I can't stop thinking about the music and their vows
-I can't stop thinking about the way you can hear ten years of yearning in each stroke of the violins. Of longing. Pining.
-I can't stop thinking about the way the score is painfully melancholic and how it feels like every second of lost time and all they could have lived together had the gods been kinder. The children they would have shared. The loneliness they would have escaped.
-This score is the moment a lover's hand leaves yours. Their warmth is still present on your skin and yet somehow it seems cruel, a reminder of all that you desire, all that you do not presently have.
-And yet...
-And yet it also feels victorious. Through pain and torment, they have refused to yield. They have been forged in a fire that has hardened them to the world, but with each other...with each other, they are soft. They are safe. And they are filled with a happiness that has been earned one hundred times over.
-In this ceremony but especially this kiss, Daemon and Rhaenyra feel the emptiness of the past fade into the smoke as they are bonded as one, two souls never entirely whole without the other.
-And nothing captures their immeasurable connection quite like the vows, spoken in High Valyrian.
/ Blood of two / Joined as one / Ghostly flame / And song of shadows / Two hearts as embers / Forged in fourteen fires / A future promised in glass / The stars stand witness / The vow spoken through time / Of darkness and light /
-The Stars Stand Witness. There is something so profoundly intimate in this joining, this claiming. This is not the love of a single lifetime. It is something far more ancient.
-This is the story of two souls that have been connected through each and every life, not rooted in the soil, but entwined in the sky, in the very fabric of the universe, unburdened by all that is tangible.
-This is not the first time the stars have stood witness. It will not be the last.
-The Realm's Delight. The Rogue Prince. Joined as one. Now, and always.
“Fyp” we don’t do that here. I mean, Tumblr the app and website tries, but we don't do that here.
“But then how will anyone see it?” peer review.
“How do you get engagement?” by talking and engaging with other people. Or making a devastating typo. Either way.
“But—” Listen, you’re not doing solo stand up anymore. This is a group improv class being held in a SAW dungeon. Good luck.
Angry man has been stuck in my brain for a while now.
listen I'm just *saying* I can think of a few ways they could relieve their frustrations
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obsessed with them
Every khal who ever lived chose three blood riders to fight beside him and guard his way. But I am not a khal.
Daenerys Targaryen in 6.06 “Blood of My Blood”
Giyuu: *smiles brightly*
Sanemi from far away: Who the fuck does he think he is… smiling so brightly like that. He’s so beautiful and he doesn’t even know it. What an asshole.
Uzui: You have to be the only man in the world to complain about your boyfriend being attractive.
Do you believe an argument could be made that after Sanemi “actually” died, he still decided to go to hell for his mom? Or would that not make sense for his arc. For how selfless of a person he is, even after what happened, he’d still go to hell for his mom since she is with their dad or no?
Thank you so much for the ask!! This is a great question!
So, to me, the way Sanemi phrases it makes it sound like he plans to walk his mother to hell and stay for her punishment before returning to his siblings' sides. I think he just didn't want her to be alone but he had no intention of completely leaving behind his siblings and the reason I believe that is this one single panel:
"Besides, if I went there too soon, Genya would be sad."
It sounds to me that Sanemi does intend to be with Genya and the others, just not yet. First, he wants to take care of his mother since she seems to be stuck in some kind of purgatory where she longingly watches her children in shame.
This brings me to a theory: Shizu had the option of going to heaven, similar to Ume, but she chose to go to hell out of shame and guilt for harming her children. Sanemi, accepting her feelings, was willing to guide her there on his back, to be there for her punishment until she was "ready."
As for whether this makes sense for his arc... Sanemi is one of the most self-sacrificial characters in KNY, something I will discuss when I do a dedicated analysis for him (like I did for Genya's birthday, but since I missed Sanemi's birthday...)
It makes perfect sense for the character willing to put literally everything on the line for his baby brother to also sacrifice his very soul for his family.
So, yes, if he were to find Shizu still in that purgatory-like state after he dies, I fully believe he would still carry Shizu on his back to hell.
Thank you again for the ask!
sorry that you think my fictional ship is illegal. I actually consulted a fictional lawyer about it and he had a talk with a fictional cop about the fictional laws and then they both looked at me, and very seriously said "we'll allow it because it's hot."
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