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You know what scene i desperately need in elriels books??

When elain meets azriel mother we learn that he talks to his mother about elain and how perfect she is all them time. 🥰

Imagine him going to rosehall after that first solstice and gushing about elain to his mother then acting innocent when she starts catching in to his feelings.

And then a nice angsty one where he goes to rosehall after the latest solstice just heartbroken 😭

#elriel #a court of thorns and roses #acotar #azriel x elain #elain x azriel #azriel #elain archeron #azriel shadowsinger #acosf #acomaf #acowar #acofas

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One go read this fic. Its amazing!

In Spite of it All (Elain x Azriel) Part IV

A/N: It is the eve of Elriel month! Finally, we're back and starting with Elain's POV. Things are happening 👹 Enjoy!

Word Count: 6K

Summary: Bad always follows in the path of Good. After tension builds between Azriel and Elain, an unwelcome presence makes itself known at Rosehall.

Key: Positive and negative tension

Triggers: Suggestive themes right off the bat but not much else. Relatively safe.

🏷️: @downingg2001

Link to read!

Teaser from beginning below!👇

The strong scent of cedar graced Elain’s nose, silently beckoning, calling her from her slumber. Even then, she hadn’t bothered to open her eyes. Hadn’t bothered to consider where the fragrance was coming from.

She was so comfortable.

Too comfortable to get up, too comfortable to move.

Perfect, this was perfect.

A heavy weight shifted from behind, pressing itself right up against her back. Another force had snaked around her waist, pulling her in firmly.

The abrupt movements pulled Elain back out of her dozing. Slowly fluttering her eyes open, she took in the view of the daylit room. Everything seemed normal. There was nothing there.

Her gaze cascaded down to her lower half, spotting a massive leathery wing lazily slumped across her midriff and off the side of the bed. All the way down to the floor.

Another shift from behind, skin and warm air met with the crook of her neck. Elain tensed, sucking in a breath as clarity finally came to mind. She recalled it all, what occurred just hours before, who she’d invited into her bed—

It was Azriel.

It was Azriel who was lying against her. Holding her close, skin on skin, back to front with no space in between. Enveloping her in his own warmth and in the safety of his grasp. Color rose onto Elain’s cheeks as she laid there, silently enduring the skittering heat of his rhythmic breathing across her skin. With each warm wave, a shiver crept down her spine.

Hot. It was getting hot.

Elain couldn’t fight it. This male, who her heart still so viciously and unwaveringly ached for, had been so close. His skin on hers, his mouth against her neck, his arms around her waist— It was one of the ultimate expressions of intimacy.

It was getting too hot.

Her own festering arousal had doomed her from the start, the heat of it already beginning to pool down between her legs. And if Azriel scented it, if he woke up and smelled it—

They had never been this intimately close before. Not in this way. Everything last night, everything before, it was all for a reason. But this blatant touching, this unrestrained and subconscious touching was so like solstice night— And yet, this was… This was so much better.

The taloned thumb of Azriel’s wing twitched before the entire appendage moved upward, rendering Elain effectively clung onto and cocooned. She’d been trapped in his arms and by extension, his own wing.

She couldn’t bear it. The embarrassment in the growing heat between her own legs. The race of her heart. The simmering of her skin to the touch, his touch. She had no choice. She had to escape this— Escape before she might do something she’d regret.

Elain squirmed a little, hands reaching down to undo Azriel’s hold on her. His thick arms, while firm in grip, had ultimately loosened just enough to barely let go of her. The male loosed a low groan against her neck, right into her ear.

The delightful sound of it, the mere feeling of the vibrations against her skin—

It was getting worse.

Her body, it all ached for him. Throbbed for him. The want, the need fought like hell against her whole being. The damning desire to wake him and let him do whatever he wanted with her, begging to resume what once could’ve been all those weeks ago—

Too hot. Its all too hot.

She had to go. She couldn’t make another mistake again. Couldn’t bear the thought of further ruining what had already been undone and done again.

Elain slipped out from under that large black wing, careful not to step on the remainder of the length of it that laid arced on the floor. Azriel shifted again on the bed, seemingly from the sudden loss of warmth. Of her warmth.

