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ekaterinakostrova · 6 years

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Nesta has been always fighting alone.

She was alone, when her mother left her, and she could not save her from the illness. When a certain person sees the suffering of a loved one and cannot save this person - you feel only emptiness and helplessness. Nesta saw the utter haze, when her mother died. That can be one of the reasons, why she can’t let Feyre and Cassian in. She cannot let them in, because she is afraid of losing people she loves.

In fact, Nesta does not think about herself. She always thinks about others! And she is not afraid to die on the battlefield, defending the rest of people from Hybern. That is why she suggested using herself as a bait for the king in the third book. She desperately tries to learn how to control the dark powers hidden within her, to restore the wall and protect the defenseless. However, when Hybern destroyed the wall with the Claudron, she realized that she had failed again, again proved to be useless. Did she see the glimpse of the death of her mother in those moments?

She was not afraid to come to meet with other High Lords, and passionately tried to prove her point of view, why they all need to unite in the face of common threat. However, she once again felt guilty and lost, when Beron left the meeting.

Feyre believes that Nesta does not like her. Does not love her at all. A strange statement for Feyre. Especially, when Nesta went into the dense forest, ready to risk her life to cross the wall and find her younger sister.

Cassian thinks that Nesta hates him, but it's not. Nesta does not want to become attached to him, because if she loses him, she will be finally destroyed. Nesta is almost physically hurt when Cassian releases her hand, greeting Mor. And this is the most deadly moment in their relationships.

In the third book, Cassian is torn between Mor and Nesta. However, when he realizes that Nesta is ready to die with him and for him, she becomes the most important one. When Mor in the novella gives Cassian a present, he does not take his eyes off Nesta, and does not accept the gift. He watches Nesta, watches for her reaction.

"But Mor waved him off and moved to pass Cassian his gift; but the warrior did not take it. Nesta as she undid the brown paper wrapped on the box and revealed a set of five novels in a leather box. "

If Mor told him what kind of gift to buy, then for Nesta - Cassian had been looking for a gift for months.

I still think that mate bond snapped for Nesta during the battle in the Summer Court against Hybern. Perhaps she saw battle scenes or felt Cassian's pain, both mental and physical.

"But Nesta was glancing between us all, her back still stiff, mouth a thin line.

"Where is he?"

"Who?" Rhys crooned.

"Cassian".

I did not think I'd ever hear his name from her lips. Cassian had always been him or that one. And Nesta had been ... pacing in the foyer.

As if she was worried. "

And what's the most interesting part, mate bond is the strongest link between two souls. And Nesta is torn between two feelings - she wants him to stay - she desires for warmth and love; and she wants this feeling to disappear, because she is afraid of losing Cassian so desperately.

"Twin instincts warred within her: to leave the faelight untouched and make him wait in the freezing dark, or to ignite that bowl and just get rid of his presence. Get rid of everything he was'.

Get rid of everything he was'.

Therefore, Nesta understands what he is for her.

At the same time, readers know that Nesta has dark gifts that she cannot control. She destroys the things that surround her - this can also be one of the reasons, why she is trying so desperately to step back from people she loves so much.

For Nesta Cassian is as significant as Elain.

'The king - he had done this. To Elain. To Cassian '.

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alectology-archive · 3 years

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your blog title is one of my fave lines from tma i love it sm

Distortion!Michael really does have his moments

#asks #justicefornesta #♡

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mhevarujta · 6 years

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#JusticeForNesta

I'M ENRAGED!

#anti acofas #anti feyre #acofas spoilers

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queenmanon · 6 years

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i dont??? understand magic??? in Acotar?? like, do they have stoves, ovens, frying pans??? how advanced are their methods of transportation?? do they all send letters? who delivers them, people? fuckin birds idk. aren't the street lamps magic or something? who does that?? the denizens of the court? #justicefornesta

i was with you until you got to #justicefornesta :/

#i hate nesta so much!!#i will say the way she’s treated in acofas is bad but i really can’t stand the archeron sisters

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swagbookmaster · 4 years

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god I just want nesta archeron to get the healing arc she deserves,, is that too much to ask ???

please

#nesta archeron #nessian #acotar #acomaf #acowar #nesta x cassian #justicefornesta #someone make this happen please

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ekaterinakostrova · 6 years

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So I have this theory that Nesta is actually bonded to Cassian and Koschei. Since she did take a something from the Cauldron that, that piece of her mates her to Koschei while her true self is bonded to Cassian. I think I’m liking it more towards a Harry Potter-esque where adopted a few of Voldemort’s qualities

Unfortunately, we still knownothing about Koschei and what role he plays in the ACOTAR’s universe exceptthe fact that he is the eldest brother of Stryga and the Bone Carver, so all ofthis is rather basic information. At the same time, we have some interestinglines in the books that can be used as a proof of possible connection, possiblerelationship between Nesta and Koschei. It was stated by the Bone Carver thatKoschei is the strongest one among all three siblings, and Prythian’sinhabitants think of him as the God of the Death - all three of them wereconsidered as “Gods of Death”.

