Tag: avengingthrones

MAEDHROS IT IS THEN!

• What I like about them
   The whole character arc, actually! Specifically how much his personality must have changed from being a prince in Valinor to the one-handed vengeance-machine in Beleriand. 
• What I dislike about them
  The Second Kinslaying, and maybe how far into bitterness and desperation he falls at the end of the First Age? It’s not that I dislike this about him necessarily, I just find it quite depressing? 
• Favourite moment
  I quite like the bit where he’s like “haha totally going to double-cross Morgoth” and Morgoth is like “son… don’t bullshit a bullshitter." 
  Okay but that aside: Literally any interaction with the Nolofinweans and also Maedhros and the Khazad. Like, the Union of Maedhros was completely and utterly badass and brilliant and it gets me pumped up every time I read it despite being the Dark Lord Trash that I am.
• Least favourite moment
  Lololol I generally get my panties in a twist every time ANY of the Noldor makes the excuse that any land not claimed by the Sindar is theirs and that the Sindar owe them the territory they DO still have, because "we’re protecting you from Morgoth”. And Maedhros is like the first one to say “well I guess we’ll just take all the land you’re NOT in, Thingol, smd” and that’s never sat well with me. XD I MEAN, I LIKE IT AS A CHARACTER DYNAMIC! I ENJOY CHARACTER CONFLICT. I ENJOY THAT THE NOLDOR ROLL INTO BELERIAND LIKE WHAT UP I GOTTA BIG CROWN. 
  I JUST ALSO STAN WITH THE SINDAR ON A PERSONA LEVEL I mean I don’t think Thingol is sterling example of morality or anything– NO ONE IS IN THIS BOOK I S2G, I just… it’s a very colonialist attitude and it raises my hackles even while it intrigues me, and even while I can see where the attitude originated and how it seems totally reasonable from the Noldor’s perspective. 
• A situation with this character that I want to see explored more
  Ech, you know me! I like all the in-between moments of life during wartime to be explored, and POLITICS *q*
• An interesting AU for this character
  I……… I want to see the complete HOT MESS of an AU that would be Maedhros successfully making parley with Melkor. 
• OTP (or OT3+ etc…. just… favourite ship)
  I really enjoy Maedhros/Fingon, it’s hot as fuck and it breaks my heart–BUT I also don’t really have a real OTP for Maedhros? I think that the kind of relationship he’d need to make a really compelling OTP for my tastes doesn’t necessarily exist in the Silm? Or if it does, it has yet to be explored. 
• Other ships?
  *swandives into the trasH* SAuURonn
• BROTP
  I think there’s a lot of good BROTPs for Maedhros! 😀 Azaghal comes to mind as one I think I’d really like to explore. But in general I think he’d be well respected amongst his political allies. 
• NOTP
  *shrug* I don’t actively go searching out NOTPs so I don’t know? XD  AGAIN, as with most things, the things that squick me tend to be interpretations that I disagree with. 
  Why do so many people feel the need to draw all the elves as same-faced 18-year-old perfectly symmetrical white bishounen with slightly different hair? Why is that appealing? Who finds that hot? ASKING THIS FOR REAL LIKE I GENUINELY DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
• An assortment of headcanons!
  I’ve made posts about this before, but my HC version of Maedhros has a form of acromegaly or gigantism. I like to think of him as having very striking features that are not unattractive, but do not actually fall within the standard elven parameters for being classically handsome? 
  I also think that Feanor and Nerdanel are outrageously proud of their firstborn, and if anyone suggested to them that Maedhros was slightly non-standard or not a statuesque model of Noldor manhood, they would FREEZE THAT PERSON’S SOUL WITH THEIR EYES. Also Fëanor comes to like… just under Maedhros’s shoulder height. U////U SHORT DAD HUGS.

  I DIG ANY VERSION OF MAEDHROS THAT IS SCARRED AND HAS DIFFERENT HAIR AFTER THANGORODRIM. I DIG THAT SO HARD. I tend to draw him with long braided hair no matter what, but whenever I see a version (eehn’s comes to mind) where he’s cut his hair short–!!!! GREY STREAKS FROM STRESS???? *__* HNNNNGH. 

  Generally speaking, the more of a crusty old badass you make Maedhros, the more I like him. >3> And as I said before, I really just enjoy speculating about the character’s entire arc from beginning to end and seeing the changes that happen between each epoch of his life.