#princessess are people too

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[via-rant]

My favorite quotes/speeches from cartoons and movies:

TRUE COLORS AND OWL HOUSE SEASON 2 SPOILERS!!!!

Catra: *high pitched laughing* So here's the thing. I've done this. The whole threatening people bit? The intimidation? I've been there. And I just. Don't. Care anymore. Some people have a bad day. I've had a bad. Life. If I want something, it's taken from me. If I win the fight, I lose the war. Threats only work on people who have something to lose. But me? I've already lost it all!

- "She-ra and the Princesses Of Power"

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Entrapta: I'm not good at people. But I am good at tech. I thought that maybe, if I used tech to help people, then you'd like me.

- "She-ra and the Princessess Of Power"

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Lake: I'm not a null!! I'm not a sliver!! I'm not any of the names you wanna give me!! I. Am. A. Person!!

- "Infinity Train"

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Marcy: Andrias, this wasn't the plan. You said no one would get hurt!

Andri-ass: I would've said anything if it meant you'd deliver me the box fully charged. Sorry to break it to you kiddo, but you've been duped.

Marcy: But..... But.....

Anne: MarMar, what's he talking about?

Sasha: yeah, what "plan"?

Marcy: He promised he'd take us with him! To the new worlds, that... That we could have amazing adventures just like this one. Forever and ever!

Anne: But.... Why?

Andri-ass: Why indeed? Enough lies MarMar. If you won't tell them the truth, I will.

Marcy: You wouldn't!

Anne: Marcy, what's going on?

Andri-ass: Did it ever occur to you - Anne, Sasha - that one of you knew more than she was letting on? That one of you got you stranded here on Amphibia? On purpose?

Sasha: You have got to be kidding me.

Anne: No. It can't be.

Andri-ass: Oops! Looks like I spilled the tea, as you kids say.

Marcy: I did it for us.

Marcy: The day we left, your birthday, they told me my dad got a new job out of state! They were making me move away, they were gonna tear us apart!

Anne: Marcy-

Marcy: I..... I-I found the box, I had no idea that it would actually work, but i-i-it did!! And.... And it sent us to a place where we would never have to grow apart, where the three of us can be friends forever, together!!

Anne: How could you? I've been missing my parents, my life!

Marcy: But look at how much fun we've had! Look at how much you've both grown, look at Sprig, I gave you this, I gave you everything!!!

Marcy: I just...... Didn't wanna be alone.

- "Amphibia" (I know this is the whole scene and yes I fucking memorized it but fucking hell the facial expressions, with the voice acting, and the animation man!!!)

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Amity: Human! Do you see me going to the owl shack and bother you while you..... Fry up owls?!

Amity: Well, I'm not sure what you do there!

- "The Owl House"

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Catra: It'S a NoRmAl SnEeZe!!

- "She-ra and the Princesses Of Power"

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And now.... Amity Blights gay moments -

Amity: Luz! You're here! Well obviously you're here. This is school and you go here now. With uh... Me. I've been talking for too long.

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Luz: Amity, we need your help.

Amity: Yes, I can help! With.... What exactly?

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Luz: What about you, Amity?

Amity: Me? On a..... team with.... You? Running around in.... cute uniforms? SwEaTiNg?! *Becomes a tamatoe* i GoTtA gO!!! *Runs off*

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Amity: She always gets in over her head. She can be so stupid! Which I love. I-I mean hate!! In any case, she needs you right now! Which is sweet. I mean I hate it!! And it's dumb!!

Gus: You lost me.

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Luz: Are you sure? I can help carry you if it really hurts.

Amity: Wha-HAHAHA..... I-I-I'm fine! Wh-wh-who's Amity?!

Luz: Aaaaand scoop. *picks up Amity*

Amity: Oh........ Wow...... Sports.

(Those were all in the same episode. Amity has four gay panics in one episode.)

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Luz: Woo! Teamwork baby! *hugs Amity*

Amity: *blushes*

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Luz: Azura book club? Azura book club?!

Amity: *blushes* As long as it's a secret club. Okay?

Edric: It's not a secret!!

Emira: We're gonna tell everyone!!

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Amity: So you two go to the same school now. That doesn't change anything! *deep breath*

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Amity: Watch it! Nitwit!

Amity: Oh. Hi Luz and co. Sorry about that.

Luz: Here. You're note. Man, we got some quick grabbers.

Amity: It's just. It's.... Private.

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Luz: Repeat after me. We can fix this together. Come ooooon.

Amity: We can fix this together.

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Amity: You look.... Nice. Strange. But nice.

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Luz: So.... Who did you wanna ask out?

Amity: Oh, it..... It's not important.

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Amity: *Notices she's holding Luz's hand and blushes*

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Amity: Stay away from MY LUZ!!!!

- "The Owl House"

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Luz: Talk to the glyph, witch!!

- "The Owl House"

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Marcy: I..... I-I'm sorry. For everything.

Anne: MARCY!!

- "Amphibia"

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Grace: I'm not responsible for your problems!

- "Infinity Train"

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Sprig: Have you killed a man Hop Pop?

- "Amphibia"

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Eda: You think throwing your life away is going to help me? Well, it won't. You helped get Kings crown when you barely knew me. You stopped me from turning to stone and you even got me talking to my sister again. So! Unfortunately for you, my life is pretty great because I'm friends with Luz the human!

- "The Owl house"

[teatitty]

I decided to sit down and read a bunch of folktales about Donn to try and gather as much info on his personality as I can and I’ve discovered some very interesting things!

So here’s some Facts About Donn according to the myriad of folktales I’ve read about him

1: He lives on the hill Knockfierna (Cnoc Fírinne) or “Truthful Hill.” His cave and cairn are at the very summit and the hill can be seen by everyone in County Limerick and parts of Kerry, Cork, Tipperary and Clare. In the past this hill was known as “mountain of Donn of Truth” and “The Black Hill.” 

2: Donn was the King of the Munster Fairies and from his hill, he has a great view of Knockaine, where Aine ruled as the Fairy Queen. These two never had any disagreements and the locals believe that this is because Donn knew that any altercation with her would be bad for himself 

3: The hill was a favourite rendezvous point for Fionn and his fianna!

4: For all that he can be cruel and malicious, Donn is also known for being kind to his people and to the dead. “For the Lord of Death is courteous, and not just in giving the gifts of life. Sometimes, and not rarely, when he calls those who have lived too long or suffered too much, he is more than courteous. He is kind.”