Nesta has dark gifts. Not just one gift, but gifts. Ifeel so attached to her, because I consider her as the strongest character in awhole trilogy. She is trying to fight against destiny – she doesn’t want toaccept the death of her mother; the death of her father had a strong impact onher, readers can see what the death of loved people can do with a fragile andsensitive soul. She feels nothing. Nesta’s present state should not benecessarily connected with the Claudron, I believe that a person really canfeel nothing because of the death of the loved one. Therefore,Nesta has a posttraumatic stress disorder. And I do not think anyone could get through what shewent through. Nesta was in the war camp during the battles with Hybern, and itseems that she helped to treat wounded, brought fresh water, tried to bandage soldiers’wounds. The girl who tried to distance herself from the suffering of other peoplewas at the very center of cruelty - torn limbs, physical pain, death,bitterness, blood. No one likes war, but Nesta, who feels too deeply and seeseverything that others do not notice, I’m sure it was incredibly difficult forher to be in a war camp. And Nesta watched Cassian during the battle, but shelooked not only at him, but also at other soldiers who were dying. And Istrongly believe that she blames herself not only for the fact that her fatherdied trying to protect her, but also for the fact that she could not stop the Claudron’spower, she did not save the Illyrian’s soldiers who were killed by the Claudron.She could not prevent the destruction of the wall, which for many centuries hadbeen the only barrier that separated the immortal regiments from weak mortals.And there are still many high fae, who wants to enslave humans once again. WhenNesta met the mortal queens, she did not ask for her life, but for the lives ofthe people who were living in her village, in the Archeron’s mansion; she askedfor the lives of weak people before the High Lords, she was trying to convince thatpeople behind the wall were dying because of hunger. She asked Rhysand to tryto hide people with families during the battle with the Hybern, but Rhysandrefused, because there was no time, there was no place to hide so many peopleas if he really did not care.

By the way, this could be one of the reasons, whythere were so many servants in the Archeron’s mansion, not because they reallyneeded servants, or they did not need money, but most likely because Nestacould give money to other people from poor families, so that they could buywarm clothing, food. This could be one of the reasons, why Nesta so quicklyfurnished the house with paintings and expensive furniture, using the moneythat Tamlin left - she bought other things to give money to others. And Nestais well versed in human feelings, I think she understood that pity could offendother people, and when she gave money in exchange for utensils, for work otherdid in their mansion – by doing this she did not cause moral pain to others,and helped those, who needed this. Cassian correctly notes in the novella thatNeste has no other place to go - she has no home anymore. And I believe thatthe Hybern’s soldiers killed those, who were in the Archeron’s mansion thatnight, when soldiers came for the older sisters, perhaps, they even burned theirhouse. And she could feel guilty for the death of her servants because shehired those, who cooked, cleaned rooms and washed clothes.

Sadness, sorrow, grief, loneliness, empathy, love -all these feelings may cause the death.

The void had already tortured Nesta before. She had alreadyexperienced similar feelings of loss, when Elain reminds Cassian of what Hyberndid with him, when Archeron’s sisters were transformed into immortals.

“Nesta’s nostrils flared, but Elain peered upat Cassian, blinking twice. “He snapped your wings, broke your bones.”

I tried to shut out the soundof Cassian’s scream—the memory of the spraying blood.

Nesta stared at her plate”.

Nesta did not want him to feel any pain, she sharedhis physical pain, as if she felt this pain as her own. Nesta does not tellanyone about her gift. Cassian accuses her of stealth in the very beginning ofthe third book, saying that she does not want to talk about her gift.

“You won’t talk about your powers, so youcertainly aren’t going to be able to wield them. And you—”

“Shut your mouth,” shesnapped, every inch the conquering empress. “I told you to stay the hell awayfrom me, and if you—”

The reason of all of this is that she does not wanther gift to be associated with death. A person, who has such an acutesensitivity to words, who so sensitively feels other people’s emotions, gettingbadly burned by the feelings of other people - it is not surprising that Nestaopposes her new nature. No wonder she hates Feyre – because of her Nesta wastransformed into the creature that brings death. The death that took her mother.

