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Irelia literally experienced an invasion that destroyed her country and got her whole family killed when she was 14, her mother, father, grandmother and four siblings, all gone in a night. she witnessed her whole clan get slaughtered and she somehow survived. She absolutely DETESTS noxus and wants nothing more than to avenge her family.

yes, Riven was part of the Noxian invasion but listen! Riven didn't know that Noxus was essentially planning a complete massacre, she was lied to, she was an orphan that was brainwashed and molded into something she never truly chose for herself because she had literally nothing else (her own family dead, her mother dead because of her, not really, but you know. died giving birth to her). She was betrayed too, bearing unwilling witness to scenes of horror and betrayal by her own people that would haunt her forever. Ionia forgave Riven but she gave herself up when Noxus came to hunt her down because she didn't want any more Ionian blood to be spilled because of her. she is redeemable. she exiled herself from the only family she had ever known, a family that used and betrayed her in horrific ways and willingly became their prisoner. Irelia should break her free. they should team up and fuck up Noxus together. ALSO let me get a little delusionally poetic for a moment. they both wield broken blades. they are half of a whole, incomplete. they are each other's blade's missing piece.

(all they have ever known is to BE a weapon, be a blade. Irelia to avenge her family and Riven to prove that she BELONGS to one only to have everything taken away from her anyway)

LOOK AT THESE BABES

also they have these icons, riot COME ON.

contractions are everything. just smash some words together and i guarantee you, someone out there’s said it

y’all = you guys. functions as a plural you.

all’a y’all = all of you, makes sure people know you mean ALL of them

you can get wild from there with things like these:

y’all’re = you all are

y’all’d’ve = you all would have

how’d’ya = how did you/how do you (meaning is implied by context)

and of course, y’ain’t = you are not

ain’t is the same thing as isn’t

you can use ain’t like ‘ain’t it funny?’

but you don’t use isn’t it, it’s usually ‘innit funny?’

wasn’t branches off into weren’t and wudn’t cos we have a tendency to drop the ‘s’

weren’t is usually used with a double negative = “weren’t nothing we could do”

wudn’t is when there’s no double negative = “wudn’t much we could do”

doesn’t branches off into don’t and dudn’t but there’s no rule that i can see for what to use when

‘don’t seem like much of a problem’ is used as often as ‘dudn’t seem like much of a problem’

going back to innit, there’s a tendency to tack an ‘it’ onto the end of words that aren’t already southern slang, this gives you things like innit (isn’t it) and lookit/lookat (used like ‘lookit him over there’)

also you can just straight up drop words if you the meaning can be understood without it

s’okay = it’s okay

‘m = in place of i’m (don’t use this all the time)

s’not = it’s not/is not

dropping more letters! if you can drop the ‘g’ at the end of a verb, that’s good. also, you can drop the ‘d’ from and if you wan’t to use ‘an’ but don’t over saturate your work with it. you can also occasionally drop the ‘t’ from the end of just, ending up with ‘jus’

you can smush together anything that’s asking a question with either you or to

hafta = have to

howta = how to

don’tcha = don’t you

won’tcha = won’t you

or if you want to get REAL southern ‘ain’tcha’ (used like ‘ain’tcha got something else to do’ = isn’t there something else you can do)

also, we have a tendency to not use the word ‘really’ to describe something, instead we use ‘real’

i.e. real big, real mean, real cute as opposed to really big, really mean, really cute

another phrase you can throw in is ‘and all’

used like ‘ain’t safe cos’ of the floodin’ an’ all’

ALSO I FORGOT: you can change anything that ends with a ‘ve’ except for i’ve into an a

shoulda = should’ve

coulda = could’ve

woulda = would’ve

i’da = i would’ve/should’ve/could’ve depending on context

Yelena is working on her laptop while eating some snacks. Kate comes up behind her and hugs her from behind.

Kate: what are you up to?

Yelena:… prepping for the mission. *she looks down at the bag of hot cheetos* and having a snack. What do you want?

Kate: nothing but your love. Can’t I just appreciate how beautiful my girlfriend looks while she is busy working?

Yelena, puts down her laptop and turns to look Kate in her eyes: what did you do?

Yelena: What a nerd.