Mar 25, 2023
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"I present Nikolai Lantsov" // inspired.
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Mal Oretsev & Alina Starkov & Nikolai Lantsov in SHADOW AND BONE season 2
Shadow and Bone x Crazy Ex-Girlfriend lyrics (part 2)
I’m writing a version of what Season 3 of Shadow and Bone might have been (currently at almost 35k words)
And I do ship Alina/Nikolai. And I do ship Alina/Mal. And I am so desperate to let them live in a polycule at the end, because I do also very much ship Alina/Mal/Nikolai.
But I am trying so hard also to stay true to the spirit, structure, and likelihood of the Netflix show that I have Netflix executives in my head. In my head. Telling me I can’t have the polycule.
Devastated.
My favorite thing about Shadow and Bone is how hard Nikolai is crushing on Malina. Like Alina and Mal are just going “aww, that’s my best friend Nikolai” and he is making heart eyes staring longingly at them and pulling all of his best lines and sitting sadly in a chapel and giving them everything he has. Justice for Sobachka 😔✊
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a Nikolai gif set a day keeps the nichevo'ya away
#i’ve made it out of the nichevo'ya attack that happened when i stopped making these #to offer you some more malkolina content :)
i fr love mal and alina’s ending! so fun fresh and healthy to have these two characters who are extremely codependent actually decide to discover who they are outside of each other. take some time apart, try your hand at a new occupation, add a third to your relationship, etc
i think what enthralls me most about mal/alina/nikolai is that i don't THINK the polyamory was intentional at all. or at least not the specific polyamory i'm reading. like, i think the intent was to subvert the trope of an angry rebellious royal and an angry rebellious chosen one who refuse to form basic political alliances through marriage even though it just makes fucking sense. and then i think the writers' further intent was to distance mal and nikolai from their worst shitheadery in the books by uniting them thru a deep emotional bond and genuine respect and trust and care for each other. like. it's an arranged-marriage throuple that has a lot of potential for toxic misery and the writers wanted to sidestep that by going "okay, but maybe it's more interesting if they're all friends who love each other instead"
then the EXECUTION of that concept is like. not only are nikolai and mal so chill with the other dating their girlfriend that that Alone makes the polyamory pseudo-canon, but nikolai and mal's friendship is also -- apparently intentionally?? -- written with a SHITLOAD of parallels to nikolai and alina's relationship???
i think the intention in THAT is to reinforce how nikolai and alina have a strong non-romantic platonic partnership. because nikolai does the same things that he does with alina with mal, too! who, you know, is a man! and who is not nikolai's betrothed! see! everyone is such good friends!! :D
and so of course the way it reads onscreen to me, spiders georg polyamory kitkat, is just. nikolai has two hands. and is bisexual. and wants to crawl into bed with both alina and mal so bad it's fucking UNREAL,
they're perfect. polyamory rights.