And fear surge through every pore of her new andsevere nature, when she speaks about her power:

“Nesta didn’t look convinced. “Does she havepowers? Like mine.”

Firstly, the Bone Carver says that Nesta is the sameas his sister once was, he calls her Queen. He equates Nesta with himself, saysthat they are the same, they are equal.

“A rasping laugh as the Carver laid the shardof bone on the ground beside him. “How lovely she is—new as a fawn and yetancient as the sea. How she calls to you. Aqueen, as my sister once was. Terribleand proud; beautiful as a winter sunrise.”

The Bone Carver heard the song of her dark gifts,heard from the winds about Nesta.

“I think it’s death,” I saidquietly.

I held Rhys’s gaze, as if itwere again the tether that had kept me in this world. “I think the power isdeath—death made flesh. Or whatever power the Cauldron holds over such things.That’s why the Carver heard it—heardabout her.”

Secondly, we have such a terrific character as Vassa,who directly tells Nesta that in the future they will fight together.

“I do not have much time left—before I must return tothe lake. To him.”

To the death-lord who held her leash. “Who is he?” Ibreathed.

And if we are talking about Vassa and her curse, thenwe will certainly meet with Koschei. And if The Bone Carver says that Nestaresembles his sister, there is a possibility that Koschei would love to have abride, who is equal in strength to him.

And here is one interesting turn in the plot of thewhole story. What I really like about Russian fairy tales is that many womenare represented as warrior-queens and sometimes women in Russian fairy talessave their spouses and husbands. Koschei is the main villain in many Russianfairy tales, and always captivates the most beautiful women, turning intomythical creatures those, who refused to become his bride. He has many uniqueabilities - he turns into black ravens, and with his touch he turns all livingthings into gold and diamonds, his rich palaces are full of untold treasures,jewels. But he always acts like a villain. No arrows, no sword can kill him,but still he can be killed, but his death is hidden.

Koschei is a very powerful magician:

in the fairy tale “Ivan Sosnovich” he turnsinto a stone a whole kingdom;

in the fairy tale “Elena the Beautiful”turns Ivan Tsarevich into a nut;

in the fairy tale “The Princess-the Serpent”transforms the princess into a serpent;

in the fairy tale “The Frog Princess”punishes the princess, putting on her a frog skin.

And the very name of Koschei is translated as a ‘slave’or a ‘prisoner’; using his name as a verb, that would be translated as “to hurt”,therefore he is called as an avenger and as a pest or as a wrecker.

“The Death of Koschei the Deathless or Marya Morevna” isa well-known Russian fairy tale and Marya Morevna is described as a beautiful warrior-queen,that captivated Koschei with her beauty. Koschei always acts as a bridekidnapper. And Nesta can be regarded as a bride, if in the next book we wouldfinally find out that Nesta and Cassian are mates. But Marya Morevna was alsothe one, who could put Koschei in chains.

And there are a few more fairy tales “Vasilisa theBeautiful”, which is more like Russian version of ‘Snow White’; “The FrogTsarevna” or “The Enchanted Lake” (The Frog Princess, named Vasilisa the Wise,is a beautiful, intelligent, friendly, skilled girl who was forced to spend 3years in a frog’s skin for disobeying Koschei, she refused to become hisbride); “The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa”.

Viktor Vasnetsov, The Frog Tsarevna, 1918.

The Koschei’s true form is very repulsive, but since wehave Sarah J. Maas as an author, for some reason I imagine him as a handsome andstrong man - he is the eternal and immortal God of Death after all.

There are no hints that Koschei knows anything about Nesta’sexistence, except for the words that the Bone Carver said about the island.

“You have met my sister—my twin. The Weaver,as you now call her. I knew her as Stryga. She, and our older brother, Koschei. How they delighted in this world when we fellinto it. How those ancient Fae feared and worshipped them. Had I beenbraver, I might have bided my time—waited for their power to fade, for thatlong-ago Fae warrior to trick Stryga into diminishing her power and becomingconfined to the Middle. Koschei,too—confined and bound by his little lake on the continent. All beforePrythian, before the land was carved up and any High Lord was crowned.”

It seems that the Bone Carver is afraid of them, especiallyafraid of Koschei.

“They are death-gods, girl,” the Carver hissed. “You are immortal—orlong-lived enough to seem that way. But my siblings and I … We are different. And the two of them …Stronger. So much stronger than I ever was. My sister … she found a way toeat life itself. To stay young and beautiful forever thanks to the lives shesteals.”

