#threeped

[baldwinboy5ive]

I don't even like coffee shop AUs. But I had to. Because:

Also, my friend pointed out that Mal wouldn't stand for having his name misspelled, and fight Aerin about it, so that's why his has a bunch of crossed out names. (This friend hasn't even read BOLAS but I think she absolutely nailed it.)

Bonus screenshot from yet another friend who hasn't even read BOLAS because I 100% cannot shut up about this book and my fictional ex-prince boyfriend right now:

[chaoticdazefire-new]

Decided to make an edit of all the BOLAS party members

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by @songsaboutgirls

‘i miss threep 😫’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

[aces-and-angels]

reasons why blades will forever be an s-tier book: it gave us threep for free

[distraughtlesbian]

can i speak my truth ? can i keep it real ? there shouldve been more in-party conflict in blades 2. like obviously mc should’ve gotten to cuss mal out in particular when he was like You Dont Know What We’ve Been Thru as if getting kidnapped and forced into a magically induced coma and getting your blood stolen and having constant benadryl nightmares is a walk in the park lmfao, and also just gotten to talk more about what they went through and how it’s impacted them

but also there should’ve been way more beef between the other party members. like girl if i’m nia and i’m spiralling scorning sleep and food constantly hunting for a way to free MY GIRLFRIEND (!!) from the clutches of some goth elf cunt on top of making the fantasy catholic church christlike again and repressing my inner shadow demon and one of my friends is like “hesdeadjim.png give up also fuck you” and then fucked off to be an alcoholic pit fighter, i wouldve actually just thrown hands when we saw each other next. no magic no nothing just me and my nasty little fingers (covered in paper cuts from all the arcane shadow tomes ive been reading) coming straight for her eye sockets. staff of silverlake should’ve been nia’s weapon and she should’ve leapt into the pit in chapter 4 and clocked imtura in the skull with it.

like you bitches should be CRAZY!!!! you should all have DISORDERS!!!! you should be begging ravens perched on busts for RESPITE AND NEPENTHE from your memories of me !!!!!! the moon should never beam without bringing you dreams of ME and the stars never rise but you feel MY bright eyes. tyril should be half-mad with grief and stress he should be mumbling to himself and seeing mc’s silhouette in dark corners. nia should be clearly and obviously off her fucking rocker and constantly on the verge of self destructing and taking us all out with her. imtura should be constantly blind drunk so she doesn’t have to feel her grief or anything at all really. mal should have been in the wind the second it started looking like mc wasn’t coming back and nobody’s heard from him in months. kade should be in a bottomless pit of grief bc when he was stuck in the shadow realm we never gave up hope and we went to rescue him but now that the tables are turned he’s slowly losing hope and day by day and night by night we recede and he becomes more faithless. threep and loola should be inseparable sleeping in a pile together never beyond a wing-length from one another and keeping obsessive tabs on all the other party members no matter how far-flung across morella they are because they’ve already lost everyone and everything they knew to the shadow court once and they’ll be damned if they lose anything else. also kade and aerin should’ve built up a weird semihostile rapport bc once everything fell apart and everyone went their separate ways it was just the two of them in the whitetower palace and kade would go to his cell and sit out of arm’s reach to vent about his time in the shadow realm and his grief and hopes and fears. they both knew and loved mc, in their own ways, despite how aerin hurt them, and now they’ve both lost them, maybe for good. maybe one day aerin starts talking back

where is the SPICE where is the FLAVOUR? where’s the DRAMA where’s the OOMPH where’s the PANACHE? you cannot look at me and tell me these dysfunctional bitches wouldn’t fall back into their worst habits once the one person who held them all together up and vanished into the void. why am i not ending each chapter feeling like i’ve just gotten punched in the dick bc the love is so obviously still there and that’s why it hurts so bad. they should’ve put their whole budget and pussies into forcing the party to fit themselves back together even though they’ve all grown new sharp edges and keep cutting each other up. they should’ve gone full dark no stars about it. grief is an amputation but hope is incurable hemophilia you bleed and bleed and bleed, plants that are split down the middle dont heal they die, you are a language i am no longer fluent in but still remember how to read, what lived and died between us haunts me still, if someone asked me at the end i’d tell them “put me back in it”, i care what ghosts think of me, come back even as a shadow even as a dream, someone has to leave first this is a very old story there is no other ending to this story, etc, etc, you get it you understand. also the mc should’ve come back WRONG.

