#laudna cr

sheras-strap:

watching just ashley’s reaction to this scene is so fun

ratkingdad:

raptortooth:

The interesting thing is that Imogen is perfectly able to find out for herself when someone is lying, at times whether she wants to or not, but made no attempt to listen for Laudna’s real intentions.

So the question is whether she’s more afraid of proving herself right, or proving herself wrong. Because if she believes Laudna lied to her she doesn’t have to think about the consequences for herself or for Laudna. She can be as angry as she wants. It was Laudna who played a trick on her, not her who stood by and did nothing while her closest friend begged for help.

stickandthorn:

I think my favorite thing about the conflict between Imogen and Laudna is that it relies so heavily on their previous dynamic. They spent the entirety of early episodes overlooking each other’s flaws and doing everything they could to fully support the other. They were their lifeline to human connection after a long time completely isolated from everyone else. And so this absolute shattering of Imogen’s picture of Laudna is going to be completely heartbreaking for her imo, because until now she didn’t really acknowledge the fact that Laudna was, like everyone, flawed. Well, I think the better way of phrasing it is that even if she did see Laudna was flawed, she was unable to see how those flaws could affect her. She might be flawed to everyone else, but for her she would never be. She refused to see that Laudna had the potential to hurt her, even unintentionally. And so this inability to see anything wrong beforehand led this one large, but genuine mistake, to be world shattering for her. Because as a greatly impactful, greatly harmful action directly towards Imogen, it is impossible to ignore, and so feels like an ultimate betrayal. At least, that’s the vibes I’m getting. We’ll wait for next episode to see more. 

relaxnotshaveeyebrows:

can we talk about matt last night during That Whole Thing. the way he plays delilah is downright scary. in both the literal sense of her being an evil witch but also the way he keeps track of everything so flawlessly. it’s so so clear that he’s been having delilah bide her time, patiently waiting for the perfect moment to get her hands on that rock. maybe she was building power, maybe she needed imogen to hand it over willingly, but the way matt describes the feeling at the back of laudna’s neck in the way he knows will get laudna/marisha to act on it is amazing. the manipulation from delilah. making it seem like laudna’s own worries for her friend. increasing as she’s taking too long to ask for the rock but not pushing too hard to spook her away. in one moment, she gets herself all this power, isolates her host from the group, shatters laudna’s sense of autonomy, establishes a terrifying power over laudna, and lives to fight another day.

fuck-off-im-ace:

Imagine being Laudna right now tho.

One minute you’re on a skyship, enjoying the view and the calm weather, and the next you’re being attacked by strange creatures you’ve never seen before. Before you can do much about it, Orym is overboard, and you barely manage to hold on, to give him a chance, and then Imogen, your Imogen, is flying (since when can she fly?!) and rescuing him from certain death. A few hours later and she’s confessing to feeling different ever since Orym found that crystal, and being more angry, irrational, and you can feel the weird energy from the rock. You take it, because it feels dangerous, but maybe if you figure out what it is you can protect Imogen, and you’re being careful, so careful, but then it’s burning your hand and next thing you know the rock is broken and “you lied” and then Imogen is just gone and Delilah is laughing and oh god what have you done how did it go so bad so quickly and suddenly you’re thinking that maybe there are worst things than dying

xanthera:

Can’t wait for Laudna to do something extremely dangerous and/or self-sacrificial to try to win back Imogen’s trust. Either she’ll do something needlessly destructive that causes collateral damage in an “I would break the world for you” moment of being truly scary-scary, or she’ll put herself in harm’s way in order to protect Imogen in a fight because she values Imogen’s safety more than she does her own. Alternatively, if Laudna hasbeen sparing Imogen the details of her death, she might decide to tell her the full story of what Delilah did in order to prove to her that no, Laudna would never do what that bitch wanted, not after everything she did she did to her. Reliving her trauma is a small price to pay for Imogen’s trust. She hasto believe that Laudna didn’t mean to break the crystal if she shares those painful memories that she doesn’t want to think about. Right?

Anyway, I don’t know how it’s going to happen, but Laudna is definitely going to hurt herself somehowfor Imogen’s sake, and it’s gonna hurt real bad (:

laudna’s broken “a-all right” after imogen says she’s gonna go to bed. i’m gonna be thinking about that for the rest of my life

relaxnotshaveeyebrows:

okay but if laudna starts to distance herself from the group as a whole in fear of delilah taking control and hurting one of them again i am retiring

quinn-of-aebradore:

Oh Delilah fucking drained the power from the Gnarlrock for herself, didn’t she? She’s gonna try to take over Laudna’s body eventually, isn’t she? Oh my fucking god. My heart is racing.

flowercoasts:

imogen’s “you lied” is so damn heartbreaking on so many levels. laudna who showed her that people can be good and they can say what they mean. laudna who she can depend on and listen to and trust. laudna who was the only person for the longest time to prove over and over again that goodness still exists. only to break that trust in an instant.

meanwhile laudna is going “i’ll fix it. i’ll fit it.” because it’s imogen, and she would do anything for imogen, even when her killer is taking over her body. it matters more to her that it’s imogen, and she would never ever hurt her. and then she adds a cautious “we’ll fix it.” on the end like a question, instead of a promise. because for years it’s been just them against the whole world. but in one instant she wasn’t even in control for, she managed to make imogen lose faith in her.

there was just… so much love and care and devotion and protectiveness and trust in this conversation but all it took was the influence of a crystal and the voice of a killer to fray their bond.

relaxnotshaveeyebrows:

thinking about “the worst thing that’s ever happened to me has already happened” and then “it’s her. she won’t let me let go.” and “what did you do?!”

stardustedknuckles:

Lack of communication as a source of tension between two people who would readily accept an explanation and assume the best if given the chance: bad. boring. cheap.

