Юхууу! Этот день только что стал лучше в -цать раз! Спасибо

good evening, nikolai's coronation coat was consciously inspired by darkling's kefta

AU: The Darkling got the throne and captured Nikolai. After a while they realize their goals are the same and start to co-operate. To avoid attempts to overthrow Aleksander and install Nikolai, they fake Kolya's death and reclaim his rogue identity...

courtier: "Moi tsarevich?"

Nikolai: "Oh no, I'm Sturmhond, the famous privateer."

courtier: "Apologies, but you look just like late tsarevich Nikolai."

Nikolai: "Yeah, I get that a lot, but I'm ginger and much better looking, if we believe the Black Tsar himself."

courtier: "Well, certainly, I can see that now. Sturmhond, you said?"

Nikolai: "Please, call me Kolya."

courtier: "!!!"

~

courtier: "The likness, even your name... It's certainly curious, isn't it?"

Nikolai: "Oh please... half of the sailors is named after Saint Nikolai... Makes for riotous meetings and quite a challenge to command a crew."

~

courtier, sneakily: "Some might even want you to become the King..."

Nikolai: "Well, that can be arranged..."

Nikolai: *chatches Aleksander's eye across whole room*

Nikolai: *licks his lips seductively*

Nikolai: *winks*

room: *suddenly darkens a little*

thanks to @vorbarrsultana i can't stop thinking about modern lantsovs&morozovas meetings, shared meals etc etc.........lord that'd be hilarious. ulla would call lantsovs inbred and baghra would smile so tightly at tatiana her face turns into a raisin. milf on mils (mother id like to slap) violence. their suuuuch different aesthetics too. peacock vs raven. succession meets the addams family (quote by varya). twitter vs instagram. illegal blonde vs jennifers body. at some point aleksander tries to poison himself because it becomes too embarrassing. lord

Рассказывай, рассказывай, я всё выслушаю

полюбовалась на верещагина в третьяковке, и появилось желание критиковать тик за одну супер-мега-специфическую вещь, на которую всё равно всем, кроме меня 😔

Once again, we've talked about how could Alina never realistically survive in army, due to her lack of respect and obedience.

Which could offer interesting AU, where her powers aren't discovered while crossing the Fold, but when she's being hanged. How would status of constantly insubordinate soldier influence her new position of Sun Summoner?!

She'd probably get the collar ASAP. Can't have someone unreliable by default trained and uncontrollable...

you know what i want a spin off of? i want a spin off of the years of the darklings life that are completely skipped over. i want to see him as a kid constantly on the run from people who want to kill him and use his bones, i want to see the things he's done for the kings, the deals his made that they'd sooner kill him and everyone like him then keep to, i want to see the reactions of himself and baghra and ravka and the world after the fold was created, i want to see the progress of how it made grisha useful enough to the royals to let darkling build the little palace, to make his own second army, to have grisha working at the edge of the fold to get people through safely. i want more of his backstory.

Визжю просто визжю на ультразвуке от милоты. Теперь это моя любимейшая хэдканонная вселенная. Ещё больше я люблю Сашеньку потому что мои любимые сокращения этого имени именно Шура и Шурик🤣🥺🥺

сашенька ланцова - девочка бесстрашная, поэтому однажды она рискнула назвать дарклинга "дядя шурик". тот в отместку неделю называл её исключительно шура николаевна.

good evening, nikolai's coronation coat was consciously inspired by darkling's kefta

it's the cutest thing in the world. I adore the baby tsarevna, she's just a treasure 🥺🥺🥺

i'm in darknikolina mood, so HEADCANONS TIME.

let's say pre-canon!darkolai happened at some point, and darklina obviously was a thing during the trilogy, and then nikolina got married because it's the ending we deserve. as a royal couple, they're expected to have kids at some point, and eventually they have a daughter. both, tsar and tsaritsa, have a lot of complicated personal and political feelings about a certain shadow summoner, but they name her sasha anyway. it silenced a lot of gossipers: they assumed the tsarevna was named after her unlamented grandfather, tsar aleksander.

(in truth, grand duchess aleksandra nikolaevna was named after the darkling, lamented by many.)

but then liza & co ressurect aleksander. and he learns that now there is a lantsov girl named aleksandra, who is in equal parts alina and nikolai, his most beloved people. and she possesses alina's beautiful dark eyes, and nikolai's golden locks, and alina's dimple, and kolya's sunny smile. and the girl is also a grisha (a little alkemi, because they deserve representation) - the grand duchess (aged three) did accidentally turn the darkling's brandy into water during their first meeting.

so, of course little sasha has big sasha wrapped around her tiny fingers in no time. all the tsarevna has to do is ask. and the scary, powerful, terrifying darkling would do it. like, once sasha said she would like to have an octopus as a pet, and aleksander immediatelly was like: "ulla, ULLA. get me the prettiest octopus in all three oceans of this world for baby sasha, please. you're her aunt too, by the way."

(aleksander: ugh, i hate the lantsovs, they're the worst. someone: but, your excellency, you are cuddling the tsarevna right now? aleksander, clutching sasha even harder to his chest: i said what i said.)

nikolai and alina are no help because they are aleksandra nikolaevna's loyal slaves too. as are aunt genya and uncle david. so, actual disciplining has to be done by aunt zoya, who is the only one immune to tsarevna's pleading eyes.

(aunt zoya is also little sasha's first girl crush, and she tells everyone that when she grows up she's gonna be general nazyalensky, and break hearts of boys and girls too.)

(alina is mentally preparing for the day sasha will have suitors because darkolai would try to decapitate anyone daring enough to ask their little girl out.)

and they live happily ever after, the end.

💖 baby boy ben 💖