Varadha Raja Mannar's Salaar

The moment I played this movie my yaoi senses were tingling.

Their dynamic is such that Deva has an unwavering devotion towards Varadha. Inseparable since childhood, Deva reads his Varadha without needing words. No one hurts Varadha and walks away unscathed. Not when Deva is there. In an extreme sense he's ready to kill and die for him.

Varadha knows exactly how to tame that storm. But that's not what defines their dynamic, at least not to me. Varadha, plausiblly the next dhora of Khansar, shows his vulnerable side when he's with his Deva. He gets drunk and rests on Deva's lap and Deva instinctively caresses him. That's my favorite scene of them by the way. Another scene that I love is when Varadha asks the cook to add more chilli because he knows that’s what Deva likes. It may sound silly but I believe love is in the little things.

see i'd do a full length fic but I don't have the patience rn but i have the itch for salaar so I'm doing this. cheap i know lol.

I like to think that varadha has low spice tolerance. see, deva only eats food if it's spicy enough to scald a normal person's throat. and naturally as a varadeva shipper (but also a self shipper with both but hey man i just work here) i like the opposites between them both.

literature nerd? literature nerd. definitely used to read to deva in their free time when they were kids. I like to think he has the Nibandhanai/Nibandhan memorised.

half-malayali from his mom's side because I said so

were there any pointers to where varadha was when he was a Kapu/Governer? honestly the fact that I can't remember tells me that I need to watch salaar for the fourteenth time. but i like to think he studied abroad :) (i dont even know if khansaar has schools or not man)

professional ragebaiter to deva I'll be honest

pretty good at fighting with weapons. without them? ehhh that's what deva is here for. i think he'd prefer sharp weapons like daggers or swords. who knows man