#i love bree i love nick i dont feel much for sel but i dont hate him so this is NOT me going after bree

[massiveladycat]

me asf with nick davis

[sleepdeprivedvigilante]

Ok but theres TWO characters, TWO CHARACTERS, who give me the same fucking vibe.

Damian Wayne and Selwyn Kane

LISTEN- THEY ARE BOTH SELF-LOATHING BLACK HAIRED TEENAGERS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH SOMETHING "demon"OR POWERS THROUGH A SIDE OF THE FAMILY.

They both were forced into the roles of soldier/Bodyguard/Assasin/vigilante at a young age, and sure you can argue for damian that it was bound to happen or else he would have risked himself and he already raised as an assasin, same with selwyn, If he wasnt oathed to nick he would have transformed into a full demon he didnt really get a choice and he ddint want to loose his humanity.

SEE:

-Both forced into roles that no chikd should be put through, highly dangerous and/or with high manipulation and torture

-Both didn't get a choice even if they "had " to choose. Damian was already soon of the Bat and he was already raised a ninja, groomed to be heir of both. Selwyn the son of a merlin who since his birth was groomed to become the Kingsmage, who as a child got sent to live with this Family and tasked to protect A community of die/loose his humanity.

-Both have deep trauma and self-loathing.

Like, Damian feels the guilt over the deaths on his shoulders fron when he was a child assasin, thats very deep guilt, mixed with his families treatment him,(not all bad but they could do better), he has very self sacrificial tendencies seeing himself as expendable and preferring others lifes over his own (In a very concerning level of suicidal ideation).

Sel has a similar deal, he deals with a lot of pain and grief from how he treated Bree to his mother abandoning him mixed with the regents and legenborns abuse of him, that and he feeks pain and doesnt show it and he makes choices and sacrifices himself especially due to that guilt.

-Both got them mommy issues

We dont know that much about Sels mother apart from that she can resist turning and she was friends with brees mother, we have few glimpses of her but thats it. We know this, Sel feels deep grief and pain over loosing her, he also is upset that she didn't come back for him, and angry on her behalf cause he can and cant justify her actions.

we have more information about damians mom and we know she loved him and its mutual, but Damian did get dropped off at his father after years, they didnt even meet until certain age for Damian, Damian was also trained since birth and he loves his mom, he cant condone her actions, he cant justify them and it pains him because its still his mom.

-They both are Dry humoured Emotionally constipated Teenager emos.

BOTH their characters are very angsty and dramatic but have a sense of dry humour and comedy.

Like Sometimes its cruel due to being defensive and sometimes its funny saracasm or something just makes them so done. Like Sel after bree told him to say something and he did exactly that, or the jokes they have,same with damian, Like the joke about the crowbar to jason in robin 2021, there he was defensive and trying to get the rise out of someone but it was dry cruel humour, very funny and also their humour is a mix of angst and "Try me bitch" so they will say espontaneous shit thats funny or obvious sarcasm mixed with the joke of "I need therapy" Because thats their mindset (And no Damian wayne is not the feral eight year old brat that cant ever laugh that some people think he is,he is a teenager and has developed well through the comics)

-They are self aware as fuck and idiots.

They can probably go on and say the most concerning shit about their childhood like being raised as an assasin or taken as a child. Selwyn joked about trying to help bree when she needs Just a much therapy than him or even more, and then he jokes saying no one needs more therapy than him, and then theres damian talking/Thinking about his childhood and sometimes realizing how messed up it was, or how it upset him to do certain things.

-They both are dramtic as shit and speak with a fancy air.

Like holy shit (I do too but i read too much) the calling people Full names or fancy titles miced with spite, or the way they speak bejng all "Thine thou shant" dramatic, or how damian Would give a speech to jason to electrocute him dramatically or Sel just being sel edgy.

Anyways theres a lot of similarities and differences but this characters are literally same.

[ijhyo]

YASSS IM DEFO BUYING THE SEQUEL AND IM SO EXCITED FOR IT

ALSO BREE <33333 ILOVE HER SM IVE NEVER HAD AN ATTACHMENT SO STRONG TO A MAIN CHARACTER LIKE HER BEFORE. AND ALSO SEL. PLSSSSSS Hes so hot bye, he was one of the main reasons i kept on reading 😭😭

I REALLY WANT BREE AND NICK TO BE TOGETHER TOO..LIKE. THEY R BOTH CLEARLY IN LOVE. BUT YEA THE WHOLE BOOK WAS SO GEWD OMLL

