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hanelizabeth · 2 days

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jude duarte and cardan greenbriar 🥀

(not shadowhunter related but i’m currently rereading the folk of the air and have just been dying to draw these two!)

characters by @/hollyblack 🫶

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starrynightsxo · 3 days

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"I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. 'And you.' He looks at me, his lips curving in something that's not quite a smile; it's more and less than that. 'I knew little else, but I always knew you.'"

- Cardan Greenbriar, The Queen of Nothing

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evelyn376259 · 1 day

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"Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home"

"I look into his black eyes, hoping to see recognition there, but they are cold and empty"

"And with his bare hands, he cracked the Blood Crown in two"

"I poisoned you. Don't worry. It was a small enough dose. You'll live"

"I change the angle of the knife, turning it against his neck. He doesn't look nearly as alarmed by that as I might expect. Not nearly as alarmed as I bring my mouth to his"

"Time to change partners. Oh, did I steal your line?"

#tfota series #tfota #the queen of nothing #tqon #the wicked king #the cruel prince #tcp #jude and cardan #jude x cardan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #high king cardan #prince cardan #jurdan #aesthetic #quotes

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darling-aries · 2 days

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Who's afraid of little old me?

You should be.

#probably jude at some point #jude x cardan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #ttpd #ttpd the anthology #taylor swift #taylorlurking #taylorswift

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moondust-on-the-hijabi · 20 hours

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"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

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avelanlorelay · 2 days

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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

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highladyofterrasen7 · 1 day

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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

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mymymy03 · 21 hours

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“This is ridiculous,” I complain but put mine on.

Cardan looks at his reflection in the door of the microwave and adjusts his crown so it’s at an angle.

I roll my eyes, and he gives me a quick grin. And my heart hurts a little because we are all together and safe , and it wasn’t something I’d known how to want. And Cardan looks a little shy in the face of all this happiness, as unused to it as I am.

— Jude Duarte, Folk of the Air Series: The Queen Of Nothing

#cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #queen of nothing #the cruel prince #their finally happy 🥹#ur honor I love them #cardan and jude #<333 #jude x cardan

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thejudeduarte · 2 days

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How do book boys (shout out to the writers) come up with the most romantic things to say ever??😭 I NEED TO KNOWWW!! They'll just randomly say the most heart aching, gut wrenching, tear shedding poetic shit ever ON. THE. SPOT. Please reveal your secrets

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florsdelluna · 27 days

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Golden hour ✨🧡🍂🧚 #jurdan

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lyyzismess · 2 months

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HAPPY BELATED VALENTINE’S DAY

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starrynightsxo · 2 days

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

- Jude Duarte, The Queen of Nothing

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evelyn376259 · 2 days

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"If you ever loved him, help me"

Artist: LoweanaArt on X

#jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #tfota #the queen of nothing #high king of elfhame #high queen of elfhame #jude x cardan #jude and cardan #jurdan

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rosiethorns88 · 7 months

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Dropping a very special Sketch-a-wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for August! The winning request was to illustrate an off-page scene from The Folk of the Air series, when Cardan was writing his letters to Jude. I countered that Cardan went through the five stages of grief writing those letters, and each deserved it's own illustration. (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance) You'll also notice some familiar outfits throughout! Have a great weekend. :)

#tfota #cardan greenbriar #jude x cardan #jurdan #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the folk of the air #cardan #my art

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baaozher · 4 months

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hi tumblr!!! some jurdan to start the weekend before finals :,)

#jurdan #jude and cardan #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #jude x cardan #the cruel prince #tcp #tcp fanart #the cruel prince fanart #folk of the air #holly black #book fanart #booklover #illustration

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highladyofterrasen7 · 24 days

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If you know, you know

#the cruel prince #the folk of the air #tfota #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #jurdan #comfort character #jude x cardan #tcp #twk #tqon

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