5: Donn was once known locally as “Donn Ainech,” or “the dark face.” His palace, Brugh na Bruidhne, was beneath Knockfierna and the entrance, Poll na Bruinne, was a deep hole in the hillside. Dire consequences met anyone who tried to investigate this entrance to the Otherworld

6: In the story “Legend of Knockfierna” Carroll O’Daly tried to “knock of the fairies’ door” by throwing a stone through the entrance and had his nose broken when the stone was thrown back at him (lmao)

7: Untimely deaths were often attributed to Donn and to see him could portend a death or a momentous happening. He was also responsible for stealing children, leaving a changeling in their place 

8: He was “as quick to reward as to punish.” When a farmer was allowed into the palace to see his sister and brother (who had died years prior) both of them were restored to him as a reward for his good service to Donn “in preventing the dirty water from his yard over-running Donn’s palace grounds.”

9: Limerick locals believed that, when they died, they would enter Donn’s palace and there are several reports of people claiming to have met Donn on the evening before they died. Folklore also states that, at the end of their lives, they would be taken to visit the palace. This journey was called “the path of truth.”

10: “Glownanérha”, or “the glen of broth,” was beneath the summit of the hill and was known to be plentiful because Donn ensured that his people never hungered in the Otherworld

11: Traditionally, Donn Fírinne appears to mortals seated on a white horse and when the weather turned stormy at night locals would say "Donn is galloping in the clouds tonight”

12: His excursions were not confined to Knockfierna! In County Clare he resided on “Cnoc an tSodair”, “Hill of the Trotting.” On the west coast he is often seen riding a white horse on the sands of Dunbeg. Here he is known as “Donn of the Dune.” His most famous dwelling is Tech Duinn, the House of Donn, also known as “Bull Rock.”

13: In Dunbeg, Donn was known for his generosity, giving gifts to seaweed gatherers and silver coins to a widow. However, refusing his gifts was punished with death 

14: As Fairy King, he was described as very beautiful, “like the blossoms of flowers.” In Knockfierna, it’s customary to visit the hill once a year to place a stone on the cairn at the summit to honour Donn

15: During Beltaine and Samhain, offerings to Donn include eggs hidden in hay, corn and parts of dead animals, particularly a cock/rooster, ritually slaughtered

16: In Kerry and Cork, folklore states that the dead would travel across the sea to Bull Rock, following a path illuminated by the setting sun, where they would find Donn’s House

17: “In his dealings with the great ones, with warriors like Fionn mac Cumhaill and Kings and Princessess, Donn was often generous. But he was not just generous to the rich and mighty. He has been seen in a black silk hat, giving alms to a widow, and he saved the cattle of a local herdsman from theft. His horses can be heard at the Hill of Trotting, near the shore of the dunes, and his lights are seen near the same dunes, where those he has brought home with him feast with him, listening to music made in his dark tower.”

[aylinnworld]

1/2 I almost lost my mind when I saw Chang Ge on your list, I love Chang Ge Xing and i'm heartbroken that the author had to stop writing for the time being, I hope we will get a proper ending one day. And tbh the kind of growth I was expecting from Yona was something similar to Chang Ge's character. As far as badass princessess go Chang Ge is on a league of her own. I love

Hi anon,

Yes, Change Ge is a really good character and I too would like that Yona received better character development. It is unfortunate to her especially that her father gave her such a shitty education and basically kept her in the palace like in a golden cage, but it is not like she could never learn strategy, politics, economy, etc. It is just something that would take time. Actually, I would like it better and it would make more sense to me, since I think she only needs to be strong enough and good enough with sword to be able to protect herself from weaker opponents and to be able to stay alive till Hak or the dragons arrive to help her. It would be cool to see her learn politics, strategy and outsmart her rivals, but well, it is not this kind of story. The story of Chang Ge has a better probability to go in such direction, so I hope it will be finished. 

As far as I understand from some articles about the brain like the one below, it is a flexible and plastic organ, so experience and training matter.

The brain is waxing and waning much more than we ever realised. So if you haven’t had particular experiences – if as a girl you weren’t given Lego, you don’t have the same spatial training that other people in the world have.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/24/meet-the-neuroscientist-shattering-the-myth-of-the-gendered-brain-gina-rippon

[ao3feed-soriku]

Vanitas redemption arc ft. Roxas, Memory loss Ventus, and the Steven Universe Movie

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZXAfDy

by minwuwhite

One month after Soras Funeral Ventus visits Roxas and friends in Twilight Town. As Roxas learns to cope with the loss of Sora, and Ventus learns to grieve, another part member of Soras heart hotel catches the broadcast of Soras funeral, and Vanitas wont forgive the people who let the guy who genuinely tried to make a connection with him go.

Words: , Chapters: 1/37, Language: English

Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Sora (Kingdom Hearts), Roxas (Kingdom Hearts), Ventus (Kingdom Hearts), Xion (Kingdom Hearts), Lea (Kingdom Hearts), Isa (Kingdom Hearts), Terra (Kingdom Hearts), Ienzo (Kingdom Hearts), Aqua (Kingdom Hearts), Riku (Kingdom Hearts), Kairi (Kingdom Hearts), Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts), Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts), Naminé (Kingdom Hearts)

Relationships: Riku/Sora (Kingdom Hearts), Roxas & Ventus (Kingdom Hearts)

Additional Tags: Steven Universe Movie, not gems though, just the plot kind of, background Sora/Riku - Freeform, ventus and roxas friendship, roxas doesnt get a choice in the matter, vanitas is spinel, theres going to be songs in here folks, long songfic i guess, Musical Fic, mostly roxas and ventus shenanigans, primary characters roxas ventus vanitas, secondary characters xion lea isa terra aqua ienzo, tertiary characters riku kairi namine, chirithy is here for info dumps, Memory Loss, Loss, Fluff and Angst, Emotional Manipulation, quick reference to the princessess of heart, more tags as I think of them, Magic pranks, gummiphones can text for convenience and for problems, there is some text fic in here too, not alot though, first fic, stormy weather did this to me, roxas curses, ventus gets 1 fuck word

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZXAfDy

[mcl-mia]

//SO, i just finished zeus' route and i gotta say, i liked it a hell of a lot more than i expected to. i'm too lazy to do a full fleged review with multiple segments and paragraphs right now (i'd need to look at my own screenshots for that), so i'll do a few thoughts from memory.

+ zeus' dialogue options are pretty damn easy to figure out. i only got the +1 twice the entire route.

+ zeus himself is... surprisingly charming once you get further along in the story. it's also very refreshing to have a character that is genuinely at odds with klaus, rather than just someone who likes to mess with him.

