#pro elucien

[elucienfanboy]

Audible please💀. They’re as much tired as us

Ps. They used SYMPHONIC planet - GARDEN of tears as a sound👀

[starborn-heir]

And what if I said this part of the BC is yet another piece of proof of how similar Gwyn and Azriel are?

Two people who have done what they had to, either for their own survival, the greater good, or both. Both of them bear so much guilt over something they never had much, if any, choice in. Both of them feel not just unworthy...

But UNHOLY.

A priestess and a spymaster, two of the more religious characters in our main cast (by my perception, at least), on seemingly opposite sides of holiness, but alike in that neither of them feel they are deserving of it.

And if I said that Azriel has put Elain on that pedestal of holiness, seemingly unattainable and untouchable because of her mating bond with Lucien, and taken it as proof of his unworthiness.

However we feel about it, however the Archeron sisters feel about it, to fae the mating bond IS holy.

So, in not receiving that bond with Elain that "reason" says he perhaps should have (operating off of his framework of "three brothers and three sisters"), not only does he not have a holy mating bond, but it's as if the Mother is telling him "Not only are you unworthy, but I have given this holy bond to another, who therefore must be more worthy than you."

THAT is why he lashes out about Lucien when talking with Rhys. Because, by this point, whatever Lucien has done wrong by whoever's definition, he has been forgiven by the people wronged (with the exception of Elain at this time). Azriel has no reason to be holding such a grudge against Lucien, who has only treated him decently since arriving in the Night Court, who calls him "a decent male".

But Lucien is the personification of Azriel's feelings of unworthiness. And if he can find fault with Lucien, if he can convince himself that Lucien does not deserve what the Mother has blessed him with, then perhaps it will soothe the sting.

And maybe Azriel doesn't have a mate, as far as he knows, but if Elain would choose him over her holy mating bond, that would count for something, right? But as we know, the bond lingers even when rejected. For Azriel, I can't imagine that sitting well. That's why I don't see a rejected bond being a happy ending for anyone in that situation.

When it comes to people with such deep-rooted self-worth issues, you cannot love them into loving themselves. You cannot choose them enough to make them choose themselves. The other partner is always on the hook for reassuring and validating their worthiness, not just as a partner, but as a person.

And. It. Is. Exhausting.

The way I see it, the biggest conflict involved in Azriel's romantic future isn't about waiting for a mating bond or choosing a female or dealing with external factors that may or may not impede said relationships.

Like Mor told Feyre, she could strip naked in front of Azriel and he would not touch her. Because of that fundamental sense of unworthiness.

Azriel is his own biggest obstacle. Not Lucien, not Rhys, not Elucien's bond. He needs to go on a journey of healing, of finding his intrinsic value as a person, despite all that had happened to him and all the guilt he carries for what he's done, justly or otherwise.

And Gwyn has a very similar journey to go on.

I don't want a story of two people who feel unworthy being validated by a mating bond. I want to see two people who learn to love themselves again, to choose themselves and (hopefully) each other, only to find that they've ALWAYS been worthy.

[eluciey]

✨I found something✨

Feysand:

Nessian:

Elucien:

[stephsarchives]

155 days left until ACOTAR 7

[stephsarchives]

78 days left until ACOTAR 6

[acourtofthought]

🚨🚨🚨 PSA! 🚨 🚨 🚨

The big news is that Elain gave her consent to Sarah to write her as accepting the mating bond with Lucien in an upcoming ACOTAR book! Elain actually confirmed it to me just now.

Now, either one of two things is going to be true.

1) If I or anyone else believes the above then we might be dealing with a break from reality.

2) If you are cognizant enough to realize the above could not happen then you are admitting that Elain cannot give consent because she does not exist. If Elain does not exist then she has no independent consciousness and can only do what Sarah wants her to do.

And if a reader thinks Sarah would be against pairing her FMC with a MMC who brings her strife, one who makes her uncomfortable or one who makes her lose her boldness then I really have to wonder whether they've actually read any of her books.

Sarah will write Elain in a way that is interesting to her, in a way that she feels will be interesting to the readers, in a way that creates the most drama and entertainment and mating two people who seem completely at odds in the beginning of their journey is kind of her speciality.

[hayaii]

or, you know, maybe Elain resents her softness too. Maybe she feels angry and guilty over how her passiveness cost Feyre her childhood. Maybe she realises that her softness came at the cost of Nesta’s. Maybe she is frustrated with how her inability to fight for herself landed her in the cauldron. Maybe she thinks she needs to be tougher. Maybe she lashes out at the person who loves her most because she feels so much shame for having accepted her shielding her for so long. Maybe she thinks she should endure the prick of thorns instead of allowing herself to be protected. Maybe she thinks that she needs to be harder and darker because her softness and light hasn’t helped her one bit.

And so, maybe, Elain will become stronger and more herself. But maybe part of that will be accepting her softness as strength not as weakness. That the protection she was afforded was always out of their love not because of her weakness. Maybe she will learn that her gentleness is not a flaw, that she does not need to fold herself into the mould of damsel or the mould of knight. Maybe she will learn that she can simply exist. Maybe then she will allow herself to accept a gentle love too.

[renehart13657]

I can’t wait to see Elain so annoyed about wanting to touch and taste her mate.