#kings cage

[ball-of-butter]

i love that red queen puts family as the chief unit of love even above true romantic love like that for some reason is SO overrated in ya media. i dont think of the characters within friendship or romantic groups first, i unconsciously catergorise them into their family.

cal loves mare but cal will put maven first always and he loves his dad and his image so much he’s willing to sacrifice his character and relationship with her to fulfil the expectations set by his family and its not until realising what his MOTHER wanted for him that he lets go. and mare loves cal but she will always put her siblings and parents first which is why everything started with gisa and shade’s loss and it ended with her sister and the loss of her brother too. maven loves mare but he loves elara more even if she twisted him and elara loves maven more than the entire kingdom and thats why she twisted him. and elara couldn’t enact her plan to make maven king without getting rid of his love for cal first!! when shade gets killed mare HAS to kill elara because that is the only way she can make sure her pain is even with at least one person.

cameron does everything for her brother’s safety, she was willing to abandon her morals and dehumanise anyone standing in her way if thats what needed to happen. and after morrey was safe she quit— nothing was worth losing herself over except him. farley and shade’s love was so pure that it brought life and family to the farleys who were already broken with the grief of being halved. their love brought a daughter named after the death of the woman that destroyed the family, and it was so healing.

and that is what KILLS me about the samos family!!! that compared to all this unconditional loyalty— the samos family is a continuous act of playing at love and loyalty, when in reality volos and larentia could not care less about their children because they dont know how to. silver society never showcases this love and so then you have so many parents fucking up their kid in so many ways but doing it out of love because thats how they see it— all except volo and larentia.

so the samos family is an exception. i cant think of evangeline without thinking of elane and ptolemus and i cant think of ptolemus without thinking of evangeline and wren. thats their family. and at least evangeline and ptolemus experienced real love with each other, even if they were never taught it (evangeline’s fear over shade’s death was proof that she could imagine a world without him and it was one of the few times she was genuinely scared in the series).

#even the cygnets- for as minor as they were- showed themselves as a unit. iris mourning her father and raging at his loss.her being homesick #mare is one of the few ya protags to have both parents be living in the series and im so grateful for it #family as an explored concept and theme is such a weak spot for me and i genuinely believe thats why i- #-hyperfixated so much on the series #red queen #red queen series #war storm #glass sword #kings cage #maven calore #mare barrow #elane haven #ptolemus samos #evangeline samos #cameron cole #morrey cole #diana farley #clara farley #clara farley-barrow #shade barrow #willis farley #gisa barrow #elara merandus #tiberias calore vii #cal calore #tiberias calore vi #coriane jacos #larentia viper #volo samos #rewriting

[lilyharvord]

It’s all: “you could have been my red queen” this and “thief/obviously” that, but WHEN are we going to talk about: “I thought of you in the end, I saw your face in the water.”????? HMMM?! When? When are we going to talk about this?

#red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm #marecal #are we really going ignore the most romantic declaration of love ever made by a stupid YA male?? #are we just going to ignore the implications?! #this was the moment I KNEW marecal was end game #no other YA male could ever #like ever come close to this line #my jaw DROPPED #I was even more in love with him #and I’m convince it was the reason mare said eh fuck it and stayed that night #we’re just all going to keep on ignore this line and I hate that #like who do you know in YA that has so casually thrown out the more gut wrenching love declaration?!? #none of them #so get off my bois ass #he was 22 and in LOVE #cal calore #mare barrow

[planetmaven]

one thing i notice so much about maven is how he's always describing himself as "the shadow of the flame."

maven being the shadow, and cal being the flame.

he's obviously pointing out that Cal has always been more prioritized than him. More seen, more loved.

But the thing about flames is that they don't have shadows.

It's so significant because Maven feels that he doesn't even EXIST when Cal is around.

Like I just let that sink in today and I feel so so much for him. 😭

#ren💌maven #i love maven so bad end me #maven pookie my number 1 fr #authors #booklr #books & libraries #bookworm #victoria aveyard #maven calore #cal calore #red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm

[boykingmaven]

Maven Calore

#acomaf #shatter me #kings cage #red queen #bookart #mare barrow #mare x maven #maven calore #books #cruel prince #cal calore

[tfotaandstuff]

if i had a nickel for every time the main character in a ya book's ex who betrayed them and then married someone else got killed with a letter opener by the first person they got engaged to, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

#maven calore #locke #mare barrow #taryn duarte #tfota #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm

[annamatix]

you have no idea how relieved i am that i'm not mentally insane and it's actually normal to like maven better than cal and prefer mareven regardless of how "toxic" it is

#thank you for the validation tumblr #maven calore #mare barrow #mareven #team maven #victoria aveyard #red queen #kings cage #war storm

[a-library-ghost]

so we all picture him as maven calore right

#he’s literally perfect #timothée chalamet #maven calore #red queen #victoria aveyard #glass sword #kings cage #war storm #rq Movie #rq #maven calore fan cast #rq fan cast #mare barrow #cal calore

[northernember]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BESTEST BOY,

CAL!!!!

