I wanted to believe that Mal and I would always be friends, but I had to face the fact that we were on different paths. Lying in the dark, waiting for sleep, I wondered if those paths would just keep taking us further and further apart, and if a day might come when we would be strangers to each other once again.
Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo
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Like many fans, I wasn't super happy about s2's writing of Shadow and Bone. Yet despite that, I knew even then how desperately we needed a third season --- for the crew, the cast, the writers, and every other wonderful person on that production team. Most importantly, I needed a third season for the little girl I was who didn't get that representation onscreen. Growing up wasian and queer in a mostly white and religious community meant conforming to an ideology that erased who I was. Shadow and Bone, as messy as it was, showed us queer-coded wasian leads, POC queer characters, and queer interracial couples. Even as a grown-ass adult, I felt like a twelve-year old kid seeing Nadia and Tamar, Wesper, Kanej, etc. give such nuanced romances. Fuck Netflix for taking that away from not just me, but for the thousands of others who had this same experience. That show and this fandom proved to me I wasn't alone. I'd love for Netflix to give me a sound explanation for why they'd cancel a show that did as well as S&B.
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𝐊𝐀𝐙 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐊𝐊𝐄𝐑
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Dating Mal Oretsev would include:
Gif not mine
Requested: yes
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You were best friends with Mal, way before either of you admitted your feelings for each other.
He likes to let other people know that you’re his, even if he isn’t that big on pda. He likes to always be touching you somehow, if only to know you are there safe with him. Whether that be holding your hand or having his arm slung around your shoulders to keep you close.
Saints help anyone who tries to hurt you. He is very protective. The type of man that will turn absolutely feral if anything happens to you.
He freaks out if he hears you've been hurt. “Saints, you’re bleeding, what happened, who did this?!” // “Relax, Mal, it’s just a paper cut.”
Proceeds to take care of everything for you. Gently placing a plaster over the cut and pressing a kiss over it. Lots of cuddles and kissing to make you feel better (but only after throwing the offending piece of paper on the fire).
Literally, there is nothing he wouldn’t do for you.
He's a big softie and a complete romantic.
But he loves to annoy you, always teasing and pulling pranks. He thinks you look cute when you're angry.
One of his favourite things to do is pull at your hair to wind you up. You respond by tugging at his earlobe in retribution.
He pays very close attention to your likes and dislikes. And adores gifting you things he finds on his travels.
Your favourite flowers? You can expect a fresh bunch on your table every week just so he can see your smile.
He enjoys teaching you tracking skills.
And you enjoy pretending you're a worse shot with a rifle than you are, just to get him closer as he stands behind you, his chest to your back, and his arms holding yours as he helps to line up your aim.
When you get into trouble and you manage to shoot a man from a fair distance away, he is so surprised.
“Have you been able to shoot straight this entire time?!”
Quiet times with Mal are the best.
You don't have to have to say anything or be doing anything in particular. Just enjoying the peace with each other.
He likes it when you use his shoulder as a pillow.
He likes it even more when you let him lie with his head in your lap, one of your hands in his, and a book in the other, as you read to him.
He likes to absently trace shapes onto the back of your hand.
He loves looking up at you as if you are his entire world. There is nothing but the beauty of you filling his vision and the sound of your tranquil voice filling his ears.
He is completely enamoured by you. He can't help but stare at you from across the room.
He hates when he has to leave you to join the First Army.
Makes you promise to write to him and spray the pages with your sweet perfume.
He also makes you promise to be careful.
“Don’t do anything stupid without me.” // “How can I? You’re taking all the stupid with you.”
Lots of forehead touches and kisses.
“I’ll always find my way back to you, I promise. You’re my True North.”
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A/N: This is my first time writing headcanons so I hope they're not too bad.
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it 💛
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@agqrtz @for-bebbanburg @axe-does-writing @make-me-imagine @solinarimoon
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