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propshophannah · 7 years

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What are your completely honest thoughts about Elriel and Elucien? Which one do you think is more likely to happen?

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: If either of these is going to happen, the likeliest is Elucien. From the very beginning of Elriel as a ship it was always one that @sparkleywonderful and I considered to be more of a (I believe the phrase we used was) a raft we tied together with our hair. 😂

Look. Let’s be clear. There were 2-3 points in ACOMAF we could use as foreshadowing for Elriel, right? And we could apply what we know about how Maas likes to build ships to it too symbolism-wise. Dark and light. Shadows and flowers. BUT LETS BE CLEAR it was always a ship I backed BECAUSE I, MYSELF, have a Hades and Persephone kink. It’s what I’m primed to want when I pick up a book.

Now when ACOWAR came out, there were/are some LEGIT moments of Elain and Az that could be read as them one day finding more than friendship between them. That’s undeniable. You have to have friendship before you have love. Love doesn’t last without friendship. And this is where I’ll segue into Elucien.

The only reason I stepped back from Elucien in favor of Elriel is because after ACOMAF people were thinking with their “Disney” brains and not with their actual brains. Here Elain was traumatized and freshly reborn after being kidnapped and murdered and the first thing he says is “You’re my mate.” NOW I GET HE WAS FREAKING OUT TOO. And he’s allowed to do that. Especially with his history. BUT. The idea of love at first sight (EVERY DISNEY MOVIE WE ALL GREW UP ON) is one that I consider to be the MOST DANGEROUS to women. So when people were suddenly “they’re in love” I was like hold the effing phone. Let’s all back up from the situation and recognize how incredibly dangerous and toxic it is to promote the idea that still-engaged-and-in-love-with-Graysen-freshly-made-fae-and-oh-yeah-her-future-has-been-ripped-to-shreds-Elain is going to suddenly be A-Okay! because a hot Fae male declares that they share a bond? YIKES. Not for me.

(So that’s when I stepped away from that ship. But I did and do still enjoy fic etc. where people explain how they built a relationship before choosing of their own free will to accept the bond because they loved each other. Not the other way around.)

But from the very moment Lucien declared they were mates, that ship was 99% going to sail. And after ACOWAR, I think it has the MOST foreshadowing and hints to sailing. BUT. Maas 100% wants to explain that they have to both want that bond and one another. And while I love to get carried away with thoughts of Elriel, Maas certainly set it up (with all the talk about Jessamine and how she loved Lucien fiercely and of her own free will) for that to be something Elain and Lucien have to find with one another. Jessamine chose to love Lucien without influence from anyone or anything and he told us that. And that’s what he, Lucien, is going to value in the end. I did not get the impression that he would just agree to spend his life with Elain because they have a bond. He’s going to want her to choose him regardless of the bond. And that’s how it should be, right? Love based on a mating bond is cheap and it doesn’t last—as we saw with Tamlin’s parents and Rhys’s. But as with Feyre and Rhys their love was/is not based on a bond. It existed before that with a friendship that they built. And you know the friendship is SOLID when Rhys says that he would’ve let her reject the bond and walk away. That’s not him just being a nice dude. That’s him putting their friendship first.

And I hate to bring this up, but let’s be frank about ACOWAR. It was a good book that I enjoyed immensely. But it was in no way polished to the point that the rest of Maas’s books have been. It fell short. And because if that, it makes reading into some of the “classic” Maas romance setup things difficult.

BUT I WILL WAY THIS: When Feyre pointed out the window at Elain and Azriel in the garden and said to Rhys why can Elain have that—I text @sparkleywonderful and was like “Damn. There goes any hope of Elriel! LOL.”

That’s not foreshadowing. If it is, it’s BAD foreshadowing. And, GRANTED, this book was in NO WAY up to the quality of the other books, but it was blatant enough that I got the impression Maas was letting the reader know that Elain and Az were not supposed to be read as a thing.

Now I could be wrong. Because so much of that book was uncharacteristic of Maas’s writing. But it’s just not the style of Maas’s foreshadowing. If we were reading The Raven Boys then it’d be a different story. (The foreshadowing in that book was hit you in the face obvious. Ronan “I’m not straight” the first thing the dead kid says to Blue is “I’m dead.” LOL. All hints made to looks like jokes and not-hints.). To me that line by Feyre was the skin to Feyre constantly telling us Azrie loved Mor and NOT ONCE saying she though Mor reciprocated those feelings. Granted, Moriel not happening was waaaaay WAY more obvious that Elriel not happening, but this was one of those lines where it was too direct to mean anything more that exactly what Feyre said. (But to anyone angry right now—I COULD BE WRONG! LOL.)

And as I’ve been explaining to a bunch of you lately in PM, I could be wrong. But I’m not going to pretend that Elriel was ever a solid ship. I ship it because it calls to me. It’s right up my alley. He treats her how I think someone worthy of her affection should treat her. They should see her. Not her as a mating bond. Or a broken thing. See Her as a person. And To be fair to Lucien, he didn’t really get a lot of chances to do that because he was gone the whole book, but he also just wasn’t paying attention to her. And that’s something he’s gonna have to work on. And to be fair to both of them and myself (LOL) I don’t want them to heal because of one another. I want them to find themselves on their own and then choose to be together because they built a friendship. I want Lucien to get his groove back and learn to stop being what everyone else wants him to be. To stop being beholden to Tamlin/Tamlin’s bitch (and Feyre’s for that matter. He’s kind of a clueless dude now I think about it). He’s better than that and he needs to find that strength on his own. Elain can’t so that for him. And I need Elain to come to terms with her eternity. With the fact that her life has been ripped away from her and that only she can deal with that. And learn from it.

