#tcp

[hanelizabeth]

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 🫶

#holly black #faerie #fae folk #unseelie #seelie #artists on tumblr #digital artist #illustration #cartoon #drawing #illustrator #artwork #digital art #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #jude x cardan #prince cardan #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #folk of the air #tcp #twk #tqon #fota #jurdan #fantasy #fanart

[sydneymack]

Jude and Cardan - The Cruel Prince

Artist: @frostbite.studios

#jurdan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #tcp #the cruel prince #tfota #holly black

[highladyofterrasen7]

Vivi: you guys, faerie is awful, faeries are awful, we don’t need faeries

Taryn: *marries a faerie*

Jude: *marries a faerie*

Vivi with her human girlfriend:

#idiots*** #the cruel prince #tcp #the folk of the air #tfota #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #taryn duarte #jurdan #vivi duarte #vivienne duarte

[evelyn376259]

"Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home"

"I look into his black eyes, hoping to see recognition there, but they are cold and empty"

"And with his bare hands, he cracked the Blood Crown in two"

"I poisoned you. Don't worry. It was a small enough dose. You'll live"

"I change the angle of the knife, turning it against his neck. He doesn't look nearly as alarmed by that as I might expect. Not nearly as alarmed as I bring my mouth to his"

"Time to change partners. Oh, did I steal your line?"

#tfota series #tfota #the queen of nothing #tqon #the wicked king #the cruel prince #tcp #jude and cardan #jude x cardan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #high king cardan #prince cardan #jurdan #aesthetic

[avelanlorelay]

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

[deceitfulapple-eatingscoundrel]

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

[maingh0st]

@belabellissima's tags on this post deserve a post of their own, i—

#muffled screaming YOU GET IT #i think the ghost watched jude pull the riskiest gambles and repeatedly come out on top— #bloodied but with what she wanted—and was like. oh shit. she's not just a spoiled gentry kid #so taryn shows up and it's like. hm. yikes. there might be two of them #i'm not sure i subscribe to the idea that he fell for her while she was married to locke #(i think his feelings toward locke had to be so ugly that taryn would've gotten wrapped up in that at least a bit) #but i do think he never underestimated her #and had he not been otherwise occupied. i think he immediately would've noticed her posing as jude #i know holly is trying to telegraph romantic interest at the end of qon with him watching her #but i read it more like “you're a potential bomb that could detonate at any moment; there's no way in hell i'm taking my eyes off you” #she knows his TRUE NAME #he owes her his life #but i think that level of suspicion and vigilance would very naturally become fascination and admiration #she's lovely and kind but crafty and underhanded all at the same time #she's just human enough to make him ache. but she's just fae enough to accept him #oops this got long #anyways bela LOVE your tags thank u for giving me thoughts to chew on #tfota #the folk of the air #taryn duarte #taryn x the ghost #tcp

[filmnoirsbian]

Fighting for my life trying to find a phone or tablet with a headphone jack. Fighting for my life trying to find a laptop with a cd rom. Fighting for my life trying to get more than one usb port or, god forbid, an hdmi. Fighting for my life trying to find any electronics that haven't been streamlined into flimsy chastity belts with the structural integrity of a sopping sheet of paper which require me to buy 3 extra devices (each with their own separate charging requirements) all because some silicon valley jackass somewhere decided holes were a bad thing.

#tcp

[roslynn777]

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

[baaozher]

hi tumblr!!! some jurdan to start the weekend before finals :,)

#jurdan #jude and cardan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #jude x cardan #the cruel prince #tcp #tcp fanart #the cruel prince fanart #folk of the air #holly black #book fanart #booklover #illustration

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

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

[lyyzismess]

the king and the queen

#artists on tumblr #digital art #digital drawing #digital illustration #digitalartwork #jude x cardan #tfota #the cruel prince #the queen of nothing #the wicked king #jude duarte #cardan x jude #jurdan #cardan greenbriar #prince cardan #cardan fanart #enemies to lovers #tcp #tqon #digital painting #books & libraries #booklr #books #bookworm

[sydneymack]

Jude Duarte - The Cruel Prince

Artist: @smoustart

#jude duarte #tcp #the cruel prince #tfota #holly black

[highladyofterrasen7]

Cardan: I don’t want to exile Jude

Cardan: but the parasites in me want to exile Jude 👹👹

#the cruel prince #the folk of the air #tcp #tfota #tfota memes #incorrect tfota #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #jurdan #the wicked king #twk #tqon #jude x cardan

[deceitfulapple-eatingscoundrel]

All hail High Queen Jude!

“But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”

frostbite.studios.

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

[snufflescribbles]

i love you insane, unhinged female characters who fuck everything up. i love you female rage that ruins everything else. i love you evil women who don't give a shit.

#do revenge #maya hawke #cami mendes #do revenge netflix #teen movies #evil women #eleanor levetan #jude duarte #the cruel prince #judecardan #fang runin #tcp #tpw #the poppy war