#the heir speaks

[heir-of-the-chair]

Pros of small fandom: Fandom small :)

Cons of small fandom: Fandom small :(

#rolling with difficulty #rwd #the magic thief #okay actually that one is just too small #that one could be bigger it’s like 20 people in total #but still #the heir speaks

[daenystheedreamer]

can i b real with you guys. i think the eldest daughter thing has lost all meaning..... many of these guys are simply eldest sons. eldest daughter syndrome needs an inherent lack of trust and respect despite all responsibility placed on them. entitlement is very much eldest son behaviour. aegon is not eldest daughter that man is an eldest son for sure. kendall roy.... ill not speak on that man. i know a piranha pond when i see it. but know he is part of this post.

#yinnie #im sorry i have to speak my truth. stannis baratheon i will allow it for him tho. he does have eldest daughter syndrome #id listen to an argument for ned too. #robb is eldest son are you kidding me thats his whole plot!!! being his father's heir and fucking it up BY BEING HIS FATHER'S HEIR!!!

[eleyras]

About narratives: the story of Sarcean, Anharion and the Collar.

Ok soooooo I finished Dark Heir and I have THOUGHTS.

This could be my delusional mind speaking BUT I firmly believe that the whole thing about the Collar and the relationship between Sarcy and Anharion depicted in the story written and established by the winners (the Lady's faction) and Gauthier is far from the truth and a lot more complex and fascinating.

More ramblings under the cut!

Putting all the hints given in DH aside for the moment (I will discuss them later) for me the biggest red flag about these narratives is the way Anharion is depicted in both.

This is a little twisted but it’s something I’ve been thinking about since DR, so let me elaborate.

In DR, the Stewards DON’T know about the Collar. James himself admits that he found out about it from Sinclair, and so the Stewards are convinced that James/Anharion had willingly betrayed the Lady’s side, becoming willingly Sarcean’s lieutenant and his lover.

Gauthier instead reveals a more twisted version of the story.

It’s clear that the two narratives are in contradiction with each other: the one told by the Lady’s faction and echoed throughout the centuries among the Stewards doesn’t include the knowledge of the Collar, and it entirely blames Anharion for his deeds and his betrayal; Gauthier’s version instead, serving for the readers as an introduction to the existence of the Collar, specifies that Anharion didn’t have any agency.

So, which version is the true one? Neither of them, because both, as it often happens in history, took the truth, and twisted it to serve its own purpose.

Let’s start with the narrative ‘written’ by the Lady.

My biggest doubt about it is why the f*ck it seems that A LOT of people outside the Hall know about the Collar. Gauthier knows about it because his ancestor was the one who stole it, but Sinclair? Let’s hypothesize that he knew about it from Kettering. Kettering knows about it because he is a Returner, so someone who was THERE, in the Old World. It’s not a stretch then to theorize that the existence of the Collar and its power was somehow known in the past.

And in DH, the presence of the chain attached to the throne in the Sun Court, where EVERYONE could see it, hypothetically ( and I underline this because I don’t trust ANYTHING of what we saw in the Undahar for it was the Sun King’s court before Sarcean’s) linked to the Collar around Anharion’s neck, makes me think that the Collar and its power weren’t such a well-kept secret.

So, the whole “the Lady’s side didn’t absolutely know about the Collar” narrative is a bit sketchy at this point. I believe someone knew at some point, so why would they iterate this version of the story, instead of depicting Anharion as a victim and blaming Sarcean for it?

Well, the answer is simple: damnatio memoriae. The version of the story known at this point had been written by the Lady’s faction, so of course her enemies are painted in the worst light possible. Anharion’s memory is, in my opinion, even more tainted by this narrative than Sarcean’s one; we don’t even know his true name. It didn’t matter that he could have had reasons for his actions: he went against the "good side" and chose the dark, the end.

This narrative is not interested in reporting the truth. Its purpose is to celebrate the Lady as a Saint figure and vilify her opponents, disregarding their reasons, their feelings, their insight of the events entirely.

So, it’s not so difficult to believe that underneath all the twists and the lies, in this version of the story there is a grain of truth; that, in a way, Anharion did betray willingly the Lady. Maybe he understood that the so righteous Lady was, in fact, not that pure and good. Maybe, at the culmination of the fight, he somehow hesitated to kill Sarcean, because he was a human being, not just a cold hearted betrayer. All factors that would of course be excluded from this narrative, for they would expose the Lady’s true face.

At this point this is all but speculations, but one thing is certain, and this takes us to the second point: it’s canon that Anharion had feelings for Sarcy. Before the Collar.

I would not call it ‘undying love’ at this point of the story, but the affection is there. Palpable, visible, corporeal in glances and words. This is, like, a HUGE revelation.

Because this proves that the narrative told by Gauthier is not the truth either!

While I believe that the Collar has some kind of power (I’ll explain this too), in the Gauthier’s version of the story, it’s clear that the emphasis on the submitting part of this power comes from the desire to possess Anharion, from the (false) conviction passed on for generations that whoever put it around his neck would master him. I suspect it consumed not only Gauthier himself, but also every member of his family who owned the Collar before him.

