#namor of Talocan

[monsterlovefantasy]

To all Nashuri/Namuri and Namor x reader fanfics writers

I am from the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, I think I can give you some tips to differentiate Spanish words from Mayan words: Mayan words usually have these signs ´´´´ between letters, they also constantly use the letters X, CH, T, K ,H, as well as W, Y, N, J, B. Mayan words usually repeat vowels like áa,ée, íi,óo,úu (take Líik'ik Talokan as a reference). Please be careful with the translators, remember that Namor hates Spanish as much as he hates the colonizers. https://instagram.com/josuemaychi?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= This is the IG of Josué Maychi, the mayan adviser and who played of the shaman of talokan; he is a Mayan speaker from the peninsula, you can look at his publications as references, he writes in Maya in most of them

[annachum]

Just for laughs but imagine sometime after BP 2

Attuma, Namora and several other Talokanils be start singing a cover of ' She's In love ' from Little Mermaid Broadway musical as they sing about Namor becoming smitten with Shuri ( except the song is called ' He's in love ' )

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[cafekatart]

When you love to draw characters you love as raptors and your busy obsessing over Tenoch Huerta as Namor. I need better hd references. Like full body turn around or something of every outfit. Make it happen Disney!

[tsuteychubbyhumanmate]

He is in love.

Pairing: Namor/K’ul’ku’kan x reader

A short-one shot of their concubine

Warning: Fluff, Falling in love, Lovemaking, Pillow talk/ dirty talk ( in English and Yucatec Maya), Fingering, Oral (fem), Creampie, Cuddling.

You inhaled, feeling the cold bite of fear and anxiety as the wide beach's waves touched your feet, Namor was gonna show you his home, well not talocan but something his people do. You fidgeted with your new gift from him; kimoyo beads "Encantadora, do not worry, I won't let anything hurt you." Namor spoke up beside you, you know that so you nodded wordlessly and pushed a bead, the suit begin to engulfed you like a parasite lynching onto its lifeline host. Namor offer his hand and you took it.

You both dived into the ocean. With Namor's strong swimming, you made it to your destination within 12 minutes, Namor whistled, and in the distance, a killer whale swam towards you both, and stopped right in front of Namor. Taking your hand, he guided your hand flat against the nose of the killer whale, its skin felt smooth and rubbery "Here." he put a dead fish in your hand once you stopped petting the whale "Fed her." he spoke, and you carefully fed it to the majestic animal, which in return you got a happy noise leave the large mammal.

You and Namor continue to feed the killer whale as he taught you how to tame her. "What's her name?" you giggled and smiled as she pushes her snot against your hand for more pets "She does not have one." he replied, eyes softening as he looks at you, you hummed "Nixie. How about it, girl?" your smiled widen as she nodded her head, Namor smiled fondly "We must go now, it's late." Namor grabbed your hand and as you wave goodbye to Nixie. "Thank you, that was amazing." You broke the comfortable silence as you both make your way into your home, you turned around to ask him if he wanted to stay the night, his mouth and tongue answered for you, your tongue swirled around his, and your hand on the back of his neck, threading your fingers in his hair.

Namor slammed the door shut with his foot, his hands griped your hips like you'd suddenly disappear, and he pulled you flat against him, one hand started groping your ass as he walked you back to your bed. you yelped as you made contact with your mattress, your clothes already on the floor and Namor in all his naked goodness on top of you, there was something different in his eyes, felt different as he slowly fingered you, his kisses felt hot to the touch. His tongue dragged between your folds, his teeth gently scraping against your clit. His fingers curled at your g-spot, his pace became faster and his mouth sucked hard around your clit, his beard leaving a ticklish sensation on your thighs.

"Jach ma'alo'ob. (so stunning)" he whispered watching as you came on his fingers. He slowly pushed inside, balls deep, his brown eyes intense with emotion as he thrusted hard but slow, each hard thrust banged the headboard against the wall, you whimper and moan, digging your nails into his lower back as it flexed with his thrusts "This is were you belong, with me." a sharp thrust "Le tséel yéetel kaambal, cubierto yéetel le ti' joyas yéetel in semen" he hissed pounding you into the bed, you squeaked as you cummed "Fuck!" he growled, with a final harsh thrust, he filled you with his seed.

