Dancing with the Angel

Birthday present for @of-moons-and-dragons 💚

This part. This is the part I’m talking about

This is not a woman falling to pieces because her father won’t let her marry a man she just met.

This is a woman born to a life she has very little say in. She has never had a genuine friend (besides a tiger). She is facing a marriage to a man she doesn’t know and doesn’t like but duty (and the law) demands it. So she took a risk, ran away, ran to a world she doesn’t know or understand and when she landed in trouble (serious, serious trouble) a stranger came to her aid. She finally (finally!) made a real connection with someone but they didn’t get much time together before the guards showed up and she had to reveal who she was.

This moment when she’s crying her heart out? It comes after she’s been told that the first person she ever connected with, the first person to be genuinely interested in her for who she is and not what she is, the first real friend she has ever made, was executed… because of her.

This sort of problem runs deep and i see it fucking everywhere.

little illustration for smth 🤫

bonus hiccup getting stuck to jack like a telephone pole under cut

It happened then. The feeling that filled his soul was about to burst out of him, and he said it. Something he hadn't had the courage to admit out loud, one rainy night in an inn room, or on a beach while looking for shells, or in an audience chamber full of hostile faces.