have you spoken before about why maya was made tranquil and how it was reversed before? 👀 would love to learn more....also would love to hear about her and rylen! first impressions, how they get close, etc. 👐
I have! Tho I think it's somewhere buried in my old posts lol so I'll use this as an excuse for some exposition:
Maya is from the Ostwick Circle. She's always been a ~weak mage and struggled w honing her magic and ability to cast, tho she excelled in potions. It was p obvious to everyone including herself that she wouldn't pass the Harrowing so she chose to become Tranquil.
This becomes a point of contention with her friends (one of them is one of my inquisitors, Gabe Trevelyan), who are heartbroken with her choice, but eventually decide they will be there for her no matter what. When she becomes Tranquil, they take protect her and stay by her side, especially because one of her friends is Lord Otranto's sister, Magda (an oc I made up too), and she uses her family's nobility to make sure nothing bad ever happens to Maya.
When the Circles fell, Maya and her friends were on the run, attempting to find someplace safe as they couldn't get to Antiva to Magda's family. A fade rift spews out some demons, but also spirits, and one passes through Maya and reverses her Tranquility. This experience was A LOT and deserves its own post, as Maya has been a tranquil for 8 or so years by then.
Maya and her friends end up joining the Inquisition when Gabe recruits the mages. Maya, Magda and their friend Langdon decide to join other mages posted to Griffon Wing Keep to help with potion making and healing tents - and that's how they end up at the Western Approach.
Her and Rylen were friends to lovers lol, my fave type of dynamic. He was one of the soldiers who helped escort the group of mages to Griffon Wing Keep. Understandably, Maya was nervous and uneasy and Rylen was especially kind to the group and made them feel at ease. Then, they always saw each other at the Keep, and since Maya is shy, he helped her feel included whenever there was any type of get together or "fun nights" with the staff. They also bond over having siblings they haven't seen in a really long time.
Rylen helps Maya break out of her shell a lil and Rylen finds it easy to be his true self around Maya ❤️
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I need to talk about Perihelion more. I think about him a lot, but it rarely gets written down (4am is a good time, right?). Anyways so!
As an Ontological Cartographer, Art is very familiar with Parabola – it's always been a place of refuge, protection, and wonder for him. But coming up with what he looks like in the mirror was a difficult exercise – Perihelion isn't self-reflective or self‐aware in the slightest, but he also lives a very uninhibited life and as a rule, doesn't lie to himself. Complex self-deception is Effort he just doesn't have the executive function for. Which makes a parabola reflection a little difficult, when there aren't really any hidden facets of the self to show. EXCEPT. There is.
Perihelion when he first arrived in the Neath was a very different person to how he is now – much more cautious, very risk-averse, a subtle player of long games and a mover in the shadows. Then he discovered partying and social circles with cool laid back people that didn't care if he did gender wrong and it was so over from there. The Capricious Socialite was born. But the thing is. That part of Perihelion that knows how to look at the long term, that can be subtly manipulative and calculating is still there. Art doesn't like being that person, it makes him miserable and exhausted and stressed. But just in case. Just in case things ever go south and he needs to relearn how to be careful again, that other, older Perihelion keeps watch from beyond the mirror. (what? says Art. Don't you know I'm immune to consequences and never going to die?)
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And when the sixth city falls and it becomes rapidly clear that Consequences do in fact Really Exist For Real, Art reaches back out to his old Great Game contacts and starts scheming the survival of the seventh city (by the time he moves on enough from mourning London Paris is already doomed). He maintains the public face of his old image, but the real Fith City Perihelion lies only in the mirror, in the Waswood and on the Smoking Shore, happy and carefree and probably wearing some stupidly bright fashiony outfit.
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Not be screaming Insanely to you about strollonso again but I have thots. Thinkings. And yeah.
So like I love how everyone expected them to not get well w each other yk like people THOUGHT they would be on each others throats, and nando would commit warcrimes against lance etc etc(Especially after last years Austin incident yeahh....)WHILE they were actually ALREADY on good terms in 2021(the recent gifs that showed lance being like a teenager w crush ykyky)(plus I do remember photos of them interacting just casually) and before that yk when nando congratulated lance on his first podium in baku(which I'll never get out of my head gladly)
And like NOW they are also so well w each other ESPECIALLY now that they are teammates. And its NICE and they are COMFY plus WHAT HAPPENED IM BAHRAIN OFC. And now wih nando casually making lance photos..they are so comfortable. Like aughh.
Thats all I guess please add anything you have in mind aswell 😭😭
Well I think it's funny because, as you mentioned, one of the only pre-2023 moments of strollonso I remember distinctly is when they had the collision during the US gp 😭 and I feel like everyone saw that and were like "oh god Nando is gonna kill him when they're teammates", and then a similar situation kinda happened again at the very first gp when Lance hit the back of Nando but when Nando found out, he's just like "okay :)"
I wonder though sometimes what they'd be like if the AMR23 was like the prev one. Because I do think Nando does actually like Lance, but also I don't think you can deny that Nando's podiums are indeed a buffer. Kinda like him being like "anything you can do to me is literally nothing because I have a great car and I'm doing better than I have in years", like bro is on top of the world after so long, and it feels like he's gotten a second wind where nothing can really touch him or bother him.
I hate how everyone uses that "Lance is the owner's son, so of course Fernando will treat him nicely" argument. Like yeah that's a factor, but I feel like I see it more as Nando appreciating Lance bcs he factors into why Nando has a good car and a good team in the first place. I think tho my fav strollonso plot line is Nando being like "ugh ill put up w him I guess", but then he ends up having such a good car and finds out in the process that Lance is more than he ever considered(like in this fic ) And also the narrative of Nando being a very different, supportive teammate as compared to most other Lance has had. I like that they probably came into being teammates with certain assumptions, but now look at how comfy they are with each other!! Enough to tease each other is such public ways, like Lance saying certain things in interviews and Nando with his socmed. It's very fun!
BUT YEAH OH MY GOD THAT CLIP OF THEM WITH LANCE BEING SO TOUCHY AND SHOVEY WITH HIM!!!! people need to look back at older clips like that and the others you mentioned before they make assumptions about why they are the way they are >:(
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Peter B Parker in this movie ATSV IT'S so annoying and gwen too. I starting to dislike, hate and lose my respect on them. Not saying they're villain but they really got on my nerve. MOST USELESS CHARACTER EVER
Now hobie, patvir, and margo they got my respect and i liked them. People need to give credit for margo too she's helping miles to escape
Like,
I DO NOT GET THIS HATE YOU PEOPLE
HAVE FOR PETER B. AND GWEN OVER THIS
Like yeah they lied, and I'm not saying it was the right thing to do but like do you people ever think about the situation/circumstance around them that help make the choices they do in that moment
AGAIN, its not to say what they did was right, but Gwen and Peter kept the truth from Miles cause it was a harsh truth that would have been hard for him to handle cause you see how he reacted
BECAUSE OF COURSE SOMEONE WOULD REACT LIKE THAT
Gwen was trying to protect Miles feelings cause the moment he finds out he says "You're right you should have never told me"
like I hope you guys didn't think was an easy choice for either of them cause it wasn't, they wanted to be with him but they couldn't cause of what was going on and what they where told, they would have rather kept Miles in the dark for now then hurt him like that.
I mean at the most you can call what they did cowardice cause you can see how ashamed they are when Miles found out they knew on the train
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