elain and lucien.
She looked away—toward the windows. “I can hear your heart,” she said quietly. He wasn’t sure how to respond, so he said nothing, and drained his tea, even as it burned his mouth. “When I sleep,” she murmured, “I can hear your heart beating through the stone.” She angled her head, as if the city view held some answer. “Can you hear mine?”
I’m finally back with edits 🥰
I painted this piece for @fairyloot July book box as a tarot card - knight of wands. Character is Wrath from Kingdom of the wicked by @kerrimaniscalco hope you guys will like it xoxo ✌️
Lucien Van Serra from a Court of Thorns and Roses. July 2021
This is a redraw based on the Huevember Lucien I finished back in 2018. I drew him far to pale back then and thin. I think this does him more justice.
Modern Day setting
Audrey entering the a room where Daciana her roommate is sitting.
Daciana: Oh you’re back! Where’s your boyfriend at?
Audrey: I don’t know. I don’t have a boyfriend anymore….
Daciana: WHAT?! Y’all broke up?!
Audrey: not exactly (flashes her engagement ring)
Daciana: SHUT THE FUCK UP! HE PROPOSED. AHHHHHHHHH
Audrey: AHHHHHHHHHH
Liza walks in confused
Liza: WHY ARE WE SCREAMING?!
Daciana: THOMAS PROPOSED
Liza: NO FUCKING WAY AHHHHHHHHH
this picture is giving valkyrie vibes✨
cr: ELPIS
I think e*riel will have sex. Every other couple boned someone else before they got together. Lucien would be the only one hurt by it and that wouldn’t have to be resolved in book 5….
Ew god I hope not. It’s such a waste of storytelling real estate. What would be the point? How would it move the story? A kiss will suffice.
Okay but Elain slept with Graysen.
So.
Bring on the Elucien smut
And Azriel already had a casual relationship with a bottle of Asprin
There we go, problem solved, we get Gwynriel and Elucien
Not y’all hoes still acting as if Lucien is this weak little thing that Sarah doesn’t care about and will eventually kill off? I thought we left that shit back in 2020? And the fact that the majority of y’all are the same exact people creating powerpoints and essays defending certain characters for the same exact reason y’all bully Lucien and act like he’s a villain- come tf on now...
In case any of y’all have forgotten, Lucien is the son of Day and Lady of Autumn- that’s two powerful bloodlines running through him. He is the most politically powerful character in the series right now having ties to just about every court including the human territories and the continent. He’s the chain linking all the courts together and has the power to break apart the Night Court’s alliances- hell, make all of Prythian fall apart. He has the potential to become one of the most powerful High Lords some day, possibly even High King with his connections, resources, intelligence, and personality.
That’s not what makes him strong though. What makes him strong is his ability to remain self-sufficient and resilient in the face of all his struggles. To pick himself up after being knocked down again and again, and being able to take everything he’s been through and not letting it devour him. That’s what I admire most about him. If you’ve read the books, you’d know that Lucien is one of the most traumatized character in the entire series. At a young age, he fell madly in love with someone and believed she was his mate and waited patiently for a bond to snap into place between them only to be held down and forced to watch (once again- someone he believed was his mate) get executed right in front of his eyes because his father deemed her as unworthy. Not long after, three of his brothers begin to view him as a threat to the crown because they sensed immense power emanating from him and attempted to kill him. Then, he was offered sanctuary by someone he eventually allowed himself to rely on as a best friend, only to get abused and become the target of his anger, then get dumped and left with nothing but the clothes on his back despite remaining loyal to him for decades. He had his mind fucked around with, he was sexually assaulted, he was whipped and tied down on multiple occasions and went through a near death experience while being used for Feyre’s trial, and who knows what else. I don’t think I want to know. And we all know how much he’s struggling with the mating bond, something he sees as rare, special, and beautiful despite his mate not wanting it. (Ffs Sarah, give this man a break. I’m begging you.)
Just because his strength and skills don’t lie in combat doesn’t mean he’s “weak”. Magical powers and physical strength don’t determine how strong you are. A strong person is someone who doesn’t going around actively trying to demean and diminish someone else’s identity to make themselves feel better and more powerful just because they can. A strong person is someone with mental fortitude, who has emotional maturity and stability, who has patience and persistence for when things get tough. And Lucien, my precious baby, has felt rejection and abandonment and loss his entire life and is always being used and discarded when he’s not useful or convenient enough. He’s been through hell y’all, but he doesn’t let any of his traumatic experiences and difficulties break him. Instead, he continues to be good, he continues to be selfless, and despite life letting him down, despite everyone around him treating him like dirt, he continues to puts the welfare of others above his own.
That is what you call Strength.
E*riels: We love Gwyn despite that we hate your crackship gleeriel. We’re not like you guys who hate Elain!!1!!1!
