god someone reblogged one of my athelnar posts again and man. can't believe they exist. cannot believe they had the most insane captor and slave to soulmate and "don't leave me, you're the only one i trust. i love you." and "it matters not to me where i am going, what matters to me is where you are going" and "i want you to come home" and lets kneel in front of each other and fucking pray storyline. i just cannot believe it. i cannot believe how they look at each other, athelstan at ragnar like he's the most fascinating thing he's ever seen on earth, ragnar at athelstan like that's everything he has ever wanted right in front of him. may i remind you that athelstan was nailed to a cross and got reunited with christianity yet STILL chose to go back with heathen ragnar, may i remind you that ragnar wanted to be BAPTIZED, choosing spending eternity with athelstan over literally everyone else he's ever held dear? they did not care one flying fuck about the world or religion or customs, what won over everything, literally everything else you can think of was the respective other. every fucking time. they would never have stopped choosing each other again and again and again if floki hadn't put an end to it. they make me so deeply unwell im going to go eat concrete or something.
