LB!! You had mentioned three people that were influential to you when you were first introduced to the fandom, do you remember the fanfics they wrote?
Absolutely I do!! And I can more or less walk you through my progression from "I'm reading this for the feysand, elucien just happens to be in it" to "Where's the Elucien??"
It started with:
Turn Your Ghosts Into Mine by @separatist-apologist and @highladydawn which is a practical magic AU told through all three sister's perspectives with all three couples I would say having more or less equal page time. I told myself I was reading this for the Feysand, but I did find the Elucien charming
THEN A Christmas Prince by @separatist-apologist so I was THERE because it Feysand so OBVIOUSLY I need to read it. But MB always gives Elucien charming little subplots in her stories and I was very endeared to the way Lucien instantly fell for Feyre's sister
So I thought... okay... What's the harm in exploring that curiosity a little more? So I read
Exile by @separatist-apologist which has feysand POVs so it's basically like reading feysand... right?
They Say I Did Something Bad by @separatist-apologist who put a feysand subplot in the background specifically for me so how could I NOT read it??
Reason Comes on the Common Tongue by @highladydawn which is Elucien only, but it's a oneshot so what's the harm, really?? Except the harm was that I immediately needed more, so then I read all of Icarus In Armor in like a day
And then, from there, I think I read all 2 million+ words of MB's Elucien fic because I was in too deep to ever claw myself out of this hole