#arylie

It's SO good to be back playing tera <3

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It was enchanting to meet you ✨

I love em so much!💙

This promo does NOT have the right to be so good.

It just simply doesn’t (especially with lyrics so poignant).

It hits everything right. It doesn’t shy from acknowledging that Imlie has loved, has been burnt and it was a story she shouldn’t have been in the first place. Nothing right could’ve ever come from forcing a 35 years old man to marry an 18 years old girl because of archaic societal norms.

That despite that man validating that relationship or Sita Maiyya hinting that perhaps this was her true path considering she had walked in with the feet of a bride, this was not right.

It never was.

There she should be, on a tree in her grounds in her clothes, swinging happily as a 19 years old should.

Not bound by her altruism or makings a bahu.

But just a woman.

And there’s Aryan. With his barely there smile, his precious time spent like sand, for he’s resting by his car and watching her aching tenderness. The clash of his car on her simple surroundings doesn’t stand out like a sore thumb, but is there like a reassuring presence.

They’ve changed without changing🥹 we see Aryan for what he is. A protector of her happiness. One with love as divine as possible.

And Imlie’s smile doesn’t fall for she’s being watched. No, it’s her soft hesitation for the moment she sees him. It’s almost like she’s seeing him for the first time.

Not the mentor, the friend, or a stubborn boss.

No, for a second what flickers in her head is as loud as Sita Maiyya’s burst of blessing. That the soulmate one talks of - the one with whom you take all the vows and is blessed by divine intervention -

Has been standing in front of her all along.

And the beauty of it all happening in the most inconsequential day - when she’s on a swing and he’s standing by her car. Kuch nahi, par sab kuch.

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Note: knowing itv and Imlie though I know the nuance of this might never be explored but the sheer joy this promo provoked in me made me feel so much. There was a tenderness and maturity here I didn’t expect otherwise.