#prince chess

[merciafantasy]

My friend: So what type of men are you into?

Me:

A men who give me a bad boy vibes and have black or darker hair

[ganemouchie]

Yeah, yeah, sex is cool and all but have y'all ever pretended to be 1800's repressed gay Englishmen while playing chess?

[timegays]

They are all so so silly to me

[m00nb04rd5]

Can I have a moodboard for Dexter Charming from Ever After High?

Dexter Charming (Ever After High)

[nalyra-dreaming]

something just hit me. Lestat's last chess game with Claudia was foreshadowing. How she surprised him. He thought he knew what she was doing, only to turn around and go in a different direction.

And him screaming "move your piece finish the game!" Hello Louis! Do it. Finish it.

I swear I'm not this dumb lol but sometimes I'm so focused on everything at the surface that I forget to look beyond that. Best part of rewatching is reliving all these moments with fresher eyes.

:) The chess game was incredible.

I talked about it here (though I thought the "broadcasting theory" was solid then, but it was a clue after all as we know now. Still, I do think he reacts to her, at least instinctively):

Here is a good post on it all by someone else, too (that I reblogged):

AND, if I may:

The outburst after is NOT just yelling - it carries a lot of meaning, that Louis... glosses over in the tale, for a lot of reasons:

But in any case - this show is brilliant, all the way into the last level or hint. The chess game they used is incredible, too, namely the infamous: "The Immortal"

Just incredible on all levels :))

[dozydawn]

IM Vesna Rožič.

[demonforthesemen]

Was thinking of how I've seen Lucifer called the Prince of Lies and have now become obsessed with the idea of Lucifer never technically lying. He'll tell half truths, he'll omit, he'll misdirect, he'll avoid, and he'll distract, but he won't ever outright lie. Of course, this doesn't mean he's telling the truth either.

[bananadogpilllow]

laurent: how dare you fuck me. This is obvi an elaborate scheme created by my uncle to mind fuck me.

Damen: literally you wanted to fuck! I said no fucking!

Laurent: you wanted to fuck me more! I have receipts!

[unlikely-adversaries-bracket]

R1M31

@funkylittlebaldcharapoll - link to poll

@purpleboytournament - link to poll

[ecto-stone]

Hand down my favorite trope in DP fanon is still

Vlad is weaker then Danny and is consider a spineless coward that is all talk and no act.

Until you fucked with his Family or Children ( Badger Cereal AU where Danny either Vlad son or close mentee included)

And suddenly he went from a push over limp noodle to Parent on roid rage mode .Casually lever an entire planet to search, destroyed u and haunted your family for several generation.

[killjoy-prince]

had a dream I played chess with Alhaitham and I was setting up the pieces and I always get confused which square the king and queen go on so I asked him and he said the king goes on the square the same color as the color you're playing as and the queen goes next to it.

I woke up before a winner could be determined but I googled it just now and he was wrong. The king goes on the color opposite of the one you're playing

[self-spaghettification]

catboyed ur fav

[kaeyachi]

prince kaeya theory?

nah

king kaeya theory more like

[aestheticsoftheinternet]

Self-Indulgent Lear Moodboard

[the-gayest-show]

Oh don't worry I'm the anonymous asker who asked you the two previous asks that had questions in them, as well as the ask that pointed out that the "The👑✨ Ultimate *Sofia the First* Character Ask Game✨️👑" seemed suspiciously like AI. I had asked you those questions with the numbers in them to point out how certain specific questions were basically exactly the same with slightly different wording, because I wanted to see if you'd figure out that it was suspicious, but then I just decided to heck with it and pointed out how AI fishy smelling I thought it was.

oh so that was the motive all along? interesting!! i just saw the one with AI first so i answered it first but now that i'm REALLY really looking at it, yeah even looking at 33 and 81 which were the two you mentioned, it's just. the same question. deadass.

and now im looking thru ALL the questions you sent and it is in fact almost the same question with different wording.

also omfggggg THEY GOT THE LORE WRONG. question 4 "princess zandar" PRINCE!!! ITS PRINCE!!!!

it truly is written like a mf who hasn't the foggiest idea of what they wrote fr

also clover? granting wishes??? when?? he's the least magical mf there! sure he's top tier comedy but if he could grant wishes he would've just spawned carrots forever for himself

also question 28. im hoping the vibe they were going for was "king for a day" (you know. like the episode king for a day [had some solid cedric moments in that one]) but princess for a day? nothing would fucking change for the people yo.

