#beatriss

[provincara]

Rereading the Lumatere Chronicles and damn so many of the couples in this series had horrible first impressions like???? Finnikin was so pissed when Isaboe joined him and Topher and then even more pissed when he realized she was just as smart as him, Trevanion yelled at Beatriss for being incompetent and then she slapped him in the face when HE was incompetent, Froi called Quintana a whore when he was like 5 feet from her room, pretty sure Perri and Tesadora tried to kill each other at some point?? even more minor couples like August and Abian ("pity the man who shares her bed" sir that would be YOU) and Harker and Jorja ("he hated me for the first five years of our marriage!") And don't even get me started on Lucian and Phaedra

But then they all kind of juxtapose beautifully with Grijio and Florenza's meet-cute at the end of the series, like after all of the horrific things that happened to these people there's some hope for goodness in the future ya know? like finally a good start

[archersgoon]

anyway the only real issue with short perri is that it makes drawing anything with him and trevanion a fucking nightmare

[quietflorilegium]

“He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.”

Melina Marchetta, "Finnikin of the Rock"

[the-needle-witch]

A standard issue (us?) military can-opener- the kind that comes from the food bank, on the neck of my friend, Runyoun (Daniel)

[ghost-mafia]

His long dark eyelashes rest so perfectly against the smooth plain of his cheek, beautiful to me but not to himself. His fluttery, often-frustrsted hands are at rest, beautiful too, thin and long fingered, capable and romantic, like a piano player or a poet, and

the poetry he writes is perfect to me, too, in the way that car crashes and motor cycle accidents are perfect, and somehow just as thrilling to read as it was to car-crash my car again and again before i knew him.

Our hearts are dark together, pressed close through our chests, like twins in a womb, mirroring trauma and love and vicious rage and retaliation and pain and more love and pure sex.

With no rules, we would destroy one another. Or we would survive one another and get better, quit being junkie skum fux and live a normal life together, and heal somehow from all the awful, soul-ruining shit that made us how we are, the shit that makes us perfect for each other, with a sense of massive, life-shattering gravity pulling us closer together until a kind of singilarity occurs.

The twitch and ache for closeness, the agony of yearning so completely for the other person. Comfort is telling myself that he was there with me this whole time: the frailty of getting sick and almost dying, the frailty of being vulnerable in front of someone despite knowing they could irrepairably damage you by you just trusting them with ur nakedness.

How i have cried. How i longed for him. Its the way i knew him in my mind beofre i ever met him, how i wished for him all those years i was alone alone alone, especially alone with other people, the way emptiness hurt so bad that i had to let it out, make it into an image on my skin. I love every single slice and scratch that ever marched across his skin, each one is a demarcation of a singular moment that hurt, just like my tattoos, but rendered in scar tissue...

We are inverted negatives of each other, incomplete without the other, and how it made me cry to realize that id never been a complete person until he fit up against me like an answer to my whole life's questioning, like a puzzle piece that has only one interlocking piece that reveals a new and beautiful picture: all the possibility of the world suddenly seen in startling clarity, like telling the truth for the first fucking time. Oh, i thought, you stupid, stupid girl- SO this is what love feels like, real visceral, in the flesh amd bone. I want to give him life but my body rebels, rejects my want, wont fulfill my wishes. In this i would have the opportunity to grow and become the version of myself that i was always waiting to become- a refugee from an alternate dimension, a pirate with no gold and no wind fuckin sail with, wasted years rotting and falling away, shedding all that pain of not being together. It agonizes me that he was there all along, a familar stranger i would come to love so dearly that it sucks the breath out of my chest.

[roobylavender]

i just reread 'saving francesca' and enjoyed every second of the gang again! but am i the only one is hooked to every line of robert and mia, it's only on my reread, i'm noticing how much i adore those two. especially through frankie's fantastic narration

two of my favorite marchetta excerpts ever come from scenes between bob and mia

"take away your job and take away your kids and who are you, robert?" she asked once, over dinner. "your husband," he said, in what she calls his droll voice. "then take away me and who are you?" "take away you, the kids, and my job? is this a trick question? i'm dead, right?"

and ofc

"are you and daddy going to be okay?" i ask her. "why do you ask?" "because people grow out of people. you've known him for over twenty years." "i've known you for seventeen and i haven't grown out of you and i never will. why should it be different for daddy?" "because i'm your flesh and blood." "oh god, frankie, i breathe in rhythm with that man. you think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?"

and and i also love this narration about bob

my dad's a builder and i love that about him. his name is robert and my mum calls him bob the builder. they've known each other since they were my age, so they're kind of like best friends. he's a bit immature, and i know that some of my mum's friends think she should have outgrown him years ago. some of his friends joke around that he should never have let her go and get her masters, as if the control was all his. that's what i love about bob the builder. he doesn't give a damn what his friends or family say. he doesn't give a damn that his wife has a dozen more degrees than he ever will. he works for himself, refusing to expand because he reckons it will change everything. i think my dad just likes what he does and who he is. sometimes my mum and her friends ask each other what they'd do if they had another life. my dad's answer is always the same. he'd marry a girl called mia and they've have two kids.

