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everyone thinks Alistair Lowe is their mortal enemy and then they spend five minutes with him and they either fall in love, think he is just a traumatized boy or he embarass himself by smashing against a tree (or all at once)

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that one “e-y-e-s” video but make it the cottage trio

and a little bonus:

inspired by an ask and response by @medievalatrocities and @luckloveandwaterfalls respectively!

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thank you so much for tagging me!

3 ships: Andreil, Jade x Tori, Hualian (i picked the first 3 that came to mind)

First ship: that would be NaLu, but depending on your defintion of ship it could also be percabeth, i started interacting with fan content of both around the same time

Last song: The horror and the wild by The amazing devil

Last movie: I think it was probably the barbie movie and i still have some pretty mixed opinions about it

Currently reading: Kings Rising from the Captive prince trilogy and also the manga an Unseemly lady is what ive been reading today

Currently watching: Rookie historian but im on episode 2 so its very currently, and i binged two seasons of scissor seven because my brother likes it but i might drop it

Currently consuming: Nothing

Currently crabing: A nice pizza. I was craving some hot dog rolls this morning but that seems to have passed after i fell asleep

@anyone who sees this and has blue socks on. any shade of blue

9 people you would like to get to know better

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Aouv/Aood Headcanons

Alistair cried upon finding out about the lifespan of certain species of moths when he was around 5

Briony is stupidly good at geography. Show her a picture and she’ll be able to identify where it was taken no matter how blurry it is

Isobel has a cat (either tabby or calico)

Alistair is a cat person, Hendry is a dog person

Gavin is stupidly good at math

Alistair is the shortest of the four main champions

Gavin would love vocaloid music if he could listen to it

Alistair writes poetry and short stories

Briony loves the color blue

Isobel would’ve had a Neopets and/or a Webkinz account when she was younger if they had it (she would’ve kept all of the stuffed animals too)

Briony wanted (and still kinda wants) a really big bird as a pet; probably a hawk

Gavin is the tallest of the four main champions

Gavin loves the color green

Isobel had a bob haircut until she was in 6th grade

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“In a different story, would we still have been enemies?”

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Book names + authors under the cut

Alistair Lowe/Gavin Grieve- All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman

Shen Qingqiu/Luo Binghe- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System/ Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Helen Blackthorn/Aline Penhallow- The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare

Oxnard Mattheson/Joe Bennet- Green Creek Series by TJ Klune

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Headcanon: since we know that Reid and Diya already know each other “a little” (I’m assuming through some kind of club or spellmaking society bc of the spellmakers’ derision for them in higher positions) I suggest that while they were never really close friends, they used to be at least friendly before the whole tournament thing went down.

Just take a look at the positions they were in. Diya was constantly discouraged from being involved in spellmaking at all, and nobody trusts the MacTavishes so Reid must have been lonely as hell. With his interest in experiments and her being a fixer, I could see them hanging out prior to AoUV and doing spellmaking stuff or just getting away from the others.

They would lightly piss each other off all the time. Diya thinks Reid is too full of himself, and he thinks that she’s trying too hard to prove herself. They always wave to each other in a crowd. They bicker constantly. They’re not the kind of friends who confide in each other and share their darkest secrets, but they’re good for a solid that sucks, man and it’s always genuine. They commiserate about the spellmakers being assholes, then call each other all manner of names for adding one (1) spell ingredient they don’t like.

One evening, the spellmakers are being more condescending than usual, so after a long litany of complaints and a restless to fucking do something, they go and each get their piercings at the same time. It’s a moment of impulsive teenage rebellion that they share, and it almost makes them feel like that might actually be good friends, when they overlook the smugness and excessive ambition. Then they meet again the next day and Diya mercilessly teases Reid for barely being able to eat and Reid snarks her about messing up a spellstone repair, and it’s business as usual. Spell/cursemaking frenemies <3

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thoughts on callista and gavin? have a great day!

Loving these asks! I am always happy to get up on my soapbox about these characters. This time I'm focusing on how Gavin is convinced that Callista is the one who wrote A Tradition of Tragedy and how it shapes/reflects their relationship. It's actually super interesting to me that he thinks this, and I was glad they addressed it in All of Our Demise.

Because if you think about it, the theory doesn't make much sense. To begin with, the "Grieve" who is the author is constantly making reference to "their" family and Callista wouldn't devote so much time and energy writing about the family that she was just going to leave. I mean, she was probably engaged at that point, right? At a bare minimum, she knew she wanted to become a Payne and leave her old life behind. So publishing a whole book from the perspective of a member of her family wouldn't make sense.

Obviously, we know that she didn't write it, but even when Gavin doesn't know that, he could have thought about it and his theory wouldn't hold up. Even from a practical standpoint, I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't have noticed his sister constantly disappearing to do extensive research (bc Reid seriously did his homework) or getting calls from agents and editors and publishers and the like. All while she's supposed to be planning a wedding? The idea that Callista wrote the book makes no sense.

But Gavin still believes that she did for a really long time, and it heavily colors his interactions with her. Never once does he outright ask her about it. He doesn't have to. And I think it's because, at the surface level, she was an easy candidate who was well-informed about the Grieves and had mentally checked out of the family a long time ago, so she wouldn't feel guilty about spilling their secrets.