E*riels:
That’s the same person who made this shit so are we really surprised
w*lkriel is EVERYWHERE even on tiktok and all they do is bully people and act childish smh
So I get on Tumblr and the first thing I see is anti nestas saying black women shouldn't like Nesta Archeron. (which as a black woman is just offensive) and saying we're all Trump supporters. I don't condone bullying but some of you say the dumbest shit. Its just also funny to me because Sarah had a whole live saying how much Nesta would hate Trump and how much she would fight against his morals and everything he stands for. Babe you're the odd one out.
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
What they don’t realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. If I didn’t pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc’s estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me.
Now that I’m thinking Disney as in Nesta is Elsa. Gwynriel Ariel. If Elucien will be Tangled as some have suggested, I was thinking how in the world is Elain Rapunzel except metaphorically?
But then I thought that would mean that technically Lucien should be Rapunzel and Elain should be Flynn Rider... that’s the only way that makes sense to satisfy the whole idea that Rapunzel is a lost princess of a sun kingdom and Lucien is the unknown high lord’s son of a sun kingdom. That’s the main plot of the story. Lucien is also raised by an ab*sive parent as Mother Gothel raised Rapunzel. He has probably Helion’s power so that satisfies that strange power requirement that GLOWS. It certainly makes more sense to me than Elain as Rapunzel.
I’m quitting this fandom.
Cursed image, but the plot makes sense. 😭😭
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by the High Lord of Night’s official policy that any price is worth paying to ensure that the 5-7 (depending on the day) people he cares about are alright:
when emerie said “Well, it’s nice to meet another female who’s not obsessed with marriage and baby-making”......how did we let that shit fly over heads?? like bitch wtf?
this is coming from a woman who lives in the same patriarchal society as the 'other females' so she would know that the women are groomed since birth to be wives and mothers and nothing else and not many women have the luxury of independence she does, so they can't give up the security of their house that comes with financial stability and etc.
and what makes me even more mad is Nesta literally just stands there and says nothing about it...BITCH YOU WERE LITERALLY ONE OF THE "FEMALES WHO'S OBSESSED WITH MARRIAGES AND BABY MAKING"???? Like literally at the end of the book Nesta had a mating ceremony and adjusted her body to have kids in the future...
And I hate the word "obsessed" because it invalidates everything oppressed women in patriarchal societies go through, it makes them seem like they have a choice in what they can or not like. Marriage and children is the only thing they were taught and know, that's literally their entire lives.
I'm all for Emerie being poc and lgbtq+ rep but honestly i still hold a grudge against her for this. Nesta and her give off the same vibe as the white feminists where it's feminism when it concerns them but they overlook other severely oppressed women because they don't fit in their idea of strong women ie financially independent, headstrong and etc.
and can I just take this point to state one thing: as a poc woman myself coming from a patriarchal society, i have had to grow up and watch a lot of my female relatives go through the hardships of being women where their entire lives were tied to the households. It takes a lot of strength, more than a warrior's or "badass women that kill men" to be a mother and a housewife. These women are the foundation of generations of families, they sacrifice so much of themselves to ensure their families prosper. Additionally, if a woman wants to get married and have kids as her own choice, that doesn't make her obsessed, that just makes her a person with different aspirations.
to be a strong woman, is to be. by existing as a woman, you already have the strength regardless of how you choose to live.
The issue isn’t around the fact that Emerie doesn’t want to do what society tells her - it is around the fact that feminism is literally about women being allowed to choose their identity without judgement or criticism. About having a choice free from oppression and hate.
We know for a fact that Illyrian women are literally groomed to be baby making machines, wings clipped forcefully. Emerie knows this, was subjected to it. Her saying what she did is basically “I’m not like other girls, I’m different” which is inherently misogynistic. Why? Because it implies that women who do things ‘different’ are better than those who do things ‘traditionally’.
The issue isn’t that Emerie isn’t doing what her society tells her, it’s putting down her fellow women who weren’t afforded the choice she was.
Kind regards,
A fellow lesbian
Maybe she's just tired of having to talk about men and what society expects of her.
She never textually acts as if she's better than other women. Y'all just have your own weird Actual misogyny.
It's the same bullshit of "women who don't shave think they're better than women who shave 😰 #justiceforwomenwhoshave" Like that's not a thing. Society doesn't shame women for doing exactly what society expects them to do.
Society has never shat on women who choose the traditional cisheteronormative path and the sooner you realize that, that's one less chain the cisheteronormative patriarchy has on you.
Emerie never shat on Nesta for being with Cassian, nor did she ever make fun of anyone who was eyeing Azriel and Rhysand at training.
Maybe take a look at how the canon is actually written, and how society Actually is, and you'll learn a thing or two.
P.S.
Where's the energy for internalized misogyny when your fave slut shamed Nesta?
BYE WHAT THE FUCK PLS.
Finally got around to drawing for fun during my free time, so here’s some gwynriel I’ve recently gotten really into!
What *must* happen in Lucien's book