“I have no desire to remind mysister and brother that I am alive and in the world. Contained and diminishedas they are, their influence remains … considerable.”

Therefore, The Carver used the prison as a shelterfrom his powerful siblings.

I do not know what will happen next, but for somereason I believe that this meeting between Koschei and Nesta is quite possible,and it would be like a dark and dangerous, tragic romance. I do not think thatNesta will choose Koschei, because in fairy tales he always appears as avillain, however Nesta is a person, who sees the depth of the soul of otherpeople. She can look within the soul of the most ancient and powerful God, whois attached to her.

Why the romance between them will be tragic? Usuallyvillains of such high level like Koschei offer the finest things that virtuousheroines never agree to accept (that stupid girls) and usuallyvillains uses thisperfect line like – ‘Let’s rule this world together like the King and the Queen’.I do not think Nesta will agree with this if it means enslavement or annihilation.I also think that the affection between them could be very passionate. Sometimes they say that affection is scarier than a sword.

Nesta is described as an incredibly beautiful woman. Helion,Eris, and even Hybern were interested in her. Only Cassian – “The Prince of Fools”pretends not to know her and keeps saying himself that he does not care. Buteither he begins to behave like a man and grow some balls, or Koschei will comewith very direct statements and plans about Nesta Archeron. For some reason itseems to me that Koschei is very straightforward in his intentions.

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ekaterinakostrova · 6 years

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How do you imagine Nesta's court, if she day ever has one? (could you describe their appearances and personalities?)

“The Storm is coming”…

It is interesting that Nesta is alwaysidentified and associated with the winter season. Even the Bone Carver saysthat she is beautiful as a winter sunrise, and the title of the novella byitself has such word as “frost”,which also symbolizes Nesta.

«Nesta paused justpast the low iron gate, her face coldand pale as moonlight.

Beautiful. Even withthe weight loss, she was as beautiful standingin the snow as she’d been the first time he’d laid eyes on her in herfather’s house.

And infinitely moredeadly. In so many ways».

Since she was described as the moonlight - sheis the moon and the death. And Nesta is the moonlight that Bryxix wishes as thepayment for the Feyre’s debt. Elain might be the sunshine.

Speaking about her own Court. I’m not quitesure, I picture in my mind that she will have her personal Council consistingof the War Lords. I also believe that she can get along with Devlon, because heis described as one of the fairest leaders in Illyria, the rest of the WarLords would have tough times with the Queen, but they will respect and fear her,because of her will and strength. Devlon was the only leader among the leadersof Illyria to allow women to study martial art, how to fight and how to defendthemselves. And according to Rhysand and Cassian, they went to a lot oftroubles to make it all real. Remnants of traditions and attitudes towardswomen among the older generation of Illyrians have not disappeared, evencenturies has not changed that.

Nevertheless, many young and old warriorswithin themselves do not support this system, especially young warriors. Afterall, women are their own wives, daughters, sisters, mothers. In Chapter 8 ofthe novella it is obvious that Emerie was a beloved daughter. With such a greatlove Emerie’s father created their small shop (the shop has glass doors, andeven to install it in Illyrian impenetrable forests and in the mountains - itseems incredibly expensive), and daughter continues to support the paternalaffair, even after his death, she is not going to say goodbye to his shop.

I still hold the view that Nesta will be the Queenof Illyria. The Illyrians are scattered throughout the mountains and thenorthern districts of the Night Court, and they have never had a single leader forwhom everyone (both women and men would follow unquestioningly, withouthesitation). Many men among the warriors have a hatred for their real leaders -Azriel, Cassian and Rhysand hate the ancient traditions of the Illyrians andthe position that women occupy in this barbarous society.

Therefore, I believe that the Nesta’s personalInner Circle will consist not only of women, but also of representatives ofnoble families - men who will follow her, admiring her courage, selflessness.Nesta has that rigidity of character that can break these cruel traditions. Andafter breaking the wheel – thousands follow her.

Nesta is not only clever and educated person,she is intelligent, well-read, cunning, but most importantly, she is incrediblyattractive as a woman. Therefore, I think that many men, even among the Illyrians,will have real feelings for her, if only because of her destructive beauty.Nesta was interested to Helion, Eris and … even King Hybern, because in thethird book during their battle, he confessed:

“And when her eyeswere lifted to the king again … “I am going to kill you,” she saidquietly.

“Really?”The king asked, lifting a brow. “BecauseI can think of far more interesting things to do with you.”

