"The joke at Marvel is that the reason why I made Eternals is so I can go online & read the fanfiction about my own movie. I'm also going to write some on AO3 and put it up with a different name." - Chloé Zhao
If I had a nickel for every time I shipped a thousand year old person with a human I’d have two nickels. It’s not much but it’s weird it’s happened twice
marc and ikaris leaving layla and sersi in order to protect them but ending up only screwing everyone over in the process :((( my tragic bbs.
RIGHT?!?!
i did find myself liking Ikarsi more than Marla though! after some thinking, here's why:
Ikaris only found out the secret after he fell in love with and married Sersi; Marc knew before he met Layla
Marc's secret has to do with his own wrongdoing. Ikaris' secret is no fault of his own and was forced upon him by Ajak
We saw, however little of it, Ikarsi falling in love - we didn't with Marla
Sersi never knew he was keeping secrets, so she never asked about them, so we never saw him outright lie to her. It kind of isn't Marc's fault that Harrow hinted at his secret to Layla, but still.
We never saw Sersi being hostile to Ikaris. We see Layla doing this multiple times to Marc
We never saw Sersi comparing Ikaris and Dane. Layla in e4 is so blatant in her comparison of Steven and Marc and her opinion that Steven is better
Ikaris never begrudged Sersi moving on and loving another after he left. Meanwhile Marc is punching Steven in the face and threatening to throw him off a cliff (the fact that it involves throwing himself off the cliff as well does little to improve my opinion of him. also yes i know the bit where Ikaris goes 'you're breaking up?' a little too hopefully but that's literally it)
Ikaris apologised (maybe we'll see Marc give Layla a proper apology in the later episodes, but so far we haven't seen any)
Eternals focuses primarily on Ikarsi's love story (rather than Danersi's) while Moon Knight focuses primarily on Steyla's love story (rather than Marla's).
personally, i can understand why Ikaris left (to stop himself from telling Sersi information that would break her heart) but i don't get why Marc left. Khonshu is obviously using Layla to blackmail him into doing his bidding, but why would distancing himself from Layla protect her? it's obvious to Khonshu that he still loves her so she can still be used for leverage. And if Khonshu wants her as his Avatar surely he isn't limited by distance?? what even was the point of Marc leaving and wanting a divorce??
sorry this went very off topic anon thank you for your ask! i love when people pop into my inbox with fandom opinions <3