I have no idea about the Marvel relationships, they definitely don't appear in the books.
For the nominations: They do make sense, if some are not technically canonical! The Grisha Trilogy is where Alina, the Darkling, Zoya, and Baghra appear. The Lives of Saints and The Language of Thorns are folklore books that exist inside TGT, but the author ended up actually writing and publishing them. So what the nominators for those books have done is basically intertwine characters from the folklores with characters from the main books. Which does actually work (like as a reader, I can see those relationships!), but it's just putting it in a slightly different version of the universe, the way it's depicted in the folklores.
That's the best way I can think to describe it, at least! Does that help?
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Date: 2022-06-20 07:32 pm (UTC)For the nominations:
They do make sense, if some are not technically canonical! The Grisha Trilogy is where Alina, the Darkling, Zoya, and Baghra appear. The Lives of Saints and The Language of Thorns are folklore books that exist inside TGT, but the author ended up actually writing and publishing them. So what the nominators for those books have done is basically intertwine characters from the folklores with characters from the main books. Which does actually work (like as a reader, I can see those relationships!), but it's just putting it in a slightly different version of the universe, the way it's depicted in the folklores.
That's the best way I can think to describe it, at least! Does that help?