Tag: vale*

Hnnynhnyhnyhnnnynyyyyyyhhhh… this week’s over yaaaay?

All day I couldn’t wait to come home and be able to write and be online and play games and stuff but now I’m just too tired to do anything. But I don’t want to get discouraged especially from writing so I’ll go over Vale and write down some of my favourite bits to keep myself enthusiastic until I can write again hopefully after I had a powernap.

• fucking…… assassin grandparents, hell yeah, Vale’s grandparents are so much cooler than yours
• “Well,
  this motherfucker’s going to die.“
• Cephas’ reaction to Vale not knowing who hired her. “Were you looking away or…?”
• immediately, the first (technically second) job we see Vale do where she’s supposed to kill someone who’s already in prison awaiting execution she just breaks him out because she’s curious why someone wants him dead so much. Worst. Assassin. Ever.
• Vale’s complete hatred for the nickname the people of Caelmoor gave her, best running gag in the whole story.
• “Are you sure this isn’t a kidnapping?”
   “I am but for you it’s going to be a
  surprise.”
• “Can
  you climb?”
  “Can
  you shut up?”
• Vale’s reaction to Cephas getting abducted is just her repeating “UMM” at gradually increasing volume.
• “Why is my whole body pain?”
  “Bandits broke your leg.”
  “Did bandits break that house too?”
  “No,
  that was me.”
• Vale trying to subtly flex her muscles when she’s about to meet Morlene to look more Buff™ and Cephas totally busting her for it
• just the whole first time Morlene and Vale interact with each other. you just know they been fuckin
• the other running gag of Vale hating the guts of Morlene’s new girlfriend. just… it’s glorious.
• “You are an asshole.”
  “Speaking of, how’s Lourdes?”
• thinking back to [spoiler] killing Vale’s employer with a soul-stealing blade so Vale couldn’t use magic to talk to the corpse and ask him who hired him to hire Vale knowing Vale was too stupid to even think of doing that. glorious. her damn ex girlfriend is a witch and it never occurred to her! x)
• even when they’re not close enough to unlock each other’s tragic pasts there’s no sulking between Cephas and Vale, they’re open and honest about their emotions and boundaries and that maKEs Me SoH apPy???
• Vale is actually an amazing conman it’s being stealthy that she sucks at!
• “Do I look… fucking invisible… to you?”
• (but for real they have capes that are essentially the perception filters from Doctor Who and I HAVE NO SHAME! TIME LORDS EXIST IN THIS UNIVERSE DO I GIVE A FUQQQQQ)
• the introduction of Guard Commander Mason aka is there anyone on this damn island Vale didn’t have a relationship with that went horribly? fun fact: I don’t actually know Mason’s first name. She’s just Mason.
• when Vera Talbot sends the infected guards to Downtown Caelmoor and the guards don’t know they’re infected and Vale and Cephas have to kill them before they exploooode and infect everybody eeeeeeeeeeeeeee intense
• “I’m quite the cool assassin. People like me. I tell
  jokes.”
• Vale slowly bleeding out because Cephas starts to open up to her and she doesn’t want to interrupt him by revealing that she was severely injured. my stupid daughter ♥
• it’s cool what’s happening to Vale and Cephas and their little missions and all but Caelmoor is slowly falling apart in the background due to political unrest, the blight infestation, the underpaid civic guards and the corrupt fire squads. it’s cool how that’s first just the backdrop to the Vale and Cephas’ story and then the two slowly meld together, I did a good job there
• 100% heterosexual Cephas analysing a woman’s beauty: “Strong calves.”
• Vale having to point out the jokes she makes because Cephas refuses to laugh at them
• when Vale calls Cephas “buddy” the first time as a joke and then when she does it fifteen chapters later u cry forever
• “Vale?!”
   “Yep.”
  “Was
  all that just real?”
  “Yep.“
  “How
  are you here?”
  “Yep.”
  “Can
  you stand?”
  “Yep.”
• The base area couldn’t be bigger than Morlene’s
  house’s but the building goes two storeys high with traditional parapet gable
  roof. That’s right, parapet gable.
  “That’s
  a parapet gable roof,” I mention nonchalantly while we crawl in through one of
  the windows. It doesn’t seem too dusty which gives me hope that the house actually
  served Crane some purpose like holding very detailed documentations about her
  orders.
   “Oh
  really? Is that like, your favourite roof type?”
  “Why,
  yes of course.”
  “I’m
  partial towards bonnet roofs myself.”
  “Quite,
  quite.”
  (nerd babies x))
• Cephas gets fucking infected yooooooooo
• Vale dragging Talbot’s dismembered body through the snowy Caelmoor to drop her on the castle’s doorsteps screaming for Mason to honour their deal only for her to betray her is just bhfjdlnafjldaf bone chilling ngl and then you want her to get back to Morlene’s and stay there for the winter, together with the whole family but then she don’t cause she sucks!
• “Lourdes is tutoring Leo in the bedroom.”
  “Oh yeah, cause Lourdes is so smart.”
•  “I remember you were much nicer before I left.
  Everybody was crying. You were all worried
  about me, don’t even deny it.”
• the whole part when Vale and Cephas get back the firewood from Zavier, it’s glorious. 
• “What are you planning to do? And can we help? And why don’t you just leave
  through the door like a normal person?”
• Vale reluctantly being head of security for the Festival of Flowers because she owes Morlene so much
• “You’re fascinated by
  those pinwheels, Cephas.”
  “Yeah, I just… want to check them to
  see if there are like… bombs in them…”
  “You’re not checking the pinwheels you’re staring at them.”
  “Uh…”
  “Cephas, do you want a pinwheel?”
  “No, of course not, they’re for kids.”
  “I can get you a pinwheel if you
  want.”
  “…maybe later…”
• big-ass reveal scene when it turns out Cephas isn’t affected by Vale’s time-stoppy powers
• just the whole dancing scene aND THEN THE BREAKUP SCENE OUCH MY HEART CEPHAS FEELS SO BETRAYED
• Finally, Vale, the Fearless
  Bloodslinger, alone once again.
  [chapter 21 end]
  [chapter 22 start]
  On second thought, fuck that. I’m
  doing just fine on my own.
• Morlene flavouring the story a little bit to slightly manipulate Vale into helping her as sHE SHOULD
• sudden and unexpected POV CHANGE BITCHESSSSS
• the Iron Slayer’s double execution is like whaaaat biiiiiitch. i kinda want her to have more scenes in the story but idk if it could work. ill figure it out
• Morlene having to give Cephas three times the normal dose of sedatives for his panic attack cause he’s a fucking mountain of a dude
• “Vale can handle herself. This is more important.”
  “Not to me.”
  (LIKE WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?! I CRY?!?!?!?!!)
• Morlene and Cephas breaking into the castle to break Vale out and Morlene doing cool magic shit and protecting Cephas while he’s killing some fools
•           Another
  crack.            

