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aleksanderscult · 7 months

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Part 1 of Aleksander Morozova being a jealous bitch

Here's a long ass meta (I awaited for this moment for so long) where I'll post and comment each scene where the Darkling gets jealous. 'Cause let's be real, we love to see it.

Cut below since it's too long (he seriously gets jealous even five minutes in every scene he appears🤦)

(Part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and the bonus content btw🖤)

Let's dive in!

"A grim smile playing on his lips."

Yeah it's grim 'cause he forces himself to smile in order to hide the pain and hurt from just seeing the girl he unintentionally fell in love with have a romantic scene with a deserter tracker, but still be doesn't succeed in putting a good i-dont-give-a-fuck show so now we have this failed effort.

Next!

Translation: "Are you so loyal to her? Willing to do anything for her? LIKE I WAS??"

The low-key spite and snide that comes out here is *CHEF'S KISS*.

Aside from the jealousy matter, the Darkling here tries to manipulate Mal by using fear. With the threat of death. He's testing to see his bravery, courage and how far he's willing to go for Alina. Clever.

THE PETTINESS HERE DJDJSKJSJS

Okay he obviously wants to lower their confidence, strength and break apart the bond that Mal and Alina had re-created the past few days. Again clever.

BUT!

No one can tell me that he also wasn't bitter and vengeful. He was like: "Aww they have rekindled their romance! How sweet! Now watch me destroy it🥰🥰"

"That was a very touching scene we witnessed".

Translation: "I'm disgusted. I'm in pain."

Actually, this is how I imagine the Darkling being when Mal and Alina kissed 😭:

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Also, his (famous) sexual innuendos. He knew that Alina would never say to Mal what truly happened between them. So he's "spitting" it on Mal's face with such pleasure and satisfaction (like "she willingly gave herself to ME, boy. Did she tell you that? No. I don't think so"). And even though they obviously didn't have sex he implies it 'cause he's petty like that.

You know. For being famous for his acting skills, he really lets his mask slip easily lots of times.

Aside from anger, he must have felt hurt. This is the first time that Alina recoils from his touch and it bothers him.

The Darkling here being like:

He's acting like they were a couple and had a break up LMAO. The way he doesn't even look at her. Such a dramatic bitch.😔

The Darkling: "Lord, give me patience not to obliterate a bitch (Mal)".

His patience runs out. The fact that the first thing Alina asks him about is Mal makes him want to lash out. He be like: "I'll be so glad when I'll feed his ass to the volcra."

The moment he instructs her what to do, he demands answers about her thoughts for Mal. He's genuinely curious about what she sees in him. And how can she have hopes about being with him, an otkazat'sya, a mortal man that is beneath her? When the only person, according to him, that would understand her and accept her completely is himself (Dude we get it, you're superior 😭).

Also, he's trying to save her from a future disappointment. He has walked this path before and doesn't want Alina to do the same. He has seen this play and didn't like the ending.

So! This is part 1 of my long meta since I can't put more than 10 pictures in a post *shakes fist at Tumblr*. But don't worry. I'll continue this delightful meta in the next few days.😊😊

#this is part 1 of the Darkling seeing red flags when it comes to Mal #I'm enjoying this so much #not the Darkling though #The Darkling being jealous meta #meta #Youtube #grishaverse #grishaverse trilogy #shadow and bone #the darkling #pro darkling #aleksander morovoza #pro aleksander morozova #alina starkov #darklina #pro darklina #mal oretsev #alarkling #darklina meta

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greensaplinggrace · 1 year

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I actually like it when ships hurt each other in long lasting and unforgiveable ways. I like it when they leave vicious, glaring scars. I like when they leave traumas. I like when they stab each other and torture each other and ruin each other’s lives and violate every inch of each other’s values. and I like it when they fucking kill each other permanently dead.

