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a highly selective and low - activity blog for the darkling / aleksandr morozov from leigh bardugo’s grishaverse. strictly book - based with headcanon influence, spanning both the grisha trilogy and the nikolai duology. mutuals only, please only follow if you are 18 + , written by byleth ( they / she, 21 ) .
a study in : the dark as a being, lack, symmetry and balance, the hunger for power, and machiavellianism.
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[ ⊹ ˖⁺ 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋 , 𝐒𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 ! ━━ shall i adore your snows and frosts together ? in your relentless winter shall i feel a kiss more sharp than that of ice and steel ? ⊹ a book-based zoy.a nazyalenskaya of the grishavers.e sanctified by cora
IT HAS BEEN CALLED MANY THINGS BUT HE KNOWS IT AS SYNTHESIS : THIS SPACE BETWEEN THE LIGHT AND DARK where things appear not as they seem but as they are. this is no longer a masquerade with secrets but where the vipers and nichevo’ya wriggle like snakes in pits, free of their restraint. faces swim past them both, as if wading and dancing without care through light and dusty fog, the sort that would muffle breath and step alone in the dawn hours of tsibeya. there is a throne here but no one sits upon it. wasn’t that a dream that he wove for her in spider silk and snow, so many months ago ————— here is a kingdom in a platter and it shall be ours, as long as what you have is mine, is mine. the heroine of our story bares her teeth against the beast in the wood, which looks a little like a deer but she knows hides ferocious claws beneath his hooves.
he walks, and it is soundless. it is the stalking of a wolf where it leaves footprints covered by winter winds, keen and sharp - eyed. but the doe does not show mercy, nor does she run. the white hair suits her well, a taint of merzost granting her beauty where it had carved his own out of his own heart ( and baghra would have said ————— antithesis indeed, the pair of them ) . but the shadows seethe at each step where he leaves none, even when the chandeliers blare so bright a light to rival the sun she brings to life in her own hands. when shall they finally devour each other, when will this ouroboros of us come to its conclusion ?
they have no answers for such a thing, and yet @lorelast ( as alina ) gives her own in a kind of defiance : remember that to use a thing is not to own it.
the head tilts of curiosity, before one of his gaunt hands reaches up slowly to brush aside the neckline of her dress ; she must have been sleeping, dreaming peacefully in the arms of her otkazat'sya boy until the owl of him spread its wings and swallowed that too. they shall be each other’s ruination, and that itself could be a love story. the tracery of antlers interlocked into a braid still clasps itself like claws around her neck and collarbone, leaving no marks in their kind wake. a thrum of power moves through them both, the sea against a dark shore. his hands are blackened, and cold. ( could anything alive be so cold ? )
❛ remember that to use a thing is not to own it. and do you not use the collar, the fetters, for you say you own it ? the stag chose you. the sea whip was destined for you. ❜ it is the smile of a winter wood, one that could kill ; his words are a blasphemy of her own. ❛ should the firebird fall under your possession too, just because your greed taints its existence ? we own each other, alina. we are greedy things. I will never deny your nature, and you should not deny mine. ❜ he is her dark echo, her void of a mirror ————— alina starkova, her name in reverse.
𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑷𝑹𝑶𝑴𝑷𝑻𝑺.
↬ THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS, midnight tales and dangerous magic. ( 2017 ) by leigh bardugo.
sentences taken from or inspired by the collection’s dialogue & narration.
+ feel free to change pronouns !
i. AYAMA AND THE THORN WOOD.
‘ love speaks in flowers. truth requires thorns. ’
‘ we all know the story of how the queen becomes a queen. ’
‘ we should leave this place. ’
‘ no doubt it will come and devour us all. ’
‘ the beast will laugh you right out of the wild lands. ’
‘ you know how the stories go. interesting things happen only to pretty girls. ’
‘ is the wood much worse than a garden overgrown with pricklers ? ’
‘ stupid girl ! do you wish to become a monster ? ’
‘ strike me. cleave me in two. ’
‘ you’re as thorny as the wood. ’
‘ there is but one rule in my wood. speak truth. ’
‘ perhaps you might show mercy freely. ’
‘ just eat a bit of the sun to fill the sky, and you will feel empty no longer. ’
‘ what nonsense ! of course that’s not how the story ends. ’
‘ some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled. ’
‘ what do i care for winter ? no season touches this wood. ’
‘ you know the only bargain i will make. ’
‘ sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and those that are meant to love us most are not always the ones that do. ’
‘ bad fates do not always follow those that deserve them. ’
‘ no prince is worth your life. ’
‘ are you so eager to be eaten ? ’
‘ they have told me to return with your heart. ’
‘ you think to love a monster ? ’
‘ a man like you is owed no words. ’
ii. THE TOO CLEVER FOX.
