#pro aedion

[cloudseeker7]

Aedion Lied. Rhysand Didn’t

aedion: mask: the “Wolf of the North,” brutal general who never loses a battle for Adarlan reality: the battles are staged, the deaths are faked, and the soldiers literally get up afterward and go home

rhysand: mask: feared ruler of the Court of Nightmares who routinely terrorizes, tortures, and sexually humiliates people to maintain control reality: …he does all of that. he just feels bad about it sometimes. and also he’s very nice to a small, hidden city of people who means he’s actually a good guy, promise.

the difference is not “morality,” it’s material harm.

aedion's mask is a lie. the violence he's known for does not actually happen.

rhysand’s “mask” is just… branding.

the narrative keeps insisting that his cruelty is an act, but then: – the torture still happens – the victims still exist – the trauma is still real – the power imbalance is still enforced

“he’s pretending to be awful” only works if the awfulness isn’t real.

you do not get moral credit for being secretly kind to Velaris while knowingly ruling a court built on terror and exploitation. that’s not a mask; that’s compartmentalization.

aedion takes on a reputation so others don’t have to suffer.

rhysand maintains a reputation by making sure people do suffer and then asks the reader to applaud him because he has an inner monologue about how hard it is.

that’s not depth. that’s just doing the bad thing and insisting it counts as character complexity.

[anyetta]

If two men made a secret pact to use a woman as a broodmare without her consent or knowledge, no one would blame her for hating them when she found out

Aedion’s crashout defender to the death

[gracie-rosee]

You know something? Aedion gets so much hate for absolutely no reason. Yes, he has had some questionable behavior but not once was it ever actually misplaced. He had every single right to be mad at everyone in KoA for lying to him about something that would affect him for the rest of his life.

They reduce his entire character to his actions in a very small part of one book. Have you forgotten how loyal, strong, smart, caring, passionate, soft, optimistic, courageous, kind, brave, reliable, genuine, honorable, thoughtful, gentle, compassionate, and selfless he is? Please.

[redheadsdefender]

So, just to clear some things about disputed SJM characters (won't get into being pro Nesta etc that's given), I am pro Chaol, pro Aedion, pro Rhys, pro Cassian, pro Hunt, pro Tharion.

If you have an issue with any of that, feel free to unfollow/block or whatever, personally I'm sick of people who only see nuance in FMCs and not MMCs

[bookstoreaders]

Another list of things I want to say in the SJM community but can't because it would be "Rude" - character specific-

again this is unfiltered, might be "rude" and a bit crude ^_^ and lots of cursing because I can and this is my Tumblr so read on if you dare. Also these are my Opinions so sorry not sorry if they bother you.

Aedion has every fucking right to be mad. they were going to fucking breed him, like what the fuck! you all want me to be mad at him because he threw Lysandra out into the snow? like fuck that. Him and his army were having their asses handed to them and Lysandra wanted to "play" at being Aelin. fuck that.

I don't give two flying fucks what rhysand sacrificed. he is a terrible ruler and needs to be kicked out. (But but but .... shut up... don't care)

I love Feyre, but she is not without falt. she is rude, she is judgmental, she is a lot of things. I am however holding out on the hope that i have for her.

rhysand is the root of all evil (the devil is pretty)

when someone makes a favorite character list, and you all go "where is ****? where is ***? you have *** instead of *** I could nevvvaaa" shut the fuck up you sound so dumb right now.

Hunt Athalar is superior to BOTH Rhysand and Rowan but especially Rhysand

if you call Tamlin "tampon" i think you have the intelligence of a rock

Nesta was never and has never been a villain or even an antagonist. like i see these things some of you say and I want to throw myself into oncoming traffic. like please actually use that squishy thing inside of you head for something and google

If you refuse to read a book in a series just because you don't like the character, then i don't give two flying fucks what you have to say. I don't. At that point your "opinion" is invalid.

if you hate elain just for the soul reason that she is "soft" and likes to cook and do domestic stuff.... go shove your pretend rhysand-esque bullshit feminism up your ass.

[btsunyeondan]

no, you know what, i’m still mad at the people who vilified aedion for his reaction. because what the hell do you mean “he overreacted”? you think being rightfully angered that your cousin, who you would die for, came up with a plan that turned you into a fucking sperm bank, relayed that plan to someone you wanted to marry, to which she agreed, and then you not finding out until your cousin had been kidnapped by a sadistic queen, is an overreaction? hey siri play “shut up” by ariana grande.

“oH bUt He CaLlEd HeR a BitCh eVeN tHoUgH hE kNeW hEr PaSt” and lysandra agreed to that plan even though she knew aedion had sold his body to keep the rest of terrasen’s army alive, so she can deal.

“Oh He ThReW hEr OuT iNtO tHe SnOw” i’m like 85% sure he didn’t physically throw her out, he told her to get out, but someone go and re-read that book that should’ve been 200 pages shorter, cuz i’m not

honestly, i think the way people reacted to aedion’s consent being violated like this is why miss janet thought it was ok for flopsand to do what he did and for feyre to not get angry abt it. because when ppl point out the victims in both situations, and how both of their autonomies were restricted, y’all lose your minds.

[btsunyeondan]

actually *puts on tinfoil hat*

sjm says that she doesn’t let readers influence what she writes but me protest! the way ppl reacted to aedion calling lysandra a bitch and feyre dropping rhys in the mud makes me think she knew she could get away excusing rhys’ actions utm by making it look like he had a genius plan and in acosf by making it look like he had feyre’s wellbeing in mind. because in empire of storms and acomaf, aedion and feyre had reasonable, justified reactions, and yet the fandom lost their minds over it??? (y’all are still weird for how you talk about aelin’s and lysandra’s plan btw) so like sarah gets a do-over (a plan that strips autonomy and keeping important information about someone away from them) and writes reactions that land positively with a majority of the fandom.