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hanelizabeth · 15 hours

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jude duarte and cardan greenbriar 🥀

(not shadowhunter related but i’m currently rereading the folk of the air and have just been dying to draw these two!)

characters by @/hollyblack 🫶

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viivdle · 2 days

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i should be queen of everything after this

#cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #jurdan #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the folk of the air #tfota #tfota memes #the stolen heir #the prisoner's throne #the prisoners throne #oakwren #oak greenbriar #wren tfota #holly black #holly blacj #the court of shadows #<3

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starrynightsxo · 2 days

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"I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. 'And you.' He looks at me, his lips curving in something that's not quite a smile; it's more and less than that. 'I knew little else, but I always knew you.'"

- Cardan Greenbriar, The Queen of Nothing

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teddyhoneybear · 2 days

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Am I the only one that pictures Roach from The Cruel Prince as an actual roach? I know he's not, but I can't change the image in my head lmao.😭

I'm laughing so hard, this is exatly what pops in my head when he appears on page.

#my inner child is taking over it seems #this is the influence of all the animated movies I've seen #it's just so silly #me and my stupid brain smh #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the folk of the air #tfota series

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xoverworkedandunderpaidx · 2 days

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Madoc to Jude, probably;

#tfota #the folk of the air #madoc #Jude Duarte #the cruel Prince #the wicked king #the Queen of nothing

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deceitfulapple-eatingscoundrel · 1 day

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michi.illustrations.

#Holly Black #The Folk of the Air #TFOTA #The Cruel Prince #TCP #The Wicked King #TWK #The Queen of Nothing #TQON #Cardan Greenbriar #Jude Duarte #Jurdan

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darling-aries · 1 day

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Who's afraid of little old me?

You should be.

#probably jude at some point #jude x cardan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #ttpd #ttpd the anthology #taylor swift #taylorlurking #taylorswift

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avelanlorelay · 11 hours

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About Cardan and his mother

I was re-reading the comments on my fic Deniere Danse and most of them are against Lady Asha, which may be proof that she's just as hated by the fandom in the "parents" category as Madoc and Balekin (Or maybe it's bc of the plot I've created, sorry). So one unanimous question is: why does Cardan still allow her to stay in the brugh?

My pov: From Twk to Tpt we can see that Cardan is not as insensitive as he makes himself out to be, on the contrary, he has a lot of love to give (😭) (a side of him that probably only Nicasia had access to🙄). He's admitted to still liking his mother a little and if we look closely, that despite having a strong personality, Cardan is no longer a hateful person. After losing his entire family, he wouldn't throw out his mother, the second only person left of his blood, for bad things in the past. In Tpt we see how he's very happy with Jude and probably, thinks about the future instead of holding grudges about things from the past.

Okay, Cardan isn't the boy with the heart of stone, but why would he still like Lady Asha? Why didn't he lock her back up in the tower of oblivion like he did with Balekin? First of all it's obvious, she never committed any crime. But although the books say very little about their relationship (a shame because I've always been curious about it), I think there are some clues:

In the prologue to Tqn we see the discovery of Cardan's curse. It's said that Lady Asha doesn't seem to know how to hold a baby, but she hugs he when Eldred seems to be considering parting with the child and holds he tighter when she leaves. Perhaps she was just afraid of not having privileges, but it's the only gesture of affection we see from her.

Still in Tqn, Oriana tells Jude about Cardan's childhood:

"It wasn't as though she didn't dress him in velvets or furs; it's that she left them on until they grew ragged. Nor was it that she didn't feed him the most delectable cuts of meat and cake...."

Now, in Htkoelths, when he meets Aslog in the stables, despite being there because of her (bitch) Cardan thinks that if he called his mother she would beat Aslog up and throw her out. I found this passage strange bc Lady Asha is described as delicate and thin, yet Cardan knows that she would protect him from a much bigger and stronger woman. If he's so sure of this, has Lady Asha defended him before?

