#malloriecobb

favourite headcanon of the team:

THIS IS SO HARD! there are THOUSANDS of incredible ones crafted carefully over the last decade! ahhh

i must admit i am so heavily influenced by the masterpiece that is presque vu (everyone go read this inception prequel right NOW because if it was submitted to nolan he’d turn it into a screenplay - i have no doubt in my mind) that i’m not sure if my headcanons are my own or not?!

ok. i have to pick a fav at random because i have way too many feelings flying about the place.

that mal was the one who introduced her bff arthur to eames. and that she was thrilled they were happy together. and that a large part of why arthur and eames broke up (pre-canon events) is because of the inability to process their feelings after mal died. 

i think this gives the entire film even more depth than the four layers of the fischer job. the heart of the film is not cobb - it’s mal. she binds them all together. and yet we almost never get to see the real mallorie cobb, except through arthur’s eyes. literally his sad eyes when he says, “she was lovely.”

eames fucks off to mombasa, as far away as possible from cobb after mal dies. he can’t handle him. he can’t handle arthur. he can barely handle his own feelings. it’s all too much. mal was the only one that ever gave him cause to be happy, and it all fell apart. none of these men knew how to grieve, and it drove them apart.

arthur stuck with cobb out of loyalty to mal. he’s angry, he’s resentful, he wants out because he hasn’t even been able to mourn his lost relationship with eames.  but he figures the one thing he must do is help cobb get back to his children - mal’s children - because she would want that too. for them. 

ultimately i think cobb is a better person for having experienced mal, both in reality and in dreams, in all her “versions.” he needed that to grow. 

mal changed cobb like she changed arthur and eames. and in coming together for the fischer job, they did precisely what the ambitious mal always wanted them all to do: 

Honestly I never saw the injury as killing her, merely neutralising a target. The spot where Mal was shot, the shoulder, is a classic target for soldiers and policemen alike because you have the largest likelihood of hitting the threat and stopping them - not necessarily killing them, but you’re not getting up from a direct hit to the torso anytime soon. Or at least, that’s my view!

cobb’s guilty projection of mal

i would have thought otherwise... i would have thought she maybe had it in her to be cruel, aggressive, merciless

until

“Oh my God, don’t, don’t freak out okay. It’s not a big deal.” “You slept with him! Oh, my love, I will not say I told you so, but I bet you have so many dimples!” “Two, two dimples, Mal, and yes, I’m happy. You were right.” “Four. I have seen your bare backside.”

Did you know we have a new and active Cobb and Mal?