Her power blasted thetrees behind him to cinders. Blasted across the battlefield in the low arc,then landed right in the Hybern ranks. Taking out the hundreds before they knewwhat happened.

The king appeared onthe ruins behind him. “Magnificent,” he said. “Barely trained,brash, but magnificent.”

As for women, well… among her loyal alliesthere will be three women warriors (Mor and Cassian spoke about them in thesecond book, they have already begun their training). In addition, it may bewomen from other tribes. In the end, I think Nesta will become the leader whowill be able to unite Illyria into one big nation. Illyrians should have aleader for whom they are ready to die, and for whom they can follow like aliving god.

I think that in her Council there will also bea woman who was the mother of a deceased soldier - one of those who raises arebellion among women.

In my opinion, these clues left in the novella areextremely important for the plot. When Nesta comes to Feyra for her birthday,the first sentence of the chapter begins with the phrase “The Storm iscoming”, and therefore Nesta by herself might become a symbol ofrevolution and insurrection, only her own revolution will swallow up anotherrevolution that the Illyrians support after the war against King Hybern.

Meet the death squad of Nesta Archeron Warriors!

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She felt it all—too keenly, too sharply.

Nesta is accused of ill-treatment of her younger sister (abuse and violence against Feyre), but Nesta has many reasons for this behavior - and Nesta's cruel words do not mean that she does not like her younger sister. Otherwise, Nesta would never risk her life for her sister and other people. Nesta's current condition - her rudeness, her cold behavior, alienation from the outside world (after ACOFAS’s events she’s totally cut off from the outside world) - is the only way to keep her emotions, to keep her inner rage under control. And in fact, Nesta is in deep depression. The core of depression is sadness, especially when this depression is combined with despondency, shame and hostility. And Nesta experiences each of these terrible feelings.

In the life of the whole family there have been global changes.

Firstly, the irreplaceable loss of a loved one – the unspeakable loss of the mother. For a person like Nesta, it was a real tragedy. A person needs to try to get through this and begin to live an ordinary life. They adapt quickly to hide their true feelings.

“My mother. Imperious and cold with her children, joyous and dazzling among the peerage who frequented our former estate, doting on my father—the one person whom she truly loved and respected. But she also had truly loved parties—so much so that she didn’t have time to do anything with me at all save contemplate how my budding abilities to sketch and paint might secure me a future husband. Had she lived long enough to see our wealth crumble, she would have been shattered by it—more so than my father. Perhaps it was a merciful thing that she died”.

It seems that right after the death of her mother Nesta had to build her inner walls to save and to protect herself in order to continue to live on, because most people after following shock and helplessness, have the strongest awareness of their profoundly personal rejection. Finally, there are accusations, disappointing attempts to escape from the realization of the guilt. These people are trying to shift responsibility for the loved one’s death onto anybody else. This person needs a "scapegoat". Nesta’s father became her own scapegoat. Nesta believes that her father is responsible for the death of her mother. Then she started having these irrational bursts of anger at him- she believed that he could save their mother, or he was the cause of the death of their mother and directed her rage toward him.

“I wanted to see if he would ever try to do it himself, instead of carving those bits of wood. If he would actually go out and fight for us. I couldn’t take care of us, not the way you did. I hated you for that. But I hated him more. I still do.”

“Does he know?”

“He’s always known I hate him, even before we became poor. He let Mother die—he had a fleet of ships at his disposal to sail across the world for a cure, or he could have hired men to go into Prythian and beg them for help. But he let her waste away.”

“He loved her—he grieved for her.” I didn’t know what the truth was—perhaps both.

“He let her die. You would have gone to the ends of the earth to save your High Lord.”

And that’s quite interesting, because here Feyre admits «I didn’t know what the truth was—perhaps both», so Nesta's true tragedy lies in the secret of her mother's death. What was happening in the family at that moment? Where was their father and what did he do when their mother was dying?

“Her cowardice, selfishness. The rage that had consumed her, so that she wanted them all to starve, just to see if their useless father would bother to save them. And then little Feyre had stepped in, and Nesta had hated her for it, too—that Feyre had done the unthinkable and kept them alive”.

In fact, such emotional walls that Nesta built up are a very well-known psychological state, and these “walls” protect people from painful feelings and thoughts. But they also cause the appearance of their changed forms of behavior. Thus, we can say that such emotional walls have their pros and cons.

