#raphabelle

A collection created to gather all the works where Raphael/Isabelle is the main pairing in one place so people don’t have to wade through search results in the AO3 ship tag. 

The collection is open but moderated so anyone can add to it, but your work won’t appear until it’s been approved by the moderators. Only works where Rizzy is the main paring will be approved.

If you want to add your work to the collection, put isabellexraphael in the “Post to Collections/Challenges” box when you’re creating/editing your work.

The link to the collection can be found here.

At first I really didn’t like the two of them together-- they started off in a really bad way. They were mutually swept up in addiction, and there was gross, manipulative behavior on both sides. So, despite how much I loved the vampire-aesthetic beauty of them together, it was pretty damn toxic for two of my favorite characters. It seemed to bring out the worst in them, and I wanted it to stop for both their sake’s.

But then things began to change.

Despite the blood-drinking, Raphael and Isabelle started to talk. They began to open up to each other. They fought their mutual addiction, and both of them became more vulnerable and emotionally intimate with each other than I’ve seen either of them be with anyone else. And on top of that there was acceptance, affection, self-sacrifice, support, and yes, romance.

A lot of my favorite ships involve characters who I can imagine to be on the ace spectrum like me. It’s just... more relatable to me, and it’s comforting, and I’m hungry for that representation. With Raphael’s character I don’t have to imagine it-- it’s already there, and that is so, so important. And Isabelle’s acceptance of him is everything, too.

Alec: Goes from

parents: “ALEXANDER” to please-ignore-my-existence-alec (to Magnus seductively saying Alexaander)

Izzy: Goes from