After the passionate lovemaking? Namor cleaned your tired body of sweat and cum, putting the dirty rag in your sink he laid beside you, pulling you against his firm chest, and at the edge of unconsciousness, you heard what you only had wished for, from the man you came to love.

"I have fallen for you," he admitted softly "You have lived up to your name In hechicera, you truly have enchanted me." the void welcomed you.

Transition:

Le tséel yéetel kaambal, cubierto yéetel le ti' joyas yéetel in semen.

Beside and below, covered in the finest of jewels and my cum.

In hechicera.

My enchantress.

Encantadora

Enchantress.

[ooglyboooglybitxh]

𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐒

contains: hallucinations, death, A LOT OF ANGST, crying, cuddling, fluff, comforting, deaths mentioned, kissing.

summary: Shuri has a nightmare of 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

REMINDER: nahir doesn’t exist in this story

i literally cry every time i hear this song🫠

3:26:12 AM

𝒮𝒽𝓊𝓇𝒾’𝓈 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦：

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Namor has You tied up and Shuri held back. Either Shuri helps Talocan take over the surface world. Or “The Love Of Her Life Dies”.

“NAMOR, this is stupid just let her go” Shuri yells “I gave you companionship, why break it?”

Namor doesn’t answer her question and repeats himself “Help me take over the surface world and the girl lives”

You look at Shuri with a beat up face and teary eyes and Shuri looks right back

“Why hold her hostage?!” Shuri asks with her voice cracking

“I knew you wouldn’t tale up my offer any other way, this was the only way to get your attention, 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬.”

“QUEEN to you” Shuri claps back immediately

“Last chance, Help me.” Namor spat calmly

“N-“ Shuri cuts herself off teary eyed “I’ll help you.. just spare her..please.” Her voice becoming shakier

“I don’t believe the lies you spit!” Namor yells “Namora!”

Namora steps in front of Namor’s throne “Ku’kulkan?” She kneels

Namor points to You and Namora nods understanding and walks towards You with a small knife making Shuri flinch

“No!” She screamed struggling to leave Attuma’s grip making him grip tighter

“shuri..” you say quietly

“Y/N-“ Shuri gets cut off falling into a dark abyss

She gasps loudly looking around wondering where she is

She looks to her right and sees a casket with Y/n’s name on it. She swims towards it and touches it and warps into the vision

Now inside of the vison she looks at her outfit realizing she’s in her funeral corset looking down at Your Casket

Her eyes filled tears she kneels down to the casket. As she kneels down she falls into the dark abyss again

“What is this?” She says scrunching her face, speaking to herself

She looks up seeing your body floating

“Y/n?!” she says to you hoping you respond to her

You don’t respond so she swims towards you holding you bridal style, looking at your sleeping face.

“Y/n… baby” She said shaking your shoulder

You Don’t Respond.

“Y/n? sthandwa sami can you hear me”(My love) She says whimpering

“Y/n please.. say something” She says beginning to cry “ Y/n, Y/n baby im so so sorry, Y/n forgive me plea…..” Her voice begins to fade.

Her dream pulls her back into a subway

She stands in a black track suit, similar to her purple one. She turns to the left and sees you standing on the other side of the subway

“Y/n!” She shouts towards you and begins to walk towards you.

As she gets closer a invisible wall stops her

(W/N: like the one in deadpool)

She begins banging on the wall “Y/n i-i-i cant get to you something is blocking my way”

You turn towards her making her stand in shock

You say something but your voice is inaudible

“I- I cant hear you love”

You huff and turn away making her tear up

“W-wait Y/n im serious i cant hear you baby i cant….” She kneels down to the floor crying “baby…” she begins sobbing loudly

“Y/n! baby im sorry…. baby i’m sorry ok i couldn’t move- i was helpless i couldn’t help…” she puts her knees up and cries into them

“I failed you..” she sobbed

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Shuri shot up out of her sleep gasping for air and immediately looks to her right seeing you sleeping soundly

“Y/N!, Y/N BABY ARE YOU OK? WAKE UP PLEASE PLEASE WAKE UP” She shouts shaking you rapidly

“What?, whats wrong baby?” you say looking at her

Her body shoots into your arms as she begins to cry

“Im so sorry baby” She says sobbing into your hoodie

“for what? what happened?” you cooed pulling her head to look at you

“N-Namor- h-he” You cut her off

“Isn’t here baby, im ok.”

Then it finally clicked her.

