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Legendary B&N Edition Exclusive Content Pt 2

🚩Spoilers for the entire Caraval Series ahead🚩

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***********Tbona spoilers!*******

Guys….do you think maybe when jacks came back to the hollow, after he had been stabbed…do you think maybe Jacks wanted to stay there with Evangeline? Maybe he could have kissed her there. Maybe he had told chaos and lala that he was keeping her and the deal was off. That’s also why lala could have stabbed him. And then castor and lala invaded her dreams to make her not trust jacks and get her to choose to leave. Maybe he didn’t call it all off but I think it’s odd that they invaded her dreams to get her to come out of the hollow. I also just can’t get over how jacks seemed like he didn’t want her to find that last stone.

Also LaLa is suspect, ok? She’s on par with Marisol for the whole archers curse. I can’t believe Evangeline just forgave her so easily for that. Jacks didn’t even do anything that bad for Evangeline compared to LaLa. I end my rant.

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*****Spoilers for TBONA below******

So according to this definition of mirth, the mirth stone makes you feel like it’s Christmas, not like you’re in love. But it could be confusing. Maybe all the mirth stone would do is set the mood for love, but it can’t create love for someone.

Also remember when jacks is like “you think you could only feel this way about me because of a rock?” And then later he says “you have no idea what I’m feeling!” (Quotes prob aren’t exact) Clearly, Jacks doesn’t really think the feelings are there because of the mirth stone. He never denies feeling love for Eva. After the mirth stone is covered, he just says that now he feels like leaving…because he was sort of just rejected by Eva. And that rejection is what makes him want to leave. Not a lack of love for Eva.

[rosesfox]

it’s simply so insane to me sometimes when i think about how much jacks and evangeline love each other. evangeline believing in their love and risking her life to be with jacks. jacks using the stones to turn back time to save her life and trading his heart for something that would ensure her safety forever. him BURNING his heart because he knows he cannot stay away from her if his heart was involved and because he never wants to love again if that person wasn’t evangeline. this is the same fate who said he could care less about humans and he sacrificed EVERYTHING for her 🥹 i can’t believe this is real sometimes, they love each other so much 💓

YES!!! 😭 their love is so beautiful. it's really disconcerting that jacks thought about burning his own heart to let evangeline go, a totally different level of love. no one loves like evajacks loves! 🥹❤️

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the my turn/my turn again scene lives rent free in my head i don’t know why people don’t talk about it more the tension between eva and jacks was insane 🤭

YESSSS, they have a huge chemistry! the way evangeline describes jacks at that moment, how desperate he seemed just at the sight of her and him undressing her with all affection and appreciation. so evangeline, who is not naive at all!!!, saying that if that was all the time she would have with him, she wanted to have everything and grabbing him and ready to take off his clothes on her turn. simply a wonderful chapter, we have to talk more about it!

i'm sure there were fireworks when they got together for real 🤭😏

[rosesfox]

tbona's annotated version is out! 🥹❤️ i really like that, in addition to having all the canonical passages from the books, we also have stephanie herself saying that jacks never loved tella, and that he was only selfish with her.

jacks was simply terrified, because he loved evangeline and wanted to save her. he was really suffering from separating her from himself.

i also love how she says that both jacks and eva have reached a level of intimacy, affection and enormous love. the two of them talking about their feelings, almost as a couple, at the end of the book, is an important step for both of them.

she also said that she intended to make Jacks actually die at the end of tbona 🤡 he was really going to sacrifice himself for evangeline.

[rosesfox]

Hii! 💕

I wanted to ask you: Why do you like the love story of Evangeline and Jacks? What do you like about her? What makes it special and different from other romantic book stories?💕

i believe it's about how intense their love is and how they would do anything for each other. that jacks loves her so intensely to the point of change for her and give everything for her, is incredible. it's better and more romantic than half the novels i've ever read in my life.

what i like most about evangeline is how she is a radical optimist, how she fights for what she believes in and how she has a spine of steel. this girl isn't taken down easily.

from a more critical perspective, ouabh is refreshing in the sea of romance fantasies that are coming out now. it felt so new and magical and different when it came out, and it was so intense as we read it. i think evangeline herself has a big part in this, after all she is the one who made me feel this magical and romantic difference the most.