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mistiell · 1 year

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My toxic trait is wholeheartedly believing I could pull every single one of my fictional crushes whether their og love interest exists or not

#except maybe the Darkling #lord knows I’d try though #eddie munson #viktor arcane #aleksander morozova #steve harrington #alina starkov #jesper fahey #peter parker #shall I go on?#eddie munson x reader #aleksander morozova x reader #the darkling x reader #steve harrington x reader #tasm peter parker x reader

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theaologies · 1 year

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He was NOT up there when I went into work this morning but he sure is the FIRST thing I see when I leave the workshop now talk about a jumpscare

#wwdits #colin robinson #SCARED ME #the Darkling is finally gone as of today #but now THIS GUY #I’ll take him over the Darkling literally any day though

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hensel-x · 1 year

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didn’t even finish season 1 of shadow and bone but god they were so aesthetically pleasing???? I mean come one, dark vs light parallels???? ben barnes with his wet pathetic eyes????

I love you lovers to enemies toxic heteros

#my art #shadow and bone #the darkling #alina starkov #alexander morozova #though I like to think of alina as non binary

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kittenbradensgf · 1 year

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It was never elaborated on in the show so i must mention it here. Aleksander has siblings. I think most of the people in this fandom know this anyway but this is for those who don’t.

Baghra didn’t just happen to have one child who inherited her powers off the bat. She had been trying to have a child for one, maybe two, reasons, and they were that she was 1. bored 2. wanted a child with her powers so she could basically control them too.

She had many kids who didn’t have her powers, and abandoned them, until she had Aleksander, who she kept (and very obviously abused.)

I see posts saying how she’s such a girlboss and a good mother for some reason, but a woman who abandons all the children who aren’t useful to her, and manipulates and abuses the one that is, is neither of those things.

#special shout out to Ulla also. She’s the only other child of Baghra who was named and she’s half fish.#i love ulla though #shadow and bone #grishaverse #baghra morozova #anti baghra #anti baghra morozova #aleksander morozova #the darkling #ulla morozova #sankta ursula

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tsibeyantiger · 3 months

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What makes the Darkling evil is not that he committed (auto-)genocide on multiple occasions or that he tortured too many people to count them or that he kinda groomed young girls or that he enslaved Grisha. It is true that he did what he thought was best for Ravka and the Grisha.

What makes him evil is that he said on multiple occasions that he doesn't regret any of his actions. It is not that he thinks he did the right thing. So do Nikolai, Zoya and Alina and yet they all see the faces of the people who died because of their decisions when they try to sleep. But he literally doesn't care about the woe he caused.

He only did what he thought was for the greater good? Well, so did Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

#grishaverse #six of crows #shadow and bone #the darkling #anti darkling #no darklina #it is so telling that Alina felt guilty for the destruction of Novokribirsk while Aleksandr himself who did this wasn't sorry at all #though Leigh Bardugo said that all of the Darkling's actions are understandable it is still wild to say Tsarina Tatiana was worse than him

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takaraphoenix · 1 year

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Stanning a villain and/or a villain/hero ship is honestly so funny because every now and again you will see a post by someone who has nothing better to do with their time than post about the things they hate, hoping that the villain will commit more atrocities so their fans will, I don’t know, see the light and stop loving them and stop shipping them.

Just, fundamentally showing that they really-really have no idea what loving a villain is about?

The atrocities are sexy. The atrocities are part of the appeal. We like the atrocities in this house.

Kind of the point of loving a villain is loving that they are a villain. Which, ya know, includes the atrocities. 😂 😂 😂

#Villain Apologism #Villain Stanning #Pro Villain #Hero/Villain Shipping #love the mutual who put the post on my dash #with a tag I HADN'T blacklisted yet #wanna piss in OP's coffee for not tagging the post AT ALL though #Darkling #Darklina #this is very very specifically about the Darkling #I wanna see him murder more people #that's kind of the fun about it??#be unhinged baby girl kill the oppressors <3 #I DON'T want Alek to join Alina's side??#I want Alina to be unhinged and join HIS side??? xD

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doyouknowthis-grishaverse · 2 months

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#grishaverse #shadow and bone #my polls #fandom polls #grishaverse polls #the grisha trilogy #ditw #demon in the wood #language of thorns #lives of saints #the tailor #my fave is the tailor i love it #its a hard choice though because i loved demon in the wood too #and the other two are beautiful books too #genya safin #the darkling #aleksander morozova #ulla morozova #baghra morozova

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totaleclipse573 · 3 months

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#dont question why i have so many eclipse rarepairs im a multishipper svdbfksbdfjs #THIS ONE IS OLD AND NEW #PLEASE UNDERSTAND #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic fandom #soneclipse #eclipse the darkling #art #sonic art #sonic fanart #valentines day #this ones pretty platonic looking though #if you'd rather call it that

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stromuprisahat · 4 days

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Siege and Storm- Chapter 17 (Leigh Bardugo)

They might not stop the nichevo’ya, but they would slow them and kill anything in their range, no matter the side. I won't even start on bullets bouncing off the surface and hitting something else...

