#valar things

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I may have bought this necklace because it seems like something Yavanna would wear. And if you’re not basing your life choices on what your favorite characters would do, what are you even doing?

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I feel like my outfit today was very modern Vána aesthetic. Maybe Yavanna. But probably Vána.

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The Valar as Bettas

Because this is how I live my life.

Melkor: 

Manwe: 

Varda:

Ulmo:

Yavanna:

Aule:

Nienna:

Namo:

Vaire: 

Orome:

Vana:

Irmo:

Este:

Tulkas:

Nessa:

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Fic summary: Manwe and Yavanna have to go on a road trip together. Three days. Just the two of them. No murder allowed. (GEN/Humour.)

Hey remember when this was in my inbox? Cause I didn’t. 

But OMG this would be AMAZING, and I would totally write it. He’d drive her SO MAD. (pun intended. Probably who drives when is one thing she fights over. Also ERU Manwe of COURSE we’re taking my car have you seen the gas mileage on yours??) 

Some fun moments: 

Yavanna: “Look, did you see those trees?! This forest is so great!” Manwe: “I was looking at the birds. I guess the trees were okay too.” 

Yavanna’s three hour rant about the Many Ways in which that livestock truck they drove by was Incredibly Terrible. Manwe tunes her completely out. They both are too distracted and miss the next exit and don’t notice for a good 20 minutes, then are mad at each other for missing it. 

Where to stop for meals? “But according to my schedule it works best if we stop at THIS upcoming exit to eat and get back on the road by dark!” “That place doesn’t have ANY vegetarian options lets just go a bit farther.” “But Yavanna, we’ll be late if we do that!” *glares at him while driving long enough that it’s terrifying for too many reasons, including that she won’t look at the road. Manwe relents.” 

*the few times a day they both remember why they really get along better with Varda and/or Aule around too*

Political debates that neither of them even know why they started, or why they can’t stop.

Turning on some music to avoid political debates. Never agreeing on the music.

Listening to NPR instead. Causes more debates, but they actually agree on a few things/criticize the same things about NPR, and cling to them as conversation for like a day and a half. 

Also though they do have fun talking about how great Varda and Aule are, sometimes how terrible Aule is, but it’s still fun. 

“Yeah I didn’t like him at all when I first met him. Don’t you DARE tell him.” “Me either! And if you tell him, I’ll kill you. Actually he probably knows. But still, I would kill you.” 

“I liked Varda when I first met her.” “Yeah, we all knew that. And it still took you ages to take her on a proper date.”

“You know, speaking of Aule, at least YOU don’t make the car a mess on road trips. Have you seen the way he eats? Last time we drove just 45 minutes he spilled soda on the seat AND got crumbs in the car. He did clean it himself, but still.” “I sympathize, you should have seen our dorm freshman year of college. Actually, any year of college.”

Yavanna getting stressed that Manwe won’t go even slightly over or under the speed limit, even if the cars around them do. Manwe getting stressed Yavanna drives “so fast.”

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Another Manwë headcanon:

I think Manwë is always confused, jealous, and a little sad watching all the other groups of Valar siblings interact. Yavanna and Vána are incredibly close and they love all the same things, and even when they argue they’re usually laughing together 10 minutes later. Námo, Irmo, and Nienna would do absolutely anything for one another. Oromë and Nessa get along so easily and understand each other so deeply. And Manwë just never got to have had any of that with Melkor, try as he might. I think even in the earlier days when Melkor was still semi-normal Manwë just knew they were never as close as the others, and he’s probably never truly understood why. 

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Happy birthday, @theserpentsadvocate! Here’s that short Námo centric fic taking place at one of Varda’s teas that I’ve been talking about writing for a while. I hope I did it justice, and I hope that you have had/are having a wonderful birthday! 

(In which Tulkas doesn’t understand introversion at all, and Namo’s Protective Big Brother moment ends up being unnecessary.)

Varda had fallen into the habit of hosting regular teas, once Yavanna and Estë had invented the stuff, so everyone could get to know each other better outside their official work. The only reason Námo had agreed to come today was because Irmo had relentlessly asked him to, and because Irmo and Nienna were both going.

Usually he found these gatherings tedious. The last tea he had been to had just been full of drama, since the beautiful new table Aulë had crafted for them to sit around was made of wood and Yavanna had complained the entire time about how many of her trees Aulë had used to make it. Neither of them had come today, though. While their drama was hard to sit through, the endless small talk of the other teas Námo had come to was almost worse.