Gavin is firmly convinced that his sister wrote the book that made everyone look down on the Grieves, and his resentment of the book and how the public treats him because of it quickly devolves into resentment of his sister (which isn't helped by the way she effectively abandoned him as kids). When he finally accuses her of it, he doesn't even try to hide his bitterness: "Maybe you could make our family sound even more pathetic, too—although I guess you've already done that, haven't you?"

And Callista denies it, and he believes her, and that's that.

But here's the thing: Callista has clearly done a lot of thinking about the book, because she's the first one to theorize that it wasn't actually a Grieve who wrote it. She tells Gavin that she thinks they were set up. So she's read the book and put thought into it, and she's clearly a little upset about it, too. So even though she's fully checked out of the family, the blatant sharing of their secrets bothers her.

Not to mention that she's kept up on what Gavin is doing. She reads his interview with the Inquirer and even encourages him to work with Briony and Finley if it means he'll survive the tournament. So she obviously cares. But she didn't care enough to comfort him through his nightmares, or be there for him when he was training to be a champion, or hide her insulting shock when he shows up alive. But she cares enough to take in a kid that he drops off at her door and tell him the story of the first Grieve and try to help him survive.

Callista cares about Gavin, but every time it came down to it, she didn't care enough to make a choice that would help him, and ultimately it was because she wouldn't let herself care. It isn't fair to expect that she had an easy time of it, growing up with awful parents who had completely cast aside her brother and, debatably, her—but it also wasn't fair for her to pretty much turn off her love for her sibling and then turn it back on again once two external parties came up with a possible solution for the all-Grieves-must-die problem.

Which is why it gives me shivers when Gavin finally snaps, when he points out that the ongoing pattern for his family doesn't dictate his own odds of survival, that treating him like he was already dead was a fucked up thing to do. Callista is kind of faltering and she says that they all know the odds (implying that his odds are pretty much zero).

"Yeah," Gavin says. "One in seven."

This is a lot of words to say that I'm really fascinated by the minor plotline of Gavin thinking that Callista wrote the book and eventually being proven wrong. Because at the heart of that mostly-internal sibling conflict is their central problem: Callista cares about Gavin, but she's never allowed herself to care enough to make a difference, and he hasn't let go of expecting her to.

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ilvernath's murder princess doodles because i am in love with her

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I was looking through AoUV for research purposes and I ended up taking note of the first line from each of the first POV chapters to see what kind of tone it set for that character. And honestly, kudos to Amanda and Charlie, if you think about it they all do a really good job of setting up the basis for the POV characters.

"The Lowe family had always been the undisputed villains of their town's ancient, bloodstained story, and no one understood that more than the Lowe brothers." Right away this establishes what the Lowes are like, how Alistair fits into that in regards to the tournament curse, and the fact that he and his brother are set apart from the rest because of their family.

"The funeral party flocked around the grave as the pallbearers lowered the casket into the earth." This opening line is written so passively that we don't even know whose funeral it is, and that's kind of the point. Immediately, we know that the Macaslans are closely tied to death, like scavengers, and that Isobel's identity will ultimately come back to the survival instincts of her family name.

"Callista Grieve did not wear white to her wedding." This one makes me feral, because the first line of Gavin's first POV chapter is literally about someone else. He's not even the main character in the first chapter of his own story. He's a guest, an afterthought, and his sister's eagerness to get away from the family only solidifies this starting point for him.

"The amphitheater at the edge of her family's estate always made Briony Thorburn feel like she was stepping onto a stage." I have to be honest and point out that this opening line makes Briony sound like a fucking idiot, because wow, it's almost like an amphitheater is a kind of stage. But looking beyond that, it speaks volumes that she's already putting herself at the center of the story before the final test even happens. It sets up her complete shock when she isn't chosen as champion, and the way she always makes herself the hero.

Just some interesting stuff about the way each of the POV characters are introduced!

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Happy Valentine's Dayy, have some headcanons for how the AoUV ships would spend the holiday :)

Alistair and Gavin don't do most of the traditional stuff, but they make a point to spend the day together and turn off the rest of the world for a little bit. Neither of them will admit to being sappy, but it reminds them of this one good thing they get to have for themselves after everything else in their lives

Then they bake cookies and decorate them together, making an unholy mess in the kitchen and producing decently edible cookies. It reminds them of Hendry and they have a lighthearted competition trying to make the most detailed decorations with the icing

Isobel is all about Valentine's Day, and Reid thinks it is—without exception—the stupidest holiday. The entire week leading up to it is full of constant bickering, to the point where everyone around them is slightly nervous that they'll have a big fight on the day itself

(They don't. Isobel gives him a gift basket of rare curse ingredients that he can't even pretend to be annoyed by, and Reid does a lot of fake grumbling as he goes all out for her with flowers, chocolates, the whole nine yards. They still bicker a lot about Valentine's Day, but both of them come away from it happy and unscarred)

Briony and Finley do the whole candlelit dinner thing, which starts off super sweet and devolves into subtly people-watching and making up stories about all the other couples at the nice restaurant

Also, Briony has killed every plant she's ever touched, so Finley is very hesitant to give her flowers and tries to be upfront about it. She's like "yup, got it, no flowers on Valentine's Day" and then surprises him with a bouquet and he just about melts

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I like imagining Gavin calling Alistair “allie” or “alice” I think he would hate it and Gavin would find it cute

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Okay. But what if I said I outlined a 16-chapter AOUV fic where all the champions played to win. What then.

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"you're welcome darling " reid really,

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"you're welcome darling " reid really,