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This is Evangeline if she was a supervillain.

(Rose gold is a shade of pink so stfu)

Like isn’t this what you wanted? Isn’t this why that theory was crafted in the first place? Because how can anyone compete with a dead girl right?

My theory is that it will be written the way it’s told in the Magnificent North, like a fairytale, with the ambiguous ending. So don’t worry, we won’t be getting a “there’s nothing of equal value to me” fox girl edition. And I think it will be told from the perspective of the fox, and she might not have even loved Jacks. I mean he was trying to kill her for a while, and we have yet to see her pov.

Wolfric Valor seems to think retaking his throne will be a walk in the park, but even if the Valors put themselves in the Valory Arch someone still lopped the heads off their statues. So I think it’s safe to say some people were unhappy with their reign.

It also seems like Wolfric is a bit of a warmongering misogynist, which I can’t imagine being a popular mind frame during times of peace and prosperity. However, we do see some xenophobic rhetoric from many unnamed Northern characters that interacted with Evangeline. If Wolfric were to make another grab for power, he might capitalise on the fear and encourage anti-immigrant sentiments while positioning himself as the solution to all the Northern people’s problems (sound familiar? 🧐).

But politics have changed significantly during the 1000 years he was in the arch, reputations are defined no longer by great deeds accomplished in war, but by what the scandal sheets write about you. And the Knightlingers, having family in both the North and South, and possibly worldwide, would not support this kind of propaganda. So if one were to oppose the Valors retaking the North, their best bet would be to convince the Knightlingers to dismantle Wolfric’s reputation by using their scandal sheets to launch a smear campaign.

Ngl, I think Aurora would be the perfect person to do this takedown. She could achieve both revenge and redemption by stopping a possible war and undermining her father.

And also, I do want Aurora to get some sort of redemption arc. Like literally all of the men were villainous until they weren’t, so if the fmcs and the fans can forgive them then they better keep that same energy for the female villains.

And don’t even try giving me that “but she started it” nonsense. Her father has very clearly been set up as a misogynist that doesn’t regard his daughters as people in their own right, but as property to be married off.

Pomni was able to end the relationship on her own terms and seek therapy and that could be why she seems so emotionally intelligent and healthy.

But before Jax could end the relationship, Ribbit abstracted. Which could explain Jax’s unhealthy coping mechanisms.

Also the relationships don’t necessarily have to be romantic in nature. They could be platonic or even familial in Pomni’s case because of her and Ribbit’s similar character designs. It could be two different kind of relationships with the same toxic person.

I don’t think they’ll all become gloinks but aren’t gloinks npcs?

But also…

Cain & Abel are biblical characters.

Bible Cain murdered his brother, Abel, out of jealousy…

So imagine an au where Cain, the one who brought jealousy, murder, and hatred into this world, is God.

It looks a lot like “I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream.” Doesn’t it?

And given that that’s what “The Amazing Digital Circus” is based on, and also the increasingly violent Caine adventures, I think we can expect to see Caine causing the actual death of one of the circus members.

And that circus member, might come back as an npc.

At the start of OUABH, Evangeline makes her deal with Jacks to stop the wedding, but when she sees that led to the whole wedding party being turned to stone she takes responsibility for her actions and drinks the potion to take their place.

At the end of TBONA, Jacks takes responsibility for his actions that ultimately led Evangeline to her death and uses the stones to go back in time and save her.

I think we’re supposed to doubt that Tella’s grandmother ever met Legend because if they met at Caraval then it might not have been the actual Legend she met, but one of his actors pretending to be him.

So apparently gender during these times was somewhat defined by military prowess. And women for quite some time, until more recently than you would think, were viewed as deformed / mutilated / incomplete men. So a woman taking up arms was essentially becoming a man, and maybe emasculating the men around her who would not fight.

Basically she became something better than a woman by acting like a man. So it deeply upsets me that this is the direction the publishing industry seems to be taking women in literature, at least in most High Fantasy books. I would like to believe that language has evolved enough that “strong” no longer means just physical strength.

And this isn’t me not believing that a woman would be able to fight. And I’m not trying to say women shouldn’t fight. I just don’t like that any other way of achieving victory is being swept away by publishers who are just looking to make money, and just want authors to essentially copy already successful books and never create anything new.

I won’t mention the particular “stabby fmc” books that inspired this tangent but I think some people will be able to connect the dots. Suffice to say I don’t think they deserved the popularity they got, they are objectively poorly written.

In a nutshell…

STOP DEMONISING AND ERASING FEMININITY!!! And stop upholding masculine traits as something a female character is worthless without.

I suppose the argument could be made that by unblocking that last chakra and gaining control over the avatar state, Aang was trying to save Katara from everyone that was attacking them but Aang was in that room too. He was saving himself just as much as he was saving Katara, he didn’t know Azula was going to hit him with lightning. Also, the world needs its avatar.