And finally, just a guess: when he travels to the mortal world in Tcp's time to save Balekin's mortal slave, Cardan travels on a giant moth owned by Lady Asha. It's said that the creature was personally tamed by her and he still remembers how, so he was probably there when it happened. Which means that perhaps Lady didn't leave him completely abandoned, there were moments that the two of them spent together, when she dressed him, fed him and perhaps took him for walks and played with him.

What does my monologue mean? That if we compare, Cardan seems to have more feelings for Lady Asha than for Eldred, because despite so many bad ones, he has good memories with her too. It's not just a blood bond.

It's sad and unfair, but Cardan has a much more forgiving heart than it seems.

There's probably something else too: guilt. If I'm not mistaken, in Twk's deleted scenes, when Lady Asha meets him to talk about Jude, it's said that Cardan didn't free her because he didn't think he had the power to, after all, Jude was the real High King.

Now, if we stop to think about it, Lady Asha had never committed a crime, (if we don't consider her to be the worst mother in the world), yet she probably spent about ten years trapped in the tower of oblivion, starving and cold, completely alone. Not even Balekin or Madoc suffered so much. Can we feel sorry for her for that? Idk, if you're a good person and can even like Madoc, that's fine, but I think it's well deserved. But not from Cardan's point of view, not least bc from his perspective it was his fault. Now, as High King, the best thing he can do to be fair is to reward her for all that time of suffering. So it's understandable that he lets her live in the palace and have everything she ever wanted.

Jude pov: I think that since she would like her mother to be alive and by her side and Cardan has that opportunity (which I would frankly pass up), she would never take it away from him, even for revenge. And like him, she's too happy to worry about the past and people who aren't worth it.

#cardan greenbriar #jurdan #tfota #jude duarte #holly black #the cruel prince #the folk of the air #tqon #twk #jude x cardan #Tcp #the queen of nothing #the wicked king #Jude #judecardan #Lady as #lady asha

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florsdelluna · 26 days

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Golden hour ✨🧡🍂🧚 #jurdan

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lyyzismess · 2 months

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HAPPY BELATED VALENTINE’S DAY

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rosiethorns88 · 7 months

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Dropping a very special Sketch-a-wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for August! The winning request was to illustrate an off-page scene from The Folk of the Air series, when Cardan was writing his letters to Jude. I countered that Cardan went through the five stages of grief writing those letters, and each deserved it's own illustration. (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance) You'll also notice some familiar outfits throughout! Have a great weekend. :)

#tfota #cardan greenbriar #jude x cardan #jurdan #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the folk of the air #cardan #my art

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roslynn777 · 2 months

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cardan and jude ♔

idk if i like this but whatever

this will also be available to buy on my inprnt so stay tuned 🫶🏻

(based on dolce&gabbana 2006 fall/winter collection cover by Steven Meisel)

characters by Holly Black

#queen of nothing #the cruel prince #the folk of the air #the wicked king #cardan #cardan greenbriar #fan art #jude duarte #prince cardan #tfota #tcp #twk #qon #jurdan

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viivdle · 3 days

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jude "who's afraid of little old me?" this, jude "who's afraid of little old me?" that. what about WREN.

and i will manage to convince you with simply one image.

CIRCUS LIFE = THE CITADEL

TEETH ARE LITERALLY HER. THING.

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starrynightsxo · 3 days

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"'What was it like?' I ask. 'Being a serpent.' He hesitates. 'It was like being trapped in the dark,' he says. 'I was alone, and my instinct was to lash out. I was perhaps not entirely an animal, but neither was I myself. I could not reason. There was only feelings- hatred and terror and the desire to destroy.'"

- Cardan Greenbriar, The Queen of Nothing

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slightlyrebelliouswriter23 · 9 months

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Jude: *falls from ceiling*

all of Elfhame: clap her in chains!

Cardan:

#tfota #jurdan #holly black #the folk of the air #jurdannet #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #queen of nothing #judecardan #tcp #twk #tqon #qon

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chaiichait · 3 months

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You know that trope of a very hardened strict mother-figure that is actually just an embarrassingly sweet mess in closed doors with the people she trusts? Yeah

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