#marda ro

[shield-and-saber]

and i said i really love when star wars is women being traumatized and gaslit into being something wicked and broken they were never meant to be, and sometimes they make it out and sometimes they don't but i love them every time

[magicalplaylist]

[archfey-edda]

"They talk to the dead, you know, the Evereni." [Path of Vengeance by Cavan Scott]

The Ro cousins and their personal ghosts.

[amikoroyaiart]

I've finished reading Path of Deceit today so have some doodles with Kevmo, Marda and Zallah🥰

[steepedfoxglovetea]

This but THR Phase II.

[tremendouskoalachild]

finally updated my little plot of young star wars women whose inner rage could power a sun

thank you for the additions, acolyte

[jewishcissiekj]

a mix of memes and quotes for The High Republic Phase 2 (part 4/? of the quotes)

[darth-memes]

[krisslegacy]

marda ro GET BEHIND ME

[napnapcakes]

Marda Ro

[roseredsnow]

Screaming into the void

Telling Acolyte fans there's a ton of queer rep in the books

[shield-and-saber]

marda freaks wake up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a massive, heartfelt, tearful thank you to @zealfruity for letting me commission them and beautifully depicting my blorbo!!! if u can, i highly recommend reaching out and commissioning something for urself!!

(the fit is based off of marda's appearance at the start of "a closed fist has no claws" from tales of light and life)

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Countess Carmilla Karnstein- Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Marda Ro- The High Republic: Path of Deceit by Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton

Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor- Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Ari Bridgestock- The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare

[cadetral]

“Will I see you again?” he asked, gaze intent, hands moving, flexing, as if they could not find a way to rest.

[bikananjarrus]

marda and kevmo's first meeting was just about one of my favorite things that i've read so far in all the high republic books

[bereft-of-frogs]

In my own self defense, it’s also not that I have any sort of blanket issue with romance as part of corruption arcs: because I truly cannot stop chewing on Marda Ro’s corruption. I genuinely love her character arc and there are TWO romances in it (plus all the real toxic shit in ‘A Closed Fist Has No Claws’)

I think the difference for me comes down to the love/loss between the two books feeding into Marda's preexisting convictions. She had such a strong belief system and clear motivations, which is why I think the Path of Deceit ending worked so well* to show how the romance subplot pushed her further into those beliefs, rather than upending them, and that was just super compelling to me

*(for me at least, I know some people didn't click with it, there have been a few Reddit threads about how it wasn’t clear why Marda flips on Kevmo so quickly, but it clicked with me really well)

anyway, Marda Ro's fall from naive girl who might have eventually chilled out a bit to leader of a violent death cult via a path littered with corpses is genuinely one of my favorite character arcs