#evil elain

[unhealthyfanobsession]

I want villain Elain so bad. And I don’t mean oh Elain goes a little bad and comes back.

No.

In every way that Nesta was mean on the outside and tearing herself apart on the inside, I want Elain to be perfectly sweet and calm on the outside and tearing everyone else apart on the inside.

I want her to be bone-deep in revenge fantasies.

I want her to be cackling internally at every idiot who thinks her pretty feminine hobbies make her less of a threat.

I want her to betray everyone but herself.

I want it revealed that she has been playing everyone for a fool since the war.

I want the path of mercy and forgiveness to be right in front of her and I want her to laugh at the very thought as she vows that all of her enemies will die screaming.

I want her to see their demise in her mind and decide it is not enough to know they will be brought to Justice. She must preside over their suffering.

Everything that was taken from her will be repaid a thousand times.

There is no peace. No joy or comfort or happiness. There is only rage covered over in icing sugar. There is only scorched soil that blooms nothing but blood roses.

I want Elain’s first POV to scorch the readers.

How dare you think me soft and complacent because I like to feel the earth beneath my palms. I will plant the most beautiful garden over the patch where I bury your body. I will smile every morning as I look out my window and see bright tulips growing over your battered corpse. I am vengeance. I am rage. How lovely you all turn a blind eye, so you will never see me coming.

[athena-85]

SJM: “Elain is sweet, Elain has a different type of strength, Elain is a hufflepuff (only house with no dark wizards). I gave Elain all my favourite hobbies,Elain is the Character I would most likely hang out with from ACOTAR….”

Misogynistic ACOTAR fans (and artists):

She is the one character I will make Evil…

Maybe start with the suspicious characters first, maybe the ones not in the IC. Maybe the ones that tell you they have a dodgy past, maybe the ones that break your trust and tell your secrets. Maybe the ones that your cauldron given power reacts badly too. Maybe the one the lull you?

You’re just telling on yourself that you hate feminine women and your brain can only get around the idea that they are equally important as the gurl boss type by making them Evil.

Be better

[greenleaf777]

I love these idiotic theories that Elain is secretly evil LMAOOOO, we all know why certain people say this……it’s because they can feel that Azriel is clearly in love with her and will choose only her so if shes evil he can be free for their fav gals BUT lets be real for a second here, if she went evil Az would absolutely follow her. Hes is GONE for Elain.

And BIIITCH so would I 😂

[feyreduarteee]

“Evil” Elain

I have read a lot of good theories and would love to hear what you guys think. People who don’t want Elain to be evil because it would destroy the core of her character and those people who relate to it (I’m def one of them) I think Sarah’s amazing storytelling somehow would be able to make her go evil in a sophisticated way in which Elain is empowered by her femininity (don’t ask me how cause I have no clue) I think there idea that she wants to become human makes sense but I don’t think is a complex enough plot. However I am certainly intrigued by how the idea of her distracting Azriel and wanting to remain away from Lucien cause his russet eye can see things others cant makes a lot of sense. The idea that Gwyn and her singing power, Azriel and Elain would create a Little Mermaid retelling makes a lot of sense and I am intrigued by this idea if Sarah delivered it in a way that wouldn’t be sexist towards Elain. The main doubt the Evil Elain plot line that I have is that I don’t want her to be reduced to the Female Fatale archetype. It doesn’t really make sense but imagine both Gwyn and Elain plotting together (since a lot of the theories regarding Gwyn being a possible spy/villain sort of make sense). Anyways I’d love to hear what you guys think.

Not necessarily Elain being a sort of villain but I feel with the way she spends most of the time by herself I feel like a big plot twist regarding Elain would make a lot of sense for what is probably going to be quite a long book. Also the fact that we don’t know that much about her I guess would help in delivering such a plot line, however I do not stand the idea that she is not sweet just quite, as someone who can relate I love sweet Elain.

I almost forgot the idea that she was pregnant and lost her child when she was taken by the cauldron kinda reminds me of Wanda in the MCU.

(disclaimer: I have not yet read ACOSF so I’m aware that I’m missing out a lot, these are just some of my thoughts on what I’ve read so far regarding this theory) :) 🩷🩷🩷.

