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#Elain is a Swiftie and Taylor is an Elain stan
acourtofthought · 1 year
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I don’t mean to gatekeep but I feel like this is a safe space. Not sure if you listen to T Swift, but as a Swiftie and Elucien Stan, I saw this post using the lyrics to her song Daylight for E/riel and I gasped and laughed. You should listen to it!
They used the line “I once believed love would be black and white, but it’s golden” I was like wha? Listen, that song is basically MADE for Elucien with lines like “been sleeping so long in a twenty year dark night but now I see daylight” and “it’s golden, like daylight, you gotta step into the daylight and let it go.” If I were an E/riel Stan I’d cringe so hard about using that song. Sigh. It was just very strange. How do you take E/riel and use it with that song that is very much about how she’s been in the dark for so long but finally she’s stepping out into daylight, and realizing that love is golden and bright?
Anyway, let them be I guess, I’m done now, looking forward to your posts, they’re just the best! 🥰
Thank you so much for your comment at the end! 😍 You know what is odd? I think Taylor Swift is soooo talented but for some reason, I don't really listen to her all that much. The same with Harry Styles. I'll hear one of their songs played on the radio and think how good it is but don't actually go through the effort of downloading it or listening for other songs of theirs I might like. But now I'm definitely going to have to check out Daylight. And I am loving how people are drawing connections from her recent album to Feysand or Elucien, it seems to speak to a lot of fans. I went and pulled up the lyrics and I can see a line in the intro that might have made them think "Az!"
My love was as cruel as the cities I lived in Everyone looked worse in the light There are so many lines that I've crossed unforgiven I'll tell you the truth, but never goodbye Az himself thinks he's done things that are unforgiveable so maybe that's why they first connected him to this song. But "I'll tell you the truth" is definitely not Az. He's not honest with anyone at this point. Not Mor, Rhys, himself, his other friends. He refuses to talk to anyone about the deep important stuff he's struggling with. I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you I've been sleeping so long in a 20-year dark night And now I see daylight, I only see daylight Definitely not an Az line. It's canon that even while he supposedly wants Elain, he still looks at Mor with longing. Not as often as before but he still does on occasion (few and far between is not none). This is 100% an Elucien line. When Lucien finally sees Elain for the (real) first time, he can't breathe when looking at her. Even before he made it to Spring, he told Feyre he was a Mated male and not interested in other females. Elain was depressed in the NC after being made, Lucien was being loyal to her and Az was still looking at Mor with hunger and longing. And "sleeping so long in a dark night"? Elain is in the NC and Feyre notes the gates to her mind are sleeping buds. Luck of the draw only draws the unlucky And so I became the butt of the joke I wounded the good and I trusted the wicked Clearing the air, I breathed in the smoke Maybe you ran with the wolves and refused to settle down Maybe I've stormed out of every single room in this town Threw out our cloaks and our daggers because it's morning now It's brighter now, now This one I don't get for any of them really. Except Az is sort of the wicked which means Elain "trusting the wicked" would be an Anti E/riel line. And Az doesn't suddenly become "brighter" in the day. He is the shadows and likes the shadows. He's always a bit dark. There's no point in trying to take that part of Az away from him just as there would be no point in trying to make Rhys a soft fluffy boy just because he's with Feyre. Rhys will always be a little dark and a little cold and a little calculating regardless of having found his Mate. And I can still see it all (In my mind) All of you, all of me (Intertwined) I once believed love would be (Black and white) But it's golden (Golden) And I can still see it all (In my head) Back and forth from New York (Sneaking in your bed) I once believed love would be (Burning red) But it's golden Like daylight, like daylight Like daylight, daylight Yeah, you can't get more Elucien than this. Elain is light, needs Sunshine, Lucien is Helion's son, Sun personified, Golden Spikes, radiating an inner light, he is "goodness", and sun glinting off the golden of his eye, setting his hair aglow, etc. Yes all the POC characters are described as having golden skin but that's not the same thing as what SJM is telling us about Lucien. I wanna be defined by the things that I love Not the things I hate Not the things that I'm afraid of, I'm afraid of Not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night I, I just think that You are what you love How can they think this line has anything to do with Az? Az literally thrives on revenge. His entire persona is defined by the things he hates. Lucien and Elain are two characters who have so many reasons to want revenge against others yet they are extremely optimistic and prefer to not dwell on things like revenge. I'm sorry but I'll never understand why they are trying to turn Az into Lucien. If you start to realize that Elain matches best with a specific type of character then don't try to force the Male who is so opposite of that into a completely different person just to continue believing in your ship.
SJM did not make E/riel Mates for a reason.
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