Zuko, on the other hand, knowingly risked his life solely for Katara. He made the decision to be struck by lightning to save her. He knew that Katara had used up all her spirit water to heal Aang after he was hit by lightning and he still jumped in front of Katara. He knew that he could have died.

I would say TOG is better though it comes with its own set of problems. And I was kind of enjoying the CC series until the ACOTAR crossover.

I think the main difference, for me anyway, is that TOG and CC felt like they had a lot more meaningful sacrifices. SJM wasn’t afraid of killing off characters.

But who died in ACOTAR? Feyre’s unnamed mother, Clare Beddor, and two unnamed fae. And in ACOMAF? A few unnamed citizens in Velaris, and a mortal queen.

And ACOWAR is perhaps the worst offender with thousands of unnamed civilians and soldiers of Prythian, the bone carver and the weaver who were literally introduced as antagonists, Brennan and Dagda who were also antagonists, three unnamed children of the blessed, Feyre’s unnamed father, the King of Hybern (is he unnamed or is his name literally Hybern?), and the Suriel (the only death that elicited any sort of emotional response from me).

[I’m on a train and don’t have my books to refer back to so forgive me if I got any names wrong, mixed up the books, or missed a death or two.]

Compare this to losing characters like Sam, Nehemia, Gavriel, the thirteen, even Ren (especially Ren) the impact just isn’t the same. And of course a lot of unnamed soldiers and civilians died too, so it just makes sense that with all the battles and bloodshed in all of SJM’s series that we would lose a main character or two, but in ACOTAR we didn’t. Also there’s characters that were already dead before the events of the prequel took place, specifically Aelin’s parents, that we still kind of feel a sense of loss over just because it affects some of the main characters so much and the events of the series as a whole so much.

And in CC there’s Danika, Connor and the rest of their pack, Lehabah, even Hunt’s friends Justinian and Victoria. I don’t recall any deaths in the second one except Cormac and Sophie but that’s where I lost hope for the series anyway, with the ACOTAR crossover.

But I would say my least favourite thing SJM does is try to convince me that her characters “sacrificed” their mortality. Aelin, Feyre, Nesta, Elain, Bryce. I understand that they didn’t necessarily want to be fae but I don’t think becoming one is much of a sacrifice because they were written as so ridiculously superior to humans in every way.

And Amren’s sacrifice could have been a beautifully heartbreaking moment in ACOWAR but was ruined by immediately bringing her back to life. And it also kind of ruined how Feysand came full circle, from Rhys convincing the High Lords to revive Feyre in book one to Feyre doing the same for Rhys in book three, to have another character also come back to life, it just felt overdone. (And of course Feyre died again in ACOSF and so did Nyx but I’m not going anywhere near that god awful book, it was so disappointing). I don’t think SJM even knows what to do with Amren’s character anymore, like oh god you’re slightly less immortal you’ve sacrificed so much for us 🙄.

Because if you’re willing to sacrifice someone you love to gain immortality do you really love them?

I think the Princess knew this and was hoping the tree would get rid of Wolfric so she could swoop in and get with Honora.

And Wolfric thinks she liked him because he’s just so full of himself. Evangeline kind of noticed this after he “apologised” to her. He wasn’t really sorry because he believed he was right. He’s got an inflated ego.

Like how they both look way younger than they are and maybe still have a bit of magic left just not quite to the level they had before giving up their immortality for love.

And Evangeline didn’t die after Jacks kissed her because of true love which also made Jacks mortal. So maybe his kiss being deadly was somehow connected to his immortality? And sacrificing his immortality for love made his kiss not deadly?

Maybe that’s the loophole to Jacks’ curse? I believe it was Chaos that said “every curse has a back door” or something along those lines.

Not to be mean or anything but a lot of the stuff people are complaining about not being properly explained are easily figured out once you use your own brain. Not necessarily what I discussed above but it’s annoying to see people complaining for no reason. I’m not saying ACFTL was flawless but try to think things through.

Just because the OUABH series is over doesn’t mean we have to stop theorising about it. Stephanie Garber is most likely going to expand on this universe, she just probably can’t outright say what she’s working on for legal reasons or something.

It seems that ACFTL might be setting up a possible future story about Castor, LaLa and the Valors. And it will be hard to write a story involving the Valors that doesn’t mention the fact that they were trapped in the Valory Arch for years. Which would be a huge spoiler for OUABH and most of TBONA.

So if this is indeed the case, and the next series by Stephanie Garber will require the previous ones to be read first, then ACFTL is not the end of our evajacks moments. They could appear together in future series! Similarly so could Scarlett and Julian and Tella and Legend.