character asks ➡ @spookymatthias asked: alina starkov (thanks jess!)
do I like them: of course!!!!! i can’t decide if i want to be alina or be with her or just...be in her presence. what a queen. my sol koroleva.
5 good qualities: strong emotional intelligence, willing to sacrifice, beautiful, politically savvy, clever, self-confident (that’s 6 but whatever)
5 bad qualities: unconfident (at the beginning), easily manipulated, selfish, power-hungry, manipulates others
favourite episode/etc: ruin & rising. alina turns the tables on aleksander, she’s the one in control, she’s amazing, she has white hair, i could go on.
otp: darklina/alarkling!!! always.
brotp: platonic!genyalina (though i do love romantic genyalina too), also just the gang in general, w/ zoya, harshaw, tolya, tamar, david & mal. and platonic!malina:) i also love the idea of alina + inej!
ot3: sturmlingkov (that’s my ship name for alina x aleksander x nikolai)
notp: malina. i think they are better off as friends. i’m not anti malina, i just don’t like it very much.
best quote: I have a couple. This one is really underrated, “Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.” That’s just so beautiful and angsty. And I also love a very popular one: “‘It’s true,’ I said softly. ‘You are stronger, wiser, infinite in experience.’ I leaned forward and whispered, my lips brushing the shell of his ear. ‘But I am an apt pupil.’”
headcanon: alina has not in fact lost her powers, mal stayed dead, and she now works in secret as a mentor to inej. no one knows who she is, the sankta, ever elusive. i’m sorry that’s canon i don’t make the rules.