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So you agree they’re obvious?

It’s not a fucking Sherlock Holmes novel. The romance in a romantasy series is supposed to be obvious. Some of these takes are why romantasy readers get a bad reputation…

it’s completely fine if you don’t like that direction or you’re hoping that’s not the story sjm gives her. but saying there aren’t any hints is craaaazy.

1. Elain wants to go back to Graysen

2. The rejected mating bond is actually about LoA, Beron, and Helion (mind you we don’t even know if there’s a mating bond there)

Which tells me that GAs immediately caught on that E/ucien isn’t happening. They need another male character to interfere so it won’t be Azriel.

But Elain did not balk from him, did not shy away as she nodded—just once. Azriel, graceful as any courtier, offered her an arm.

“Why not make them mates?” I mused. “Why Lucien?”

But Azriel only took Elain’s heavy dish of potatoes from her hands, his voice soft as night as he said, “Sit. I’ll take care of it.”

Azriel stood in the doorway, monitoring them. As if he’d heard Elain’s sharp laugh and wondered what had caused it. [...]Then his gaze shifted to Elain, and though it was utterly neutral, something charged went through it. Between them. Elain’s breath caught slightly,

Sure let’s say black and pink are just the color of the mockups….how does that connect to 💙🩷??

You guys were the ones saying 6 would be blue, whether that’s a mockup or cover, and same with 7 being pink

And yet we’ve seen the mockup for 6 is black, so once again I’m asking where is the blue in your theory that the hearts just represent the mockups/cover? There has been no blue anywhere in any of the mockups, so why the 💙🩷 color combo? Why is only half of the emoji combo consistent with the mockups, that doesn’t make much sense? Why not make the pink a different color too in the mockups/cover

🖤 I saw the painting in my mind: the lovely fawn, blooming spring vibrant behind her. Standing before Death, shadows and terrors lurking over his shoulder. Light and dark, the space between their bodies a blend of the two.🩷

🖤 Elain stepped out of a shadow behind him, and rammed Truth-Teller to the hilt through the back of the king’s neck as she snarled in his ear, “Don’t you touch my sister.”🩷

🖤 Elain said flatly, starting once more into a walk, veils of steam drifting past her shoulders from the roasted rosemary potatoes in her hands, as if they were Azriel’s shadows.🩷

🖤 Beyond the windows, darkness had indeed fallen. The longest night of the year. I found Elain studying it, beautiful in her amethyst-colored gown. I made to move toward her, but someone beat me to it. The shadowsinger was clad in a black jacket and pants similar to Rhysand’s—the fabric immaculately tailored and built to fit his wings. He still wore his Siphons atop either hand, and shadows trailed his footsteps, curling like swirled embers, but there was little sign of the warrior otherwise.🩷

🖤 Her gaze shifted to the carved wooden rose she’d placed upon the mantel, half-hidden in the shadows🩷

Elain, right?

Because you are talking about Elain.

You know that she is the main character, but you don't want her story, you don't want her to take away the non-existent possibility of Gwynriel.

it's funny, because it's the same people who took the story away from Nesta and gave it to Gwyn. Suddenly it's Gwyn who is the head of the Valkyries, she is the next FMC, Gwyn's 'dagger lesson' with Azriel took precedence over the creation of Ataraxia, Gwyn becoming a Carynthian trumps Nesta's holding the line at the Breaking, and 'see you tomorrow, shadowsinger' is the height of romance.

Now, they want the story to be taken away from Elain. For her to be neatly packaged and sent to some faraway Court, to tend to flowers, so Gwyn can reign supreme.

When a woman shows reticence and reservedness, she’s labeled as ‘boring’, ‘uninteresting’ and ‘plain’, but when a man exhibits these same exact qualities, he’s ‘mysterious’, ‘nuanced’ and ‘complex’.

I love and admire both Azriel and Elain for these qualities - in fact, I think that’s what makes them such a good fit for each other. They’re very similar - but they also have many differences between them that will inspire and initiate such beautiful growth and healing within them together.

I wish that Elain was shown the same respect as Azriel for being soft-spoken and exhibiting a more quiet demeanor.