#also marellinh

[telugu-girl-13]

how is Shannon so aware of her fandoms ships i will never understand

[clarity2electricboogaloo]

I love the way the marella short story was written

We need to be told stories from marellas pov more

And also fintans pure madness at certain parts yet still sane enough to be extremely cunning and meticulous about how he has this conversation

I literally can’t

AGHHHHH I LOVE IT

[todayisclaudyyy]

Best girls 💫

[aspenaspenaspenaspenaspen]

just leaving this here…

@clarity2electricboogaloo

I think you requested this??

[tierganoutsold]

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my fav characters are Bronte, Fintan & Tiergan (but i also love sophie biana marella and dex) ♡

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[bookwyrminspiration]

so like. as the keeper expert. do you think marellinh will be canon?

There's no clear answer, but I can bring up some points in favor either way

On the one hand, we've seen very little (if any) inclusion or hinting towards canonically queer characters; the fandom's favorites are potentially queer if reading them a certain way, but it's not explicit. There are other readings.

However, just because the series has been one way in the past doesn't mean it can't grow. In regards to inclusion, while the original cast of characters is entirely white, with time Shannon has included more characters of color. Is it still predominantely white? Yes, but an effort and improvement has been made (if imperfect).

This could apply to queer inclusion as well. Sure, the books have been overwhelmingly heteronormative, but Shannon has since expressed support for queer readers and may now be trying to add queer representation in the same manner. Is it perfect? Again, no, but improvements can be made.

Additionally, regarding the Marella short story and lines such as "Especially a Hydrokinetic who was currently looking all peaceful and pretty and perfect," especially the use of the word perfect. We see Shannon use that word frequently in romantic contexts, but I want to focus on: "[Sophie] stood in the doorway, looking wary and worried and...Absolutely perfect" (Unlocked, p. 565). Sokeefe is the ship of the series, and Keefe describes Sophie with an incredibly similar sentence structure. This could be evidence that, looking at patterns in Shannon's writing, there is potential romantic intent behind Marella's observations.

However, we do also see Sophie describe her companions (i.e. Linh and Biana) quite strikingly as well, and she's entrenched in a very heteronormative love triangle. While Marella isn't, her compliments could be like Sophie's--more complimentary than expected, but ultimately meaningless. I will point out, however, that Sophie's compliments tend to sincere and unthinking. Marella's holds a hint of exasperation or annoyance, perhaps indicating that she's thought about Linh's beauty/perfection and focused on it. That's she's annoyed with herself for doing so because she's hiding something from herself or others.

To sum this up, I can't say for certain. Just because Shannon has improved on other shortcomings in the past doesn't mean she'll do so in this regard, and given character's like Sophie, Marella's comments may truly be innocuous.

But until proven otherwise, there is potential, and it's not grasping at straws; there are some actually solid points to refer to, so I'll be keeping my hopes up :)

[when-all-hope-feels-lost]

10/10 is officially marellinh day

[shimmeringlesbian]

I drew marellinh!!

[skylilac]

actually gonna be real the thing abt marellinh is that besides the fire water symbolism a big reason of why ppl ship it is for the fiesty/sweet dynamic. and i fucking hate that bc whenever ppl talk abt it theyre always like “yeah no bc marellas so outspoken and strong and spunky but linhs just like sweet and calm and demure so i think its a nice match :)” and. and like. yall see it right (its racism)

[fintan-pyren]

what ending do you think shannon will choose for fitz?? not just single or not, but career and development

Pretty sure this ask is a year or so old, but:

My ideal outcome is the HAP being brought back, and Fitz working with humans. He really liked human culture, and we've seen that he's pretty good at blending in and not raising suspicion. He's also pretty good with people, IMO, at least in earlier books.

Sophie would also be a fantastic fit for the HAP, since she's actually lived with humans, so they could work there as a cognate pair.

I don't really have a good guess as to what's actually going to happen. I used to think Fitz was going to die, but I don't think Shannon would do that. She doesn't kill kids.

