#lexa lorien legacies

[ll-but-its-random]

Lexa: WHY IS THE SCHOOL ON FIRE?! Isabela: I accidentally left the gas on. Taylor: We had an accident in the chemistry lab. Nigel: I dropped my latest mix tape. Lexa: Nine, please tell me what happened. (Flashback to Isabela and Taylor arguing with Nigel that it was impossible to light a fire extinguisher on fire.) Nine: I don’t remember.

[seattlesea]

Lorien Legacies Characters as Things My Family and I Have Said (part five)

Nine: God the smell in here is making me want to die John: Then go outside Five: Then die --- Maggie, writing a book: Can your breathing get cut off if there's a heavy weight on your chest? Adam: Yeah Maggie: Cool Adam: That's how they killed people in the old days, by stacking a bunch of rocks on their chest and suffocating them Maggie: Okay a 'Yes' would've been fine --- John: Finish your food Nine: I'm going to go home and take the fattest shit you've ever seen do not make me eat more --- Eight: I'm psychic, I can see into people's futures. I see in your near future that you're going to get sick Eight: *coughs in Nine's face* --- Adam: Did you eat? Maggie: Yeah. A strawberry Adam: That's it? Maggie: Two strawberries --- Six and John: *talking about spirit animals* Six: You'd be a swan John: Because I'm so graceful? Six: No cause you're white --- Sam: I was actually really good at orchestra in school, I was first chair on the cello Six: *puts her hand to her chest and gasps* Oh my god! Sam: What? Six, sarcastically: What a cool story! --- Six and Marina: *having a normal adult conversation* Eight: My black olive just rolled across my laptop --- Nine: Dirty mother... John: *giving him a dirty look with Ella next to him* Nine:...Of...Jesus --- One: Hey what're you gonna be for Halloween? Adam: I dunno yet what about you? One: I was thinking of being a witch Adam: Oh that's cool One: Yeah maybe you can be my broomstick so I can ride you all night Adam: WHAT- One: What, is that bad? Would you rather I be a pirate and you be a sword so I can stick you in me? Adam: *screaming* --- Ella: *touches a gross blanket* Ew Marina: What? Ella: It's giving me the ick Marina: The what? Ella: I'm acoustic --- Six: Bitch, I do NOT lift to be called a lipstick lesbian --- Five: *staring at a candle* Eight: What are you doing? Five: Trying to light myself on fire with my mind --- Nine, in public loud as hell: Yeah I'd fuck young Elvis Strangers passing by: *giving him grossed-out looks* Nine: What? You would too Nine, muttering: Prudes --- Sam: Look at my skeleton animal collection. I can a bat, I got a rat, and I got a cat Hannu, sadly: But no hats --- John: *celebrating his birthday and opening gifts* Five, silently crying: *places a couple wadded-up singles in front of John* That's all I got --- Six: You know it would've been easier if you just took the highway Marina: But...the trees... --- Adam: I'm gay John after taking Adam to a Fall Out Boy concert and watching him sit on the floor with three empty couches: Cool --- One and Six: *Talking about the ped@ at their job* Six: He's the reason there's an 18+ age limit --- Five: Despite popular belief, I will be going to Heaven because Satan will be jealous someone has a fatter ass than him --- Sam teaching the Lorics to make cereal: Okay first gather your things Lorics: :) Sam: Then, you put in your milk Daniela: Huh? Lorics: :) Sam: Next, you add your cereal Daniela: Hell no Lorics: :) Sam: Then drizzle in your honey Daniela: Bro WHAT Lorics: :) Sam: And finally, put it in the microwave Daniela: WHAT THE FUCK Lorics: :) Sam: And then you have cereal Lorics: Yay Daniela: I'm going to kill you --- Marina: So what is credit score? Sam: *ten minute explanation of credit score, payments, debt, and loans with examples* Marina:... Sarah: The loophole so the bank can't lend poor people money to stop being poor Marina: Ohhhh --- Nine: Damn, dude, I really don't know anything about you. I only know like your favorite color and animal, the music you listen to, your favorite movies, how you dress, your favorite coffee flavor, your personality, your deepest fear, your address, your entire backstory, all the people you like and hate, and your habit of needing to use a straw with every single drink or it doesn't 'taste right' John:... --- Eight: Damn I'm thirsty Adam: Then go drink water Eight: I can't, I'm fasting Adam:...Well I think you're supposed to drink water if you're running around all the time Eight:...

[kip-loric]

I think Nine would start to wear silly clothes after the war

He wears these when Johnny comes to visit

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

finally cracked open the backstory novellas with povs from pre-war lorien and holy shit we do not have time to unpack all that (i am going to unpack all that)

[mooglesorts]

i have not been active on this blog in a While and being very normal about my old hyperfixation lorien legacies, which has an absolute fuckload of characters to sort, has finally gotten me to crawl out of my hole.

