the joy of knowing one of my theories was right vs the agony of what happened in this chapter…
Crone, do not let me walk this road alone. Lend me your light.
one of the immediate stand-out quotes to me from this weeks chapter <3 i love the way you explore religion / the faith of the seven so this caught my attention right away! love getting to see cerelle’s relationship w/ her faith
Had she not been delirious from the pain in her head and chest, she would have almost said the breath fanning across her face smelled of Lucion.
genuinely sick to my stomach over this part 😭 you’ve done such a good job at capturing the absolute horror of ramsay + the boltons but the implication that HE ATE PARTS OF LUCION was enough to make my stomach turn inside out
Benjiamin. Helena. Henrix. Jynessa. Catelyn Stark. Him she would protect. This one time, the gods would allow her to win.
🚬 this intrigues me so much though bc are we ever going to see cerelle start blaming the gods for the fate she endures? but also :(( this just made me sad given what happens at the end
“Paladin, how do you still not grasp your impact after all this time? People rise up in defiance, they dare jump across ravines, they look towards the future instead of the past all because you have shown them such possibilities exist. The mere mention of your name causes people to enter battle, to protect themselves, others, but most importantly you.” “I don’t want them to.”
probably the best summary of cerelle’s character ever imo? she’s the famed hero, the chosen one, the sunshine, the reason that people see hope in the world again but she doesn’t want to be. she doesn’t want any of this but she can’t stop it no matter how many times we see her try!
the description of what they did to lucion’s body just before cerelle put him out of his misery legit made me start tearing up 😭 the cruelty is just unbelievable but you painted such a vivid picture that i could see it so clearly in my mind !!
“When I gave you that mark, I told you may wish for whatever you want, no matter how large or miniscule it may be. However, the only rule I laid upon you was that you may never wish to return someone from the dead. That is a power man should never toy with.”
👀 this line from florian has me rlly intrigued on what’s going to happen with jon ngl especially bc he specifically notes it’s a power than men should never toy with and its the one wish he refuses !!!
it also makes me wonder if / when cerelle finds out about jon being resurrected she’s going to be angry bc the same couldn’t happen for lucion??
😭 i feel sick thinking about what else awaits her at the dreadfort but i am chomping at the bit for the jonelle reunion with all of this in mind !!!
🕊️ fly high lucion lannister
your theory manifested it... the monkey's paw curled and now we are left with this
cerelle and her faith is something i sometimes feel i need to focus on more but then also... it's just a part of her. like it guides her actions to a certain extent but then she also is her own person, capable of free will. the faith of the seven, despite the fact i've made them real for stars above, is mostly a guiding religion. they're there to help people make their own decisions, and i feel that really shows with cerelle.
well, i mean. it's ramsay. he will do everything and anything to torture his victims, and if it's cutting off pieces of their flesh and eating it right before them/drinking their blood as if it were wine... and because we were just talking about the gods - have you considered the lucion cerelle smelled on ramsay was already several days old? stranger's blessing and all, it's much more likely she sensed the decay and not actually directly him
cerelle is certainly going to have a small arc of confronting the gods/fate/the universe for everything that has happened to her. but when and how that will happen... well, who's to say
cerelle is so desperate to keep everyone safe, she cannot fathom letting someone else shoulder even a small part of the burden. yes, she only wants what's best for everyone, but that's her job. and this is not even meant in a "only i can do this correctly" sort of way, but more of a "i cannot allow anyone else to risk themselves" way. but the one thing that truly sends her spiralling is the notion someone would voluntarily put themselves into danger for her. she has gone so much of her life feeling alone and abandoned, so finding out someone would swear themself to her unconditionally feels strange and uncomfortable. why would she believe them now, after all this time?
sorry :( i did say that this book was going to go graphic, but i felt i needed to show the full extent of what lucion suffered through to spare cerelle... also to prove that yeah, cerelle killing him was absolutely necessary. if i hadn't described it so clearly, it wouldn't have had the same impact
the whole resurrection business is definitely something that's going to become a theme going forward... death, life, rebirth... esp with the white walkers and the priests of r'hllor coming into the picture in book six. "how much does death change you" will be so important, and we're going to start seeing it with jon in this book already
well 👀 you'll have to wait and see about cerelle's reaction. not just to the recurrection but jon as he is now as well
🕊️ fly high lucion lannister. fly high
