Just a reminder in Wings and Embers, Nestaās monologue says: āShe didnāt know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want to rip and roar and rend the world into pieces. She felt it allātoo keenly, too sharply. Hated and cared and loved and dreaded, more than other people, she sometimes thought. Could sift between them all in a matter of moments, like she was trying on different sets of clothes, and no one could tell or care. Except him. He could see it, feel it.ā
And also: āThat first afternoon, heād looked at herā not at the face and the body that human men marked, but herā and he had seen it all.ā
No one sees or understands Nesta, but Cassian does. This little tidbit also shows that Nesta isnāt as cold and unfeeling as most people read her to be at first. It showcases that she feels intensely and deeply, and her cold demeanour is just a facade she uses to protect herself, probably because she hurts deeply too. I love Nesta Archeron because sheās a complicated and complex female character. So often in literature, itās always the male characters who are written to be cold and complicated and then are absolutely celebrated and deemed āthe cutest beanā despite any problematic behaviour we see from them, but when itās a female character (re: Nesta Archeron) people see her as āa bitchā or āproblematicā. In fact, if Nesta was a male character, she would be described as āwell-writtenā and ācomplexā and āsexyā, but sheās a woman so sheās automatically labelled a bitch/cold/unfeeling/problematic and the list goes on. Nesta Archeron is the complex and angry female character that we have needed in literature.
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