Latest Posts by mysticpeony - Page 5

inej: wait, why would heleen get the crow club?

kaz:

The tags are everything. Ben's eyes will be the death of us all.

The fact that Alina was walking around with her internal monologue like, “I tried to think of anything but the stormcloud color of his eyes” about the man she supposedly hated. Lol.

When it comes to Ben Barnes' evil characters my moral compass goes out the window. Am I sorry? Not really. LOOK AT HIM. The crush will be eternal.

#tfw he literally turns you on 😏

Imagine having this

And then this

And not rule the world with him together when he offered? Hm, Alina sweetie, pls reconsider your life choices sis.

The Darkling, cruel and terrible villain, smiling at the camera while Alina, his sun wife and queen of Ravka, take pictures of him and his buddy.

I love this man.

Omg not ben saying he's the one who also improvised the "are you sure" I??? Lmfaoooo the way he's carrying darklina on his back if it wasn't for him I'm sure we wouldn't have gotten most of the little things we love about them love that for us but also it just makes me even more convinced that they had and have no intention of further developing darklina and although he's going to be doing the most, actors can only do so much in the end it's the writers who have 99% of the creative control so it's a loosing game when the creator hates your characters' and ships guts

God did he also improvise that??? Ben will not rest until he adds verbal consent to all of his sex scenes even if he’s a villain. Bastard does it with Billy Russo too. Someone stop him (but don’t, I love it).

Ben actually has a pretty large amount of creative control over the Darkling it seems. He was able to get book lines in there, clearly they let him do a lot of improvisations. He got to expand on the character’s emotions a lot. So I’m pretty sure he’ll keep fighting for the Darkling’s humanity until the very end and I love him for it

THIS IS IT. MY THOUGHTS IN WORDS.

Look look look look look look. look. Here’s the thing, 90% of the time I couldn’t give a shit about villains and their tragic backstories. BUT FOR SOME REASON, Aleksander Morozova makes me absolutely feral. I am obsessed with the fact that he, the Darkling, the Black Heretic, was a hero. He was nearly killed by his own kind when he was a child and it made him PROTECTIVE of Grisha. He knew it would have never happened if Grisha could have a safe place in the world and he wanted so badly to create that. 

He fought and won wars for kings to put Grisha in a better light, he fought against a king to try and save Grisha. Episode seven showed how he was practically the leader of a rebellion, the role so many book protagonists have. And he watched as people he cared about, the people he fought for, were killed through years and decades and centuries while he lived on. He was the hero that had been pushed over the edge, that became a villain because trying to save his people the “right” way had failed him one too many times. 

Of course his intentions warped but he can’t stop because he’s so close and he’s lived too long to believe that any other way could work. But that core desire of Grisha no longer having to be afraid shines through even in his cruelty and it makes you feel like he could have been saved, could have been redeemed if things had turned out differently. 

No, but seriously. How did he get the irises? Because I like to picture this man running in the middle of the garden, guarded by his own shadows, looking desperately for blue irises. This is a hundred times more entertaining than him just asking a servant for a bouquet of flowers. It's hilarious guys, picture him running. I can't. He's a dork.