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Because I don’t know how to express my lowkey need for her AU where she isn’t under Hybern’s thumb and can live with Tamlin. Like seriously. Everything - everything - is Hybern’s fault.

Note: I just find potential in her to be a decent character if she was born in the Courts or smth, and not in Hybern. That’s it. I am in no way condoning her actions.

Also note: This is by no means book-factually correct. I’m relying on the wiki because I lent my book to my senior. Question - did Hybern conquer Prythain before or after the war? Bc I’m taking after.

Here are some headcanons

Amarantha was the King of Hybern’s daughter. As you probably know, the King is abusive and shitty af, in the way that he doesn’t care about her at all. As long as she didn’t interrupt his court or poke her head in his business, she could kill herself and the King would still be glad.

Her mother was a lesser Fae the King courted when he was younger. Little is known about her except she is not alive anymore.

She loved her sister. Her sister did not deserve the life like the Fae from Hybern. Her sister dallied with the human slaves.

She was so, so cunning then, and her power rivalled any other Fae, save for the King. Her mind control was quick and sharp. She used it to get snacks from the kitchen and humour her sister, but more often that not, she heard whispers and saw glimpses of what her father’s court was like.

And it poisoned her.

If something didn’t go your way, force it to happen.

If someone pisses you, kill him.

If you don’t get what you want, throw a fucking tantrum.

Kids learn how to read and speak. Amarantha learned how to court and wield dark magic. She learnt how to burn her enemies until the only thing left were their bones, and build a throne of crown out of them.

But Clythia was innocent. She loved her, the way Clythia could make her smile when the overuse of magic gave her headaches and blurred her eyesight. She loved Clythia because she was strong and stubborn and she believed that the world could be better, even if Amarantha didn’t.

She loved her because Clythia was the only family left.

Then the war came. The King noticed Amarantha’s power, and she rose to become his greatest general. She was on the ‘kill all humans’ side, but Clythia loved a mortal.

To please her father, or to save her sister?

Amarantha spared the couple. She spared them, as long as she could. But then Jurian killed her.

Jurian killed her. And when the war concluded, she went into a blind rage and butchered him.

She went into a blind rage and conquered Prythain, because how dare they live and be so happy when Clythia was dead.

[Somewhen in between the Rhysand-Tamlin butchering occurred.]

She saw Tamlin before. She doesn’t remember when. Her life before Clythia’s death was blurry and unreachable.

But she saw him, and she decided I want him.

So she was getting him. But Tamlin angered her, and in a fit, she tore out Lucien’s eye. But she needed Tamlin, so a masquerade ball it was, because ‘maybe if he doesn’t see me, he might like me better’.

Tamlin rejected. She screamed, cursing the Court to wear the mask for eternity.

But by the Cauldron. Tamlin had to be hers. She offered to lift the curse, but he rejected by saying Clythia had preferred a mortal to her, and he felt the same because she was a monster.

So what? She was a monster, and she was going to show him how much.

She created the Blight.

She, with that twisted but oh, so sharp mind rivalling a daemati’s of her, tricked the other six High Lord to give her their magic. She was now their dark Queen.

But was she happy?

Rumours started going around saying that Tamlin had a human lover. And no, no, no, no one could be with Tamlin. She had made sure of that, with his stone heart.

She tried to kill that girl, without angering Tamlin. She put Tamlin in a trance, forever standing beside her, forever staring helplessly passive.

She gave the girl a riddle. The answer was impossibly elusive because only she knew what it felt like.

Love. Cruel, twisted, love.

But the girl won still. How, how, how? She snapped her neck, tried to snap every single bone in  her body. But the girl whispered, love.

And the spell broke.

And Tamlin killed her, in the same fit of rage she used to destroy everything.

This is definitely not one of my better works, I know, but I needed an excuse for procrastination. TSSOH features innocent Lucy [surname], whose boy friend just broke up with her. Brokenhearted, she would do anything to get him back. So she joins the cult of girl-witch that has magic in order to get the magic and whatssit.

At first I thought this was a standalone thriller and was like hell no, I really like this book. But there’s a second book, Book of Love, and according to Goodreads, it seems to me that the second book is bad. But whatever, because I never have any good tastes in the first place and I’m reading it.

There is no one female character that really appeals to me, but I find Amren rather interesting. I need to know what is she and what world is she from. I headcannon that in another world, her form has no gender, or that’s she a boy, but the words were from a song so heh. I also HC that she looks asian, because ToG witches do and I associate them with each other.