#pro elain

[cdalexsworld]

i genuinely thought people were exaggerating, but i’ve actually seen people say the idea of elain becoming a spy is ridiculous and will never happen. 😭

it’s completely fine if you don’t like that direction or you’re hoping that’s not the story sjm gives her. but saying there aren’t any hints is craaaazy.

there’s so much foreshadowing for it in acosf that the only thing missing was sjm writing it in bold and all caps. you don’t have to like the theory, but pretending the setup isn’t there is just ignoring what’s on the page

[strangecreationchaos]

i am actually curious about what is going to provoke elain to train. for feyre it's her being trapped by tamlin and suffering and her wish to find freedom, for nesta it's her own self destruction, drinking and depression and a way to vent her anger. but elain, she is in a safe atmosphere even with lucien and all the koschai and human queens drama. she is not self harming, she is not caged or trapped. and this brings what rhys said about her in feysand's bonus chapter that he wants to know how elain will be if safety and comfort is provided to her. for feyre and nesta physical training became their greatest strength even before they master their powers. but for elain it's her power she is going to master first. nesta noticing elain being stealthy also shows that elain's friendship with nuala and cerridwen and they are might actually giving her some lessons in stealth. or is she just observing and learning from them? Her physical training session will definitely come and i have a feeling it will be with rhys. but like azriel her greatest strength will be stealth. so she and az are going to train at any point for sure...but i am more curious about the reason for it.

[cdalexsworld]

The most beautiful female in Prythian has curly hair. This heals something in me. 🫶

[elainarcheronsvisions]

It still makes me laugh when people are like “Elriel isn’t happening because it’s too predictable/obvious”

So you agree they’re obvious?

It’s not a fucking Sherlock Holmes novel. The romance in a romantasy series is supposed to be obvious. Some of these takes are why romantasy readers get a bad reputation…

[mortalfae7]

Exactly Halle & wonderwick exactly

[gardenofsight]

During Elriel’s love confessions:

[cdalexsworld]

I swear, some of you are setting yourselves up for disappointment. You’ve spent five years convincing yourselves that Rhys is secretly evil, the entire Inner Circle are manipulative monsters, and Elain is suspicious and is going to betray everyone. At some point, you have to ask whether that’s actually the story Sjm has been telling or just the version you’ve created in your own head.

If that’s the book you’re expecting, honestly, just write the fanfic yourself, because I think you’re going to be very disappointed by the actual books. And then you’ll all come back bitching about how “what a disappointment,” “lazy writing,” blah blah blah, when the reality is that the books just didn’t match the story you’d already written in your own heads.

[erin-bo-berin]

Like surely the fact Lucien has been conveniently stationed back down in Spring means something for the plot of the next book? Spring is is very much in danger with the Beron of it all on the verge of happening for starters and it still means Lucien is really close to the human lands so he can still get updates from Jurian and Vassa? But I also hope this means something for him and Elain because Elain’s whole vibe is so Spring! And I don’t believe for one second her powers are purely just seer abilities, there’s gotta be more to them! I do really think Elain is going to have major involvement with the whole Koschei storyline and potentially something else down in Spring (will she help revive Spring since it’s apparently dying? Maybe…) but I don’t know if that’s too much. I just hope Elain will have a big storyline just like Nesta did.

Honestly the foreshadowing of Elain ending up in Spring at some point has been there all along. Now this isn’t to say I believe at this point that she’s gonna end up there permanently, but I do think it’s going to be a part of her story. Honestly, I can see Lucien and Elain always traveling and on the go (which is something he clearly enjoys and something that would delight her).

But I don’t think having Lucien stationed in Spring was for nothing. He’s there for more than half of the book! Something that some fail to remember as they still think he’s with Jurian and Vassa. No, Rhys and Az had him stationed in Spring to mediate the situation with Tamlin and the fact that Feyre was pregnant. There were no further updates on his location after that besides the roughly three visits he made to Velaris during that time (after his stationing in Spring).

People can deny it all they want but Elain has been tied to Koschei the minute she started having visions. There’s still the black box and all the girls that she mentions (apparently Koschei) has and we have no clue what that is yet. Lucien has been obviously tied to Koschei since he went to the lake with her father. He’s friends with and works with Vassa and Jurian who are also tied to that plotline.

No one in this series has closer ties to Koschei besides Beron and Eris at this point and well…that’s easily tied to Lucien as well. Something I think that is also tied to Elain. She’s been tied to Eris three times already which I believe is even more Elucien foreshadowing.

I just really hope that whatever happens that Elain makes her exit from the NC sooner rather than later in ACOTAR 6. I’d love to see her be on her own journey before the cliffhanger that’s probably gonna kill us at the end of ACOTAR 6 and I’m so ready to travel elsewhere with her too.