I’m sorry, but if you insist on having the main character in a love triangle and one of the love interests wears primarily black clothes, has the warmest and softest voice in the world, and has a traumatic past, there’s only one option for the audience.
I don’t know where some people get the idea that the Darkling hated non-Grisha. His personal guard - the Oprichniki - weren’t Grisha. In Demon in the Woods, he cares about and saves the life of Sylvi, a little girl who was not Grisha. He felt horrible when Baghra and the Ulle burned down a village of non-Grisha in Demon in the Woods, too. Aleksander has never hated non-Grisha. He just wanted them to stop killing people who were Grisha. He hates drüskelle, who burn Grisha alive. He hates the rich merchants who enslave Grisha in Kerch. He hates people who experiment on Grisha in Shu Han. He hates the Ravkan king, who uses Grisha like commodities. But he doesn’t hate people for not being born Grisha. Maybe some people think this way because of the comments he made when Alina lost her powers in the books, but those were made because now that she was no longer Grisha, or more particularly, no longer a Sun Summoner, it meant he was going to be completely alone for the rest of his life, or so he believed, because he was still immortal and she no longer was.
Parent: “Just to make sure I didn’t– I didn’t mishear what you said, what did you say I look like?”
Child: “A douche in that hat.”
Parent: [holding back laughter] “I– you said I look like a douche in this hat?”
Child: “Uh-huh.”
Parent: “A– a douche? You’re saying a douche?”
Child: “Yep.”
Parent: “Adley, what is a douche? What is– what are you talking about?”
Child: “It’s kind of– it’s– it’s kinda like a– a king, or something. He’s a king.”
Parent: “Like a king?”
Child: “Uh-huh.”
Parent: “You’re saying a king? A douche is like a king?”
Child: “Uh-huh.”
[long, bewildered silence]
Parent: “Do you mean a duke?”
Child: “Yep!”
Parent: “Okay. Thank you so much for the compliment, sweetie, um– but it is a duke. Look– look– look– look at me. A duke. Not a douche. Alright?”
Child: “A douche?”
Parent: [laughing] “No, no, not a douche. A duke!”
What i love about these videos, what is right and good about these videos, is that it shares this kid being cute AF - but at NO POINT is the child on screen. At no point is that baby’s face exposed to the internet. Dad wants to share this experience but he only shares HIS piece of the experience because his kid is not old enough to consent to that kind of exposure and bless him, its the right thing to do.