[spoilers ahead for both lorien legacies and its sequel series!]

there is a LOT of ground to cover here, and i am mostly going to limit myself to sorting characters and themes from the first series, but my initial notes are:

probably one of the biggest overarching themes of the series is toxic birdsec, and the harm it can do to every aspect of a society or a person's life--on both a systematic level and an individual one--right down to their basic humanity. by extension it also goes into similarly fucked up lion and bird primary used as weapons and tools of abuse, and how they interplay with each other.

a large part of this stems from setrákus ra being The Worst Fucking Lion Bird Ever to Live, lmao. he's an interesting example of birdsec interplaying with cannibal badger, and also of a lion bird who's a cheetah in that he uses systems as tools to manipulate people instead of actually believing them. he hands out toxic systems like candy while peppering them with outright lies, and blithely admits that even the one that he's put centuries into building--mogadorian progress, and the great book--is at its heart just a ruse to run his cult on. the truth he pretends to worship and champion isn't external, objective truth--it's an extension of him. he is the ultimate truth. and the only truth he believes in is his cause, which is that he has the right and ability to own, make use of, and do whatever he sees fit with everything in existence. everyone and everything that could possibly be a shiny or a tool belongs to him.

one of the other overarching themes is toxic badger primary and secondary--cannibal badgering AHOY--as well as toxic lion primary, and it is a great deal less intentional than the bird cautionary tale part lmao

five is a bird snake with deeply toxic lion primary and bird secondary models, one of which he picked up after getting involved with a cult, and one of which he's had since his abusive birdsec guardian started amputating his masks by trying to apply actor bird to them. :') his brand of birdsplode and snakeburn make him horribly, horribly vulnerable to the cult, especially combined with focused, one-on-one gaslighting and manipulation from setrákus himself, and he has to burn his bird right to a crisp to break away from it. i am very biased and i have so much to say about my boy, but i plan to go in depth about this later

there are a LOT of lionsecs among the loric garde kids. the only surviving ones who aren't lionsecs are marina's badger and five's snake (the latter of which is heavily villainized, lol); number one is either a lionsec or a snakesec, maggie is either a birdsec or a badgersec, and we don't really see enough of hannu to be sure, but my guess is badgersec. in context, whatever these books are saying here i am not sure i like it lmao

this stands in contrast to the non-garde allies, minus adam, who end up being Part of the Gang. sam and lexa are birdsecs, and sarah and malcolm are both badgersecs.

speaking of adam, he is a lion snake with a cool, calculated double bird performance/model, who has been waiting all his life for a chance to go Absolutely Feral. there are a lot of ways in which he's a real shithead, which track given his life and circumstances up to then but are also real 😬 sometimes, but like, good for him. go ape shitt, kid

nine is an awful, AWFUL double lion who models/performs the worst parts of badger primary; he also uses lionsec stereotypes and methods to misdirect people, so that he can hurt, gaslight, prey on, and abuse them. it's genuinely interesting how he does it, and i could go on for a long time about it, but it's also Infuriating because the authors really want you to love him for being a ~charming jerk with a heart of gold,~ so that is for another post. in the sequel series he also picks up a nasty posthumous birdsec model from sandor to gleefully torture children with so lmfao

there seem to be a lot of birdsecs and badgersecs among the mentor cêpans, which tracks, because, well, mentors. interestingly, it seems to be a pattern so far that the birdsec mentors are either some of the most deeply abusive among them (see: rey, sandor, and ethan even though he's an unofficial cêpan), or the most decent parents of them under the circumstances (see: katarina).

john is a hognose (badgery snake) 'i live here' snake lion, and a VERY loud one. he's set on saving the world mainly a) in order to save his People, or b) because it's what they would want. he also believes STRONGLY in snake values as applied to other people, and absolutely cannot grok that anyone would feel differently--he holds back on killing a major enemy because he's worried about killing a friendly acquaintance's Person--and honestly he can be kind of a huge dick about it lmao. he burns HARD at the end of the first series when sarah dies; in the second, he copes by making an entire community into his circle and no longer gives a shit about the rest of the world outside it, including groups who are in similar if not worse circumstances than his community. Horrific War Crimes Ensue!

rex is an everyone double badger and i love him so much. i love him So Much. he is a wonderful example of how to write a morally dubious character whose dodgy qualities interest me instead of making me grit my teeth and Tolerate Them. his arc could have fixed So Much of the Ending's Bullshit and i will be forever mad that they dumped it in the trash

there is more, oh my god there's so much more, this series has SO many characters in it, but this is a start thank you for coming to my ted talk

[stohn-chronicles]

Nine: Did you just call me a bitch?

