#like srcying aside

[gopeachllama]

ever since i read acosf, i've had this scene in my head that i can't get out. It happens right after the fallout with nesta and feyre. Feyre is furious and she won't speak to rhys. He's at the end of his rope. the one thing he was counting on, being able to tell feyre on his own terms - preferably with a solution - was taken from him. He's spiralling quickly, catastrophically. And feyre won't even look at him. With the final semblance of a coherent thought, rhys goes to elain. He's completely distraught by the time he find the middle archeron sister. And he drops to his knee at her feet, hands roughly fisting her skirt as he cries into the fabric. he ask her - begs her - to look, to See.

"Tell me that you can See her, that you can See them. Tell me that they will be okay. Please. Please."

Elain, obviously, can't. though she tries. but she can't conjour visions at will, let alone specific one. She doesn't know that much about her gifts, she's too untrained. And understanding what her visions are telling her like wading through muddy waters. After that day, rhys doesn't ask elain again, but she tries, every single night. And between the screams she hears coming from the mountains, the ivy she feels twining around her legs, all she Sees is black.

#i will go to my grave believing that twilight baby plotline was the worst part of acosf and i wish it never happened #but it did happen so did this post #ok now it's out of my head and i don't have to think about it anymore #but fr elain's seer power's were completely ignored in acosf #like how did they not even think to utilise it for the purposes of finding the DT objects or the queen? #like srcying aside #elain can see the future??? HELLO????? #anyway yes this is my hc where in one last desperate attempt rhys beg elain to look into the future #to see if feyre and nyx are alive and healthy #and when elain eventually can't bc she's isn't trained #then this will get rhys to realise and get the ball rolling in acotar 5 to start to tran her #elain archeron #rhys #rhysand #acosf #acotar headcanon #ig? #acotar