How Elain looks at Lucien :
“Her brown eyes were wary. Usually, that look was reserved for Lucien. The male was definitely in the family room.”
How Elain looks at Azriel :
“She looked up at him, her face so trusting and hopeful and open that he knew she had no idea that he had done unspeakable things that sullied his hands far beyond their scars.”
The difference and besides, isn’t the antonym of wary actually trusting? Interesting.
I’m gonna be straight up with y’all I couldn’t give less of a shit about what happens to Lucien. I’m a very outspoken hater of his, this is true, but fr his story, life, romance with vassa, etc are so unappealing to me and i can’t even fake like i care
the way people hype that man up yet he hasn’t done a single interesting thing in the entire series.. but fandoms will always prop up the mediocre men in the series while dragging the women through mud 😐
Lorcan Lochan 🤝 Azriel Archeron
Azriel’s shadows disappearing is GOOD. Because he doesn’t feel the need be PROTECTED. He feels SAFE. He feels COMFORTABLE. The shadows are a DEFENSE MECHANISM. If they disappear that means he is PRESENT IN THE MOMENT WITH NO ANXIETY. He doesn’t have to be the shadowsinger, he can just be Azriel.
@azrielappreciationweek // Alter Ego 🎸
Ever since that bonus chapter, I can’t not imagine Azriel as the perfect tortured emo frontman, brooding in the shadows, probably jamming at 3 a.m. when he can’t sleep... because his girl isn’t in his arms.
The quiet intensity, the longing, the rage turned melody, he is the alter ego energy personified.
Thank you to @kkvaksha for absolutely nailing this version of Az, moody, magnetic, and just a little bit dangerous. 🖤🔥
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Azriel scooped up Elain, looping her bound arms around his neck.
The gray light of morning had broken over the world, mist clinging to our ankles as we headed into that camp, Azriel still cradling Elain to his chest.
Thirty minutes later, Azriel carried Elain down, my sister silent and unresponsive in his arms.
Azriel arrived first, no shadows to be seen, my sister a pale, golden mass in his arms.
He set her down gently on the foyer carpet, having carried her in through the front door.
Sometimes, I don't know if people are willfully obtuse, dumb, willfully obtuse AND dumb, or just generally don't understand what they are reading, or maybe reading with their eyes closed?
Because a renewed argument is that 'Elain and Mor are too similar' (wut?) and Azriel acts the same with both of them, and in the same breath, the way he acts with Elain is nothing special, and in the same breath he is just substituting Mor with Elain, and then in the same breath he cares for Elain almost 'under duress'? Like he is forced to care about her? (wut?). I dunno, none of it makes sense.
But, if we are going to compare Elain, Mor and Gwyn, then...hmmm, isn't Gwyn a lot more similar to Mor in many ways? Both are spunky, loud, and yearning for independence. Both act like girlbosses, but both are firmly attached to their circumstances and are unable to leave them (Mor the IC/Hewn City, Gwyn the Library), both were brutalized in similar ways, both have strange powers that we don't know much about, both became warriors, both claim to be 'girls' girls', both 'banter', both have latched on to a powerful Archeron sister.
Elain is very nominally similar to Mor, but her essence is absolutely her own. She isn't a girlboss, she isn't a warrior, she isn't loud, she is quiet and observant, but has a steely determination in her.
But going back to Mor and Elain comparisons. What our esteemed antis don't seem to realize is this: yes, Azriel is attracted to both of them, however, SJM specifically emphasized, over, and over and over again, how he acts differently with Elain.
Even in many instances where Elain is literally standing next to Mor.
Others observe his unusual behavior and speak to it.
"I've never seen..." "i've never heard..." "He's never..."
He never laughed so joyously. He never gave Truth Teller to anyone before, he didn't even allow them to touch it. He never argued with Rhys over Mor. He never questioned the Cauldron before. He never chose not to spy on someone because it would invade someone's privacy.
Let's look closer: It took Mor something like 300 years to convince him to go to Rita's with her. He stayed with Elain in the wee hours of the morning to listen to her gardening ideas.
He discarded Mor's gifts, rolling his eyes at her daggers and her embroidered towels, but he keeps Elain's gift on his nightstand to looks at it nightly.
Elain, untrained, inexperienced, wide-eyed, terrified is standing right next to Mor, a mighty warrior with hundreds of years of experience. Azriel veers off to Elain and offers her Truth Teller. Not only that, he takes her hand and wraps it around the hilt of the dagger. Nothing for Mor.
Rhys only ASSUMES that Azriel ponders why he isn't mated to Mor--Azriel himself never said so, never voiced any laments out loud about him and Mor. When it comes to Elain, he immediately argues with Rhys and questions the lack of bond WITH ELAIN specifically.
Azriel spies on Amren, Rhys's Second, and at one point, when she and Rhys were arguing, he literally pulled TT and was ready to attack her. Yet because he doesn't want to invade Elain's privacy, he doesn't spy on Lucien.
When he went to retrieve Mor from Autumn, the stakes were fairly low. He found her, grabbed her and brought her back to Night Court.
