#i love anton and how hard he tries for his comrades

[strawberrystarcake]

fatui subordinate npcs r so !!! funky !!!!! i love all of them !!! fatui subordinate appreciation post, they deserve it for putting up with their bosses

[ventingblacklist]

Katarina Rostova in Season 3

3x1  The Troll Farmer

They’re gonna believe I’m a Russian spy. My mother was a Russian spy. It doesn’t matter that I never knew her.

She was blonde. My mother. That picture in your apartment– she was blonde. I look like her, don’t I?... Is she alive? 

When I was a little girl, I used to imagine that my mother was a prima ballerina who danced for kings and queens in London and Paris. And she only left me with Sam until she could come home again and sweep me away. I never would’ve imagined.... What happened to her?....Everyone talks as if she was a terrible person. Was she?

Katarina Rostova was the cleverest, most resourceful woman I have ever known....No matter how dark the moment, she could always find her way through....I see her in you every day. She’s as much a part of you as the air you breathe.

[scales the Russian embassy]

3x2  Marvin Gerard

[pretends to be a Russian agent]

Liz: The Cabal framed me. Who better than the daughter of a KGB agent? Raskovich: Hmm. Katarina Rostova.

3x4  The Djinn

It’s (her fantasy) been the same thing for as long as I can remember. I’m walking in a park with my husband. In between us is our little girl. I’m holding her hand in mine and I never let go.

(this one relies a bit on interpretation, but barring switched roles, I do think it was Kat that let go in the fire. And even if not, still the same general idea of parents letting go, so Liz’s fantasy is to never let go. Also I find it interesting that she’s draping a floral dress in front of her as she says it.)

3x5  Arioch Cain

I lost my mom when I was a little girl...I still think about her every day – what we might talk about, what her voice might sound like.

3x11  Mr. Gregory Devry

..a legendary spymaster, the secret-keeper who disappeared...the secrets she took with her could compromise any number of players...

3x12  The Vehm

When your mother was pregnant with you, it was terribly inconvenient. The Cold War was ending. Her country was falling apart. Everything she had ever known. She dreaded having a child. Almost aborted it. Not one day of her pregnancy did she ever think of you as anything but a curse. And then, from the second you were born, there was never a day when she thought you were anything but a blessing.

3x13  Alistair Pitt

My mother– was she still alive when I was placed with Sam?...Why did she do it?...How did my mother die?

Whoa, look what the cat dragged in. Your fugitive-in-arms, comrade Rostova.

If you are intent on giving up your child, I think you have to accept that you’re not gonna be able to be in its life.

3x14  Lady Ambrosia

Liz: I found a couple, to take the baby. Thinking about it is one thing, but actually doing it… How did she do it– my mother?

Red: Your parents loved each other very much. The Cold War was hard– too hard for your father. When the Soviet Union was collapsing, he took you from her. She gave up everything to follow him, to follow you....Your mother, despite what he’d done, she wanted him back. She wanted them to be a family. As much as it pains me to say it, he was probably the only man she ever really loved.

Liz: And I shot him.

Red: It was an accident.

Liz: Tell me. I need to know.

Red: Your mother was never the same after that. The man she loved killed by the child she adored– it was… just too much. Two months later, she went to Cape May and left her clothes on the beach, walked into the ocean, and was never seen again.

Liz: So, that night, I killed both my parents.

[Red gets ‘Rostova’ file from Vasilia.] The Glasnost files– there’s something in them I need to see

[Reads it.]  It just keeps getting worse. 

“You must walk. It is a long journey through a country that is sometimes dark and terrible. However, I will use all the magic arts I know to keep you from harm.’ She came close to Dorothy and kissed her gently on the forehead. ‘When you get to Oz… do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you. Goodbye, my dear.‘” 

3x15  Drexel

Samar: A lot of women give up their children for adoption. Ressler: Almost always under extraordinary circumstances, which I completely understand.

3x16   The Caretaker

I just wish… Despite everything she’s put me through, I wish my mom could be there (at her wedding)....I mean, everybody has something to say about her. I just wish I knew the truth for myself, you know?

Anton: She was just a name. One of many I heard when I was with Spetsnaz. Beyond that, I know nothing. Liz: Please. She was my mother.

My mother’s alive. You lied to me....Velov was the agent assigned to find her. He was getting close, she knew it. That’s why she allegedly walked into the ocean. She wanted the world to believe she drowned....He tracked her to a hotel in Prague. She had just left. But in such a hurry, she missed this… A photo of her little girl. Me.

...You said the name Masha Rostova had been lost to history until the manhunt. Now it’s out there, and someone’s looking for me. It’s my mother. Who else would care? Who? You were right. Some things can’t be forgiven.

3x17  Mr. Solomon Pt. 1

I am attempting to build a life with the father of my child. A normal life with two parents who love one another. With everything you know about me, can’t you see that? Can’t you see how important that is to me? To my child?

Liz: It’s her, isn’t it? Solomon’s employer. It’s my mother. Who else would call me Masha Rostova? Red: Lizzy, your mother is dead.

3x18  Mr. Solomon Pt. 2

Liz: Reddington’s lying to me. I know it. If my mother wasn’t trying to abduct me, why’d Solomon ask for Masha?

Tom: Do you really think this woman is gonna hire a team of mercenaries to kidnap her own daughter?

Liz: If that woman knew Reddington, she would. She’d know it’s the only way to pry me out of his grip.

3x19  Cape May

Everyone dies someday. (said while looking at the picture of Kat and Masha)

[Kat in diner clearly hiding from a man]

[Kat kneeling on the beach, removing her necklace, saying something to herself, and walking into the water]

It’s not that he died. It’s not even the way he died....It was the…it was the things that happened before he died. How it all went so wrong, so fast. We really loved each other. The, the horror isn’t that he died. It’s in the things I said to him just…before he died… [extended scene version]

There’s someone here. Outside. He’s here to kill me.

Who’s trying to kill you? Does it have something to do with what you told me before?..You said you lost someone. Harsh words were spoken. Words you regret.

There was a woman and her child. Both were doomed. Both would die. I could either save one or lose both. I chose the child. It was… it was the worst thing I’ve ever had to do in my life. Worst thing by far.

You didn’t have a choice.

Have you ever killed anyone?

....Yes. Many. But never anyone who didn’t deserve it.

Me, too.

I know....There aren’t a lot of us. You learn to recognize it.

Yes.

I have no choice.

There’s always a choice.

Is there? That little girl. The one you told me about? The one whose father you spared? What would you do if you knew, knew, that as long as you drew breath, as long as you continued to exist, her life would be in danger? She would be hunted, and she would be killed. What would you do?

...My child is being raised by someone else. I am her mother… and I am death to her. So this is what I’m doing. I never wanted this.

Don’t be ridiculous, Raymond.

[necklace engraved] To Katarina, love Papa.

You had no choice. It was me or Masha....Raymond, you did save me. Through her. It was the only way. 

3x20  The Artax Network

[Red sifts though Katarina’s childhood things]

I was just imagining young Katarina covered in glitter.

She’s gone because of choices you made for both of them. First Katarina and then Masha.

After I lost my daughter…I crawled… crawled into the wilderness like a mortally wounded animal to get as far away from the pack as I could, to… to run out the clock. Run out the clock and die. 

Liz was convinced that her mother was the one who tried to kidnap her. Reddington said she died years ago, but Liz didn’t believe that, and neither do I. I think we’re staring at Katarina Rostova.

3x21 - 3x23

[We are introduced to Katarina’s husband, who’s still in love with her, and begin exploring the fallout of the lies of her cover marriage.]