‘ you are doomed to a miserable life. ’
‘ better to be hungry now than to be sorry later. ’
‘ what will everyone say when they see such a face ? ’
‘ we have not gone so soft as that. ’
‘ you think that we will let you live on foolish promises ? ’
‘ you have bested me. that much is clear. ’
‘ will you not free me ? ’
‘ you will have a fine time of it, i can tell you. ’
‘ i can bear ugliness. i find the one thing i cannot live with is death. ’
‘ if you will only cease your talking, i will gladly go. ’
‘ where he went, he bled the woods dry. ’
‘ what’s a bit more blood ? ’
‘ you should leave this place. you are not safe here. ’
‘ with such big eyes, i think you see too much. ’
‘ will you not tell me what troubles you ? ’
‘ why do you stay with him ? you’re pretty enough to catch a husband. ’
‘ just because you escape one trap, doesn’t mean you will escape the next. ’
‘ first i must find my courage. ’
‘ few can resist the sight of a pretty girl crying. ’
‘ the trap is loneliness, and no one escapes it. not even me. ’
‘ in the wood, even songbirds must be survivors. ’
iii. THE WITCH OF DUVA.
‘ there was a time when the wood ate girls. ’
‘ be back before dark. the trees are hungry tonight. ’
‘ who can say what shapes an appetite ? ’
‘ this is my home, you can’t just send me away. ’
‘ don’t be foolish. there’s plenty of light. ’
‘ well then, come help me stir the pot. ’
‘ i will warn you just this once. go. ’
‘ you cannot come and go from this place like you’re fetching water from a well. ’
‘ hope made me stubborn. ’
‘ stay there and keep quiet. i don’t need rumors that i’ve been taking girls. ’
‘ i will not have you bring a monster to my door. ’
‘ you know that you are welcome to remain here with me. ’
‘ i will follow her. i will peck out her eyes. ’
‘ believe me. say you believe me. ’
‘ dark things have a way of slipping through narrow spaces. ’
iv. LITTLE KNIFE.
‘ it is dangerous to travel the northern road with a troubled heart. ’
‘ if you are lost in your own thoughts, you may find yourself stepping off the path and into the dark woods. ’
‘ she was beautiful from the moment of her birth. ’
‘ why must i be the one to hide ? ’
‘ do you think i am so foolish or so cruel ? ’
‘ water only wants direction. it wants to be told what to do. ’
‘ always you have done my bidding, but what good are you to me now ? ’
‘ soon i will be very rich, but will i have a good man ? ’
‘ that is a question for the river. ’
‘ your tongue is not fit for my true name. ’
‘ will you come with me, and be bride to nothing but the shore ? ’
‘ she was terrifying in her beauty, bright like a devouring star. ’
‘ remember that to use a thing is not to own it. ’
‘ should you ever take a bride, listen closely to her questions. ’
v. THE SOLDIER PRINCE.
‘ this is the problem with even lesser demons. they come to your door in velvet coats and polished shoes. ’
‘ you will find great love and more gold than you could wish for. ’
‘ he’s a charming fellow, but most unusual, and peculiarities seem to follow him. ’
’ it seemed harmless at the time. ’
‘ he needed a girl, still malleable, one that he could make admire him. ’
‘ this is pleasant. this is enough. ’
‘ are you my soldier ? are you my prince ? ’
‘ i have not come to fight, only to talk. ’
‘ wanting is why people get up in the morning. it gives them something to dream of at night. ’
‘ i am perfectly real. ’
‘ she loves you, though, and that will make it harder. ’
‘ best not to ask. i think the answer would please no one. ’
‘ we can stay forever in the land of dreams. ’
‘ kiss me. take me from this place. ’
‘ i sent you to die a hundred times. ’
‘ i eat the wonder in their eyes. ’
‘ you were an idea in my head. you were nothing, and to nothing you will return when i think of you no more. ’
‘ you wanted only that i might live. you would sacrifice your own life to make it so. ’
‘ are you my darling ? are you mine ? ’
vi. WHEN WATER SANG FIRE.
