#shadow and bone s2e8

[bethagain]

Ongoing pirate brainrot means ongoing series of in-between scenes! (In this case, between S2E8 and whatever might be next.)

Here's a night at that ramshackle hut, after the Revenge has sailed away. Do we really think this innkeeper thing is gonna stick?

Also on AO3. Full series here.

p.s. Suggestions for additional scenes welcome.

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There's rain coming through the roof.

Just a heavy cloud, Stede thinks. Ed would have said if we were in for real weather. It'll pass quickly.

It doesn't.

Ed's weather sense must not work as well on land as at sea. The rain soaks into the blanket that covers them both. Droplets slide down Stede's forehead, dripping off onto Ed's bare shoulder.

"Fuck." That's Ed, startling awake.

"Fuck," Ed says again, looking up at the water streaming in. "Fuck," he adds, scrambling to his feet. "Tarp. We had a tarp."

"It's here," Stede says. "We slept on it, remember?"

"Why the fuck did we do that?"

Stede squints against the rain. Beyond the corner where they've been sleeping, the roof is open to the black-clouded sky.

The rain is weighing Ed's hair down, straightening out the curl. It runs over the bird tattoo on his chest and the snake on his right arm and the seahorse on his thigh.

"Because," Stede says, gesturing at him.

"How is this my fault?"

"Because you look like that."

They'd brought the tarp for the roof and some blankets to cover the windows until they could get glass for them. By the time they'd swept the place out and plugged up the mouse holes, night had already begun to fall. The air smelled like jasmine and the bright moon was making shadows, and it was so easy for Stede to drop to his knees on the rough canvas and, later, pull Ed down with him and tug a blanket up over them both in the cooling evening air.

"If you looked like anyone else," says Stede, "we'd have gotten the roof patched up and then gone back into town like sensible people." He reaches for another blanket to wrap around his shoulders before he gathers up his clothes. "We'd better get it done now."

Ed clambers up the side of the building like it's ship's rigging, finding handholds as he goes. Stede hands the tarp up and follows more slowly. Ed reaches down to help him with the last bit.

Up here, the wind is blowing the rain at an angle. Stede gets his back to it, then starts unfolding the oilcloth canvas. The wind catches an edge and threatens to pull it from his hands.

“You gotta keep it folded,” Ed shouts over the wind, gesturing with his hands close to his body. "Treat it like a sail."

Stede gathers the tarp back up again, fighting to capture the last corner. "Now what?"

Up on the roof ridge, Ed's got one hand on the crumbling brick of the chimney, feet apart for balance. He surveys the gaping hole in the roof and sizes up the folded tarp. "Let's get the first edge nailed down. We'll roll it out from there."

They kneel together on what's left of the shingles, dirt and moss soaking into trouser legs, shirts sticking to their backs. Stede unfolds the very edge of the canvas, holding the rest tight against the roof while Ed drives in a row of nails. Working from opposite sides, bit by bit, they stretch the thing out downwind, keeping it flat and even with the surface, adding nails as they go. Sides, corners, and finally the far edge.

Ed raises his hammer to give the last nail a tap.

The section of roof he's kneeling on collapses.

Stede grabs his arm to stop him falling, loses his balance, and tumbles after.

It's a bad fall, but it could have been worse: they land on the pile of blankets. They'll both have good bruises, but bones are intact.

"Fuck this place," Ed says, when he's caught his breath enough to speak. It's not a yell, not even a curse, more a statement of fact.

His hair is plastered across his face, half-covering his eyes, a few strands caught in his mouth. He spits them out. "This was a whim."

Stede goes to wipe dust and bits of shingle from his own hair. It all smears across his forehead, sticking like mud. "I know. I didn't want to say anything."

"You're an idiot."

"So are you."

Ed groans his way to his feet and offers a hand to Stede, who takes it.

