#the forbidden romance elriel

[cateyesinlove]

💫When Emerie falls in love ✨

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Art by @isis_villalobos_art

Commissioned by me

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Part two of three of Valentine’s Day commisions! Hope everyone is having a delightful day 🥰❤️

I am IN LOVE with how this commission turned out my dearest @isis_villalobos_art did the best of the jobs 😭 my girls look so beautiful and in love 🫶🏽 This two own my heart and as it hurts me to say this “crackship (😭) “ owns my heart, the possibility of this is like so slim but I will hold the gwynerie fort strong for us

See you guys later for part three 👀❤️ CANT wait! Let me know if you guys might know who it is about

#acotar #acosf #emerie acosf #gwyn berdara #emerie of illyria #emerie acotar #gwyneth berdara #gwynerie #gwynerie fanart #MY GIRLS #UGH #this two could be THE romcom of the Sarah j mass universe we need some light heart love stories #the absolute supremacy of friends to lovers #we have the destined to be together Feysand #healing yourself for love Nessian #the forbidden romance elriel #the tragedy that the guys said fuck now and saved his girl Vassian #give me romcom gwynerie

[ariastarke]

You want SJM to write another book about training to fight because you can’t comprehend a female character being badass and having agency unless she holds a sword.

I want SJM to write a book about Elain training to be a spy because it plays on themes of everyone underestimating her, her powers as a seer, claiming agency in the NC, becoming a hidden weapon, and still maintaining the roots of her character.

We are not the same.

#acotar. elain archeron #pro elain #elriel #we already got the feyre and nesta found family books where is elain’s #i’m suffering #also i feel like there will probably be those self defense lessons as well but like #ESPIONAGE?? FORBIDDEN ROMANCE?? #i think about what sjm said about the wwii spies daily #also i could go on for HOURSSS about the parallels between the way feyre nesta and elain train and why emphasis is put on different things #for different sisters #but maybe that’s for another day 👀 #hush m #book. acotar

[intairnwetrust]

Elriel based on The Kiss by Silvio Allason

Art by @Sunni_rae_art on Instagram

#I AM IN LOVE #the forbidden romance #elriel fanart #pro elriel #elriel #elain archeron #azriel shadowsinger

[rheaxs]

a vibe which i think can fit elriel 🥀💫🧸☘🌷

(headcanon of this aesthetic: them running in green fields and tulip gardens, happy and blissfully in love after getting married. also them buying a cottage near a lake, where they can finally and officially be together after months of having a forbidden/ secret relationship. basically them being able to proclaim their love to eachother and the world)

#elriel #feysand #acotar #garden #romance #secret life #forbidden romance #nessian #aesthetic #maasverse #sarah j maas #azriel #elain archeron #pro elriel #pro elain

[sapaul]

Let’s not lie to ourselves and say that forbidden romance is not the best trope.

You know it’s the best. I know it. We know it. Azriel knows it. Elain knows it. Sarah knows it.

Glad we can all agree on that besties 🫶

#elriel #forbidden romance #grumpy sunshine trope #forbidden romance trope #sjm #sarah j mass #pro azriel #azriel #azriel shadowsinger #elain archeron #acosf #azriel supremacy #acotar #elain archeron: general #acofas #pro elriel

[thyeldenwitch]

some of you (cough) don’t understand the helen of troy/paris and guinevere/lancelot implications of elriel and it shows ....

might make a full on post analyzing it because just the thought drives me CRAZY

#elain archeron #elriel #pro elriel #pro elain #forbidden romance who brings kingdoms crashing down my beloved

[bloomingdarkgarden]

Elain and Azriel hide away from the world for a night.

#elain archeron #azriel #elriel #acotar #acotar aesthetic #acotar fanfiction #the night court #sjm #pro elain #starfall #forbidden romance

[nightcourtseer]

Read on A03

Summary: The IC heads to Rita’s to blow off some steam after the events of ACOSF. And someone gets jealous.

Pairing: Elriel

Warning: Explicit

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The band playing at Rita’s was so loud that Elain felt the bass reverberate in her chest like a second heartbeat.

It was her first time at the dance club, and initially she was somewhat shocked at the sensualness of it - so many bodies writhing in time to the music on the dance floor, red velvet booths lining the outer walls for guests who merely wishes to observe the revelry.

Nesta, Cassian, Mor and Azriel had invited her to join them, while Feyre and Rhys stayed behind with Nyx.

They all needed to blow off a little steam after the past 6 months.

After two drinks each, Mor had dragged them all to the dance floor. She had almost had to physically drag Azriel there, while he avoided Elain’s gaze almost entirely.

