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While this probably means very little

And I repeat, this probably isn’t anything of importance. Another piece on non-information information.

However, what if, when SJM spoke of the outcomes surprising her, of where the story took her … what if it was this that she spoke of?

That the book turned out to be much more romance heavy, perhaps with multiple romances—Elriel, Vassien, Mor and someone, even other characters like Erie and even Tamlin, and not her typical girl bosses hacking their way through the story?

What if she really went into the emotional space? That if various romances? Exactly what we’ve been missing since ACOMAF.

Both Crescent City and ACOSF romances were sub-par and not well executed.

What if SJM is in her soft era? And she really leaned into yearning, desire, lust, heartbreak, love?

Elain needed physical warmth and mental clarity.

She didn't need Lucien. Lucien, who isn't associated with sunlight or the sun, but with fire. The Lord of Fire.

Story Connected

Koschei Elain

Vassa Elain

Dusk Court Azriel/Nesta/Rhys (Elain)

Truth Teller/Gwydion Azriel/Elain

Autumn Court Lucien/Elain/Helion/Eris/Az Gwyn, nameless GF

Mate bond (reject.) Elain/Lucien/Az

Mate bond (2nd?) Elain/Az

Eris Mor/Rhys/Beron Gwyn (unless he is her dad)

Valkyries Gwyn/Nesta/Emerie

Vallahan (unsure of storyline) Mor

Sight Elain

Midgard Nesta/Az/Rhys/Amren/Mor?

Hewn City Mor/Rhys/Feyre/Kier

The IC Rhys/Cass/Az/Mor/Amren, the Archerons

Illyria (unsure of storyline) The bat boys, Nesta/Emerie/Gwyn because of Blood Rite win

Band of Exiles Lucien/Vassa/Jurian/Elain via Lucien/Vassa

Dead Trove Nesta/Elain directly, IC indirectly

Lightsinger Possibly Gwyn

I am sure I am forgetting something, but it seems to me that Elain is connected to 87% of all storylines directly, and the rest indirectly

Gwyn is connected to about 5%

Lucien/Az are connected to about 40% and 70% respectively

Rhys and Feyre are directly and indirectly connected to 90%

Mor is connected to about 50%

So let's do the math: Elain leads via direct association with 90% of all storylines, supporting characters are Az and Lucien

Secondary characters Mor/Lucien/Vassa (more than half of storylines)

Overarching characters: Feyre, Rhys, the IC, Nesta

Tertiary characters: Eris, Helion, Tamlin?

Level 4: Emerie, Gwyn, Beron, LoA (both might be higher depending on storyline), Kier (might be higher)

At one point, Nesta made a comment about Spring Court being made for Elain and that she's love it there.

And Elain's antis immediately latched on to that comment, in addition to the whole 'black dress' comment, as some indication of foreshadowing that Elain would not only leave the Night Court, but would end up with Tamlin! (nevermind that he's been inside her sister, and he is her mate's best friend, because what is logic? (btw, the same people claim that SJM is a fated mate author. But whatever)) So that's their favorite argument--but Nesta said! but Cassian said!

But, everyone conveniently forgets that there was another comment about another sister belonging in a different place.

Mor said that Nesta belongs in the Court of Nightmares.

And not because of some superficial reasons like liking flowers and gardens, but because of her personality.

Therefore, following the antis logic, Nesta then will end up in the Court of Nightmares? With Beron? (we don't know if Mor's mother is even alive) and since most of them want Cassian dead anyway, then why not?

She'd be a Queen, a ruler of a Court. Not only that, she's actually been in Hewn City, (unlike Elain, who's never been to Spring) and she dazzled them all with her dress and her dancing, and she met Kier, unlike Elain, who never met Tamlin outside of his beast form for 3 minutes.

I just think that it's interesting how one offhand comment has assigned Elain to Spring, into the clutches of an unbalanced male who is obsessed with her sister, but another comment is treated like 'how dare Mor want to send a trauma victim to a Court where she'd be traumatized again?'