fem jc! is pregnant when she’s captured by the wens, but it’s early on and wwx doesn’t know. and she miscarries during her torture becoming another thing that makes her miserable that she intends to keep from wwx so he won’t be hurt or pity her or stay with her out of obligation. maybe jc can’t get pregnant anymore and that was their only possible baby
wwx stays by her bedside wracked with worry and guilt, falls asleep crouched next to jc and holding her hand. core transfer doesn’t happen, they get married instead (wwx attempt at protecting his shimei) but ofc they don’t communicate and wwx thinks jc isn’t interested anymore, and jc thinks wwx pities her
so wwx takes revenge for his darling wife, and brings her wen chao’s and wen zhuliu’s heads
HIS DARLING WIIFFEEE STOP IT. wei wuxian doing the cat thing and bringing jiang cheng sweet little dead things as a symbol of devotion...THAT'S romance <3
jiang cheng with no core and no baby :( she must have agonized over how to tell him, how he’d react. must have let herself dream just once of a sunlit future where he's thrilled and he wants her and the baby and they stay together forever. and then the worst thing in the world happens and lotus pier burns and her parents are murdered and her core and baby are stolen from her. all possible futures gone, just like that. so maybe it's a good thing, in the end, that she kept her mouth shut, if it was just going to end like this. she'll never know how wei wuxian would have felt about the baby and wei wuxian never has to know what he lost. this, too, is a sacrifice.
Oh fuck. I just realized smth. Idk if anyone on the dash has watched nana but the way the two leads care very deeply for eachother and are kinda/very (depending on how u look at it) gay for eachother but simply don’t have the sexual attraction to eachother and sadly grow very far apart from one another is the Darla and Janne dynamic
Brain is in overdrive about the thought of Elyse and Balgruuf having a child together
Like I don't know if they will - Balgruuf already has Frothar, Dagny, and Nelkir, and Elyse loves them like they were her own children (Nelkir even starts calling her mother before long after she and Balgruuf get married)
But Balgruuf would be terrified, at least in the context of my fic and my interpretation of his past. He's already lost the two mothers of his children, he doesn't want to lose Elyse too. He fears it's a curse. That he is the factor that led to losing them. And he knows he isn't the best father. Being a single father for the longest of times whilst also being Jarl means he wasn't the most hands-on as a parent. He's getting better, he's learning from his mistakes of the past, but he's scared of being a screw up again. Plus at that point Nelkir would most definitely be in his teens, and Frothar (possibly also Dagny depending on when) may be adults so it has been a while since there's been a baby in Dragonsreach!!!
But anyway! If they did have a child, it'd most definitely be a daughter and it would probably happen after the Skyrim civil war is ended. Maybe a few years after. That'd put Elyse in her early 30s or thereabouts (they marry when Elyse is 28, and the war is still happening then at that point for context). And I'd say that there's a 20-ish year age gap between them based on a little part I've written for an upcoming chapter meaning that Balgruuf would be in his early 50s at that point? On a side note I've always envisioned Balgruuf having a summer birthday, and Elyse I very specifically feel has a birthday on 6th Feb/Sun's Dawn... for some reason. And if they did have a child Elyse would ask if her mother's name could be used, or at least an influence.
.... I've thought about this a lot for something that might not even happen.
Thinking about the paths in hsr and how some inform so much about the characters once you figure out the logic behind them, and specifically about ratio longing for nous's recognition but following lan's path - he's obviously a scholar, so him being an erudition character would have made a lot of sense when you don't think too deeply about it, but despite characters with less ties to knowledge walking that path ratio does not. He follows the path of the hunt. And that's a very cool fact about him imho
During his quest screwllum says that more than a scholar he feels like ratio's a doctor with the way he tries to cure people of their ignorance, which isn't strictly wrong and I love that about him (and I love about screwllum that he thinks so poetically too), but the way I see it ratio really is a hunter. He does follow lan's path, when you think about it. His travels are all about his fight against ignorance, after all. Thinking about him and his relationship to the aeons really put a lot of things about the paths into perspective for me - I thought the paths were somewhat more literal, but after all it's about the driving force behind a character's actions, is it not?
Nous is the unrelenting pursuit of the truth, of knowledge and information, and that's why someone like argenti follows that path despite being the furthest thing from a scholar you could think of - his travels are first and foremost about finding the truth about idrila, after all. On the other hand ratio isn't actively devoting his life to finding a truth or amassing more knowledge, and that's why nous won't look at him. He is extremely intelligent and competent, and he does value learning above all else, but his main pursuit is to use that knowledge to rid the universe of ignorance, and that's why he follows lan's path - the hunt is the path of those devoting their life to fighting against something, in the end, be it a literal enemy or a figurative one.
It's really really interesting to me? There's a ton of characters that are given depth by understanding their path, I love to think about it
(this is not a rant with correct spelling or grammar)
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Shadow&bone s2 spoilers!!!
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS S2 OF SHADOW&BONE??????? WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK??? i’ve just finished it. i have so many feelings about it. this is me still in shock not having processed any of it YET and i.. like... WHAT THE FUCK???? and like i love it so fucking much and at the same time i’m in so much shock AND THAT PURELY EVIL CLIFFHANGER?!?!?!?! WHATTTTTT also it means s3 (if there is going to be one) will be the bloody ICE COURT HEIST and i feel a very strong need to read SOC and CK all over again because OH MY FUCKING GOD AND ALL THE SAINTS ABOVE i can’t. OH AND WESPER FUCKING GORGEOUS asagfjeilijf