Starborn Queen of Queens

A vision of Maria urging Frank to die / A vision of Karen urging Frank to live

The white rose that is Karen Page.

You do see a lot of fans who despise Nesta also support the Nessian ship, and dislike critiques of it or any suggestion that Nesta will find love elsewhere. You'd think that Nesta antis who love Feyre, Cassian and the Inner Circle would be delighted to have Nesta go elsewhere, but instead they root for a Nessian endgame, and I suspect a big reason for that is they also read Cassian as loving Nesta less than Rhys/Feyre/the IC, and they can see that Nesta will always come bottom of the pecking order in the Night Court.

An intentionally tragic ending for Nesta would have left things too messy, too much sympathy for Nesta, too many people saying she deserved better. But a mediocre ending, wrapped up as a happy one, validated their belief in her inherent lesser worth. A mate who barely seems to like her, who loves and defends their faves more than her, who will be the first to put her down, to put her in her place, and glorify Feyre and Rhys, is perfect. It's as good as it's going to get for Nesta, and it's as good as she deserves.

Keeping her in the Inner Circle, where she's always going to be in a place of subordination, always with people whose friendship and forgiveness is something she will always have to be grateful for, Nesta the eternal penitent, punished for centuries but never in a way that tarnishes Feyre's golden girl reputation, is exactly where they want her. Nesta at the end of ACOSF was the perfect ending for her, because at last she was humbled, at last she accepted she was unworthy of love and kindness, and it is only Feyre and Cassian's marvellous benevolence and charity that grants her any, for which she will spend the rest of her life breaking her back to earn.

Eowyn was embracing life and healing.

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