As the group paired up, Elain was left alone - but not for long.

A towering high fae, nearly as tall and intimidating as Azriel and Cassian, made his way through the crowd to Elain.

He was handsome, Elain noted, with pale blond hair, tan skin and cerulean eyes. Pointed ears poked through the way of the hair curling slightly around them.

“Hello,” he said, with a wide smile, looking Elain up and down in a way that made her flush as pink as her dusty rose gown.

“Are you looking for a partner?”

Elain froze, until she saw Cassian looking at her from the side, giving her a teasing smile and an encouraging flick of his head, even as he turned Nesta in his arms. Her sister spinning effortlessly under his arm, lost in the music.

Because why wouldn’t Elain accept the attention from this male? Even though she had a mate, they had not accepted the bond. And with each passing month, Lucien’s attentions seemed focus elsewhere.

“Yes,” Elain affirmed with a nervous smile, eyes flicking toward Cassian as he gave her a thumbs up before disappearing once more amid the revelers with Nesta.

A weight lifted off her shoulders as he disappeared, but that still left the male before her, who now held a hand out to her expectantly.

As she went to took it however, it was sharply pulled back.

Looking up at his face, in confusion, Elain saw his focus was now directed elsewhere. His eyes locked on something, or someone, behind her.

Elain whirled around, just in time to see an Illyrian male standing with his arms crossed, glowering at the male in front of her. A fallen angel among a crowd of ordinary fae.

“Do you know him?” The blond male asked hesitantly.

Elain spied Cassian through the crowd, making his way closer to her once more.

“Barely,” Elain breathed, reaching out to grasp his hand before he pulled it away completely.

“Let’s dance.”

………….

Four songs later and Elain was out of breath, frustrated heat rising from within her each time she spied Azriel sending daggers to the male turning her.

At last, Elain saw an opening to leave the male, claiming the need for a rest and some fresh air. The male offered to accompany her but Elain politely declined, slipping out the front door of the bar before he had a chance to protest.

Cool air embraced her overheated skin as Elain escaped into the late evening stillness. She pressed the back of her hand to her forehead, delicately wiping away the beads of sweat that she found there.

Her dress was beautiful, but somewhat impractical for an overcrowded bar and a warm summer night. Granted, it did show more skin than Elain would typically allow. A deep vee dipped all the way to her navel, thin straps balancing on her lithe shoulders to support the weight of the layers of tulle on the bottom half.

When she heard voices from farther down the street, Elain ducked into the nearby alley which was mercifully empty, save for one figure at the other end, nearly entirely shrouded in shadow.

At the sight of the imposing figure, darkness cloaking his features, Elain ran.

And then she was in Azriel’s arms, fingers raking through his dark hair as she kissed him as if he was the last source of oxygen in Prythian.

Azriel gripped underneath her thighs as if it was nothing - he didn’t even stumble as she launched herself at him.

He frantically began pushing up the tulle of her dress skirts, her weight balanced in one arm while she reached down as well to undo his trousers, yanking them past his arousal.

“Please, I need you now, please,” heat flushed Elain’s pretty cheeks as she begged for him.

Azriel let out a low sound, something crossed between a growl and moan as his eyes rolled up slightly.

“Fuck, Elain…”

Finally, Elain’s skirts were bunched up enough above her belly to reveal that she wore nothing underneath.

Azriel swore when he looked down, at the wetness gleaming back at him in the glow from the solitary alley light.

“I need you,” Elain breathed, her voice shaking with desire as she writhed in his arms - the source of what she needed so close.

Even though she knew they were enveloped by Azriel’s shadows, invisible to any passerby who happened to stumble past, the thrill of discovery gave Elain a new sense of heat swirling in her lower belly.

At her show of desperation, a dark smirk tugged at the corner of Azriel’s mouth. He forced himself to breathe, to slow his own rush for her.

“You hardly know me though, Elain.” He stilled, thumbs lightly caressing small circles against the top of her thighs where he held her. Close, but not close enough to where Elain needed him.

Elain cursed herself for saying it to that male.

A fresh pool of arousal gathered and then slipped between her parted legs.

She didn’t have to wait much longer, as Azriel entered her with a long, slow thrust. Bottoming out and then pulling back to continue a languid, but shallow rhythm.

Elain clenched around him, her breath hitching as she looked down to where he entered her. Her arousal coated him from base to tip more thoroughly with each stroke through her tightness.

“But you know my cock pretty well, don’t you?”

Elain’s rose colored lips parted as she looked up at him, a pretty blush flushing from her cheeks all the way down the vee of her dress, between her breasts.

“Who gives you his cock whenever you need it?” Azriel’s voice was a low, sultry growl pressed against her ear.