She Wasn’t Dreaming Anymore

Shuri began crying into you chest again

“Oh baby it was horrible, I Lost You”

“But im right here”

This was the first nightmare she’d had in a while since her mother’s death

“Im right here and im not going anywhere…ok?” You whisper into her ear reassuring her while rubbing her back

Shuri squeezes into you tighter still sobbing

“Hey look at me” you say pulling her face to look at you “Everything is going to be ok.. can you repeat that to me baby?”

“e-e- everything is- g-going be ok..” Shuri stammered between sniffles

“yeah it is, so stop crying ok?” you say wiping her tears, kissing her forehead

she nods weakly pulling her head back onto your chest

You rub her curls soothingly to calm her down.

"Y/n will you promise me something?" Shuri says looking up at you

"yeah?"

"promise me you won't leave me Y/n. Please promise me, your the only thing keeping me together" Shuri says with tears falling down her eyes

"I Promise baby." you said kissing her cheek "now stop crying like we said everything is okay baby."

She chuckles lightly and kisses your lips "Thank you so much Y/n."

"what are you thanking me for?" you ask smiling

"For always understanding me, being so patient with me, comforting me when I need it most. I love you so much Y/n, I really do baby." she says in the crook of your neck looking up at you 

"awwwww I love you too baby and you're welcome." you say giving her a big hug as she smiles happily 

"you ready to go back to sleep now?" you ask her looking at her

She nods and you rub her curls

"I love you Y/n" Shuri says kissing your lips

"I love you too baby, sleep well ok?'

she nodded and you played in her curls until she fell asleep. ________________________________

Play at 2:44

shuri lets go of her dream from last night

9:25:19 AM

Shuri blinks herself awake as the sun peaks over your body

She sees you sitting on you phone and kisses your forehead

"morning" you say smiling at her "did you sleep well?"

"yeah, I did thanks to you" she said pushing your curls behind your ear

"its what I do best" you sigh smiling with your lips pressed

She gives you a light smile laying her head back down in guilt

"What's wrong babes?" you say noticing her action

"its just that....... I feel guilty for waking you up like that, you know... sometimes I feel like im a burden to you when I cry to you about things that you weren't around for and I-" She explains but you cut her off

"Shuri Udaku. you are never a burden to me. You never will be do you understand me? You are perfect ok?" you say to her

"But I-" She tries speaking

"Everybody cries. You can't be strong all the time crying is a natural emotion that us humans have" you say as Shuri began crying again

"I'm sorry" Shuri whimpers wipes her tears

"Don't say sorry for being human" You say cupping her cheek "like I said everybody cries."

"I love you so much Y/n, I love you so fucking much." she says calming down in you arms

"I love you too baby" you say grinning holding her ever so tightly

THE WAY I HELD BACK MY TEARS DURING TS WAS SO CRAZY😭

I hope y'all liked this story it kicked my ass but I still got it done😭

love - Aaliyah

[inkareds]

Tumblr WTF

Am i fucking shadowbanned??? Like bcs I haven't been active in a while???? Come on Tumblr wtf???

Like I'm not trying to be boastful or anyth right but usually when I post a fic or sumth I'd get at a minimum 20 notes aft 12 hours unless its a lowkey/minor character. I'd usually get more than 50 aft 24. But like

I'm posting Miles Morales, Hobie, Miguel, Namor, WALLY WEST and barely getting anything

ESPECIALLY THE MILES ONE LIKE IM GETTING BELOW 10 NOTES AFTER MORE THAN A WHOLE DAY

Also w/ Wally, I thought he was an underrated character cause I don't see ppl posting him a lot. But when I posted my Wally fic Speedsters Are Always Late, I have one note. ITS BEEN A DAY it's just so fucking disheartening

Ik I'm like complaining for nothing or whatever but it sucks. It feels like shit when you're used to so much interaction from ppl, seeing ppl rb or comment funny things and then basically get nothing at all.

Makes u fucking wonder if ur writing skills plummeted that much or if Tumblr hates your guts.

