okay so i think i found the perfect vaulghoul song
are we brutal hearts?
are you the brutal heart that I've been lookin' for?
'cause if you're lookin' for love
you can look for that door
hearts, hearts that break the night in two
and arms that can’t hold you, that's true
i mean, it’s a song about wanting to be with someone but knowing that you can’t, mixing genres of modern dance and old school western.
not to mention the vibes of the singers… a girl with a soft, glossy voice starts the song and then this cowboy starts singing so mournfully with her about not being able to love her properly… it’s vaultghoul.
ghoulcy/vaultghoul headcanon that once they start dating, cooper isn't actually as intensely possessive as lucy thought he would be. no lassos, no leash. he doesn't even joke about it anymore.
the truth is, cooper already sees himself as a monster. he knows he acted like a monster towards her at first. it doesn't matter that lucy has long forgiven him; he's not gonna push it, not when she's the best damn thing he's held in centuries.
lucy's far too gentle to be with someone who behaves rough with her, far too sweet to be with someone who doesn't give her any of her own sweetness back.
she's too much of a survivor-- his little killer-- to be degraded by being referred to like a possession, like he owns her. he pushes the urge down.
until.
until they're in bed and he can't help the words that come out: "ain't no one else ever gonna touch you like this", "yer mine, have been ever since i first put that lasso 'round your neck", "why don't you scream my name so everyone 'round here knows exactly who you belong to?"
It’s fitting that they should be the first pair I draw from this book series. For as much as I love Violet and Xaden’s love, Violet and Liam’s friendship was the one that unexpectedly DESTROYED me.
just finished the fourth wing and like... obviously it's amazing, but i feel very confused because i didn't actually like xaden that much?? like he's okay, i just feel like violet can do better.