#malilandon

[landonkirbyappreciation]

I find it dumb how, with the fake Landon stuff in season 3, the writers were giving us these reasons why golem Landon and Malilandon couldn’t be the real Landon because of certain things they did, but then they had the real Landon later doing some of the same things, essentially.

Like they made such a big deal over golem Landon stabbing Hope because Landon would never hurt Hope. Which, first of all, their reasoning with that whole thing and using that to claim it wasn’t Landon was also dumb because the context of the situation was completely ignored. Yes, of course Landon would never hurt Hope, but her life was at risk. Golem Landon literally had to stab her to save her. Yeah there was a small possibility that it wouldn’t work and she’d die and become the tribrid, but the other alternative was that she’d turn into some other creature forever. So there really wasn’t a choice but to stab her when it was the only way to save her, and I do think the real Landon would’ve done the same thing, he’d be hurting Hope more if he didn’t. Landon would never hurt Hope, unless it was absolutely necessary to save her life. But then they did actually have the real Landon hurting Hope later unnecessarily when he stabbed her in limbo. The writers tried to make it seem like it was necessary in order to send Hope back to the real world, but it really wasn’t. Because we saw Hope leave limbo back in 4x04 after she’d died and was transitioning, and all she had to do to go back to the real world was jump in the lake. So Landon literally didn’t have to stab her in 4x17, but according to the writers and their logic with golem Landon back in 3x11, it shouldn’t even matter whether it was necessary or not anyway. Because according to them, Landon would never hurt Hope, period. Even if it was to save her life, I guess. So they wrote him out of character according to their own logic too.

Then there was the whole thing with Malivore pretending to be Landon, and giving up on being with Hope and saying they were doomed. And the writers saying the real Landon would never do that, which I totally agree with of course. But then they did have Landon basically doing that at the end of the show, with him giving up on having a future with Hope by giving up on escaping limbo and instead choosing to stay there forever by becoming the ferryman. They had him not only give up on being able to be with Hope in the real world, but also even in peace, after whenever Hope dies. Which is far worse than what we believed he was doing when it was Malilandon imo. And how was all the crap they had Landon saying about his and Hope’s fates (in 4x17) different from Malilandon saying they were doomed? The way Malilandon did it was obviously very harsh, but they both still amount to the same thing. Landon was still essentially saying that he and Hope were doomed and couldn’t be together and that they should just accept it. Like between that whole thing with Malilandon and how Landon was written at the end of season 4, if I had to choose which was less ooc for Landon, I’d honestly choose the writing for Malilandon. NOT including him breaking up with Hope and how he treated her in that scene. But apart from that, the idea of Landon being angry (especially after what he’d gone through in the prison world and being traumatized) and feeling like he and Hope were doomed because of Malivore and him setting aside their relationship while he goes to try to defeat Malivore so Hope wouldn’t have to become the tribrid and they could be together (which is what we were led to believe before we knew it was Malivore) is closer to something Landon would do than what he did at the end of season 4. Landon would take action to try to be with Hope again, but at the end of season 4, they just had him submitting to everything that they were up against. There’s no way the real Landon would have ever made the choices he made in limbo at the end. And the writers themselves made that clear with their previous writing and then went on to contradict themselves, practically confirming that they were writing Landon ooc. Which isn’t anything new since they contradicted themselves all throughout the show, but still.

It’s just crazy how much they didn’t really understand Landon’s character, or they just didn’t care in the end. As long as it supported their bizarre narrative, they had Landon acting however they felt like, regardless of whether he was in character or not. And it’s also just annoying how, with golem Landon and Malilandon, the writing gave the sense of “Hope should’ve known it wasn’t Landon, the audience should’ve known, because of these reasons, because the real Landon would never do those things,” then they have the real Landon doing some of those things later but it’s fine? So in season 3 we should’ve known Landon’s character better, Hope should’ve known, and whether or not he was in character mattered then. But then in season 4 it didn’t matter, we were just expected to go along with how ooc Landon was and not question any of it? And they had Hope just going along with it too and accepting all of it and Landon’s supposed feelings as truth, even when he was acting more strange than the fake Landons? And after she was criticized for not knowing Landon better in season 3? If she and the fans were supposed to suspect things weren’t right in season 3, shouldn’t we have definitely suspected things weren’t right in season 4 with how they wrote Landon? Hope would’ve known that Landon never would’ve wanted to stay trapped in limbo, she never would’ve believed that he was okay with it. And honestly, if we hadn’t known for sure that it was the real Landon in limbo, I would’ve been theorizing that it wasn’t really him again. But we were just supposed to accept the ooc writing that time. It was such a joke, it was all just about whatever narrative the writers wanted, not the characters or consistency or logic.