‘ you wish to strike a bargain. ’
‘ make me someone new. ’
‘ this is the problem with making a thing forbidden. it does nothing but build an ache in the heart. ’
‘ easy magic is pretty. great magic requires that you trouble the waters. ’
‘ no one expects me to accomplish anything. ’
‘ i can smell your ambition like blood in the water.’
‘ i know that you should keep it like a secret, not shout it like a curse. ’
‘ yes. i can imagine it all. ’
‘ you are worth more than that. you should not have to earn him. ’
‘ hope rises like water trapped beneath a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood. ’
‘ there is no pain like the pain of transformation. ’
‘ take your pleasures as you will. ’
‘ come, and i’ll tell you all you wish to know. ’
‘ he made me dream of things i cannot have. ’
‘ i do not care for dancing. ’
‘ look into the mirror, and try to deny it. ’
‘ you have never been like the others, and you never will be. ’
‘ we were not made to please princes. ’
‘ i am not quite mortal either, and i have many lives to live. ’
‘ i wouldn’t care if you were part human or part frog. ’
‘ my voice is not enough. ’
‘ you know i was never strong. ’
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Walt Whitman, “The Sleepers”, Leaves of Grass
[Text ID: “Darkness, you are gentler than my lover,”]
nice scar where did you get it
I actually got it fighting six ninjas that were totally real and I was a badass actually and it definitely wasn't from you so back the fuck up I know karate
I so badly want to steal the shadow walk ability from dishonored 2 as something that sasha can do with merzost I think it’s just neat
Leopard and Deer, Robert Winthrop Chanler
aleksandr as a chief prosecutor in the modern day is such an idea
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I’ve made this point on my old blog but merzost is consistently used as a revelator to aleksandr. it’s always used to reveal something about his true intentions because it’s an allegory for absolutely corruptible power. the sort of power with a guaranteed victory but an extreme cost it’s almost pyrrhic. ever since he was younger he wanted to protect grisha and stop the world from seeing them as different or monstrous, but the moment he gains a sliver of power it’s always used for himself ( the fold, the nichevo’ya ) . it’s always used to benefit his purposes, his own displays of power, his own wants and needs, not the purposes of other grisha. he is so quick to toss them aside in the view of what he desires ( genya, zoya, alina, his oprichniki, all the kings of ravka, his own mother ) . what aleksandr is telling us is he wants to be this champion for the just cause of humanisation of grisha but in doing so transforms himself into a monster with unfathomable power to suit his own purposes. there’s a disconnect here.
it’s still my deep - seated belief that the fold was created using an extremely overpowered version of the cut amplified by merzost.
* WHAT CRYSTAL ARE YOU ?
snowflake obsidian.
you are all grit and closed fists. you refuse to let anything in through the cracks of your armor. you would burn the world to protect those you love. the heart of a warrior burns in your chest. and it also weighs your shoulders down. what is the price for being so strong ? what have you sacrificed to make yourself feel safe ? when was the last time you let someone see your soul ? when was the last time you let someone see you and not just the masks you hide behind ? not everything must be a fight.
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the real question is, is alina his little pog champ
my favourite past time is watching aura go through the darklina tag and judging the people who get the ship so horridly horridly wrong 💕
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shadow and bone (2021)
the dark is always devouring, always searching for the light that defines it in opposition. they are subsumed by their relation to one another. there is no existing outside of it. but light and dark are not so stringent categories. the infringe on each other’s territory quite frequently, you know how it is. you can’t make anything stay within its guided path, when you want it to. what was I saying ? they test each other, the light and dark. they are testing each other still. / the darkling and the sun summoner, by byleth and aura. independent, selective, and private. book - based portrayals with canon divergence and headcanon influences. video credit.