Explicit communication provided, needs laid bare, vulnerability given freely but all insufficient to surmount the well-established personal fears and worldviews of a character primed by forces beyond anyone’s control to fall prey to that precise moment of weakness: beautiful. Absolutely delicious. Heartbreaking. 

stardustedknuckles:

Holy shit it’s so much more than an accidental stone smash. It’s FCG starting their conversation with Imogen with “you really seem to trust Laudna” and Imogen’s ready agreement. It’s the subsequent reiteration of her trust in Laudna, the comfort at the thought of having her there in her nightmares. It’s the conversation with Imogen, the note Laudna has taken of her growth. It’s the trust it takes Imogen to admit that safety, from this rock, might not be quite right. It’s the camaraderie Laudna offers before she asks to see it. 

Everything that led up to that moment was primed to make it terrible - to make Imogen reconsider the entire foundation of their relationship and maybe even wonder (probably not for the first time) whether she’s been being used. Whether Laudna has a reason to take away any comfort and safety that does not come from her. That’s a more terrible prospect to her - that Laudna could be looking to control her - than the possibility that Laudna herself is being controlled. The way she reacts for that long and terrible moment tells me on some level that the vague anxiety around being used has never been much further away than the fear of being rejected.

Imogen wondered if her emotional outbursts had been so extreme because of the stone’s influence. I guess we’re all about to find out.

mockingmolly:

godddd. and laudna isn’t unfamiliar with that look, either. the hurt and the horror. it’s been painted on the faces of almost everyone she’s met since that night in whitestone decades ago. but never, ever on imogen’s face. until now. 

7of-hearts:

listen,,

laudna collapsing to the deck of the ship after screaming out for answers, crumpled and lost in her own mind until she remembers herself enough to gather her body and her limbs into a sitting position. laudna sleeping fully fucking upright on the deck of the ship, or maybe not sleeping at all. just stone still, unable or unwilling to move her body—unable to let go of the stone—unconscious her physicality as she is just consumed by what happened.

gathering up each of the tiny shards she can find, swearing to herself and to imogen that she will fix this. she will not let delilah take this from her too.

thebeaubar:

Just to be clear cause people seem to be forgetting Laudna and Delilah from what we know right now isn’t a regular warlock/patron relationship. Laudna has stated one day Delilah just randomly popped into her head and she’s been there ever since. Laudna has also stated she’s trying to get rid of her and had Imogen look up ways to do that and if she’d lose her powers. People seem to think Laudna willingly went into a pact with Delilah which as far as I know isn’t whats being shown in the show. Laudna isn’t even taking levels in warlock and is canonically practicing her sorcery instead of getting any help from Delilah. I just wanted to point this out because there have been some who think Laudna willingly went into this relationship with Delilah despite the show as of now telling us the exact opposite.

flowercoasts:

laudna going “we’ll fix it.” to imogen, reaching out, asking for reassurance, but imogen, hurt and heartbroken, only half heartedly agreeing and turning away without reaching back.

lenabloggingthingy:

distant–shadow:

obsessing over the body movements laura/imogen is doing after laudna says “just be careful of the moments where you can no longer separate yourself from it”, whilst imogen is saying she doesn’t think it’s doing anything,  up until laudna says the “do you think it might be providing more harm than good” line. that is a woman obsessed 

no no listen her body language during that whole part??? the silent I’m lying so much right now, not to you but to myself??? fucking incredible, and also an absolute master class

lenabloggingthingy:

people saying imodna is a sunken ship after last night’s events… au contraire my friends, au fucking contraire. they’ve been stuck in this limbo of meaning so much to each other and caring deeply and pinning a lot each in their own way for like two years (allegedly). nothing was gonna happen between them unless something like this took place. unless they were forced to confront why this betrayal hurts so much and why losing the other’s trust and being the cause of pain is so devastating. unless they are forced to have difficult conversations and see the other’s flaws and work towards a healthier bond and a deeper understanding of each other and themselves. still loving each other because but now also loving each other despite

utilitycaster:

Imogen at the end of the episode though: from the start Imogen has been defined by her desire to understand these dreams, maybe to stop them, but most of all to solve them. She’s looking for answers. That’s her quest. She was in Jrusar for research, she continued to pursue it in the Heartmoor Hamlet, she’s interested in Yios now…but on some level she’s also grasping at straws, and has been for a long time. She’s going to try anything that helps, she’s going to be drawn to weird inexplicable magic items because they make about as much sense as anything else. The shard of rock felt comforting, and explicitly like another option, and what Imogen desperately wants is options rather than just being caught in the same endless storm where the choices are “run, and this will just happen again”, or “walk into it, which you are fairly sure will kill you.”

So to have someone who may have been the first person ever to have heard about these dreams and said “yeah, let’s figure this out” instead of treating her like she was weird or crazy take that possibility away? “You lied” is a testament to the immense amount of control Imogen is showing here. From her perspective this is perhaps the greatest possible betrayal she could have: someone cutting off a potential solution for the problem that plagues her life, after she said she wouldn’t. It doesn’t matter that Laudna didn’t mean to do it or that there’s a chance this might be better for Imogen in the long run, given what we know about the rock - what matters is that the rock is gone and there has to be someone to blame.

And at least until she’s had some time to cool off I don’t see the truth helping. Imogen is also defined by immense self-control that she needs to exercise nearly all the time to prevent her from being overwhelmed or learning things about other people that would harm her or harm them. “I couldn’t control it” is the truth. That doesn’t mean it necessarily is going to feel any better, and while the loss is still raw, there’s a real chance it will feel worse.

i hope this is the start of laudna’s own uk'otoa arc that ends with her chucking delilah into an active volcano and getting a new lesbian patron