When he went after Elain, he risked the fate of all of Prythian. 'I am getting her back' (unlike Cassian's 'we'll get her back') meant that if he perished, his Court, his army, Prythian's force would've lost one of its two greatest warriors. They likely would've lost the war.
Lastly, we've been inside his head. Not one thought about Mor. ALL thoughts about Elain. And Elain only.
Yes, Azriel has a type. Beautiful, brown-eyed women with curves.
But the way he loves Elain is nothing like his teenage infatuation with Mor.
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Its my birthday 🥳 lol so i wanted to post some art of my fav ship
Heres a modern elriel AU
I thought Elain and Azriel would look super cute in this pose and was dying to draw elain in this outfit.
Bonus points that I don’t need to draw Azriels wings 😂
Close ups ⬇️
The other side should get used to seeing Elain next to Azriel because that’s who ACOTAR 6 is going to be about. And no amount of crying or whining in the comments is going to change the fact they are endgame.
Maybe they should take that post as a wake up call. Because compared to the thousand or so likes only 30-40 people had an issue with the dust jackets (majority being GAs). That means the majority of people liked the product and had no issue with the subject matter.
Which goes to show that casual readers either 1)don’t care about ships (which is probably the case for most) and/or 2) acknowledge Elriel has enough moments in ACOFAS to warrant being on a dust jacket.
So if you really think about it the majority of casual readers (if not all) probably won’t have a problem with Elriel being canon. Yes, that vocal minority will probably always be there but hopefully once Elriel is confirmed their opinions will be drowned out by people who enjoy the series as it is.
They’re mad the last two characters who are tied to both Feyre and Rhys in a significant way and who have been eluded to being endgame for almost a decade are on the dust cover of a special edition set of licensed art 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 on a book that heavily featured their relationship no less, lmfao I can’t 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
“It’s weird to include Elain and Azriel in the ACOFAS edition especially if the next book isn’t about them”
They act as if SJM hadn’t commissioned an Elriel art herself for her coloring book and hadn’t placed Elain opposite Azriel and Nesta opposite Cassian with the same design in the ACOFAS special edition.
And it’s not weird.
“why would they have these two characters, who have more scenes together in this book than most of the other characters, be on the cover of the book??”
like we are not a serious people atp
Everything that Azriel has felt about Elain he's also felt about Mor as well: Thinks she's beautiful, wants to fuck her, would die for her (to be fair, Azriel would also die for Feyre, Cassian, Rhys, Nyx, Nesta, and the list goes on and on).
You know what's new that Azriel has never felt for any other woman? What he feels for Gwyn.
"Something sparked in Azriel's chest, but he only nodded his thanks and left. He could picture it, though, as he ascended the stairs back to the House proper. How Gwyn's teal eyes might light upon seeing the necklace. For whatever reason....he could see it."
"But Azriel tucked away the thought, consciously erasing the slight smile it brought to his face. Buried the image down deep, where it glowed quietly. A thing of secret, lovely beauty."
Only ONE woman has made Azriel feel a spark in his chest.
Excerpt from Azriel's Bonus Chapter in A Court of Silver Flames.
Written by S.J.M.
You literally don’t know that 😂 we got his pov for all of like 12 pages in a bonus chapter
“Wants to fuck her.”
We got his bonus chapter (aka the only time we had his POV) and he didn’t want that.
“Would die for” all these people, and you can’t even include Gwyn because you know it yourself: it’s not true. He wouldn’t die for everyone, and especially not for Gwyn, since he didn’t care that she was kidnapped. Which is weird, because one of the first mate behavior is being protective of, even if the bond hasn’t snapped yet.
“Thinks she’s beautiful” again, he never said that the one time we got his POV. You’re making things up.
That’s why these people will stay delulu forever. They keep clinging to that bonus chapter without realizing it’s a red herring.
Anyway. Elain is the only one he gave Truth-Teller to (not Gwyn, not Mor).
Elain took just a few weeks to make him do something that doesn’t involve working or training, when it took Mor 500 years. And not gwyn.
Elain is the one who made him laugh in a way Feyre had never seen before not Mor or gwyn.
He keeps Elain’s gift on his nightstand for a year not Mor’s.
Elain is the one who made him forget Mor, not Gwyn or anyone else.
Azriel moved out and stopped going to family dinners because of Elain something he never did for Mor. That shows the difference between his feelings for Mor and Elain since he was able to see Mor for years without avoiding family dinners or moving into another house. What he feels for Elain is strong.
Elain is the one who made Azriel dare to tell Rhys she might be his mate and questioned the Cauldron— not Mor. And yet Rhys thought Azriel was wondering if Mor was his mate (Rhys was wrong).
And the list goes on. So many things that Elain made him do that are special and unusual, and not Mor or Gwyn. But of course, y’all don’t care about that.
Btw, there’s actually a reason why Azriel doesn’t think about Mor in his bonus chapter. Once we’re inside his thoughts. Because the male protagonist doesn’t think about having sex with another woman once we’re in his pov and after he has met his LI (especially when it’s his mate). He doesn’t want to be on his knees for anyone other than the female protagonist.