#west x glokta

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Spring comes to Adua

(aka an abandoned illustration for this series that I TOTALLY FORGOT TO POST UNTIL NOW)

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Ask Chat GPT to write a West/Glokta romantic thriller because I’m a person with questionable morality. Turns out the AI recognizes TFL to begin with, which surprised me, but Terez is now West’s fiancé and poor AI literally paused twenty seconds at “Collem, in turn, is drawn to Glokta’s…” before finally coming up with why the hell West will fall in love with Glokta lmao.

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There's something about the character who loves fashion x character who hates fashion with a passion dynamic that is so simple it harkens back to the disney channel but I still love it

[smalltownfae]

My Favourite Characters and Tropes

Books:

Beloved, Patience, Molly Chandler, Malta Vestrit, Fitz Farseer and Bee (Realm of the Elderlings)

Jezal dan Luthar, Vick dan Teuffel, Savine dan Glokta, Ardee West, Orso dan Luther (First Law Series)

Sméagol/Gollum (Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit)

Maia (The Goblin Emperor)

Granny Weatherwax and Death (Discworld)

Sophie Hatter and Howl Pendragon (Howl’s Moving Castle book)

Sybel (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld)

Manga/Anime:

Jack Vessalius, Vincent Nightray, Rufus Barma (Pandora Hearts)

Vanitas and Jeanne (The Case Study of Vanitas)

Wolfgang Grimmer (Monster)

Count D (Petshop of Horrors)

Kurapika (Hunter x Hunter)

Tv Shows:

Villanelle (Killing Eve)

Max (Black Sails)

Mike Ehrmantraut and Kim Wexler (Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad)

Michael (The Good Place)

Movies:

Evelyn Carnahan O’Connell (The Mummy)

Ripley (Alien)

Hideko (The Handmaiden)

Mulan

I decided to check if there were similarities between my favorite characters and there were some surprising results. Apparently I seem to like the mentioned bellow character tropes the most. There were some that I found irrelevant like eating a lot, others were related to the plot and not necessarily the personality of the character and I also might have missed some (there are so many). In the end, these are the tropes I can see why I like them and I can think of multiple characters that fit them even if they are not in the list of absolute favorites. The tropes are in alphabetical order.

Anti-Hero: Vanitas, Count D. Gollum, Granny

Badass Bookworm: Kurapika, Evelyn, Fitz

Berserk Button: Mike, Kim, Grimmer, Jack, Vanitas, Jeanne, Kurapika, Sophie, Howl, Death, Vincent

Beware the Nice Ones: Sophie, Grimmer, Jeanne, Kurapika, Ripley, Death

Big Sister/Big Brother Instinct: Villanelle, Vanitas, Kurapika, Orso

Bitch in Sheep’s Clothing: Jack, Michael, Gollum, Savine

Consumate Liar: Vanitas, Michael, Vick

Deadpan Snarker: Ripley, Evie, Michael, Hideko, Death, Ardee, Orso

Defrosting Ice Queen: Jeanne, Sybel, Hideko

Determinator: Sophie, Grimmer, Jeanne, Kurapika, Ripley, Death, Evelyn, Gollum, Fitz

Hero with bad publicity: Vanitas, Kurapika, Orso, Fitz (in contrast Savine is Villain with good publicity :D)

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Vanitas, Ripley, Michael, Howl, Granny, Jezal

Living Lie Detector: Kim, Jack, Kurapika

Manipulative Bastard: Jack, Vanitas, Michael, Death, Savine, Vincent, Barma

Nerves of Steel: Mike, Jeanne, Michael, Orso

Stepford Smiler: Grimmer, Jack, Vincent, Vanitas (I admit I like this in manga/anime characters...)

The Ace: Mike, Kurapika, Fitz, Bee

The Chessmaster: Jack, Michael, Savine, Vincent

Troll: Villanelle, Vanitas, Michael

Some of my favorites don’t even show up in these tropes, but that is also because the Realm of the Elderlings series is really empty in that site. Anyways,

MAJOR TROPES I LIKE (More than 4 characters):

Berserk Button, Beware the Nice Ones, Deadpan Snarker, Determinator, Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Manipulative Bastard.

Makes sense tbh XD I will keep updating this list ahah

Major Plot Tropes I like (in order):

Foreshadowing, Bittersweet Ending, Abusive Parents (for some reason my fav books have a lot of that...), First-Person Perspective, Earn Your Happy Ending, Deal with the Devil, Checkhov's Gun, Unreliable Narrator, Functional Magic, Decadent Court, Even Evil Has Loved Ones, Gothic Horror, Gray and Grey Morality, Hero of Another Story, I want my Beloved to be Happy, I just want to have friends

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Summertime Sadness

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“An anatomy of love.”

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      Collem West/Sand dan Glokta

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‪AU: Lord Marshal!Collem West/Colonel!Sand dan Glokta‬

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The First Law × Notre Dame de Paris

"And run my fingers through the hair of — "

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is there really like zero glokta x west fanfics what

[xillionart]

So modern time fake couple AU!West/Glokta (expired visa, undercover mission, you name it) where everybody rolls eyes with “huh ur kidding who’d marry this cripple” and decent, easy to fluster, don’t-know-how-to-do-proper-sweet-talk West has to provide scandalously specific details to persuade people that hey, this is my Mr. Right, I love him even after his fall, especially after his fall. And he is surprisingly convincing. Like, convincing more than a respected Lord Marshal laying out his plans. Convincing to a degree that even Jezal sends his blessings through gritted teeth, and Terez with her gaydar turned up warmly squeezes Glokta’s hand, and Ardee wonders not for the first time how much fantasy her cowardly brother unintentionally blends into his story. That’s to say, Collem West could almost let himself believe what he claims to have happened when he is not grabbing the collars of those doubtful (e.g. Ladisla), yelling.

And say one talent of the said cripple, say he is a PDA genius - if just to disgust the gossipy audience away, if just to disgust this liar of a husband away.

Bonus: 9-year-ago!setting when they faked relationship for the first time to get restaurant discount and Glokta was the one abruptly proposing this shitty idea because unlike what his best friend believed, he wasn’t totally blind, he knew well about little Collem’s tight budget and wounded pride. But of course he was totally blind by casually taking the other man’s hand breathing “what do you say to a candlelight dinner?”

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“It’s rather sad to think that whatever happens you and I can never possibly get involved in a war.” ( - Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh)

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I can't handle Lieutenant West calling Glokta "sir" and ceaselessly apologizing for being an ass-kicking fencer, I just can't *Lying down and staring at the ceiling*