All the same, he sat between his siblings and complimented Estë on her new tea blend (perhaps this was why Irmo had dragged him along, his brother had been finding excuses to spend a lot of time with Estë of late…) and tried to be polite enough until it was over.

The conversation, mostly coming from the other end of the table, was led by Vána, bubbly as always, and Tulkas, easily excitable as always. They chatted with Varda about flowers and the best design for fields, and who knows what else, until everyone was on their second cup of tea. Námo had mostly stopped paying attention, as had Nienna next to him and Vairë across from him, and Estë and Irmo were lost in their own conversation. “You should come out and see Vána’s new flowers sometime, Nienna! You don’t get out nearly enough,” Tulkas told her suddenly, jerking them all back to attention. Varda narrowed her eyes at Tulkas’ comment and Námo tensed, but Tulkas didn’t seem to notice either of those things. “Oh… well, thank you, seeing the flowers would be lovely, but you don’t have to be concerned about how often I go out,” Nienna said a bit awkwardly. “I just thought you must be lonely spending all that time by yourself being sad, and the flowers should help cheer you up!” Nienna sort of sighed before quietly mumbling, “I’m not lonely.” Námo put his teacup down with a loud clink and narrowed his eyes at Tulkas in a glare that usually made others stop in their tracks, but again Tulkas didn’t seem to imagine he’d said anything wrong. “But you must be! I know I couldn’t spend all that time being alone and quiet without needing to get out. Who wants to be sad all the time?” Irmo was staring at Tulkas too now, and Nienna had a look on her face halfway between bewilderment and looking as though she might start to cry. Neither Irmo nor Nienna seemed to be able to think what to say to him. Tulkas was utterly clueless about some things, but meaning well about it was no excuse for upsetting Nienna. 

“I’m just trying to help,” Tulkas said, and Námo finally took a breath to snap at him, but Vairë beat him to it. “Tulkas, maybe she doesn’t need your help. We aren’t all the same, and not thinking exactly like you do is not necessarily a bad thing. If Nienna says she’s fine, she is. Leave it be.” Tulkas looked very confused and a little surprised, but he shrugged, turning instead to talk to Vána and Varda again. Nienna smiled gratefully at Vaire, and went back to her tea.

Námo caught Vairë’s eye to nod his thanks to her, too, and she held his gaze and smiled for a moment before looking away. Perhaps, Námo decided, these teas weren’t so bad to bother with after all, especially if Vairë would be at the next one too.

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Aulë/Yavanna headcanon:

Aulë and Yavanna’s house is full of fossils. They LOVE fossils, and every room has at least one fossil decoration. It’s Yavanna’s living things, forever preserved in Aulë’s rocks and stones... what’s not to like? (They’re nerds and their dinner party guests will probably have to sit through a discussion of at least one cool fossil in the room per dinner. Aulë and Yavanna know it bores people and they try to tone it down but they’re just so excited about it and can’t help it. Actually Manwë probably really likes fossils. Varda humors them but she isn’t really very interested. Vana’s so tired of hearing about your fossils Yavanna stop for Eru’s sake! Once Tulkas ‘accidentally’ broke one so that they wouldn’t trust him near them, but it worked and now they never let him near their nice ones so he doesn’t have to hear about them much.

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me: maybe I’m done with new headcanons for awhile and can focus on other things me: *has to write another rough draft for this class* brain: MAYBE AULE AND YAVANNA LOVE FOSSILS ALSO THERE’S PROBABLY A MAIA COUPLE WHO THEY’RE BFFS WITH LIKE A MAIA OF AULE’S WHO IS JUST LIKE HIM MARRIED A MAIA OF YAVANNA’S WHO IS JUST LIKE HER AND THEY HANG OUT A LOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL THE SAME INTERESTS ALSO WHAT ABOUT THE TIME VANA PUNCHES MELKOR IN THE FACE FOR BEING ANNOYING AT HER SISTER’S WEDDING LET'S THINK ABOUT THAT ALSO WOULD VARDA AND YAVANNA HAVE CO-CREATED BIOLUMINESCENCE AND DOES NIENNA HATE BEING THE THERAPIST TO FEANOR FOR ALL ETERNITIES IN THE HALLS IS SHE SUPER NICE IN PUBLIC BUT RANTS TO NAMO WHEN THEY’RE ALONE AND ALSO AUs.....