And Elriel could still happen. I’m not saying it couldn’t. I love to fangirl for that ship. It’s my child. LOL. But I’m not gonna be butt hurt when/if it doesn’t happen. And honestly. Let’s be real. ACOWAR was the book that solidified it as a potential ship and not a crackship. So I think if anything I’m totally fine with that. And maybe that’s why I honestly don’t feel as connected to it anymore. LOL. Because it’s cool now to ship it so it’s lost it’s initial magic. (LOL. I’m like a bad boyfriend—all about the chase apparently. 😂)

And FOR REAL: by that one chapter where Elain was in front of the window sort of yelling/upset I stopped giving a shit about the ships I just need her to be okay. And I selfishly want that angst, too. So however I get it, I’m DOWN.

But for any concerned parties, I will continue to fangirl Elriel, and maintain Elucien as my side piece. Because even if Elain ends up with Tamlin—I’m still writing Elriel fics!

#Elriel #elucien #which is more likely

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feysandfeels · 3 years

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WAIT YOU WERE HERE FOR THE SINKING OF MORIEL?! UFFF BUDDY.

Was I here?

was I here?

was?

here?

uff buddy is right!

Man I reread acomaf and I’m like it was there.... IT WAS RIGHT THERE I WAS NOT A FOOL FOR BELIEVING IN THEM.

Azriel would likely love Mor until he was a whisper of darkness between the stars.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Mor’s screams when Az got that arrow in with the venom 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I just... man they were everything to me. Second only to Feysand... like.... I just.. man.. Moriel you kow

The sinking of Moriel, oil on canvas. Sarah J Maas. 2017.

That’s me (and @cassianandfenrysaremyboyos) in the Moriel raft after everything.

God I still try to make sense of it all... my heart... and you know.. some of my friends from the get go were like “something is fishy, I don’t think she’s into him” but not me... your girl fell for them hook, line and sinker.

Whoever you are... know that you struck a delicate cord in me.

- I need a few moments -

I am very happy that Mor is queer. So don’t get me wrong and I look forward to her happiness and to her search for love like it’s nobody’s business. I love Mor and I want her to live her best life. She’s an ultimate fave in this series for me and wherever she goes I follow. This is not in anyway shape or form me wishing that she would hook up with Az.

I am also looking forward to Az’s therapy sessions.

But mainly... I need I neeeeeed for them to talk things out, to come clean about everything, I need to get back those friendship moments we had with them before or that were alluded to in the narrative. So I continue to love Moriel but Moriel to me now doesn’t mean a romantic Moriel, but a deep friendship Moriel.

And I also believe that it will be Mor the one who will talk some sense into Az

Their friendship.. that’s my raft.

#Feysandfeelsasks #The Morrigan #Mor #Azriel #Moriel #ACOMAF #she will always be the sun to his shadows and y'all can come and fight me on that.#and he will always be the one who went for her who found her #I'm sorry to bring you into this Lisa #but we've shared the Moriel pain for too long for me not to

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feysandfeels · 3 years

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I'm sure it was not THAT BAD. It was very clear Mor was not into Az.

That bad? THAT BAD? Dearest Nonnie it was Titanic!

Let me set you the scene:

Me and my homies were all happily having dinner at the restaurant. Enjoying ourselves as one does, halfway cruising through the Atlantic, in our finest jewellery and gowns, laughing about the other non established ships - could you imagine the stress of the Nessian situation or the angst of Elucien? not us, we were good, we were safe - it was just a matter of time before Moriel was up and running, just a push from our boy Az and an incentive from our girl Mor and that was that. We were bound to be the second fastest ship in the SJM armada.

Then in the middle of dinner, no warning, no alarm, no nothing! The ship cracks in two! We realized because suddenly our feet were met with the coldest water while we were still in the middle of dinner. One half was already being completely claimed by the water. We didn’t even have time to make it to port... we could only swim.. our ship was sinking faster by the minute, the water was cold, there were not enough life saving jackets thingies and we were so sure nonnie, so sure... we did not have enough lifeboats. So we jumped, we jumped before the ship swallowed us whole. Not going to lie.. a few very brave souls stayed until the end. They sank with Moriel and quit the series altogether.

After floating for a couple of hours we realized that a raft was there... just one.. barely holding itself together. Hope and the comfort that their feelings for one another could make for the most beautiful of friendships: that was what held our raft while we paddle to the nearest port.

Shivering we arrived from where we left.. Nessian was there, Elucien was there too.. some of us also had tickets to those ships so we took comfort in them. We held hands and we never forgot the tragedy that now bound us together. And now, there in the middle of this big ships was our raft and with it the new hope for their friendship.

So remember Nonnie, remember you elders and know that if you think that if either Gwynriel or Az x Elain are heavily romantically coded, my sweet summer child, they have nothing nothing, on the way Moriel was romantically coded.

So there, it was bad.. and I’m still here, waiting on the promise of their friendship.

#Feysandfeelsasks #The Morrigan #Mor #Azriel #Moriel #ACOMAF #ACOWAR #Inner Circle #did someone call the drama major?#I live for some drama

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