Propaganda I desperately want someone to get onboard with:
Anti-hero Rhysand, that’s it. He did everything he did for peace or whatever, but he owns it. There is no mask. It was intentional from the start and he doesn’t care what people think of him. Everything that happened UtM wasn’t to protect Feyre. He took her to Night because his hatred for Tamlin runs that deep, because he could and so he did. He came up with the intervention for Nesta because his idea of help is demented; he never hides it and everyone knows. He still doesn’t care but none of this is under pretence of doing Feyre a favour. (We have a whole lot for his feelings towards his court but that will take up the entire post, so moving on)
LolA is manipulative & equally abusive. She is abused by Beron yet she still stays because power is safe and being a Lady gives her that. She abuses her sons emotionally because they are the only ones standing between her and Beron; also she hates them since they are replicas of him.
Beron had and still has bastards to insult LolA as she ran away once (he loves her though, don’t ask what that looks like idk yet). But they were either killed at birth as he couldn’t allow autumn magic flow in such low lives, or never to be found in the court.
Lucien is a traitor. In the overarching theme, he has good intentions and always comes through, but he betrayed his home and Tamlin to figure out his mate. Given their history and all that they’ve been through, Lucien could’ve trusted Tamlin, instead he chose the woman who destroyed his court and ran away like a coward. (This isn’t that special but I don’t see people talking about this enough)
LolA doesn’t love Lucien. She loves what he represents. (Again not far-fetched but she’s a very romanticised idol in this fandom)
Vanserra brothers are distant. Eris and Lucien never had a connection. They have a huge age gap that forced Eris to keep away from the latest baby unless he wanted to look weak or “feminine” to his father. Actually the age gap exists between him and all his brothers, that's how his love for hounds started because he was lonely as a child and thus he's attached to his dogs more than his siblings. Anyway, Eris didn’t care about his own brother being hunted down in Spring either. He had done his part in the escape, you see, if that sucker couldn’t survive even after that, it ain’t his fault. But after their family is pruned in one night, they both realise how badly they wanted to mend their relationship. Eris due to the added burden of protecting the now withering family line and finally seeing a brother in Lucien; Lucien due to his guilt.
Night Court Siblings aren’t any better. Rhysand Sister (probably should name her too, my mind went to Rhysta as in Rhy-ster, then realised that’s a Nesta crackship lol) hates their mother. She hates Rhysand too because he was the golden child to their mother (and probably to their father in a sexist way, but I’m on the fence about this because no drama, no good. Ykw I’m also entertaining the idea of her part in the ambush that killed the mother as well as her)
Rhysand’s mother is a raging misogynist and kept choosing her boy over her girl. She left her only daughter alone to nurture her son for years in the camps because “that is no place for a girl”. She was “protecting her wings” or something along those lines, regardless she’s negligent af.
Rhysand’s father is a sexist but he loved his daughter more than his son because that’s the child he spent most years with and actually raised. He even wished at one point that if anyone in his line rules their court again, it’s his daughter, because she is better than the coddled, insolent wimp of a son (and he clocked Rhysand’s gay ass before anyone else, so he’s homophobic too) but wouldn’t admit to it even if his life depended on it.
Tamlin’s parents aren’t mates gone wrong. They were perfectly right for each other (excuse you, his father made a whole garden for his mother because she loved roses). Tamlin just remembers his mother in much better light because she wasn’t as harsh as his father or brothers. He is also prone to seeing the good in people first before they prove him wrong, and his mother died before he was disillusioned.