David Kostyk - Tumblr Posts
It's 2 am, I've been binging Adrian Berenguer's music since 23:00 so I decided to assign a song to s&b/soc (will put the Crows in a reblog because apparently there's a limit on everything) characters. Don't ask why, idk
I know I didn't include quite a few but I don't think I know them well enough to do so. Feel free to add them yourselves
Alina: Sun
Mal: Deer
Darkling: Timelapse (I'm actually surprised how perfectly this fits. Probably the most accurate from the whole list, alongside Alina)
Genya: Beyond
David: Stars
Zoya: Reborn
Nikolai: Constellation
idk but i think that david and genya remind me of a song named bi wife energy
Genya : David will you love me forever ?
David: i will love you till the day i die
Cant wait for the 8 hour silence on march 16th followed by the fandom and the world exploding
rip shadow and bone. we would have loved to see dark alina. we would have loved to see matthias finally get out of jail. we would have loved to see kaz learn to love. we would have loved to see zoyalai on screen. we would have loved to see wylan's story. we would have loved to see the ice court heist. we would have loved to see colm fahey. we would have loved to meet kuweii. we would have loved to see jesper get over his gambling addiction. we would have loved to see matthias relearn all he knew for nina. we would have loved to see inej find her family again. we would have loved to see mal find out what life is like without alina. we would have loved to see nina learn to live for herself, instead of her country.
we would have loved to see more of the characters we all know and love.
𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊 ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ 2 ʀᴇᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ #174 ↳𝟸.𝟶𝟽: 𝚖𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚠
I will never forgive leigh bardugo for what she did to david and genya in rule of wolves
Luke Pasqualino in Shadow and Bone (s2) as David Kostyk
@un-eteinvincible and I noticed how Leigh Bardugo focuses on ‘sight’ when it comes to make her fictional couples express their feelings to each other, and it’s just too beautiful. It’s as if when a person sees you, they know you thoroughly and the meaning behind it does nothing but bring us to tears.
Here are some examples. Beware there are some RoW spoilers, so skip the last screens if you haven’t read the book yet.
Let’s start with Mal and Alina. I know the discourse around them is thick, but honestly Mal doesn’t deserve all the hate he gets. He’s just a 17 year old boy who is confused until he realizes that Alina is his ‘true north’, and it’s beautiful that he apologizes to her for taking so long to really see her.
In chapter 25 of Six of Crows, the one in which Inej climbs the incinerator shaft, there’s this flashback which tells us how she ended up working for Kaz and we have this beautiful line. Inej is so stealthy that she’s able to sneak up on everyone, except for Kaz because he always knows when she’s near. It’s even more heartbreakingly beautiful if you think about the fact that Inej’s wish was to never be invisible again: “She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. She was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above.” We know well that to Kaz, Inej was never invisible.
Next who else is there if not our favorite Drusje and Drüskelle? For Nina and Matthias there are many examples that focus on ‘sight’, especially from Matthias’s pov. He knows he’s supposed to hate her, yet his eyes cannot help but always seeking Nina out, as Inej herself tells him. “So why do your eyes keep searching the crowd for her?”. This other passage is very meaningful as well, because we see Matthias thinking that he does see her.
Another beautiful example are Wylan and Jesper, which to me are really the epitome of a love that’s so pure that it can overcome any obstacle. When Genya tailors back Wylan, our favorite sharpshooter helps her. The merchling’s surprise is palpable and it’s very telling. Wylan has always felt like a burden, a waste of space, overlooked by his own father and yet Jesper really sees him for what he is, and therefore loves him for being himself.
These last two passages are taken from Rule of Wolves so they contain spoilers. First we have the beautiful scene in which Genya and David exchange their wedding vows. We’ve been told many times in the trilogy that David is a person extremely focused on his work, and it appears that there’s nothing else that interests him except the Little Science. This changes when Genya enters the picture and it’s done so well that it’s even more sad if you think how their story ends. David sees his Genya in something that means a lot to him, the making at the heart of the world.
