#costia

Chapter 7 is posted!! Read it here.

Hoping to prove Heda Lexa is weak, Nia sends assassins to kill her mate, Clarke. Heartbroken by her loss, Lexa pours all of her focus into leading the Coalition. But, eventually, she meets Costia who teaches her to love again.

More of Costia and Odessa bc I love them

I drew mine and @prettythinginthehouse’s girlies 🤭

performance art in general is actually very popular among grounders, delfiyon people are known for their aerial yoga. it’s something they do recreationally as well as for the entertainment of others. it’s commonly performed in delfiyon but during events held in polis or really any other clans territory delfiyon people are more than happy to perform and unlike yujleda and their fire shows they are plenty willing to teach people from other clans their abilities.

they will hang their hammocks from tall trees, ruins or whatever else they have given the circumstances as their aren’t many trees growing through the cement floors of polis. most often they use red hammocks but they aren’t picky over colour. opposite to yujleda’s fire shows which are accompanied by loud music they perform in silence. the only sound you can hear is the crowd who usually keep a respectful silence aside from natural reactions to the art.

being that aerial yoga is incredibly popular in delfiyon culture the vast majority of their population are well trained in the art. most learn the skill as children and only get better with age. that said it’s quite impressive how skilled the children are even at a young age. traveling through delfiyon territory at a peaceful time you’ll see groups of grounders practicing for pure recreational purposes, a few people will watch but it’s so common that the recreational version is nothing special.

Sry for the ramble

Meh

I mean she's beautiful no doubt but I just can't see her as Costia. She's too delicate looking or something, idk I can't put my finger on it. But I don't look at that face or her Google images and think ooo yeah that gives me grounder Costia, first love of Heda Lexa, vibes 😕 she's just kinda... forgive me here... basic compared to other Costia hcs, not to mention the way E played Miss Clarke Griffin 💅

Like I feel a good casting should be if character A had to choose between characters B and C, would it actually be a challange to choose. Does each option bring something special to the table? I don't see none of that with her.

Dat's just my opinion tho

I wasn't privy to any of that but omg lol I know the fandom was kinda the wild wild west especially between s2-3 so it wouldn't surprise me. I don't remember the 8th nightblood thing but I wasn't as heavily into the fandom then as I became later but honestly Costia could've been such an interesting piece of the Lexa puzzle, and they just did nothing with it. Everything that had the potential to be interesting they left to the waste side.

I like to think of Costia as a childhood friend or someone Lexa saw around the tower all the time as she grew up. I love the idea of this fierce little future noodle-armed heda getting moments of being allowed to be soft and silly when she'd hide away with her beautiful friend as they slowly fell in love (well... Lexa not that slowly. Girl is a gay mess bless her). Practicing her heda strut for Costia to critique ("You're walking like your pants are too tight." "That's because they are." "... Well never mind then.") Teaching herself not to smile even when she wants to as a very willing Costia tests Lexa's resolve. Listening to Costia quietly rant about the conclave system and Titus and everything Lexa has to go through. I like thinking of her as this person that keeps Lexa soft in the moments when Titus is yammering about love being weakness and even after she's gone, that same safety she gave Lexa inspires Lexa to have a more hands on teaching role with the natblidas.

I doubt she'd ever have a throne because that would take away from Lexa's sovereignty and that could never be allowed to happen. Just objectively that really couldn't happen in that political atmosphere. But I also don't know about the warrior thing. Maybe but idk. I highly doubt she was naive at all because that is just so not at all Lexa's type. Lexa gets hot and bothered over strong and self assured women. Even when they were fighting Lexa was salivating and visibly wanted to jump Clarke's bones every time she was assertive and strong willed. I can't imagine Costia didn't share at least some of those same traits. Lexa likes strong women 🤷‍♀️