#koschei x marya

[timeladyjamie]

Me: Do not fall in love with the villain! Do not fall in love with the villain!

The passage: “Finally, Koschei placed a teaspoon full of sour cherry jam on Marya’s tongue and instructed her to sip her tea through the lump of fruit. When she had swallowed, he kissed her, their mouths warm and sweet with tea and cherries, and Marya Morevna fell asleep in his arms, with his lips still pressed to hers.”

Source: Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

[lufifer-morningstar]

imagine darklina, but theyre written like marya morevna and koschei from deathless💀

[livlepretre]

is there any book couple that gives you klena vibes?

honestly if I've mentioned a book by title in fe it's probably because there is some connection going on

but the most klena book couple I can think of that REALLY screams it to me is Marya Morevna x Koschei the Deathless from Deathless

like. it should be required reading for the fandom.

[scriptores]

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄 : madame lebedeva, deathless & slavic folklore

name. madame lebedeva (full name is hers to give at her discretion) diminutives. lebed (intimate friends) super secret diminutives. inna, inulya, innushka pronouns. she/her titles. head magician of buyan, advisor & possestrima of the tsar of life age. immortal origin. slavic folklore etymology. chyerti (vila), magician sexuality. pansexual alignment. chaotic neutral / good, the army of life, the army of death

relations. koschei (vilenik), marya morevna (her vilenik at heart)

height. 5'2" build. petite and sylphic hair. light brown (white in vila form) eyes. brown (silver or black in vila form) scars. none (too many missing feathers in vila form) scents. honeysuckle and cherry blossoms

abilities / skillset .

vila/swan physiology . prefers to glamor & present herself as a colorful magician, but in her true vila form, lebed appears as a nymph clad in all white with swan wings, or becomes a full fledged swan. in either iteration of her vila form, a feather from her wing can grant health and strength but it comes with restrictions (see further below)

sorcery / alchemy .  after becoming a posestrima (vila blood sister) to koschei, she took an interest in the arcane and now has extensive knowledge and capabilities for casting curses and spells; she uses colors to draw mana; often fuses her potions and enchantments into her creams, perfumes and cosmetics.

revival / healing magic . as a vila, originally tied to lakes and springs, she has a natural proclivity for magic related to water and healing. before buyan's ocean desiccated, she had the ability to use dead water and live water for resuscitation rituals so long as soldiers were found not too long after death. now she can only rely on her arcane abilities and/or her limited swan feathers to attempt resuscitation, which works only on lucky occasions.

horseback riding / archery . she has a deep love for horseback riding and her white mare named biserka. also is an excellent archer who inherited a mystical bow from a legendary vila named ravijojla.

other vila abilities/skillsets . hypnotic dancing, luck manipulation (good luck to a vilenik; bad luck to someone who intrudes on a dance circle); precognition (random & not controllable), animal communication (mountain dogs, deer & horses favored), enhanced speed, durability & strength.

restrictions .

vilenik blood oath . after a favored one presents their offering to a vila and completes trials to prove themselves worthy, a vila can make them her chosen vilenik. in doing so, they undergo a blood oath which binds them together indefinitely. this represents a sacred promise to aid and protect a vilenik in their times of need, and also prevents a vila from directly harming her vilenik and vice versa. this is (unfortunately) her case with koschei.

vila weaknesses . her life force is tied to her hair, particularly in her vila form. cutting it is fine, but to take a strand of her hair from the root would severely deplete her physical strength. to take a second depletes her magic. and to take a third would kill her; her swan feathers are limited and grow back very slowly if at all once used; the use of her feathers for magic depletes her strength significantly and cannot be used more than three times in a given day without killing her

counterspells: all her spells have counter spells, and while she is a powerful magician in her own right, there are a few others who are more experienced than she is despite her position as the head magician. however, her hypnotic enchantments, expertise in alchemy, and health poultices are unrivaled.

theme. nymphology , melanie martinez

additional info / important notes directory

re. vila lore (x)

[avilionea]

TAG UPDATE

VASILIA

ᵃ ˡᵒᶰᵉˡʸ ᶜʰᶤˡᵈ║ FACECLAIM

ᶠᵒᵃᵐ ᵇᵉᶰᵉᵃᵗʰ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵃᵛᵉˢ║ HEADCANON

ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ᶤˢ ᵃᶰ ᵒᶜᵉᵃᶰ ᵐʸ ᶜʰᶤˡᵈʳᵉᶰ║ AESTHETIC

