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The rise, and the fall of Grisha.

#parallels #but one helped Grisha #and the other doomed them #help (left) doom (right)#rise (left) fall (right)#shadow and bone #the darkling #aleksander morozova #the starless Saint #sol koroleva #Alina Starkov #sankta alina #starrfettii gifs

the martyrdom of sankta alina and vanquishing of the starless saint

ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵉʳˢᵖᵉᶜᵗᶦᵛᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵃⁿ ᵃʳᵗᶦˢᵗ ᵒⁿᵉ ʰᵘⁿᵈʳᵉᵈ ʸᵉᵃʳˢ ˡᵃᵗᵉʳ

ᶦⁿˢᵖᶦʳᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ˢᵗ ᵐᶦᶜʰᵃᵉˡ ᵗʰᵉ ᵃʳᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉˡ ᵇʸ ᶜˡᵃᵘᵈᶦᵒ ᶜᵒᵉˡˡᵒ

Alina is Shu attire, inspired by traditional Chinese hanfu dress💛

#alina starkov #shadow and bone #art #mine #darklina #alarkling #siege and storm #ruin and rising #sol koroleva #the sun summoner #I’m still made they promised Alina exploring her Shu heritage and that never happened #season 2 still makes me mad #I hate Alina’s whole wardrobe in season 2 #anyways #procreate #digital art

me with literally every woman in the Grishaverse: "SHE ATE! FEASTED! CONSUMED! DEVOURED! LEFT NO CRUMBS"

Okay, this is a rant, so feel free to disagree. But as someone who saw the Shadow and Bone show first, then read the trilogy, and it's currently reading the SOC duology, I absolutely despise that Alina loses her powers at the end of Ruin and Rising.

I mean, I know, yes, it's the price for using merzost and whatever. BUT I WOULD'VE LOVE TO SEE HER DEVELOP INTO SOMETHING ELSE.

Like, the fact that she only had her power for a YEAR, that she only got to enjoy what she was meant to be for only a fucking year, it simply crushes me.

Again, this is a rant, nothing too serious, but, I would've liked to see Alina in the books as she ended in the show, with not only the ability to summon light, but also the ability to summon shadow.

#the grisha trilogy #shadow and bone #grishaverse #leigh bardugo #alina starkov #the sun summoner #sun summoner #sol koroleva

I love how Darkling and Alina enemies dynamic is written, because it shows what other authors don’t usually imply in those kinds of books.

Enemies like Alina and Darkling, Harry and Voldemort, Percy and Luke usually have a sort of bond, they know each other for a long time, they get to know one another like no one else. Their lives were destined to go alongside with each other, and then destroy one another. They start the same but turn out on different sides.

At the end of “ruin and raising” Alina mourns her rival, yes she hates Darkling, but they are alike, she saw herself in him just like he’d seen himself in her. During her journey to defeat Darkling, she learns his story his rights and wrongs. She can understand why he’d done what he had. She realizes in the very end that her rival is just a child who wanted to be loved. That child wanted to not be afraid to be who he is.

And while Alina doesn’t forgive Darkling, she makes sure that child has his recognition. She forgives that child, not who he’d became, but who he was.

She mourns someone who she’s known for a long time and already got used to being somewhere around.