#their dynamic drives me up the wall

[belyiswan]

i posted some memes on Pinterest but figured i’d share them here

[al-luviec]

ninjago s11 redraw

[aroacespacerock]

I just need them to be so so horrible for each other, to ruin each other, to be the only one who can save the other. The only one that really gets the other. Never more different from each other. Never more the same. They will kill for each other. They will kill each other.

[abyssal-ilk]

do you have any thoughts on viv x blackwall friendship dynamic?

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I DO, ACTUALLY! thank you so much for the ask!!!

i think it is a very strained friendship, if one can even call it "friendship". they both perceive the other to be something they are staunchly against. vivienne views the wardens as being unnecessary/dated at best and predatory/dangerous at worst, and blackwall views vivienne to be a pampered noble lady who's willingness to get involved with the inquisiton and her subversion of his expectations of her makes her suspicious. vivienne sees blackwall as a puppy because of his eagerness to matter, and blackwall sees vivienne as a snake because of the cunning that allows for her survival.

(i've barely touched on this before but i do think the fact that vivienne is a woman plays into how blackwall goes about interacting with her. he would not be speaking to her in their banter with the same manner if vivienne were a man, and i think that's important to note.)

i think there is only a very small window where vivienne and blackwall could reasonably be considered friends, and it would have to be after haven falls but before blackwall is revealed to be thom rainier. in my mind it is a friendship of necessity; neither particularly likes the other, but they are fighting together alongside the inquisitor and share a common goal. it's hard to be constantly at someone's throat when you're spilling blood with them and then patching up their wounds afterwards. and they are both defenders! keeping the rest of their team safe is something both vivienne and blackwall care deeply about, and if nothing else, that protectiveness is something to bond over. even if blackwall struggles to see vivienne's care for what it is and vivienne thinks blackwall's viewpoint is vastly naive.

vivienne and blackwall aren't as different as they think, either! they're both free marcher commoners who have had to carve out a place for themselves in orlais as foreigners, but vivienne succeeded in finding a place for herself and blackwall lost that place when he took that bribe and allowed his men to kill a family of innocents. blackwall allowed his own selfishness to get the best of him at the cost of others– something vivienne has not done, and i think that conficts with the view blackwall has on nobility and soldiers, or authority in general. a soldier is just a man following orders to him– the ones commanding the soldiers are the ones to blame for any wrongdoing. but vivienne does not order soldiers. she is a "noble lady" to him, but takes matters into her own hands and puts herself at risk while blackwall once allowed his men to take the fall for himself. this defying of expectations rattles blackwall and he projects a lot of his own insecurities onto her.

vivienne doesn't know any of this, of course, until after blackwall is revealed to be thom rainier. and i do not think vivienne would be forgiving of that deception. she'll play somewhat nice so long as the inquisitor is willing to keep blackwall around, but blackwall being willing to allow his men to slaughter a family for his own gain and then spending years hiding from it? treating her as being suspicious and manipulative when he was the one lying all along? yeah. she's not just letting that go. especially if she happened to start actually liking him somewhere in all of that, and considering she eventually ended up caring for cole? it's not that big of a reach to think she did the same for blackwall.

it's especially juicy if vivienne personally knew the family that blackwall had his men kill, as vincent callier was an ally of celene and vivienne was celene's advisor. or even if rainier was someone vivienne previously took interest in when he was in the army because he was a free marcher like she was. there's a lot of potential in their dynamic!! they're soo fun to think about

i have like half an old fic written of blackwall helping patch up vivienne after a fight while they're seperated from the rest of the party that digs into their dynamic a bit,, mayhaps i will finish it if people are interested

[revenantghost]

I've seen a lot of different takes on what happens post-JuLai, but I really like the idea of trauma-bonded Wolfwood and Meryl. Maybe they don't meet up or talk much, but their lives are now intrinsically tied together by grief and fond memories and just valuing and understanding each other.

And they still bicker and snark like siblings, of course <3

[acolorboom]

Who knew a dulled blade could be so sharp

[princessofgames]

there should be more s0/early manga puzzleshipping content. Yeah the DM dynamic is neat, but I long to see what they could have been

[calciumcryptid]

I'm watching High Potential and I have never wanted two leads to get together more.

[one-vivid-judgment]

Thought about Beer with tattoos, which consequently lead to thinking about Tattoo Artist Beer and his client Kluen who is absolutely taken aback by how attractive he is.

[sentientsky]

never not thinking about her (clara oswald)

[gaiaxygang]

every so often i think about babe knowing nothing about way at all (because way has been hiding it all from him) while way knows more about babe than he's ever been told (you could also say he knows more about babe than babe himself, in a sense). This information makes me want to pull my hair out.

even down to way's romantic feelings because babe actively dismisses them when someone brings it up as a possibility while way knows that nothing good will come of it because of his mission. Truly haunting stuff.

[quatregats]

Honestly kind of lame of CS Forester not to go in for the weird Narnia ending. Think of how fun that could have been

[currentlyonstandbi]

[asbestos-11]

the avntio tag has been dry lately on ao3

[volatile-shorty]

the wolfhound and the wolf

[callixton]

this is not related either but i will never not think that ship wars are the dumbest thing on earth & i always have. like the decisions ten makes about his attraction to martha (which is like. pretty textual) are so obviously informed by the fact he was in love with rose like how stupid do u have to be to think that it’s one or the other. also it’s the doctor. it is a set fact that he is going to have something with more than one person in his life by nature of the show. people who argue abt this make my head want to explode