darklesmylove:

iconic lines ben barnes is legally required to say

• “fine. make me your villain” complete with the arrogant as shit lounging in his chair like its a throne
• “i’ve seen what you truly are and I’ve never turned away. i never will. can he say the same?” a beautiful and accurate jab at mal
• “i’ve been waiting for you a long time, alina, you and i are going to change the world” fucking poetry
• “‘mercy.’ he said the word as if he were tasting something unfamiliar. ‘i could be merciful’” he’s literally so dramatic its hilarious
• “you live in a single moment. i live in a thousand” dramatic ass emo boy
• “the problem with wanting is that it makes us weak” the sexual tension in this scene is literally the definition of my existence
• “i’ll be certain you hear it when i make her scream”….kinky?
• “fight me as long as you’re able. you will find I have far more practice with eternity” dramatic ass emo boy part 2
• “i want you to know my name. the name i was given, not the title i took for myself. will you have it?” fUCK the softness combined with the sexual frustration in this scene is so genuine and it makes me implode every damn time
• “i am ancient alina. i know things about power that you can barely guess at” by power does he mean sex? lmfao both are valid
• “this is the only thing I want to be doing” winter fete scene will forever be the hottest thing
• “i think it’s the ugliest building i’ve ever seen” him being playful even if he was a manipulative asshole (though i argue its genuine here because he really does hate that damn palace)
• “he studied me for a long moment. he had always watched me this way, as if i were an equation that didn’t quite tally” not a quote but if we don’t get this look then ill cry 

wrstchosen:

I don’t normally do this, but i’m, like, really obsessed over this and… Why not, huh? Here i go!

Why i think Materialkis are way more powerful than it was showed in the three Grishaverse books.

There i was, reading the second book from Grishaverse, Siege & Storm, when a thought hitted me. I got really curious… But Leigh Bardugo did nothing to clarify my doubts. Sometimes it looked like she was letting things there that seemed to prove what i was wondering. Other times… It felt like she was stepping back.

So, let’s put things in the table before going ahead:

1. We have Grishas.
2. We know we have, normally, three types of Grishas. Let’s just ignore Shadow Summoners, Sun Summoners, Tailors and Corpsewitches here in this one.

Leigh Bardugo taught us that Grishas aren’t really something like witches. They just don’t go around using magic. Actually, Grishas have a very specific kind of power. They manipulate matter:

“Everything in the world could be broken down into the same small parts. What looked like magic was really the Grisha manipulating matter at its most fundamental levels.

Marie didn’t make fire. She summoned combustible elements in the air around us, and she still needed a flint to make the spark that would burn that fuel. Grisha steel wasn’t endowed with magic, but by the skill of Fabrikators, who did not need heat or crude tools to manipulate metal.”

— Shadow & Bone, chapter ten.

Now, keep this in mind but follow me ahead:

1. Etheralki manipulate natural elements.
2. Corporalki manipulate the human body.
3. Materialkiaresaid during the the three books to manipulate matter composed of such things like metal, glass, chemicals, etc.

But even though that’s what is said, there’s somehing that doesn’t fit. If Materialki can only control matter composed by those specific things — non organic matter and chemicals —, then how can David manipulate the horns of the Morozova’s Stag? How can the Materialki in Sturmhond crew’s manipulate the scales of the Sea Whip?

This left me confused. And wondering. If Materialki could manipulate scales and bones, then they could act like Corporalkis? what would stop a Materialki from manipulating bones? Could they only manipulate organic matter after being removed from its source — a tree, a stag, a sea monster —, the thing that, technically, keeps the cells alive? Could they only manipulate organic matter if it was dead? That could make sense, but it still had something that really bugs me.

And while i was wondering, we also are introduced to Ilya Morozova. AKA the Bonesmith. The Materialki’s hero. Sankt Ilya of the Chains.

It’s pointed that Ilya Morozova was a Fabrikator way above average. And the central point of his theory is about manipulating everything:

“One of the essential tenets of Grisha theory was "like calls to like,” but Morozova seemed to believe that if the world could be broken down to the same small parts, each Grisha should be able to manipulate them.Are we not all things?he demanded, underlining the words for emphasis.“

— Ruin & Rising, chapter four.

