on the cinthorne train

[pdmapatil]

character moodboard: linh cinder

“Soon, the whole world would be searching for her–Linh Cinder. A deformed cyborg with a missing foot. A Lunar with a stolen identity. A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go. But they will be looking for a ghost.”

[missescara-23]

Scarlet Benoit ❤️🐺🍅🔫

[bumblekits]

Actual footage of Cinder and Thorne hiding from the law

[greenalmond]

I was watcvhing a french movie and one of the acresses would make a BOMB Cinder just take a look at her

DIVA i say, Shih-Yuan Ma ive known you for less than 20 minutes and i love you so dearly

[gingerale2017]

Levana x Sybil. Thoughts?

well, i personally am not a big fan of it. they’re both ambitious manipulators and i fear they’d only have romantic desires for the other if they had something to gain. if you like toxic yuri, then i guess it’s perfect. i like my ships healthy (and bland… it makes me happy). sybil obeys levana because she knows she can’t climb any further. the queen’s right hand is a pretty good place to be. she can’t beat levana in a fight, and she wasn’t born with royal blood. so she’ll be loyal to the crown because the crown gives her power. if there was a chance where sybil could overtake levana and become queen herself, i think she’d take it. maybe sybil looked up to levana and even admired her at times. do i think sybil respected levana? yes. they definitely held the same twisted values. do i think she cared about levana as a person? …nahhh. if anything, levana was an idol who sybil yearned to become.

on the other hand, i don’t levana gave a crap about sybil. when she died, levana was like “damn, that was my favorite pawn… now i have to use aimery???” she definitely saw herself in sybil, they’re so alike. perhaps she was fond a sybil and secretly wished her to succeed. then sybil went and died at selene’s hands. lost potential. levana doesn’t have the capacity to love. or she never learned it properly. we saw it in fairest. she viewed people as objects, saw love as a conquest. oh! speaking of fairest, i don’t she’ll ever try anything romantic ever again after evret. she’ll never allow herself to feel anything similar to love (it’s obsession in reality but she doesn’t know that).

the only way i see them working is creating a relationship purely for pleasure/self-indulgence.if levana starts to fall, she’ll think of evret and completely block herself out. if sybil ever falls (highly doubt it), she’ll convince herself that her plan to manipulate the queen is working. sybil’s objective here would be to control the monarchy via levana. it’s so sick and twisted. they’re so evil. maybe levana would use the relationship to keep sybil in check as well. wait this is kind of cool. it would be a pretty sick concept to write… if you love toxic yuri, then this ship is great for you!

i think i’ll stay with healthy kaider.. where they’re happy and love each other… and don’t manipulate… yeah 💔.

[cinderthornes]

for my 10 cinwell/captlinh truthers out there🙏🙏

[yanelyaguilarart]

Is a book series really any good if it doesn't make you want to create fan art as soon as you've finished it?

[impossiblesuitcase]

Yes, I want to know about all the important political big-picture stuff Cinder did as queen. But I also want to know how the servants in the palace felt to go from serving Levana to Cinder.

Imagine Cinder exploring Artemisia Palace for the first time, still in disbelief that it belongs to her. But she starts noticing a pattern. The servants are terrified of her. She comms Kai in a panic: "how do I convince them I'm not trying to kill them 😭???"

Kai's solution is his fallback strategy: be charming. Cinder argues that she lacks that ability, which he strongly disagrees with. So she begins stopping every servant she comes across. They are instantly on guard, afraid of any and every Blackburn monarch. But she simply introduces herself, asks for their name and how long they've worked here. Thanks to her retina display's facial recognition, she can remember every servant in the palace by name.

When a chef makes a dish she doesn't like, they are trembling, expecting to be executed. So Cinder heads right down into the palace kitchen and asks the chefs to teach her how to cook. A maid trips and drops a load, ruining freshly-ironed clothes. So she immediately drops to her knees and helps them despite their protests. Then she helps them re-iron the clothes because she wants to learn how to do it.

When Winter and Jacin are away on diplomatic missions, meals are lonely in the Palace. Cinder would never eat with the pompous Artemisian families, so she starts joining the staff in the servants' cafeteria. Some of them recount stories of her as a toddler running through the halls and playing hide-and-seek with Winter.

When she is invited back to Earth for the peace ball, she decides to order a special ball gown. Call her a silly, lovesick teenager, but she wants a pretty dress for when she sees her boyfriend for the first time in a year. Tressa recommends the best seamstress in the city, who is now retired, but is willing to make something for the queen. Cinder visits the seamstress, who is curt and won't meet her eye, only telling her to stand in the centre of the room so she can take her measurements. When Cinder does, the woman comes over in a floating hover chair. She takes the measurements in silence as Cinder watches.

"You could get prosthetic feet like mine, if you'd like. I could organise it for you," says Cinder, noticing how she hides her amputations under a long skirt.

The woman gives a tight smile. "Oh, my muscles are much too withered now. I could never walk again."