I know Councillor Fitz is a popular headcanon, but that also seems unlikely (unless the entire squad ends up as the new Council, which...honestly could happen). It just wouldn't be an interesting storyline for him, as a Vacker.

I am, at least, fairly certain that he's going to end up single—there doesn't seem to be any love interest being set up for him. I think Shannon's going for Marellinh, which knocks out the two main guesses I've seen, and he doesn't have enough interactions with Maruca, Stina, etc. for those to make sense. The alternative is putting him with some random new girl.

(A rather improbable option is him + Eleanor—I don't think they can leave her alone in the human world indefinitely, and I don't think they'd erase her memory, so I think her ending up in the elvin world is a possibility. Mentioning this only so I can get bragging rights on the off-chance that this happens.)

[ethervalism]

i love when kotlc tumblr comes back from the dead so i’m gonna be sharing some random opinions of mine

tam is one of the most under appreciated characters by the fandom and it makes me upset

subsequently, platonic sotam is elite and i get SO excited when i see content of them and there just ISNT ENOUGH

like so many others, i will defend fitz vacker with my life. just thought i’d share that

i ship sokeefe and one of my favorite parts of their dynamic is that sophie says everything that keefe never dared to hope to hear from someone, and she understands him so well. and she does it in such a sophie way. like no doubts. like if keefe were to hit her with any insecurity about their relationship she wouldn’t just reassure him, she would be shocked that he’d ever feel insecure in it because she loves him so much. i’m doing a bad job explaining this but sophie’s steadiness and loyalty when she decides to put her mind to something is just perfect for what keefe needs

…and as someone who also has mommy issues, keefe’s soggy cat energy is so personal to me and i’d also need to be with someone as steadily passionate as sophie about the people she cares about

calla is one of my all time favorite characters

fedex.

I HAVE QUIET HOPE THAT MARELLINH IS GOING TO BE CANON IDK WHY BUT I JUST DO

livvy is so cool

[exvelovly]

shannon.

shannon talk to me. keefe has interacted with like 4 human people so far and 2 of them have explicitly mentioned gay partners, excluding the very first girl who had blue hair and an eyebrow piercing.

alvar explicitly states that he loves how humans don’t have matchmaking and points out— while talking about how dating with “no lists. just love” is so much better— that “did you notice? the waitress said she has a wife.” and says he thinks it’s “really cool.” (this is explicitly from the text)

alvar. babe. the closet is glass. shannon would you like to tell us something.

unraveled spoilers

lord cassius being a repressed yaoi art king was not on my 2024 bingo

[spookythensweet]

my unraveled review

rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ because that's how much i enjoyed it idc if it was bad

let me start by saying that we were lied to. the fox buddy barely made an appearance. keefe just fed him a few times and left. the fox didn't even get a weird name.

cassius was annoying as ever. of course he would like cheetos. anyways i only hate him more now. you're telling me he destroyed keefe's art because he was jealous? he was right about churros though.

alvar is alive and well and was kidnapped by keefe then had his vanishing abilities healed and strengthened by him. i'm really concerned about what keefe's ability name will be because i don't think it can be good.

we also learned that unraveled is set in at the very earliest late 2022 based on the anti-hero shirt he bought, (midnights was released on october 21, 2022) possibly even later because of the lack of masks, unless shannon messenger has decided to ignore covid. now explain his awful outfit.

very important: keefe and alvar went to australia and got fooled by the locals about drop bears. that was amazing.

also, we made it guys! there were two confirmed lgbtq+ side characters in unraveled. unfortunately, they both had one scene each and weren't named. it's highly unlikely that they'll ever appear again. hopefully we'll get some gay elves soon (marellinh marellinh marellinh marellinh marellinh marellinh marellinh marellinh marellinh marellinh marellinh)

keefe has way better control over his commands now! he did have to put a pebble in his shoe to distract himself 😬

now onto the sokeefe kiss scene. keefe absolutely thought he was going to be rejected. he can't feel sophie's emotions well anymore, and he interpreted her anxiousness as feeling embarrassed about keefe's crush. it was short. it was silly. i don't really have an opinion about it.

