Foolish Royal Blog

Queenie Minor She/her Fink stan Reepinette shipper Icon by @ascendance-clubhouse Follow my main account @queenies-corner

[ascendant-queen]

hey, would you happen to know what happened to ‘books-and-starss’? we were tumblr mutuals a few ago but now i can’t find her blog:(

yes! her url is now @fairytale-lights!

[butahumbleguest]

[the-ascendant-doodler]

FOLKS.

MY SISTER IS AT THE POINT IN HER LIFE WHEN SHE HAS TO READ THE FALSE PRINCE IN CLASS

AND I. AM.

ECSTATIC

[ascendant-queen]

I WANT TO GO TO THE SCHOOL THAT HAS YOU READ THE FALSE PRINCE IN CLASS!!!

[the-ascendant-doodler]

Wait you didn't????

[ascendant-queen]

homeschooler 😎

[the-ascendant-doodler]

FOLKS.

MY SISTER IS AT THE POINT IN HER LIFE WHEN SHE HAS TO READ THE FALSE PRINCE IN CLASS

AND I. AM.

ECSTATIC

[ascendant-queen]

I WANT TO GO TO THE SCHOOL THAT HAS YOU READ THE FALSE PRINCE IN CLASS!!!

[ascendant-queen]

I’ve finally made it to The Captive Kingdom in my TAS reread and just. The sheer amount of times that Jaron reiterates that he has to protect Fink at all costs is like HNNGNGGGGG

[thebatrodenused]

Tobias: Hey you could hurt yourself!

Jaron: heheheeheheheheh

[ascendant-queen]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my favorite little rat boy Fink even though I refuse to believe that he will ever get any older 🥳🥳🥳

[valerieventuresblog]

And only after the fandom has well and truly died... I created an account 😿

But hello to those who are still here 👋

[ascendanceseriesveteran]

Hello!!

Don't worry, we're all here in spirit

[ascendant-queen]

we’re not dead yet just very very old

[finksmother]

I started this a really long time ago and i barely finished it 🙃

[periwinkle-the-11th]

HOLD ON IS SAGE ACTUALLY PRINCE JARON

[enchanted-prose]

i remember those days

[ascendant-queen]

the false prince spoilers below ⬇️

thinking about… how jaron had to find out that his whole family was dead and pretend to not care. of course, he could blame his reaction on pure shock, but the careless Avenian orphan he was pretending to be could not possibly have displayed the amount of grief he was feeling.

and that’s why the dungeon scene is one of my favorites in the whole book, because it’s the first time he allows himself to truly grieve for his family. it’s such a rare moment of vulnerability for him and he deserved that time to mourn!! (and also Mott was there so instant favorite)

anyway I have Thoughts

[the-ascendant-doodler]

Queenie. PLEASE write an essay about jarons character arc. I'm begging.

I really really REEEEAAAALLY wish jaron had a moment to cry with his friends surrounding amd supporting him just for a little bit. Even the rocks who aren't supposed to feel sad or cry about anything need to let something go once in a while

[ascendant-queen]

I MIGHT

and you’re so right, although I might be biased because I am a sucker for male characters letting themselves be vulnerable :)

short essay below 😂

as far as I can remember, and I may be wrong, Jaron only cries three times in the original trilogy; the dungeon scene in TFP, outside the church in TRK, and on the battlefield with Mott in TST. Which means the only times he’s been recorded crying he’s either been alone or with Mott, which is so interesting to me. Mott seems to be one of the only people he feels comfortable breaking down around, even from the very beginning.

my theory on this is that Jaron feels he has to be strong for almost everyone in his life except Mott. since Mott does seem to be that “rock” figure you referred to, Jaron feels he can really release his emotions around Mott because he’s always been so strong. Jaron loves all of his friends, but he also feels that he has to protect them from his own feelings, that he will only be a burden to them (is this me projecting myself onto a character? maybe!).

so yeah. that’s just my opinion on him, and obviously he lets his guard down lots of times for people other than Mott (eg. Harlowe), but Mott’s the only one who ever sees him cry. which is just interesting to me ;)

[sagetheorphan]

Hard agree. I don’t mean to intrude on the conversation, but I’d like to add - I think a large reason Jaron didn’t cry before the dungeon scene was because he didn’t let himself feel sad. He converted all his grief into anger and then let that anger fuel him. But he never had a moment to stop or slow down until the dungeons.