(Also to show that Tumblr rly isn't showing my WRITING to people I posted a call me out post w the same tags as one of my shorter fics w/ Miguel, Hobie, Pav, and Miles. THAT CALL OUT POST IS SHORTER THAN MY SHORT FIC AND WAS POSTED A FEW DAYS LATER YET HAS MORE NOTES.)

what the actual FUCK

(Excuse the tags I'm testing something)

Also in case tumblr NOW decides to show my posts these are the posts I'm referencing:

Flying Together - Miles Morales x Aerialist Reader

Speedsters are always late - Wally West x reader

Trust Me - Namor x Talocan Reader

Rest Your Weary Eyes - Cassandra Cain x fem reader

Love You Like A Cat - Miles x Moody reader

A different mother tongue - Pavitr Prabhakar, Miguel O'hara, Hobie Brown, and Miles Morales (separate)w/ reader who speaks a different mother tongue

[monsterlovefantasy]

I am from the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, I think I can give you some tips to differentiate Spanish words from Mayan words: Mayan words usually have these signs ´´´´ between letters, they also constantly use the letters X, CH, T, K ,H, as well as W, Y, N, J, B. Mayan words usually repeat vowels like áa,ée, íi,óo,úu (take Líik'ik Talokan as a reference). Please be careful with the translators, remember that Namor hates Spanish as much as he hates the colonizers. https://instagram.com/josuemaychi?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= This is the IG of Josué Maychi, the mayan adviser and who played of the shaman of talokan; he is a Mayan speaker from the peninsula, you can look at his publications as references, he writes in Maya in most of them

this fanart is cute so I wanna share it

[andarthas-web]

Wakanda Forever? More like Wakanda WTF!

I finally managed to watch Wakanda Forever and....WTF WAS THAT???

Who thought it was a good idea to center the movie on two BIPOC communities, both of which are threatened by neo-colonial and capitalist western ambitions, going to war with each other, because one of them can’t come up with a better solution to the dilemma they’re facing than murdering a black woman? I mean....Namor is several hundreds of years old and apparently an experienced and good ruler. It’s pretty clear Riri didn’t even know what was going on and would never have willingly put Wakanda at risk (which makes it likely she wouldn’t have wanted to put Talocan and its’ people at risk either). Also, if Riri could invent something like this, sooner or later some other scientist will pop up who can do the same, because people who are gifted like that are rare...but by no means a one-time-only-in-all-of-human-existence. So no matter HOW she’s taken out of the picture, that’s only delaying the problem, not solving it. And FFS!!! If he wanted to keep her out of reach of western ambitions, keeping her in Talocan (if he didn’t trust Wakanda enough) would have been perfectly sufficient, no murder needed. Then there’s the bit about firing Okoye. WTF??? First of all, Shuri’s an adult and a princess responsible for her people, fully capable of making executive decisions on her own and EVERYBODY was aware that this was a risky mission beforehand. Hell, it wasn’t the first time Shuri did risky stuff in her life either. So yeah, punishing Okoye for not being all-powerful and not being able to pull an unrealistic Deus Ex Machina move to save Shuri, and especially considering that it is up to Shuri to decide for herself which risks and actions to take? Doesn’t make one lick of sense. It makes even LESS sense, considering that from all the people present, Okoye is the most qualified where it comes to getting Shuri back. And EVEN LESS SENSE that Ramonda’s anger comes from “having lost ALL of her family” when at the end of the movie, we learn that she has a grandson AND that she’s met him. Doesn’t he count at all for her? Btw, fridging characters in order to motivate others to grow and take action they wouldn’t have otherwise? A really tired old trope that robbed Ramonda of her dignity and power. Never mind that we already lost T’Challa in this movie and adding Ramonda on top of that was just adding insult to the injury. Then there’s this bit about “oh, I had the Kimoyo beads bugged” from Valentina Allegra de Fontaine? Please. Since when is western tech and knowledge even remotely on par with the tech of Wakanda / with the tech Shuri built? All within the few couple of minutes it took Ross to get to the scene to boot too. Without any kind of explanation on how the fuck they pulled this highly unrealistic feat off, this bit totally undermined the competence Shuri and Wakanda’s tech are supposed to have and it seems like an utterly unnecessary “ha ha, see, ultimately white people are better than you” gotcha moment.

Also, Namor is supposed to put his people first...but in the end, after sending a LOT of his people to die in the fight against Wakanda, he decides to just call everything off, after stressing how absolutely and utterly NON-negotiable murdering Riri was, just because Shuri decided to spare his life. Yeah, that’s hypocrisy of the highest order. Nevermind that somebody who witnessed / is well aware of the violence of white colonizers against BIPOC women and who is obviously still angry and upset about it, should NOT be willing to murder a black woman that easily and without second thought, let alone without a DAMN good reason and only after much, much soul-searching.  Also, what did it get him in the end?