keefe was kind of put in sophie's shoes in this book. he's the one feeling lost in a strange world now. he went to the forbidden cities to learn how to control his abilities and find out what gisela has to do with ethan benedict wright's and eleanor wright's murders. alvar helped him through it. keefe knows more about what he can do with his abilities and has much better control over them. and eleanor's alive. she wouldn't tell him much about gisela though. i think that was the meant to be the end of the murder mystery plot line, which is really disappointing. keefe's done now. he's done with gisela and cassius and the black swan. like he said, he's ready for the final showdown.

a list of the funniest things that happened in unraveled:

-cass lordeman

-drop bears

-alvar's burning love for pancakes

-keefe accidentally boarding a boat and getting very seasick

-"bring on the foster feels"

-keefe in disneyland

-keefe and alvar skincare session

-cassius' cheetos

-ritz crackers

-keefe thinks that sophie doesn't violate the rules of telepathy often

[crescentpaws]

What’s the third kotlc ship you like?

my favs are.

fintante (you never would have guessed!)

linhella (or marellinh as some of the kids call it)

dexiana :]

(also a fan of sophella. & ig the married adults but i never usually count them. idk. grady & edaline you will always be famous)

[eternal-everblaze]

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[jeannefostergoriot]

So y’all voted for Marellinh. I present to you:

Force of Nature by Melina KB x Marellinh, from Linh’s pov.

« Fiery red curls, hell upon earth »: ahem. The red curls… Maybe Marella was originally blond, but we all perceive her redhead, don’t we? And hell upon earth is how her Pyrokinesy leads her to heat the world up.

« Karma scheming »: love the idea that these two finding each other and learning to equilibrate their powers would be karma finally rewarding their patience towards the hardships, their efforts in the war, their determination to stay positive.

« Tarot reading, type of it-girl »: don’t ask why, but I feel like Marella would do tarot reading. She started not really believing it, but now she kinda does, it’s half for fun, half serious. And anyway, doing it would relieve stress. Also. Yes. She’s an it-girl and iconic. That’s how the arts are.

« Feminine gaze, evergreen lace, her heels cut through pavement like it's papier-mâché »: that’s about Marella’s confidence and stamina everywhere. Also, she knows how to style herself (the ✨braids✨), and how to dress up everyday, but she doesn’t do it for the boys, rather to make the girls admirative, maybe a bit jealous. (Me, having a crush on Marella? Maybe)

« She takes a seat next to me, guess my grades are history »: that’s about the lessons. About how learning together can in the same time make each other progress so much for the Ability and distract from anything else. So the historic grades would have a double-meaning, at the same time low cause distracted by the crush, and very high for the Ability-class, cause equilibrium.

« Studying the way she signs, her name in calligraphy »: Linh’s the type of girl who would notice and study every. single. detail. about her crush. And Marella may starts as a cliche « not like the other girls », she’s very attentive and the calligraphy for writing and signing, is like the tarot earlier. It helps relax when things get complex at home.

« Perfume smells like apple spice, bergamot, jealousy »: well. Know I’ll be unable to look at a Marella art without smelling the apple spice and bergamot. Apart from that, the girl wears natural fruit perfume, if she has one. She doesn’t like complicated scents, that’d be overstimulating. And jealousy cause watch her knowing all the gossip. Watch her blend in. Watch her queening. She canonically knows gossip, the rest comes with it.

« Hate, the boys she dates, make my stomach ache »: * look at lava cake * yup. Linh would get jealous. And take extremely long to sort out which she loves. And then absolutely hate him. I’m not sure of the canon interactions with Fitz, but I’m not sure she likes him.

« She's a force of nature no one can tame »: here’s for the fact that Marella doesn’t have that many real friends. And for her fire.

« Shake the magic eight, I’m not afraid »: that’s for the moment when Linh will finally gather the courage to tell her. That moment she will put all her energy on one shot, and she will convince herself nothing can go wrong. Cause she is the type to freak out all the process and once she decides, she just goes « ok. Let’s go. » (that’s how I perceive Linh at least)

« of a force of nature, her dangerous ways, I’d fall into her embrace »: one, Linh knows that fire can be dangerous but she puts the out-of-control out with her water. Second, I perceive Linh as the type to hug tightly. Like really tightly, and without hesitation.

