the sword and the shield

•• madeline or maddy claire •• 27 •• aries, INFP •• she/her and he/him •• main blog is @madellidae !! icon by @bisexualsetokaiba !! header by @graff-aganda

[hopesallwegotleft]

Carol Ann Duffy - Medusa

[ctrvpani]

Josef Cernan from the b roll

[pentapoda]

Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.

[wistfulrefrain]

I don't even remember taking this but I feel like it has meme potential

[slayerfi]

i am so inactive and i probably will remain so but i very briefly warmed up with salim today for old time's sake <3

[frowardthinker]

Happy pride with jalim 😘

Other versions under the cut ☺️

I may render these in the future. The smooch is too cute 🥺

+my reference photo

[ellaswell]

doodle of jason in a cowboy hat because why not

[hopesallwegotleft]

Upped the brightness a bunch to show Jason's sudden look of joy more clearly :D

[xoxovillageboy]

been into this game since the summer and IM GOING CRAZY theres not enough fanart so i finally took it upon myself even though i hate drawing fanart lmao. feel free to dm to talk abt em or ask for requests i need ideas and also IM GOING CRAZY

[hopesallwegotleft]

Another fun contrast between Jason and Salim. As much as Salim believes in the good of other people ("Most people are good") and in his own abilities (his "I'm fast enough" threat to Jason as well as his repeated comments Jason will need Salim's help more than Salim needs his to survive), Salim can hold a pretty negative view of their immediate future.

Whereas Jason, as cynical as he can be about other people, often acts fully convinced about their success ("May God be my witness, we're gonna succeed" and "We're gonna see the sun again" and his "Yeah those things are tough, but you and me are tougher" to Nick, etc.). Whether he actually believes that is another matter, but he definitely plays the role of confident leader.

That's gotta be reassuring to Salim, that no matter what hellscape they're in, and no matter how much of an asshole Jason can be, Jason will have some words of bravado to air how utterly convinced he is of their mission success. And Salim can't easily dismiss that either, since Jason's survival as a Marine in general and his survival in the House of Ashes against all the vampires means he's gotta be a very skilled fighter. So no matter how pessimistic Salim might get about their odds, Jason brings the hope.

[hopesallwegotleft]

"But don't worry, I'll hold your hand."

[hawketoast]

sword & shield

[alisa-aydin]

The hold this pair had on me for a month was insane

[rhysuje]

Frame redraw! Salim saving Jason from the spear.

(only one of many times these two save each other)

https://ko-fi.com/rhysuje

[taygetuspositive]

salim is love, salim is life

[shaaaaaly]

[hopesallwegotleft]

sometimes shipping Jalim feels like shipping the human equivalent of these two copypastas