ᶠᵒʳᵍᵉᵗ ᵐᵉ ᶰᵒᵗ║ OTP: (Vasilisa x Ivan)

VASILISA re:║ KOSCHEI

VASILISA re:║ VIY

VASILISA re:║ IVAN

VASILISA re:║ BABA YAGA

IVAN

ᵃ ʰᵉʳᵒ ᵒᶰᶜᵉ║ FACECLAIM

ᵗʰʳᵉᵉ ᵗʳᶤᵃˡˢ ʸᵒᵘ ˢʰᵃˡˡ ᵇᵉᵃʳ║ HEADCANON

ᵃ ᶠᶤʳᵉᵇᶤʳᵈˢ ᶠᵉᵃᵗʰᵉʳ║ AESTHETIC

ʸᵒᵘ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ʰᵉʳ ᶰᵒʷ║ OTP: (Ivan x Yelena)

ʸᵒᵘ ʷᶤˡˡ ᵃˡʷᵃʸˢ ᶠᵃˡˡ ᶤᶰ ˡᵒᵛᵉ║ OTP: (Ivan x Marya)

IVAN re:║ KOSCHEI

IVAN re:║ VIY

IVAN re:║ VASILISA

IVAN re:║ YELENA

IVAN re:║ MARY

[yazthebookish]

“Be selfish and cruel and think nothing of them. I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I. I will have you in my hoard, Marya Morevna, my black mirror.”

— Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

[hiloedits]

— deathless headers

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[praetorsreyna]

“Oh I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.”

[hauntedheroines]

Dark Ships from 2019!

A little late, but here is the ships I’ve found last year:

Deathless (Koschei x Marya)

Split (Casey x Kevin)

Dracula 1979 (Dracula x Mina)

BBC Robin Hood (Guy x Marian)

La Femme Nikita (Bob x Nikita)

Teeth (Brad x Dawn)

Daredevil franchise (Elektra x Mattew)

Daredevil franchise (Frank x Karen)

The Witcher (Cahir x Ciri)

As you can see, not spending time on tumblr actually allowed me more time to watch and read more stories, so PARTY HARD!

[petrichorblue94]

“I don’t mean it. Stay with me forever, forever, until you die, and then, still, I will keep your bones and clutch them to my breast […] I can never be Potter. I can never roll with you in the sun like a mindless golden pup. I am too old for it, for warmth and simplicity. I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me. […] When I say forever,” Tom whispered, “I mean until the black death of the world. Potter means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn’t bright; it isn’t like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.”

Deathless by Cathrynne Valente is basically Ginny and Tom being born Russian and getting married during the Communism.

[bookwormsstudios-blog]

MultiBook Couples: Strange Birds

Featuring: Mark/Kieran, Agnieska/Sartan, Aedion/Lysandra, Koschei/Marya, Celaena/Sam, Reira/Shin, Genji/Murasaki,  Doumyouji/Makino  & The Darkling/Alina

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[timeladyjamie]

The book implies that Koschei and Marya were reunited in the end and no one can convince me otherwise!

[hereticmorozova]

yalit meme [4/10] books or series: deathless by catherynne m. valente

perhaps all a tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and  n o t  y i e l d i n g

[lady-thelyss]

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

Koschei Bessmertny x Marya Morevna

I will have you

            in my hoard Marya Morevna,

                                     m y   b l a c k   m i r r o r.

[stheresya]

The sheer irony of Koschei asking Marya right before their wedding to become selfish like him and to never ever leave him. And then in time she does become selfish... selfish enough to leave him

[ultraheroin]

“If I go with him,” she said, her voice low and shaking with the thing she did not want to say but had to, “will you put me in the factory with the Yelenas?” But what she truly asked him was forgiveness, some forgiveness for her greatest failure, that she had done nothing for the Yelenas, that the war had distracted her and she had failed, had been faithless, had abandoned them because her friends were dead and her goodness broken. 

Koschei dropped the branch quietly and put his hands over his face. For a moment, Marya thought he wept. But then he snarled and bellowed and leapt on her with such a ferocity she thought he might bite her in half. He tore at his own clothes and pushed her legs apart until her hips groaned, entering her with no gentleness, but as a king enters an enemy hall. He climbed her body and clawed at it, and Marya shook violently, in pleasure, in pain, in fear of him, in adoration. 

“Yes,” he growled, “yes, I will put you there and turn out the light in your eyes and come to stare at you for centuries, to pore over you, because you are mine, my treasure, my hoard, and I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.”