Hello! I am curious (and a little messy lmao) why did you start liking Neris?
P.S i love both characters so much 🥹
I love this question and I have to say, I'm not sure why it's messy? I still love all the other ships I love (including Nessian).
But on to the Neris of it all.
First of all, lately I've been loving messy ACOTAR ships. I've spent a lot of time in this fandom carefully setting up happy endings and making sure I write pairings that work well together, and honestly it's fun to write a pairing that's equally likely to end up somewhere toxic as somewhere mutually edifying. See also: my love of Azris.
It's not that I'm not a fan of happy endings or fluff or cinnamon rolls, but I love when the ACOTAR world is dangerous and complicated and that's what's been intriguing me most as a writer in the fandom lately.
As for Nesta and Eris, specifically, there are a few things.
One is that I think this pairing is actually pretty plausible. If Nesta had healed at a slightly different rate, I could see her being very over the Night Court and/or Cassian by the time she danced with Eris. Especially because she had mostly healed, she just hadn't really claimed her power.
I think there's a way in which Nesta might always feel as if she needs to change for Cassian, whereas I think that Eris would revel in the ways she can be cruel and cutting. He wouldn't call her Lady Death as a joke. He would use that title with reverence.
Mostly, though, I love this pairing because of the way these two can be mean together, and the way that might be a form of tenderness between them. Nesta and Eris are the monsters in their respective stories in a lot of ways, but when they're together, they don't have to hide and they don't have to be afraid.
Nesta and Eris can see each other as they were meant to be seen: dangerous, and beautiful, and glorious.
Which brings me to my final point: is there a pairing that's hotter than Neris?
Think about these two politicking and catching each other's eyes across the room. Or trapped in an endless council meeting with their feet and hands occupied under the table. Or setting up endless schemes and games and just waiting for the other one to figure out what they've set in motion. The way their sneers might turn into smiles for just a moment, when they're looking at each other.
You know what they're doing right after those meetings are over, and it's going to be scorching.
I'm not saying anyone has to be team Neris. All I'm wondering is, how did it take me this long to get obsessed?
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