In the case of searching for a "scapegoat", the feeling of anger does not disappear. This feeling is simply hidden. Anger remains with a person, deeply hidden, and exudes its poison. If this person spends the remaining days chasing scapegoats, then most of their life will be useless: they will experience constant bitterness, which will cripple their personality. In addition, such emotional walls prevent people from feeling the positive side of their existence: to get acquainted with new people, to enjoy life by itself.

One of the factors contributing to the growth of depression is rapid social change.

Nesta was not just from a wealthy family, she was almost a noblewoman, and the Archeron’s family had a real mansion. Feyre did not have time to get proper education, while older sisters had lessons of etiquette, music, and dance.

Surely Nesta already had her own idea and vision of her future, she repeatedly emphasizes the bad manners and lack of manners from other people, not only when they lived in the village among beggars, but also when she got to the Night Court. Nesta said that members of the Inner Circle knew nothing about real manners.

“Nesta had taken the loss of our fortune the hardest. She had quietly resented my father from the moment we’d fled our manor, even after that awful day one of the creditors had come to show just how displeased he was at the loss of his investment”.

“I looked at my sister, really looked at her, at this woman who couldn’t stomach the sycophants who now surrounded her, who had never spent a day in the forest but had gone into wolf territory … Who had shrouded the loss of our mother, then our downfall, in icy rage and bitterness, because the anger had been a lifeline, the cruelty a release. But she had cared—beneath it, she had cared, and perhaps loved more fiercely than I could comprehend, more deeply and loyally”.

It might sound strange, but when a person finds himself/herself in an unfamiliar environment for them - it's extremely difficult to get used to it. This is a real stressful situation. Of course, Nesta and Elain, in some ways, were born with silver spoons in their mouths - they had expensive clothes, shoes, they never thought about what it would take to think about food. For them it was not a problem, and in one day everything collapsed.

“I’d been too young to learn more than the basics of manners and reading and writing when our family had fallen into misfortune, and she’d never let me forget it”.

I have a friend, who has experienced great stress after the death of her father. In addition to the death of a loved one, she experienced severe changes in her life - she and her mother lost their fortune. And she admitted that she had never used public transport until she was thirteen or fourteen years old. I understand it may be difficult to believe something like this is possible, especially in the modern world, but everything happens. They always got everywhere by car. Conditions of life changed, something had to be sold, you need to say goodbye to your property. But when a person has never used public transport, and then suddenly it is necessary to get used to new conditions - it's really difficult. Everyone is nervous when they first come to the university or to a new job - this is a new and unfamiliar situation, new environment. So, partially, I understand Nesta, and what she had to endure. From a rich mansion to move to a collapsing house, to lose all property. Hunger, despair and destruction - all were in a state of the endless stress.

It is not excluded that the Archeron’s family spent their free time surrounded by other noble families, and when you lose your fortune, property, influence, money - you feel a sense of shame.

“As usual, Nesta was complaining about the villagers—they had no manners, they had no social graces, they had no idea just how shoddy the fabric of their clothes was, even though they pretended that it was as fine as silk or chiffon. Since we had lost our fortune, their former friends dutifully ignored them, so my sisters paraded about as though the young peasants of the town made up a second-rate social circle”.

“He could find work if he wasn’t so ashamed, Nesta always said when I hissed about it. She hated him for the injury, too—for not fighting back when that creditor and his thugs had burst into the cottage and smashed his knee again and again. Nesta and Elain had fled into the bedroom, barricading the door. I had stayed, begging and weeping through every scream of my father, every crunch of bone. I’d soiled myself—and then vomited right on the stones before the hearth. Only then did the men leave. We never saw them again”.

Angry creditors broke their father’s leg and never returned. To be honest, in real life it's difficult for me to imagine, so I have a feeling that Neste had to sell something or do something meaningful so that they would not return to their house anymore. Everyone knows that the collectors are seeking the return of any debts, they will not go until they get their money back.

Nesta is from a noble family, so she cannot bear Feyre's dirty clothes. It is possible that someone will find such words an insult to Feera, but for me Nesta feels unhappier with the fact that Feyre allowed herself to look like that. And she also disgusted with the whole situation in which they were, she did not like the fact that her sister had to go to the dense forest.

“You stink like a pig covered in its own filth. Can’t you at least try to pretend that you’re not an ignorant peasant?”

Nesta still considers herself and the rest of her family as the members of the nobility, so she is frightened by the very thought that her sister looks like a beggar.

She stepped back to run a finger over the braided coils of her gold-brown hair. “Take those disgusting clothes off.”

