LaYma+UnEggshell

Marianne being the heir suddenly subject to sexism that she can’t fight without fear of losing the acceptance of her gender. Roland’s pursuit being appealing not just for his charms but for what it represents. He is a handsome straight man courting her as a girl and a princess and for that she folds, not gladly, but enthusiastically into the role, pursuing skills she’s not talented at or interested in over her own desires in order to suit the picture she must have desired in transition. Only to find it all a lie. Discarding the aspects of womanhood forced upon her in favor of being herself, truly herself, and not the idea of a princess that lives in her father’s head. Willing to be the villain and the outcast now when she wasn’t before, because playing by the rules set for her was an endless source of frustration and grief for a promise of love and fidelity unfulfilled. Meeting Bog who reads her at her most honest, so far from her pitiful attempts at a wedding boutonnière for an overbearing, unfaithful fiancé, and grins and challenges back and calls her Tough Girl, description and affirmation all in one.

oh geez

This is both extremely dramatic and also not canon-esque at all, like i dont see anything remotely like this happening, but it was fun. I do want to see them argue. Not only fight knives-and-guns-blazing, but like an ideological crossroads. In this case: their approaches to their life views. Aside from the obvious ideologies they've adopted from garden and wise, Twilight is very self-sacrificial, seeming not to care about the impact his death would have on those depending on him, putting everything in for the mission. On the other hand, Yor knows the importance of life, she had to live in order for her brother to live, she takes lives up-close so she knows their weight and how easily they can be snuffed out. Therefore, she's more careful about being able to make it home so that she can be there for her family.

with this most recent arc, even though she isn't getting a full view of how much harm he puts himself in, that last panel in the last chapter of him dragging himself in the hospital (although it was funny) kinda got me thinking. What if yor got an inkling of how little he cared for himself? and what if, when confronted about it, he refused to stand down?