#violet eden

[iliketoread]

"Why are you so afraid to be more than ordinary?"

Embrace, Jessica Shirvington

[cyanidesouffle]

So I'm rereading an old YA and now I want to give angels daddy issues

This is going to be the most into-the-void headcanon ever, because the series it's about is from 10 years ago, but here we go :'D

I had a wave of nostalgia (or a 20s age crisis?) and decided to reread Embrace by Jessica Shirvington (2010) that I read in 2014 as a 14 year old. It's about a girl who finds out she's half angel (and very special owo). There's exile angels she has to go capture and there's a love triangle between her, the other half-angel good boi and the sexy exile angel boi. Classic 2010s YA stuff.

That's not what I'm here about. NO, I'm here for Nox and Onyx, two side characters, who are father and son according to me.

Who did you say?

Nox and Onyx.

Nox is Violets mentor Angel (of dark), and Onyx is an exile of dark. He stabs half-angel boi. (We don't hold that against him.)

First thing Violet says when she meets Nox is that he reminds her of Onyx. She's met other dark angels (or, well exiles) before. She never mentions that they're similar to one another. But Onyx and Nox specifically? There's a resemblance there.

Does Onyx and Nox ever speak to each other in Embrace? No. Do they even mention each other in passing? NOPE.

But they're both dark, and they wear black suits, Nox looks older than Onyx and they have an X in their name so what more do you need?! xD

So the angels can have kids in this book?

No. Maybe? I don't know. The whole debacle with half-angels is that an angel can share their essence to a baby whose parent died within the first 12 days of their life. But angel babies? I don't actually know, but here's my thinking based on stuff we know in the canon:

Lilith is the mother of bad boi Exile angel, so they can have kids. Phoenix also mentions that Exiles used to "take women to bear them children". So there's parentage. Lilith did have a physical form at that point.

There's also a thing that female angels are somehow rare, so maybe that's why the angels reproduce very rarely?

Nox and Uri (another angel, but of light) are brothers, twins specifically unless my reading comprehension is failing me, so obviously there's family ties in the angel realm.

The actual headcanon

So right now I have decided that Onyx has daddy issues which is why he went to earth. Nox worries about him on the daily but is a complete tsundere about it 💕 And sometimes Nox visits Onyx in his dreams and is like "Could you please just come home?" And Onyx would be all "It's not a phase Dad, I like food and sex and killing grigori... 😒"

TL;DR Nox is Onyx Dad and there's nothing anyone can say to change my mind.

[dreamdrooler]

‘Love will kill us all,’ he said sadly. 'First it makes us lie furiously so we can be what we must in order to appear deserving. Then, it tears us apart with raw truth. Whether we are man, exile or angel - it doesn’t matter. For us all, the nature of truth is unforgiving.’

- Jessica Shirvington

[kindred-josephs]

So I’m rereading a series I loved as a young teen, and it’s definitely way more cringey now but damn it still has a place in my heart. I haven’t read or thought of the embrace series (also known as violet eden chapters) in years but I just annihilated all 5 books in three days when cleaning out my things from my mothers house.

It’s a typical love triangle (as was popular in 2010) and Violet, Lincoln and Phoenix all have lots of great speeches to each other about their love BUT this one really just stuck with me:

‘ “You don’t get it - you never will! You want to run towards the fire to save me even when I’m carrying the bucket of water. You can’t help yourself!

Lincoln threw his hands wide. “Because I fucking love you!”’

Like DAMN that hit me hard. She’s desparetly begging him not to get dead trying to save her, she’s capable of saving herself and he’s like it’s not because I don’t think you are capable it’s because I want you to let me help you.

UGH even though there are plenty of second hand embarrassment moments (mostly because Violet is niave and people have to keep saying ‘girl it’s probably not a good idea to have sex with an evil madman’) I still love this series because all the relationships are complex and multifaceted.

I adore Lincoln but everything would be way less intense if he wasn’t like “I can’t have you but any man who looks at you I am going to growl at” lmaoooo bc there are lots of men our girl Violet is a straight hottie

Anyway if you’ve read it please tell me! I want to goss

[thelionthewitchandthewardrobe]

Violet: Do you ever feel like you’re being watched?

Phoenix: All the time. When you look this good you have to get used to it.

[manontrashbeak]

You’re trying to tell me that Violet Eden and Stephanie Morris aren’t insta models?? That they went to santorini and didn’t spend some hours taking pics?? Okay sure

[booksnerd-14]

Lincoln: Having more than one or two senses is rare and almost unheard of.

Violet: I have all five

Lincoln:

[wordsarelifereviews]

The Violet Eden Chapters by Jessica Shirvington