What's your opinion on all of the awful stuff Eris did to Mor? Liking him isn't a very popular opinion in the fandom, so I'm just curious.
I LOVE TALKING ABOUT ERIS SO I’M HAPPY YOU ASKED!!
So it’s midnight, so if I’m not at my most coherent and I don’t make sense, point it out and I’ll happily clarify my points.
Firstly, let me just put out there that I think Eris is one of the most complex characters we’ve seen in ACOTAR, and I am so excited to see where his story goes.
First we need to establish what he did to Mor, which was, simplistically, refuse her marriage. I think it’s important to note that the horrible events surrounding her forced betrothal to him were mostly orchestrated by her terrible family. Firstly, they were the ones to sell her (a deal I imagine they made with Beron NOT Eris as he was still quite young at the time) and they were the ones who nailed that note to her and dumped her in the Autumn Court. Something Eris had zero part it. I think we should also take into consideration that Eris likely wanted no more part in this marriage than she did, and it’s my interpretation that he was basically using it to get out of a loveless marriage (like the one his parents have).
What he did do was say he would no longer marry her because she no longer had value to him because she was no longer a virgin. We can take this at face value OR we can read a deeper meaning into this as 1) this wouldn’t have been said to Mor, it would have been said to her father and we can’t exactly trust him to give an honest answer and 2) we know canonically that Eris is a very ‘imma look like a bad guy in this situation so I can manipulate this for the greater good’ sorta dude. Case in point, chasing Lucien in the direction of the Spring Court after alerting Tamlin so that his baby brother would be safe and away from them. Speaking of Lucien, we also know that he wasn’t at the killing of his lover Jesminda nor knew about it until afterwards. Interesting stuff.
So for me, when people talk about ‘all of the awful stuff Eris did to Mor’ I just don’t see it that way. We see Eris as a bad guy because Mor does, but her judgement is very clouded when it comes to the issue because her feelings about him and her feelings about her family are very intertwined. In Mor’s mind, and therefore the Inner Circle’s mind, Eris rejecting her led to her family mutilating her. And I don’t think we can judge him off this. When he refused her hand in marriage, he didn’t then go ‘ah but make sure you leave her on my doorstep because I still want her around.’ No, because his rejection meant she never should have been in the Autumn Court in the first place.
WHICH LEADS ME TO MY NEXT EXCITING POINT!!
We know from ACOWAR when Lucien and Feyre the sneaky lil things that the High Lord and his crew of sons always, always know when people come in and out of the Night Court.
If Eris wanted to see Mor punished, if that was ever his intention, then why did he let an Illyrian warrior, for all he knew the one she had slept with, into his court to save her??? Sure, Az is a shadowsinger who could likely get through all the Autumn Court traps, but Mor isn’t! Eris let her be saved, and in that moment he gave not only himself freedom from a marriage he didn’t want but also her freedom from the Court of Nightmares.
This is why I love Eris. We saw him in person like once? Twice? And yet we still know so many complex things about him because he has been written so damn well, and Feyre’s limited POV was perfectly done when it came to his character.
Please feel free to respond to any part of this message, I’m really curious as to what you think! And not just nonnie either, anyone who has any thoughts, whether is be agreeing/disagreeing or any opinions you’d like to add to the discussion :)
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