She fled into the bathroom. Quickly. Quietly. The door behind her clicked shut, followed by a series of soft panting from her. Biting her lip and pressing her shaking thighs together, she tried her best to calm her ravished body, so at odds with her addled mind.

This hunger she felt, this insatiable hunger— She couldn’t do this to herself. Not to Azriel. Not again. Not when her own feelings were responsible for solstice night. Not when it was her fault that she misunderstood their relationship. Not when it was a mistake before. She wouldn’t— couldn’t dare make it again.

The guilt had practically swallowed Elain whole. Guilt for feeling this way. For allowing herself to feel for a male who didn’t even want her in the way she wanted him, to love a male of whom she shouldn’t.

For even allowing her own traitorous body to react to him this way, when all he had done was breathe down her neck. When all he was doing was sleeping. He couldn’t even have true peace in his own rest. Not from her. Not when she was around.

Elain pushed herself off the door as she strained to ignore the sizzling sensations that still remained, the ones that fought with her in every step she made.

Bending over the rim of the tub, she turned on the bath to get it running warm. She had to rinse off to clear her mind, to rid herself of the scent of her own arousal. And perhaps to hide from Azriel out of her own crippling anxiety. She could only hope that he hadn’t woken up yet. Let alone smelled it.

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ONCE UPON A TIME 5.07, Nimue

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favourite ouat scenes: 18/?

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captain swan is so funny because killian is in the midst of a multi-hundred year revenge plot and then he meets emma and goes "oh. turns out i am still capable of love. yeah im gonna go do that instead"

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S04E23

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ONCE UPON A TIME 6.12, Murder Most Foul

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I miss them so much 😭

ONCE UPON A TIME 6.12, Murder Most Foul

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Happy Elriel month eve!

To get ready for it I wanted to post the elriel art I had commissioned.

I commissioned this Elriel Garden Scene with artist chelzd_art.

The more we get Azriels pov we see that Azriel is actually really tender so I wanted a piece inspired by their time together in the garden showcasing that side of him. This perfectly captures how I feel elriel is with each other ❤️

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Guilty as Sin • Elriel

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Nesta and Azriel's friendship

Because this is not talked about enough. I love the relationship Nesta and Az have and especially in Acosf. I think Nesta is definitely going to play a vital part in Azriel's story because of her connection to Elain and her ability to see through everybody's bullshit.

One of the main reasons Azriel and Nesta's friendship is probably my favorite relationship is because they understand each other. Take a look at these parts from acosf:

At the solstice party, Azriel lingers by the door the whole time and Nesta is the only one to approach him. (because she knows why).

Elain is sitting by the fire. In the Azriel pov we find out that Az stands by the door in case he "needs to make a quick exit" because my poor love sick bat boy can't stand the scent of Elain and Lucien's mating bond.

Nesta understands this. She sees right through him:

They have a quiet, unspoken understanding between them. "His secret to tell, never hers."

This scene is really important because it really shows the difference between Azriel's relationship with Nesta and his relationship with Rhys and the IC.

Rhys cannot mind his own fucking business. He sees Az and Elain look at each other for more than a minute and he goes into feral dad mode™

With Nesta however, she is completely aware of something going on between Azriel and Elain and she chooses to let him know she understands and let them figure it out on their own. I really hope to see this quiet companionship between them grow. And with Rhys basically forbidding Az from seeing Elain, he would have to seek Nesta out if he wanted to see how Elain is. (Since you know this lovesick puppy isn't just going to give up on Elain that easily).

So yeah, they understand they both have things troubling them, but they don't force each other to talk about it. They respect each other.

Azriel also understands Nesta:

Towards the beginning of acosf, Nesta refuses to train at the Illyrian camp. Azriel understands this.

"Like he saw everything in her head. Her bruised heart." - That's because he does. Azriel despises the Illyrian camp. He understands that she doesn't want to train in that miserable village.

I could go on and on about these two. There are many more examples of their friendship throughout the series, but tumblr doesn't let you add many pictures and I wanted to have space to show my favorite Nesta x Azriel brotp moments.

Nesta and Azriel sharing the same sense of humor (teasing Cassian):

Azriel's laughter is my favorite. I love this bat boy with my whole heart.

