Torchwood-99

I realized something that's been irking me about the way [Insert a certain ship name here] talks about Azriel.

I'm not sure if this is their intent, but the way they always emphasize Azriel's kindness towards Elain and attach a special meaning to it makes it seem like Azriel isn't a kind person in general?

Like it's giving "Doberman boyfriend who's only nice to her". Which is just... inaccurate.

Azriel is canonically kind to many characters, especially females, in the series. This is a non-exhaustive list off the top of my head:

He's so encouraging and understanding when teaching Feyre to fly in WAR. He gets her rare paint from the Continent.

He's so gentle and caring with Nesta in HOFAS when he's trying to get her to take off the Mask. And in the HOFAS bonus chapter, he reassures her that she would be a good mother despite her own upbringing. He gets her a reading light for Solstice.

He's mindful and considerate with the priestesses during Valkyrie training. The fact that he even agrees to train them despite everything else that he has going on is kind. He's very aware of their boundaries and respects them.

He's kind and supportive to Gwyn when he agrees to give her extra dagger lessons.

AND he is kind to Elain. Of course, I get wanting to emphasize the kind moments of your ship as romantic, but then denying any other kindness could also be romantic feels... Off. Kindness from a kind character isn't inherently romantic.

Azriel is someone who is kind with those he cares for. Romantically or otherwise.

He specifically is said to be sensitive to the treatment of females because of his mother.

𝒲𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃’𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝒾𝓉!! 💖

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You might argue that her story wrapped up in ACOSF, but Sarah made the choice to put that plotline in her hands.

My first conversation about PCOS with my new endocrine/OBGYN was about weight management and how that could improve my fertility when I eventually wanted kids. It wasn't asked what my goals were for my health or if I wanted kids, just assumed.

I was a hormonal, depressed mess. I hated my body. My body dysmorphia was so bad that I cloistered myself away from so much. I wore hoodies and jeans in the 90°F, 80% humidity summers. This was considered fine. I was given metformin and birth control pills and told this was all that could be done. That PCOS wouldn't affect my life until I wanted to be pregnant. I wasn't asked if I wanted to be pregnant, just assumed.

I don't know how many PCOS groups I joined on my early 20s hoping to find community and commonality for body dysmorphia and symptom management, only to be bombarded with fertility treatments and tips and 'inspirational conception' anecdotes. They never asked if I was attempting to conceive, just assumed.

like…..maybe this is just what I’VE seen but I feel like the ‘Gywn’ isn’t relevant idea has just exploded recently…

Coincidentally it happened after the Valkyrie Promo.

And it’s amazing: Gwyn introduced us to the Valkyries and was the first to officially become one.

Gwyn and Emerie, the former glancing toward Azriel, who watched in silence. “So show me what you learned. Cut the ribbon in two.” we slice the ribbon in two,” Emerie asked Gwyn warily, “and our training is complete?”

Gwyn again glanced to Azriel, who drifted closer. She said, “I’m not entirely sure.”

They were gone for a whole week, and by the time they returned, the beam had already been installed. What happened between Gwyn and Azriel during that time? How did they interact 👀

And then Gwyn looks to him for reassurance, and Azriel drifts closer, almost instinctively, like he's trying to comfort her.

Faramir gives Éowyn a ring with a sea blue gem of Dol Amroth that belonged once to his mother Finduilas. It is a strange gem that shifts in color depending on the nature of light that it reflects. In bright sunlight it shines greenish turquoise, like the clear water of the quays of Dol Amroth in summer. In cloudy weather it becomes silver-gray as the sea in a storm, and in candlelight it looks almost purple, in the way that the ocean reflects the violet shades of coming night.

Faramir gives this ring to his bride-to-be out of love for his mother and her people and as a symbol of renewal of the joy of his house. Yet to Éowyn it takes on different meaning: child of the plains she knows little of the moods of the sea, and instead to her the stone is one of air and wind and sky. All her life she has stared upward at it, wide and arcing. She knows its moods and habits. When the gem sparkles bright blue in the sunlight, she knows that it is the color of a peaceful clear morning, or of a warm afternoon of light wind and endless possibility.

When the gem desaturates of color, she understands it to have taken on that pewter hue of building storms, and instead candlelight the gem sparkles with the violet of last light, of night rising like a wave or a wall and marching steadily over the open lands of the Mark.