Eluciey

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to creativity and divine femenine // to negligence, overbearing and lack of growth

𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍 ✨❄️

For the holiday season I really wanted to commission Elain and Lucien enjoying Starfall at the Night Court 🩵

@cedarcia thank you so much for creating this exquisite artwork! Elain & Lucien look so happy and captivated by all the shooting star-spirits!

All the details in this artwork are lovely! From the snow covered roses, the shooting stars, the night sky, the snow covered balcony —everything is perfection!

@cedarcia thank you so much Kat for taking this commission! Thank you for being so kind during this commission process! It’s always a joy to work with you 🩵

Commissioned by me

Artist is @cedarcia

Link to Instagram post

Meanwhile, Nesta is out here making friends like nobody's business: Gwyn, Emerie, the Valkyries, Clotho (really it feels like Nesta's befriended all the priestesses except Merrill), Bryce, Ember, Randall.

And then, of course, there's Eris, who wants to marry her after only three dances.

𝒰𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈

I cannot possibly end Mermay without a Gwynriel commission and I am so so thrilled to share this stunning artwork of them!

@mostwantedpotato404 was such a pleasure to work with and the designs and details for Gwyn and Azriel are spot on to what I envisioned for them!

Lucien: Yes, my Lady? Light of my life? The most beautiful flower in my garden?

Elain: Why is the kitchen on fire?

Lucien:

Lucien: I tried, and therefore no one should criticize me.

Elain: You were making tea.

Feyre shuddering at the thought of Elain experiencing “fire” in bed is coddling and infantilizing. (Edit: see replies)

Besides fire, Lucien has also spellcleaving, light generation, and air manipulation powers because he’s the biological son of Helion, with whom Elain is seen interacting at the end of SF.

We cannot take for granted that Vassa will retain the fire powers that she got from Koschei’s curse when she is freed from it.

In one version of the Firebird folktale the Firebird, together with the Gray Wolf, are the helpers of prince Ivan, who defends (and later marries) a princess called Helen (who is not the Firebird) from his brothers who conspired (and quite literally killed him only he was revived) to take the throne from him. In the Firebird ballet, prince Ivan slays Koschei.

In another version, a king orders a huntsman to kidnap princess Vasilisa whom the king wants to marry. Vasilisa states as one condition that the king orders the huntman to bathe in boiling water and the huntsman survives, becoming beautiful. The king bathes in boiling water too, but dies, and the revived huntsman becomes king and marries Vasilisa. Before the Mortals Queens sold Vassa off to Koschei, the King of Hybern tasked Jurian, whom he has revived with the Cauldron, with securing their loyalty. The King of Hybern is later killed by two Cauldron-Made Archeron sisters.