“You,” Elain whined back, arching her back, trying to pull him in closer, trying to maneuver herself to better meet his thrusts, to encourage him to increase his pace.

“Who would die for you, Elain?” he breathed, holding her firm even as she writhed in his grasp.

“You.”

“Who would kill for you, Elain?”

A shiver ran up the length of her spine, the edge of pain from the brick wall against the naked skin of her back the only thing that seemed to satisfy the itch. She hoped her unbound hair would cover any red scratches until they healed.

“Who loves you?”

Elain stilled in Azriel’s arms, looking up at him through dark lashes as he pulled away from her ear to look at her, her brown eyes blown wide, tears of desperation and need beginning to shine in the corners.

“You, Azriel.”

At the sound of his name, Azriel sunk in all the way and Elain threw her head back against the wall. He barely had time to lift a hand to cradle the crown of her head, to keep her from earning a nasty headache.

When he fucked her then, it was not slow, nor lazy.

Elain clawed at his back, tilting her hips and neck to give him better access to both. Azriel nipped and kissed at the exposed column as he increased his steady pace until it was maddening, pushing them both closer and closer to the edge.

The only sounds in the alley came from Elain’s choked whimpers, and the pulse of the music from the other side of the wall.

When Azriel slipped a hand between them, Elain knew she was about to fall. A scarred finger traced around where they were connecting, where he never lost his rhythm, and then dragged upward, circling her swollen bud.

His lips pressed against her neck, whispering praise into her ear that would make the heroine’s in Nesta’s romance novels blush.

“I can feel you, Elain. I know you’re about to come.”

Elain let out a strangled sob even as she tried to wait for him.

“Let go, Elain.”

His encouragement was all she needed as she clenched around him, pulling him in impossibly further as she fell apart in her arms. Wordless cries disappeared into the damp skin of his neck as her body was wracked with pleasure.

She didn’t have to worry, as Azriel followed her, his own pleasure spurred on by the way she tightened around him like a vice. He silenced himself by muffling a choked moan on her shoulder, and then with slow kisses as they both stilled.

“I love you,” he ghosted across her exposed collarbone, breath uneven as he tried to catch it.

“I love you,” she echoed back to him, shrugging him away so that she could kiss him fully, the shadowsinger gone and in his place, her sweet Azriel from the garden.

“We better get back inside before the others notice we’re gone.”

Azriel let out a low sound of complaint, slowly easing her back down to the ground, ensuring she was steady on her feet before kneeling before her and pulling a clean cloth from his shadows, as some made their way back from their sentry post.

He lifted the tulle of her dress once more to carefully clean their mess from between her thighs, and Elain shivered at the sensitivity.

When he was finished, he pressed a lingering kiss to her center and then stood to tower over her once more.

“Do you think you fooled Cassian?” He asked, a gleam in his hazel eye as he referred to her theatrics in the bar.

“Almost sure,” Elain affirmed with her own secret smile. “Nesta on the other hand… may suspect something.”

“Maybe I’ll have to take things into my own hands then,” Azriel offered, as he walked Elain to the front door.

A small warning growl of jealousy from Elain.

“Only if you’re prepared for the consequences.”

She gave him a sultry smile, watching as his hazel eyes darkened once more before she turned to walk back into the club.

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#elriel #elain archeron #azriel #acotar fanfiction #pro elriel #elain x azriel #pro elain #elriel fanfiction #azriel shadowsinger #elriel fic #elriel smut #forbidden romance #secret relationship

[megumitaichou]

Azriel's name carrying that EL like a literal ship😌

#elriel #azriel #acotar #sjm books #elain x azriel #elain archeron #pro elriel #forbidden romance

[lorcandidlucienwill]

Friendly reminder that not only would Elriel not be a forbidden romance, but LUCIEN ALREADY DID THE FORBIDDEN ROMANCE (with Jesminda), and not only did it end badly, but Azriel can only DREAM of doing that shit as well as Lucien did it.

#stop attributing lucien’s traits to azriel challenge elriels #level: impossible #lucien vanserra #pro lucien vanserra #elucien #pro elucien #anti e/riel

[lovemyromance]

SJM: I thought it was obvious??

AKA - No analysis needed. The clues are there. Things are already happening.

Please keep your 80 page PowerPoints and highlighted words from your “8 books of canon” (none of which are actually from ACOTAR, btw) to yourself.