also i keep seeing "royal archery contest" and like. am i forgetting episodes again because i don't remember this???? iirc there was an episode where sofia shot an arrow but that was carol of the arrow and it wasn't a "royal" contest (carol of the arrow was solidly anti-royalty) and i dont even think it was a contest??

also what even IS a "Royal Royalty Contest"????? once again moving AWAY from stf lore and onto absolute yap

"If you could bring any mythical creature to life" brother they have mermaids and unicorns and trolls and shit in this universe canonically there is NOTHING else i'd WANT alive??? fairies exist too bro what even is that question fr

so basically yeah anon thanks for letting me know because otherwise i would've actually fallen for it (curse my inability to pay attention to the details!) so much for thinking some dedicated fan actually grinded to type up an ask game....

[nalyra-dreaming]

During the chess scene when claudia won. Why do you think made lestat so angry. Is it cuz claudia was smarter than he thought. Or was it cuz he was scared cuz she played him and he didn’t see it coming. Or maybe he is afraid of her winning and him losing louis?

Ohhhh ok, so... there are layers to this one once more.

And my personal theory re the "broadcasting" plays into that. Imho, obviously.

Now. Sam has said that by then he could hear what they said to each other - however, Claudia and Louis make a very important distinction during that chess game: Louis "says": "I don't like what you're feeling right now." There is a distinction between sending out thoughts, and another receiving them - and not doing that, and another reading your thoughts and feelings. That is directly from the books, too, from Memnoch. So lets get back to the chess game with this in mind.

Lestat and Claudia start the game, she uses the Immortal strategy, which ultimately defeats him. (Have I said how much I adore that they went and learned those matches?!)

Lestat and Claudia snipe at each other, while both think something else. The actual words are not that important here though. Claudia's thoughts we can hear.

Lestat we can only observe.

So let's observe. Claudia says to Louis (broadcasting): "I've been having a thought the last few days."

Louis: "Yeah? What's that?"

Claudia: "I think he killed Magnus."

And... Lestat looks up, with this look (actual slow blink up):

There is nothing else for him to react to, but he quite clearly does.

I found the extra shot of his hands when the game continues quite interesting. He literally keeps them under the table, on his knees. In a way bracing himself. Extra shots are important and they always mean something. Imho they literally used those to show us his hands.

This is Lestat looking up at her when she says: "If you're going to beat Lestat, you have to become Lestat."

Again, there's not much for him to react to prior, but he does, if you rewatch. He's assessing.

And then his expression here, when she repeats that she is going to kill him - and Louis says that he will destroy her if she'll try. That's vague pride at Louis and some amusement.

And then right after, when she says: "I can kill him."

The amusement is gone, there is a vague worry, and possibly some abject pain. He wonders if she really can. This is prior to Claudia making her next move(!). The shift in expression is there, but it did not come from the game.

And then, when the game goes on, and he is worried now, and she says: "And want to tell you something else Louis."

He looks up, again, after that comment:

That's attention. To her. Not the game.

And this is his expression when she says: "The secret is, you want to kill him, too. And you will enjoy doing it."

And Lestat is taken aback, by that.

And.... Louis... does not respond.

That must have been quite the sinking feeling, the abject rush of adrenaline. Louis does not object to her wanting to kill him(!)

And this is Lestat's comment, after that: "You've won." And he does not only mean the chess game.

And Claudia's response is: "I'm tired."

Now, I don't know about you, but what kind of response is that to the previous statement? Except of course she knew that they were doing a layered game here, that it was all about more than the game itself.

Her saying "I'm tired." signals she is "done" with their game. With their life. With the shit game they've been playing the last few years.

His "Well, finish the game." after is as much prompt to do so literally, as it is a prompt for her to try.

Now. Here.

Because he knows she is planning to kill him now. And that she has pulled Louis in on it, at least enough.

His literal best chances are for her to try, now.

Him flipping his shit after is as much canon temper outburst as it is serious worry, which we know will then slip into paranoia after(!). He's also furious she would dare to rise up against him. He's furious that Louis just acquiesces. He is furious that he is in this position. He is furious she won. He is seriously worried she's won.

And we know that Claudia will stop talking to Louis like that, after, too. That she knows he can hear them if they do that. Which is why she stops doing it (for the most part, with a few very noticeable and planned exceptions, imho).

This is Lestat's face after he throws off the chess board and looks over to Louis, who ignores him (and his outburst).

That's worry.

Not anger. Worry.

He knows. And he goes full blown paranoid after that. And tries to beat her at the game.

And loses.