And my FAVORITE SCENE:

Seriously, this scene is NOT talked about enough. I will bring it up in every conversation.

Nesta and Azriel hugged!

Nesta and Azriel hugged!

Nesta and Azriel hugged!!!

Az and Nesta are besties and you cant convince me otherwise.

Let me remind you: Azriel isn't a hugger. When have you ever seen him hug anyone else? Hell, he didn't even hug Feyre or Rhys when they found out she was pregnant. He kissed her forehead and that's it. But he full on hugged Nesta. I know I'm overreacting but just shut up and let me have this, okay? I have waited so long for a Nesta x Azriel brotp.

And he blushed. Okay I'm officially melting. I love them so fucking much.

Let me curl into a ball and hold these two close to my heart.

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I really want a secret moment like this for elriel where they dance in the woods or her garden. It would be simply perfection.

Doesn’t it say in acosf that azriel is really good at waltzing?

They are so sleeping beauty coded already.

#elriel #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #azriel x elain #elain x azriel #azriel #elain archeron #azriel shadowsinger #azriel spymaster #acowar #acosf #acomaf #sjm #sarah j maas

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Sjm so thoroughly abandoned elucien after acomaf

The True timeline some shippers are using as “proof” Elucien is endgame.

(I cannot take credit for figuring out all of this. A friend posted it and wished to remain anonymous but gave me permission to post it)

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How the hell do you choose???? Lol

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In Elain Archeron sort of mood

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The way azriel views her 🥰 He is so in love with her

“and there she was”

there’s something about the way that Azriel—who’d been locked away and deprived of sunlight as a boy—thinks of Elain as the glowing sun at dawn that just drives me insane idk

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"Bonus chapter ended Elriel!"

But here's the thing - it didn't have to.

If SJM had a change of heart during writing ACOSF or even before and decided that Gwyn and Az will be the final couple, she could have easily simply ignored writing anything about Azriel's feelings towards Elain. She could have not written about stolen glances - she could have written a scene where they have a conversation without any subtext, just a friendly encounter so the readers would get a clear sign - they are just friends, they are not interested in each other in any way. She could have switched the narrative - making Az behave towards any other character the way he behaves with Elain and making Elain not care, not look at him, not practically dying for him to kiss her.

But she did not.

Instead she wrote paragraphs saying Azriel cannot stand the smell of the mating bond between Elain and Lucien (which is alarming on its own, given the fact that he should not be able to smell it in the first place), that this man spent the last year almost sleepless because he keeps thinking about that girl and the gift she picked for him. She wrote Azriel questioning the Cauldron itself and Elain willing to risk it all even tho her mate was sleeping upstairs. SJM said directly with all of these "look, those two WANT each other, those scenes in previous books DID indicate that there is a mutual wanting between them".

Place yourself as an author for a second - would you really spend three books placing hints and scenes foreshadowing a couple only to "end" them in the bonus chapter, which most of the readers won't even know exist? Would you, knowing that you plan for other couples to be an endgame, wrote about things that literally point that those two characters are so into each other they don't give a single fuck about bonds and religion? Would you write another male guessing something only a mate should be able to guess, the same male being the only one noticing the woman is missing and going on a suicidal mission to get her back? Would you write "you came for me"? Would you write a full scene of this woman emerging from the shadows (the literal power of said male), using the blade he let touching only her? Would you write her buying gifts for him but not for any other man?

And finally, if you plan to make those two end up with different characters anyway, would you really write them like that? Az being the person pining for someone for 500 years and being the one knowing for ignoring orders, only to slowly develop feelings towards someone else who wants him back, would suddenly forget about it and move to a new girl in a heartbeat just because somebody said so? Elain being the person who stated blankly "I don't want him" indicating to her mate, being someone who shall wed for love, suddenly deciding "yes, you know what, I don't want this man who showed me nothing but kindness and who was the only one who actually saw and listened, who saved my life and then gave me a weapon to defend myself, I'm gonna be with my mate now, even tho I'm shrinking with discomfort whenever I'm near him". Even if it fits your fantasies, it does not fit the way characters were written. And at the end of the day, it's not the fantasies that matter. It's what has been written and given us to read and see ourselves.