calamity

never not thinking about them

Love eternal 🥺 Loquatious and Laerryn

going through my old catalogue and revamping my old pieces to use as prints someday so heres a laerynn (@quiddie) and loquatious version 2 electric boogaloo :D

“All things end - lives, stories, even ages.” 

Headcanon that Loquatius gave Laerryn her RingBracelet of Masks

I'm pretty sure A Court of Fey and Flowers was filmed before Calamity. which means that Brennan making Sam roll insight against his own deception was ACTUALLY inspired by Aabria doing the same to him first. which I love.

Round 1

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so im getting to the end of my finally watching exu calamity

for the most part i haven't really made posts on my reactions here bc most of what i'd have to say has already been said, i've been seeing those meta posts around since calamity came out

but god the one unexpected thing about loquatius and laerryn i can't get over is just all of aabria's little reactions to quay's choices here

like. i know laerryn loves him as much as he loves her, but she's not good at showing it. she's deeply pragmatic, which means while loquatius is having huge moment after huge moment illustrating just how much he's willing to sacrifice for her, she's making sure she can do her job. because she has to. even if that means leaving him to die in the calix chamber, because she couldn't have saved him, and if she died trying then the whole world would be lost

but at the same time, she did all of this for him. it was so important to her to finish the leywright that solstice, because she has a longer lifespan than quay, and he wouldn't be with her to see the next one. she was distraught when she felt him slip away from her over the telepathic bond, even though she'd chosen to let it happen

part of the reason their marriage failed the first time is they just don't talk. there's so little communication between the two, not just on laerryn's side. quay has the big moments, yes, but how many of those does laerryn even know happened? she doesn't know that he fired elena to protect her from being blamed for evandrin. she doesn't know he prerecorded a broadcast to be played in the event of his death, that would tell the city not about laerryn's mistakes, but that it was loquatius himself who failed them, and laerryn tried everything she could to save the city. she doesn't know that he turned down a call from his queen and his family to come home and be protected from the apocalypse, bc he'd rather die trying to save laerryn, avalir, and his new family, than live without them

but aabria does.

and that gives way to the tiniest most hard hitting fourth wall breaks

like when quay turns his back on the seelie queen's offer - aabria immediately gives a small "no, no, you have to go"

laerryn needs him here. the story needs him here. there is no benefit to quay leaving, except that quay would be alive, and that's what laerryn desparantly wants, so it comes out in aabria

when we get to the climax, too, the big fight where all they're trying to do is keep laerryn alive long enough to activate the leywright, and it gets to quay's last turn? the first thing aabria says is "run. run."

laerryn is pragmatic. aabria knows this is a tragedy, and has been so far the most gung ho about playing into the tragedy. from a pragmatic perspective, loquatius should stay with laerryn, it gives the world a better chance of survival. narratively, loquatius should stay with laerryn bc that's how this story is supposed to go. and personally, loquatius should stay with laerryn because he can't bear to do anything else

but twice, she tells him to leave. because in this story where every single character is forced to reckon with which they love more, their city or their family - laerryn chose the city once. more than once. here at the end of all things, she won't do it again

Okay because I haven’t posted in a bit here’s a drawing from a loquaerryn sketch page I never finished

i just think that loquatious is quite clingy as a principle, but laerryn did not let go of him the entire second half of episode four okaythatsallbye-

you put your finest suit on

i paint my fingernails

oh, we're going out in style, babe 💜💛

calamity

(Tasteful variant haha)

we’ve got the OG baddies Silas and Delilah Briarwood here to break the world for you folks! and Rising Stars Laerryn and Loquatious Coramar-Seelie....AND WHAT’S THIS??  IT’S IMOGEN AND LAUDNA WITH A STEEL CHAIR

when they got married during the last replenishment and then got married during the last replenishment

shut up im thinking abt loquatious' final speech again. such a small detail is that he mispronounces zerxus' name. which is fine, hell he did it with his own name in the first episode's broadcast. but theres something about this one.

zerxus has made a Deal, and if anyone in the ring of brass knows something about deals itd be our faerie warlock. and i think about vespin chloras, whos wish to not be forgotten was granted by being remembered as the worst villain in history. and i think about how loquatious tells laerryn "history is not true". and how faerie and devilish lore both share a belief in the importance of names.

and yeah, its probably not that deep. but maybe, just maybe, it was loquatious' way of protecting his friend from the march of history flattening a person's identity into a word on a sheet of paper.

I just binge watched CR ExU: Calamity, I balled my eyes out, I've worked my way through dozens of tissues, I am dehydrated as a fucking desert, I have felt so many emotions at once and my brain is glitching.

I should be legally dead right now.