Follow Your Passion: A Seamless Tumblr Journey
Bard (After pack bonding with Thranduil): I would die for you
Legolas(freaking out on the inside): please don’t Ada will be sad
Me: loving the humans pack bond trope
Also me: loving The Hobbit
Bard: I would die for you.
Thanduil (screaming internally and already in love): I’ve only known you a week!
My favorite thing about humans is that they'll pack bond with literally anything. Even when we make something that's just a tool to use, something that doesn't think, sometimes doesn't even move, some human will get attached, and it becomes something precious. We make monsters meant to frighten and scare only for someone to find it friend shaped and loveable. We see it everywhere in fantasy and Sci-Fi. Dragons, demons, robots, aliens from distant worlds. Hell, we pack bond with words on a page or images on a screen because we innately want to connect even if it's with characters that don't even exist.
Despite so many of us hating the forced proximity of the modern world, myself included, I can't help but find it adorable how we're so desperate for a pack, so desperate not to be alone, that we can connect with anything.