i'm almost done rereading Glass Sword by Victoeia Aveyard, and I've just realized something about Cal that I didn't notice before.
Growing up, Cal was never my favorite. I favored Maven so much, maybe even a little too much. So, Cal was very annoying to me? I hated his every line and I was very irritated with every word he said and every action he took. But I was 13 at that time.
I am 17 years old now. And I've found a sense of maturity I didn't realize I had once discovering this.
Cal Calore is a burning flame. He is passionate and driven, with a kind heart, but he is indecisive, and this flaw drags him down.
I noticed just how often his trauma is overlooked. Cal lost everything. His mother, at a young age. His father. His brother. His friends. His kingdom. His home. His titles. The list goes on. He was taken from everything he knew and slammed down into an entire new world.
He wasn't even welcomed by the Reds. The first thing they did to Cal was lock him up alone when they reached Tuck.
And then when they met Nix, Nix was immediately taunting Cal for being "seduced by Mare into killing his father", but once Cal reveals the truth of what happened, they all fell silent.
No one. Not a single person, except probably Mare, has asked Cal if he was okay.
Cal lost everything. I mean literally everything. And not once in the whole book did we see him cry, break down, or fall apart.
You know, I think it would be pretty interesting if in War Storm they actually did find a Newblood to cure Maven but when he gets cured and back to normal he doesn't remember a single thing he did while under Elara's control because it wasn't him at all and he's like super confused or something when they tell him how long its been and something something idk
If R E D Q U E E N was a series I'd love to be their promp editor . The aesthetics with the crowns would be phenomenal. So muchhh fun!! Took me a few minutes but got chills with the playback. Song is Burn by 2WEII . Thank you @vaveyard for creating such a beautiful world!
something in my soul is touched when i reread the scene in war storm where maven goes to mare's stilts home and destroys it
it feels like he was in mourning, you know? because he had lost her. he lost her so so many times, but she was so close to him THIS time and she slipped right between his fingers like cupped water.
and it specifically feels like mourning because maven calore didn't feel love. all he ever felt was loss and the idea of love that was more leaned toward obsession. so instead of mourning in sadness and depression like he did with thomas, he mourned with rage and destruction with mare.
Title: The Perfect Apple
Author: Hollie47
Word Count: 805
Fandom: Once Upon A Time
Pairing: Ruby Lucas/Regina Mills
Summary: There is something about Ruby that Regina is drawn to, and she wants to be the person that makes her smile.
Also known as the Red Queen in the GoT spin-off series House of the Dragon. I like all dragons in HotD and I didn’t have a particular favourite, until Meleys appeared. I really like her elegant profile and that mane of horns. I drew her without her ‘rider’ even though I like the Rhaenys as well. The dragon in the background is Syrax.
Again not really a drawing that belongs on my Reign of Siderians blog, but oh well...it’s art.
Done with black fineliners and black water colours on postcard sized water colour paper. My usual Ecoline brushpens are empty and they didn’t have them at the artstore...so if I continue inktober, it has to be with other materials.