first of all, mood regarding the Natalya thing lol second of all, I’d love to hear your thoughts on Natalya x Alina, I personally like the ship better than Alina x Nikolai which I’ve talked about why in the past but I’m curious about you
i LOVE the idea of natalya x alina (and i also do like it better than nikolina)!
in the context of mal still being a boy, i think it would be funny if natalya was alina's bisexual awakening (even though she DEFINITELY has Thoughts about genya and zoya, i think that would be like... her first sapphic situationship type thing)
i think it would ALSO be interesting if the the darkling and natalya relationship we've talked about before was taken into consideration because that would be a THOUSAND times more messy and possibly give the darkling more motivation to do what he did to natalya/nikolai in ruin & rising!
also i think they'd be a bit more secretive (i don't really... think general ravkan society would be very tolerant or accepting of queer people based on the time period but at the same time, like... the main group didn't seem to bat an eye when tamar and nadia got together so who knows). it would definitely be fun to explore how their dynamic would shift if they were sapphic (i would say queer but they're honestly both very queer coded in canon so </3) and how that would connect to natalya being so conscious of her public image/how she comes across to others!