warrioroffarts

[meks4011]

Thinking back to my post. How different would cardans personality be if his siblings actually treated him well?

Let’s keep it where Asha just doesn’t give a shit and eldred doesn’t like him but doesn’t forbade his siblings from being around him and he’s still allowed in the castle.

Most of what Cardan does is from his trauma and then the beatings from balekin. There’s definitely some actions that are just fae attributes but do you think he’d be a lot more mellow? Not cruel per se but maybe more neutral. Maybe his bullying of Jude and Taryn wouldn’t be as intense? Maybe he’d wander into the human world more? (Especially for books since he seems to like stories) really makes you think how different he would be?

[mickiemae]

i just saw someone on tiktok talk about this so now IM going to talk about this. after jude kills valerian and he curses her, he tells her ‘may your hands be ever stained in blood’ (or soemthing along those lines) THEN when jude falls from the rafters and rips her stitches and she’s in cardans bed waking up HES CLEANING THE BLOOD FROM HER HANDS

[loverblaze]

you're never getting away from the ship you got attached to at thirteen years old no matter how hard you try.

[cromulentreader]

Cardan talked about feeling like he was in a cage when in a relationship with Nicasia. With her standing right there.

Cardan referred to marrying Nicasia as a more poetic cage (bound in misery) to her face.

But in marrying Jude he finally saw a way out of the cages.

[madockisser]

“The lament of Lutie Loo” by holly black, shows a cute little cameo of prince cardan, arguing w nicasia abt her cheating on him 😍

[sunnidawn]

I don’t think we as a society talk enough about Cardan proudly and happily being in love with Jude, as implied by Nicasia in Qon

[queeofeverythingfan]

Valerien was caught staring at one of the twins curves

Locke cheated on nicasia with the twins

and Cardan… well, yk

so nicasia probably hated them most of all…right?

[floralmyra]

Why don't you let people in... 🥀 | Jude & Cardan

[limoni-owo]

Jude is interesting . Because how would becoming a knight protect her really. Sure it would be taken insult to whoever knight she was if she got killed but she already has that with the grand general of elfhame for a dad.

I think it was more excuse. She always had the capability to defend herself but as a knight she would have reasoning “ attack a knight is a threat to the person heir protecting “ and thus have a free murder card.

[sunnidawn]

Faerie wine

[thejudeduarte]

It ALWAYS gets me how happy Cardan is during The Prisoners Throne because he has finally achieved what he's longed for for so long, a loving family

He doesn't need to be cruel and wicked to gain other peoples attention because they love and adore him for who he is and he loves and adores them right back. I can't imagine how liberating this must be for him who's been in the dark for so long

I also don't think we give Jude's family enough credit for being extremely welcoming and forgiving towards him no matter what he has done in the past because if he is Jude's family he's there's too!!

[sweetwickednemesis]

Liriope playing King Eldred and Prince Dain is so funny to me. Like, yes queen, fuck the dad then immediately see his son after and have him eat you out.

Dain deserved worse but I hope he at least died knowing he loved fucking a woman full of his father's cum.

[coffeexsmmrsblog]

Just thinking about what Jude Duarte must have felt that first night in the mortal world, exiled from everything she had sacrficed for... how sleep probably never truly found her even when exhaustion forced her eyes shut. Her mind a storm what-ifs and unanswered why's circling endlessly above her like a black cloud heavy with rain. The silence too quiet. The memories too loud. And somewhere beneath all that anger and grief, the unbearable ache of knowing that despite everything a part of her heart was still turned toward Faerie. Towards him.

[darlingod]

Queen of Nothing Ch. 17

Jude:

[queeofeverythingfan]

I’m currently fuming.

Cardan is always described as the weak, soft one. Evidence for:

desire

acts like an idiot

Evidence against:

he rose an island from the sea

he snapped a metal crown in half

he endured suffering from his family at a young age

heck, if he and Jude had a competition on who could be scarier, I think Cardan would win. Though TBF, Cardan would probably scare people by drinking himself almost to the death…

point is, he’s strong, brave and resilient, Jude wouldn’t want a cheap man anyway.

[sunnidawn]

bonding

[queeofeverythingfan]

I’ve always wondered how Jude got the idea of mithridatism. Then I re-read The Cruel Prince for the second time and realised it was prince dain. Now I’m very happy he got what he got.

[sweetwickednemesis]

Honestly, with how volatile the royal court is, him encouraging this was very smart and paid off multiple times.

Had Jude not done this, she would not have known Cardan was poisoned. Had she not done this, she could not have done what she did to Madoc to buy time.

Prince Dain may have been cruel, as all fae are, but the mithridatism was actually very beneficial.