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Azriel wants a mate.

Elain doesn’t.

The whole purpose of the BC was to see Azriel’s POV confirming he wants a mate, since we already have Elain confirming several times that she does not want a mate.

Regardless of the journey Elain needs to go on to work through her fate and feelings regarding the mating bond, Elain and Azriel will never be compatible because he wants what Elain will never be.

Why would The Cauldron give Elain the wrong mate, while giving Nesta a True Mate? That makes no sense if The Cauldron hated Nesta for stealing power from it, but spared Nesta's life, because Elain chose to save her.

You think The Cauldron, who purrs in Elain's presence, would give Elain the wrong mate? A mate who is set up to be one of the most powerful fae in the whole series?

That doesn't make any narrative sense.

If she wanted to go for the "wrong mate" angle, she could have did Lucien and Nesta like she had originally planned to. Or Mor and Eris/Mor and Azriel. They would make more sense than Elucien.

When Lucien was asking Feyre "what about Elain?" the first time when she and Rhysand are showing him his rooms, Feyre seems to think he's asking about when he will be able to talk to her and see her, but it's so obvious he's asking more out of concern for her because he's seeing how distraught and hurt and not okay she is.

Lucien in ACOSF:

Yet apparently what Cassian says is fine, but what Lucien says means he's not into Elain.

“Who cares what my father does to me?

or here

as well as the way he manages to hold control over a situation like here

What if— 🌞🦊