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“You are a brat,” he growled and took another swipe.

“Ah, but I’m a brat with a sweet roll.”

Malina’s banter 🥺🥺🥺 I miss them sm

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Summary: The Darkling has killed the Sun Summoner’s lovers, Mal and Nikolai, and thinks she’ll join his side. But with one last parting kiss to her lovers, she finds her kiss brings them back to life to fight another day.

*This was originally for multiamory march but I couldn’t do it and now I’m slowly working on the ones I liked and publishing them and finally decided to post this one. Hope ya’ll enjoy!

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Alina: What did you two do? Nikolai: Mal: Alina: You’re not in trouble, I just need to know if I have to lie to the police again or not.

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Mal: Hi, sorry I’m late. I was doing a couple of things and got distracted. Alina: I’m “a couple of things”. Nikolai: I’m “got distracted”.

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Alina, reading a recipe: Beat three eggs?  Zoya: It means like in hand-to-hand combat.  Alina: Ohhhh-  Nikolai: Both of you get out of this kitchen.

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Do you prefer Malarklina or Malkolina?

that's so hard to say, anon, they both have malina in the middle but they are very different ships

malkolina is pining, it’s soft looks across the room, learning how to dance in the stables, almost touching fingers while walking next to each other, running away from the guards, giggles under covers, stolen kisses and p.i.n.i.g.

malarklina is angst, descent to madness, gaslighting, emotional breakdowns, yelling at each other while walking away, traumas, angry kisses with bites, desperate sex and attempts for murder

very different vibes for different moods, i enjoy both

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Alina Starkov and Malyen Oretsev

“The Sun Summoner and Her Warrior”

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PROMPT — March 30th, Pining

Summary: Mal and Alina work up the nerve to tell Nikolai about their feelings for him, and ask him out.

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“We had to talk.” Alina said softly, moving to Mal’s side so the trio were practically in a triangle. She glanced at him—he was the only one in on what the talk was about.

“Oh… well, I hope everything’s alright. No more Darkling visits, right?” Nikolai swallowed, “Saints, do you think he could be powerful enough to do it in death?”

Alina chuckled, shaking her head. “No. Nothing like that.” She turned to Mal to initiate the conversation.

“We were actually… talking about you?” Mal smiled sheepishly, eyes cast on the grass below them, hands buried deep in his pockets.

“About me? All good, I hope.” Nikolai joked, though Mal and Alina could both see his nerves in the way his eyes flittered between the two, as if searching for a hint. He put on a front they knew too well. “Were you discussing my devilishly handsome looks?”

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The "I wanted more for you..." scene between Mal and Alina was way more superior in the books and it deserved the full speech:

Mal leaned against the stone rim of the pool. “Do you ever wonder what it might have been like if the Grisha Examiners had discovered your power back at Keramzin?”

“Sometimes.”

“Ravka would be different.”

“Maybe not. My power was useless before we found the stag. Without you, we might never have located any of Morozova’s amplifiers.”

“You’d be different,”

(...)

“I can tell you what would have happened,” I said.

“Go on.”

(..) “I would have gone to the Little Palace and been spoiled and pampered. I would have dined off of golden plates, and I never would have struggled to use my power. It would have been like breathing, the way it always should have been. And in time, I would have forgotten Keramzin.”

“And me.”

“Never you.” He raised a brow.

“Possibly you,” I admitted. He laughed. “The Darkling would have sought Morozova’s amplifiers, fruitlessly, hopelessly, until one day a tracker, a no one, an otkazat’sya orphan, traveled into the ice of Tsibeya. He would be the first to spot the stag after centuries of searching. So of course the Darkling and I would have to travel to Tsibeya in his great black coach.”

(...)

He smiled. “I would have noticed you.”

“Of course you would. I’m the Sun Summoner, after all.”

“You know what I mean.”

(...)

“Well,” I said, taking another swipe at the petals, “it wouldn’t matter if you noticed me, because I would have noticed you.”

“A lowly otkazat’sya?”

“That’s right,” I said quietly. I didn’t feel like teasing him anymore.

“And what would you have seen?”

“A soldier—cocky, scarred, extraordinary. And that would have been our beginning.”

