#and forcing them to interact

[mearchy]

my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

[remynisce]

Love to see the evolution of their dynamic in the latest chapters

[see-arcane]

Seriously. If writer-directors were forced to throw even passingly book-accurate versions of the characters into an adaptation it'd just be

Van Helsing: "Oh, you're a vampire. Huh. Cool, I guess? But I was kind of hoping for something more impressive. Lycanthropy, maybe a Wiedergänger situation."

Dracula, collecting pissed off significant others of multiple Victorians who can and will be directly responsible for Wrecking His Shit Personally: "Did I ask," -checks smudged note on his hand- "Professor Etcetera?"

Writer-Director through gritted teeth: "Van Helsing. Your archenemy??"

Dracula: "I don't know her"

Van Helsing in movie adaptations: Dracula's nemesis

Van Helsing in the book: Dracula's real estate lawyer's wife's girlfriend's fiancé's boyfriend's university professor

[clumsypuppy]

this place is so fruity

[damnimightbedead]

Oh Krusie, you’ll always be canon in my heart.

Me when Krusie: 😍😍😍😍😘😘😍😘🥰❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰😘😍😍😍💗💗💗

tbh i still think krusie’s got a chance. even if they aren’t explicitly romantic they’re defo going to have some sort of deep soulmate connection to borderline homoerotic undertones no matter which way their dynamic goes (especially when susie finds out everything going on with kris and the soul and has an inevitable crash out).

or i’ll just effing end myself if they stop being friends by the end of chapter 7.

either way, their relationship is so peak that i’m happy with them being either platonic or romantic.

Also heres the speedpaint

[k4pp4-8]

⚡♠️♣️

[snakeguy999]

Do u think they play around with their disproportions

[empiireans]

two kids with scarves meet

i love that my current hyperfix collabed with my former hyperfixs

[mipexch]

been thinking about something wicked a little too much lately. no harm in romanticizing the ominous dreadful unstoppable force

[nyaskitten]

I'm crying Ras cannot maintain a good relationship with ANYONE. Rapton hated his ass, Beatrix hates his ass, Zeatrix hates his ass, Jay hates his ass, the ninja (obviously) hate his ass, Nokt (and probably the rest of the Five) hate his ass, Jordana probably doesn't like him much anymore... I REALLY want to see like all of Ras' enemies come for him and try to Kill Him that would be so funny

[radiocurrency]

Daniel interviewing Lestat in S3 for his next book and making an offhand joke about how Lestat is the only one here who hasn't had his fangs in him.

Lestat replies very flirtily that he could remedy that.

Louis AND Daniel both have to talk Armand down from where he has Lestat suddenly pinned by the throat to the wall.

Armand lets him go only for Louis to then slap Lestat with a rolled up newspaper like a naughty puppy acting out

[nadiajustbe]

I think the most beautiful thing about writing of Howl and Sophie's pair is that they are written as people before being written as a pair. Let me explain this very quick.

The thing about book Sophie and Howl is that they are not really fully fitting into any "classic" romantic trope. They are not exactly enemies to lovers, as their angry chats are definitely cannot be considered a life or death battle, they are not rivals to lovers because the only aspect of rivalry between them is the cleaningness of Howl's room. They are not friends to lovers, as their relationship just doesn't fit into "friendship" structure at the very start, nor they are roomates (yes, they live in the same house but that's not the core aspect of their relationships). Of course, you can go on and fit the name of the trope you found specifically for them, but that's the thing.

They simply cannot be processed through a pairings lenses only, in order to understand how they act in relationship you need to analyse them separately, as a characters first of all. Cause that's what the book itself does!

Sure, it doesn't have a whole lot of romance instead, but it gives us time to learn and observe the life of incredibly written, alive characters, understand them as personalities first of all, while slowly immersing the dynamic between two characters (in this case, Howl and Sophie) into work. They are written as personalities, both being fully separated and interviewing, changing eachother's point of view.

It's difficult to find a trope for them. They're are not a trope. They are Howl and Sophie, and that's probably the only way their dynamic can be properly described. Just as real people, they are not really fitting into the boxes of linial character progression, but go way deeper into being complex, filled with little differences and moments only people with their personality can have in romantic (or any different) kind of interaction. They're imperfect, and silly, and multidimensional and the reader knows them well enough to imagine them interacting way beyond of what the book says to them.

They are being people before being a ship, a pair of a trope — and that's why they work so perfectly charming in the end.

Howl and Sophie are unique in being themselves.

[lmaowh-at]

Wherever whores go

[commanderfreddy]

But... maybe, with what little power you have... You can SAVE something else.

[hellyrossum]

you know in all the posting about irving and helly’s friendship after last ep, i haven’t seen anyone mention yet that he was one of the two people who first saw her, who watched her (through the screen, on the other side of the wall) as she woke up for the first time, confused and scared and burning with anger. and then he was the one who brought her back; he was the one she first saw (holding her in his arms), as she was confused and scared and freezing. he was there for her start, and she was there again just in time for his end.

[dinoserious]

MORE LYCAON. the first depicts elements of his ousting from his throne as partially caused by tibaz, the second is in reference to a plot point of bazal leaving tiber for a not insignificant period of time, and the third is just silly