[lilyoffandoms]

Blades of Light and Shadow

Guess that’s all of em. Or at least all I planned on and all that were requested. Thanks for all the lovely reblogs on the individual pieces! Y’all are the best!!

[gretchen-nightbloom]

Threep and Kade not being party members and having no Blank has joined the party when you find your friends is tragic.

[brightpinkpeppercorn]

Threep being a father nesper is what I am truly looking forward to

[watatsumi-island]

Part two 🤭

@starlight-starfury

[storyofmychoices]

Keep the Realms connected with portals Epilogue Bonus Scene Screenshots

This is the order they appeared in the chapter

Introduction: discussion of magic in the new world

Tyril + Mal (only)

Tyril, Mal (with MC)

Nia + King

Nia (with MC only)

Imtura (with MC)

Mal, Wren, Vivi

Threep & Loola

Aerin + Willow

Aerin (with MC)

Willow and Shadowhound

Valax + Snuggles (owlbear cub) (with MC)

Kade & Cherta

Baroness Isador & Lady Nyra

Ellinae + Riverbend

Final moments with FULL crew

[megas-choices]

That's really sweet! Blades gang are a family 💕

[kitnightbloom]

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

‘Mal’s reunion this, Aerin that, can we talk about the real tragedy of this book for a second? IS THREEP NOT JOINING US??? HOW ARE WE EXPECTED TO MAKE THIS JOURNEY WITHOUT OUR PARTY’S MOST IMPORTANT MEMBER???’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

[inlocusmads]

The thing about Blades which I love is that all the characters have this sort of unique chemistry to them - be it platonic or romantic. They're not inherently dependent on MC to be the "glue".

Mal and Tyril have their own banter going on - they're the yin to each other's yang.

Tyril and Nia are connected by their shared abilities of Elven and Light magic and the goodness they carry.

Imtura and Mal definitely get up to hijinks, from getting kicked out of taverns to flirting shamelessly with everyone.

Imtura and Nia are each other's strengths - Imtura learns that sometimes strength comes from kindness and Nia learns that standing up for herself isn't so bad after all, thus beating her trauma from her childhood.

Nia and Mal are good with kids, they're ordinary humans capable of extraordinary things and their inner goodness shines through.

Imtura and Tyril connect over their distance from their families; finding new ones along the way.

Tyril, Mal and Imtura definitely practice brawling together and go out drinking later with Tyril being the designated "driver" to take these two loud drunk idiots home.

Nia, Tyril and Mal help the orphanage kids learn. Tyril and Nia teach them a bit about magic while discouraging Mal from teaching them how to pick locks and steal from the nobility.

Tyril, Nia and Imtura are probably the best errand team; from gathering supplies to mending their weapons and stitching clothes after a long battle; knowing where to get their things from, how to heal things and how to break things up.

Nia, Imtura and Mal become a little police squad of their own, which is ironic because Mal seeks to punish theives by thieving from them. Nia's the brains who tracks the local pickpockets and shows the victims and survivors some sympathy (and secretly magicks them whatever they've lost or need) and Imtura being the muscles, would absolutely leave the perpetrator devastated.

I'd kill for some domesticity between the four of them and have MC and Kade go:

"WHAT."

[petalouda85]

I decided to place all the Blades Amigurumi I have so far together because 1) I hadn’t done it yet and 2) I wanted to see what it looked like and…

I can’t. I absolutely can’t. It’s too adorable. I can’t even begin to imagine what this’ll look like when all the characters are done 😳

[lantsov-vanserra]

They're back, they're back 🥹