+ zeus is an arrogant bastard, but he has several checks within the story itself who call him out on his bullshit, including liz.

+ can we talk about liz for a second? i fucking ADORE her in zeus' route. it's the development she deserves. she is genuinely powerful and insightful while still retaining her empathy, kindness, and optimism. i wish we could have seen this development on screen, though...

+ hiro is amazing, 10/10 would high five. in fact, i found myself warming up to the night class fairly quickly.

+ gave a much more in depth analysis of dark magic and what it REALLY entails, even if the attitude toward it completely shifted and liz was just like "oh ok" after having it explained to her.

+ solid story foundation with an interesting premise. i'm glad that solmare is putting more effort into showing what certain items and characters look like, since the last few routes have lacked that.

+ the cgs are downright GORGEOUS. not only are they dynamic, but it's weirdly rare for full body shots in the cgs, let alone cgs were both the guy and liz look decent in the cg.

- while i liked the theme of zeus' route, it was driven home to the point where it made me want to bang my head against the wall because it was so damn obvious as to what's going on. they do NOT let any chance of mentioning the prince's story go by.

- zeus' route is really, REALLY long. like, longer than any other route. sure, they wanted to get everything in, but 21 story tickets for a happy ending is ridiculous. y'all could've combined scenes so we could use less tickets.

- some of those item check points were placed a little too close together. i'm talking to you, 8k and 10k lune checkpoints.

- zeus' design is overall really good, but he still looks like he's dead. also, couldn't y'all have made it so that way he has his arm down in his causal outfit?

- taffy is never explained. never. he's mentioned off handedly in one of the previews, but that's about it.

- look, i like the night class a lot and all, but i really didn't like how klaus was basically the only old character that we got to see. all the others either got two minutes of screentime or didn't even show up at all. i get that a few of them graduated, but damn, couldn't you have shown liz recieving/writing letters to them? they're still her friends.

- zeus has a serious lack of backstory. i get it, the story was mainly about present zeus and his character growth... but good god, he lacks so much backstory despite being such a vibrant character. all we really know about him is that he's the oldest child, has been friends with hiro for a very long time, and somehow got special earrings from the royal family.

/ are we in some timeline where the performing festival just doesn't exist? because i'm pretty sure claudia was the name of the princess in THAT story, and it is waaaayyy different than the story with the cursed prince. they even reused the general look for the avatar items for claudia's portrait ffs. did they just think that people wouldn't notice? or is claudia a popular name for princessess in gedonelune?

/ the "goddess" looks like jay with her natural hair color. i'm sorry, but i can't get over that. THE "GODDESS" MAY NOT HAVE A FACE BUT I SEE YOU, SOLMARE.

/ i'm a little surprised that they didn't go into a lot of detail about zeus and hiro's relationship. hiro is essentially zeus' "retainer" (or legal guardian), and it's obvious that they are very close, so how the hell did that all happen, exactly? i'll give solmare a bit of a pass as of today (since we know hiro is getting a route), but they sure as hell better give us more details in hiro's route. don't leave us hanging, solmare.

/ zeus mentioned being the "oldest", so will we ever get to see his siblings? please don't pull a yukiya on us, solmare.

/ rest in peace sigurd, you were here for only two routes (if we're including total screentime) and you're already gone. couldn't even get some decent development before solmare decided to dump you completely from main stories. even mel somehow has a chance to come back.

/ i don't wanna put this directly as a negative... but zeus has the shitty spot of being the first character in a new series; which means that his route has the least answers to the big overarching plot, and that there are a lot of loose ends that need tying up. it's solmare's thing, so i can't really blame the writers on this one.

that... pretty much sums it up for now. overall, zeus' route has been WAY better than many of the newer routes that have come out before him, despite having its own flaws. it's overall an enjoyable read, but certainly not for new players. you need a lot of other information first before you get into zeus' route.

[moonraccoon-exe]

Papa Ravus and twin daughters -3-

Hello and sorry for taking so long! Hope you understand it’s taken me a while.

Here’s the first Papa Ravus post, and here’s the “Ardyn with twin daughters” post that seemed to have inspired requester to also drop this one. :3

It’s been a while since we’ve been in Papa mode, but let’s see what happens  (˙︶˙)

Ravus with twin daughters:

Ravus chose to be single dad, romance is not much his jam but he does want to have kids, so he requested to rent a belly/womb.

King Ravus himself went personally with the lady who accepted the offer and he asked her “as a human being, not as your king, if it really is alright with you?”

Ravus asked she was medically tested first just to make sure it’d be as safe as possible for her to get pregnant.

Ravus worries that because of “a tantrum of my own” (which really ain’t tantrum, Ravy, it’s okay to want to be single parent

This man was put through so much pain in so many ways he’s grown a ridiculously huge heart and wants everyone to be okay.

His own cold, blank-faced way, but rly he’s just a cinnamon roll.

I am digressing.

Ravus checked on the pregnancy process almost daily.

You should have seen his reaction when he heard it was twins.

“My, what do we have here? C: King Ravus, it’s a baby girl!”

Ravus’ eyes go wide and he loses his breath and his heart drops to his feet.

“And she’s in company of a twin sister! Isn’t that wonderful, your Majesty? :3″

The doctor requested somebody bring him a chair and some nurse bring him oxygen.

No kidding.

Ravus literally loses the breath at that, he clutches at his chest and a hand blindly looks somewhere for support.

The gods bless there’s a nurse there to help him sit down and help him recover the breath.

“Ohmygod, your Majesty please calm down ;____;”

Eventually Ravus was able to recover the breath.

He’s so pale the nurse isn’t sure if he has to ask the doctor if they should make some blood transfusion

“Are you alright, your Majesty?”

“Yes, yes…I uhm…it was…shocking. It was only the initial shock. I expected a child; two is a surprise. That’s all.”

“A very wonderful surprise, isn’t it!? :3″

Ravus opens the mouth to reply but all that he does is shut the mouth and nod, looking upset in some way nobody can read.

Omg everyone shut up bc nobody’s sure what’s in his head.

Ravus goes back to his blank expression and unmovable attitude for the rest of the appointment and then goes back to his chambers.

Lunafreya is there (nobody died and no years of darkness AU because I need it okay, shut up)

“Brother! How did it go? :)”

Ravus breaks down in front of her.

He just looks at her in total silence some moments, and then his face transforms into a frown of mere pain and sadness.

Ravus stays quiet for some long seconds just looking at her with his ever-second-more-pained expression.

He puts the head down and just starts crying.