« She say “Girl’s night at mine, come around nine I can steal us bottles of the fanciest wines” ». There are multiple things here. I don’t really picture Marella hosting sleepovers cause Caprise. But the second she has her own house, she’d do it, now that she actually has friends. For the wine part: maybe Durand threw it all after the accident, but Caprise’s fall is attributed to Fizzleberry Wine, so, Marella could technically have access to some. And anyway, she has her flavored air, which she sips 24/7, and that kinda looks like a sort of party drink.

« While they all snooze, we play dare without truth, wrapped up in her sleeping bag like that’s what friends do »: both of them. They would confess trough a dare. And they would entirely deny. Yeah. I see them going in the same bed/sleeping bad, and still be like « nah we’re just friends » till one of the group snaps and tell them. They love dares, too. But not talking. Truths aren’t their thing.

« Siren eyes, tempting mine »: love the idea of Marella having the siren eyes, cause sirens are associated with the sea, so to Linh. Also, if there’s one suggestive look, Linh can not hold herself. After the confession, rather.

« Run acrylics up my thigh, is there romance in the cards? » this I don’t really know how to interpret it. If you have ideas, tell me in the reblogs!

« Fortune teller, tell me why, I can’t stand to be apart from her for a single night? ». Does Linh as anxious attachment? Yes. Especially following Tam’s leaving in Flashback and ignoring when she was trying to contact him through the air-water (it’s mentioned in Legacy that she can do that)(don’t know why I registered the info). And as Marella does tarot, said we, Linh’d be like. « Explain. I don’t have the words »

« Hands in the backseat, my fogged-up jeep, past curfew, sneakin’ out to »: that’s very much Linh. Guys. She’s adorable and sweet, and rather gentle. But she’s rebellious too. And if ever Marella send a message at 3AM, Linh’s going to be at Fluttermont in the minute. Thanks light-leaping. That would worry absolutely everyone she lives with (considering she doesn’t live with her parents but with Tiergan). But she’d do it.

« Leave my fear at home, cause every bone in my body hopes that you want me »: pretty self-explanatory. But yeah. I feel like Linh can « turn off » the fear and stress of a crush, of not knowing, and just let hope in her heart.

« It’s not in my nature to walk away ». It is not. Linh has been forced to move away, to walk away. And now that she is back in the Lost Cities, she knows what she wants, and she won’t renounce unless she absolutely has to. Valid for everything. Crush, grades, friends, missions. Everything.

« I can replace the boys she dates »: that’s insomnia middle of the night reflection on the crush from Linh. Before the confession of course. I perfectly picture our Hydrokinesist laying in bed, staring at the ceiling, doing scenarios, imagining how she could make Marella fall for her.

« Swear I’m not afraid, of a force of nature »: Linh used to be afraid of anything of strength, mainly of her own ability. That’s what triggered Tam’s protectiveness. But now… She isn’t afraid anymore. She became curious, now that she has security.

« Until she breathes »: yeah. That girl here? She’s impressive.

« “Hey, I’ve toyed with faith” »: sorry, this is such a Marella’s sentence. Cause she always does that. Coming where interesting things happen. Sharing rumors and gossip. Asking for her Ability to be unlocked.

« “I’ve strung up hearts” ». Isn’t that canon? That Marella is in the « breaking hearts on a regular basis » club? Iirc, she said at one point she rejected a few boys before…

« Cut loose the stars, so you’ll believe »: that’s the « Rewrite the stars » vibe. They have it as a lesbian couple. In the Lost Cities. Where there’s the matchmaking system. Which is thought, at least partially, to give birth more powerful elves. So gay couples? Yeah I feel like that’s bad match guaranteed. And that’s Marella re-assuring Linh, after confession, and Linh is worried, but Firegirl tells her that’ll be ok, she can believe.

« You’re the force that’s driving me! »: both. They find energy and fulfillment in each other’s company, they find joy together, which is something they rarely had