"How long ago did you lose your feet?"

"How old are you now?"

"17."

"Then about 16 years ago."

Again, the silence. Then Cinder recalls something Kai had told her, a horrifying rumour about the late queen chopping off her favourite seamstress's feet so she would have nothing better to do than sit and make her pretty dresses. She exclaims, "You're the seamstress!"

The seamstress keeps working, saying nothing. Cinder can see the anger the woman still holds. Here is someone who has a fair reason to be furious at her, as the daughter of her own tormentor.

"I'm so sorry that woma—my mother did that to you."

The seamstress doesn't acknowledge it. When Cinder comes in for the next fitting, she's expecting again the veiled rage. But gradually, she begins to soften. She tells her how Channary used to bring her in to their appointments when she was a baby. "You were such a fussy baby. But so sweet. I used to give you scraps of fabric to chew on."

She raises her hoverchair up so she can adjust the garment around Cinder's neck. Seeing the distressed look on her face, she rubs Cinder's cheek fondly. She tells her that she's been reading up on all Cinder's done for Luna, the policies that equalise the wealth divide and ending the abhorrent punishments. She tells her that she hadn't trusted Cinder. But she does now. "Thank you for saving us."

A year later, when she renounces her throne, Cinder isn't sad to leave being queen behind. But she does miss the Lunars who accepted their lost queen with open arms.

[greenalmond]

The world if Marissa Meyer stuck with Wolf's sassy dark streetfighter vibes instead of turning him into that bimbo uwu fursona out of nowhere

[thetlctrash]

A lot of his personality was lost in Cress and he was boiled down to his attraction to Scarlet but I loved loved edgy street fighter Wolf

HOWEVER

If he remained that way, it’s very likely we would’ve dogged on him for being an edgy alpha male so maybe we can’t have our cake and eat it too

[stjohnstarling]

I call them my specimens because they’re the men who are special to me.

[stjohnstarling]

And because I kidnapped them to experiment on.

[impossiblesuitcase]

Remember in Cinder when Kai notices how Jacin has "a face that he had yet to see an expression on"?

I imagine that he messes with Jacin just to try and get him to react. Kai starts calling him his brother-in-law, and Jacin gets fed up and asks, "how could I possibly be your brother-in-law?"

Kai says, "It's so obvious! You're my wife's cousin's husband. We're related now, buddy! Technically that's only extended family, but you and I are closer than that. We're practically brothers."

Everyone gets in on it, even Winter, and starts referring to those two as brothers. Jacin hates it, as per the intended effect. And yet, he never denies it.

[shellyseashell]

I feel like as a fandom we forget Thorne went through military training? Like we act like he’s just some incompetent idiot who doesn’t know what he’s doing and like, yeah, he may not be the smartest. But he knows what he’s doing. He’s not an idiot. There’s so many times in the books (the desert, mostly) that they would have died if it weren’t for him. Iko has a body because of him.

Honestly, I want to know how much of his personality is an act. Like it seems like something he’d grow out of. Like I know he’s still young and stuff, but Thorne in the main series when he’s 20 and Thorne in Stars Above when he’s like 13 are literally the same character. With everyone else when they’re younger you can tell they’re younger and still need to develop into who we see in the series. But with Thorne, he’s the same, even when there’s 7 years for him to change. Most people grow out of who they were when they were 13.

And his parents enforce the idea that he’s an idiot, from what I remember. That kind of thing isn’t hard to shake off. So I wonder if his parents saw him at 13, acting like a 13 year old and decided that was who he would always be. And then he fell into those expectations because he’d never live up to what they want, until he couldn’t separate himself from his parents ideas of him, so those ideas became him.

Anyway. Did not expect to have so many thoughts on Thorne tonight and also have not read Stars Above in a while so I might be wrong but I feel like we ignore this aspect of Thorne.

[shellyseashell]

And I mean he can be arrogant and whatever. But he’s still super immature sometimes when he’s gone through enough to not always be immature. Like yeah he’s the comic relief and whatever but he’s not only the comic relief.

But like genuinely think he only acts so immature because it’s what his parents expected of him. And then the Rampion Crew reinforced the idea that he was an idiot. I know it was joking and whatever but they still acted like it.

Honestly I think Cress is the first person in years to not treat him like an idiot right away.

I haven’t reread the books in a while aside from stuff for bol (which doesn’t involve Thorne yet) so I could be wrong by I just have thoughts. So many. More than this. If anyone wants to hear more I have so many.

[ladyvesuvia]

He also found Cress when he was blind like … Damn.

Thorne fitting himself into his parents’ expectations of him is such a sad idea tho but it’s likely.

He’s often taken less seriously than the others, but he’s literally capable. He can pilot a damn ship

[shellyseashell]

There’s so many times they would have died without him! Everything would be different!

From what I remember:

Cinder wouldn’t have been able to escape jail without the Rampion

Cress would have died in the desert. He stopped her from crying, he had the idea for the towel shoes and their traveling schedule, I’m pretty sure. He knew to lie when they came across that caravan or whatever they were.

