#nikolai lantsov

[doodlesnoff]

shadow & bone companion comic, buy prints here

commission in exchange for a donation to families impacted by ICE

[jccatstudios]

☀️ You and I are going to change the world ☀️

[dragonqueenstormwitch]

propaganda i’m not falling for:

mal oretsev slander

‘kanej isn’t together’ allegations

kaz brekker with blue eyes (sorry mr. carter)

matthias being the ‘least interesting’ crow (there’s not one)

readers who think nina isn’t ever allowed to fall in love again

kuwei as some sort of manipulative villian

shipping nikolina when zoyalai blows every other nikolai ship ever out of the water (except malkolai) (jk) (maybe)

[dasiesanddarkness]

“A fell first B fell harder” no. they are equally as down bad. both would tear the world apart with their bare hands for the other. there is utter devotion in both their eyes when they look at the other. they both fell so hard they left a looney tunes style indent in the ground.

[ilivebyshipping]

Has this been done yet?

[starsandscars81]

It really bothers me how people have no problem acknowledging that Nikolai Lantsov is a smart, complex character who is impulsive and jokes around but when JESPER FAHEY does it SUDDENLY he’s “comedic relief” and “not as smart as the rest of the characters”

[saraespa]

I just hate how people tend to soften or romanticize the Darkling, justifying his traumas or good motivations. Like, DUDE, this man is evil. Yes, at one point in his life, he was a good person with good intentions, like making the Grisha respected and accepted. BUT he became corrupted over the years, and after using merzost, he's a horrible person, and Bardugo reinforces this several times in KoS and RoW. This is the same man who willingly let Genya be raped, encouraged Zoya directly and indirectly to be a bad person, manipulated a 17-year-old Alina who was clearly desperate for love, BLINDED his own MOTHER, punished and killed several people and THE GRISHAS THEMSELVES. HE KILLED THE PEOPLE HE SWORE TO PROTECT, it's in the books, he is not a good person, he doomed Ravka and the Grisha. In KoS, we see the destruction he caused in Ravka and how the Grisha continue to be frowned upon and die, and indirectly, he helped the enemies of Ravka and Grisha grow stronger and go after them. If it weren't for Nikolai, Zoya, Genya, and everyone else, there would be no Ravka, no Grisha. It doesn't matter if he was once good—he was—but focus on this: he WAS good, he HAD good motives, he tried to fight for the right reasons, but he was corrupted and took everyone with him in that corruption.

Yes, Darkling is an extremely complex character, but he is a villain, a very well-constructed villain. THAT is his nature. There is no gentle, weak soul struggling to escape his cruelty. He is cruel, accept that.

*Unfortunately, I had to add the anti-Darkling tag because people were crying in my comments, but I appreciate him as a character and I LOVE reading about him, like I was extremely happy when that bastard came back. But God forgive anyone who points out that the villain of the franchise is a villain.

[skeletomez]