"Let's go someplace dry and think things through?" The dirt on Stede's forehead is dripping into his eyes. He finds a clean-ish spot on his shirt and starts to scrub away what he can. "They have rooms above the bar in town."

"You think they'll let us in like this?"

"We've still got a few bags of doubloons." Stede drops his shirttail and straightens up, and Ed marvels at how there's still an aristocrat in there, even covered in shards of rotten wood and probably some bird poop.

"Well if they don't," he offers, shaking rain from his hair and then twisting it into a few wild curls, "Blackbeard might have something to say about it."

Stede's laugh is lost to the sound of the wind outside, but Ed can feel it anyway, brightening the air between them. Hand in hand, they head out what's left of the door, into the rain under the open sky.

[justanotherfanaccount]

it is time

shadow and bone s2e8 reaction...the season finale

"wait...mal is a bird?" I love you jesper

kaz giving nikolai his cane 😭😭 #besties

OMG DEAD "yes! my man! ...oh I mean we haven't actually put a label on it.."

noooo!! this mal death scene is actually heartbreaking!!

"make them redraw all the maps" 😭😭

I'm sobbing omg I can't do this

THE FLASHBACKKKSSS DONT SO THIS TO MEEEE

inej and Zoya my badass queens 😭😭 (sorry for the crying I haven't recovered from the mal death)

THE DARKLING YELLING TO LEAVE HER ALONE 😭😭

THE DARKLING ACTUALLY DID LOVE HER STOP STOP STOP STOP

alina noooo 😭

this is so painful...

in the books I felt like he had to die...and alina was doing the right thing but now I just feel so heartbroken 😭😭

"make sure there is nothing left of me" "blue skies" 😭😭😭 "MY LITTLE SAINT"

ITS TOO MUUUUCCCHH

alina no...

this is going to cost her...I'm just not sure what yet

NOT KAZ KNOWING THE POEM TOLYA WAS SAYING

kaz's face when jesper hugged inej cuz he knows he can't 😭😭

THE CUT OF ON THE FIVE OF CROWS PLEASE!

no matthias...no Matthias don't do it

David nooooo don't be dead! don't be dead!!

not a ring with a ruby 😭😭 omg I can't take this

what does that bee mean..? I might be looking into it too deep...

MAL AS A PRIVATEER I LOVE IT

"choice...not destiny" 🥺

kanej scene omg omg omg

HES BEEN LOOKING FOR HER FAMILYYYY

"what do you want then?" his facials were so perfect 😭😭

THE SCENE ITS THE SCENE OMG ITS STRAIGHT FROM THE BOOKS I CANT TAKE IT

this scene already broke me when I read the books I can't do this they're such good actors the lines are perfect omg omg I cant

YEEESSSS MAL AS STURMHOLD

inej in the ship!?!?! hold up

WHAT ABOUT SIX OF CROWS HOLD UP

NO NOT A TOLYA AND INEJ THING!!! THIS BETTER NOT BECOME A LOVE TRIANGLE

what is going to happen in these next 20 minutes??? I'm so scared

oh god...NOT THE WOLVES

damn!! yes! he's controlling the wolves!

oh god...he just got pardoned but now he won't be

I HATE PEKKA ROLLINS I NEED HIM DEAD

kaz buying out indentures 🥺🥺 my baby

I. do. not. trust. the. apparat.

fuck this guy I love nikolai

oh noooo I knew it was coming but I still wasn't prepared

HE SAID THE LINE

yes Zoya get your man

IS KAZ TALKING ABOUT THE ICE COURT!?!?! AUGGHHHHGHFH

omg yes he is omg omg omg omg

girl don't do it girl

DID ALINA JUST USE THE DARKLINGS POWERS!?!?! OH MY GODDD!!!!