Im so sad I wasnt able to finish the piece I was drawing for this day, alas I was fighting for my life

so have this old drawing I never uploaded of the birthday boy

#cal calore #tiberias vii calore #red queen series #red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm #my art #i didn’t like how this one came out so I didn’t upload it initially #its grown on me tho #still might redraw it at a later date #cause I love the concept but I don’t think it fully captures what I was going for #also realized i forgot to signature it #such a bad habit of mine it seems lol #anyways enjoy!! #and happy birthday to the boy!!

[darlingod]

Just remembered Mare walked in on Maven in the bathtub GOODEST OF BYES I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT ABOUT THIS

#mare barrow #maven calore #kings cage

[bookbitch22]

I no nobody will ever understand what the red queen series means to me , I started it straight and ended it very Bi . It was the first book series that I ever read properly and it launched me into this great community that made me feel comfortable being me . I found myself In Evangeline, Maven , Farley and Cal. They were my friends when I didn’t have many .

I don’t know if anyone will ever understand or if anyone’s ever felt this way about a series before but I feel like it needs to be said that I love the red queen series .

Watch this get like 2 notes now that I’ve just poured my heart and soul out .

#red queen #tiberias vii calore #victoria aveyard #kings cage #glass sword #war storm #red queen series

[sixofhoez]

No one understands how much I love Mare for not hiding her M scar. Instead, displaying it proudly to not only show that she survived, but to really paint the picture of how much of a Monster Maven was.

She so brave

#red hood #realm breaker #tiberias vii calore #victoria aveyard #marecal #mare x maven #mare barrow #maven calore #war storm #glass sword #kings cage

[ball-of-butter]

worst decision aveyard has ever made ever was make maven a man because can you even CONCEIVE how legit fem!maven would be can you even conceive it can you even conceptualise toxic yuri mareven omg omg you guys would never hear from me again

#imagine how that would change the dynamic maven had with EVERYONE. like keep everything the same except change mavens gender oh my godddd #cal the worshipped eldest son and maven the neglected wasted daughter #the only one who believes in her is her mother and her brother’s fiance who’s in love with her brother but maven is in love with her #toxic yuri mareven would go so crazy. feel like walter white cooking up meth just from thinking of this 💀 #and toxic merandus mommy-daughter dynamic. 7029383030 injured no survivors #maven calore #red queen #mareven #red queen series #war storm #glass sword #kings cage #mare barrow #elara merandus #tiberias vii calore #rewriting

[lilyharvord]

To the illiterate people with 0 reading comprehension that I have seen on tik tok today claiming that Maven deserved Mare, that it was stupid and "unfair" that he didn't get her, and that clearly with his trauma and what his mother did to him he deserved her:

I would just like to issue a sincere Fuck You to you and any future illiterate children you produce.

#red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm #it took so so much will power not to ANNIHILATE them #I swear #books like SJM and rebecca Yarrow and others like them are PROMOTING THIS BULLSHIT THINKING #I am going to scream #I literally cannot be apart of the reading community anymore if these are the thoughts people are having #this is utterly ridiculous #tell me you didn't pay attention in middle school english class without telling me #tell me you lack reading comprehension without telling me #tell me you lack basic human brain power without telling me #i'm old and I am angry #this is just ridiculous now #must we cycle though the same stupid rhetoric over and over again? #dear lord #If I hear one more person say he “deserved” her #I'm going to push them in front of a bus

[planetmaven]

one of my absolute favorite things about the multi povs in King's Cage - War Storm, is the fact that every single person that had a pov chapter (besides Maven) has called or referred to Maven as a child.

I rly wish I had ss for this but I'm too lazy to go through every chapter to find them (💀)

but I remember that the more the story went on, the more the characters began to realize what a child Maven was. which is ironic considering the fact that he turned from a boy prince that no one looked at to the King of Norta who everyone feared.

everyone slowly began to realize what a child Maven Calore truly was. and it's almost haunting. the only person who I feel always knew was Cal.

#i remember a scene where maven pouts because mare threw the dress he gifted her in a corner #i remember so so very vividly that he was constantly called a “child” in war storm #hes just a baby #ren💌maven #victoria aveyard #authors #booklr #books & libraries #bookworm #maven calore #red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm

[artsychanel]

posting this mareven art i made a while ago based on this vampire!au i read on ao3 (To Drink a Poisoned Cup - beforeilearnedcivility), i should draw them more! [ID: Two paintings of Maven Calore and Mare Barrow from the Red Queen Series. In the first one, Maven is on the lest, wearing a black shirt with a red vest and black ascot with a gem fastened at the neck. Mare is wearing a black dress, grey cross necklace with a red gem at the intersection, and holding a dagger. The second painting is the same, but both of their mouths are open to reveal fangs. Maven has blood dripping from his mouth. /end ID] ty drewtanakagf! 

#red queen #red queen series #victoria aveyard #maven calore #mare barrow #mareven #kings cage #mare x maven #the messier the dynamic the better

[redqueenincorrectquotes]

Therapist: I believe you said that your childhood experience was satisfactory?

Maven: No, you misheard me. I said it was a “sadness factory.

#incorrect red queen quotes #maven calore #red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm