#zoya nazyalensky
Zoyalai being soft was the best part of ROW. Obviously all the spoilers ahead.
“Don’t go,” he said, still half asleep.
“I have to bathe. I smell like a forest fire.”
“ You smell like wildflowers. You always do. What can I say to make you stay?” His words trailed off into a drowsy mumble as he fell back asleep.
“I would stay forever if I could,” she whispered. He wouldn’t remember anyway.
She felt the need in him as palpably as if he’d spoken. Don’t turn away from me. Anyone but you.
“Don’t pretend to shrug this off. You’ve barely looked at me since I returned.”
Because I am greedy for the sight of you. Because the prospect of facing this war, this loss, without you fills me with fear. Because I find I don’t want to fight for a future if I can’t find a way to make a future with you.
“As your king, I should tell you that no one could dissuade me. No prince and no power could make me stop wanting you.”
Nikolai felt drunk. Maybe unleashing the demon had loosed something in his brain.
“I would give you a crown if I could,” he said. “I would show you the world from the prow of a ship. I would choose you, Zoya. As my general, as my friend, as my bride. I would give you a sapphire the size of an acorn.” He reached into his pocket. “And all I would ask in return is that you wear this damnable ribbon in your hair on our wedding day.”
“Our people will come to love you not despite your ferocity, but because of it. Because you showed mercy in our darkest hour. Because we know that if danger comes again, you will never falter. Give us that chance.”
Love. The word was not made for people like her. “I don’t know how to believe you,” she said helplessly.
“What if I say I can’t bear to lose you?”
A smile tugged at her lips. “I’d say you’re a liar. That claims like that belong to romantic ninnies.”
She raised her hand and let her fingertips trace the line of his beautiful jaw. He closed his eyes.
“We would go on, you and I. If I couldn’t be queen, you would find a way to win this battle and save this country. You would make a sheltering place for my people. You would march and bleed and crack terrible jokes until you had done all you said you would do. I suppose that’s why I love you.”
@litofcolournet event 1: characters of colour — zoya nazyalensky
❝ zoya of the lost city. zoya of the garden. zoya bleeding in the snow. you are strong enough to survive the fall.❞
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@litofcolournet event 1: characters of colour — zoya nazyalensky
❝ zoya of the lost city. zoya of the garden. zoya bleeding in the snow. you are strong enough to survive the fall.❞
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Zoya Nazyalensky
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if y’all don’t start supplying me with more zoyalai content immediately i’m gonna scream
me: I don’t have a type of favorite character
all my favorite characters: female, black hair, badass, written by Leigh Bardugo
Hear me out: Zoya X Nikolai X Alina
#zoya would protect the hell out of both of them but also only be soft for them but also berate them for idiocy #nikolai would be like that’s my wife! and my wife! #alina would be like yeah i hate them and they won’t leave me alone but actually if they did leave me alone i would die both metaphorically and literally
waitimsupoestoputsomethinghere:
Last night I was thinking about the darkling, like we all do before we go to sleep, and I accidentally called him the duckling. So now when ever I read a scene with him or about him i just think they are talking too or about a black duck.
sorry, not sorry.
Yeah sex is cool, but have you ever tried waking up at 6am, only to find out that the Shadow and Bone trailer is out?
With the date of release coming closer, I’m a bit scared that our fandom will become mean and toxic so let’s do a pinky promise!
Let us all be always kind to each others. No matters what your favorite ship is, your favorite part is, if you read the books first, read it because of the adaptation or not read them at all. It doesn’t matter.
What matter is that we all love this universe, we all vibed with it for differents reasons, we all found characters to love, hate, support, laugh about, laugh with.
We are all here because one amazing woman, create a universe that brought us together, and we had the chance to have it adapted onscreen, to have the fandom expanded.
So let’s pinky swear to do no gatekeeping, no attacking the cast, or the ships, or the different tastes and opinion. Let’s pinky swear to never act unkindly. Let’s pinky swear to never disrespect Leigh Bardugo and her work that brought us here.
That’s us. A bunch of clowns waiting for the show…
Zoyalai Aesthetic
the sun you swelled under, the tree you grew from
[ commissioned by @durgas]
pairings: zoya nazyalensky x alina starkov
characters: zoya nazyalensky, alina starkov, nikolai lantsov (mentioned), genya safin
zoya hones queendoms and draconic destinies. alina hones secrets shaped like citrus-coloured halves of sun. it is the only way. it has to be.
very loosely inspired by the priory of the orange tree. not mal or nikolai bashing. pleasecheck the replies for ao3 link!
zoyalina killing eve au or dunej killing eve au?
So I was just scrolling instagram and saw this in a post (credits: @sanktanazyalenskyofthestorm )
And I thought: why not
And this is the result
All hail the king of flowers
