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Here’s another facet of retcon’s/misconceptions about Tamlin, because it annoys me to no end when people refuse to acknowledge the retcon of his character:

The main one is that Tamlin did nothing during A/marantha’s reign, that he sat on his ass and did not use any resources:

So, first Tamlin defended his borders for the entirety of his time stuck in the Spring Court, he’s actively protecting his people. I didn’t have to infer that—it’s right there, in the text:

“ Tamlin has been here, defending his borders as chaos and disorder ruled in the other courts under Amarantha’s thumb. The other High Lords fought back, too. Forty years ago, she executed three of them and most of their families for banding together against her,”

Tamlin and all the other Lords are stuck in their lands, they could not leave, and they could not call for Aid:

“She used the High Lords’ powers to bind us to the land. So the rebel lords tried calling for aid from the other Fae territories using as messengers whatever humans were foolish enough to enter our lands—most of them young women who worshipped us like gods.”

“But Amarantha caught them all before they left these shores, and ... you can imagine how it ended for those girls,”

A/marantha took the three courts she slaughtered UTM, and Tamlin’s court, was only able to remain because he had the curse. But he is still stuck to the land, he cannot go anywhere. And even with that, he still took in refugees from other courts, and defending those refugees along with his own people for fifty years.

There’s also this thing that Tamlin was lazy, and that he didn’t try to break free from A/marantha’s curse which is also....not true:

“Even with her spies, he tried finding ways to break the curse, to do anything against it, against having to send his men out again to be slaughtered by humans,”

And Tamlin lost so many men during this time that he was reduced down to twelve men left. Fucking twelve:

“When all but a dozen of them were left, it broke him so badly he stopped. Called it all off.”

It’s also made abundantly clear that those who serve under A/marantha are given freedom—which cough, cough is fucking R/hysand, no matter how noble SJM thinks betraying your countrymen is, it’s still swearing allegiance, and it’s still more or less, a choice to the extent R/hys does:

“Others—others, if they swear allegiance, if they grovel and serve her, she allows them a bit more freedom to come and go Under the Mountain as they will,”

This contradicts against R/hysand’s point about Tamlin doing nothing, and sitting on his ass. It’s literally right here in the text. And all the posts that always make these claims about Tamlin that’s aren’t even remotely true. SJM did Retcon his character, and it’s valid that there’s people who did like this version of his character — or antis like me who want to make a point, but literally get these statements that are canonically true.

Unlike R/hys, Tamlin did have to sacrifice his people, and had no choice in doing so. He had to watch his sentries die and his people be placed in concentration camps, he had to sacrifice. R/hys is the one who sat on his ass for fifty years, hoarding his power and doing nothing with it. Him being A/marantha’s victim does not negate that. Everyone is her victim. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

Even more so almost every single High Lord had to sacrifice — much more than R/hys ever did. They lost their loves, three whole bloodlines, wiped out and killed. She killed Three High Lords, their cities and their families. Tamlin’s entire court was put into concentration camps and were stuck on their land. Tamlin had to watch all of his friends die, his land die. These are not things that are true for R/hys. He did not rebel like the other High Lords, he literally aligned himself with evil to protect one portion of his court. He mocked Tamlin “for not having the courage,” to rebel against his abusive family, but was the only High Lord who did not outwardly curse A/marantha. Tamlin did, Lucien did—Summer, Winter, and Day did. Where was R/hys’s courage?? And I wouldn’t even have to deman him if his entire character wasn’t literally placing himself on a pedestal and being shitty that everyone looks at him like the villain he is. We hate Beron, but even he didn’t work with A/marantha to the extent R/hys did—and their ideologies most likely even aligned. So, yeah, I hate R/hys and Tamlin was retconned and it’s not really an argument

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