Lunafreya approached him, worried, and grabbed his hand to silently guide him nearby a chair. She had wanted him to sit down but he didn’t, he just kept the hands on his face and cried and cried.

She sat instead, and he went down on his knees in front of her and she let him rest his head on her lap, and he cried and cried while she caressed his hair.

He seems so broken omg Lunafreya is EXTREMELY WORRIED.

She’s thinking there were bad news, that they could have lost the baby, that there were complications or something as terrible.

“…they’re twin girls, Luna” Ravus cries out to her, unable to stop crying. “I am having two baby girls…”

Luna takes a moment before she understands and feels great peace in her heart.

Still she doesn’t stop caressing his hair.

“But then why are you crying, brother?  (˙︶˙)”

“…I am just…so happy…”

Ravus is so happy it literally hurts.

This poor creature.

He cried to exhaustion, the poor thing.

He’s impossibly happy, he’s also a bit sad because he doesn’t understand how “after all the terrible actions I did in the past” he “deserves this amounts of happiness and this blessing”, and he’s excited but also a bit scared because he’s going to be a first time dad, and he’s not sure he can handle two girls.

It’s not that he’s scared of not being capable of handling them, it’s that he “doesn’t want to ruin their lives”.

Ravus please you’ll do great just calm down

If you thought him overdramatic by checking on the pregnancy daily, imagine him now that it’s close to the day of birth and that these are TWINS

Omg he read on the net that that’s twice the risks

Ravus, stop reading on the net, it’ll only make you more paranoid

Don’t worry, everything turned out fine when it was the day

Ravus tried to be present during birth but he exited bc he’s so tense and nervous he’s sure he’s going to pass out

But as a dad he’s in debt with the lady that rented him her womb so it’s only right that he stays by her side during the pains and all.

The doctor is sure Ravus passed out at least twice

Nobody can tell because he’s sat on a chair at a side holding the lady’s hand and sometimes he rests the forehead to the bed

At first they thought he was just trying to calm down

Doctor now swears he actually passed out multiple times

Ravus has a poor management of emotions, please comprehend him

When they were born, Ravus refused to hold them because he’s shaking too much

He only looked at them in total shock and when they offered he carried them, he just tried, burst out crying, handed them back and he had to go a long way between crying, exiting for a breath, walking around, crying a bit once more and taking another breath before he was capable of trying again.

Which was good, that gave time for the babies to be with biological mommy (that’s so necessary post birth omg the poor creatures are terrified and need their mom)

Wow I thought I had nothing to say, I’m a deep way into this and the babies are just being born

I hope you’re not bored, anon

Ravus just gives me so many feels, Papa!Ravus skyrockets them.

When he finally held them, he didn’t let go in hours.

He only  let go when the doctor requested it and explained they needed to be looked after just to  make sure it’s all fine.

All the time he held them Ravus was super quiet and he looked between serious and sad, but wasn’t crying anymore.

The next few months, Ravus is switching all his attention (that doesn’t interfere with the most important king duties to attend) between attending the babies and the lady.

Ofc they ain’t married and she’s not gonna be there after she heals, but if she needs recovery that’s bc of pregnancy and she did it so Ravus could have his baby girls,and pregnancy isn’t easy in any moment so he’s in debt with her

That’s a gentleman doing things right, people, attending and being properly grateful

You learn from him

King Noctis sent Ignis and lady Iris his way; Ignis can attend minor royal duties for him and Iris can look after either the babies or the lady.

Not like Ravus doesn’t have his own advisor and attendants, but a little extra help never harms

He’s a king but he’s also a human being being dad for the first time YOU LET HIM TAKE THE CROWN OFF FOR A MOMENT, OKAY!? >:(

Once the lady recovers, he’s dedicated that time for his babies.

You should have seen this man preparing the room for his babies

He was a bossy mess of “BUT WHY THIS TONE OF GREEN, I ASKED EMERALD NOT GRASS THEY’LL BE MY PRINCESSESS THEY DESERVE A PRETTIER GREEN >:(”

“BUT WHY IS THIS CRIB SO FAR FROM THE OTHER- you know what never mind get rid of these cribs I WANT A DOUBLE SIZE DONE, these are TWINS, they HAVE to be together, WHAT WAS I THINKING”

“OHMYGOD I KNOW I HAVE TO BE IN COUNCIL RIGHT NOW BUT IF I LET THE PAINT DRY OUT THEN THIS TONE OF PURPLE WILL BE DIFFERENT TO THAT TONE OF PURPLE, DO YOU WANT THIS ROOM TO NOT BE PERFECTLY SYMMETRICAL!?”

“what if they don’t like green”

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S PRETTY LIKE THIS, NO, THIS BLOODY PAINT WHAT WAS I THINKING I NEED AN ARTIST I CAN’T DO IT MYSELF”

“what was I thinking this is beautiful but has no emotion”

“WHY DID YOU BRING ME THIS SHADE OF WHITE, IT’S LIKE CLOUDS AND I ASKED PEARL”

“Ravus, you’ve painted this five times already”

“I NEED IT TO BE PERFECT >:’‘‘(”

He still can’t handle his emotions.

But don’t worry this happened long before the babies had to occupy the room so all paint is dry

They stayed there a few hours

then ravus grew paranoid and had their crib be taken to his room

all this effort just so he ended up with them in his room

Ravus is randomly waking up in the middle of the night to check on them, even when they don’t cry

He likes to spend a lot of time just staring at them

Both have his shade of grey on the little locks of hair on their heads

Ravus likes to stare because each time he finds something like a birthmark, the way or direction the hair grows, the shape of eyelashes, little tics, etc

Besides, like in the original post, he’s philosophied so much on the meaning of ‘daughter’ and ‘twins’ that he’s marveled by their presence, and it’s a strange concept and he loves it

Ravus is scared of learning to change diapers

It’s his Magitek arm

He doesn’t want to accidentally hurt neither of them

At first he tried learning with only an arm

He grew frustrated

Look at how adorable of a dad this man is:

Ravus is going to wear a wool glove on his Magitek hand so that it’s soft and warm to the touch for baby girls

He’s grateful for attendants and nannies because having a baby is very time consuming and he has TWO newborns, and he’s in charge of an entire kingdom, but really he wants to learn all that a normal dad and mom learn and spend time with them.

That’s why he’s changing diapers even though in theory he doesn’t even need to

Little girls won’t allow anybody that isn’t Ravus to bathe them.

They’ll complain and cry if somebody tries, and Ravus has to go hold them and do it himself.

