#The Folk of the Air

[hanelizabeth]

'To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen's hospitality. The hospitality of knives.’

all hail the high king & queen of elfhame 🧚

characters by @/hollyblack

#holly black #artists on tumblr #digital artist #illustration #cartoon #drawing #illustrator #tfota #fota #the folk of the air #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #tcp #twk #tqon #jude duarte #carden greenbriar #jude x cardan #jude and cardan #jurdan #faerie #fae folk #fae #unseelie #seelie #fantasy #bookish art #bookworm

[highladyofterrasen7]

Vivi: you guys, faerie is awful, faeries are awful, we don’t need faeries

Taryn: *marries a faerie*

Jude: *marries a faerie*

Vivi with her human girlfriend:

#idiots*** #the cruel prince #tcp #the folk of the air #tfota #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #taryn duarte #jurdan #vivi duarte #vivienne duarte

[starrynightsxo]

"And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again."

- Jude Duarte, The Queen of Nothing

#girl i wouldnt know #maybe I should find out... #CARDAN GREEBRIAR MY LOVE #my love mine all mine #(not) 😞 #jk guys im big fat jurdan shipper #jurdan #books #bookish #the cruel prince #booklr #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #tfota #cardan #jude #jude x cardan #cardan x jude #judecardan #book quotes #quotes #book #new books #old books #book aesthetic #the folk of the air #the folk of air #tfota quotes #the wicked king #the queen of nothing

[viivdle]

for so long, elfhame

#cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #jurdan #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the folk of the air #tfota #tfota memes #taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department #so long london #holly black #holly blacj #the court of shadows #<3

[thehighladywrites]

so im reading the queen of nothing and tell me why i wanna fuck madoc😕 like i genuinely don’t care, i just wanna do him.

#talkswithamara #the cruel prince #madoc #madoc tfota #the folk of the air #tfota #cardan greenbriar #general madoc #the queen of nothing #the wicked king #jude duarte

[ur-mom-1235]

🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

Art by: tabbiesart

#the folk of the air #cardan greenbriar #the cruel prince #fypシ #the queen of nothing #the wicked king #artists on tumblr

[moondust-on-the-hijabi]

"didn't you get my letters?" "what?" SOBBING

#i'm gonna kill asha that snake #i'm rereading tfota btw 🤡 #moonhalo talks books —✧ #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #the cruel prince #the queen of nothing #tfota #the folk of the air #jude x cardan #jurdan

[that-multi-fandom-hijabi]

"my father is the worst man alive and i am his favorite daughter" but it's vivi and madoc

#the cruel prince #vivienne duarte #madoc tfota #tfota #the folk of the air #vivienne tfota

[avelanlorelay]

About Cardan and his mother

I was re-reading the comments on my fic Deniere Danse and most of them are against Lady Asha, which may be proof that she's just as hated by the fandom in the "parents" category as Madoc and Balekin (Or maybe it's bc of the plot I've created, sorry). So one unanimous question is: why does Cardan still allow her to stay in the brugh?

My pov: From Twk to Tpt we can see that Cardan is not as insensitive as he makes himself out to be, on the contrary, he has a lot of love to give (😭) (a side of him that probably only Nicasia had access to🙄). He's admitted to still liking his mother a little and if we look closely, that despite having a strong personality, Cardan is no longer a hateful person. After losing his entire family, he wouldn't throw out his mother, the second only person left of his blood, for bad things in the past. In Tpt we see how he's very happy with Jude and probably, thinks about the future instead of holding grudges about things from the past.

Okay, Cardan isn't the boy with the heart of stone, but why would he still like Lady Asha? Why didn't he lock her back up in the tower of oblivion like he did with Balekin? First of all it's obvious, she never committed any crime. But although the books say very little about their relationship (a shame because I've always been curious about it), I think there are some clues:

In the prologue to Tqn we see the discovery of Cardan's curse. It's said that Lady Asha doesn't seem to know how to hold a baby, but she hugs he when Eldred seems to be considering parting with the child and holds he tighter when she leaves. Perhaps she was just afraid of not having privileges, but it's the only gesture of affection we see from her.

Still in Tqn, Oriana tells Jude about Cardan's childhood:

"It wasn't as though she didn't dress him in velvets or furs; it's that she left them on until they grew ragged. Nor was it that she didn't feed him the most delectable cuts of meat and cake...."

Now, in Htkoelths, when he meets Aslog in the stables, despite being there because of her (bitch) Cardan thinks that if he called his mother she would beat Aslog up and throw her out. I found this passage strange bc Lady Asha is described as delicate and thin, yet Cardan knows that she would protect him from a much bigger and stronger woman. If he's so sure of this, has Lady Asha defended him before?

And finally, just a guess: when he travels to the mortal world in Tcp's time to save Balekin's mortal slave, Cardan travels on a giant moth owned by Lady Asha. It's said that the creature was personally tamed by her and he still remembers how, so he was probably there when it happened. Which means that perhaps Lady didn't leave him completely abandoned, there were moments that the two of them spent together, when she dressed him, fed him and perhaps took him for walks and played with him.

