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So here is this thought. If Jaron had not become Sage after that last talk with King Eckbert , he could have like come back telling his father that he would tell all he ran away before the ship sailed so he could not tell if it was the Avenian pirates who attacked the ship and did not return because of the argument he had with his parents and because he did not want to go to Bymar( which was exactly what happened), so there would be no way regents could force Eckbert to go to war since the only reason Jaron’s father gave him for making him an orphan was that he wanted not to go for war against Avenia. Definitely we know it was more than this but Eckbert did not state that it was to keep Jaron safe and Jaron did not understood that either then so by saying this he could have gone back to the castle. Though in the books Jaron thinks he would have died too if he had gone back that day but during the talk with Eckbert Jaron did know that regents were against his father and Jaron always had this habit of sneaking out and roaming around in the castle, so if Jaron had gone back he might have accidentally discovered who had caused the attack or who was conspiring perhaps. I cannot stop thinking of this alternate timeline where things could have been different and Jaron could have saved his entire family from Conner and Gregor. Obviously then he might not have met everyone he met in the books but he would still have met Mott( being Conner's servant) at least and Mott might have become Jaron’s friend even here ( cause Mott seemed a bit soft for Jaron since book 1 despite everything Mott did then). He would have known and met Amarinda though who would still be betrothed to Darius perhaps. I don't know how Jaron would have met others though. ( Also according to TSC Sage stole Batilda's purse and hence Imogen became Conner's servant. So definitely Jaron would not gave met Imogen in this book even if he did somehow meet others.)

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Ascendance Trilogy Review

Here is my review of the Ascendance series : I just love Jaron! He is my book crush in the Ascendance series. I also adore Mott, Roden, and Tobias. I liked Mott because of the conversation he had in Book 1, how he could see Sage was acting tough but wasn’t truly tough. Mott was the only one in Book 1 who realized Sage was the prince. His loyalty later on in the books and how, during the war in Book 3, he made Jaron regain his strength (I love his speech to Jaron) was remarkable. He was Jaron’s friend but also felt like a guardian figure. I really didn’t want him dead in Book 3 and felt Jaron’s pain when he thought Mott might die. Roden and Tobias weren’t my favorites initially, but I ended up liking Tobias by the end of Book 1 and later on. As for Roden, I don’t approve of what he did by trying to kill Jaron or break his leg, but I love what their dynamic became later on—the development was too good. I like how Jaron said a few philosophical things to Roden in Book 2 during the fight and also in Book 3 to boost his confidence. Roden’s actions were confusing in Book 4, but in reality, he never truly abandoned Jaron even then. I hoped Roden and other characters had gotten more spotlight in Book 5 (I needed to see my favorite trio). Amarinda is the kind of princess I usually like—royalty who doesn’t enjoy royal life. She had a sense of duty and turned out to be amazing in Book 3. I liked her story about wanting to make her own choices. She’s kind of fun, too (I find it funny when she said she hated wearing gowns in Book 2 and when she joked with Fink in Book 3 at the beginning). I don’t mind her and Tobias ending up together, though it was a bit weird since we got no scenes between them in the books. Still, as a side couple, it works. However, I wish Tobias hadn’t told Amarinda in Book 3, when they were playing in the mud, the same thing Sage had told her in Book 1 during their first meeting (about dirt on her cheek). It didn’t give me a distinct feel for their romance since they didn’t have many on-page scenes.Harlowe is great. I always liked how he never got upset with Jaron, especially how he gave Jaron that hug when Jaron shouted at him at the beginning. Jaron really needed such hugs a lot, but I think whenever Jaron shouts in the books out of anger or fear, people just misunderstand him or get angry with him. Kerwyn was so good, but I don’t approve of the author killing him off-page in Book 5. Was losing someone who was like a parent necessary? Jaron already lost his parents; he didn’t need to lose more. (He will remain alive in my headcanons.) Fink turned out to be one of my favorite characters. He’s cute. I love his dynamic with Jaron, and in Book 4, how Fink is the only one who isn’t angry with Jaron no matter what.I think Books 4 and 5 had a different vibe, and many times things seemed repetitive, like Jaron getting imprisoned in every book or being physically tortured. I love the plot twists in the series, especially the Book 1 twist, but I felt some plot twists in the later books were unnecessary. I liked the plot twist of Darius being alive in Book 4, but I didn’t like the twist of him being adopted and also being Conner’s son. I still don’t like Conner despite what he did in Book 3. I usually don’t like villains no matter what, and Conner killed Jaron’s parents—how can I forgive him? He’s not interesting or complex like Soo-won from *Yona of the Dawn*. Conner killed an innocent orphan kid just to prove how high the stakes were in Book 1; I cannot like him. I also didn’t like what the author did with Darius’ character in Book 4 because I thought Darius missed Jaron and didn’t imagine him to be like that. I didn’t think Darius really wanted to be king; I thought he did that because he wanted Jaron to enjoy freedom (something like that was mentioned in Book 1). Wasn’t it a bit stupid of him to believe Jaron could do that to his parents? Anyway, he later turned out to be the way I always thought of him by the end of Book 4 and in Book 5.

headcanon that growing up, jaron was terrified of becoming like his father because of all the trauma he got from him and so would try as hard as he could to be as completely different from eckbert as possible. he loved his father, but even though he knew his father also has good qualities he would rather be a flawed person then be anything like his father. since he was never properly trained on how to rule, this mindset greatly influenced how he made decisions as king (and later on as a father). so when he does something even remotely similar to something eckbert would do, it would mess him up because that was the last thing he wanted to be and he would think he was becoming like him

#and even if it is nothing like what eckbert would do!!#like when he allowed fink to face the avenian patrols by himself in tst #hes always so protective of him because he sees a glimpse of his younger self who hadnt wanted to be left behind #the ascendance series #the ascendance trilogy #jaron eckbert #jaron artolius eckbert iii #eckbert #king eckbert #king jaron #self projecting #headcanons #my post

Just an imagination or an idea that I have Iike what if magic does exist in Carthya? Then maybe Jaron can one day suddenly get transported in the past in his current form cause he always end up being in troubles. He can meet his past self as a kid in the castle or maybe like he remembers what he did that day like whatever mess he got himself into or maybe we can have older Jaron helping his younger self secretly without his younger self ever knowing it , maybe giving his younger self advice! Oh that will be so cute! But the best thing of all in my imagination current Jaron meets Eckbert who recognize Jaron despite the current Jaron not belonging to the past Eckbert's timeline and they like have a proper closure(It gets me that Jaron never got to have a proper closure with his parents😭😭)