[penultimatestalematewithdeath]

By the saints, the PAIN in Kaz’s eyes when he sees Inej again and Wants to do Something with that emotion and then sees Jesper hug her and realizes he Can’t do that ahhhh

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Shadow and Bone Season 2 Rambles (SPOILERS)

S&B S2E8 season finale

DO NOT GIVE ME ANOTHER KAZxDARKLING FIGHT

I know Kaz did that for the money but still that was cute

pls just kill him this is so dumb

YES DEATH

Also shout out the nina plot convenience save

Inej and Zoya look amazing

The Darkling is delusional its giving Dmitri voicemail

Ben? The Darkling is terrible but I will miss him

NOOOO ALINA GIRL WHAT ARE YOU DOING

DOES SHE DO THIS IN THE BOOK??????

can you guys tell I really don't remember the S&B books at all?

Nina knows....

Wait I just realized she doesn't have white hair I really wanted to see that

I LOVE THAT EASTER EGG

Mal knows

Guys I really need someone to retell me the plot I don't remember

Ohhhhh wait I think I'm starting to get it is this their way of extending it so that we get more showline from them?

Aw nooo my scruffy boy's gonna get scruffier...whatever shall I do

I AM SOBBING THEY BETTER NOT HAVE KILLED MY BOY I WON'T BELIEVE IT TILL I SEE A BODY GUYS I CAN'T HANDLE THIS STOP JOKING WITH ME IF THIS ISN'T REALY THEN GIMME BACK MY DAVID RIGHT NOW

THEY'RE HOLDING THIS SHOT WAY TOO LONG I DON'T LIKE IT ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW

FOR DAVID???? THEY KILLED HIM??? SERIOUSLY??? WAHTOIAHTOIAHFOAHRFOUAHRUIAHRIFHAEOIHAOIR;GAOIFHADSFHAISUHFAUOHGAUHGAUIHFAHOFIAOFAO;SDFJH;A

i know he dies in the King of Wolves book or whatever but that was fine bc i didn't read it so i can just pretend that isn't in the books but THIS IS JUST CRUEL

So Nikolai isn't a Shadow Fold monster dude?? I just realized that

lmao I am not interested in the show post-bookcannon tbh this better be a hard pivot into the Crows bc I don't care about Malina or Ravkan politics enough to keep watching after the book canon story

how is there still 30 whole minutes left this episode feels done the only thing left is to wrap up the crows and give us a teaser for next season that should be 10 minutes AT MOST

I feel like this Kanej scene isn't the serve they think it is...it works GREAT for me as a reader and lover of SOC but if I was just a viewer idkkk

Inej looks amazing

My poor boy he just wants to be right with Djel and the world keeps kicking him down

Nina girly get this boy out with Dirtyhands

Ahhh yess so he will be a monster yes the this is good

That crown/gown look terrible I'm sorry bring back the kofta

EXCUSE ME YOU WANT ZOYA STOP LOOKING AT ALINA LIKE THAT

yes Zoya look at him

That coat looks bad too

I am affectionally insulting the royal fits btw

LOVE THE JURDA PAREM DROP

huhhhhhhhhhhhh...darkling cut....okay??? uhm

Choices were made

I must think more to decide how I feel about those choices

[herroyalbubbliness]

MASTERLIST

Let's talk series and movies

Series:

1. Afro beats: The Backstory

2. Alchemy of Souls

3. A Teacher

4. Black Bird

5. Blacklist

Raymond Reddington

The Inner Voice

6. Blood & Water S2

7. Bridgerton

Quick Thoughts on S2

Additional Thoughts

8. Chernobyl

9. Cowboy Bebop

10. Echoes

11. Firefly Lane

12. Gilded Age

S1E1

S1E5

13. Godfather of Harlem: Home

14 Gossip Girl:

Gossip Girl Reboot S1E4

Gossip Girl Reboot S1E5

16. Inventing Anna

Gossip Girl Reboot S1E6

15. Interview With The Vampire

In Throes of Increasing Wonder

17. Killing Eve:

Villanelle

Villanelle 2

Is there really a side to pick?