He was left alone for over a day down there, and he couldn’t use his anger to forget about or ignore his family’s deaths. He was forced to think about it (and combined with his reason for being there - trying to hang on to the last thing tying him to his father - that’s some serious emotional baggage). He was also physically in pain and exhausted. It made sense that the dam broke then, and it also makes sense that he didn’t let it happen again. International politics waits for no man.

I fully believe if Jaron could manage to catch a break, he’d find himself having an emotional breakdown immediately

[ascendant-queen]

VERY GOOD addition. our boy is just a little bundle of complicated emotions and he just needs a hug honestly 😭😭

[ascendant-queen]

I just wanted to say-

I love your blog name so much, it makes me so so happy 😂

ME TOO

The “foolish royal” scene gets me every time that is TOP TIER humor

[ascendant-queen]

after writing that last post I thought I put my TST book back on the shelf and had my phone in my hand.

as I was leaving my room I was like “why isn’t my phone fitting in my pocket”

I looked down and I was trying to cram my copy of TST into my pocket. I had put my phone on the shelf and left with the book in my hand. I am very sleep deprived

[ascendant-queen]

the false prince spoilers below ⬇️

thinking about… how jaron had to find out that his whole family was dead and pretend to not care. of course, he could blame his reaction on pure shock, but the careless Avenian orphan he was pretending to be could not possibly have displayed the amount of grief he was feeling.

and that’s why the dungeon scene is one of my favorites in the whole book, because it’s the first time he allows himself to truly grieve for his family. it’s such a rare moment of vulnerability for him and he deserved that time to mourn!! (and also Mott was there so instant favorite)

anyway I have Thoughts

[the-ascendant-doodler]

Queenie. PLEASE write an essay about jarons character arc. I'm begging.

I really really REEEEAAAALLY wish jaron had a moment to cry with his friends surrounding amd supporting him just for a little bit. Even the rocks who aren't supposed to feel sad or cry about anything need to let something go once in a while

[ascendant-queen]

I MIGHT

and you’re so right, although I might be biased because I am a sucker for male characters letting themselves be vulnerable :)

short essay below 😂

as far as I can remember, and I may be wrong, Jaron only cries three times in the original trilogy; the dungeon scene in TFP, outside the church in TRK, and on the battlefield with Mott in TST. Which means the only times he’s been recorded crying he’s either been alone or with Mott, which is so interesting to me. Mott seems to be one of the only people he feels comfortable breaking down around, even from the very beginning.

my theory on this is that Jaron feels he has to be strong for almost everyone in his life except Mott. since Mott does seem to be that “rock” figure you referred to, Jaron feels he can really release his emotions around Mott because he’s always been so strong. Jaron loves all of his friends, but he also feels that he has to protect them from his own feelings, that he will only be a burden to them (is this me projecting myself onto a character? maybe!).

so yeah. that’s just my opinion on him, and obviously he lets his guard down lots of times for people other than Mott (eg. Harlowe), but Mott’s the only one who ever sees him cry. which is just interesting to me ;)

[ascendant-queen]

the false prince spoilers below ⬇️

thinking about… how jaron had to find out that his whole family was dead and pretend to not care. of course, he could blame his reaction on pure shock, but the careless Avenian orphan he was pretending to be could not possibly have displayed the amount of grief he was feeling.

and that’s why the dungeon scene is one of my favorites in the whole book, because it’s the first time he allows himself to truly grieve for his family. it’s such a rare moment of vulnerability for him and he deserved that time to mourn!! (and also Mott was there so instant favorite)

anyway I have Thoughts

[enchanted-prose]

Fink still gets terrified of thunderstorms. It wasn’t uncommon for the places he hid in to flood with rain water. And even though he sleeps in the castle now, he still thinks about how the water would almost always creep over him.

[ascendant-queen]

Almost cried reading the first page of TFP- after all this time, I still have the opening lines memorized :’)