Ravus likes to bathe them at the same time, so they spend time together and that way he’s not taking the eyes off neither of them

Baby girls are spending the while together, but really their main focus is given all to Ravus

They’re staring and giggling and making grabby hands at him all the time while he’s bathing them instead of playing together

Ravus isn’t what you call ‘Playful’, so he’s not playing with them; he’s just taking a motherly care of them and worrying

Whenever they make grabby hands at him or seem impatient, Ravus caresses their cheek very tenderly and lovingly, and they either burst giggling or make a baby soundof agreement/pleasure

Ravus is mostly blank faced even now with his kids

Except now it isn’t “I am angry at you, him, her, they, us, it and myself and I hate the world” kind of blank face, but rather “I am calm, a bit worried, quiet”, looking almost sort of naive, even.

Ravus takes his time bathing them.

He’s scared of accidentally hurting or dropping or any accident happening

He’s the silently-paranoid kind of dad

Sometimes baby girls like to splash water on each other; Ravus smiles every time

The babies are a lot like papa, and they aren’t a hyperactive mess, even though they do laugh and giggle and like to play around

When they started crawling, Ravus started crawling with them

He didn’t think about it, he was just sat on the floor with them, and suddenly a baby girl pulled herself on hands and knees and started crawling

Ravus was SO AMAZED

It was like a kid discovering a fairy; he’s all *GASPS* WOAAH .A. and so without thinking he starts crawling after her/at her side, staring as she crawls

Baby girl #2 got inspired by her sister and papa and started crawling too

“*GAAASP .A.”

Please don’t open the door,there’s a .o. faced Ravus crawling after a pair of babies

Ravus likes to put bows on their heads; Baby girl #1 always wears silver ribbons and Baby girl #2 always wears purple ones

Ravus isn’t fan of dressing them the same clothes because he doesn’t want to confuse them

“Why do people do that, anyway? Why do they enjoy suffering finding out ho is who?”

“Ravus, you can identify which girl is which when they’re only in diaper”

“Yes, but what if I see them from afar and can’t tell which is which?”

“Ravus, it’s just cute that they dress the same.”

“It’s ridiculous. Each is an independent and strong baby, each should have her own style.”

“…Ravus they’re seven months old.”

Still, Ravus just doesn’t see the point in dressing them the same

He does, however, enjoy dressing them in something that matches but isn’t the same

Like same design of dress, but different colors

Or one wears Mickey the other is Minnie (can I have Disney in FFXV pls)

Ravus wanted to be the one in charge of teaching them to walk.

The man got extra soft foam mats especifically for this task

If they’re gonna fall, they better land somewhere extra soft

Ravus spends hours just teaching them

He’s incredibly patient, you wouldn’t believe it

Whenenver one of the girls gets to walk some steps, he’ll receive her in arms and cuddle her for some moments, giving encouraging phrases, and then he’ll continue trying so they improve

Even after they master their walking, he’s going to stay there still “teaching them” just for the hugs

The three love them, dammit

Ravus lived a tough military life so he’s not playful, but he tries to have fun with the girls

If they wanna poke him, he’ll let them; if they want to make him laugh, he’ll chuckle; if they want him to chase them, he will..he’s not going to be roaring and making dramatic faces, but he wlil chase after them because he knows they’re having fun

Ravus, his own way, is sort of having fun too

Baby girls are yelping out and giggling when he’s after them

He stays quiet but smiles and chuckles at times

Omg you should see these girls when they think it’s safe, and suddenly Ravus appears by the corner

“AH!!!! AHAHAHHAHAHAHA! o(≧▽≦)o”

Ravus is just there like (˙︶˙)

Baby girls team up to “attack” him

Ravus always let them win

Ravus can hear and sense them when they’re hiding behind something or under something, but he won’t say a thing.

He’ll even get in a vulnerable spot and position on purpose, so that they can jump onto him.

“Oh! Oh no, you have got me! Oh, no, you are so strong, I cannot stand back up. Oh, no. The pain. I surrender; I surrender, my princesses.”

Ravus is a bad actor

But baby girls don’t know that and they’re SUPER PROUD OF THEMSELVES AND THEIR SISTER OMFG THEY WON AGAINST DADDY! ( ´ ▽ ` )

Baby Girl #1 likes to chew on his ear when he’s down there being attacked.

Baby girl #2 likes to smack his back

Baby girls, ever since they were tiny, like to takea cloth and rub on papa’s Magitek arm for some reason

They want it to be SHINY 

Ravus let them

Ravus was very wary of letting them nearby his arm, but he’s picked them up with it, has changed diapers, bathes them, and he figures he’s got no reasons to worry; it’s metal, but it’s his arm, after all, so he controls it and he would never do any harm to his babies

The babies may be quiet like papa, but they’re still incredibly curious

They’re trying to grab everything

Ravus used to be a paranoid mess

He got used very quickly to the girls’ constant attempts of grabbing everything that he’s mastered the technique Catch Them Without Looking

Baby girls trying to take the sword, he’s calmly taking it and putting it away

baby girls are trying to undo the belts of his boots, he’s reaching down to put them away

Baby girl #1 is trying to grab a glass and Baby #2 tries to grab a coin, Ravus keeps talking with Accordo’s first secretary without taking his eyes off her and grabs both babies without moving from his chair.

Baby girls like to play with his hair

Baby girls, when they grow to like 4 or so, start refusing to sleep until Papa goes say goodnight

Baby Girls call him “Dadvus” for quite a long while

Ravus isn’t sure who gave them the idea, but he’ll find them and probably smack and thank them at the same time

Ravus thinks art is very necessary in life, especially as a child, so he’s taking them to so many orchestra concerts and plays and dance performances.