Can't help but think of Villanelle

Parallels

It breaks my heart

18. Leverage: Redemption

Thoughts on S1E1-S1E8

Thoughts on S1E9-S1E16

Thoughts on S2E1-S2E3

19. Lucifer

A Scene From S4E1

S6-The Finale

20. Money Heist P1V1

21. Never Have I Ever: A Celebration of Quirks

22. Power Book II

S2E2: Selfless Acts...?

S2E8

Detective Diana

23. P-Valley

S2E8

S2E9

I miss the valley already

24. Scenes From a Marriage

S1E3

S1E4

25. Severance

26. Sex Education

27. Shadow and Bone:

Kaz Brekker

Matthias Helvar

General Kirigan

28. Ted Lasso

Intro

S2E12

Fatherhood

29. Tell Me Lies

30. The Bold Type

31. The Chair

32. The Handmaid's Tale

33. This World Can't Tear Me Down

S4E10

S5

34. The Time Traveler's Wife

35. The Witcher

S2 Intro

Who is a Monster Really?

Don't You Just Love Their Banter?

MINE

Scars To Your Perfect Ying Yang

I want to be powerful

Parallels

Kim Bodnia

The Darkness Growing Within

36. Virgin River S4

37. What If...?S1E2

38. Why Women Kill

39. You

S3

Film

1. Don't Look Up

2. Encanto

3. Everything Everywhere All At Once

4. Free Guy

5. Gunpowder Milkshake

6. Help (Channel4)

7. King Richard

8. Kissing Girl Booth 3

10. Passing

11. Taylor Swift - All Too Well

12. Tick, Tick... Boom

13. The Harder They Fall

14. The Last Duel

15. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

16. The Suicide Squad (2021)

17. The Tragedy of Macbeth

18. Vivo

[darkacademiaarchivist]

shadow and bone s2e8 is giving me tma episode 200 vibes i'm scared now...

[skellebonez]

16 & 26 with Huntsman X Sandy, LET'S GO

I HAD TO WRITE THIS IMMEDIATE AFTER EPISODE 8 I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS. YOU AND @kitkat1003 DID THIS TO ME. I WROTE THIS PAST 3 AM. I finished it in 30 minutes after I got online again. I want to write MORE so consider this just the start of another ongoing series of prompts I guess.

Obvious SPOILERS for S2E8.

I let you win./You don’t hate me.

Huntsman could not believe that he was doing this. But... everything was off. Nothing about what had happened since the Lunar New Year Festival had felt right to him, and after he retrieved the Demon Revealing Mirror his bad feelings about the entire situation was just farther confirmed. Now, however... now he had next to no trust in the person who was pulling all their strings. Not after her non-answer to his questions.

So now he was here. Out in the open. Back at the docks where he first got a good look at the man he had a recent encounter with. On the boat where he saw him and in front of his door. Huntsman knew he was inside because he had watched him come home.

He wish he knew what his name was, at the very least. He'd just been calling him Blue or Big Guy or something similar in his mind. Said as much during their last encounter. Hopefully what he had found after he had returned meant that there was at least still some good will in his direction from the larger man. Enough to make up for the fact he would have to ask for his name at least.

The door was right in front of him. He just... had to knock now. He knew how to knock, he could do it so quickly. He just... had to raise his arm...

And then his vision was a wall of blue and he let out a very unbecoming scream of surprise.

"It's you," Blue said, face a picture of... confusion. Not the immediate anger or suspicion that Huntsman had expected. It came after a moment however, a glower and a crossing of his arms. "It's you."

The spider demon couldn't help himself from tensing up for a moment, despite his best attempts at avoiding that, but it was only for a moment. He instantly stood up straight, clearing his throat before flourishing his arm with a chuckle. It came out shaky, more awkward than he had intended.

"Is that, heh... offer still on the... table?" He reached into his coat, pulling out the single teabag he had found stashed away in his pocket after their last encounter.