[gia-olir]

drew two of my ocs

left : Beatriss

right : Natasha

they are twin sisters btw, but their mom put Beatriss up for adoption and kept Natasha, letting Beatriss live a normal life, while abusing and traumatising Natasha, and I tried to use dynamics in their character art

[ugh-whyy]

A portrait of Beatriss. I haven't used ibisPaintX or similar apps for years, so I'm a bit rusty. But I like how this turned out, roughness and all. Hopefully you all like it too. Click for better quality.

[dangermousie]

I forgot how much I wanted to murder Evanjalin in the beginning of that series.

“I am gonna get you sent as a condemned slave to the mines with no warning in hopes this will further my restoration plan” is…ummmm.

The thing is, on reread I know and get her deep trauma and drive and need for vengeance and justice. But it still does not sit well with me, and never will. I both get why Finnikin gets over it and yet can never fully get over it myself.

The thing is, Finnikin x Evanjalin/Isaboe is very much the gender-reversed trope of sunshine girl x deeply fucked up hardened dude. And unlike fucked up x fucked up set up (see Warner x Juliette in Shatter Me, Dred x Jael in Dred Queen or even Froi x Quintana in this very series, not to mention 10x other stories) which is my favorite ship set up ever, the problem with sunshine x fucked up always becomes "well, I see what the fucked up one gets out of it, but how about the sunshine one?" In a lot of stories this gets circumvented by the fact that the mess is actually providing physical protection (the usual this is a dangerous environment/someone wants sunshine one dead/etc set up.) But Marchetta does not make it this easy here - Finnikin can fight just fine and he does not need protection from Isaboe (who cannot offer it anyway.) In fact, all the danger he faces is BECAUSE of Isaboe. The author thrusts it in your face and dares you to understand how trauma and desperation and cause can make people ugly and desperate and do all sorts of awful things. When I first read the trilogy, I ended up liking both Isaboe and Isaboe x Finnikin but it took me a very long time to get there and this is such an interesting thing. She is a person who will always put her cause above any person (even at the very end, if it came to cause v Finnikin, we know what she’d pick) and it’s a rare set up.

PS AAAAAAA Trevanion!!!! Our first glimpse of present day Trevanion.

Trevanion, Daddy of Finnikin and Daddy in every sense of that term.

He is actually probably my favorite character in this series (except Froi.) I find his character (and Lady Beatriss) such a heartbreaking deconstruction of a perfect warrior, perfect knight, perfect commander with a perfect oath and a perfect chivalric love story with a perfect lady. And then it's all destroyed in the most horrifying, brutal, prolonged, thorough way. And he's left alive and then what...

Out of all the happy endings in this series, I honestly find his and Beatriss' the most heartbreakingly hard won. They have some of the worst trauma but also unlike a lot of the other characters, they are not young and also they remember many years of peace and happiness and "before" so it's harder to adjust because of that as well.

[ellatamara]

Marigold | Beatriss from the Meadows

In which a sort of time travel occurs and a girl discovers fire…

[provincara]

I was thinking about how the books in the Lumatere Chronicles have definite main characters, but that we also get other POVs througout the series, which led me to this: POV percentage per book/the series as a whole (this wasn't the most accurate research in the world, but it's close enough damn it).

I would have guessed that we had less of Froi's POV in Froi of the Exiles because all of the other POVs are so prominent in my memory, but I think Marchetta is just really good at spacing it out and timing things perfectly. We don't get Isaboe's POV until the last book, which I didn't realize before. Something that I HAD realized before, though, is that we don't get Trevanion or Beatriss after the second book, which has always bummed me out a little bit :( like, they get married and we don't get to hang out with them anymore (they were always kind of outliers though, as all the other major POVs are from the younger generation, which makes sense narratively). Also, Quintana's POV is the only one in first person, which I think is fascinating and such a wonderful move.

[archersgoon]

the thing about that bit at the end of bk3 with the priestess is that tesadora is literally already a parent if you believe. like that's vestie's sinister third parent the witch who lives in the forest

[the-needle-witch]

FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH

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[ghost-mafia]

[turisiancom]

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[kbanews]

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