'To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen's hospitality. The hospitality of knives.’
all hail the high king & queen of elfhame 🧚
characters by @/hollyblack
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I was thinking about Jude and Cardan’s marriage. Cardan came up with this plan bc he wanted his will back, which was perfectly valid and fair, but when you think things through, other than having a brand new wife that he loved a lot, this union didn’t benefit him in anything else. Marriage between them only binds him and she was the daughter of a two time traitor, murderer of an ambassador/prince/his fucking brother and mortal. She wasn’t the best candidate for a queen. He really was willing to give her a fancy title, a crown and all the power she wanted and settle for whatever crumbs of affection she might give him in return.
On the other hand, at that point in their relationship, I think that Jude accepted the marriage proposal bc 1) she secretly loved Cardan and thought that this new station in life and relationship status would make it safe to love him openly and was hopeful that he might love her back 2) she really wanted to be queen and have absolute power 3) she did not want to be so scared anymore. In that order. Jude spent the exile angry and cursing and planning Cardan’s demise but she never took off her wedding ring. Girly was feeling absolutely hurt and heartbroken and betrayed and foolish and I’m pretty damn sure she was suffering a lot more about supposedly being dumped by her new hubby than for being the queen in exile.
Anyways, young love is crazy am I right.
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Cardan: I don’t want to exile Jude
Cardan: but the parasites in me want to exile Jude 👹👹
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so im reading the queen of nothing and tell me why i wanna fuck madoc😕 like i genuinely don’t care, i just wanna do him.
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"my father is the worst man alive and i am his favorite daughter" but it's vivi and madoc
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Trying on wedding dresses with @winterqueensuren <3
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Rereading The Cruel Prince:
Me: Oh no, I'm going to hate Cardan again 😡😡
Also me, in chapter 4: Who is that bitch, Cardan? 🤨🤨🤨
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So… I LOVE JUDE ! Very quiet literally ! Cause she not only was the main character of her books but she was also the main character of her brothers books, which ultimately makes her THE MAIN CHARACTER!
Also can we appreciate the balance oak was between Cardan and Locke ? Despite majority my literal being despising Locke with all my wit I cannot help but notice how oak’s thoughts are all like that of Cardans’ but majority of his actions at least till the whole of stolen heir and more than half of the prisoner’s throne were that of Lockes’. Though at the end he did a lot of actions like that resembling Cardan or even Dain. But no one can deny that oak is the perfect mixture of Locke and Cardan !
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it’s bound to be a fun time with the queen and the bomb 🃏
characters by @/hollyblack 🫶
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cardan: two best friends in a room, will they-
jude: there's no-one else in here cardan
cardan: well, would you look at that?
jude: cute, but did you forget one thing?
cardan: *smirking* and what would that be?
jude: *stands up to leave* we're not friends.
*cue searing kiss*
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currently rereading queen of nothing and holy shit the prophecy by taylor swift is literally jude about cardan like….
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Jurdan sketch from my sketchbook \
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Leander: tell me about my father
Cardan: he was the biggest loser in history
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