Oct 24, 2025
I don't think that my ships are too niche, I think of myself as roughly on par with the average reader. Anyway, here's Dalinar/Jaxlim.
#jaxlinar#shipping#jaxlim#dalinar#venli#eshonai#LISTEN IT MAKES SENSE WITHIN THE PROPER CONTEXT OKAY??????#the proper context being a specific au that mel told me about#it's not about dalinar or jaxlim. it's about bridge four. but dalinar ends up captured in narak at the end of wok in it. because reasons.#and listen.....if he's gonna be in narak........#dalinar does some proto-bondsmithy thing and connects to jaxlim somehow. and he inadvertently pulls her into his visions.#and while there she's fine she's lucid and they talk a lot and she sings him her songs and they fall in love#and in the waking world she doesn't know who he is and there's this really tragic dissonance#she teaches him about her people's history. she asks him to look after her daughters because she can't anymore.#and then he really awkwardly tries to insert himself into their lives as their stepfather#obviously he and eshonai would get along great. i think that dalinar would have tried to adopt her on the spot if they'd ever spoken.#wait they did speak didn't they. well he was in his sad drunk man era so that doesn't count. he needs to be in his way of kings era.#(we're STILL workshopping our warform eshonai design)#as for venli (and here you can see why i've latched onto jaxlinar) they have nothing at all in common but he tries really hard anyway.#dalinar attempts to show interest in her life and do fatherly bonding. and she's in the middle of her peak evil science era.#she's out here trying to rediscover forms of power and#dalinar's just like ''hi venli :) what are you up to :) you know i have a sister who's also into this stuff :)'' and she's like ''go away''#and he's like ''your mother loves you very much by the way :)'' and she's like ''seriously fuck off''#it would be amazing. try to tell me that wouldn't be amazing.