Lastly, we have Zoya and Nikolai. On these two entire essays could be written, so much so complex and multifaceted their relationship is. It brings me to tears that Zoya had always felt like she wasn’t enough, that no matter how powerful she was, that would not make others lover her. When she looses the only family who cared about her when the Darkling expands the Fold, she realizes how alone and lonely she is, how she had kept secret an important part of herself, of her heritage… until Nikolai enters the picture that is. He is the only one who is not afraid to look at her, and see her for what she is and love her despite her thorny exterior and this is just so beautiful.
I hope you liked this post. I’m always taken aback by how Leigh Bardugo writes her characters. All the struggles they had to endure and eventually they overcome are what makes them special and relatable and I think it’s just so beautiful that all of them had found in another person that solace of being seen, because at the end of the day that’s what we all wish for, to be seen and therefore to be loved unconditionally.
Shadow and bone text posts 8/? (A chaotic conversation)
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 , Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
Every friend group has...
the saint
everyone else would die for her or kill for her, either way what bliss
the secret weapon
that one friend that seems totally confident but still doesn't really value themselves enough
the scary one
totally unapproachable, secretly has a big heart, but seriously do not mess with them and theirs
the pretty best friend
good for moral support and looking hotter than you
the brains
is casually a genius, doesn't make a big deal about it
the wife guy
he really does just love his wife, god damn it
the strongest person alive
has been through an insane amount of shit and still somehow manages to be a lovely human
the king and queen
there's just no one doing it like them
the fjerdan
is fjerdan
So, apparently Leigh Bardugo has mentioned several times that the SaB Netflix series will be like a fanfiction of the books and if that is true IT BETTER BE A EVERYBODY LIVES/NOBODY DIES TYPE OF FANFIC AND I MEAN THAT FOR ONE CHARACTER AND ONE CHARACTER ONLY, I-
David makes Aleksander blush
Shadow and Bone 1.06
RULE OF WOLVES SPOILER
Okay NO , NO, NO ,NO ,NO ,NOO
This was the most useless death ever. My sweetheart david didn't deserve this STUPID death. I knew he would die because I read the spoilers but this is NOT the way I pictured it. I thought he would die trying to protect Genya or something as brave , because yes ,David was brave and amazing and loving , and he definitely didn't deserve to die the day of his wedding.
Maybe I would have been okay with this if he had died in a different way, but this just destroyed me.
“The whole point is to show how war is,” “it’s to show that you can’t pick or choose who dies in a war,” “that’s how war is,” I DON’T CARE OKAY, I DON’T CARE. I want my favorite characters to live and have a happy ending. And It’s a book and it’s written by an author so they DO choose who dies, and they choose everyone’s favorite for the emotional value.
The ending of Ruin and Rising was too good…I’m gonna cry…
Alina and Mal getting married, taking Misha and Oncat in, running the orphanage at Keremzin, and having Nikolai and the Triumvirate over as guests is so fucking pure I—
AND ZOYA GIVING ALINA A BLUE KEFTA EVEN THOUGH SHE CANT SUMMON ANYMORE—
“you will always be one of us”
One of my favourite ships in shadow and bone! Ughh can't wait!!
David is portrayed by Luke Pasqualino
Genya is portrayed by Daisy head
i have just read chapter 18 of "rule of wolves". do not contact me in next 15 business days.
Dark Blood and Light Cover
Dark Blood and Light Masterlist
Hello, this is my first post ever, so please forgive me if I am going to make a few mistakes in the beginning.
I have decided to write a fanfiction for one of my favorite characters ever: The Darkling from Shadow and Bone.
In the next few days I am going to post a few things beforehand (for the story) and I hope you will read them!
The cover for “Dark, Blood and Light” a Aleksander Morozova Fanfiction.