NOTHING HE COULDN’T HAVE EASILY HAD WITHOUT GETTING TONS OF PEOPLE KILLED ON BOTH SIDES. Riri is still alive and free (and not even been kept safe and out of reach in Wakanda, like Shuri suggested at first, but returning to her life in the US, where she will be at a higher risk of being abducted / forcibly conscripted by other powers). (Side-note: is it just me, or did her suit seem very shoddily animated when compared to Tony’s?) And Wakanda is now an ally? HELL, considering how isolated they were becoming on an international stage, they’d have probably been perfectly delighted to consider an alliance well before he started this whole shit-show. Overall, the plot of this movie makes NO sense and violates a lot of the characters’ integrity six ways to sunday, having them act like immature, stupid teenagers instead of the experienced, competent people they’re supposed to be. Somebody (or a lot of somebodies) took lazy shortcuts here in order to drive a plot forward that was all focused on a maximum of flash and bang and Celebrity Big Brother style drama instead of telling a meaningful, consistent story. Among the few bright lights here were Okoye, with Danai Gurira pulling off a small miracle to give the character dignity and depth despite the godawful script, Shuri, whose struggle with the grief over her brother’s death and with trying to find a path forward for herself really hit home hard, as well as Riri, who was fun to watch as she rejoiced in the tech she had created, but who was also willing to take on responsibility and do the right thing. And finally Nakia, whose heartbreak was still palpable and yet it was incredibly admirable and inspiring how she worked through that, nevermind how she was absolutely badass as she came to rescue Shuri and Riri, as well as M’Baku, with Winston Duke adding either a light-hearted or a serious note to the scene as needed.  Sadly, overall, it’s not a movie I’m going to watch again and it was a huge disappointment.

[nodame-art]

But loving him was red ♥️ #Namor #Talocan #Wakandaforever #Tenochhuerta #Nashuri #Art #Draw

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[randomnoteforfuturereference]

Namor and Talokan's backstory are of an indigenous people that fled colonialism and its impacts. And Namor explicitly considers Spanish a "hateful language", with his outsider name essentially being one big middle finger to it.

So why are two accompanying songs (specifically when Namor describes his history and when he shows Shuri around Talocan), legit lovely as they are, in Spanish?

[monsterlovefantasy]

A little help of mayan love words to fanfics writers

1- I'm in love with you

2- I love you with all my heart

3- I love you

4- I love you (more intense)

[annachum]

Okay but imagine Single Dad Namor :

. After his 2 previous wives are out of his life one way or another, Namor took up the responsibility to take care of his 3 kids

. Stresses on their education and upbringing, and spends as much time as possible with them, etc

. Okay you know what in my MCU fics the one kid who ended up dead in Marvel Comics hasn't died ( yet )

. Likes to face paint with them on the reg

. Sings lullabies to them regularly

. Hell bent on protecting his kids especially all that happened

. His 3 kids defo ship him and Shuri after hearing how he simps over Shuri from some of the Talokanil court officials

. Namor one day proudly introduced his children to Shuri and she INSTANTLY IS ENDEARED BY THEM

. Those 3 are at first a little wary of her at first ( cuz of the whole Talokanil Wakandan war thing ), yet they soon warm up to her. Bless.

. Those 3 becomes unlikely friends/associates with T'Challa II

. It seems that those young kids don't really know the brevity of the Talokanil Wakanda War or the uneasy alliance that followed yet. They are still so young at those points

. Yet upon seeing that unlikely friendship between those kids, the Wakandans and Talokanils are encouraged to boost their initially uneasy alliance even more.

[evita-shelby]

Of Gods and Witches

Chapter 20

Cw: terminal illness, death, acts of war

Gif by @mattoidmeerkat

Taglist @thegreatdragonfruta @v3d3rl1cht @urgonnaneedabiggership

“You know what this means, don’t you?” Eva asks the queen after she was moved to a hospital in Mount Bashenga. Shuri wasn’t here, staying up all night trying to figure out how to make the plant at her laboratory further into the mountain.

“We are prepared for such things.” Ramonda says underestimating her enemy.

No one had faced one like her husband and his people. How can you go against someone who could hypnotize your guards into opening every door for them?

