#an impossible marriage

[anigst]

Murikon - ch 02

[spirit-of-anime]

Murikon (An impossible Marriage)

[forzathunder]

"I have many fears, most of them about Lucrezia." — Cesare Borgia (The Borgias, 2011-2013) + hints of insecurity

that she adores someone that much / if she will reject his dark nature and act of love and violence as Ursula did / if he truly is not part of her desires / that she easily forgets him

[edwinisms]

you ever think about how edwin got like. no warning, no time time to process, nothing, when he reappeared on earth faced with the fact that virtually everyone he knew in life is dead. his parents? probably died in the 1950s or so (at best) almost forty years prior to edwin’s return. if any of his classmates were still around, they’d have been elderly, possibly senile, and in a few years they’d all be gone– except, of course, edwin. nothing looks the same, cars look like spaceships, there actually are spaceships, he can no longer see the stars, and everyone he knew is dead.

[v1model]

'til death do us part, please keep breaking my heart / 'til it ceases to beat, please be mine

[astarlightmonbebe]

dohan is really out here living in a high stakes thriller while jihan and ajeong try out an enemies to lover romcom

[nadiajustbe]

There's something incredibly strange and funny about the FIRE DEMON from Ingary who somehow managed to work at some random Welsh school for at least a couple of weeks, maybe even longer and not get caught.

Like, did WoTW just lecture ms. Angorian about stuff like printers, photocopies or, well, the whole English Literature program she was supposed to teach for a good amount of time? Or was it just a kind of scripted info for the new form the demon was taking?

And — most importantly — how did WoTW (who, again, lives in Ingary with little to no connection to our world at all) get all this info about Welsh education in a matter of days?

Wikipedia page informs me that she kidnapped Suliman to ask him about it and she did, in fact, asked Sophie about Wales as well. But I cannot believe any of this guys can tell her enough to make a whole fire demon an English teacher, unless Ben was one himself and did willingly tell her the school curriculum — wich is no less hilarious of a concept.

And If she didn't, how couldn't anyone, kids or other schools staff, notice she has no clue about any English literature besides John Dohn and one (1) poem.

I have so many questions.

[korkiekenobiconfirmed]

cregan who was called the Young Wolf, who would be remembered by the histories as "formidable" and "terrifying". cregan who cowed lords twice his age and led an army of dead men 1,500 miles to take on westeros' mightiest keeps. cregan who wrested his rightful lordship from traitorous family at sixteen years old and was willing to execute dozens of men by his hand alone.

cregan who married his childhood sweetheart for love </3

[seilon]

please don’t by k.will did more for the gays back in 2012 than any boy group can possibly do with fan service and crop tops in 2024

[heretherebedork]

I love Do Han, okay? He is trying to balance his love for his brother with the truth he can't share with him and the lie he's living and the family he's trying to not be responsible for and the life he wants to lead that means he always has to leave Ji Han behind, every single time.

Do Han living a free and happy life means that he cannot be the brother he wishes he could to Ji Han and that's so painful to him.

It's how he knows his brother and worries and how much he wants to be who he cannot be if he ever wants to own his own truth... this is a man who is marrying his best friend in a marriage contract so he doesn't have to come out as gay because he knows that coming out as gay will destroy his family and his life but who also cannot face the life he will have if he stays in the closet with someone who doesn't know, who cannot bring himself to lie to a woman to marry her but must forever lie to his brother for fear of what might be.

How does he face this? How does he face his own fear of being fully seen by the people in his life because he is certain that there is no way for him to be accepted as himself versus his love for them? Do Han was free for five years in New York and now he's returned to living a lie that he wants nothing to do with but is absolutely trapped in if he ever wants freedom again.

(Can he truly have freedom again, someday, or will he never again escape and how badly is he willing to hurt the family he loves for his own need and desire? How long can he stay in the closet for their sake when all he yearns for is the life he lead away from them while also wishing he could be there with them at the same time?)

And the hardest part is that Ji Han doesn't even know why Do Han says that, not really.

[ladyluscinia]

Shout out to whoever said one of Shiv's visceral, emotional reasons was that Tom would never be able to take the moral high ground in their relationship again. Because exactly!

Shiv still might be fucked in the business sense because Tom is a puppet and Matsson doesn't respect her, but in terms of her marriage... She still wants him even after the worst things have been said, and the "worst thing" he was most upset by was that she repeatedly left him out to dry in pursuit of her own power. Well, now it doesn't matter how valid his complaints were! He can never make that particular point again without the most loaded silence of his life! And on top of that, he's added another betrayal of her. That new imbalance more than anything is what will derail the divorce, and make it so she's NOT meekly coming home and begging him to let her stay as his housewife or whatever.

Business power is still up in the air, but she's taken a huge amount of private power back. It was an emotional move driven more by hurt than logic, but she's still done it!

And I do appreciate the TomGreg parallel here, too, because Greg has always been Tom's solution to feeling like Shiv was above him. His own personal Roy to lord over. Their friction was coming from Greg growing an ego around the Roy name and trying to leverage himself out from under Tom's thumb. Well, now he's fucked it! It's not Royco anymore! Greg doesn't have Matsson's backing, his name is worthless, and he overplayed himself into a certain death situation. And then here's Tom, letting him stay despite the betrayal but only because Tom bought him.

Tom got the crown, Shiv got the marital upper hand to help her deal with that, and Tom got Greg to help him deal with that.

They are so fucking dysfunctional but maybe TomShiv can make this work 😘

[all-pacas]

thinking about it, the fatal flaw of cameron/chase was that they looked at one another and instead of going "i can fix them," they went "they can fix me"

[spirit-of-anime]

Murikon (An impossible Marriage)

[the-crow-binary]

Felt like designing Benedict and Juste's parents (the dad being Simon's son), Alexandre and Céleste... I am still thinking about their personnalities.

I was going to give Alexandre a scar. Then I had the idea of Céleste having scars instead after a monster attack. And then I also got the idea of Alexandre, feeling guilty and ashamed for failing to protect her... giving himself a scar with a knife to atone, and support her, ready to give himself four as well, but she stopped him after just one. And then they hugged, probably. ❤️ Hope you like this little idea of mine, hehe

[vigilskeep]

apostate cousland for all the other reasons but also because i’ve always really liked witch-king as a title

[spiribia]

Seraph is also the more likely to get jealous which is funny because she’s also like Princess you should marry a prince you are duty bound to be with someone else this is the manner of things and how it should be. (quiet mournful wolf howl when Luna isn’t looking) and Luna is like what was that and seraphs like What was what.