UR FEELINGS TOWARDS BREE YOU ARE ME I AM YOU LIKE BREE IS MY BABY SHES SL PERFECT

sel and nick. i dont know who i want her with more like 😭 THEYRE SO PERFECT AND THEYD BE REALLY GOOD TOGETHER ANYWAYS AND NICK AND BREE LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH ALREADY ABD BREE AND SEL COULD FALL IN LOVE BUT THEN IF SEL AND NICK CAN RECONCILE THEN THEY COULD LOVE EACH OTHER TOO THERE IS SO MUCH THAT CAN HAPPEN

[massiveladycat]

i have a.. lot of problems with bloodmarked to be honest. im not going to be talking about the romance portion of the book because honestly i don't even care for it anymore 1. why is bree yelling at vera on the plantation where she was raped?? why is bree this close to cussing out her ancestor who sacrificed too much because she was carrying her baby and the magical KKK was after her?? it's funny because after she literally denounces her entire ancestry bree makes a deal with the same being. the exact same being wtf honestly dude. 2. why is bree the only black character we have gotten to KNOW-KNOW, other than valechaz, who is not only a demon but also honestly is a pedophile (why is he hitting on a 16 year old girl)?? why don't we have more black characters that she's friends with and join her on the journey and are constants in the story?? 3. tying in with point 1, i don't understand if this is supposed to be a book about celebrating your ancestry and finding your roots when bree is literally out here screaming at all of her ancestors because shit was way out of their control and they were trying to make the most out of it?? if bree finds out that all of her ancestors go through the same things she does mostly (rootcraft and losing their mothers at young ages), why does she not communicate with them in healthy ways? they quite literally spent generations trying to clear the path for her. 4. bree doesnt feel like herself anymore. at first, she was great! amazing. her stubbornness got her to where she had to be. she made mostly good decisions. here,, her stubbornness got people and herself in danger. i still love bree, jsut pointing that out. SMALL EDIT: this isn't meant in an hostile way at all. i love tracy deonn's form of writing, i like nick, i like sel, i like bree. but i need to call this out because there's very few attention paid to genuinely good criticism on bloodmarked (in which, check goodreads for such or even youtube), and some things in this book irritate me, and people acting like any criticism on bloodmarked/legendborn is invalid or RACIST pisses me off even more. you can love this book, and im very happy that you found joy in it!! but dont call people racist for not liking legendborn lmfao you look goofy if you do that.

[massiveladycat]

EDIT, 8/6/2024: opinions have changed a lot!! i dont absolutely despise sel now, i actually kind of understand why people love him so much and he's starting to grow on me!! also, yes, i know that the only reason there arent any black characters in the order besides bree is because its literally supposed to be the fact that she's the first. but i still do hope that maybe tracy can make bree's relationships with other black people not feel so,, transactional? still absolutely love nick btw, and i think i was wrong on the whole william thing; yeah, he explained a lot of things, but he did keep his personality!! decided not to edit the blog and jst reblog it with my new opinions

my thoughts about all legendborn series characters: Brianna Matthews: smart, stubborn in legendborn. obnoxious in bloodmarked. i also don't understand why almost every male in this book loves her,,, also we're yelling at our ancestors now??? we're pulling their souls up to a PLANTATION to yell at them??? the fuck??? Nick Davis: i personally love him Selwyn Kane: i was really confused because i'd heard from the community that he'd 'grow on me' and i'd 'love him' but,,,, all i thought was that he was a massive dick,,, then again i've always hated the 'hot and cold' trope and also the 'misunderstood bad boy' trope and the 'forgetting everything he did to you because he called you beautiful!!' also i'm personally not going to be forgetting valec exposing sel for mesmering bree because doesnt he KNOW of her trauma with mesmer?? doesnt he KNOW that she's traumatized when it comes to mesmer because it was used to take her mother from her in every way?? im ALSO never gonna forget how many times selwyn made genuine attempts on bree's life and wanted to send her to the regents to be experimented on but apparently nick telling selwyn to stay away from bree is WORSE... Alice Chen: i liked her! didn't love her, but i liked her in both books Valechaz: something gives me the book ick because the first black boy we ever meet in this series and get to know ends up being 205 and pedophile (the immortal x teenager trope is NOT it). it'd be cool if we could get more reoccuring black characters in this book because i'm not too sure if you can claim this book to be a black fantasy when we don't even know many black characters AND get to know them well. then again, thats just my opinion, feel free to feel differently!! William: i loved loved him in legendborn. in bloodmarked, it felt like he was the NPC you'd go to for information and then go out and kill like 15 demons for some type of potion. had to sit through two pages at least of william explaining shit to bree. i kept hoping he'd gain some of his personality back. he didn't. anyways. just to clarify before my ass is dragged out and publicly executed, i still love these books but i have to point some things out because i'm honestly thinking that tracy can do better and it'd probably do her some good to hear some solid criticism!! then again, i'm not that good at reviewing, probably would want to check goodreads for reviews