HE JUST LOOKS SO FUCKING HAPPY I CANT
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HE JUST LOOKS SO FUCKING HAPPY I CANT
"Rook... that's the wrong cup."
day 1 of @rookanis-week - coffee / tea / hot chocolate
+ Bonus (same hoodie)
Make it hard to steer
-Is my love a burden, Dionysus? -Your love is the wings that make me soar, Ariadne.
i can't stop thinking about how in the end of the queen of nothing, jude says that neither her nor cardan know how to be happy. they don't know how to live without lying and scheming and fighting and plotting: with each other and with other people
so now imagine jude and cardan after the dust has settled. they wouldn't know what 2 do with each other. like just imagine them now getting to know each other. it's like they've never met because ofc they still bicker and everything, but they are married and they just fought and almost died for each other. and yet jude can't say what's cardan's favorite color and cardan doesn't know her favorite snacks
with the court of shadows as matchmakers it starts turning into a whole ass romcom. one night jude wakes up and cardan is just pacing the room nervously and she immediately panics and thinks something is wrong but no. cardan is taking her to one of the places he used to hide in as a little kid and he's. stressed, to say the least
it's one of the rare times jude gets to see elfhame without some pressing responsibility on her mind. she worries about the state of the palace in the hours they're gone and cardan tries ( as well as he can ) to reassure her that the court of shadows is there and she can let the court go for like,, 2 hours. and then jude is a little quiet and she's just staring around her like yeah this land that she has given her life and body for is so beautiful. she knows about cardan's mother, so she tells him about her own.
anyway i'll go more into depth later but like. it's a very rocky journey. jude sleeps fitfully and has nightmares; cardan tries to avoid sleep by getting drunk. jude's from the human lands and tells cardan to sober up. they both kinda just hold each other during a really bad night. cardan finds out balekin made jude kiss him and is so ashamed and shocked and horrified he can barely look her in the eyes except mutter apologies
cardan also persuades jude to drink btw. she's a very clingy drunk ( not weepy, she's not emotional or anything but she refuses to let go of him )
Oof very very rushed sketch because I don't have time. But I saw the new art and I need to add Viktor. Please see my vision. Will post the finished piece when I have actual time to work on it!
Credit to the amazing artist ofc ^
For your consideration:
Blanc's face just before and after throwing to Father Jud as they go through the crime scene:
Then his face as Father Jud suggests a false wall and "go to town Father Brown" (smirk) :
But THEN. then he goes and does this tiny soft smile DIRECTLY at Jud.
Which of course could mean nothing...
Bonus: Jud's stupid little excited look after Blanc praises him :)