Oak: *Murders like seven people*
Jude: :0
Jude: *slowly turns*
Jude: MADOC, how could you do this?!
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actually wild of holly black to write cardan’s arc so powerfully that I went from genuinely hating him and never believing I’d like him to thinking “ok so maybe he’s not awful ALL the time” to desperately rooting for him and furiously wanting him to be loved and happy over the span of three books. like tfota was WILD for doing that (and doing it so well)
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When they propose marriage, and that's the response they get. My beloved boys 😭🤌🏼
—The Wicked King, chapter 29
—The Prisoner's Throne, chapter 12
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Jude Duarte is first her MOTHER’S daughter, then Madoc’s
People always say Jude’s personality is a copy paste of Madoc, which to some degree is true. He raised her as a father and very much shaped her. But she was like that before too… just like her mother.
In TWK we get the snippet of Jude taking the training wheels off her bike and getting all bruised up while Taryn stuck to the side walks. And then in TCP we get Madoc’s short description of her mother as being clever and brave and unafraid if the face of Faerie.
She burned down the General’s house with a mother and unborn baby inside so she could get away. To protect the people she loved, Jude would have too.
So yes, Jude was polished by Madoc, but she was shaped first by Eva Duarte.
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"The Folk adore Cardan, and they're terrified of my sister, two excellent things. I hope they rule Elfhame for a thousand years and then pass it down to one of a dozen offspring."
-Oak, just casually being one of us
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Holly Black never fails to be like, "here's the main love interest. He's a faerie prince and an idiot."
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The Prisoner's Throne spoilers!!
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As Oak watches, Jude emerges from a carriage. Ten years into her reign, she doesn’t bother waiting for a knight or page to hand her down as would be proper, but simply jumps out. She hasn’t bothered with a gown today, either, but wears a pair of high boots, tight-fitting trousers, and a vestlike doublet over a shirt poufy enough that it may have been borrowed from Cardan. The only sign that she is the High Queen is the crown on her head—or perhaps the way the crowd quiets upon her arrival.
Cardan emerges from the carriage next, wearing all the finery she eschewed. He is in a black doublet as ink dark as his hair with lines of scarlet thorns along the sleeves and across the chest. As if the suggestion of prickliness isn’t enough, his boots come to stiletto points. The smirk on his face manages to convey royal grandeur and boredom all at once.
MOTHER AND FATHER ARE HERE!!!!!! Simple casual wife and her dramatic extra husband my beloved💕
I'm not focusing much on jurdan as this is Oak and Wren's story but I am crying at every mention and appearance of them because I'm a simple girl and I love jurdan too much
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i love how Oak has a little of all his family members in him.
Etiquette and pragmatism from Oriana
Murder mode similar to Madoc's bloodthirst
Definitely Jude's anger
Vain, Charming, Flirtatious like Cardan
Playful like Vivi, Coy like Taryn
With a pinch of lovetalk from Liriope
And ofc, the Greenbriar bloodline from Dain
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