What does my monologue mean? That if we compare, Cardan seems to have more feelings for Lady Asha than for Eldred, because despite so many bad ones, he has good memories with her too. It's not just a blood bond.

It's sad and unfair, but Cardan has a much more forgiving heart than it seems.

There's probably something else too: guilt. If I'm not mistaken, in Twk's deleted scenes, when Lady Asha meets him to talk about Jude, it's said that Cardan didn't free her because he didn't think he had the power to, after all, Jude was the real High King.

Now, if we stop to think about it, Lady Asha had never committed a crime, (if we don't consider her to be the worst mother in the world), yet she probably spent about ten years trapped in the tower of oblivion, starving and cold, completely alone. Not even Balekin or Madoc suffered so much. Can we feel sorry for her for that? Idk, if you're a good person and can even like Madoc, that's fine, but I think it's well deserved. But not from Cardan's point of view, not least bc from his perspective it was his fault. Now, as High King, the best thing he can do to be fair is to reward her for all that time of suffering. So it's understandable that he lets her live in the palace and have everything she ever wanted.

Jude pov: I think that since she would like her mother to be alive and by her side and Cardan has that opportunity (which I would frankly pass up), she would never take it away from him, even for revenge. And like him, she's too happy to worry about the past and people who aren't worth it.

#cardan greenbriar #jurdan #tfota #jude duarte #holly black #the cruel prince #the folk of the air #tqon #twk #jude x cardan #Tcp #the queen of nothing #the wicked king #Jude #judecardan #Lady as #lady asha

[pr1nce0fsunl1ght]

@highking-cardan oops

So you know you told me not to give them catnip

#oak greenbriar #tfota #tfota rp #the folk of the air #cardan greenbriar

[highladyofterrasen7]

Cardan: I don’t want to exile Jude

Cardan: but the parasites in me want to exile Jude 👹👹

#the cruel prince #the folk of the air #tcp #tfota #tfota memes #incorrect tfota #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #jurdan #the wicked king #twk #tqon #jude x cardan

[scarlet742]

So… I LOVE JUDE ! Very quiet literally ! Cause she not only was the main character of her books but she was also the main character of her brothers books, which ultimately makes her THE MAIN CHARACTER!

Also can we appreciate the balance oak was between Cardan and Locke ? Despite majority my literal being despising Locke with all my wit I cannot help but notice how oak’s thoughts are all like that of Cardans’ but majority of his actions at least till the whole of stolen heir and more than half of the prisoner’s throne were that of Lockes’. Though at the end he did a lot of actions like that resembling Cardan or even Dain. But no one can deny that oak is the perfect mixture of Locke and Cardan !

#oak greenbriar #suren #wren #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #dain greenbriar #the stolen heir #the folk of the air #the prisoners throne #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing

[knoblauchgarten]

Jurdan sketch from my sketchbook \

#jurdan #the folk of the air #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #sketchbook flair #knobifanart

[starrynightsxo]

cardan: two best friends in a room, will they-

jude: there's no-one else in here cardan

cardan: well, would you look at that?

jude: cute, but did you forget one thing?

cardan: *smirking* and what would that be?

jude: *stands up to leave* we're not friends.

*cue searing kiss*

#i imagine after this jude leaves #and then cardan just sitting there lile wtf #cardan: oh my god i am so in love #love #romance #enemies to lovers #books #bookish #the cruel prince #booklr #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #tfota #cardan #jude #jurdan #the folk of the air #the folk of air #tfota memes #incorrect tfota #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the stolen heir #the prisoners throne #holly black #romantasy #fantasy #booktok #bookworm

[viivdle]

jude "no killer" duarte

#cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #jurdan #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the folk of the air #tfota #locke tfota #tfota memes #holly black #valerian tfota #holly blacj #the court of shadows #<3 #scheduled

[yureichi]

I was thinking about Jude and Cardan’s marriage. Cardan came up with this plan bc he wanted his will back, which was perfectly valid and fair, but when you think things through, other than having a brand new wife that he loved a lot, this union didn’t benefit him in anything else. Marriage between them only binds him and she was the daughter of a two time traitor, murderer of an ambassador/prince/his fucking brother and mortal. She wasn’t the best candidate for a queen. He really was willing to give her a fancy title, a crown and all the power she wanted and settle for whatever crumbs of affection she might give him in return.

On the other hand, at that point in their relationship, I think that Jude accepted the marriage proposal bc 1) she secretly loved Cardan and thought that this new station in life and relationship status would make it safe to love him openly and was hopeful that he might love her back 2) she really wanted to be queen and have absolute power 3) she did not want to be so scared anymore. In that order. Jude spent the exile angry and cursing and planning Cardan’s demise but she never took off her wedding ring. Girly was feeling absolutely hurt and heartbroken and betrayed and foolish and I’m pretty damn sure she was suffering a lot more about supposedly being dumped by her new hubby than for being the queen in exile.

Anyways, young love is crazy am I right.

#they really just wanted a safe and nice little love #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #jurdan #the folk of the air #tfota