“I thought it was obvious” = no deep dives needed. No extrapolation or analysis necessary. The words are already on the page. You don’t have to work harder than SJM to come up with your own theories (*cough* see HOFAS crazy hype theories vs actual book)

“I thought it was obvious”

The ONLY couple currently mutually attracted to each other is Elriel. They have had moments since ACOMF. ACOSF did not end them, it gave them the setup for the next book. They are set up for the greatest tortured forbidden romance of the series, how can you dispute that? Why would you WANT to dispute that love story? I don’t want ACOSF 2.0 which was all physical and no substance. I want an angsty, slow forbidden romance. I want to fall in love when the characters fall in love. Elriel will give us that.

“I thought it was obvious”

The other ships do NOT exist on the page at the moment. Elucien, I will give credit to because they are still mates so that COULD happen still. But right now, where ACOSF ended, they had barely even seen each other in a year. The only romantic coded interactions have been between Azriel & Elain thus far.

“I thought it was obvious”

Elucien & Gw*riel have not shared any romantic moments. There is no romance between them at this current time in the series. I am not talking about “what could happen” or “what could Sarah be setting up” because she said it was obvious. That means it’s there already. There’s no reason to hypothesize and theorize about ships that don’t currently exist in the book. Because - and say it with me-

“I thought it was obvious”

What is obvious about elucien? Other than the fact that they are mates. That’s it. That’s all they have. Not even a conversation on the page. Not even a shared shy glance or brush of their fingers. It’s the equivalent of an arranged marriage neither of them seems to want. Analyzing 20 sentences about flowers and sunlight, going out of your way to prove feyre is an “unreliable” narrator when she questions the bond (but Cassian, fashion police of Velaris, is a very very reliable narrator)-Why? Is any of that obvious to the casual reader? No.

“I thought it was obvious”

I’m not even going to spend many words talking about Gw*nriel, as I don’t see it as anything more than a crackship. They have like 4 platonic interactions. Friendly. Banter, sure. But not all banter is a clue that people are predestined soulmates. Most people who read their interactions are not going to overanalyze spark and glow and shadow behavior. They shouldn’t have to because - again - none of that is obvious.

“I thought it was obvious”

Shy glances and subtle scenes in the background wasn’t enough for those who claim to be reading experts. So SJM released a bonus chapter where in clear black and white text, you see both Azriel and Elain desperate for each other. This man is willing to BEG on his knees for a taste of her/ the end. Why would you even want him with anyone else after that?

“I thought it was obvious”

All these characters I’ve mentioned have been supporting characters this entire series. Nothing concerning them is going to happen in someone else’s book-but the seeds have been sewn. Any scene with Elain could have been written with Lucien or her sisters instead of Azriel - but it wasn’t.

Ex: when majda says, “if anyone can figure out what’s wrong, it’s a mate”

Lucien is THERE. Feyre is THERE. Nesta is THERE. But who figures it out - not her mate, nor her sisters - Azriel.

Lucien could’ve shown her the garden, feyre could’ve sat with her and listened to Elain’s garden plans till 3am - but no - it was Azriel.

And this man is the only one in the NC I’m convinced that has an actual job and responsibilities. So he is choosing to spend what little free time he has with ELAIN. What’s not clicking, folks?

“I thought it was obvious”

Sarah-we love her-but she is Queen of cliches. Her writing is not some insane thriller level that has you gasping every page turn. She likes threes, she likes happy endings, she likes her male LIs desperate for their female counterparts. The answer to Amarantha’s riddle was LOVE. CC had “through love all is possible”.

You really think she wrote the line “hoped love would trump even a mating bond” and it meant nothing?

SJM doesn’t do anything easy. But she said it was obvious- because it IS.

#elriel #pro elain #elain archeron #elain x azriel #azriel

[kita98]

SJM when asked who the next book is about

Antis: "there's no foreshadowing between Elriel, their interactions are not romantic. Have you read the BC??!!"

the BC: there she was, Az had stayed by the door the whole time in case it became too much and needed to leave (his secret to tell never hers), they'd exhanged looks, the occasional brush of their fingers, Azriel wanting to get on his knees to taste Elain, Az and Elain about to kiss.

Antis: "elriel is too obvious, SJM wouldn't do that"

sjm setting up the forbidden romance for the spymaster who had lovers he kept secret and the seer who knows how to keep secrets and had her sister wondering if she took lessons in stealth by Azriel or her besties who are spies (and work with him).

#elriel #pro elriel #it's obvious for a reason #she has been setting everything up to tell their story since ACOMAF #elriel endgame #anti el*cien #anti gw*nriel

[works-of-heart]

For E/riel to happen,

A lot of major changes to the story need to occur. E/riel theories are often convoluted and contradicting, but let's go over some of the things that need to happen, for these E/riel theories shall we?