thanks for the question! 🥰❤️

[rosesfox]

i dont ever see people talk about this but in a curse for true love when vesper was telling aurora about the prophecy about jack’s future she said that he will fall in love with a “Fox,” the first letter was capitalized which i think represents a last name (evangeline’s last name). but aurora mistook to for the animal so that’s why she went after the first fox girl. my theory is that vesper’s prophecy reveals that jacks was always and only going to be in love with evangeline. jacks never loved the first fox either and he only thought he did because of the archer’s curse. evajacks are soulmates <3

i fully believe on this. the prophecy undoubtedly spoke of evangeline fox, so evajacks were simply destined to be together. furthermore, in fact, evangeline is the only one jacks has truly loved. 🥹❤️

[rosesfox]

no one ever talks about how jacks literally sacrificed HIMSELF in place of evangeline when she opened the valory arch the second time around. jacks lets himself get bitten by chaos so he wouldn’t hurt evangeline again 🥹🥹

omg, it's true! 🥹❤️ he literally takes her place, and that's only one of the times he sacrifices himself for her in this book.

he gives up his own security and happiness for her. he thought time would take something away from him and he didn't care as she would be safe. he exchanged his own heart for her, and i know i've said this several times, but it's insurmountable! i don't know how people can still have doubts that jacks loves evangeline with every cell in his body. just look at ALL his actions.

[rosesfox]

Hey! I'm a bit confused about that Jacks loved Evangeline so much that he rewrote history and went back in time to save her. But the whole two other books, he was doing anything he could to go back in time to Tella. He was already planning to rewrite history for Tella or to go back for her.

I dont like tellajacks at all i dont even think they were ever even a real “ship” but i just was confused why this was a huge thing when he was already going to do it for another girl?

i think you're focusing on the wrong thing, you know? it is not and never has been about tella.

recently, stephanie wrote in all words that jacks never loved tella and that everything he did came from a selfish place. he didn't love the person donatella dragna, he merely wanted what she represented. she was the so-called love of his life, the only one he could have, who could love him, and his story is literally looking for love. can we blame him for being so blind and obsessed with this thing?

jacks didn't do all that for donatella, he did it for himself. his turning point is when he stops seeking his own contentment and starts seeking evangeline's, when he puts his own well-being aside to ensure that she is safe and well. and that is love. he, in fact, spends the three books and especially the third giving his life to make sure evangeline is okay, because he loves her and puts her first.

this, i think, is where a lot of you miss the point. you can't see that he never did anything for tella, that he only stopped being a selfish person who only cared about himself when he started living with evangeline.

[rosesfox]

to be honest, i feel like a lot of readers who have read caraval/ouabh kinda lack reading comprehension skills I’M SORRY but why do i keep seeing the same questions asked over and over again when the answers are all in the books, you just have to look for it!! like the whole apple thing is still talked about when it’s so obvious jacks eats apples to helps with his urges. the question of why evangeline didn’t die when she kissed jacks is also revealed throughout the series?? it’s because they both love each other so much that their true love broke the curse. don’t even get me started on the mirth stone ordeal because we still have people who don’t understand what happened in the hollow…like it even says in the book that the mirth stone only takes away fear so everything that eva and jacks were feeling for each other was real and eva even said that jacks shuttered all his emotions after he literally licked her lips (this scene was crazy) like he did in the hollow…it’s simply not hard to understand everyone!! people who still think that jacks ever loved tella 😭 like they must have such a naive understanding of love or something because what? also it’s explicitly stated in both tbona and acftl that he did not love tella LMAOO it’s so funny how tellajacks shippers lost so bad in acftl because they keep saying that the whole curse plot twist was poor writing like wdym?? i thought it was so genius of stephanie because the entire ouabh revolved around the fact that the story curse alters every story so the plot twist not only made 100% sense but it also showed that this was something stephanie had set up to happen since she started writing ouabh!!! i can’t believe none of us even came up with the theory that the story curse altered jacks’s curse because it was literally alluded to/foreshadowed in the first ouabh book by eva 😭😭

it's funny because people actually complain about everything you said when it's literally explained in books, as you showed yourself. 🤭

i absolutely agree, and i am often surprised by the lack of interpretation of a large part of readers today. i feel like they skip the parts that don't interest them or read them unwillingly, because it's not possible for there to be so many errors when it comes to interpretation.

it's a basic question of: it's in the book, just read it.

one of my theories since before acftl was that the story had been altered, as it was said within the narrative several times that, over time, the true meaning of the stories was lost. i didn't understand people's surprise when they discovered that, in fact, jack's curse had been lost in time. i will never understand this phenomenon.