Everyone accuses Nesta of letting little girl go to the forest, but the real culprit was her father. Despite the fact that Nesta and Feyre are sisters, they are completely different. While Feyre is a survivor, Nesta is a fighter. Feyre wants to survive, so she goes to the forest for food, she was not forced to go to the forest - it was her way of survival, and Nesta is ready to die if it helped her father to get out of oblivion. There is another reason - neither Elaine nor Nesta would ever really have gone into the forest, at least because of the fear. Nesta chose the path of perdition in order to prove her point of view, and Feyre wanted to survive, and for this Nesta hated her.

Even in human life there are situations where people stood in fear. For example, to jump into a whirlpool, save a drowning person, or climb down the cliff, ready to extend a helping hand to those in need or in any other emergency, in which the chances of dying to save another person are very high - it's difficult. A person in ordinary life and a person who falls into a stressful situation are two completely different people and the reaction to stress is different for all of us. Someone can’t move, someone reacts with a hysteria, and someone in a state of affect does something that they would never have done in the ordinary state. Stress for them is a start for immediate action. All of these are psychological factors that need to be considered. We must admit that all people are completely different. If someone could cope with a difficult life situation, this does not mean that another person can go through a hard and thorny path with the same circumstances.

In addition, Nesta is actually looking for the Feyre’s company. Her younger sister does not understand this. Nesta does not act directly.

“How is my sister?”

So he merely said, “Busy.”

A flicker of her throat. “So busy she cannot deign to visit, it seems.”

Tomas Mandray

“Tomas Mandray?” I interrupted. “The woodcutter’s second son?”

“You can’t chop wood for us, but you want to marry a woodcutter’s son?”

Thomas is from a poor family. And for me this person in Nesta's life remains a real mystery. Why Nesta wanted to connect her life with him? What was the reason? If Thomas had money, then I would understand Nesta's decision to choose him as her future spouse. Nesta really could not help her family as Feyre did, but Nesta could get married and get some money from her husband to help her family. It is possible that Nesta hoped that her younger sister would stop going into the woods.

“Tomas had wanted to, and she … some part of her had known no future lay with him. Knew about his hateful father, and that he did nothing to prevent the man from beating his mother. She had barely let Tomas kiss her, and that day when she had ended it, he’d …”

She swallowed, shutting out the memory of what he’d said and done. The sound of her tearing dress. No—it hadn’t gone that far, but … The blind terror in those moments he’d tried, before she’d screamed and clawed her way free. And never told anyone”.

Nesta has never told anyone about Thomas, what he did. But it is also not easy to be a victim of violence - this is also a trauma that remains for the whole life. She was not raped, but traces of the sense of fear remain with person "blind terror in those moments". Some are ashamed of what happened, and do not want to share with someone, what happened, others have an inferiority complex. Sometimes there is a feeling that rape has placed a certain mark that distinguishes a person from others. Sometimes people are locked in themselves, not letting anyone into their inner world, not revealing their feelings and secrets. Mental trauma finds a way out in angry emotions. In psychology, there is such a phenomenon as "visible adaptation" - a person returns to the usual way of life, however depression, bouts of anxiety periodically arise.

Nesta went through a lot, and as a sensitive person, for her everything was much more complicated than for Feyre. She must take her bitter experience as something unchanging. This important moment relates to the desire to move forward and the realization that not everything is lost. Of course, throughout the whole life there can be flashbacks of memories, nightmares, but this is more of an exception.

“She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want to rip and roar and rend the world into pieces. She felt it all—too keenly, too sharply. Hated and cared and loved and dreaded, more than other people, she sometimes thought. Could sift between them all in a matter of moments, like she was trying on different sets of clothes, and no one could tell or care”.

Nesta must let go of her emotions. Letting others see themselves as they are, and not be afraid to be rejected that is the real strength.

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“What makes you blush, Cassian?”

“What makes you blush, Cassian?” Nesta snapped.

He chuckled a self-indulgent little chuckle. “Not much, Nesta.”

Cocky bastard. “No?”

“I’ve been alive a long time.” Nesta rolled her eyes. He said it with the superiority of the ancient.

Nesta took a dainty sip of stew. “Seen it all have you, general?”

He rocked back on two legs of his chair, bouncing a little. “Just about.”

“Hmm,” she said. “I bet I could make you blush.”

She was playing with fire. But how could she help it? He was a smug bastard and he needed to be put in his place.

“Try me,” Cassian said, eager.

Nesta applied herself efficiently to her soup. “You think I smell too clean,” she said after a pause, repeating, more or less, the glimpse she’d received from his mind. “Or rather, you’d prefer I washed less so you could know my smell.”

