“You will be the rightful King of the Six Duchies, of the Out Islands, of all the Cursed Shores! All. I will give you all your dreams, if only you come back!”
My dream was dead in my arms. I continued to walk.
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Group E, Round 2, Poll 4:
Propaganda under the cut
The Pale Woman
The pale woman girlbossed so hard that she started a war. She gatekept knowledge of a powerful ancestral magic so that the users couldn't learn it. She gaslit the protagonist so that he doubted his entire role in the universe!
Jason "J.D." Dean
Jason Dean embodies all the components of being a girlboss- he gaslights with a passion and he gatekeeps to no end. His romance with Veronica showcases his completely insane and obsessive nature. He gaslights her on the daily, and accuses her of being the one who wanted all of their murders to take place. When they break up, he goes to her house to attempt to gatekeep her from living, only to be disappointed by the fact that she tricked him into believing that she beat him to it. This does an excellent job of demonstrating just how much of a gatekeeper he is- he cant fathom anyone Veronica even implies disliking, to the slightest extent, being an individual who deserves to live. His murders are a very girlboss move, in my humble opinion. Those who dont like him and are enemies of Veronica are targets- take Heather Chandler, their first victim, as an example. Veronica and her had a complex relationship- specifically one in which they were best frenemies. However, he chooses to gatekeep Veronica and her friendship with Chandler by killing her, and gaslights her by convincing her that she wanted her dead. He deserves to be girlboss number one (or at the very least an honorary girlboss) because he gatekeeps, gaslights, and girlbosses for the entirety of the movie.
In summary
Gatekeep- kills people to gatekeep Veronica as a person
Gaslight- lies to and manipulates Veronica
Girlboss- kills people for funsies
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My winterfest gift for @alloysius-g
It was a pleasure to paint her Realm of the Elderlings favs all together 🤗
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"But he thought the pain would kill him, and he cried out for you. 'Beloved! Beloved!' ” Her mockery of his agonized voice was perfect. The hair on the back of my neck stood up as if he had spoken to me from beyond the grave. Despite my resolve, my steps slowed. I held his body closer and bowed my head more tightly over his. I hated that her words could bring tears to my eyes."
Fitz and the Pale Bitc... Woman - Fool's fate
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Become What You Fear
This fic was written by sorrow_key ( @whatevsbla ) for ally_mcgee ( @alloysius-g ) and can be found on AO3.
Will is such an underrated character that some people (not giving names) even forget about him but this fic shows how fascinating, terrifying and powerful he really is. Everyone’s characterisation is on point and the Skill dreams passages in particular are chilling.
Thank you for yet another great fic @whatevsbla , and for your amazing ideas as always ❤_❤
Books: The Tawny Man
Rating: Mature
Characters: Will, Fitzchivalry Farseer, The Pale Woman, Chade Fallstar, The Fool
Summary: In which Will lives and this simple shift changes the very course of the world.
Excerpt:
“Show yourself,” I said intently.
And he did. It was like he’d stepped straight out of the furnishings; a completely new addition to my reality. My nightmares rarely showed me his face. He was a monster hiding in a child’s room when it was dark, a snake lying in wait in the grass. And when they did, it was usually the deathly grimace of his corpse.
The man before me was neither. He still had an eyepatch and all of his limbs. No, I noticed upon looking closer. He had no actual skin. His entire body was made of blackened stone. It called to me, drew me in like the fabled vortex to El’s depths that no ship could ever escape. He was hunger made man.
“Like what you see?” he asked, his voice velvet-soft and dangerous. I had forgotten its deceptively lilting cadence.
“There is no place for you here,” I told him, remembering the sensation of his shaking, dying body under my steady hands. “You no longer belong in this world.”
Will smiled, a slow unfurling of his charred lips. “Is that so? Then you shouldn’t have invited me in.”
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“‘Do I remind you of him?’ she asked suddenly. It seemed pointless to dissemble. ‘Yes. You do. Where is he?’ ‘In a safe place. You are very fond of him, aren’t you? You love him?’ She replied for me before I could answer. ‘Of course you do.’”
It is unnerving how much she knows about their relationship. She seems to have a better understanding of it than Fitz himself does
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ilistore is the one who made beloved have their tattoo on their back
she is also the one who removed it from them
that's so emotionally tearing me for no reason
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The pale woman, or Illistore, is such an underrated tragic character. I suppose that is because she is a villain, but her story is so sad to me. She grew up believing she was the one true prophet, probably the most important being in the world. Then she had to face that she never was and that what she believed all of her life was a lie. She wants to hold on to being the true prophet so much that she begs to be killed because that is the vision she had and for her identity to be true that needs to happen. Honestly, keeping her alive in her state was one of the cruelest things Fitz did for someone like her. It fits very well in the narrative, mind you, and there is no better way it could have ended for the pale woman, but it's still very tragic. For as little as she shows up she has quite the backstory and complexity, which sometimes is lacking in Hobb's villains.
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