[muckmaw]

Hey! This is a sideblog that I’ll be using to post [inheritance cycle] art, and to reblog other stuff relating to the fandom.

25, he/him ❤️

Please do not reblog my art to blogs with proship content, thank you!

Tag system:

- mine (art by me!)

- characters are tagged in posts that mention them

[letoscrawls]

Losing my mind because I was looking at old wips and found these headshots of Arya and Nasuada from the Inheritance cycle that I made THREE years ago. I feel like my art in 2022 was peak and I really need to bring back that vibe omg. I swear I could not make these again today my style dumbed down sm

anyways where's my eragon fam at

no no i'm serious if you read these books you're legally obliged to tell me exactly who was your favorite character and why. and if it's not eragon well.... we are going to have some problems (jk please i'm begging let me know)

[lamiyu]

my poor boy

[muckmaw]

Points my transsexual beam of light at the inheretance cycle Arya is a trans lesbian, Eragon is a straight trans man, Nasuada is bi and not cis but “doesn’t have time to think about it” (she can’t stop thinking about it), Murtagh is bi + a bigender egg, Roran and Katrina are t4t butchfemme. Uhhh and this is canon actually thank you for coming to my author Q&A

[gangseyboi]

I’m aware its what murtagh knows and his outlook on life but its sooo funny when hes like ugh i dont want to admit i need help :/ from eragon :/ he’ll think i’m weak meanwhile eragon would probably be like oh my god please let me help i love friends i hate being in charge help ME

[catinflight]

Wet cat man n' his spiky dragon‼️‼️‼️🐉🐉🐉🐉

Og images ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🙏👇

[muckmaw]

Color me BEYOND thrilled that the fish has a blog. :D

LOL I’m so glad that you enjoy!!! Blub blub :0)

[fertbutt]

top 5 galbatorix moments

number 5 coming out of his mothers womb and being born and being named galbatorix. and then going about life interacting with the world and nobody suspecting for the first 2 or 3 decades of his life that he might be evil with a name like "galbatorix"

number 4 when he allegedly kicked vrael in the nuts before decapitating him. this one is lower because it couldve been embellishment/propaganda on broms part but idk. seems like something he'd do

number 3 writing straight-up fanfiction for the two twenty-somethings that hes torturing in order to trick one of them to become his vassal

number 2 when he, in the middle of torturing the aforementioned twenty-something year old, decided to host a philosophical/political debate with her and claim the varden was evil for starting a war that would kill assumedly hundreds or thousands of people, and when she rebutted him by pointing out (rightfully) that he could end the war at literally any moment with minimal effort on his part, he does not respond and changes the subject back to torturing her

number 1 when he has eragon and murtagh fight and starts waxing poetic about how fitting and ironic it is that the two sons of morzan are fighting and how smart and brilliant he is, and eragon corrects him saying hes brom's son, not morzan's, and he responds with "well, yeah. Duh. pfft. obviously. i knew that." (he did not know that)

[mattizard]

I like to imagine that Brom still got to see and participate in some of Eragons firsts. Like the village is sitting around a campfire and Brom tells one of his stories and little Eragon wriggles free from his aunts grasps and waddles over to him- his first steps. And Brom gets to catch him and everyone thinks it's just cute but Brom, on the inside, is so happy that Eragons first steps were towards him.

[alagaesia-headcanons]

I love that Nasuada's major flaw is the same as one of Galbatorix's greatest flaws, and that it gets worse and more ingrained throughout the series. And it's so compelling because it's incredibly in character for her and there's every reason for the circumstances to perpetuate and exacerbate it, but that doesn't make her flaw any less egregious. The scene where Galbatorix compares the two of them is so fascinating because his intention is very manipulative and malicious, yet the statement itself isn't entirely untrue.

Because Nasuada treats people like tools. She considers a person's utility more important than anything else, including their personhood.

And it's such an engrossing flaw because of course Nasuada treats people like tools! She is proud and powerful and stubborn and noble and utterly committed to achieving what she has set out to do, by whatever means necessary. She will use whatever she has at her disposal to reach her goal, and that includes using the people around her. Of course, this doesn't make Nasuada inherently immoral; she cares deeply about justice and protecting her people. But her views on the individuals around her are impersonal and self serving.

And the goal she's trying to achieve is to win the war. Nasuada would never be pushed out of her ways by the circumstances because they work, the way she treats people accomplishes exactly what she intends. By its nature, the bloody act of war rewards using people like tools. It demands that, even; to a certain extent, it's an ugly necessity in war, but the thing is that Nasuada doesn't see it that way. She never struggles with or grieves over the need to consider people's individuality as secondary to their function. It comes naturally to her, and it lasts through the end of the books, when the war is already over.

Because I think the most flagrant example of this is at the very end, when Birgit intercepts Roran as he's leaving, presumably intending to kill him, and Nasuada says, "He has proved himself a fine and valuable warrior on more than one occasion, and I would be most displeased to lose him." It's such a wonderful, pointed line that perfectly sums up this aspect of her character. Because what a disgusting thing to say. Especially for the queen of all Alagaesia, perfectly positioned and empowered to stop this confrontation and declare it unjust if she cared to. But her words make no attempt at all to defend Roran as a person, only his value to her.

The way she uses others I find most evident in her treatment of Roran, Murtagh, and Elva. The way she tells Eragon that she thinks of giving Katrina a dowry as a "purchase" of Roran's goodwill and loyalty. In Uru'baen, only at great length, she makes the conscious choice to ignore Murtagh's past and only judge who he is in the present, but disregards any care for what that might say about him as a person, solely focused on if he could be useful as an ally. And when Eragon offers to revert Elva's curse, the one that condemned an infant to feel every piece of pain and suffering surrounding her, Nasuada is so fixated on Elva's utility and value to Nasuada's goals that she goes so far as to ask Eragon to fake his effort to cure her. She sees people as tools to such an extent that she can't recognize that relieving an innocent baby of unimaginable, cursed agony should come before her own priorities.

[worldwithinworld]

Eragon, to anyone and everyone: Murtagh is no brother of mine! I'll kill that traitor! 😡🤬 Eragon, in Galbatorix's palace: Whoa! Is Murtagh actually trying to kill me? Me, his little baby brother? 😯🥺

[dykemcqueen]

nasuada saving her entire people by using magic to make LACE which is very expensive and normally very time-consuming... time-consuming but not ENERGY-consuming....... using magic to cut down that time by 90% and suddenly just GENERATING wealth essentially out of thin air..... the way no man ever thought to do that... she changed me fr.....

[valoriehomer]

Murtagh 2023

[nighttimepatrons]

Urgals my beloved

[concha-de-mar]

Guys their dynamic is so beautiful

[mossycloak]

part of me still refuses to believe that he was only 21 in the books he felt at least 30 to me

[sam-2-5]

Eragon fanart :)