In the end both narratives, pushing for their own agenda, give an insight on the relationship between Sarcean and Anharion not only false but also humiliating for Anharion, for he is depicted as a selfish, cold hearted betrayer where his own agency is totally dismissed (and not even mentioned) in one, and a plaything slave of the Collar in the other.

The truth is far more complex than this, of course, and the one million dollar question about it is then: how much influence did have the Collar on the true nature of their relationship?

In these days I have read a lot of theories about this. One of my favourites is the one depicting the Collar as a mere object of fashion without any power and Anharion not only conscious but also willing the whole time and the fact that this may be hinted in the text makes me feel unhinged (if this is true, you will hear me screaming about it for years)

In my opinion, and I will believe this until I read the third book, the Collar has some kind of power on James/Anharion but not in the way it has been described so far. This is but a mere speculation for the moment, but maybe this power leans more on binding Anharion’s magic to Sarcean’s than controlling his free will or feelings. (this bit in DH is soooo interesting!!!)

I’m convinced that the Collar cannot create something that is not there and that underneath its power, it’s clear that Anharion had conflicted feelings for Sarcean, he always had, because James REMEMBERS feeling this even with the Collar:

This means those conflicted feelings are still there and are not magically morphed by the Collar into pure and simple obedience and that whatever Anharion felt was real, whatever James feels is real, contradictions and all.

We still know so little about this two at this point, and since Pacat really loves plot twists, I believe that their real story will come out in the end and that Will and James will achieve what their past selves couldn’t had, unravelling the conflicts and the misunderstandings between them, and conquering the freedom they search in each other’s arms to be just Will and James.

I had fun writing this, please feel free to give me your opinion on this!

(PS. I think I needed to specify that this whole rambling is focused on Anharion’s feelings. What about Sarcy? I believe his feelings were a deadly cocktail of desire, affection, possessiveness, admiration and horny thoughts, like the disaster babygirl he was, thanks for your attention)

#the way false narratives are utilized in this series is soooo good I could speak about this for months #Pacat your mind!!!!! #i wrote this at 2am please forgive me if you find errors #dark heir #dark heir spoilers

[wickedcriminal]

But the winds will still blow when I am no longer here. The storms will still rage, and the forces of Empire and oppression, be they Roman or otherwise, will still be waiting at the corners of the ocean. The fight goes on for the Heroes of the Future.

Third day of Doomsday! ☠️

#httyd books #how to train your dragon books #how to speak dragonese #i looked up the sail designs for the different tribes but i couldn't find the hooligan sails only the bog-burglars 😭 #the bog burglars are the horizontal stripes and i just gave the hooligans vertical stripes #and i matched their sail colors to the colors of their heirs' shirts! :DD #doomsday 2023 #twelve days of doomsday #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #camicazi #fishlegs no name #my art

[chaos-has-theories]

Palamedes thought Naberius was hot, I repeat

I require 10k words of canon defiant morally questionable yaoi set in Ianthe's mind country manor STAT

#Palamedes as the increasingly ratty inspector trying to speak with the lady of the house.... he's trying to find the body of naberius tern!! #she keeps waving him off or appearing as the maid or the butler. Naberius is idk the gardener or sth #but of course he's ALSO essentially the heir to a house being run by the wicked stepmother #look I'm just running with the tropes yanth set up in there #I just think Pal and Babs should get to share an exhausted cigarette just outside the manor's walls #the locked tomb #chaos rambles

[phantom-of-the-keurig]

Waiting for the new Jango comic + bad batch season 3 to bring old legends material back into canon and finally put an end to the Mando Clone Discourse

#and when they bring back the true mandalorians and restore Jango as the heir to Jaster what then #when they bring some of KTs lore and world building back what will you do then 😔 #awaiting validation as we speak #the bad batch #jango fett #sw lore #republic commando #clone troopers

[hermesserpent-stuff]

so! i have a fun little idea for stolen heir. @lirabuswavi

so dragons. they bite and claw people. and lick them if they like them

In my au dragons can leave messages behind through bites and claws. they have scent gland things in their mouths, faces and claws.

So when a dragon bites or claws something, they can leave a message to other dragons there. a warning or good news. Gobbers lost limbs are marked up with scents of "DANGER OMG DANGER NOOOO"

and claw marks on Viggo's neck smell of "pain, pain. avoid."

but there are other things to note other than warnings.

some dragons claw up stones to note where food is plentiful nearby or to let dragons know there is a friend.

Hiccup's leg bite actually smells like a friend marking. it makes dragons hesitate a bit if they get close enough to sniff.

Then hiccup meets toothless and gets soaked in licks and false bites and claw baps. he is soaked in the smell of friend but also in "mine. be nice."

