#* metas.

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it’s imperative that people know aelin has the real-world equivalent of a welsh accent that gets thicker when emotions run high, one she tried to stifle for years to hide her place of origin and is only just now learning to embrace, i just think it’s hot when women,

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        HERE  , have a quick-and-dirty list of fae things since my last post is Super Long and buried under months of dirt: 

clear divide between ‘pureblooded’ fae and demi-fae. the latter group live in a compound to themselves, rounded up immediately upon landing on the continent of wendlyn. those that prove to have strong magic ability can leave the compound with the queen’s approval, but most opt to stay in their society. 

elongated, pointy ears. elongated canines. lots of hissing and baring of teeth. territorial bastards, the lot of them ( women included, aelin included, don’t let her tell you otherwise ). 

incredibly heightened senses, speed, stamina, regeneration. 

super long lifespan, but only some reach immortality. it just seems like immortality by comparison for most.

fae are most known for their magic propensity and ability, even if not all fae ( particularly of the demi- variety ) can use magic. it’s usually elemental in nature --- for instance, aelin has an incredibly deep reserve of fire magic --- but sometimes a fae will be born with unique abilities, such as teleportation.

regardless of whether or not they can use magic, fae have two forms between which they can shift at will. usually it’s a fae form and an animal form --- for example, rowan can shift into the form of a hawk. aelin’s shift form is her human form, which is why she appears human while the magic is missing from erilea for a decade. she also appears human for now in her isola verse and she’s Not Happy about it, thanks for asking

as usual, there’s discrimination from humans against fae. not really because of their appearance or anything of the sort, but because of their ability to use magic. the king of adarlan vilified magic, and demonized those that could use it. not only is he reviled by fae for the extermination of their own kind --- countless died at his armies’ hands, many of whom were in terrasen --- but the fae continent of wendlyn didn’t lift a finger to help, which aelin hasn’t forgotten.

faes have mates, and it’s a bond that goes well beyond the concept of husband and wife. like... soulmates times a hundred. they can even feel one another’s pain in some cases, it’s really extra. while it’s possible to have more than one mate in a lifetime, fae still mate for life. it’s extremely rare to have more than one. mates are such a sacred concept that it transcends sex, gender, and class lines --- whether pureblooded fae or demi-fae, that bond is always respected. they’re incredibly territorial as a pair, and the death of one is physically and emotionally traumatic for the other. 

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small side notes about aelin’s appearance that i’ll reblog and keep adding to until i’m dead:

freckles !!!!  they’re newly-developed, seeing as she spent much of her time as adarlan’s assassin covered head to toe. but given her extensive amount of time spent outdoors --- be it training with chaol or getting her ass kicked by rowan --- freckles have begun to crop up sporadically on her skin. they’re mostly on her face, much to her annoyance, but there’s a light dusting along her shoulders and chest. 

her hair naturally falls in waves that have a tendency to become full-on ringlets if it gets cut particularly short. and when the humidity sets in ??  it frizzes something awful --- again, particularly when it’s short.

she has stretch marks due to her drastic weight loss and gain between the assassin’s blade and crown of midnight ( and much milder loss / gain during heir of fire ) !  they’re prominent on her breasts, thighs ( particularly inner / upper ), and abdomen. 

her hair changes colors depending on season. it gets incredibly light in the summer months, gaining highlights that border on white; in the fall and winter, it gradually darkens to the point of almost appearing strawberry blonde overall. 

although she takes care to keep her nails as manicured as her activities might allow, the inside of some of her fingers are hopelessly calloused. it’s the price one pays for gorgeous knives and stellar handiwork. her callouses are far worse after endovier, arcing across her palms where the fingers and hands meet. 

she uses cosmetics to darken her eyelashes --- they’re actually dark blonde / light brown on their own. they are, however, incredibly thick and perfect for playful batting. 

her lower lip is fuller than her upper lip, the latter of which doesn’t have a very prominent cupid’s bow. she enhances it into a heart-shaped pout whenever she can, unlike lysandra’s natural heart shape. not that she noticed. 

although she opted to dye her hair auburn in queen of shadows out of necessity as well as to spite arobynn, she had always been fond of auburn hair as a child --- something about the way it catches the light. if it hadn’t been so much trouble to maintain, and if arobynn hadn’t somewhat tarnished it for her by the time all was said and done, she might have considered keeping the color.

