During the Covid-19 pandemic, a Mexican actor secretly signed with Marvel Studios to play the role of Namor the Sub-Mariner. In Marvel’s comic book universe, Namor is the arrogant, ferocious ruler of the underwater kingdom Atlantis. He rises to the surface in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
A 500 year old immortal god-king with no love for the surface world, discovers his soulmate is a surfacer, kills her mom, and is potentially punished, or should I say BLESSED, with eternal love for her.
An agnostic/atheist princess whose soulmate is the god who killed her mother, and is potentially punished, or again BLESSED, with eternal love for him.
They both could fall for the person they should hate/not be with or can’t be with , and yet they’re what the other needs to heal.
As if chaac and bast said, “if you want love, it’ll be fiery and passionate, but INCREDIBLY difficult and painful. Almost unbearable, both while you’re together and apart. If you work for it, you will feel eternal bliss.”
It’s poetic, it’s beautiful, it’s Shakespearean (maybe? Idk wakanda forever feels really Shakespearean to me)? and I am falling apart daily.
namor is already down bad but what if the next time he sees shuri and she greets him in flawless yucatan mayan and he notices she has no beads in and he gives her a look and she just says she "picked up the language in her spare time and its no big deal and doesn't mean anything and he shouldn't read into it", what happens then??
and yeah its not like she really cares she just likes making a point which is why she stayed up late several nights conversing with griot until she was near fluent becuase "it's an important diplomatic relationship for wakanda" and "she should to show how committed she is to forgiveness and peace" and "king m'baku would rather learn from her than a robot so now he won't have an excuse" and all these reasons seem rational in her head until namor's eyes glint in the jade-tinted light of his chambers as she speaks and suddenly none of those reasons matter anymore, what happens then??
I have come to the realization that hot African powerhouse x hot Indigenous powerhouse with a sprinkle of bad blood between them is my new favorite ship dynamic.