a little delulu

Yeah tell me more about how you live near a forest and don't have any tea.

Or how a malnourished 19 y.o. carried a dear in full storm through this forest.

Tell me how an 11 y.o.(max17) is guilty for someone else piercing his fiancée's uterus Jesus style.

You can hate tamlin all you want but it is literally canon he was never actually working w Hybern. He was ALWAYS using him and playing spy. Here is 3 different passages from canon explaining this.

Lucien-“We were backed into a corner with no options. None. It was either go to war with the Night Court and Hybern, or ally with Hybern, let them try to stir up trouble, and then use that alliance to our own advantage further down the road.”

Tamlin-The mocking, hateful gleam faded into granite resolve. “I stand against Hybern.” “Prove it,” Helion goaded. Tamlin lifted his hand, and a stack of papers appeared on the little table beside his chair. “Charts of armies, ammunition, caches of faebane … Everything carefully gleaned these months.”

Feyre-Tamlin. His actions would cover Jurian’s betrayal. I had no doubt Tamlin hadn’t gone back to Hybern’s army after the meeting to betray us—but to play spy. Though after last night … it was unlikely he’d get close to Hybern again. Not when the king himself had witnessed everything.

And before anyone brings up the sisters…. Tamlin had nothing to do w that. Here is Hybern the villian himself even saying it….

The king nodded. “Why did you think I asked my dear friend Ianthe to see who Feyre Archeron would appreciate having with her for eternity?” Even as horror filled my ears with roaring silence, I glanced at the queens, the question no doubt written on my face. The king explained, “Oh, I asked them first. They deemed it too … uncouth to betray two young, misguided women. Ianthe had no such qualms. Consider it my wedding present for you both,” he added to Tamlin. But Tamlin’s face tightened. “What?” The king cocked his head, savoring every word. “I think the High Priestess was waiting until your return to tell you”

Feyre-I was going to vomit. Tamlin, to his credit, looked like he might, too. Lucien’s face had slackened. “She sold out—she sold out Feyre’s family. To you.” I had told Ianthe everything about my sisters. She had asked. Asked who they were, where they lived. And I had been so stupid, so broken … I had fed her every detail.

Rhysand-But Ianthe betrayed Tamlin—told the king where to find Feyre’s sisters. So the king had Feyre’s sisters brought with the queens—to prove he could make them immortal. He put them in the Cauldron

I mean why else would Eris help the black sheep brother escape? Eris has some redeeming qualities compared to Beron sure but he is ultimately self serving. I can only see his soft spot for Lucien making sense if he knows that Lucien is not at all a threat because he’s actually heir to entirely different high lord.

Also Helion is very intelligent and can cut through bullshit like jello, there’s no way he doesn’t know it either. He probably just ultimately respected that LoA made the decision to keep it a secret (even though everyone knows but just doesn’t acknowledge it) and he knows it’s probably safer for her too.

First, we have the amarantha taking everyone's powers and ruling over all of prythian. This is the coercive state of the world in book 1, none of the High Lords entered it willingly, they are now all forced to do as amarantha asks to a certain extent. This is comparable to every humans relationship to the state, where we do not choose the structure of our government necessarily and have little ability to personally change it, but are beholden to the state's laws simply by existing in it. Amarantha is just an especially cruel head of state.

The second layer is Rhysand as Amarantha's whore/crony. This is a position he willingly took and acted out, albeit in the coercive context of her being a dictator. That context reduces his blame in all the evil acts he did for her and does narrow the amount of free will he is able to exercise, but he is not completely robbed of his volition. Proof for this is all the other High Lords not becoming cronies and Tamlin resisting her advances. This is the way people act within the state. We are all beholden to its rules, but we are not forced to become police officers. That career choice is at least to an extent an expression of free will at least in the weight we assign to different interests.

The third layer is relevant for every single sexual encounter between amarantha and rhysand. While he agreed to this relationship, we must assume from his narration that he did not agree to specific encounters or methods of amarantha's but did at least belligerently agree to others. This is the private relationship between amarantha and rhysand, of which we know the least, but is the one where Rhysand's ability to exercise free will was fully taken.