elriel and vassien don't have an intensely symbiotic relationship like gwynriel and elucien do.

we all know who that "most likely to start an accidental war" superlative was for...

BB & SJM be like:

How Elain be pulling up in Acotar 6 to prove the antis wrong

Sarah in CHD: I don't like being put in a box

"who do you self insert as when you read?"

The story and the theme I believe SJM is penning with the eventual Elucien rejected bond is bigger than just Elain and Lucien. Hell, even Elain and Azriel. Just like Feyre’s story and Nesta’s story were bigger than their respective endgames. Feyre’s journey and her ascent to power marked a change in Prythian and opened the door for other women to follow in her footsteps and rise to power. Nesta and her journey to healing and coming into her own marked a change in Prythian/Illyria/the Library and opened the door for other traumatized women to follow in her footsteps and become warriors in their own rights. Elain’s story will mirror this. With Elain choosing that LOVE matters more than fate, than duty, than societal and cultural expectations, and defying the bond in the name of this love, she’ll open the door for other women to follow in her footsteps and reject unwanted bonds. And it’s not just for the women with bonds that connect them to horrible awful people (see: Tamlin and Rhy’s parents) but women who are bonded to someone they just don’t feel chemistry with, or don’t mesh completely with, or simply don’t have an interest in, no matter how decent or joyful or noble these people might be.