#ojka

holland and his girliepops 🤧

Honestly, I never even planned on making this meme, but it turned out to be so funny LOL

thank you for the ask!! this one was harder lolol.

also!! when looking on the wiki, i just realised i missed his birthday!! :((

How I feel about this character

my sexy wife. i wouldn’t not last two minutes in the same room with him without MELTING. not even necessarily from sexiness, just i do not think i could hold a thirty second conversation with him without him relentlessly bullying me. i do not think he would like me. or maybe he would pity me like a v damp cat. ne’ertheless, i adore him. i think i like him how preteen girls like boy bands in that i would chase him down with a sign that says ‘ALUCARD!! I LOVE YOU!!’ in glittery gel pen and despite liking the ego-stroking he’d be like ‘oh my god. get this chick some help.’ i want to sniff him.

edit: alsooo. forgot to mention i always think about the comparisons between him and nikolai lantsov from the grishaverse. like?? privateer, blue eyes, lil bit cocky and vain, actually turn out to be royalty, have a very brief Thing with fmc, introduced in the second book. same person.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

romantically? only rhy. so good for each other. my guy was so down bad. that fucking mirror? don’t play with meee.

sexually (and maybe kinda romantically but only pre-adsom)? kell. obvs. i feel like many of us have resigned ourselves to the fact that the kell/alucard hate sex would go crazyyy. i think some kell/alucard and lila/ojka mirroring would’ve gone crazy. same room even. 🤫

i said this on the lila post, i think, too. i would’ve liked to see some more confused/disturbed/angsty feelings after that time he kissed lila in agos. i wish he’d have led her on a bit more, or that they’d have had a one-night stand, if only to serve the purpose of letting me see angry, pathetic kell.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

anisaaa. anisa, my babyyy. you poor, poor thinggg. i cried at almost every death in the entire series but hers was the first that made me feel physically ill lmao. it was just ohhhh my babiesss. they went though the same things, suffered the same people, and even though they loved each other so so much she just wasn’t strong enough through no fault of her own. </3 it was so much worse after hearing more of alucard’s family life in threads too.

i was going to write here about how much i would’ve loved to see anisa as an aunt to ren but i actually don’t think i can do that without wailing so i shan’t.

My unpopular opinion about this character

i don’t think i have one, honestly!! i don’t think i see people post about him often enough to discern what the popular opinions of him are. if i see a post about him im just like ‘yayyy!! alucard!!’ and dont think too much about it to go ‘oohhh no i disagree’, yk?

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon

ok. stick with me here. even though schwab has said sooo many times that he isn’t a vampire and that she just liked the name, I SO WISH HE WAS. IMAGINE. that time in agos when he sneaks out the inn or wherever and lila notices that he DOESNT MAKE ANY SOUND when he’s usually jangling about the place?? i was fully geared up for the whole ‘i know what you are’ ‘say it’ ‘vampire’ confrontation from twilight between him and lila lmaooo. also. would make my vampire!lila fic so much easier. like if he turned all his crew once they joined the nightspire helloooo. imagine how sick the alucard-lila vampire privateer duo would’ve been.

also i’m think im biased. i love vampires in anything. anything could be improved with vampires.

also?? wasn’t the first thing he did when he saw rhy again kissing his neck?? THE POTENTIAL. SCHWAB, I KNOW YOU HAVE IT IN YOU. 🙏

a real note from my draft: "Right I am coming back to this later after I figure out how to keep Rhy from seducing Hastra ugggh." Sentences I left for myself when I was drafting: "“You’re Queen look it up woman,’s what, fifth daughter?” “Correct answer here,” Cora said, taking the bottle back."

another note: Holland, Osaron, why are you both like this? I leave you alone with Ned for like five minutes...

Previous post here.

I wanna start off by saying that it's been a few years since I made one of these. I read the first book when I was 17, and the second and third book when I was 19. Now I am 25 and I haven't read the Threads of Power books yet, but I plan on doing it sometime in the future.

Since it's been a while, I feel like my casting choices back in 2020 were good, but they could’ve been a little more diversified in the sense of picking actors from different backgrounds and such. I did look at more recent fancastings and as far as I can tell, they're pretty good. Fancasting for me personally makes a lot of sense because oftentimes we’ve read the source material over and over again, so there’s a pretty solid understanding of the ways we can play around with different possibilities for these characters. That is NOT to say the author doesn't know any better, on the contrary, especially when they’re actively working in the production of an adaptation, as we know V has been doing for quite a while.