Baby girls love it and always are a mess of clapping and cheering

Baby girls are performing their own dances in their room

Sometimes Ravus joins

Usually he just has to stand there and move the arms a little while baby girls dance around them

Lunafreya says it’s like a daemonic ritual and they’re sacrificing him to the gods

Ravus is also trying to get them into literature

He’s bought so many children book, he could make a library out of them

He does, actually

He gets an unimportant small room of the palace and asks it be turned into a library for his kids

As ages go it turns into the girls’ safe heaven

Every time Ravus knows one of them is sad, he’ll go to the little library and she’ll probably be there

Ravus is the best at comforting

Ravus understands pain very well, so he understands that it’s not about  making them laugh; he’ll sit with them or lie at their side (Girl #2 particularly does lie on the floor when she’s sad) and he’ll just stay in absolute silence all the time

Usually baby girls end up crying and climbing onto him or snuggling at his side

That’s when Ravus hugs and kisses their head, but still says nothing

Curiously, it’s that he never asks what’s wrong and only offers his company what makes the sisters grow confident and trusty enough to tell him without being asked

Ravus likes reading to them when they still don’t know how to

He’ll sit with both on his lap and the book in front of the three, so he reads and teaches them like that

Ravus won’t skip the page if a baby girl insists she reads it until she gets it just fine

Ravus can spend an hour in the same page just to let them stare at the drawings and repeat the same words

(sometimes they get so excited they read an entire sentence they’ll repeat it over and over)

Ravus sits at a side of their bed (the girls still want to share bed) to read them bedtime stories

When they were like 5 they asked him to do it but lie in bed with them

Ravus doesn’t get the point of holding a book above his face , it’s tiring

He’s not complaining just because each twin is snuggled to each of his sides

Sometimes Ravus doesn’t bring a book; he’ll just lie in bed and tell them stories

At first he was telling them stories he had heard or learned or that he remembered (maybe sometimes altering a few facts, bc it may be too explicit)

He soon starts inventing his own stories

Papa Ravus has more than once fallen asleep there telling them stories

The twins’ even breath, so calm and peaceeful, and both so warm snuggled at their sides, it’s very soothing and he just…falls asleep

If King Ravus isn’t in his bed at morning, he’ll be at the girls’

Ravus has FAR MORE THAN JUST ONCE

as in SO MANY MORE TIMES

SO MANY TIMES

woken up with rainbows and other things drawn on his face

Seems like it’s a genetic thing bc baby girls are showing themselves to be early wakers, except they’re still kids so they wake up even EARLIER than Ravus himself

Thank the gods Ravus always showers before starting the day or he’d have….

….well it DID happen twice or three times, in his lazy days, that he went to have breakfast before showering

He’s got moogles drawn on his face

He’s going through the hallways of the palace greeting everyone, with moogles drawn on his face

Speaking of moogles, the girls love them

SO MUCH

It’s from the days Iris spent as temporary helper in the Fleuret palace, and once the babies were crying so much but they weren’t hungry or sleepy or dirty, so the only thing Iris thought about was to give them a moogle plush toy

Ever since then, the girls want EVERYTHING moogle themed

The room is moogle themed; walls and bedsheets and plush toys and their old onesies and their pajamas

Ravus has sworn to Lunafreya he will burn the room as soon as they grow tired of it

“Why do you hate moogles?”

“I don’t have them. But they are obsessed. I’m getting tired of seeing so many moogles.”

Ravus once held a moogle plush in hands and glared at it

“…of course it had to be. My curse, set by an Amicitia. Bloody Amicitias.”

Ravus had to agree once to dressing like a moogle mascot for his kids during winter celebrations

How can anybody say no to those sparkly, huge, beautiful grey eyes?

Ravus is not going to repeat that

He would have, if Lunafreya hadn’t taken photos of him

King Noctis has been sending him moogle memes ever since that day

Speaking of eyes

Each baby girl already claimed one of their father’s eyes

Ohmygod that sounds so creepy 

Baby girl #1 says that the silver eye is hers, and Baby girl #2 says purple one is hers

(see what I did, it’s like the colors of their bows)

The girls aren’t allowed to touch the eye that isn’t their own

Because Ravus lets them touch his eyes

They are obsessed

“They are so pretty, papa, you don’t understand(」°ロ°)」”

Little girls are following Ravus everywhere, in a line, like ducks or chocobos

Ravus is mama hen

He’s going places and the twins walk in a line behind him

Whenever Ravus turns to face them, they’ll just look up at him and smile and say nothing

Ravus won’t question them

Ravus is letting them walk into the Council room and everywhere else except the bathroom

As they grow and Ravus starts attending his king duties with the time they require, baby girls start following him even more

Sometimes when they are “playing” (Ravus still plays in his strange style) and Ravus is called somewhere else, the twins will tackle or throw themselves to him screaming “NOOOOO” and try to stop him

It always worked when they were tiny, they landed on him and he was thrown on the ground helpless, right?

Nope ahahaha

Ravus is standing up with the girls hanging from him and going where he’s needed

There’s king Ravus, with a girl hugged to his back and the other hanging from his magitek arm

They’re biting him

Ravus is so strong and big he can just grab them by the back of their shirt or dress like they’re lion pups and put them down and away

Baby girls are waiting outside the council or throne room, sat in the hallway, arms crossed and refusing to leave until papa comes out

They’ll leave if Ravus, before or during or after his duties, gives them The Stare

It’s not mean or aggresive, it’s just a stare with a slight raise of the eyebrows and a slight tilt of the head that says “Baby girls, this is not right and I ask you to be good, please.”

Baby girls usually understand and stand up and behave really good with the nannies and allow them to walk them back to their room or the little library or the gardens while papa does his stuff

Ravus was put through such a harsh training and education when he was taken by Niflheim that he’s grown very wary and a bit terrified of nagging, and that’s why he sounds so soft with his girls

As in, he doesn’t like raising his voice at them or frowning or nagging them as normal

He’s trying to raise them in a way so that he can have soft but firm conversations and interactions with them so they don’t grow too pampered but also so he doesn’t have to raise his voice at them or anything

He’s just….so affected after Niflheim, that when he raises the voice just a notch at them and he sees their big and innocent eyes, he feels like he’s torturing them or something and he doesn’t want to be the bad guy :(

Ravus is raising them the “let’s express our feelings” way

“Clean your room, please” instead of “Look at this disaster”, “It’s time we go; say goodbye” instead of “how long are you going to make me wait?”, “Do not leave my side, okay?” instead of “where do you think you’re going?”, “Listen to me, please” instead of “I’m talking to you”, etc.

You thought Lunafreya could make a big change in his personality?

Pfft. She ain’t gotten nothing compared to his daughters.

The girls like to cling from his legs

There goes king Ravus through the hallways of the palace, with a girl hugged to each of his legs

Ravus is very strong and they weight nothing, so sometimes he literally forgets he’s got these pair hugged to his legs

He once walked into an important reunion with Niflheim’s Chancellor (a good one now that everything is peace, fight me) forgetting the girls were clinging to his legs

Remember how Ravus is grateful for nannies and such but wants to learn all that other dads and moms learn too?

