@@janielliataylor9069 and her first love was Mal, but then she feel in love with Darkling. When you are in love with two people than second one the real one because If you really love the first one you would never feel in love with someone else 😭🖐🏻
@@rose_bud2147 She attempted to kill herself to take both his and her own powers away. She failed and then was taken into hiding underground and yeah they were enemies
In the books does the Darkling and Alina get together? After seeing their insane chemistry honestly at this point that's all I want- I think I'd be absolutely gutted if it didn't end up happening
@@cherishparkes9437 No they don’t. But they both have feelings that’s for sure. Alina always feels a connection between them and the darkling truely likes her. If his intentions was different alina could’ve choose him
If the show gets the greenlight for future seasons and Alina DOESN'T end up getting back with Kirrigan imma throw hands. They're so perfect together and it's obvious despite his darkness she can still see the light in him 😪
@@annakomarova932 yeah I kinda thought that as well! She might though if she knows it's what the fans want maybe?? That would totally make the series for me if she did
I was hooked with it's preview in netflix where they were having a conversation. The way Aleksander look at Allina. I fell in love and started binge watching. But I was too broken for what happened to their relationship. Sure Mal is a good match but I can't stop shipping the two. They way they make contact to each other brings out different vibes
So true!! He’s more good looking now than ever. He’s such a good villain too, he lets you see the vulnerable side. Can’t help but root for him. But now of course they made him the leader of Volcra, he has realized he can control them. There’s no turning back. 😭
Agreed Abigail. But I really hope they can show some of his vulnerabilities in the next season! That he is not pure 100% evil. I do think he was so damaged in all his centuries of persecution and loss (not that that is an excuse) but still, I hope Netflix will choose to explore these elements of his character more, and mix it up a bit from the books!! I can't help but find him a much more intriguing character than Mal for instance. Also the chemistry is on fire between Alina and The darkling... Until he spoils things! mal and alina are more like brother and sister at this point. If only there was a bit of a redemption arc of The darkling! I do think he had genuine feelings for Alina but his thirst for power took over!
They probably won't change the ending but fill in gaps and enhance the journey. They have already fleshed out Mal's character more in the TV show. Here's hoping Alina has an experience of the darkside or the General 'attempts' a redemption arc for some sort of romantic interlude before returning to being a villan in future. Then Alina is with Mal in the end which is consistent with the books.
The air was ashy, breathing was becoming inexorably difficult. My lungs were filling with dirt and the noises all around me sounded muffed from the explosions. My sight was becoming blurred and everything looked incredibly slow as if I were looking through a window at someone else’s life. I looked around me: the Crows were holding themselves together, Inej standing in front of Kaz, her eyes wide with surprise and fear. Kaz was on his back, I couldn’t tell if he was injured from here. Jesper was kneeling next to him trying to say something in his ear but he didn’t seem to be paying attention. All his focus seemed to be on the scene before him: Aleksander was in a cloud of night trying to fight off the king’s army on one side and rogue soldiers from Fjerda on the other. He was on his knees, a streak of pain colouring his face, blood rippling from his torso, ruining his uniform and painting the dirt on the ground. My hearing was starting to come back slowly, I turned to my right were few meters away was his majesty’s army. The General was shouting at me, it took a few seconds to register what he was saying - kill him! - his voice scary as he growled at me like a mad dog. I looked into his eyes and I saw it: just pure hate, for who I was, for my abilities. Hate for something I didn’t choose, hate because I was different from them, more powerful. I never given them any reason to be afraid of me, till a few months ago I didn’t even know what I was. But none of it seemed to matter, they still hated me just like they hated Aleksander and I hadn’t even striked back at them. In my mind came back the memories of Aleksander’s past, not the story they taught in their books about the Black Heretic but what had really happened. - I didn’t know what to do… I was just a boy back then trying to learn to control my power - his gaze was fixed on a distant point in the room but I knew he was actually lost in thought - Me and my mother spent months at a time