KanaAlyssum

I yap about my favorite book series

[kanabanana]

Brewing up more ideas as I type. Which AUs are you guys most interested on hearing more about? I'm collecting them like infinity stones at this point 😭

Oh well. Life is short, asks are always open, and I'm running out of notebooks i should be using for Calculus 🫠

[kanabanana]

My toxic trait is using my analysis skills I primed over the course of three years just to find the most doomed yaoi known to man.

[zora-gate]

What Eragon needs in his life is experiencing a good type of adrenaline, not from fighting or from running from the danger, but a positive adrenaline. For example: sleeping with Murtagh and hiding their relationship from the whole world

[kanabanana]

If I don't get to read about Eragon being a good mentor and maybe even the father figure he never had towards his younger students in the future I will crash out.

[kanabanana]

Modern AU: Murtagh is God awful at responding at texts. Eragon will send him like 40 texts throughout the day and Murtagh will send back a single photo of a snail at 2am. It's a sacred ritual between these two.

[rattusnorvegicusfragaria]

when your mutual makes some really cool shit and it reminds you that you are a human being among human beings and you too have the capacity to create cool shit

[kanabanana]

You know what would be cool?

Eragon sci-fi AU. Insert some Project Hail Mary existential dread and wonder kinda vibes, you know?

I gotta finish fleshing out my other AUs man. But the worms in my brain keep absorbing more content to make AUs out of. It's a curse!

[questions-about-blorbos]

Reblog if it’s okay for people to inbox you questions, headcanon, theories, anything about your Blorbo

[develop-your-oc]

anything can be a character study if you want it to be

[anistarrose]

realizing a headcanon of yours happens to make an element of canon even more heartbreaking when you hadn't even considered it from that angle previously

[ID from alt: emoji rubbing their hands together and grinning evilly. End ID.]

[kanabanana]

What aspects of my AUs are you guys most interested in hearing more about? Got any suggestions you're curious about?

I'm currently fleshing out my Evil-ish Eragon AU, so expect to hear more of it soon! Currently asking myself the question about how one defeats a teen stronger than Galb. Uh oh

Anyways, suggestions are always open!

[kanabanana]

Patiently waiting for Paolini to give us two sentences from an upcoming book that foreshadows a cliffhanger that'll leave us waiting four more years.

[kanabanana]

I am very hyped for future inheritance cycle books where we get more dragon colors! Mostly to see what gems will be associated with them. We already have the RGB crew, now it's time for a whole rainbow!

Also what are the new riders going to use as weapons? What ways of magic will they attune to the most? Are elves going to do elf shenanigans or is Eragon going to be mostly in charge of curriculum?

[kanabanana]

Big celebration for those who ordered this in '24 😭. Can't wait to have this displayed! And then immediately throw down nearly another 400 for the special editions lmao

[dellanir]

Dude, aren’t Murtagh and Eragon half-siblings? They have the same mom. Why are we shipping them.

okay, and?

believe it or not, people are allowed to ship fictional characters without submitting an ethics application to the tumblr morality council first. shocking concept, i know.

i'm neutral on shipping in general, but since you’re coming for those shippers who are literally harming no one by doing so, let’s apply your logic consistently for five seconds.

if shipping fictional characters means endorsing everything those characters do, then congratulations: christopher paolini is apparently every kind of criminal that exists, and you’re complicit too for liking, buying, and consuming his work.

arya is over a century old and gives her true name (described by paolini himself as “a closer sharing than any physical intimacy” aka sex) to a teenager, veering into pedophilic territory. that’s also the most popular ship on ao3. morzan and selena have a massive age gap. brom and selena have a massive age gap. fäolin and arya have a massive age gap. those ships are also on ao3. murtagh tortures nasuada and commits a genocide, and that’s the second most popular pairing on ao3. galbatorix and morzan are serial abusers and rapists, and that’s the fourth most popular pairing on ao3.

fiction is where people examine themes like power, horror, trauma, desire, obsession, violence, and complicated relationships. the entire series is built on those things because that is what stories are.

depiction is not endorsement. exploration is not advocacy. fiction is not a declaration of personal morality.

and fandom purity crusaders never apply this logic consistently outside shipping discourse. you’re on tumblr? cool, the platform has a long documented history of horrific moderation decisions and targeting marginalized communities like trans people and palestinians. you own a smartphone? guess you personally endorse exploitative labor practices in congo and the violence tied to global mineral extraction. you consume media under capitalism? damn, sounds like you support every unethical practice involved in its production.

or (and this is the conclusion any normal person reaches after ten seconds of thought) consuming or creating fiction does not mean you morally endorse every aspect of it.

most people understand that fiction is a space to explore themes and dynamics without believing those things are good in real life.

kill the cop in your head.

[kanabanana]

Evil-ish Eragon AU: Expect more Shruikan appreciation. This massive beast is now in Eragon's care, and our favorite blue rider is going to make the best out of it. The black dragon may be too degraded to be a friend of Saphira's, but he can certainly still ward off unwanted enemies. Expect to see more of him very soon.

Also, the Vault of Souls is now magically exposed. Oromis and Glaedr should know of it once more. Whether this will benefit them or not is yet to be seen.

[kanabanana]

Eragon Death AU: Remember the Fall AU in which Eragon dies?

Murtagh and Eragon are placed into the care of Brom after Selena passes from illness and Morzan conveniently disappears. The two are completely inseparable, with Murtagh often throwing massive tantrums if Brom so much as tried to move the boy into a different bed than his brother's.

Absolutely traumatized by his father being a deadbeat and his mother withering away before him, Murtagh is extremely protective of his little brother. One of the last "missions" his mother gave him was to protect Eragon, and a true soldier follows orders until released. Brom is an... okay father. He's still pretty brash and inexperienced, and has no clue how to raise codependent brothers with attachment issues, separation anxiety, and trauma. Yikes.

Murtagh even refuses to consider the possibility of becoming a rider before his brother, as that'd mean they'd be separated. And when they do become riders, practically at the same time, they're always running off to train or spy around together.

It makes losing Eragon in a fight against the forsworn hit Murtagh in ways he can't even comprehend. His little brother, the one person he was meant to protect forever, the only human who had ever truly cared for him—dead at his feet. Murtagh can't bring himself to scrub the blood off his hands until hours later.