He rose and closed the distance between us. “And this still would have been our end.” He was right. Even in dreams, we had no future. If we somehow both survived tomorrow, I would have to seek an alliance and a crown. Mal would have to find a way to keep his heritage a secret. Gently, he took my face in his hands. “I would have been different too, without you. Weaker, reckless.” He smiled slightly. “Afraid of the dark.” He brushed the tears from my cheeks. I wasn’t sure when they’d started. “But no matter who or what I was, I would have been yours.”

I kissed him then—with grief and need and years of longing, with the desperate hope that I could keep him here in my arms, with the damning knowledge that I could not. I leaned into him, the press of his chest, the breadth of his shoulders.

Then he drew back, searching my eyes. “I wanted more for you,” he said. “A white veil in your hair. Vows we could keep.”

“A proper wedding night? Just tell me this isn’t goodbye. That’s the only vow I need.”

“I love you, Alina.”

He kissed me again. He hadn’t answered, but I didn’t care, because his mouth was on mine, and in this moment, I could pretend I wasn’t a savior or a Saint, that I could simply choose him, have a life, be in love. That we wouldn’t have one night, we would have thousands.

— Ruin and Rising (Chapter 16).

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PROMPT — March 29th, Mark 

Summary: Mal and Alina notice Nikolai has the same soulmate mark on his wrist.

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“Your soulmate tattoo.” Mal repeated. He saw Alina looking at him, and he nodded towards the captain to bring her attention to it.

Alina prodded, “is that… a crown?”

The mention of a crown was all it took for him to sit up straight again, hiding his wrist behind the long sleeves of his cloak. “No. It’s not.”

Alina and Mal glanced at one another again, rolling up their sleeves as they presented their soulmate tattoos to him. “Really? Because it kind of resembles these.”

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PROMPT — March 28th, Teasing

Summary: Nikolai absolutely adores teasing his lovers. But Nikolai and Alina take it upon themselves when they realize that Mal doesn’t feel worthy of being showered with affection in comparison to Nikolai and Alina.

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“Alina’s the living saint, not me.”

“Did I say only she was beautiful?” Nikolai turned to Alina. “Did I not imply both of you?”

“You did, but Mal’s too much of a pleaser to recognize that, he, too, is hot.” Alina nodded. “He’d much rather focus that love and affection for his lovers, instead.”

Nikolai hummed. “I do love a challenge.”

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PROMPT — March 27th, Shadow

Summary: Darkling gives Mal a little mental visit to taunt him, but mostly he’s just waiting for Alina and their new lover Nikolai to join in for the actual fun.

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“Because she thinks she can fool me.” He said wistfully, like he knew her better than she knew herself, like he was sad that she thought she had any agency over her own sense of self. “She wanted me to hurt over what we could’ve had by dangling it over my head, but all she really did was tell on herself.”

“What you could’ve had,” Mal scoffed, “you had nothing, Darkling. You had manipulation, whereas I have actual love. Something you clearly know nothing about. And here I thought wisdom came with age.”

“You don’t know what love is, Malyen.” Aleksander told him, shaking his head like he actually felt bad for him. “What you have isn’t love, it’s obligation—your obligation. To protect Alina, to become the hero she grew up wanting to save her. The difference between you and I is that, for you, it is nothing but a fantasy. I, however, can actually save her. But you’ve corrupted her to make me her villain.”

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the way Mal and Alina were destined to find each other *chefs kiss* they way the fought tooth and nail to stay together *chefs kiss* the way Mal found peace knowing he was put in the world to serve the woman he loved *chefs kiss* the way Alina knowingly and willingly doomed herself to save Mal because he was worth it even if he doesn’t believe it *chefs kiss* the way Mal struggled with his purpose now that his fate wasn’t set *chefs kiss* the way Alina respected his journey and loved him enough to let him go *SOBBING CHEFS KISS*

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nikolai lantsov legalising polyamory in ravka by proposing to both alina and mal he’s just that iconic 

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PROMPT — March 25th, Unlikely

Summary: Mal and Alina talk about their attraction to Nikolai, unaware he’s been listening in.

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“Telling Mal you clocked me checking him out was a bit cruel.”

“It’s only fair if you did it to me first.”

“So… you really were checking me out?” Mal swallowed, unable to believe his ears.

“So much for unlikely, huh?” Nikolai snickered.