“No, you aren’t. Wakanda will suffer if you do not let me handle this.” Eva begins. “My husband has prepared his people for battle since he became king four hundred years ago.”

The only way to get him to stop is if she summons him and calms him down. If anyone could get Namor to stand down, it was her.

“Wakanda would not survive this.” Eva, knowing fully well how easy it was to exploit the weaknesses the first time, has seen this place flooded out of existence.

Namor does not seek to conquer, he seeks to destroy.

“You do not know that.” The queen says ordering for security to be tightened around her and the women of the Dora Milaje assigned to her nod in understanding.

“I know him.” The witch cautioned. “He won’t stop until you’re dead and your city destroyed. What you did was an act of war, he will respond as such. Please, listen to me, let me go to you and stop him from ruining your country.”

But the queen is deaf to her pleas and leaves the hospital room to find her death waiting for her in the throne room.

“How could you stop him, you are too weak to be moved. I have seen this illness before, your injury won’t heal and the heart shaped herb refuses to return.

If you leave your bed, you will die.” There is a note of pain in her words. No one was sure how T’challa died so quickly of his illness, now Eva knew why.

An injury.

“The Herb can resurrect the dead.” Eva reminds her and the woman shook her head.

“She couldn’t make the herb then and she can’t make it now. What makes you think my daughter will succeed?” Ramonda asked already braced for failure as she left.

“Because I’ve seen it. She will learn to reconcile magic with science and Shuri will make the Flowers bloom again.”

No matter what she does the witch cannot tap onto the bond she has with her husband.

The medication numbs her to it, trapped inside her body like an ordinary woman.

“Ch’ah!” She calls out to him, tries everything ---not involving sexual acts as there are people here--- to get him to see she is alive. “Ch’ah!”

But he is deaf to her pleas for him to stop as he flies to the glass palace.

He is consumed by his grief, his rage and thinking he has lost her again.

A queen for a queen.

He means to kill Ramonda, that is his objective. To bring Shuri to her knees thinking she was in on it.

“You have to let me speak to him, I can make him stop!” Eva shouts at the doctors and the guards in here with her.

“It would be too dangerous, you cannot be moved.” The head doctor shook her head and considered other options only to find it was all too late.

The palace groans and begins to collapse from the hydro bombs and yet only one person was killed in the act.

Eva can see in her mind’s eye as Shuri and the warriors Nakia and Okoye try to resuscitate her dead mother.

“You did this!” Namor shouts, still thinking he had a just cause. “I came with only a few warriors. “Bury your dead, mourn your losses. In one week’s time, I will return with my entire army.

May your next ruler be wiser and not betray Talocan again.”

“A queen for a queen.” Eva gasps in horror as she watched the wrath of her king bring Wakanda to it’s knees.

“And you will either join us against the surface world, or we will wash Wakanda from the face of the planet.” The God King of Talokan pronounced and Eva knew why he was going so far as to make such warning.

If he remains unaware of her being alive, he won’t yield when he fights Shuri.

He intends to die.

This line 'May your next ruler be wiser and not betray Talocan again' was ommitted and you can find it on the official script.

Sorry for taking so long i wrote myself into a corner and then took forever to write myself out of it.

[darthkvznblogs]

Do you have any plans for Talocan and Namor in any future projects?

Non-essential ones (so if I can't get to them I won't miss out on much), but BP2 pushed the needle towards "yes" enough to draft some!

[77-fxes]

WF: Reflections of Shuri

In the ancestral plane, Shuri's conversation with Killmonger is easy to flatten out to 'Shuri confronts her grief and desire for vengeance and, momentarily, chooses vengeance.' But as with any Coogler film, I believe that the dialogue between characters is communicating a bit more than that. Furthermore, I think there's some insight into the reading that the ancestral plane is both a physical plane where you meet the spirits of real people and a conversation with one's own subconscious or conscious (I first heard it on NewRockstars)

I think the scene can be separated into three conversations. The first part of the conversation centers on why Shuri took the herb in the first place. At first, she tries to say that she took it to see her family, but Killmonger calls that out and we as the audience already knows that he's right due to her earlier conversation with Ramonda about T'Challa's spirit. So eventually, she drops that and admits that she wants power and doesn't correct her cousin when he suggests it's for revenge. This essentially is the first time that Shuri outright admits her rage, pain, and desire for revenge unreservedly.