Cassian choked on his wine and the sight of his handsome face flushing a violent red was more satisfying than any meal. Nesta set down her spoon. This she could devour.

He recovered with a big gulp of water and a sigh that transformed into a chuckle. A dangerous chuckle.

“You asked for it.”

“What?”

“You stare at my hands,” Cassian said. “You think about me touching you with them. Looking at them makes you want to cry.”

She inhaled a sharp breath. She hadn’t thought this through. “You wait to take your shirt off until I’m looking.”

“You want to lick the sweat off my chest.” Nesta gasped and then cringed at how ridiculous it was to gasp. The chest he spoke of shook with laughter.

“You’re obsessed with my neck!” She sounded a little shrill. She was in too deep.

“Mm,” Cassian said, eyes dropping to run the length of her throat. “You have me there.”

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If Nesta were a goddess whom do you think she would be? I love your posts!

Some kind of Female-Hades version. That would be soperfect for the Queen of Death. I would love to see Nesta having powers of lifeover death. And I want her to be really strong - stronger than Rhysand andFeyre, stronger than anyone. An extremely powerful, intelligent, and ruthless, strong,calm in the face of adversity. That is the real face of Nesta.

Since Nesta’s story would be a retelling of “SnowQueen”, I think her perfect version of goddess is Morena – the Slavic goddess ofnight and winter - the most terrible female goddess. Her symbols are the BlackMoon, piles of broken skulls and the sickle with which she cuts the Thread ofLife.

“Death came, and its sharp andcruel sickle reaped the thread of your life”.

Morena is the goddess of winter, death, the queen ofthe night, the mighty and formidable deity of the Slavs. Morena is ruling over theunderground world, where she rules along with the Lord of Death or “the BlackGod” (Koshchei).

The Slavs imagined that Morena lived in the North, inthe depths of cliffs covered with eternal snows. She is omnipotent, but lightgods enclose her in chains, when spring arrives.

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What kind of sex do you think koschei and Nesta would have?

OMG!

You are going to be the death of me.

Possessive, aggressive, full of thirst and dark obsession.

“It was the black bliss to be with him. His breath lefta fiery trace on her snow-white skin, his gaze left a mark in her heart. In hiseyes are amber and onyx, precious carmine and ink blood; in his eyes burningred heather and jasper coals. His palaces are strewn with gold and ruby,precious diamonds and blue topaz.

There is no life in his palaces.

In his rich gardens are alleys of yew trees of puregold; in his gardens are golden antelopes and deer. In his gardens are silverapples that grant eternal life and youth; in his gardens there is a cage with agolden fire-bird, whose fire eclipses the light of the stars - the sun and themoon. In his gardens raindrops turn into diamonds; the sound of the wind andthe heat of sunlight disappear.

He didn’t need her body; he wanted her soul. The darksensuality on his face, the intensity of his desire that shuddered through herbody. He whispered something guttural as he clamped down on her thighs andlowered his head, his tongue thrusting deep into her – to taste her, to devourher, to consume her, to ruin her.

The sweet aroma of purple delonix and oleandersurrounded her.

She fought to get away, terrified of losing herself forthe eternity. That was the crashing pleasure. He held her still, as no one elsecould have, his enhanced strength impossible to fight while he sucked at her.

And she lost herself. She lost her ability to breath,trashing back and forth wildly in an effort to get away from his mouth. Herbreath came out in ragged sobs as his teeth found her most sensitive spot andbegan a slow, torturous assault.

Cold drops of sweat covered her body with crystalshards, golden wet locks of hair clinging to wet, flushed cheeks as shescreamed. Her blissful cry, her sigh, her groan were absorbed by the darkness. She was embraced by thousands of shadows, shewas loved by the stars and the primeval haze, when his hands slid over herbody. He worshiped her like a goddess, as if she were his breath and his life.

The taste.

He once said that he forgot the taste of life. Heforgot the feeling of wind on the skin; the feeling of the heated body under hisown hands; the feeling of ecstasy from the groan of the pleasure of belovedwoman.

Their combined scents were potent and heady. His eyes were dark flames as he sucked ravenouslyat her, throwing her into the end.

Her hands were his hands. She wanted to be absorbedand devoured, wanted to be his. She wantedto be a part of him. She longed for the fangs of the beast to pierce her flesh.Shewanted her blood to wash his body.

Let the whole world fall.

Let the whole world burn in the fire.

Let the life die.

Let all living things disappear.

She thought only about his lips, and about his hands, andabout the warmth and heat of his strong body”.

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