit of hannah x toby in it. although knowing jlb, if she attempts to lead this plot line on, it’s just going to be a carbon copy of hannah and toby’s love story 😪

i want this kind of love. i want lyra to feel at odds with him. i want grayson to understand this, but love her anyway.

i want him to have to make a choice between losing her or loving her, and instead of making the same choice toby did, i want grayson to choose to love her despite it being the more selfish choice, because he is selfish and he wants her. I WANT THAT!!! PLEASE!!