#duryodhan

Bheem looks so scared noooo.

Tbf, why would you not tell your mother of such a huge security breach? I'm sure she'd rather be heartbroken knowing than never know what happened to her child.

And drumroll.

Yikes. Kunti no. Beating your kids = Bad. Also he literally didn't do anything? He's the victim here?

Ma'am. If you know he's hurt, why would you add to that hurt???? Colour me confused.

Are Chi- Chi supposed to be twins?

Aayein? I'm not understanding the metaphors here.

Oh.

The actors are fantastic. Whoever is writing the dialogues, please up your game.

Did Kunti ever actually know what happened in time? Because then I actually can't grasp why they didn't become careful immediately.

I will never understand why people keep forgetting that Kunti is a princess. She can go back to Kuntibhoj! She went to the forests before because Pandu was alive. Who gonna stop her now???

Sir, you are not doing a great job rn. I'm glad you recognise that.

I didn't sign up for these bad poems please.

Where's Kunti's luggage????

Also. Why is the drape of her saree different than the drape Gandhari uses? Is it a stylistic choice or did they lowkey forget?

Is there any evidence to support Bhishma was always dressed in white? Or did they just all go 'Yes, this man feels like he'd be dressed for perpetual mourning'?

Again. Kunti is his nephew's wife! Not his grandson's. Why Pitamah???

Why are you guilt tripping her??? Why's it her burden to sacrifice her kids for justice? Why's it their job to withstand assassination attempts?

And that kids, is why we don't make promises without thinking.

Inspired by @sharangapani's post on the IMQ server:

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The babe has tiny feet, and when Kunti tickles them, they gleam gold.

“What a lovely child,” the maid says, despite her disapproval, just as Kunti hides his legs in his swaddle.

Like this, here is nothing special about the child. No great god will ever be traced back from him, no angry demon will seek from him his father’s retribution. Her maid will help her send him away – she is only guarding herself from a girlish folly, not doing something that might anger the gods. So little luck, Kunti thinks, but still, there are some things to be grateful about.

Yudhishthir: For how long?

Vidur: Ten minutes tops.

Happy Pride Month, people✨

Have these two bisexuals in one room. DuryoKar has been my loyal FGO & Mahbharata ship since 2021 😭. It’s the ✨Mitracy✨

Fanart for @chucklingmaniacally's Elevator AU fic

This is what I think Suyo is doing during all this, intimidating a poor security guard :3

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There’s no denying that he’s far from a saint and some of the things he did were awful but I feel like he’s portrayed as such a completely morally black and bankrupt character when it’s sort of far from that.

Like as far as major characters are concerned, he’s the only one who has absolutely no interest or regard in the caste system whatsoever. There’s like three speeches of his that very very clearly show that. His intervention with Karna at their first meeting, although perhaps partly due to opportunism depending on your interpretation, is one of the most honourable scenes in the entire epic to me.

Not once has he ever even implied that Karna’s caste is of any importance and throughout their entire relationship, there was no one who he treated with more love and respect than Karna. Even in general, it’s well established that his judgements of people are based on their individual qualities and not caste.

Again, not saying that he was a good guy at all but he was also known for being generous and a good ruler. He’s almost always interpreted as a power hungry yet incompetent person but that’s also far from the truth. He was Balarama’s favourite student which means that there was a lot of good about him or why would someone like Balarama even bother with him?

Also, being told that on the day of his birth his uncle told his father to kill him and then his mother saying she should have killed him, is not something that anyone should hear lmfao so I think, in certain aspects, his anger is justified.

It’s also very clear that from the start, Krishna was against him. Every act of his towards Duryodhana was deliberately meant to sabotage him in some way. Even Balarama acknowledged this so it’s basically a matter of fact.

So yeah, I’m not saying he was a good guy or that he’s just some misunderstood pookie but I think that not acknowledging some of his very good traits and the fact that everything was rigged against him since day 1 is a disservice to the whole point of the epic.