Adorable Lil Puppy 💞

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...

Grisha: “General, we have news of the Lantsov Prince”

The Darkling: “Good, good, what is it?”

Grisha: “He is throwing an engagement party”

The Darkling: “Now, of all times? Who is he marrying anyway?”

Grisha: “The Sun summoner, General”

The Darkling: “...”

Grisha: “Sir?”

The Darkling: “Leave”

Grisha: *excuses self*

The Darkling: “Fuck’s sake, Alina, I’ve already tried becoming consort to a Lantsov prince in the past it doesn’t solve anything.”

#i like to imagine he did try this angle already #and just no one bothered to read a history book#or perhaps someone scrapped it from the books because it was a shameful part of their history and now everyones forggoten

— today i live for darkolai crumbs

Вообще в моем хэдканоне Саша по сути и есть еретик, потому что большинство святых он застал ещё при их жизни (тоже хэдканон кроме трилогии, демона и сериала я пока больше ничего не читала) и они могли вообще не впечатлить его как личности. Тем более вся эта странная ситуация, когда люди поклоняются ими же убитым гришам, должна быть мало ему приятна(что за бред, убить, чтобы начать воспринимать не как ведьм, а как тех, кто действует во благо другим).

Причем Древнюю Равку я ассоциирую с Русью, поэтому хэдканонлю славянский пантеон богов как древнеравкианских богов, которые были ещё до этих новомодных святых и сейчас должны считаться языческими.

Не скажу, что по прошествии стольких лет, Александр верит во что-нибудь ещё кроме себя, но крайней мере помнит и уважает ту культуру и традиции, которым его обучила ещё в детстве его мать. А современную церковь он презирает.

чем больше размышляю над религией в гришаверсе, тем больше хочется стучаться головой об стенку, потому что ЭТО ЧТО ВООБЩЕ

The children couldn’t understand what was happening. They were told that Daddy Darkling was bad but that couldn’t be true. He was always kind to them, told them stories while doing voices, played games with them, made shadow puppets and listened to them when they had something to say. How could Daddy Darkling be a monster like they said. Something wasn’t right and they were going to get to the bottom of it.

The kids waiting till the grown ups had gone to bed before meeting up outside by the lake.

“I never trusted that Sun Summoner, she wasn’t here that long and I thought she liked Daddy Darkling.” Said Anastasia.

“ Yeah, I saw them together and he looked so happy. I never liked Zoya either, she was always mean.” Said Vlad.

All the others agreed with them. Then the kids started to plan, obviously they had to help Daddy Darkling and what better way than capturing the traitors. They stayed up late getting everything ready.

Two Weeks Later

Honestly, this was embarrassing, they got out planned by little kids. Nikolai was both impressed and embarrassed by this. He was tied up along with Alina,Zoya,Toyla,Tamar and David. Standing all around them were the kids and Feydor.

Feydor had apparently been a spy for The Darkling this entire time. They should have seen it; his husband was on the Darkling’s side so it made sense he would be too.

“Good job little ones!” Feydor exclaimed.

“Thanks Feydor, we knew we had to do something to help Daddy Darkling,” they all proclaimed.

“ And helped me you did.” Aleksander himself said as he walked in with Ivan.

The Grand Palace had been taken over pretty easily. The Darkling now ruled it.

“This has to be the best thing I’ve ever seen, right Ivan?”

“ Definitely,” I an replied.

“ Now, what to do with you lot.”

There was much discussion where Genya convinced David to go back into his side. Which he did without question as he had always like Aleksander. Plus he’d be with Genya. Nikolai decided to see if he could make peace with Aleksander; he didn’t want to die.

The next few weeks were fast paced as Nikolai and Aleksander came to an understanding. Though Aleksander would never let him forget that he was overpowered by small children.

-just a fun little one shot

does anybody else think about how all of the darkling’s survival techniques were taught to him by a woman experienced at surviving in a man’s world?

Oh fuck it's just occurred to me that like

1) The Little Palace was designed by a very old, very paranoid Grisha who's spent his entire life being hunted and persecuted for existing

2) The Little Palace was built with at least one secret passageway Alina didn't know about, which brings her out into the grounds somewhere. There are most likely dozens of these hidden tunnels - they're escape routes for when the otkazat'sya inevitably turn on the Grisha and Kirigan finds himself with a school full of kids to evacuate.

3) In S2 at the Spinning Wheel, Nadia says that the First Army raided the Little Palace, and Nikolai is sheltering the survivors. There's a decent number of them, by the looks of it. More than a handful. Probably all those who were close enough to an exit passageway.

4) Kirigan wasn't there to open up the tunnels and lead everyone out, and neither was Baghra. So the tunnels can't be truly secret. Enough Grisha knew about them to vanish under the First Army's noses and escape. I'm picturing that one scene from Ye Olde X-Men 2: most of them got out through tunnels that weren't on any of our schematics.

5) This means it's likely that the Little Palace has its own version of those fucked-up shooter drills they have to do in America. The procedure for something like that would have to be drummed into these kids from as early as possible, just like they train you to respond to the fire bell, because otherwise in the rush and the noise and the confusion, they'd just panic, and that would cause chaos. They all need to know where their closest emergency exit is, how to open it, where it leads, how to check for nearby soldiers before emerging, where to go next. So that when they need that knowledge, it's become second nature. Instinct. Like young prey animals - just as Baghra taught him.

And this is the kind of fear and constant hypervigilance Kirigan and Baghra have been living with their entire lives, without even the benefit of a relatively secure, long-term home literally built to protect them. It's no wonder the pre-Little Palace Grisha are so messed up.

And he's probably had older Little Palace Grisha over the years, people like Fedyor, questioning whether it's really necessary to still be making these kids think they're at risk like that. The Grisha have been at peace with the crown for over a century! This is a relic from a crueller time, surely. And he brushes it off every time, because at some point in his history, he learned better. He's learned from his failures.

6) After Anastas put a bounty on his ambitious General's head and named him heretic, the guards say, "Thought you [and Luda] could quietly train witches under our noses, did you?"

So he's already helping teach other Grisha, even then, and we know from Luda that the king is now having said Grisha rounded up. And there's nothing he can do. If he goes back, the king will have his head. So when he next aligns himself with the crown as his own descendant, he's learned that unless he puts safeguards in place, it will be the Grisha he's protecting who will suffer whenever he butts heads with the monarchy.

And he turns out to be right. Pyotr and Vasily have neither the balls nor the strength to meet him on the battlefield, so instead they target whatever Grisha they can get hold of - the half-trained students, the researchers, servants like Genya - and blame them for whatever treason they're accusing him of this time. The escape routes were still necessary. They've always been necessary.

It just? Really hit home how fucked up this world is for them, like. Even within the 'safety' of the Little Palace, the Grisha kids would never truly be able to avoid or forget the fear and hatred the world at large has for their kind, or the danger being Grisha might place them in if their protector falls out of favour with the royals. Ravka might not experiment on them or burn them alive, but they're not safe. They never really were. They've only ever been used.

Convenient weapons, or convenient scapegoats, and with no say in any of it.

Как же я люблю раты этого художника

anyway here’s this thing!! (again)

Gonna try and design the crime and punishment charactersss uvu raskolnikov and razumikhin respectively I love these two Russian boys

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DARK!NIKOLAI LANTSOV AU: pyotr lantsov is trying to create a new kind of grisha and is testing a trial serum on his son. nikolai survives and seeks revenge. he teams up with the darkling to get to alina first and take over family's company.