sorry sorry. but the fact that. sansûkh. is free??? to read???? online????? HALF A MILLION WORDS of the best writing i have ever read??? characters that each have depth and MEANING? the retrograding of the hobbit movies so that the dwarves are more fleshed out?? the mix of both the movies and the books (especially for gimlis lackluster personality in the films). i’m rereading it even though i first read it maybe 4 months ago and im still in awe that someone can write something so beautiful. so spectacular. like this is the bible for depressed gay middle earth fans. and this isn’t even considering the sheer amount of RESEARCH PUT INTO THIS?? christ almighty. i need everyone to pause right the fuck now and read this fic regardless of whether you ship bagginshield/gimleaf at all or not. i promise you, you will come out of this a changed man 😭
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who is Luv?
HER!!!!!!! (My favorite character ever. The specialest girl. My poor little meow meow who did nothing wrong ever. Doomed from the beginning. Not given many choices (or at all). Attack dog coded. Lucifer coded (but with a sad twist 😭). SO TRAGIC. Made the wrong choices when she could make choices (but could she ever, really, make choices?))
She's the "main villain" of the movie Blade Runner 2049:
But she's also a main character in the comic/graphic novel Blade Runner 2039, from where I got the panel above.
(the rest goes below the cut because it's a lot lol. I can ramble about this character a lot.)
I won't get too much into what her development or arc is in case you haven't watched the movie (it's a masterpiece, go watch it!!!! You don't even have to watch the first one, honestly (but I also recommend it if you like sci-fi)). WHAT I will tell you, though, is that she's a complicated, complex character, she's also *extremely* tragic. I am probably biased in thinking that she's the most tragic Blade Runner character (that's every character in a BR media ever but I digress), but oh well...
In more spoilerish details:
She's a replicants, a being without free will (but it's debatable just how much free will she has) who acts as the enforcer of the guy who fabricates the replicants.
She died for the cause of her creator without ever knowing that she was, in fact, alive.
So many of the themes that I love in fiction are relevant to her character, such as creator and creation conflict, what it means to be human, what it means to be real, free will, the themes that are typical of cyberpunk, among others.
She did some bad things... well, personally, I think there's only one real crime she committed out of her own free will (and even then, it's a complex subject lol), but she did some other things that we aren't sure what her agency in the whole thing was, so...
And don't get me wrong, I love the ambiguity of her character A LOT. It was what first made me get super interested in her in the first place (I am obsessed with the movie as a whole, it's just that I love her even more). Especially if you consider only what's in the movie, she can be given some different levels of agency that change how you see her choices. The script of the movie is a little bit less ambiguous (and makes her a little bit more villainous hehe).
And then you have the comics, specifically Blade Runner 2039, which tells a bit of her backstory and helps us understand what makes her the character we see in 2049. Personally, while I like the story of the comics, I also think they left a lot of potential unexplored regarding her character. Honestly, though I never expected to get more Luv material after 2049, so I am super happy with what I was given.
I love her bits of backstory in the comics. It honestly humanizes her more (which is also very interesting from a world building perspective) and yet at the same time, it makes me wonder "well, why did she get colder and more ruthless in the movie?" Those are questions that I may never get the answer to 😭
Anyway. Luv is a character from the movie Blade Runner 2049 and from the Comic/graphic novel Blade Runner 2039. And I love her :) I swear I am completely normal about her.
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