#namshu

[mey-amor]

We really got,

A 500 year old immortal god-king with no love for the surface world, discovers his soulmate is a surfacer, kills her mom, and is potentially punished, or should I say BLESSED, with eternal love for her.

An agnostic/atheist princess whose soulmate is the god who killed her mother, and is potentially punished, or again BLESSED, with eternal love for him.

They both could fall for the person they should hate/not be with or can’t be with , and yet they’re what the other needs to heal.

As if chaac and bast said, “if you want love, it’ll be fiery and passionate, but INCREDIBLY difficult and painful. Almost unbearable, both while you’re together and apart. If you work for it, you will feel eternal bliss.”

It’s poetic, it’s beautiful, it’s Shakespearean (maybe? Idk wakanda forever feels really Shakespearean to me)? and I am falling apart daily.

[mey-amor]

You can’t just associate Shuri with fire. You can’t just use it to represent her and her emotions. You can’t just have that be the thing that Namor latches onto, the thing he relates to and wants to nurture, “let’s burn it together.” Then later reveal that FIRE is his weakness. The Immortal God King is weak to FIRE. WEAK TO SHURI. You can’t just do that and not expect me to have a MELT DOWN over it.

ON TOP OF THAT, her being associated with the SUN. The sun being the hand gesture of Namor’s people, Namor literally and figuratively saying, “I brought the sun to my people.” You can’t just have her rip off Namor’s wings like the sun melted Icarus’s and then burn/melt him with fire.

YOU CANT JUST DO THAT AND SAY STOP SHIPPING THEM.

THEY’RE. TOO. DAMN. GOOD.

[mey-amor]

Sketches for an idea

[mey-amor]

I find it so funny that we are getting more and more confirmations about namor and Shuri’s bond having romantic implications before cutting it and focusing solely on grief and mutual trauma. And it’s funny because of alllll the things people were saying to us to discredit it or make us feel crazy or shitty for seeing it that way.

The writers guild podcast telling us that we had a glimpse of how close namor and shuri could have been before Ramonda’s death. Meaning that we were supposed to pick up the implicit/romantic undertones.

And then in the wakanda forever podcast sharing that Namor was going to kidnap shuri in the T’challa script. Telling me that him bonding with shuri was always an important element and that the hades and Persephone vibes were always there. Especially knowing that two black panthers were going to come out of this film, so shuri recreating the herb and consuming the bracelet (pomegranate) could have very well been a part of the original script.

And I have to repeat myself, that them cutting the explicit romantic elements between namor and shuri and focusing on their bond/mutual trauma enhances their romantic potential. Namor and shuri are doing the very things that make romantic relationships work and thrive. Also telling us that their connection isn’t just purely attraction, and Isn’t just simply getting along, they connect on much deeper levels and they can handle and empathize through those deeper conversations. They mean so much to each other as their foundation, so the progression to romance feels natural and long lasting.

[mey-amor]

“Namor and shuri don’t have anything/much in common,”

I beg to differ:

- both were born into royalty (and hold themselves as such)

- both come from and live in (similarly) culturally rich nations

- both enjoy history, science, and art

- both design/draw

- both invent/innovate to improve their nations

- both are leaders (shuri leads/is the head of her lab).

- both are now enhanced individuals that protect their nations

- both are associated with animals

- both have been through severely traumatic events and have bonded over that

- both are great listeners, both are playful

- both have lost mothers/close loved ones

- both have been leaders of their nations

- both come from the strongest nations that have vibranium

- both are anti-colonialism

The list goes on and on..

Just kept seeing this pop up in certain spaces and just personally felt the opposite.

What draws me to them as opposed to their other ships is that they do have so much in common. they are very similar, and because of those similarities they truly understand each other the most. Something that Namor needs, and something that has been very healing and maturing for Shuri.

[mey-amor]

Not saying I want this for Namor and Shuri, but I do love the idea that Namor would spend 500 years without her (single, focused on being a god to his people, maybe feeling loneliness, but not to the extent he will soon). Then he meets the love his life, absolutely RUINS it with her, and pines for her for the rest of her life. Then he spends the rest of his life mourning her, never moving on.

My friend: “The way he spends the rest of his life making sure that their children, and their children’s children are protected,”

Me:

[mey-amor]

“In ancient mythology, to eat the fruit of one’s captor meant that one would have to return to that captor,”

👁️ 👄 👁️

Shuri consumed part of the bracelet.

[mey-amor]

Probably already talked about, but the idea that they’re both super important for the safety of their people. Talokan needs Black Panther, and Wakanda needs Namor. Like no matter what, these two need each other and will always be connected. They have to protect and care about each other (if they want to keep their people safe). (Not saying this was in the film, maybe it was, I’m really tired. Just like an idea to flesh out their bond).