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If the Darkling and Alina ended up together, they would’ve been the power couple. Literally.

“My bride, my thornless rose, my harbor from tempests, revealed to me, this is our inviolate covenant: to be true, to be present, to last until world’s end, the doves in the eves, the tides to the shores.”

“What did you do?” Alina asked, breathless, dizzy as she hadn’t been when Ivan had nearly stopped her heart. Aleksander had used a very old form of the most traditional Ravkan wedding vows, ones which bound the couple beyond any breaking, nothing and everything like merzost. “Why?”

“I couldn’t let him be the one to tell you, to make you lift the veil,” Aleksander said, angry and something else, hurt and longing. “To make it about his pride, to take the old ways and twist them, pervert them—"

“Why?” Alina repeated, the word like a prayer she couldn’t imagine answered.

“Because I wanted to,” he said. Admitted. He did something with his mouth that was like a smile but the light in his dark eyes wasn’t happiness. “Because I want you so much I cannot help myself, Alya.”

—What it is to be a thin crescent moon by middlemarch

“If I let myself imagine it, you’re next to me,” she said, smiling, seeing in his odd grey gaze the familiar expression of reassured relief. “If I imagine it now, there’s no Tsar to worry about, no Fjerdans trying to murder us. We’re just sailors, explorers, guided by the north star and our hearts and the wind,” she said. The wind would ruffle his dark hair, bring color to his cheeks, make his lips taste of salt when she went up on her tip-toes to kiss him. “And maybe someday—"

“Someday?”

“Maybe someday we find a place we like best, with a lively winter market and a harbor for tall ships and an academy, and that’s where we live. My work-table is for drawing and you use your cart as a lending library for your bookshop where the radicals meet in the evenings. And there’s a trundle bed with a nine-patch quilt and a little tin lantern for a night-light,” Alina said. “So they’ll never be afraid of the dark.”

“She is Grisha?” Aleksander said.

“They both are. Someday, younglings can grow up with their parents and the Little Palace can become a conservatory,” Alina said.

—What it is to be a thin crescent moon by middlemarch

<3

*The Darkling, coldbloodedly kills everyone that stands in his way”*

Me: He’s a murderer.

The Darkling fans: He’s not. He had his reasons.

Me: Yeah? And what were his motives?

The Darkling fans: Alina—

Me:

Fans, during Siege and Storm: “Malyen must help and support Alina”

Malyen, in Ruin and Rising: “I am become a blade”

Fans:

Shadow & Bone Appreciation Week 🌹 Day Two: Favorite Episode

↳  01.05 SHOW ME WHO YOU ARE

The beginning of everything changing…

𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊 ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ 1 ʀᴇᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ #30 ↳𝟷.𝟶𝟸: 𝚠𝚎'𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎'𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛

SHADOW AND BONE | 1.03 The Making at the Heart of the World

#they are the same picture

SHADOW AND BONE (2021—) 1x04: “Otkazat’sya”

Shadow and Bone (2021) 

Alina Starkov and The Darkling 

Man fight.

Mal and The Darkling Being Literal Dorks Over Alina.

1.05 | 1.07 | 1.08

Shadow and Bone Darklina appreciation 4/?

For your face. What happened back there? Druskelle. Elite members of the Fjerdan military trained to infiltrate deep behind our lines and kill or kidnap Grisha. I meant how you sliced one of them in half from a dozen paces. Would you rather I’d used a sword? I don’t know. Sorry. It’s fine. There is matter to everything. Even air. Or shadow. Too small to see. The Cut is something a Summoner can do, but it requires tremendous skill. And I would only use it as a last resort. Like that ambush. Saints. Is this my life now? Hunted wherever I go. You get used to it. Your little light show in the fold was visible from miles away. Whatever their original mission was, they must have diverted to find you. That’s why I’m traveling with you. They’re that scared of you? I think they’re more scared of you. Why? What your power means to us. You may well be the first of your kind, but we’ve always had a name for you.

An understanding between dark and light

I don’t want any of this. Why can’t you get rid of it? Do you think I haven’t tried, Miss Starkov? If I enter the Fold, I’m a beacon for the volcra. All I can do is make it worse. Then just… Can’t you use some Grisha science to transfer this to someone who can use it? You would give up your gift? Gift? You dragged me away from my only friends and now, according to you, I’ll be a target for the rest of my life. You know why you’ve never found someone with this power? Maybe it’s because they don’t want to be found. I’m going to ask you again.

shadow and bone darklina appreciation 3/?

What are you? A mapmaker, sir.

SHADOW AND BONE 1.04 - Otkazat'sya