           

  Screaming.

           

  Hit.

           

  Crack.

           

  Scream.

           

  Hit.

           

  Blood.

           

  Blood.

           

  Blood.
  (daaayyym)

• “Mum told me to tell you to stay put.”
  “Was it Lourdes? You know you can’t
  trust her, right?”
• “I didn’t think you’d come back for me.”
  “What
  do you even mean, dumbo?” I laugh again. “You came back for me or did you hit
  your head that badly?”
  “No,
  I meant before,” Cephas nudges me. “When you caught me climbing up that fence,
  I thought you were leaving with that boat. I didn’t expect you to come back.”
  “I
  know.”
  “Is
  that why you did it?”
  “To
  prove you wrong? No.”
  “Then
  why?”
  “Because
  I like it when you’re around. And when you’re not around I wish you were. It’s that simple. I tried to make
  it more complicated but that’s just about it.”
• the Golden Trio having a heart to heart about all that’s been going on then Cephas sleeping next to Vale on the floor and him getting up in the middle of the night and calling out for Vale to make sure she’s there hahahahhaha i’M OKAY
• the Big Reveal followed by Big Betrayal
• when Vale’s time stoppy power DOES THE THINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
• the whole part where they’re listening to the tapes. I know that it’s so much infodump but there’s literally no other practical way to tell what happened and I just love that Celia and Eamon get to be in the story way more than they should be since they’re dead parents and stuff
• the little glimpse of Downtown Caelmoor we get once things completely fall apart. by now we know the rich people of Caelmoor fucking suck on average and their needs control everything on the island so seeing them in the midst of chaos is still interesting.
• Vale being a big boy and refusing a hug then running straight to Mason for a hug like idiot, grow up and accept hugs when you need them, like a normal person
• the last message to Cephas OW
• “Yeah, big-fucking-whoop, Vale has feelings! I didn’t think I was fooling anyone either.”
• (about Lourdes, Leo’s mother) “Leo, run, she’s right behind you.”
• I give a teary-eyed goodbye speech to
  the population of the Atrium- SYKE, I don’t do shit.
• “You go find Tulip you
  ask him to help. He help you. Ask him to no questions, he will no question. You
  aren’t lonely.”
  (Tulip the hidden MVP)
• UMM LEO CALLS VALE AUNT VALE?!?!?!?! RUDE?!?!?!??!?!?!?!
• “I can’t believe they hired other assassins to do the job. I’m offended.”
  “What did you expect? You weren’t around to-”
  “…to be the objectively superior
  choice?”