#grisha amplifiers

[stromuprisahat]

Siege and Storm- Chapter 23 (Leigh Bardugo)

THE AMPLIFIER CLAIMING ITS GRISHA!!!

The Grisha claims the amplifier, but the amplifier claims the Grisha, as well. Once it is done, there can be no other. Like calls to like, and the bond is made.

Shadow and Bone- Chapter 12

*mumbles* The wasted opportunities...

[artbymagsn]

“Like calls to like”

Mal and the Stag for Plein Airpril Grishaverse Edition

[savethegrishaverse]

For our next twitter party, we want to talk all about amplifiers, from how they were discovered to what they represent! Let's do this using our tag #AmplifiedGrisha! Come prepared with your best tweets, questions, comments, gifs, memes, and more. Let's make some noise! 🗣️

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[malinaa]

i think what ppl focus on w alina and her powers is that she is enraptured by it. she covets it. she's greedy for it and that they cannot see her without her powers bc they can't see her without her greed... but the entire trilogy is about choosing peace over power. yes she had to be sankta alina, yes she had to fight a war but bc of the war, her powers became so corrupted that it failed her in the end. she saw the consequences of it and CHOSE peace. she chose love. she chose, like that little girl afraid of being alone, mal

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

Hold on, I remember Alina suppressing her own power so that she wouldn't be separated from Mal but I have nothing in my memory about how Mal didn't get found out as a living amplifier. It is such a big deal that the Darkling is one but was it ever explained why Mal avoided detection? Did his amplifying only work on Alina?

Yeah it’s never explained 💀It’s implied that Alina has felt a a “jolt” several times when she’s touched him but also it’s apparently not something she recognizes as an amplifier.

These both happen in S&S, during the chapel scene:

And then more obviously telegraphed foreshadowing a bit earlier:

You could argue that Alina’s idk new at being Grisha and can’t tell but Zoya literally slept with him (iirc? she def made out with him at least, there was skin contact!) so there’s no reason she shouldn’t know???

I guess the book tries to suggest that his amplifier power only seems apparent when he… closes his hand around her wrist?

But it makes no sense when the Darkling has an entire separate tragic backstory— written… while LB was working on R&R, so literally concurrent with the Mal amplifier reveal— about how he had to avoid touching any Grisha in his youth at all because they would immediately realize what he was and kill him for power.

Like this bit in Demon in the Wood makes it super clear that he’s not holding her wrist lol

And this seems to imply any touch is dangerous?

Which, I mean is also in keeping with the trilogy proper where any time the Darkling touches anyone at all it seems to have a noticeable effect. You could maybe argue that the trilogy cases are him using his power on purpose, because it seems to be something he can control at all. But also that still doesn’t jive with shdhff the main moment Demon in the Wood hinges on!

Honestly I’d respect it as a discrepancy more if it was lampshaded as Morozova’s amplifiers being special or it having to do anything with Ilya Morozova specifically trying to hide that quality in his daughter that he resurrected and Mal… inherited that? I also just think it would be funny if it was addressed and the Darkling was taxidermy fox.jpeg about it because it would probably piss him off soooo bad that Mal just never had to worry about any of the issues of being a living amplifier.

But afaik it’s just never discussed lol

[kor-ee-an-door]

I have so many questions about Morozova's amplifiers but none more than the Sea Whip. How did that work? Yeah, he caught a stag and he used his daughter's corpse but Rusalye is just a mystery. Did he go on a little adventure, capture it, made an amplifier and then return home? His abode did not look so lavish so I don't know how he would pull the funds for that. Did he capture a little sea whip, did his experiments and then released him into the wild? How ild was this guy? What else did he plan to do?

[steampunk-raven]

do you think kaz has tan lines from his gloves

[crowshoots]

at what point in our friendship can i start mentioning my grishaverse OCs in our threads 🥹

[scentedmiracleobject]

It’s a crime that  no one noticed the amplifier in Ivan’s hand

[stromuprisahat]

Demon in the Wood comics added an extra storyline about another amplifier in the area- a bear- and Aleksander's Eryk and Annika's sidequest to hunt it.

(Surprisingly, it only adds another layer of tragedy.)

... that leads them into the otkazat'sya village on the other side of the mountain...

Otkazat'sya located and killed an amplifier.

(How? How do they recognize it?)

The don't hunt it, because they're afraid it's dangerous.

They don't hunt it, because they're hungry.

They kill the bear, because it is valuable to Grisha.

They recognize the connection between Grisha and amplifiers, so they destroy what they can.

They call it the DEMON bear... just like they call Grisha witches.

[calboniferous]

in physical agony lads im 2k into another fic plan with six journal articles on historical wound care open in my browser

[archierenauxe]

the way people who haven’t even read the grisha trilogy go on twitter and say the most incorrect stuff about the characters is so wild to me

[pizzabookbuying]

me at any given opportunity just making the plot about family dynamics and maternal love

[dhampiravidi]

I feel like I’m alone in this opinion BUT (spoilers for Shadow & Bone/the Grisha Trilogy:

Is it just me or did Alina not actually become equal in power to the Darkling until she got all 3 amplifiers? I understand that she only trained for a couple months to a year as opposed to his 400+ years but IDK that’s what it seemed like to me. Does anyone think Aleksander could’ve even made use of an amplifier on his own? I mean (lol) imagine if he’d killed Mal…what a surprise that would’ve been 😈. The new poster for the show’s S2 made me think about this…also, maybe I missed it, but does anyone know if Aleksander can Summon to become invisible? I just really like the idea of that.

[glitter50000]

SaB season 2 spoilers (in the tags as well)

Kirigan’s grisha army watching him kill a whole camp with one sweep of the Cut in ep.6

(Vatra, the inferni, straight up saying “it’s like the earth ate them up” after that like damn girl)