It took a hot second for Blue to react, but when he did it was instantaneous. He grabbed Huntsman by the coat collar and pulled him inside without so much as a word. Huntsman's first reaction was to pull back, fight back at the grip on his collar and then at the large muscular arms picking him up like he was as light as a rag doll, but he didn't. Instead he let himself be picked up, carried through the house boat and deposited on the couch before Blue sat across from him with a stern expression with his palm open.

Huntsman sat awkwardly for a moment before he realized what Blue wanted, and he held out his hand slowly. So slowly. He hovered above Blue's hand for a good few seconds, watching his expression before biting the bullet and opening it to let the tea bag fall into the large hand.

Before he knew it Blue was off and back again with a tray that held two cups and a hot kettle of water, and there was no way he boiled water that quickly he couldn’t have so he must have been making some already. He placed the tray down and began pouring water into the cups that held two identical teabags, one tag more torn and worn and dirty than the other so that must have been the one he had on him. Huntsman sat in silence, unsure of what to do aside from what this happen.

There were cats on the boat. Many cats, more than he could count. They didn’t come close to him, barring one. One that matched his owner in both color scheme and hair style, who sat on Blue’s shoulder and hissed at him threateningly.

Huntsman was not threatened by a cat.

“What’s your name?” Blue asked suddenly as he sat back, a wide smile with a hint of suspicion in the very back of his eyes. But the smile, the open expression, the willingness to give him another chance, that was far stronger. “I didn’t have the chance to ask you.”

“Uh... Huntsman,” he answered slowly, watching the steam lift from the slowly brewing tea between them.

“I’m Sandy,” Blue, Sandy, said without missing a beat. “What are you doing here so late at night, Huntsy?”

The spider demon froze, looking at Sandy incredulously. He had half a mind to tell him off then and there, to object to his name being shortened to something so... so... SILLY! But he didn’t. Huntsman was not stupid, he knew he was not a genius like Syntax (but, then again, how smart could the ex-human really be if he had believed that Spider Queen would not double cross him and bring him into the fold eventually), but he wasn’t stupid.

He remembered their fight. How strong this large demon was. He put Goliath to shame despite being of similar stature, there was something about this man that was hidden deep down somewhere that Huntsman could not see and when he admitted it to himself he had been terrified that Sandy would kill him at that time. He could have killed Huntsman. He saw what he did to the scenery around them. But he didn’t.

He let him go.

So Huntsman took a deep breathe and began to talk.

~

It didn’t take long for his explanation. Just long enough for the tea to finish steeping. He didn’t reveal everything, but he did say enough. Told him about Lady Bone Demon (Lady White Bone, White Bone Spirit, whatever name she was going by these days) and how she had been doing... something. How he had his suspicions for a while. How he was worried for his Queen.

“Do not misunderstand my intentions. I have no stake in your Monkie Kid group and quite frankly if Bone Lady wasn’t in the picture I wouldn’t be here,” Huntsman said firmly, picking up his tea cup as Sandy picked up his. “But I care for my Queen. And I believe she is in danger. I am no fool, I know we are enemies, but they do say ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’..” He paused, looking up at Sandy and maintaining eye contact with him. “And we have a common enemy.”

The cats that were hiding in the shadows had begun to slowly come out. Some were watching him from the shelves and cat trees. How in the world did everything in this house boat stay standing when he drove it?

“That we do,” Sandy agreed, again so fast and so simply. His willingness to listen to the spider demon put him off in a way, but in others... it felt nice to be listened to. As much as he loved his Queen there were times she just did not listen to him at all, Syntax and he did not see eye to eye on much, and Goliath... well, he listened usually. But he was even more loyal to Spider Queen than he was. He put total faith in her working with their extra member so talking to him had not gotten him far. “And after what happened at the festival and Monkey King’s island and all the other stuff? The others are going to take a lot of convincing. But I believe you.”