Siege and Storm- Chapter 12

But I guess if they can be shot at by ordinary soldiers, they can die under fire of brand new repeating rifles too...

Tolya and Tamar opened fire. It was a sound like I’d never heard, a relentless, skull-shattering thunder that shook the air around us and rattled my bones. It was a massacre. The nichevo'ya plummeted from the skies around us, only to reassamble themselfves on the ground among the pilgrims. Bullets followed closely, hitting humans and monsters alike. Chests were blown open, limbs torn from bodies. The spent cartridges pinged to the floor of battlements. The sharp burn of gunpowder filled the air. Two hundred rounds per minute. So this was what a modern army could do.

Siege and Storm- Chapter 8, adjusted

If there are preparations made for a battle, shouldn't those people be evacuated? But then again they don't want to be elsewhere, they want their Saint- trying to send them away wouldn't work, would it? Perhaps not even at gunpoint, so what does it matter how will they die during the Darkling's attack, right?

#Grishaverse #S&S Chapter 17 #Alina Starkov #Nikolai Lantsov #Ravka #grishanalyticritical #S&S Chapter 12 #S&S Chapter 8 #self centred and paranoid #Siege and Storm #Grisha trilogy #V #books #quotes #Leigh Bardugo #Wanna know why the Darkling keeps using nichvo'ya even though it's killing him?#HIS people would have to face those 200 rounds if he weren't there.

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imruination · 1 year

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There are very few pieces of media that speak to me on what I can only describe as on a spiritual level, and one of those is Shadow and Bone, written by Leigh Bardugo. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Six of Crows and I think it’s an important story that needed to be told for so many reasons, but there’s something so special to me about the simplicity of Shadow and Bone.

When something is simple, it has to be done well. Yes, Shadow and Bone is on its surface a good vs. evil story which we have seen in media time and time again. I think what stands out to me about it is ironically why so many people call it (or specific things about it) “boring.” There are a lot of important themes, but my favorite is the emphasis that is put on the power of being “ordinary.”

I was 15 when the first book came out, and I read them as they were released. I spent a lot of my childhood reading fantasy books because escaping into them made me feel special, in a world where I felt at once completely ordinary and like a total outcast. This feeling only got worse as a teen, as I would spend a lot of my classes, and even my lunch period reading these books. I understand that this is a feeling that a lot, if not all teens feel. I am not special even in my isolation. I spent so much of my time pretending I had some incredible hidden but innate magical powers.

Shadow and Bone was incredible to me for the very reason why I constantly see it being criticized by my peers and even my friends. The idea of “power” being seductive, while also inherently being corrupt, and fueling the class system and poverty that the entire population is living under, (but Alina as the protagonist is being exposed to a lot of it’s worsts) is something the reader is constantly being reminded of.

Alina is put in a very unique situation by being a girl who holds incredible power as a grisha, but was not raised in that knowledge. To her, the power was suddenly thrust upon her, which made it a lot easier to eventually see the flaws in the entire system. So to read about this protagonist my own age, who had the option of power, was tempted by even more of it in the darkling and the amplifiers- and to give it all up in the end was mind blowing to me.

Alina goes from despising her upbringing and general hardship, to ultimately embracing the simplicity of it. Alina is THE Main character™️ and she ends up as a powerless orphan, in love with another powerless orphan she’s known her entire life. In the realm of all my fantasy books I’d been reading, there was nothing “special” about that. And yet, in it’s difference there was.

Alina’s privilege in making her own choices was special. Her choice to not be controlled by the pillars of power around her. Her choice to embrace her upbringing, and help those who will grow up the way she did. Her choice to accept the love she had had her entire life, that although was not seductive and dangerous, was reliable and enduring and all the more powerful for being that.