#httyd au #httyd #hermes speaks #how to train your dragon #hiccup haddock #toothless #world building ideas #stolen heir au

[dollypopup]

i choose to live in denial about the fact that there are so many desires for 'Babies Ever After' in Polin immediately following the conclusion of season 3 because like. . .this woman is nineteen!!! at the start of it all she should be at the club having a panic attack! and at the end, she should be getting railed up and down the European coast by her hot husband who has miraculously good pull-out game!

we are not the same!!!

#polin #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #bridgerton #saw someone being like 'oh she's got her hand on her stomach because she's already preggo with Agatha' #or 'Pen and Colin are gonna be the first in the Featheringtons to have a male heir and that'll be their story going forward' #NO!!!!! #I ACTIVELY REFUSE #i am hissing as we speak #let her travel!!!! let her have a LIFE before she becomes a mother #let! her! fuck! consequence! FREE!!! #the woman has never even left london come ON #i want colin to show her how pretty greece is and then fuck her by the ocean!! #colin is TWENTY TWO and she is NINETEEN i mean jesus christ can ONE couple in this series please have a unique ending i am BEGGING #like yeah i get it this show is for the cishets but consider the following: i am gay and i watch it and i want better for them #than the same old heteronormative 'yeah and then they get married and have babies the end'

[heir-of-the-chair]

New idea: How about we all, en masse, just pretend we’ve never heard of Taylor Swift. I think it would be both good for society at large and also it’d be funny to watch the swifties have a conniption about it.

#music #not tagging Bloody Mary lest her minions burn me at the stake #I’m a hater and I’m not sorry I go to liberal arts college it’s horrifying #the heir speaks

[romanceddawn]

tbh im really liking this duel so far, and its a shame because i've heard that ryuji and yugi's rivalry gets ironed out and the story moves on at some point but man he is such a good rival set up for yugi, they make a good parallel to yami and kaiba

#im sorry rivalshipping i love you two being rivals so much but. ryuji. #like ive seen people talk about this every once in a while but it is REALLY good #i like the whole fighting for the heir to the puzzle thing #and the fact that ryuji isnt connected to ancient egypt the way kaiba is #like ofc kaiba has a modern beef with yami and yugi #but they were still destined from ancient egypt to battle #so its a little different #i think if yugi was actually atems reincarnation (not possible but) #it could be set up with him and kaiba being the reincarnations and having that ancient beef #but the beef always seems to be specific to atem since his soul never reincarnated #so alas yugi is rival-cockblocked but at least he has ryuji to make kaiba jealous #sorry i cant not make this otp-y #devo speaks #screen caps #yugi mutou #ryuji otogi

[eirhne]

#⤊ THE HEIR SPEAKS. ⤊ #unreality

[kingofthe-egirls]

god i must be ovulating bc i need luffy to cum inside me

#i NEED to have the pirate king’s heir #wow #thirst #dumpster dive #kitty speaks #luffy smut

[darcyolsson]

the midnight heir lines that make you go "hey so what the hell was the last hours originally supposed to be like"

#someone hack cc's laptop and leak the original outline i simply cannot take it any longer #do i truly believe this hypothetical tlh would have been significantly better no of course not #changes made to this story were made for a reason. like the fact that she decided that changing james' personality was the best choice #even though there was already published content about him speaks volumes #but i will never not be curious about what tlh was going to look like originally. this is truly my roman empire #vic reads tbc #the midnight heir

[blurrymango]

Heir of Breath.

#mango man speaks #mango man draws #digital art #digital painting #digital drawing #homestuck #classpect #godtier #heir of breath

[veliseraptor]

i love pain and suffering and am very in favor of making things worse but the thing for me about the "au where jiang cheng is the one to do the sacrifice summon because jin ling was murdered" is that it inevitably leans on jin guangyao murdering jin ling and just.

#yes i'm speaking as a jgy apologist but logically speaking #it makes no sense. #'oh he's a threat to jgy's power' #no...not really... #if jgy's not having kids (he isn't) then jin ling is his heir #and jgy's not going to live forever most likely #all that killing jin ling would accomplish would be...everyone suspecting jgy of doing it honestly #there's no reason! practically or emotionally! #so everything else aside about personality or inclination and the fact that jgy does not actually just #murder people Because He Feels Like It #it doesn't. make sense. #and i'm just over here like #the sad queer cultivators show #jin guangyao #ANYWAY

[hermesserpent-stuff]

A truly silly idea!

So I've built up a lot of lore for Viggo's tribe. Including the adoption rituals. Which can lead to surprise, unagreed upon adoption.

And while with claws and calls I went with an adoption that was full of consent. I think for stolen heir I'm going to have Ryker and viggo be a little more devious and surprise adopt Dagur and Hiccup

Both cause the kids are clearly abandoned and because hiccup is so much smaller in this au. I just like the drama of it.

But lemme kno ur thoughts

@lirabuswavi specifically cause u are always cooking up fun ideas!!

#hermes speaks #hiccup haddock #stolen heir au #httyd #httyd au #how to train your dragon #dagur the deranged