#ace anarchy

[romnanri]

That Minions Audio but Renegades

Ace Anarchy: RESPECT, POWER

The anarchists nodding along

Mini 6 year old Nova raising her doll: BANANA!

Ace Anarchy:

Ace carrying mini Nova: BANANA

Winston aggressively nodding along

[knight-in-baggy-sweatpants]

i cannot fucking get over the anarchists thinking nova betrayed them because of adrian and adrian alone. and not even in the nice way of "adrian is kind and charismatic", specifically in the way of "she was stupid enough to let herself be manipulated by a boy. she's a stupid teenager giving up her family for a boy." it's actually insane when you think about it.

it cannot compute in their brains that she turns on them because of her own ideology. why is that? maybe because they don't actually view her as a person with individual thoughts and feelings and instead, like ace, see her as a weapon to be wielded. she belongs to them; she doesn't have the authority to decide her own beliefs.

there's also something to be said about the anarchists considering themselves above others—like i think ace anarchy does at some point refer to another person as "mortal" in a derogatory way, implying he himself is not. so in their minds, nova is giving up "divine purpose" for mortal comforts/desires of the flesh.

i could go on and on about the anarchists' pseudo-religious doctrine and why they have the makings of a cult. even in the first book, where ace himself does not appear until the very end, there's a lot of religious influence on the mindset of his followers. i think I've already talked about how "rapture culture" influences far left spaces with the idea of a single violent revolution that leads to a new, perfect world—this is the crux of nova's motivation to kill captain chromium in the first place(yes her family plays a part but that's not even the main reason she does it). it's callum who first pokes holes in this idea for nova, with his speech about how all the anarchists did was destroy. even though for some reason it's not brought up on page, that speech is clearly a major influence behind nova asking ace and the anarchists to abandon gatlon.

then you get into honey literally kneeling before ace, and how viscerally uncomfortable it makes both nova and the reader. because neither of us are used to it. the anarchists have always held a reverence for him, but before the end of renegades the reader can easily mistake it as martyrdom, the idolization of a friend who died fighting for their cause. the renegades treat the memory of lady indomitable similarly, erecting statues of her and so on. when ace is revealed to be alive, however, it becomes much more unsettling as we see it up close. nova is obviously somewhat used to that kind of behavior, but even she balks at the heights it rises to when ace reclaims the helmet, especially after being so starkly confronted with ace's frailty and mortality while in cragmoor.

on a level, this is what saves her. she struggles to view ace as some christ-like figure because she's seen him at his lowest; despite her having a very limited perspective of him, she knows he is just a man. and ace hates it. even when she doesn't directly disobey him, he can't stand not being treated with that level of worship.

honestly i would've liked to see the anarchists make nova more important to their allies in the cathedral—ace does refer to her as his niece with pride, but he isn't really shown demanding respect for her because of that relation(probably in part because nova questions him in front of all their allies the second they get to the cathedral). i think it would have set in just how much ace views nova as an extension of himself, and on a level, something that belongs to him. i do like the imagery of ace as a divinity and nova as an idolic statue, a vessel people worship him through—that would've been interesting to see.

[carimelmari]

Fintan Pyren from Kotlc and Ace Anarchy (Alec artino) from renegades would would be gay for each other in like a dramatic villainous way

[doilooklikeiknow65]

The worst part about liking a book must be the inability to make edits from scenes of that book. They should be legally obligated to make movies/shows of every series I request just so I can have my edits

(Yes this is about renegades, yes I’m currently thinking of an edit of ace and Hugh to one way or another)

[tildeathiwillread]

Viva La Vida by Coldplay but make it about Ace Anarchy

[starry2220]

Adrian is trans and omnisexual, Danna is trans and lesbain, Narcissa is lesbian and a demigirl Nova is nonbinary and bisexual, Ruby is bisexual, Oscar is pansexual.

Winston is genderfluid and pansexual, Honey is “straight” and only flirts with women when she’s drunk, Ingrid is either aroace or polyamorous (all or nothing with her), Leroy doesn’t care for labels, Ace is doesn’t understand labels

Hugh and Simon are the gayest gays to ever gay, Tamaya is a straight ally, Kasumi is unlabeled aside from being asexual, Evander is (dead) straight and says shit like “no homo” to prove he’s not gay.

Max just doesn’t care for relationships much. I wouldn’t say he’s aroace but he’s not seeking to date anyone, same for maggie except she claims to be absolutely repulsed by dating.

I pulled all of these headcanons out my ass and have little to no explanation for any of them. I may change them later because I lack the ability to have consistent thoughts and opinions.

[odetoatropa]

i just read 'Let There Be Anarchy' by Dawniebb on ao3 and nothing has ever been more canon to me when it comes to the age of anarchy bcs HOLY SHIT

it being from leroy's pov was the cherry on top and qonswiwh i need to discuss this with someone bcs i have so many thoughts on the age of anarchy this fic just revived

[mikodrawnnarratives]

interesting that Phobia and Ace are the only two anarchists, and characters I think, that we know of that don't have a civilian name they still hold on to. Phobia never had one, and Ace makes a point to never go by "Alec" after calling the hit on the rest of his family. And for both of them, they are the major antagonists of the story too

For Ace in particular, it's feels like another way he separates himself from his humanity (pursuit of godhood.) Maybe it's also separating himself from "Artino" too, and what he did to his brother, sister in law, and nieces.