Elain and Lucien's bond has to be 'wrong or corrupt' while everyone else's is perfectly fine.

Lucien and Azriel need to have a blood duel where Lucien dies.

The bond is fake and they'll both have a good laugh about it.

Elain will reject the bond, but will always still have her bond with Lucien. She'll just go with Azriel and he'll be totally ok with it.

BOTH Elain and Lucien will reject the bond, which...somehow it just what, goes away? They will both find love with someone who isn't their mate, Az/Vassa, but constantly feel the pull to eachother since the bond doesn't go away. Lucien will eventually be driven mad.

Lucien has to be a cheater. Being a mated male and his whole characteristic of being fiercely loyal? Out the window.

Jurien has to betray them or die, since Jassa is a contendor to Vassien. Jassa cannot happen so we must get rid of Jurien.

Gwyn has to be evil

Gwyn's a Lightsinger/luring Azriel, so him wanting to see her cannot be of his own volition or a draw to any mating bond, it's because he's under a spell.

Gwyn is going to betray Azriel

Gwyn and Elain are going to fight over Azriel, which Gwyn will reveal her evil ploy

Gwyn cannot exist past SF and will fade into obscurity

Someone is forcing Elain to be with Lucien, in which she and Azriel must sneak around with their forbidden desires before someone steps in and fights for their happiness.

Lucien just fades into obscurity or dies trying to protect Elain which she goes to Az anyway.

Elucien happens in the first book, but then Lucien turns into a sudden asshole and pushes Elain away where she realizes she loved Az all along? The second book is Elain and Azriel getting together...which would be all of 5 pages.

For Elucien to happen,

Elain and Lucien need to spend time together and get to know eachother.

For Gwynriel to happen,

Azriel and Gwyn spend time together.

Azriel stops focusing on his lack of a mate and listen to his shadows who are clearly telling him the woman he's looking for is right in front of him.

That's it.

For Elucien/Gwynriel to happen, all they have to do is spend more time together. We don't need anyone to lose their HEA, we don't need to kill off any characters, or make anyone suffer. Everyone gets a HEA, which in a romance novel that's about soulmates and love and healing and fantasy, that's what it's about. This isn't GoT/SOIAF where people need to be scheming and die.

What sounds more likely? 2 books left focusing on 2 different ships like Eluciend and Gwynriel? Seeing 4 people get their HEA and possibly some blooming side ships like Jassa and Mor/Emire? Or, 2 books, one focusing on Elriel, where one of the many horrible and depressing options happen, with the second book being someone else entirely, or Vassien? Which again, would be breaking characters.

You tell me.

#elucien #pro elucien #elucien supremacy #elain x lucien #pro lucien vanserra #anti e/riel #pro gwynriel #gwynriel #gwyn x azriel

[acourtoflight]

Why are people not excited for elriel?

We’ll have the rejected mate bond situation, friends to lovers, some kind of forbidden romance so possibly sneaking around…what is there not to like? To hell with 3 brothers 3 sisters being “cliché”, give me the GOOD romance

#pro elriel #elriel #pro elain #elriel endgame #acotar #pro azriel

[greenleaf777]

Anyone wonder how sjm will incorporate the whole forbidden romance rhys drama into the next book? Will she straight up stick the bonus chapter into azriels other povs. Like a flashback?

Since it was a bc not many readers have actually read it and know that happens.

I kinda hope she abandons rhys being against elriel being together or solves the issue early on. Cause if i was az i would be hard pressed to forgive rhys for doing what he did, az deserves to have his brothers support. and elain wouldn’t be raring to be rhys’ bffs after that.

I hope rhys apologizes to azriel early on and has a “i was in a bad place” kind of conversation with him about him thinking he and feyre may die.

#elriel #a court of thorns and roses #acotar #azriel x elain #elain x azriel #elain archeron #rhysand #azriel #azriel acotar #rhysand acotar #acosf #a court of silver flames

[boldlyvoid]

I really need the elriel book to be like forbidden romance, sneaking around together but calling it just sex. Something to take the edge off until it becomes the song causal like sure they have great sex in random places but she’s also met his mom and slept beside him in the room he didn’t grow up in but it’s His space at his moms house. Like she knows every secret and every thought of his and he’s heard every story and fear and dream of hers and they’re best friends in the entire world and at some point the sex goes from being crazy and out of the blue and quick to long drawn out love making sessions where neither one of them wants to leave at the end. They end up naked cuddling and he covers her shoulder in kisses and whispers “I love you” when he thinks she’s asleep and she has to control her breathing and pretend she didn’t just hear the single best sentence leave the lips of the man she’s so desperately in love with.

#elriel #acotar #pro elriel