But in Ruin & Rising, we also have Baghra, his daughter, talking about their life during her childhood. Where she explicitly says he was a craftsman and a healer. So… We have a Materialki manipulating organic matter that wasn’t dead, or removed from a source. He was manipulating bones, skin, blood. The human body. Doesn’t it sounds like a Corporalki? (also, why Corporalkis can only manipulate the human body and not other animal’s body? Weird.)

Ilya Morozova healed the shattered body of his younger daughter before using merzost to bring she back to life. And, of course, we can say it was because he was super powerful and mega special — He created the amplificators, right? Extraordinary dude —. But then… David and the Materialki in Sturmhond crew’s were there, manipulating organic matter like it was natural. Baghra said her father was a healer like it was natural. Darkling made David travel with him because he was the most powerful Fabrikator in the Second Army. He knew David could manipulate the bones, organic matter, in the most perfect way.

Again, what would stop Materialkis from simply manipulating the bones of the people around them?

Then i remembered something. In Siege & Storm, Alina decides that Fabrikators should have military training instead of just producing for the Second Army. Darkling didn’t do that. He is something like 200 years old. Or more, we can’t be sure. Older than The Unsea. And Baghra said that before the Grishas didn’t distinguished between Etheralki, Corporalki, Materialki, Healers, Infernis, Alkemis, whatever. They didn’t have the Second Army. They didn’t have Orders. And yet, somehow, Materialkis endend up without military training. Somehow, Materialki ended being looked as less powerful, less worthy. Someone made that choice. Someone who built the Second Army.

I believe the Darkling deliberately made the choice to to put away Fabrikators from the fighting scenery. He inserted them in workshops, where they would focus on production instead of fighting. He lived in the time where Grishas didn’t felt in categorys. He was Ilya Morozova’s grandson, and was obsessed over the work — the work of a Fabrikator who’s naturally seem as a Healer too — he left behind, after all.

He must have known what a Materialki could do. He must have known their potential. So, why he didn’t use that goddamn potential in his army? Was he afraid to see Fabrikators that were military trained and seen as valuable soldiers, manipulating the human body? He must have thought they were too strong. They controled too many things. Organic and inorganic matter. Basically everything that Corporalki do, but more. Better. Maybe even turning some Etheralki useless too.

Following this, Materialki could, theoretically, manipulate chemicals like the ones Etheralki could. Or manipulate organic matter like a Corporalki could. And then become even better than these two Grishas types. Etheralkis can’t play with poison, and Corporalkis can’t mess with other organic matter besides the one in the human body. They need to have, of course, strength to do it. But just like it takes strength to Harshaw, or Adrik, or other Summoners, to use their power. Just like it takes from Tamar and Tolya. They just need to be trained.

"We say like calls to like, girl. But if the science is small enough, then we are like all things.”

— Ruin & Rising, chapter seven.

Matter.

This is what Grishas manipulate.

In its most fundamental way.

From the latin, materia.

Materia-lki.

“And you might make me a monster.”

Evil!Alina when?? Honestly, the way I’ve been hunting for a good corruption arc all my life and been left wanting

Behold, a villainous Alina who lost everything in the pursuit of power, who has nothing left of those she loved save for the trophies upon her hand…

I initially used blue because it was cold and matched her blue summoning class, but the red was such a mood that I had to try it at least.

“And you might make me a monster.”

Evil!Alina when?? Honestly, the way I’ve been hunting for a good corruption arc all my life and been left wanting

Behold, a villainous Alina who lost everything in the pursuit of power, who has nothing left of those she loved save for the trophies upon her hand…

I initially used blue because it was cold and matched her blue summoning class, but the red was such a mood that I had to try it at least.

Zoya Nazyalensky

if y’all don’t start supplying me with more zoyalai content immediately i’m gonna scream

Kaz Brekker from Leigh Bardugo‘s “Six of Crows”

I hecking love this diabolical mastermind criminal heist kid

reapersbarge:

I haven’t seen this much soc content on my dash in months the Grishaverse really rose up from the grave with a 40 second teaser

the-darkling:

Recognize that neck anywhere

So… trailer soon? Source

This fandom goes from a circus of clowns to a coven of victorian maidens, head over heels for the neck of a gentleman, in no time… And I live for this!