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@breannasfluff and @r0achezz arguing over Ravioli vs Vidow, meanwhile the rest of the fandom is like
VIDOW.
Who wants some fun facts about our upcoming, multi-chapter LU fic, Shadowed!
It's a murder mystery/psychological horror
It will have an MCD tag (permanent? Temporary? Faked their death? Who knows! 😉)
Main POV will come from Wind and Shadow
This is technically a 'Link meets the Chain' fic (but which Link?)
Vidow is central to the plot
Wind being able to see Ghosts is central to the plot
There will be illustrations
Anything you'd like to add to this @not-freyja ?
Drew this a while ago and never posted. But uh, have some Vidow?
I want to study their relationship under a microscope. They are both so fucked up. 💜🖤
A vidow sketch inspired by a panel from the Four Swords manga!
Panel:
i doubt ill ever finish this
Vio’s favorite activity is reading. Shadow’s favorite activity is watching Vio read. They work out.
Okay, still not done thinking about why I like Vio/Shadow.
Canonically, they are a tragedy. And I don't just mean that in the "it's sad" sense, I mean that they are Doomed from the beginning to the roles of Hero and Villain. That's the tragedy of it: they get along, they're compatible, when left to their own devices they like each other. But their circumstances force them into those story roles anyway.
It's just a scenario that's so inviting to explore. What happens if these two met under different circumstances? What happens if something changes in the middle of the story to send it askew? What could happen after the fact, if they were ever able to meet again?
What if their assigned Story Roles were different?
How do the characters feel about the Story Roles they've been placed in?
How do the characters' perceptions of each other change when they stop seeing the Story Role and start seeing the person underneath?
How do you move on from having been a Story Role, once the story is over? How do you grow and change and deal with being a real, complete person?
These sorts of questions definitely aren't unique to Four Swords, or to Vio and Shadow, but I think Four Swords lends itself especially well to them because of the way the characters are initially presented as such two-dimensional archetypes, but are also clearly much more than that. And with Vio and Shadow in particular because of what their story roles cost them, and the way they both challenged those roles in-text.
I really missed drawing these dorks. <3