fangirl challenge ⚙ female characters {3/10}
↳ Deryn ‘Dylan’ Sharp
i got preemptively pissed about an element of this that i will not mention here for fear of spoiling y’all
but
THEN IT WAS PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg flawless
Examples of finished copies of Goliath which now exist and everything.
But every time she tried, Deryn had imagined the look of horror on his face. Not that she was a girl in boy’s clothes, or that she’d lied to him for so long. All that yakkum Alek would get past, she knew. And then he would love her. She knew.
But that was the problem, because there was one thing that would never change… Deryn was a commoner. She was a thousand time more common that Alek’s mother, who’d been born a countess, or even Lilit, an anarchist who spoke six languages and always knew which fork to use. Deryn Sharp was as common as barking dirt, and the only reason that didn’t matter to His Serene Highness, Aleksander Of Hohenberg, was that was also, in his mind, a boy.
The moment she could be anything more than a friend, and she would be, then he’d have to run a mile.
Scott Westerfeld, Behemoth (via wordshaker27)
#I love how Deryn never even questions that Alek would return her feelings #like of course he would
I LOVE THIS ALSO, I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT ON IT WHEN I SAW YOU BEAT ME THERE. He loves her so much, she knows that, he friggin worships her, and if she were a girl, obviously he’d be all over that, he’s swooning all day err day as is! CALM DOWN ALEK, YOU’RE EMBARRASSING YOURSELF. Deryn’s just worried what his obvious irrepressible adoration would do for the state of the throne. He can’t know because there’s no way he’d be able to stop loving her!
Barking spiders! <3
okay, resolve something for me, Tumblr: (SPOILERS FOR BEHEMOTH) Lilit knows that Deryn is a girl, right?? Someone recently told me that Westerfeld says Lilit doesn’t know. But that must be a lie, right? RIGHT?
Also, hey there, you charming thing.
I also love Alek, who is like the greatest doof to ever doof, forever plotting schemes that fall through and committing unnecessary acts of nobility and heroism that almost inevitably get him into more trouble and sighing over Dylan, THAT MANLIEST OF MEN, for whom he definitely does not harbor any intense feelings of a romantic or sexual nature; it’s just Dylan is so brave and handsome and dashing and debonair and rakish, and he just wants to sling his arm around Dylan’s shoulders constantly and stare deep into his eyes and smile winningly at him, like it’s motherfucking A Separate Peace all up in here, only Alek isn’t going to push Deryn off a tree branch in a fit of jealousy and too late realize Deryn, in part, shows off due to her vast love for Alek.
Alek, you colossal dummkopf. I swear to God, his first day as king of Austria-Hungary he’ll stand in front of a rearing horse to save a stableboy (note: the stableboy is not actually in any danger), and when he wakes up that evening in his bed, Deryn will punch his arm (not the broken one, because she’s being thoughtful) outrageously hard, as hard as she can punch, and Alek will protest loudly to no avail BECAUSE HE IS A DUMMKOPF AND HE DESERVES IT.
but then later they will kiss and kiss and kiss #HowIEndAllStories
Even the back of Deryn’s head is handsome and also perfect, uggggggggh, I LOVE HER; SHE IS SO BOSSY AND RUDE AND SELF-CONFIDENT AND SNAPPY AND STRONG (like, yes, a strong character, but also she could punch your face in) AND IMPULSIVE AND HEADSTRONG, and I looooove her.