Ravus asked Lunafreya to teach him to braid hair

The girls behave a lot like fairy tale princesses so they like to wear pretty hairstyles, and Lunafreya’s attendants or Luna herself always comb their hair as they want

Well Ravus wants to do it too

It feels important

Ravus was actually very slow at learning

It was already rather difficult on him, a Magitek hand isn’t much help

Ravus is practicing with a wig, and the hair sometimes gets stuck between the articulations of his metal arm

The poor thing isn’t giving up

He wants to be able to do this for his daughters

Ravus is going to practice every single day :’)

It took five months  before Ravus dared try on Lunafreya

Ravus is the slowest person to braid hair

THE SLOWEST

He’s still scared of causing any harm and he’s nervous, so he’s doing it very slow

Luna’s neck and back hurt after sitting wtill and tense for so long but she’ll say nothing on it

Ravus has self-esteem but after Niflheim it’s incredibly fragile, so he needs this confidence

It takes him another 5 months of practicing with Lunafreya before he dares try with his daughters

King Ravus is always late to his duties from then on

“What were you occupied with, your Majesty?”

“My daughters wanted a double braid.”

His daughters are more important than his kingdom most days FIGHT HIM

During royal balls, Ravus will always ask his daughters for a dance

He carries both and dances with both at the same time a song, and then he’s dancing with each one individually

It’s super adorable

He does that ever since they were babies and couldn’t even speak yet

When they were babies, Ravus would carry them and dance himself

When they grow and can walk no troubles, it’s even more adorable because Ravus has to bend down (unless the girls ask him to pick them up)

Giant Ravus bent down and reaching the hands down so baby girl can take them and they can dance

Ravus was very moody when they started going to school outside the palace

“How can you all trust your child’s education to absolute strangers?”

Ravus, that’s….that’s your Tenebraean people, you should trust these teachers

Ravus never had anything against school until his daughters started going

Don’t worry he’ll grow used to it

Ravus is secretly sending undercover guards to make sure the girls make it safe to school and back

Like they don’t already have the man that picks them up

Ravus has tried going himself but #KingDuties

“Fuck being a king ヽ(`⌒´メ)ノ“

“RAVUS! Language D:”

“…gently fuck being a king.”

Don’t worry he doesn’t really hate it, he just gets moody lapses

Little girls still enjoy wearing their bows

Ravus now can braid their hair and decorate it with bows

He actually enjoys doing that

It’s very relaxing and he spends time with his daughters, so

He’s fan number 1 of braiding their hair

He lets them braid his hair

He’s letting them put bows on it, too

Whenever he’s in front of the media, Ravus is going to ask each of his daughters if she wants to stay 

All the flashes, so many people, and all that noise can be overwhelming, so he’s not forcing them to stay if they don’t wanna

(I stole that from Britney Spears,omg, that’s a good mother)

Ravus is going to watch all the kid movies that the girls want to watch

Ravus will agree to dressing as the prince or hero of the movie for them

King Ravus is enemy number one to King Noctis on the social sites of internet during Night of All Saints (All Hallow’s Evening equivalent of Eos that I just impprovised); who’s got the best costumes, the Lucian king and his companions, or king Ravus, his sister and the little girls?

It’s almost always a draw

The girls behave like fairy tale princesses

Fairy tale princesses that love playing in mud

Some of Ravus’ clothes have had to be thrown because the girls always rush to hug him when they see him and sometimes they’re covered in so much mud, Ravus’ usual white clothing gets eternally stained

The only thing Ravus isn’t willing to do is cut their nails

He gets very nervous

Perhaps it’s a subconscious reminder; Niflheim gadgets, torture tools, all the weapons he saw, etc., so it just makes him very nervous to get something that he knows works to cut nearby his daughters

Ravus and his liking for art and how important he considers it to be lead him to teach music to his daughters

Except it’s been so long since he last had any music lessons himself

Niflheim and a war got in the way so

He’s re-learning with them

Ravus used to play cello, but he hates the sounds he’s making now due to his metal arm on the strings and the different sound it cause

So he’sp icking up flute

Metal against metal too makes sound, but what maters is what comes out of the air not the fingers

this isn’t an excuse for flute player moon raccoon to force flute onto one of its fave characters

Twin girls are picking Viola and Cello duo

Twin girls team up to still attack Ravus

Ravus now is showing “resistance”

Really he’s not fighting, just catching them beforre they land on him

Ravus will teach the girls into self-defense arts and the use of rapiers

Twin girls are going to grow becoming AMAZING fighters

Another thing similar to original post happens:

“Papa, can we get our own Magitek arm when we grow up, too? (ノ*°▽°*)“

“No.”

“〣( ºΔº )〣  BUT WHY ＼(º □ º l|l)/“

On their ninth birthday, Lunafreya gifted the twins one of those necklaces that splits in three parts.

The twins didn’t even need to ask, they ran to go gift the third part to Ravus

Ravus expressed later on to Luna that he would have wished it had been four parts because “you’re my family too, and theirs.”

Lunafreya explained that she knows and that nothing can change that, but there’s something very particular and special in the father-to-daughters bond, she wanted them to have something that’s only theirs

Ravus is going to wear it, along Lunafreya’s childhood moon necklace, every single day until the very same day that he dies

Ravus likes to sit at the gardens at night with both his daughters just to talk about anything and everything

He likes sitting among the flowers, not on benches

The three also enjoy of the silence of the gardens.

No matter how busy he is, Ravus will always go say bye and wish his daughters a good day at school before they have to leave

No matter how busy he is, Ravus will always go wish them goodnight

If Ravus can, he will move appointments or duties to later in the evening just so he can have lunch with the girls

Ravus will allow the kids to “camp” at the gardens

He’s also secretly placing a guard for the night to watch on them

“Papa, we want a chocobo :)”

Ravus wil get the damn chocobo no matter if he has to go to Lucis himself

Ravus will ‘scare’ the kids that he thinks are mean to his daughters

Really he just needs to stand there and frown a bit to said kids for them to run away

There’s not another kind of kiss that Ravus loves more than forehead kisses for his daughters

Each morning, each  night, he’ll kiss each their foreheads

He also likes to caress their hair as he does, or when they’re asleep

Even when they’re grown and in separate beds, Ravus sometimes still wakes up in the middle of the night to go check on them

He always tucks them in if they’re uncovered, and give a kiss to their heads

His girls are truly a blessing to him, he still can’t understand how he deserves this happiness and these precious girls, so he may be a bit overprotective and a bit “exaggerated” about loving them.

Ravus sometimes gets poetic with them about it

He has expressed to them about how he “loves them so much, I get frustrated because all the years of my life will not be enough to demonstrate it as you deserve, but if this is the only life I have got to do it, I will dedicate it entirely to you.”

