I like to think Hidimbi was jacked af
YES SHE WAS AND I LOVE THOSE TWO SO MUCH. FAVE HET SHIP APART FROM IG SHALAKA X SHIKHANDI(which imo is more homemade)
Yk a cool thing I do? In his head, Bheem refers to hidimba as his lover. And Draupadi as his beloved.
Listen I have 2 hidimbaa wips no scratch that I have 3 and I'm gonna take this ask as an excuse to talk about them.
Beginning era, where it's just them falling in love. Age gap trope. Bheem is younger. Dogri Hidimbaa. Eldritch Hidimbaa. Hidimbaa so jacked bheem is smol and pookie by her standards. Starts crackily, Ends angstily.
She wolf whistled. He looked back only once, only to see her tired smile as she held ghatotkach in one arm. She waved at him.
"Don't shed tears for me, pretty boy!" she shouted. She was not following her own advice, bheem thought from her tone of voice. He swallowed the lump in his throat and waved at her only once before disappearing into the valley.
Hidimba and Draupadi meet. No cannibalism arc bcos we hate that shit. Gharjawai ghatotkach who stays with mauravi. Mauravi is suspiciously like bheem.
"You'd like your brother, I think," Bheem said.
"How old is he?"
"He was fifteen when I had to leave,"
"And now?"
"Must be about twenty two or so,"
"Baby!!!" Ghatotkach squealed.
Bheem visits hidimba in the forest after the war.
Slowly, the crowd dissipated, only Hidimba left before the dying fire. She didn’t scream or cry or weep. He thought she would curse him, but even that would have been preferable compared to her icy calm. He thought she would wail, and he deserved it. He deserved everything she threw at him, and it still wouldn’t be enough to absolve him. He finally felt brave enough to approach her.
Sitting down beside her, he picked up a stick, trying to poke and rekindle the fire with it. But before he could, a hand on his arm stopped him.
“Let it be,” She sighed. “There’s no use trying to rekindle something that has already been extinguished.”
“Forgive me, Hidimba, I-”
“I have, Bheem,” She said softly, her brown eyes boring into his soul. “It is the only reason you are alive,”