#mark x helena

[helly-ena]

SEVERANCE + textposts (credits to the markhellyna hivemind 🙂‍↕️🫰)

[justisabellethings]

Nothing just Mark and Helly roleplaying being married to eachother in Season 1 🥹

Severance 1x08 "What's for Dinner?"

[shallanigans]

Severance: the only show where the relationship dynamic is so fucked up ao3 has four separate tags for the same couple

[acidiccherry]

always viewed that scene this way

SEVERANCE s02e04 // Woe's Hollow

[justisabellethings]

Britt Lower and Adam Scott finally sharing all these photos we’ve circulated for ages 😂

They’re on a roll lately.

It’s a bit sudden. Are they trying to butter people up for some huge MarkHelly bomb drop in the next episode? 😅

I ain’t mad at it.

[justisabellethings]

Here for Britt Lower and Adam Scott improvising and the director just keeping it because it adds so much humanity to the scene. 🥹 They have excellent natural chemistry.

“What are you doing to me?” - Britt. Then they break character right before they kiss. I love that part, the smiling / laughing. *both of them laughing as she struggles to take off her pantyhose, he reaches to help her take them off out of frame* Scene cuts off. Plus the “yes? yes” were all improvised. Not in the script.

10/10 acting. Or not acting. But props to Uta Briesewitz for keeping this footage in the final cut. It’s vulnerable and raw. Real.

what’s wrong? oh lol nothing. just thinking about how someone noticed that helly asked mark “what’re you doing to me?” before they kissed. im fine. lol.

[erikakohuts]

SEVERANCE (2022-)

S01E01: Good News About Hell

[inexpressiblybeautiful]

I will never get over how Helena was looking at Mark in that restaurant scene.

Like sure she's part of that evil company, but when it comes to him she's giggling, kicking her feet, twirling her hair, biting her lip and swallowing nervously. Even her eyes are twinkling.

God she has such a crush on that man istg.

[justisabellethings]

Chemistry for days.

SEVERANCE (2022–) #02.04 | ‘Woe’s Hollow’ // 02.06 | ‘Attila'

[whoever-the-heck]

They're really going all out with the love triangle featuring two people and I LOVE IT because where else do you see something like that???

[fckyoulumon]

Helena keeping the dolls for herself to play with when nobody looking

[acidiccherry]

neck to neck w/ this one

SEVERANCE s02e06 // Attila

[justisabellethings]

Don’t forget so much opportunity for smut fics and angst fics and smutty angst fics 🥹

It’s like we’re playing a video game and unlocked a new level with more stages and difficulty levels and higher rewards lol

kudos to severance for turning the sweet, delicate work crush/first love relationship between mark s. and helly r. into a seven dimensional chess match rife with mind games, deception, and stolen identities. truly a win for sickos everywhere

[justisabellethings]

The thing that doesn’t make sense to me about “maybe Helly can sacrifice herself to kill Helena and then hand Mark over to Gemma” is that…

Helly / Helena is the main heroine (?) 😅

The story just wouldn’t work without her. Dan Erickson’s entire ending would need to change if he takes his pre-established female lead, a character that he has designed his entire story around (beginning, middle and end, alongside Mark, the other lead), and then relinquishes her to a supporting role or kills her.

You just can’t do that.

Dan has repeatedly stated his ending hasn’t changed from the very beginning.

It’s like killing Rose in the first 40 minutes of Titanic and having Jack meet a different passenger. It would change the entire ending. And not for the better. It would feel strange and incomplete. It would have missing pieces.

I don’t think Gemma existed yet when Mark and Helly were initially created. If I had to guess, Gemma was likely created around the same time as Devon, Ricken, Milchick and Cobel. I think Mark S. was created around the same time as Mark Scout, Helly, Helena Eagen, Irving and Dylan.

Then there’s other stuff like rumours swirling around that Mark and Helly were supposed to be married at first which makes sense since they were created at basically the same time. Plus Britt Lower being the only person who had to do a chemistry read with Adam Scott as part of her audition, implying Helly / Helena is the only one having a romantic plotline with Mark. Chemistry reads are usually done when the dynamic between two characters is essential (even crucial) to the story.

Dichen Lachman didn’t need to do a chemistry read. She had a normal audition.

Dan Erickson probably dislikes seeing Helly / Helena hate, since he likely considers her character to be like a child of his.

I don’t think these folks are serious, I think they just feel threatened. But dang it. Lol.

Anyways, rant over.

[sleazyjanet]

a lot of people point out how little the innies actually work, particularly in mdr, and i have to say that apart from the fact that it solidifies that this is practically an experiment, i THINK it's because this is all the life they get.

if your life were just eight hours in a brightly lit job, you'd stop working as much as you can, because humans are not meant to work 24/7. but that's what the innies are supposed to be doing, according to the outies. they imagine them as their worker bees, their slaves, as they get to do none of the actual working. but of course, the worker bees have such a limited lifespan, that they grasp for freedom wherever and whenever they can. this is all they have.

it's why i think they love so intensely too, if they can. yes, it's all new to them, so there's also that, but it's more than that: they feel more quickly because life passes by more quickly. they could be "asleep" for five months without even knowing. lose friends (like petey) and not know how or why, if they're even alive or not. their lives are so little, and they need to live them to the fullest

it's like something ms casey said about how her life had been so short, and how valuable those hours shadowing helly had been. this is all they have. the human connections matter so much

[justisabellethings]

I think it’s because in a writing scenario, their circumstance is extremely likely and guarded by plot armour and them both being main characters. People feel threatened by that and people these days love to complain and feel different. Even if it means intentionally misunderstanding or criticizing a writer’s work.

Thankfully, though, Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller aren’t the type of guys to back down from their vision. Their ending has been decided and based on how much effort they put into building them, they’re not going to stray.

Good shows like Severance don’t stray from their blueprint. Other shows cave into fanservice and complaints, but not shows like Severance.

If the romantic plotline between the two main characters that’s central to the plot grinds their gears, they can watch another show.

i just feel...mark and helly are out here trying their best to negotiate a genuine human connection under very horrifying and unlikely circumstances and i think we should be supportive of them and maybe even clap