He doesn’t mean that he’s going to gift them every second of his existance, just that everything he does will be done dedicated to them, thinking about them

Which, as consequence, drives Ravus to become a much better person of himself each day, and helps him to be the best version of himself :)

Aaah! Now that was quite a post! ( ´ ▽ ` )

I hope you liked it anon, I put lots of love and time in here so I hope some of that love is visible in there ♡ ～(‘▽^人)

Tell me if you liked it? ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

[freshly-picked-pineapples]

Lyanna remembers, vaguely, the story of the Princessess in the Tower- how the paranoid brother kept his sister locked up in a tower for years until a travelling Prince happened to pass by and hear them sing, how the Prince stole the girls away in the dead of the night and murdered them before the sun’s light kissed the mountaintops. If only the Princessess had been more careful, Old Nan would say, kissing Lyanna on the forehead and tucking the blankets around her, but children never are. 

Now it is Lyanna who sits in the tower, looking out over the bleak dessert landscape, waiting, hoping. The passage of time is marked by the tautness of her gowns and her stomach, which is starting to show. Back in Winterfell, she would have had people to re-adjust her gowns; to make the bodice loser, higher, the skirts fuller to accommodate her growing belly. In the tower, there is no one but an old maid, a cook and herself, and three men with swords much sharper than her needle, and she isn’t sure if any of them are friends. What she knows is that they should be on the opposite sides of the war. That she should be in league with Robert Baratheon and his armies along with the rest of the North, perhaps waiting for him in the Stormlands. Perhaps they would have put her up in the Eyrie, where Robert had been fostered, and where she might have sat with her good sisters and embroidered tiny vests made of rich, southern colours and cool, winter shades. 

Instead, Lyanna is waiting in the wrong end of the Kingdom for the wrong Prince, mending her own clothes and doing her best to fashion baby clothes out of her own skirts. Whether it is her Prince who wins the war, or her family, there would be little for Lyanna to celebrate.

If only I had done things differently. 

“You’ll be safe here,” Rhaegar had told her before he’d left months ago, when she’d begged him to take her home to Ned. “There is no one at Winterfell now, Lyanna, and I can’t guarantee you a safe journey. You will stay here until I come back. I will take you to your brothers then, I promise.”

They call it the Tower of Joy, but Lyanna does not find any joy in it at all. She is not a prisoner, yet they would not let her leave. She might have been able to get away, but even then, where would she go? The journey across the terrain was treacherous for anyone, and this was so far south that she would not make it to Winterfell without being captured or killed, if she managed to find her way out of the Prince’s Pass. 

As much as she hates to admit is, Rhaegar is right. They might have been able to prevent the uprising had they gotten her to Winterfell in time, before her Brandon had marched into the Mad King’s halls, before they’d burnt her father. 

So now she waits, staring at the mountains she can see from the top of her tower room, for the end of a war that seems to drag on relentlessly, for a babe that is growing too quickly in her belly and a world that isn’t ready for it, for a Prince who might never come home.

[annie-thyme]

let’s talk about the colour pink. 

first things first. I hate it. the hot pink of the barbie dollhouse, the colour so bright the images get seared into your brain and stay there for years. I still remember two puffy rubber armchairs that should have, but could not be comfortable because my barbie kept sliding off them. maybe she secretly hated it, too.

years later I dubbed it the colour of a dead barbie - first to myself, then, delightfully, to my friends and anyone who looked like they might appreciate my sarcasm. once I went to my best friend’s house for a sleepover and she gave me those sheets. those sheets. she could barely contain her laughter as she took them out of the closet - and completely lost it at the look on my face. those sheets had a pattern of frilly ribbons and puffy bows in three shades of pink. it felt surreal. like a david lynch movie. except it was pink and looked like the insides of a coffin.

it took some getting used to, but I slept like a baby.

baby pink. the girly colour. the colour you’re supposed to love and opt for every chance you get just because you've got boobs and soft features and curves. the colour that squeezes gooey sounds out of most adult women every time they see baby-pink-blanketed bundle in someone’s arms. they aww and coo and talk of princessess and dollies and tutu skirts.

there’s nothing wrong with princessess or dollies or tutu skirts. each of them is great on its own. but in our heads they are pink by default. we are taught that pink is their primary colour when there’s absolutely no reason that it should be. it could be anything, everything, why did it have to be pink for girls to love, for girls like me to hate?

pink is convenient. conventional 2D shape on a bathroom door. a circle, a triangle and four sticks arranged to look like a shape of a girl in a dress. the sign might be painted in black but it’s still pink in our heads. pink for the girls and blue for the boys and the world is divided into binary gender. pink for the girls says there’s no other option than to stay soft and placid and docile. blue for the boys says it’s wrong for them to wear skirts or play with dollies or talk about princessess in any other terms but rescuing them from the dragons.

we teach our children that toys and colours and people have gender and it can only be one of the two. pink for the girls. blue for the boys. determined at birth, stated in official papers, confirmed by the colour of the blanket wrapping on the way home from the hospital for the whole world to see.

pink for the girls. blue for the boys.

there’s nothing wrong with the colour pink. it’s the colour of dawn and flower petals and birds’ down and blush on very pale skin. it’s beautiful. so many colours wouldn’t be if it wasn’t for the colour pink. shades of purple and lilac and gold. reds and oranges and browns.

I want to wear a dress the colour of high clouds at dawn. the colour of rose petals strewn in the golden dust of a country road. soft and pale and delicate and beautiful. almost-red almost-purple pink. pink.

I don’t hate the colour pink. not really.

let’s talk about it.

let’s talk about the colour pink.

[fluffy-snow-bunny-princess]

Always a princess, never your Queen

I probably shouldn’t be venting on here, so I’ll delete this later.  I just need to get it off my chest without being interrupted.

The very first time you called me a princess, as stupid as it is to most people, it made me feel worth so much.  You see, most girls grow up with their dads calling them princessess.  So they always feel special.  I didn’t have that.  My dad noped out.  Some girls grow up with their moms calling them princessess.  Mine didn’t.  She was too busy trying to provide for me because I wasn’t good enough for my dad to stay.

So when you called me your princess, I finally felt like there was someone who I mattered enough to, that this person, who I love dearly, won’t ever treat me badly, and will always stay with me. 

But my heart broke today.  I realized that being called your princess wasn’t something special at all.  I was filling a vacancy that another person left.  Since she was your Queen. 

Pretend or not, it hurt.  And it opened my eyes.  Even now, I’m still not really good enough.  I’m just.. a filler.

The filler princess..

Yeah, thats my new title i suppose.