running and hiding, until one day the guards captured us. I was threatened that they would kill my mother if I didn’t do what the king asked, he wanted me to fight for him. He wanted me to round up others like me and win a war for him and we did. You know how history says that I became greedy and insatiable with power? Do you know what had actually happened? The same night we won all my people were sleeping in the barracks and he sent soldiers for a coup: they killed everyone inside. I wasn’t there, I went to break my mother free of the dungeons but I heard it: high pitched screams like the crackling of fire. By the time we had come out the barracks were burning to ash. I spent the next twenty years running away and hiding my people - I looked at him, he seemed suddenly so young and so old at the same time. The weight of his words and the memories were showing on his face giving away a truer idea of his real age. But his eyes when he looked at me… he seemed what I would have imagined a frightened ten-year-old Aleksander to look like. A confused child whose life had been stolen from him, a child who was victim of circumstances he didn’t choose. I remembered when he brought me to the fountain saying how he had always made a wish that he could be anyone else, he hadn’t lied about that. Mal shook me out of my thoughts, I turned to him. He was covered in dirt and was pointing his finger towards were I knew Aleksander was struggling. I turned my gaze and saw him fighting to not fall on the ground. One hand was keeping his weight from collapsing, the other was erecting a wall of shadow trying to keep off spears and bullets. As if he felt my eyes on him he turned his head and looked at me and I saw it all over again: a scared boy, confused as to why he had been hunted down his entire life just for being different. I looked over the army again and I rose to my feet. Mal tried to grab my arm but I shook him off - Alina, what are you - I didn’t give him time to finish - I am going to help him - Mal’s gaze looked as confused as if I were speaking some ancient language he could not understand. - What do you think will happen once I help them kill him? What do you think they will do to me? - I pointed a finger at the army with rage. - I am the same thing as he is to them: a threat, an annoyance, a bug on their shoulder jeopardizing their power. The only reason I am still breathing right now is because they think they need me to kill Aleksander. As soon as he drops to the ground they will turn against me as quickly as they once considered me an ally. I will need to spend the rest of my existence running and hiding, fighting for my life. Fighting to not be killed or captured and sold off. And Mal, eternity is a very long time to be afraid - I didn’t wait for his reply, I didn’t even look back at him. I didn’t want to look or I might have changed my mind. I started running towards Aleksander. (Would anyone read it if I wrote an AU ending for Shadow and Bone?)
No it's the person who don't believe in pushing this toxic relationship. He is literally evil and he violated her. Is that romantic??? No its disgusting.
He’s not a villain ... how people acted with him and made him like that ... even in the real world people are the ones who ruing everything what is nice in the world
I'm so fucking in love with these two. I'm so upset because even though I haven't read the books, I know what's going to happen AND IM SO MADD 😭. I love Darklina, how can you not explore these two together, they're like two sides of a coin. Darkness and Light.
This is beautiful. It shows their entire journey in season 1 so well. Light and Dark will always be destined to have some sort of relation. I'm hoping they honour the fact they were destined to be each other's balance in season 2 and manage to show that they were soul mates.
I like Malina bond and it was so ambiguos in the show whether it was a siblings/lover relationship never read books but anyhow Ben Barnes has been my all time crush, so he stands alone for me so he is a feast to my eyes and his acting was so good he makes me love to hate him and I couldn't really hate the guy don't know if it is like that in the books....I think I was more interested in the side ships lol than malina or alina & darkling
I want these two to be endgame so bad hopefully they change the directions of the books and go full darkling and Alina they have so much chemistry plus Ben Barnes 🔥
I think it's okay as long as we recognize that it is toxic. Though I do ship mal and alina endgame (which so far is being done much better in the show than the books in my opinion), I can appreciate the darkling and alina. Trust me, I'm the type of person who loves when characters are grey, so I had a lot of hope for the darkling, but he's a really terrible person and just continues getting worse in the series.
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