#unrelated but also i hope kade actually gets to come along this time 😭

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

Ok ok here are my ramblings about the reunions with the Blades LIs (mostly Mal) off the top of my head, like immediately after finishing the chapter.

I feel like they could have rearranged it so that we reunite with Tyril/Nia in one and Mal/Imtura OR Tyril/Imtura and Mal/Nia (since the two are working together with the orphanage) in the next so each LI gets a fair half. I find it weird that Tyril basically got an amazingly cute whole chapter reunion (and Imtura too probably but female LIs deserve more attention so good for her!) while Nia and Mal romancers have to share one lol. I know I sound childish but I kinda expected...more

Is Mal corrupted or something because there's no way he would be so chill about us returning? Like it's not as bad of a reunion as others are making it but it felt really lukewarm. I wanted more anger or pain or sadness of some kind. I have to do the scene with Nia but from what I've heard, it was really sweet and she actually cried when we disappeared lol

I think it would make sense for Mal to not be super vulnerable and rebuild the walls around his heart because he didn't want to think about what happened to her. I just don't think this chapter conveyed that super well or did it halfway between Mal and MC. Like where was the intensity of "I did everything I possibly could to find you and when I thought you were gone forever I just had to do whatever I could to take my mind off you," pause, "It was like you were taking over my every thought and I distracted myself by helping the Whitetower orphans it's... what you would have wanted" like COME ON. Also, could he be that closed off if he was taking care of them? Like being a parental figure means having to open yourself up a lil but wtvr

My lil headcanon was that Mal actually did do the depression haircut but he didn't want to admit that so he made up some excuse about it being too hot in the summer because I find it hard to believe that wearing all-black armor isn't equally as hot as having long hair

Stan Imtura for having the most iconic reaction to our disappearance like I was mad too bestie

If Aerin becomes an LI I would say we had the best reunion scene tbh he wasn't corrupted and still helped propel the story but was also checking in w MC and clearly worried about them

yeah yeah ik it seems like i'm super mad, but it's more so disappointment. i do still have hope for the book, maybe their just getting their footing again