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• First Man by TheWaffleQueen

  Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  08 Aug 2023

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Nikolai Lantsov/Zoya Nazyalensky
  • Nikolai Lantsov & Zoya Nazyalensky
  • Nikolai Lantsov & Marya Lantsova (his eldest daughter)
  • Nikolai Lantsov
  • Zoya Nazyalensky
  • Original Grisha Character(s)
  • Original Characters
  • Original Child Character(s)
  • Marya Lantsova
  • Dominik Lantsov
  • Isaak Lantsov
  • Dominik Vertov (mentioned)
  • Off-screen death
  • death of old age
  • But still beautifully painful
  • 5+1 Things
  • Nikolai marries Zoya and has three children: Marya Dominik and Isaak
  • all the kids plus Zoya are Grisha
  • So Nikolai is getting old while they're not
  • And his eldest daughter copes with that by spending as much time with him as she can
  • while asking him tons of thoughtful questions
  • not based on the Nikolai Duology canon - tagged it just because of Zoyalai
  • Progressive Ravka
  • Marya is the heir to the throne and 100 percent dad's girl
  • Nikolai Lantsov as girl father
  • Emotional Conversations
  • onion cutting level of teary
  • inspired by "First Man" by Camilla Cabello
  • Also kinda inspired by "Death By A Thousand Cuts" by Taylor Swift

  Summary

  Five times Tsar Nikolai's eldest daughter, Marya, asks him for life lessons, and one time she couldn't do that anymore.

  Series

  • Part 13 of Butterfly Effect in Ravka

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  English

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