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spicyshimmy:

“Protect what matters with everything you have. Or you’ll have nothing. And deserve it.”

is it any wonder donnic is speechless when he sees her that night in lowtown? it’s not that she’s a work of art; it’s not that she’s any lovelier or any plainer than anyone else. it’s the set of her jaw and the strength of her convictions—and she is beautiful, brave, bold and tart. perhaps she’s more the sort to knock a man off his feet with an actual blow to his breastplate, but i love that donnic’s the one who falls, that aveline’s the one who helps him up. that a woman with a profile like this could still have reason to pause, that it doesn’t mean she forges ahead less or that she isn’t ever and always strong. they’re none of them perfect, and sometimes they’re wrong, but as a sister, as a friend, as a woman, aveline is never anyone other than herself. (and is it any wonder isabela likes her so much?) 

(via theramen)