[mochiknows]

I don’t think Evil Elain will happen but if it did I wish it went something like this:

The Cauldron loving Elain doesn’t actually mean she is good and pure. The Cauldron’s moral compass is backwards, so it actually loves Elain because she is morally bad on the inside. She is all manipulation and deception at her core.

She was willfully ignorant with her family, when they were poor and living in the little cabin. She allowed Feyre to care for the whole family by herself and allowed Nesta to protect her by pretending to be meek and weak.

She betrays the Night Court by feeding information to her human ex-fiancé. (When Cassian notes her sneaking off in ACOSF this is where she is going)

She attempts to poison Azriel, the spymaster, by gifting him solstice gifts that numb his senses. (The headache powder and earplugs)

She plays up her meekness to Azriel so he would see her as weak and not suspect her of treason.

She brother-in-laws would not accuse her of treason for fear of her sisters, their own mates. Azriel is the spymaster and must be deceived and manipulated.

Finding her mate was unexpected. She needs to keep Lucien away so he does not discover her deception and plotting. Mates always know things.

She treads lightly as her sisters have found their chosen families now and do not coddle her as much as they did before.

Can you imagine the angst and heartbreak!? I think she would make an interesting villain.

[loewenanni]

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Never Enough / Chapter 26 (Gwyneth) is now live!

🤭 Gwyneth makes a big discovery 

Jokes on me though, announcing this update would come sooner. I was so idiotic and left my laptop at home when I went on a trip last week. Now I'm back home and was able to finish editing and upload the chapter - and here it is at last. 

Thank you for your patience. I hope you like the update. <3

[uncommon-name]

Cassian: “It will take a lot more than that to kill me.”

Elain: “No it will not.”

[houseofhurricane]

To go off of you recent post about Elain: I agree, she has/had something to mourn over. Especially when not only her dream life dashed, her love was too. Grayson was suppose to love her for better or worse and she believed that he would, but he cast her aside the moment he learned about her "predicament". The poor girl had to be reeling which is why I think the theory of her trying to become human again is so interesting. What will she do for that chance?

I think this is an interesting point! And Elain has been told her whole life that she's essentially just a pretty face whose only goal is to get a man to protect her.

To be honest, I want her to be past Greysen already because I feel like that's too obvious a plot point. Greysen is a symptom of a larger problem. Her sacrificing everything for someone who treated her so badly would not be satisfying to me, even if I get why she might do it.

But I would like to see her dealing with those feelings. Ultimately, I think that if she went evil for the chance to be a human, I am more interested in what being a human means to Elain specifically than I am in her trying to reclaim a lost "love" that has never been worth the sacrifice.

I'm also not sure how I feel about the evil Elain narrative. Evil Elain, to me, seems like it reduces her to an unintelligent and self-serving character that I don't believe she is. We have a lot of hints that she is more sophisticated than her sisters think she is (particularly from Cassian's POV!) and I think her becoming evil would be difficult to pull off without making her too dumb to realize the actual forces of evil in the world. I also think that it’s unlikely that Elain, the first of the sisters to own her wrongs and actually apologize to Feyre, would willfully go against the Night Court just for herself. Especially for someone who has treated her so badly. This would undo a lot of what we already know about Elain’s character.

On the other hand, I would love to see morally gray Elain. I would cheer for an Elain arc where she feels as if she is monstrous because she has desires she was never expected to have, or because she’s now High Fae and a seer. I would be very interested in an arc for Elain that involves her going against the Night Court but not necessarily becoming evil, just having a different perspective that's contrary to Rhys and Feyre's. I could see how this could link her up with Lucien and bring her to the Day Court or the Spring Court. And I think Helion, Elain, and Lucien together would be very interesting.

Or imagine Elain leaving for the human realms for whatever reason -- evil, morally gray, or just tired of the Night Court -- and ending up in Greysen's manor with the Band of Exiles. Remember, Greysen and Lucien are living in the same manor! Think of the drama!

Long story long, I think there are a lot of complex and compelling possibilities for Elain beyond going evil to get her humanity and Greysen back.