He got Iko a body

He found Cress when he was blind. Like yeah she would have been fine but it’s the fact that he was successful in finding her.

Kai wouldn’t have been able to be taken back to Earth.

I feel like he and Cress only survived the satellite crashing because of him? Honestly he was the only reason Cress was able to stop panicking and do stuff, for the most part.

Their plan on Luna would have crumbled immediately. He had the idea for weaving around and confusing the cameras so they could get away safely.

He sacrificed himself so Cress could get to the control rooms. Cress likely wouldn’t have gotten there without that.

There’s so many times when he shows he’s more than a stupid idiot who never forms one thought and flirts with everyone, but it’s always ignored.

[zephyr-thedragon]

I feel like we see a lot of the *real* Thorne in Winter, yknow when things get real, especially when they lose Cress and suddenly all of the comedy and his happy go lucky attitude is completely wiped out of him.

We also get to see how impulsive and emotional he is, when he punches Jacin (and I think he pushes Wolf against a wall or something?)

Another thing is we get to see how willing he is to sacrifice himself first, when he runs off to distract the guards when they leave the ship on Artemisia AND when he's with Cress at the coronation-

It proves that what his parents thought and expected of him as a teen really did stick with him for the rest of his life, that he was an idiot, aloof, and unworthy, which is why he never hesitated to put himself in front of the bullet

And that part of his arc with Cress is that he wants to prove to himself, AND her that he IS worthy, he's more than just an idiot or the comic relief, but he can be hero, someone worthy of saving

[juliettecxi]

If you don’t punch your friend/crewmate/emperor in the cheek as a way of saying goodbye while bruising it in the process, are y'all even friends???

[crystalcoveofchaos]

You know what. I absolutely adore Jacin and Cress’ friendship. It gives off grumpy big brother and sunshine baby sister vibes “Second to her, I promise to protect you”

Can we take a second to think about how quickly Jacin registered the very first time he saw Cress. When Sybil called him into the satellite. Like he must’ve known this is Levana’s top hacker, but the initial shock had to be hilarious. From memory Sybil outright yelled for Jacin and he’s first thoughts were either “what did THIS tiny girl do” or “THIS is Levana’s secret weapon?! This TINY THING”

Then on Luna when Winter asked him to take care of her. Yes he did it because Winter asked but we return to that sweet little conversation. “For a year I knew you were there and did nothing.” I’m sorry nobody cannot convince me his heart wasn’t showing.

“Bring me some cake” she half joked

He paused, then faced her, “’l’ll do my best”.

After that he 100% was going to smuggle some cake back. He was already getting her food and such, what’s a little cake. And I just love these two so much

[winterrhayle]

TLC SHIP WEEKS 2025⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆

⟢ HI LUNARTICS ITS ELLIIEEEE I MISSED U ALL SO DEARLY <333 I’m so excited to finally share the themes for this year’s TLC ship weeks!!!!!! We're doing a shortened version this year, 3 days per ship. ⟢ This is a space for all fans to come together and celebrate our favourite 4 lunar chronicles pairings: Jacinter, Cresswell, Wolflet, and Kaider with all the creativity we can summon 🤞🏽 big shout out to @thorneswife for helping me think of some of the themes love uuu

⟢ All creators are welcome !!!! Whether you make fanart, write fanfics, compose songs, craft poems, make edits, or anything else your heart dreams up, we can’t wait to see it !! just make sure to tag your posts with #TLC ship weeks 2025 so we can alll find and reblog your work. And of course as always for those who like ships outside of the main 4 we have a free day at the end, feel free to post any non-main or headcannoned ship (winlet supremacy they r real in my heart)

⟢ The themes are here to spark your ideas,, you can follow them day by day, mix and match, or just pick your faves ♡˚₊

JACINTER (Jacin x Winter) AUGUST 20-22

first meeting (AUG 20)

crazed (AUG 21)

mourning (AUG 22)

CRESSWELL (Cress x Thorne) AUGUST 23-25

new beginnings (AUG 23)

heroism (AUG 24)

pretend (AUG 25)

WOLFLET (Wolf x Scarlet) AUGUST 21-23

nurture (AUG 21)

family (AUG 22)

danger (AUG 23)

KAIDER (Kai x Cinder) AUGUST 24-26

phoenix (AUG 24)

happily ever after (AUG 25)

prosperity (AUG 26)

FREE DAY (Any Pairing) AUGUST 27

parallell hearts (AUG 27)

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[therealkaidertrash21]

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[ij16]

"But you are crazy."

"I know." She lifted a small box from the basket.

"Do you know how I know?"

Scarlet didn't answer.

"Because the palace walls have been bleeding for years, and no one else sees it."

She shrugged, as if this were a perfectly normal thing to say.

- Winter Hayle Blackburn, Cress, by Marissa Meyer