#haha I do love me some good crangst

[mischief-tea]

Thanks for the tag @the-commonplace-book

slow burn or love at first sight // fake dating or secret dating // enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers // oh no there’s only one bed or long-distance correspondence // hurt-comfort or amnesia // fantasy au or modern au // mutual pining and or domestic bliss // smut or fluff // canon-compliant or fix-it // reincarnation or character death // one-shot or multi-chapter // kid fic or road trip fic // arranged marriage and or accidental marriage // high school romance or middle aged romance // time travel or isolated together // neighbours or roommates  // sci-fi au or magic au // body swap or gender bend // angst or crack // apocalyptic  or and   mundane

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#some of these were pretty hard to decide on and so I just... didn't #haha I do love me some good crangst #also stuff domestic bliss I am all about that domestic STRESS #fanfiction #meme #I really need to get my rec lists updated and put them somewhere of use to other people

[beautifulterriblequeen]

I can definitely see all the symbolism and logic for why Runaan losing his arm is reasonable, but I still don't want it. (I'm too soft haha) I'm curious which way you think it will go? I go back and forth since narratively I see ways he could keep it as easily as lose it, but that may also be shaded by my wants.

ANON, you are ME.

I have this struggle every single time I think about Runaan losing his arm. I see the narrative. I see the lessons. I see the character growth. I see the karma. It holds together really well, and it would mean a lot in so many ways, to different groups of fans. It’s gonna be good storytelling if it happens.

I still don’t want it to happen. That’s just mean.

If the plot deems Runaan’s arm worthy of saving, it should have a very good reason for that, and it shouldn’t be an easy fix with no complications. That won’t do a complicated character like Runaan any favors. He has issues, and he should work through them like we have to, one knot at a time.

I have a wild and uncomfortable crack headcanon that there will be an elf body inside Aaravos’s pod, but it’ll be Runaan’s, grown from his broken horn tip. He’ll get both arms back and won’t even have his chest scars anymore (the clue that he’s not really the OG Runaan), a living version of the smoky assassin spell to slish slash around Xadia, taking Aaravos’s revenge for him on all the staff-having elves that locked Aaravos away. This way, we’ll all be very sure that assassins are Not Good For Peace. And some of our heroes will have to track him down and stop him--and good luck to them on that--before they can boot Aaravos from his head and give him his life back. Is this crack or just angst? Crangst. Alternately, just Ack.

But there really is a lot going for a plot where Runaan does lose that arm. Life doesn’t stop because of a catastrophic injury. People adapt and move forward, sometimes in a surprising new direction. It’s important to feel consequences that match our choices so we can learn the life lessons we need to make us better people, no matter how “good” we thought we were. But it’s also important that people work together as a team and save each other as much as they can, because what is saved is always more important than what is lost. 

Runaan may lose an arm when he’s rescued. But Rayla, Ethari, Lain, and Tiadrin will get 91% of Runaan back, to love and appreciate and share their lives with. And if it takes Runaan losing his sinister (Latin for left) arm in order to become all right i do not apologize in the slightest, and move forward in a softer direction because karma has forced him to stop wielding two blades at all his problems, then that’s not really 100% horrible, is it? Maybe only 91% horrible.

And there’s always the popular theory that Ethari will craft Runaan some kind of special prosthetic arm to replace the one he’s lost. Sometimes life changes us, scars us, and it’s impossible to ever be the same again. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be magnificently different.

If I knew how odds worked--which I do not--I’d give slightly more odds to Runaan losing his arm than all the other options combined. It’s what’s going to happen without some very strong and immediate intervention, if not what has already happened in the coin, depending on how the magic functions in there. For all I know, the narrative timeskip will be a mercy that lets us all skip past the worst of Runaan’s suffering and reacquire his storyline on the upswing to freedom and redemption.

Give me a T-shirt with Runaan flexing a shiny metal arm and saying We Can Do It, please. Life, uh, finds a way.

#asks #tdp speculation #tdp #runaan #ethari #tdp crack