[rosesfox]

i've seen people say that evangeline never did much for jacks, but on the other hand, i think she did everything for him. she never gave up on him, in any way. she believed in him, in his kindness, his love, in his heart with such strength that she faced the risk of being killed, and if it weren't for her, his curse would never have been broken and he would only sink deeper and deeper into darkness. that's why i say they're perfect, because jacks fought tooth and nail to keep evangeline safe and so that nothing would hurt her in any way, while evangeline fought for him and his happiness until the end, even with the world against her. that's what makes her so special, her unbreakable hope.

[rosesfox]

Let's go: our Jacks, from Caraval and Ouabh, never loved another girl besides Evangeline. In his own words, he doesn't even know if what he felt for the first fox was something genuine or if it was just the curse cast on him. We also have Aurora's narration, saying that she cast the curse just because she knew he would fall in love with a Fox (we know this refers to Evangeline). In other words, Jacks didn't even have a chance to really get to know the first fox in his timeline, and the things he experienced with her were truly under the curse.

What Stephanie is going to write is an alternate story, which apparently has no real connection to the Jacks we know, but simply to the Archer. Even in the Ouabh universe, the ballad of the archer and the fox is just a story. In addition, Stephanie said it will be short.

With this, we conclude that our couple is safe and at peace and that Jacks only loved Evangeline in his long life as an arcane.

[rosesfox]

do you agree with people who say that jacks seems like a different character in acftl?

no 🤔 i don't think he changed as a character, he was just developed according to the course of events in the books

we need to understand that, first, he went through a huge trauma. chaos says that jacks was raving about evangeline's death, that he wasn't talking about anything else. he himself says that he had realized how vulnerable she was, and that he would never forget the feeling of feeling her die in his arms. this, in itself, is a major event that changed his course of actions.

secondly, we must understand that he was in love. he was in love, he was already suffering from the fact that he couldn't be with her and, above all, he saw her die. his priority there was simply to keep her safe because he loved her and wanted nothing more than to see her alive. his love was actually so beautiful and selfless that he gave up everything he wanted for her.

jacks was obsessed with evangeline from the beginning, he fell in love, tried to keep his distance, saw that what mattered most in the end was her and gave up everything for her happiness because he loves her. it's a simple case of character development. you can't expect that after five books he's going to remain a one-sided villain.

[rosesfox]

i hate it when people talk about tella (or tella and legend) like it's something that still bothers jacks.

for those who haven't read caraval, jacks didn't care. he started to treat tella with a minimum of dignity after thinking that she was his true love, not because he got attached to her. it wasn't him having fallen in love with the person donatella dragna, fighting for her in a dignified and fair way, it was him trying to achieve something imposed on him by a curse. imposed on him.

in these books jacks manipulates tella more than once. he uses the tella's grief to trick her into marrying him, and also tricks her into taking full control of her emotions. in fact, he had developed a mad obsession with her for everything she meant to him, and fulfilled his role as an antagonist, as a villain, in legendary and finale. and this is clearly not genuine love. it is not love.

was he sad about being rejected? yes, after all, he lost something he spent his life looking for because of his own actions. he was taught to want to seek the end of his suffering, the true love, his whole life. how could he not feel bad about that?

but the key words are: he was taught to want to find a person, this person was imposed on him and as it is the only thing that can be his salvation, he wants it back. he doesnt want the person donatella dragna. he has only been conditioned to want what has been imposed on him because he thinks he has no other choice. stop including tella as something that shakes him emotionally beyond his curse.

contrary to his whole journey with eva, to all the feeling he created for her even though he knew he couldn't, that he would never have her. for all the genuine care he has for her, the will to keep her safe and unharmed, to save her even at the cost of his happiness. this is love, this is love for the person evangeline fox. there is nothing else that motivates his actions than love

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“You’re a little scary right now, did you know that?”

She glared at him

“That was a complement, little fox.”

He reached toward her and brushed a lock of hair behind her ear with one feather light touch.

-Jacks being Jacks

The Ballad of Never After, Stephanie Garber