In the end, this is just something that I do for fun, and at most it’s a suggestion.

Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen as Kell Maresh

Dafne Keen as Lila Bard

Caleb Mclaughlin as Rhy Maresh 

David Corenswet as Holland Vosijk

Anika Noni Rose as Queen Emira Maresh

Idris Elba as King Maxim Maresh

Saiorse Ronan as Astrid Dane

Alexander Ludwig as Athos Dane

Michael Cimino as Alucard Emery

Rodrigo Santoro as Osaron

Amybeth McNulty as Ojka

Starting off with Kell, I think Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen is a really nice choice, he’s a pretty good actor and has the looks, which for Kell, I feel like it’s an important part of his character as a whole, the whole feeling of being isolated by the way he looks next tio his family is mentioned a few times here and there. Having in mind everything regarding Kell Maresh, I ideally would have chosen Domhnall Gleeson in his mid 20’s for this part, however, he’s forty now, so, no.

Now, Lila is kind of a tough choice for me, because, yes, I pictured her as a white, 19 year old, short haired, skinny and tall girl. I chose Zendaya previously, because I felt like she could give Lila a little more dimension on screen, and I was also trying to bring something different to the casting options back then. Nowadays, as I was looking for a good actress to interpret Lila, I came across Dafne Keen, which at first seemed like a bit of an odd choice, because I only knew her through her role in Logan, but after I saw her now, she seems like the perfect onscreen pick for Lila Bard, also having in mind the way her character was written and how she is observing and distrustful of everyone around her? Yeah I feel like Dafne gives off that vibe as well.

Rhy was kind of difficult because his character means a lot to this series as a whole, so it’s crucial to pick an actor that is likeable, mostly younger looking and a good actor overall. I also chose to interpret the Maresh family as black people, I know there’s room for interpretation because I’m not sure V has talked about it a lot, but that’s just how I see them. Most of us are very familiar with Caleb McLaughling’s work in Stranger Things and I like him, to me honestly he gives off major Rhy vibes.

As it is clear, I couldn’t maintain Cillian Murphy as Holland. I feel like he’s great and having to substitute him for someone else does hurt me a little, because Holland is probably on my top 3 ADSOM characters, and from his first appearance all I could think about was that in my mind's eye he looked like Cillian Murphy and I still associate him with Holland. However he’s almost fifty, and even though he doesn’t exactly look it, since I am trying to be mindful about the actors and not exactly their ages, but the age they appear, Holland is supposed to be at most, ten years older than Kell, so that would mean the actor should look like they are in their early to mid 30’s to interpret him. I did a lot of research for this do-over, and as I came across David Corenswet as Superman, I thought “well, this guy could be a great Holland Vosijk”, so I chose him.

I would like to include that I kept Idris Elba as Maxim, and I chose Anika Noni Rose for Emira, also because of the whole trying to be mindful about ages and stuff, not much to say about them, tho.

Saiorse Ronan as Astrid didn’t really cross my mind until now, I think, but I do like this option, I feel like it’s better suited for her nowadays, instead of having her interpret Ojka, as I previously thought. Alexander Ludwig is good, not ideal, but good nonetheless, it’s close enough to what I would’ve liked to choose, ideally it would’ve been Max Riemelt but again, he’s like 40, so no. I honestly don’t think Astrid and Athos are all that important when talking about the casting for Shades of Magic, but I do like to choose actors that I feel could do a good job.

Alucard is my favorite character of this universe, closely followed by Holland. Michael Cimino as Alucard not only makes sense to me, but came to me through a tiktok (yeah, I know). I saw him in some random role with longish hair and I thought "Alucard Emery? let’s fucking GOOOOO", so yeah, not much to say about that. I did look online a lot for a good casting for Alucard but none of them really clicked for me? So this is as good as it’s gonna get for my favorite character.

Ojka, as a character, doesn’t really matter to me that much, but I do think Amybeth McNulty is great and could really shine in this role. I do wanna finish this by saying that Rodrigo Santoro is a god and there's no one else I could want more than him to interpret Osaron. That's just me, though.