your crown tells of battles won

Dani Powell + text posts

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I’m crying. I love this so much T_T

She also did an Orange Blossom one that is still up.

Like eyes are meant to be wet and shouldn’t hurt when you cry????

Nails aren’t meant to be super soft and easily bendable????

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are you malcolm bright af?

So I am stressed af and my coping mechanism includes rewatching comforting things - one of which are various episodes of Prodigal Son. Now, I am two glasses of wine in and nothing can stop. I am ready to fight God to quote my friend. So here is almost 1k words on why I hate Eve so much:

Let’s start from the moment when my hate came to life since before that I just didn’t like the character.

You have no idea how much I hate this scene. I could from this place bash Eve and praise Dani for their approach to gain Bright’s trust but I feel like there’s really no need for that. Eve without any comparasations is an object worth loathing. She came to his place only the hear about his trauma - one of the most intimate things ever, and she didn’t even give him space to came out to her with all the emotional baggage. He did invite her to explain himself but pushing him was a)rude and inappropriate b)not natural, while relationships should evolve, grow– fully organically. Love is not a transaction - only because you came he’s not obligated to share with you the darkest corner of his mind.

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By this I am disgusted. Eve decided to play a victim here. In front of a group of people who she was just using for her own cause. She gained their trust, betrayed it and now she’s the victim? Oh no. Yes, she has every right to be upset - we’re talking here about her sister, I myself would walking into Hell just to get my brother back but there’s a time and place for grief and sorrow.

Here is neither of those things. She claimed she came to explain, no one tried to interrupted her and yet, the first thing she did during her “explanations” is accusing them of “making up their mind about her”. Bitch, where?!

Malcolm doesn’t want to know why she used him. He grew up among two of the best manipulators, becoming master in it himself (but that a subject for another rant). He wants to know why she lied, because she knows his background, knows about the trust issues and yet, she decided to continue. Of course he deserves a fucking explanation.

Did she deliver?

Of-fucking-course not, and for that I disrespect her greatly.

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Excuse me, Eve, but what the fuck? Yes, she had all right to want to search for her her loved one on her own and I don’t demand to make him part of her search when her own pain and fear is so overwhelming.

But with this line she did something horrific. “This isn’t your search anymore.” She’s telling him he’s not valid. 20 years of trauma, of guilt, of fear, because he never managed to save Girl In The Box, are not important because her pain is bigger than his. All I ask for is a bit of empathy, Eve.

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Eve used them all, the whole family that was through hell because of someone else’s sins, played with trust and affection only to fulfill her selfish needs. Don’t get me wrong - I also wouldn’t have limits when looking for ad/or after my family, but to have an audacity to make yourself a victim is whole other level.

She left and never came back, abandoning Malcolm after he wasn’t useful anymore. Eve called Malcolm only after she reunited with Sophie, and she had no desire to come back to Bright or maybe bring him to her sister. There was a place for happy ending, Sophie doesn’t hold grudge against Malcolm, he was just a kid, he really couldn’t save her from his serial killer dad…

How do I know that Eve wasn’t interested in any kind of reunite? Because she never mentioned Bright to Sophie. When Malcolm came to see Sophie she was surprised to see him; she knew nothing about his role in Eve’s search.

In some interview (that of course now I can’t find) Sam or Chris name Eve love of his life.

To call her that is cruel, but @claremontpsych​ pointed out to me she was love of his life but he wasn’t love of hers. I dare to say she never loved him and when it comes to that, this is the main reason why I hate Eve. Not because she’s a threat to my ship (I do support Brightwell with all the soul that I have left, tho) but because she was a bad person, who use them all and never, for even a moment, felt sorry.

I also add -- he grew up in a house with manipulators and probably only saw love as the result of said things, with Gil and Jackie being the only ones who weren’t putting conditions on love, so his uneasy feeling, his reservations, that’s just part of love and relationships, right? You can break free of patterns, but you fall back into them suuuper easy. I think he thought he was experiencing the love he wants, ie, that of his second family, but really, he was in the patterns of his first, ie, his darling dad. 

He can’t go home, he can’t follow orders, and he can’t sleep. That’s why he works these cases so hard.

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We haven’t seen the last of Malcolm’s cast:))