she would rise

sideblog dedicated to alina starkov // i follow back as @tragicdeadgirl. my edits

[tragicdeadgirl]

Sankta, they cried. Sankta Alina.

…martyred before she could turn eighteen.

[jedi-anakin]

nikolina appreciation week day one | summer solstice

“love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind”

[solvolk-deactivated20210503]

SHADOW & BONE COUNTDOWN / DAY TWO / FAVORITE CAST MEMBER

“I thought it was a very freeing thing to experience – she’s half-Shu, but she’s also going to save the world. It felt very close to my heart. It was a really interesting role for me to play because it kind of felt like it reflected my life in lots of ways. Not being really sure in myself and who I am and where my ethnicity plays a part. I was very Chinese to my school friends but never feeling it. So that was another thing that I felt like I could bring, this shared experience of being in one place, but not really being connected to the other, but everyone else thinks you are.”

[shadowandbonecentral]

ALINA STARKOV, THE SUN SUMMONER.

[emmaduerrewatson]

‘‘Growing up, as a mixed-race person, I rarely saw anyone who looked like me, let alone Asian people, generally. And if they were on screen they were always a fairly two-dimensional role, a lot of times, especially in western TV shows and films. So I was so thrilled that they made this decision, and yeah, I was able to bring my own experiences. I think, for lots of people [who are] mixed-race or first-generation immigrants, you spend so much of your life not feeling like you belong anywhere. I certainly grew up in a predominantly white area, and I was always ‘the Chinese one’ to my white friends, but to my Asian friends and family, I was very English and you never really feel like you belong anywhere. And that is essentially Alina’s problem where we meet her. She doesn’t know where she belongs. She doesn’t know how important she is. It really shapes who she is, [in] the same way it does for me. My race is a big part of my life, but it’s not everything that I am, and they’ve done such a good job of making Alina’s background important to her as a character and important to shaping who she is, but it’s not everything that she is.’’

- JESSIE MEI LI about her character Alina Starkov in Shadow & Bone.

[darklinadaily]

I’m the Sun Summoner.

[bloomliart]

— 🌞 sankta alina 🌞 —

[ffahey]

because with her he was human again

[ravenclairee]

There is no other like us and there never will be. SHADOW AND BONE (2021-)

[darklinadaily]

The only thing more powerful than you or me is both of us together

[shadowandbonecentral]

SHADOW AND BONE (2021) Alina and the Morozova’s Stag

[darklinadaily]

SHADOW AND BONE (2021) ‘‘I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina. You and I are going to change the world.’’

[azoraahai]

BRING THE LIGHT

[ivashkovadrian]

You and I are going to change the world.

SHADOW AND BONE (April 23, 2021)

[darklinadaily]

Answer the question.

[buffy-summrs-deactivated2023100]

ALINA STARKOV | SHADOW AND BONE

[anyataylorjoys]

—Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone, 216-217