It is really surreal and almost funny to see it being criticized for these things now. You think Alina and Mal are boring? Well so did they. And then they grew up and learned better. This is the first book that I can think of in hindsight, that made me wonder if I actually did have this very ordinary but incredible power in myself. I have the privilege of making my own choices. I have the power to love others, and isn’t that incredible? From a person who has now grown up and gained some perspective for myself… Thank you Leigh.

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greensaplinggrace · 1 year

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aleksander inside his own head: I hope mal doesn’t get hurt or die I really like him and I want him to be my friend

aleksander out loud whenever mal speaks: kys

#aleksander in my brain is just a scorned black cat with mal 24/7 #like he is ALWAYS giving him that look like mal just pissed on his shoes #even though he actually really likes mal and wants pets from him #the dichotomy of a darkling #myramblings #shadow and bone #sab #grishaverse #aleksander morozova #the darkling #malyen oretsev #mal oretsev #malarkling #darkblade #malarklina

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seventfics · 1 year

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There are many things that I liked about this new SaB season, and many things that I did not. One of the changes that I appreciated that added layers to the story was the integration of another living saint: Sankta Neyar.

yes, we saw a glimpse last season of what the Darkling has historically lived through, and what the toll of outliving everyone you know, over and over again, does to you. we know that the curse of immortality and infinite loneliness are what tie the Darkling and Alina's fates together, more than anything. it's a crucial part to their characters to explain their actions, thought processes and obsessive behaviors.

but Sankta Neyar! she directly, thematically, counters both of them!

"Hundred of years I closed my heart (...) What a safe way to live. What a small way as well."

She's calling the Darkling's way of living is safe. it's the way his mother taught him to live, of course. to be cynical, apathetic, cut off from your heart. when he loves, it's weakness, so he doesn't really let himself love. he obsesses, and maims, and lashes out at the people that disappoint his expectations. it makes him even more isolated.

Sankta Neyar could've easily been another Darkling mirror with this alone, and yet:

"When you allow yourself to be blindsided by love, two worlds make a universe. (...) And I will see him through his days."

An immortal person with a mortal love. this is who Alina would one day be. if only she could accept that it's alright to love someone and lose them. her own naive greed are why the season ends the way it ends, with Mal leaving in search of himself, now that she's taken his power and left him feeling hollow. her committing merzost to bring him back, her trust in that they will come together again, is not so different from what the Darkling is capable of for her. only, instead of closing her heart, she's super-glueing it to someone else. she refuses to let him go! it makes her unpredictably dangerous.

with Sankta Neyar there, we are shown balance: someone who will live every day to the fullest with her love, while still guarding herself and being distrusting of other people's intentions. it's possible to live forever and not lose yourself in the process. incredible! if only the Darkling and Alina had some immortal other than Baghra for influence!

#the darkling #alina starkov #sankta neyar #shadow and bone s2 #shadow and bone #shadow and bone spoilers #this is not purposely anti baghra. shes a very complex and interesting character #absolutely the worst influence anyone could have and worst parent of the millennium though 👍#tt

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unabashedmoonlight · 3 months

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While Alina sympathised with Aleksander's loneliness and everything she felt through the tether, it would have been funny if she, at some point out of pettiness and irritation, had been like,

"One would expect a villain running for world domination and winning to be a bit more happy, but no, depress me even more. If you are miserable in spite of your victory and we are miserable because of your victory then who even is happy here?? At least let me feel second hand happiness, what is wrong with you?!"

#baby he hasn't won #his self imposed tasks are endless unfortunately #and contradictory?😭#scientists are trying to figure out what would make him happy #they are saying finding a cure for death is more likely #i can manage to make him happy in some of my darklina aus though #nothing you have to worry about #continue your rant #these tasks also include “Alina” for anyone wondering #no more description #just Alina #and it is not yet done #alarkling #darklina #the darkling #shadow and bone #aleksander morozova #alina starkov #grishaverse

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jeansyvesmoreau · 1 year

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Thinking about that one post that said that we should get another kaz-darkling 1v1 in season two

#listen it would be objectively funny if we did #I can't find the post though :(#six of crows #shadow and bone #crooked kingdom #netflix shadow and bone #also why tf is crooked kingdom the trending thing now #leigh bardugo #grishaverse #shadow and bone netflix #sab s2 #kaz brekker #the darkling #sab season 2 #shadow and bone season 2

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