The next phase starts with her denying that she's like him, calling him an unworthy king to which he retorts that he and T'Challa did what was needed to open Wakanda up in such a way that they would have protected Riri in the first place. No argument there, but she goes on to blame his burning of the heart-shaped herb for not only T'Challa's death, but in many ways, the predicament that Wakanda finds itself in, which he denies. I feel like as an internal conversation, this is Shuri reconciling the benefits of having opened up Wakanda to the outside world with the dangers, suggesting that she's been more ambivalent about this issue than she's let on.

In the final piece, the conversation turns to the kinds of rulers that her family members were. Ramonda's bravery, T'Chaka's hypocrisy, T'Challa's nobility, and N'Jadika's ruthlesness. This is, to me, the crux of the matter. Having come to grips with her own desire for revenge and the inevitable precariousness of Wakanda's situation in the world in order to do what's right, Shuri is now confronted with the uncomfortable truth of how she feels about her departed family members. All three of these people (maybe even her cousin in a way) are people that she's mourned in what to her is about a two year period (minus the blip). In the glow of mourning, it's comforting to beatify our departed loved ones; it's a way of insulating us from our own feelings of anger, loss, even betrayal of the death of a loved one. But now, each in turn, Shuri is left to confront the fact that even though she loved her mother, father, and brother, she also knew their various strengths and flaws. This can be a painful revelation to accept, the hardest of all probably that deep down, she really does feel like T'Challa was too noble, or at least too short-sighted with his nobility. Moreover, the guilt of finding common ground with Killmonger, not just about the revenge aspect (for a short time), but more pointedly, in the need for ruthless, pragmatic decision-making is jarring. Though for someone so science-minded, someone always looking for the better solution, someone who is not bound by sentimental attachment to tradition, it does make quite a bit of sense. Killmonger was able to do what he did because he had no attachment to the traditions of Wakanda, hated them even. To him, Wakanda was a means to an end, a way to gain power for both personal and political reasons.

To me, this last part is what informs Shuri's approach to taking up the mantle and her eventual truce with Namor. These are matters of practicality. She knows M'Baku is right about the consequences of killing him, both for Wakanda and Talocan, who she knows to just be people living their lives. In that moment, Shuri does show us who she is, a compassionate but ruthlessly pragmatic person. If a truce is what keeps oblivion at bay today, then it's a truce. I don't believe that someone as unsentimental as Shuri believes that this means that Namor is a changed man, nor will it stop her from designing countermeasures to his army after she gets back, or turning her attention to the world and it's desires for vibranium. In these matters, I expect Shuri to take a realistic look at the world, Wakanda's situation, and strike ruthlessly when the time comes for action.

[tsuteychubbyhumanmate]

Loves stronger than fear.

Pairing: Namor/K’ul’ku’kan x reader

A/n: the moodboard was made by a special friend

You breathed in the salty air as nerves jumped at you, your eyes watched the waves with hidden fear. Sometimes you wonder why you get so close to the thing that haunts your dreams, then you saw the love of your life. That's why.

You smiled as the king of talocan, your lover and future husband "In amado" Namor smiled once he stood in front of you "My love. How are you?" you asked "Better, so I have been thinking" he spoke seriously, taking your hand as he began to walk beside the crushing ocean "What troubles you?" you asked, concern showing on your face.

"I wish to take you to my kingdom, Shuri had made a diving suit, that will allow better movement, What do you say?" he stopped you both and held your hands. Dread filled you like a tsunami, you hadn't tall your lover about the fear of the ocean you almost met your end.

"I-That would be cool," you stated, hoping and praying he believes everything was okay "What's wrong?" he frowned, your prayer wasn't answered. "It's n-nothing." you stuttered "Tell me the truth or there will be consequences." his brown eyes narrowed, you double he was buffing, when he threatened people he kept his words true. "I'm scared of the ocean when I was a little girl, I almost die in the harsh and unforgiving waves. I didn't tell you because I was afraid you wouldn't love me anymore. The ocean is a part of you, you are one." you looked at the sand. Namor placed two fingers underneath your chin and made you look at him, his normal intense eyes were soft as he looked into your eyes "I love you, for you. I wouldn't stop loving you because of your fear. You are everything to me." he sealed his loving words with a kiss full of passion.

"I love you."