[notsomecase]

I feel like Silas and Amara should have been immune to the Malivore memory-erasing.

Can you imagine if these millenia-old, stoned immortals were asking the MFG were the slug people and cyclops went?

[winnie-the-monster]

“I figured out why I was so obsessed with it. The story is about learning to say goodbye. I think Raf leaving is hitting me harder than I thought.”

“I know.”

[tscclace]

I'm glad we got to see James possessed by Belial. Like poor guy deserves a break. But I've always enjoyed possession plots as long as it isn't for long.

[legaciescw]

LEGACIES, S04E01 You Have to Pick One This Time

[lsaltzmans]

You underestimate me, tribrid.

[tvdversegifs]

#understanding king

[scre6m]

just goes to show that the blood you bleed is just the blood you owe.

[hopedaily]

LEGACIES, S04E01 You Have to Pick One This Time

[landonmikaelson]

THE ORIGINALS 4x13 | LEGACIES 3x13

[handonhaven]

LEGACIES 4.01

[landonkirbyappreciation]

Maybe I’m in denial over the whole Landon melting thing, but I was just thinking... instead of Landon’s body literally dissolving, what if that was just a cruel and dramatic way of showing Landon’s body being sucked into a portal, which was created inside his body from Malivore mud inside him? That would make more sense imo. I still don’t know what we’re supposed to believe about the whole situation since the writers never made anything clear, but I’d always figured the mud from the Malivore pit in the crypt went inside Landon. I have a headcanon that, once Malivore was out of Landon’s body after they were all sent to the prison world, he obviously wanted to get Landon back to possess him again. And could sense when both Landon and Hope went into the pit in the prison world. He obviously wanted to spit Hope out while keeping Landon in his dimension at the same time. But because of how tightly Hope and Landon were holding onto each other, he failed in separating them. All he managed to do was get some of his mud inside Landon (from the pit on the other side in the real world) in an attempt to try to pull Landon back into his dimension. And it was that mud that reacted to Hope’s blood, turning into a portal while still inside Landon’s body, and disappearing (with Landon) much like the portal in 1x16 did. I think that mud becoming a portal inside Landon and Landon being pulled into it would make much more sense than Landon’s body literally melting. Or if not that, then Landon’s body just reacted with the Malivore mud inside him when Hope’s blood was affecting it, if the mud was compatible with his body and bound itself to him since he was the vessel or something idk. I just will never believe that Landon’s body melted into mud, because it’s completely ridiculous and he was never made of mud, his body was like a human’s.

And I’ll also never believe that Hope was ever really toxic to Landon. I think it would make sense if Hope was toxic to just Malilandon/any Malivore mud inside Landon, but not Landon himself (though it could still obviously affect Landon’s body like in 3x04). Because Landon being partly human and having a basically human body and not being made from Malivore mud should have been enough to make it so Hope’s blood couldn’t hurt him. Malivore wanted his vessel to not have the weaknesses he did, he wanted a vessel that wasn’t like him, so that shouldn’t have been an issue. Landon on his own should’ve been safe, but maybe Landon with Malivore/Malivore mud inside him wouldn’t be. Maybe Landon having a human body wasn’t enough to protect Malivore from Hope’s blood if he was possessing Landon. Maybe he needed his phoenix powers for that to be possible, that his powers would provide that protection. (And surely one of the reasons why Malivore made him a phoenix was for extra protection from any possible threats or loopholes.) Of course the absence of Landon’s phoenix powers took that protection away, making Malivore/Malivore mud vulnerable to Hope’s blood while inside Landon’s body, and therefore Landon as well. Which is why Hope’s blood could affect Landon with Malivore mud in him in 3x04, and ultimately with Malivore in him in 4x04. But had Landon had his phoenix powers, Hope’s blood wouldn’t have had any effect. And even if Landon came back from limbo without his phoenix powers, her blood still wouldn't have any effect on just him. There would definitely be no possibility of her blood ever hurting him again with Malivore gone and no part of him ever able to get inside Landon again. This is all just my headcanon anyway, since nothing else really makes sense to me.

[awesometothe3rd]

[rhaenizziettie]

Why is Landon being held more accountable for Malivore's actions in his body than Josie was for her own actions in her own body? 😭😭😭 Like why are people acting like Dark!Josie was something else that possessed Josie but an actual possession is somehow Landon's own fault?

[elizabeth-forbes]

[legaciescw]