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     THIS  list will likely change / expand the further I re-read the series, but here are some things that are divergent on my blog:

that One Particular Death in CoM ??  we’re not doing that. i’ll go into more detail at a later date about what that means story-wise considering it would change quite a few things, but it doesn’t change the fact that she travels to wendlyn so who cares ! ( also i wanna, you know... leave that door open for any potential blogs for that character to expand on their own, so ! )

as a result of this, when celae.na opens the wyrdgate at the end of CoM, it’s in an effort to see sam again --- not That Person. similar results, whole different meaning.

rowa.n and a.elin are  NOT  mates. i love the ship for what it is, but SJM went out of her way to say that it is possible for a fae to have more than one mate and iirc she also implied it’s possible for them to love someone that isn’t their mate in a predestined sense so ??  i saw no real need to thicken the plot even further in EoS, they were fine on their own.

that being said, i don’t treat ro.wae.lin as Absolute Canon here. their platonic relationship was very, very important, and i don’t believe in there being a necessity for a romantic relationship when they were perfectly fine with their dynamic as is before QoS

i’ve stated this in my rules, but i’m saving EoS for whenever i get to it after re-reading the other four books. i’m aware of plot points and how it ends, but seeing as i haven’t read it, i don’t know the finite details like i’d prefer. the final book doesn’t come out until the fall, and until then we have no idea how the series is intended to be wrapped up.  SO  , whenever i do threads regarding aelin, it will be post-HoF but depends heavily on the verse. if it’s a QoS setting, then obviously there’s plot to follow there and it’s fine, but otherwise --- ie, a high-fantasy setting or period setting --- she will still be a newly-arisen queen in need of allies. the danger, the journey, and the circumstances may vary, but the personal journey that got her there --- the fall and rise and defeat of a tyrant king --- will remain the same.

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friendly reminder that cela.ena sa.rdothien hates being cela.ena sa.rdothien and all she really wants is to shop and eat chocolate and wear dresses without getting blood on them and listen to orchestras and play the piano and hope to vaguely recreate the feeling she gets from a beautiful symphony and kiss boys and kiss girls and she feels so fucking empty and full of rage at the same time always and she just wants fucking freedom

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friendly reminder that celaena’s two ‘conditions’ before accepting a job were a. no children and b. no one from terrasen and whenever someone wants her to target children / her people she’ll not only refuse but also fuck that job up beyond belief for whoever accepts

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so anyways about aelin’s scent and self-care :

she has so many lotions / shampoos / soaps / essential oils that she still finds herself occasionally surprised to rediscover an old one, let’s get that straight now

she favors jasmine and lemon verbena the most ( rowan even remarks that this is pretty much her primary scent, among other things )

because of the nature of the tog world, scents tend to be pretty natural to begin with --- but she definitely prefers natural scents regardless of verse. among those natural scents, floral are by far her favorite; she likes to strike a balance between natural and feminine, rarely delving into the sweeter scents.

on special occasions she breaks out the rose- and peppermint-scented stuff, but that’s the good shit 

she’s incredibly fond of expensive soaps, usually lavender, and is very picky about who she lets use them ( it’s actually something she comes to regret in the assassin’s blade, attributing it to a foolish sense of pride and vanity, but she still finds herself balking whenever someone just assumes she’ll share )

she has an extremely vigorous skincare routine, but it can occasionally be difficult to stick to thanks to the nature of her... profession. but especially considering she’s covered in black gear face to feet for most of the assassin’s blade, it’s a must to keep her looking gorgeous as always

she really is one of those girls that brushes her hair a hundred times each night before heir of fire

she developed a sincere fondness for the scent of lotus blossoms thanks to nehemia, but because of circumstances i won’t get into, she can’t bring herself to seek out the smell

according to rowan, her natural scent is that of: ‘jasmine, and lemon verbena, and crackling embers. elegant, feminine, and utterly wild.’ ( queen of shadows, pg. 154 - 155 ) honestly given her magic ability, i’m pretty sure it’s a literal description despite his feelings so we’re going with the fact that she literally smells like crackling embers i buy it it’s canon

which is another reason she likes to use a bunch of scents and oils, because thanks to the king of adarlan persecuting magic-users or sympathizers or anything  REMOTELY  akin to it, and thanks to her being legitimately fucking terrified of him most of her life, she wants to bury that natural scent on a subconscious fucking level wHY AM I MAKING MYSELF SAD ON A POST ABOUT SELF-CARE