#adbell

[maumausie]

Am I the only one who thinks about how impersonal Bell’s death was?

Like, from their perspective, the man who’d been their best friend for decades, fought alongside them, betrayed them. Even if they had some time to process it between the interrogation and Solovetsky, it had to have hurt.

Especially because he didn’t even give them the decency of an intimate death. That was phrased weird but let me cook.

It was just a bullet wound. He didn’t even give them an emotionally charged death. Not even point-blank. Adler was standing few feet away from him. I feel like they would’ve been more content if they’d been, say, stabbed or strangled. Because at least then they’d know Adler felt something towards them. But Adler didn’t do that. He downed them like he would’ve any other target. Quick. Disinterested.

Even after giving up everything, he still took more. He put them down, just like what he thought they were. A dog.

[mellosdrawings]

Bell, after having their brain toyed with so much they can't even remember the concept of gender anymore.

Giving you the opportunity to make your character NB when they've been canonically brainwashed into becoming a whole other person might be the funniest thing the COD franchise has ever done. I'm eating it up so much.

[tomialtooth]

Listen, I know why people like to have Adler and Bell get their own happily ever after where they can be domestic and in love or whatever. I understand the appeal. But man I NEED more of adbell being fucking weird and violent. The line between hate and love is incredibly thin further blurred by all the shit they did to bell's brain. They're enemies but also allies, then enemies again and allies once more. They're old friends, they've only known each other for a few months, they went through hell in Da Nang together, Bell has literally never been to Vietnam, Bell's a highly skilled professional Adler trusts the skills of, Adler literally does not think of bell as a person. And all of these are all mixing and overlapping. Give me the dubiousness of how much of Bell's attraction to Adler is genuinely his own versus how much of it was either accidentally or deliberately imprinted into his brain! If Bell has Adler's memories of Vietnam then part of Bell's personality and psyche is actually Adler's. And if Adler is attracted to Bell then this begs the question of whether or not Adler is actually attracted to Bell or rather to the reflection of himself within Bell?

[idiotrxccoon]

im going to improve my Chinese just to be able to read this

Throws Adbell at you

and some 🔔

[codderanged]

Thinking about Bell who slowly falls for Adler as simple “this is my boss” turns to “I admire this man’s skill” to “I admire this man” to “I want him.” And Adler wants Bell too. Wants who he turned them into, at least. Because damn is it hot the way Bell knows exactly how to respond to his cues and how to understand Adler’s thought processes. (Of course it’s the narcissist in Adler who simply likes someone on his level. And of course Bell is on his level. They’re made from parts of him.)

But Adler knows he can’t have Bell. It’d fuck everything up. But the stress of the pining actually helps Bell’s memories resurface and when they finally realize what happened with the brainwashing the feel more betrayed than anything ever thought possible. And even worse, cherry on top, they know what’s next. They know that either they betray and kill Adler or they help him and they’re dead.

What Bell chooses is ultimately up to their previous morals.

Arguably a Bell that used to feel love like a devotee would keep Adler alive. Let the last thing they did be for him and for the world. Perhaps they can at least live in Adler’s good graces and in his memories.

But a bell who was self preserving above all else? Dead. Adler is dead without a second thought. The betrayal they feel is only another reason they stab into him a few more times and they stare at his dead body for a few minutes longer.

[ladysouthpaw1213]

Adler singing headcannons

sometimes in private, when no ones around, Adler will sing to himself once in a while.

Has a pretty at least decent singing voice, all thing considered

The only people that he lets his guard down to sing is his lover(Bell, Reader, OC etc) and his children(sometimes sings to them to calm them down or help them sleep)

(Likes, Comments and Reblogs are appreciated)

[nellyyowo]

who did you leave in cuba, bell?

[altcvnningham]

"it was never personal" you were the first person bell saw as you brought them back from the brink of death on that airstrip, you saved them and made yourself the axis upon which their entire worldview rests, you place yourself in the centre of a life they never lived and you took whatever they had left and replaced it with yourself. "it was never personal" you clambered below ground among the waste and filth to cross the fucking berlin wall with them, slinking through abandoned tunnels and through dilapidated houses scrawled with graffiti left by war torn lovers, and muttered praise in their ear knowing it's the only true affection you'll ever give. "it was never personal" you took them with you to berlin, across sentry-lit rooftops. you took them with you to lubyanka, and hid in the dark with them. you took them to that clifftop, vast and serene, and chose that as the one place fit enough to put down your sick dog, maybe because you don't want anyone else to take them anywhere if it's not you holding the leash. "it was never personal" you named them. you named them. you named them.

[ratking369]

Bell oh Bell

[nakhoda-nacho]

Connection

Made a doodle from my mind at work just now (yeah, being employed, thus the long hiatus lol)

Not gonna lie, I LOVE how this came out on the cardboard box. Really missed them ngl

[artistcalledbella]

a job to do

[mellosdrawings]

Average AdBell experience: stab, kiss, bite, knead

[tomialtooth]

[minnowink]

say it.

[strawcherrys]

This picture of him always kills me because it's like he's pulling you aside like "don't embarrass me," or "don't fuck this up," 😭it's silly but it makes me laugh

[unmotivatedartistry]

Cold war doodles.

Do with it what you will. Majority of it is just Adler studies. Doodles in Polish school turned digital.