#buildhope

it was too dark to see much  for the longest time .   everything happened so fast ,   one moment they were walking together and the next ,   everyone were running and everyone were being attacked .   couldn’t really see who attacked them .   couldn’t really see the people she traveled with either .   running away was the only option .   felt like it anyways .   went on this mission because she saw the state of alexandria   &   she knew isadora didn’t have the resources right now to help .   not with feeding a whole community .   so she wants to help where she can ,   even if it was dangerous .   made a promise to come back to elina ,   and she always keeps it .   only these guys were dangerous .   clearly .   they were good .   and now she just needs to find alden .   follow a trail and while she hope it’s alden ,   she can’t really know before going into the church .   knife in hand while she tries pushing the door open ,   but it doesn’t really budge .   not at first ,   takes a few tries .   but there’s a crash and something falls before the door swing open a little bit .   enough for her to squeeze through .   walks closer and there’s some hesitation at first .   there’s a lot of blood and she can’t even tell if he’s breathing .   down on her knees next to him   &   hand find his shoulder ,   eyes slowly search across him .     

oh. my god. CJ. you can't do this to me!!!!!!! you simply cannot!!!!! the way i yelled when i got this message because I CANNOT. god. listen. spencer, emily, aria, and hanna are just my children. i cannot choose between them! they're my children! you can't choose between your children! ot4: i trust these girls with my life! they're everything!

shout out to alison and mona who i also love dearly and consider liars but aren't quite at spencer/emily/aria/hanna levels of adoration.

but yeah gosh. i adore all of those girls and would go to bat for them any day. almost as fiercely as they do for each other.

spencer with her laser focus and deep-seated need to solve the puzzle and inability to step back or let go even when, especially when, she would be better off for it; spencer with her big, big tender heart that she wears on her sleeve just begging to be seen and loved and recognized as something other as the Smart One the Strong One because she's just so TIRED can't she just rest. spencer who is known for being sharp and confrontational but really is just the biggest sweetheart who cries if you look at her funny. she just makes my heart HURT so much sometimes it feels like it'll give out.

emily!!! angry protective romantic 'the weakest link wants some payback' emily with the most graphic and colorful descriptions of people having ungodly things done to them despite being mistaken for the nice sweet inoffensive liar. fiercely protective and loyal all the way down to her bones angel who has so much empathy for people who are misunderstood and who is so willing to open her heart despite everything. emily who wakes up 3 hours before the marins to make them a gourmet breakfast when she's staying with them and can't fathom the idea of calling people's parents by their first names because it's so ingrained in her to be polite. so goddamn relatable.

ARIA! oh my gosh my baby girl. i cannot get over aria. i have such incredible love for her and her love of romance and her pink streaks and how goddamn protective she is and absolutely fucking ruthless she can be in defense of the people that she loves. how closely she keeps things to her chest and how deeply she feels. i love her art and her writing and how she expresses herself and how independent she is and how hard she fights for love. imo the best dressed liar not to get CONTROVERSIAL. but just. oh my goth baby darling and her skirt made out of ties. SO many iconic lines. how do i say this nicely. MONA'S THE DEVIL. she just makes me so happy. she was so close to having such a powerful arc and i will fix it i will.

hanna banana who is so fucking self-aware and emotionally intelligent like oh my god. this girl could run circles around so many people i love how well she knows herself and how in tune she is with symbols and places and how intuitive she can be. how much compassion she has and how willing she is to risk everything for the people she loves. the marins in general are just so special to me i have so much love for this family. hanna who became rosewood's queen not through fear and intimidation but actual genuine likability.

if i like. absolutely HAD to choose.. probably emily or aria because i feel like they need me the most. @lingeringscars has spencer covered. but i feel like emily is so often written off as nice/boring or treated like a love interest in her own story and i'm just like do you not SEE her do you not SEE my daughter how do you not see that she is the best girl in the world.

and then aria i'm so protective of aria she's so often misunderstood and with the aria/ezra nonsense she NEEDS it you know. the show did her so dirty and so i have to fix it i will fix it i will do that for her. i will do anything for that baby.

Send 🎰 for me to put our muses into a random list generator then post the first five as potential ships! // always accepting !!

spencer. ngl i kinda have feelings about their arcs almost paralleling each other? ( modern alden ). just growing up in this family where you feel like you don’t belong and don’t support the majority of their actions and not wanting to perpetuate that. idk maybe they grew up knowing each other / of each other because her family being on retainer for his ( i can just casually make peter a corporate lawyer ). then them going off and spencer working in advocacy & alden owning his own business and she comes home and they meet up again in his bar or s/t. 

layla. all i really got here are powerful families. i don’t really know a way to connect them outside of like... layla hearing him sing and trying to convince him to join her record label or s/t lmao.

juliet. similar to what i said w/ yumiko. i feel like they’d probably butt heads a lot but over time juliet learns to adjust and want a simpler life. she could probably learn to do construction if she wanted to. i have no reason to believe that they make cars work again in t.wd the way they do in t.100 & l.ost but she did eventually become a mechanic so instead of that she learns to build houses i guess idk. 

janine. janine is rose’s ( @tocomefirst ) mom & is just super straight-laced and into her job. very big on formalities and would probably call him mr. mendler if she worked for his fam sorry alden. she’s a bodyguard but i could probably easily switch it to regular guard.