Caleb: Of course not Professor, I would never

Nine:...

Caleb: I called you THAT bitch

Lexa: Apparently, there's a difference

[writerloading]

Sandor, a teenager who has no idea what he’s doing:

[descendantstidalage]

Lorictober 2021 Day 1: Icicles

Marina’s grief was like a cold winter, Lexa realized as she watched the hurting Garde create an icicle to take the other Garde’s eye out. There was an anger in the cold grief that Lexa recognized. She shifted uncomfortably and reached out to put a hand out to Marina’s shoulder; she might not be the most sharing type, but these were children who’d lost all the adults in their life. She was the last Loric to really remember what it was like to live on the planet.

“Let him go. Trust your friends to handle him,” Lexa said quietly.

“They weren’t able to stop him last time,” She said and there was a frigid strength in her voice.

John lowered down to the ground. “I’m getting stronger, Marina. He won’t hurt any of us again.”

Five stepped back, slowly with wide eyes. Down the hall Nine marched toward them with a group of solidiers. Lexa stepped closer to Marina. “They’ve got this.”

She guided the young Garde away from the scene, holding her close to her chest. “I know what it’s like to lose someone close to you—“

“The invasion,” Marina cut in. “I know.” She softened a little. “Is it hard being around Adam?”

“It’s been an interesting experience. He’s proved himself to be firmly on our side. But that’s not what I’m talking about. I lost my brother years before the invasion. He was a flier, and they said there was an accident. I blamed the government for years, withdrew from society. I lost a lot of connections from that. I know the anger and grief you’re dealing with.” An awkward silence fell on them, and Lexa didn’t know what she was thinking. She didn’t know how to help Marina; she didn’t know what she would even say to her past self.

Marina stopped and looked up at her. “I won’t shut people out. Six is pretty good at handling that.” A little smile curved at her lips, and Lexa wondered what she was thinking about.

She swallowed. “Well, that’s good. Maybe you should go spend time with her. I’ve got some more work to do with Adam. He’s got a lot of useful knowledge about the Mogadorians.” She eagerly slipped away. She did alright with the situation. Zophie probably would’ve handled it better; she was always better at that stuff.

[apocalx]

Lexa & Zane

After first reading The Navigator all I could think about is if Zane had survived and come to Earth along with his sister. Since he was about thirteen and had his first Legacy of Flight before he’d even leave Lorien, he’d be in his twenties during the time of the main story, and could be a big brother figure to the other Garde. 

He’d be a prominent POC in the cast, and it’d be cool to see him surviving and developing his Legacies while he’s on the run with Lexa - who’d probably teach him to hack like she could. Seeing that he’d have all his Legacies developed by the time of the main story, he’d be a huge help to the others, helping them train to master their Legacies. 

After the war ends I see him as a professor at the school, alongside Nine and Lexa.

[knaveofmogadore]

Hey just a friendly reminder here per the novella "The Navigator": Lexa had never seen pale skin before, ergo there were no white people on Lorien

[adamussutekh]

Lorien is a dystopia in the same way Mogadore is a dystopia send post pin to profile

[ll-but-its-random]

The Four Horsemen/women of Gay/Lesbian LL characters.

[imagine-too-many-books]

OG Garde living arrangements post GenOne:

Ella, John, Marina - they were living there while building the place and ended up moving into the first house they built. It’s the closest to the cave

Six, Sam, Nine - live across the street from Ella and co. Six and Sam are together because they’re a couple. Nine is there because it was empty when he arrived (didn’t want to live with Ella, John, and Marina cause it was pretty full)

Malcolm lives on his own down the street a little ways. He’s never there though cause he’s always at the lab (which is in the cave somewhere - you know they have it)

idrk where Lexa lives, probably in an apartment within the command center where John used to live. That or she lives a comparatively normal life post GenOne and has a house some distance away

Bonus: the houses are done cookie cutter style with gradual changes as you move down the road because designing and building houses is hard and John didn’t really know what he was doing. He had help and the houses are nice but they’re very,,,generic

Also the community planning is shit for the first couple blocks, then John figured some things out and it got better from there (room for improvement though! There’s a half dozen buildings clumped together because The Building Team didn’t realize they were needed until people actually arrived)

[kip-loric]

New favorite novella scene 😭

[aroace-number-eight]

Day 24 with Lexa as an African butterfly fish! This tail was an especially fun one to draw

[crayvexador]

computer: please enter password

cray: lexa

computer: too weak

cray: sAY THAT AGAIN YOU MOTHERFUCKER