TO BE QUEEN.

as for oryx, she didn’t go into that fight believing she would win - she knew from the beginning the sacrifice that would result in her challenging him and it should be noted that the only reason the guardian was able to get to oryx in the first place was because of what the reef awoken did.  i.e. sacrificing themselves and clearing out the majority of oryx’s ships to clear a path for the guardian.

personally, i feel like mara could have taken oryx herself but chose not to because ... politics. but that’s not smth i wanna digress about rn.

mara is literally one of the oldest characters in the game and knows A Lot More than people seem to think. so yeah, she’s gonna be a know-it-all -- she’s lived for hundreds of years and seen a Lot Of Shit and i absolutely believe she knows more than us/our guardians, that’s just Facts. y’all think she’s being mean when it seems like y’all are bothered by the fact that she doesn’t feel beholden to guardians like everyone else in the galaxy seems to. 

deathless sentence prompts          /          accepting.

spoken in a low murmur, his voice rumbles ━━ words echoing in an otherwise empty throne room. this confession, uttered in private, was meant for the twilight’s ears alone. he bares himself before her, seated at the foot of the throne; not in an act of fealty ━━ but as a guest, as a lover.

broad shoulders guide the queen’s thighs apart, while hands claim soft curves for his own. she finds him then, lost in the shifting fabric of silk and lace; slender fingers winding their way through cardinal locks. ❛ i am not naive to your ferocious nature; i have been privy to what you are capable of. ❜ she lures him upwards, lips parting to capture his own; feeding the hunger that stirs within them both. ❛ ━━  and i am still breathing. ❜