“You... believe me?” Huntsman asked incredulously, raising an eyebrow. “... You don’t hate me.”

It wasn’t a question. It was a statement. One he could not believe he was saying.

“Nope,” Sandy said as he took a sip of his drink. “I don’t hate you. But that doesn’t mean we’re allies, I know that.”

“... you’re weird,” Huntsman said with a scoff, rolling his many eyes.

“Says the spider guy who let himself be dragged into his enemies home at 1 in the morning to be sat down for ‘a cuppa’,” Sandy shot back with a small smile. There was the smallest bit of amusement behind it. “We’re both weird.”

“Touche,” Huntsman could not help but reply as he looked down at his drink. He couldn’t help but wonder in the back of his mind if it was poisoned. That’s partly what he thought when the last cup was offered in the forest. But Sandy seemed to heartfelt in his offer to have done something like that. He didn’t seem the type to boast about getting alone and not wanting to fight only to poison someone. So Huntsman kept hold his his tea and brought it up to his face. “But that still begs the question. Do we trust each other enough to do anything more after this?”

“Oh, I don’t trust you nearly as far as I could throw you,” Sandy laughed out as he drank the rest of his tea. “But I trust myself. And I trust my own judgement. And I think I can trust myself enough to work with you for the better of both of our friends.”

Huntsman didn’t say anything at that. He sat, staring at the tea for another moment. He... did not trust Sandy, not fully yet. He trusted him enough to not kill him, and so far that trust had been rewarded quite well. But much like Sandy he trusted himself. He trusted his own judgement. And he had chosen to come here of his own volition, by himself, to protect his Queen.

A cat wandered over, a calico, and jumped onto the couch next to him. It stared up at him with bright brown eyes, watching him intently.

“Why did you let me leave?” He asked after a moment. “I let you win, by leaving. But you could have beaten me regardless. Why?”

“I wanted to give you another chance. Everyone deserves that much. Everyone.”

Huntsman gripped his teacup tighter at this, staring at the torn teabag with Sandy’s face on it. It must have been his own special blend. His own special blend that he had given to him as an olive branch. A sign that he would listen. And he had listened.

Huntsman gulped and raised the teacup to his lips and gulped.

It was smooth. Bright. Slightly bitter but not unintentionally.

It was the best tea Huntsman had ever had in his life.

“... How much tea does that second chance get me?”

Sandy smiled, a different kind of something that was brighter and softer and less in his face, and something in Huntsman's chest jumped of it's own accord.

[clawingbackthepast]

Dungeons and Dragons

S1E1: The Night of No Tomorrow

S1E2: Eye of the Beholder

S1E3: The Hall of Bones

S1E4: Valley of the Unicorns

S1E5: In Search of the Dungeon Master

S1E6: Beauty and the Bogbeast

S1E7: Prison Without Walls

S1E8: Servant of Evil

S1E9: Quest of the Skeleton Warrior

S1E10: The Garden of Zinn

S1E11: The Box

S1E12: The Lost Children

S1E13: P-R-E-S-T-O Spells Disaster

S2E1: The Girl Who Dreamed Tomorrow

S2E2: The Treasure of Tardos

S2E3: City at the Edge of Midnight

S2E4: The Tailor

S2E5: Day of the Dungeon Master

S2E6: The Last Illusion

S2E7: The Dragon’s Graveyard

S2E8: Child of the Stargazer

S3E1: The Dungeon at the Heart of Dawn

S3E2: The Time Lost

S3E3: Odyssey of the Twelfth Talisman

S3E4: Citadel of Shadow

S3E5: Cave of the Faerie Dragons

S3E6: The Winds of Darkness

[penultimatestalematewithdeath]

LET JESPER HAVE HIS SAY THE TITLE MOMENT

[penultimatestalematewithdeath]

ICE COURT HEIST NEXT SEASON SLFKJSDLKFJDSLFKJ

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