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I can't get over the contrast between Nesta inviting Elain to spend time with her at her favorite taverns and Feyre saying that Elain wouldn't be comfortable doing that, and Gwyn leaving the safety of the library to comfort Nesta because some things are more important than fear.
They're such small moments, but they really show the importance of chosen family vs. forced family.
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I swear every time I see an unhinged Elain stan or defender like 8/10 times it’s E*riel. You can feel the way they’re offended through the text. I almost feel bad, because this level of self inserting must be exhausting.
Fuck anyone who stans/supports E/riel, Elain, and the IC. I cannot stand you guys anymore. I get you hate Nesta but do not fucking come into our Nessian and Nesta stan tags and go on and on about how you fucking hate her. When we rant about your stans we are kind enough to stay out of your fucking tags.
Honestly if I don’t see Elain baking a cake for Nesta after all the things that have happened, after knowing that she has generally not been supportive, that she’s made one for Feyre, that she bakes, and that Nesta loves chocolate cake, I think I will lose all faith in this book series, SJM, and Elain, herself.
Have Elain bake Nesta a cake and then we can talk about forgiveness. Sweeten the deal… and I just might.
"Nesta treats Gwyn and Emerie better than she does her own family."
Gwyn and Emerie treat Nesta better than her own family does.
As much as Feyre loves to play the victim, she's always been just as nasty to Nesta as Nesta is to her. Feyre openly admits that she's always at Nesta's throat and that she's not civil to Nesta, but Feyre very rarely admits to wronging people, so that blame is placed solely on Nesta when both are equally culpable of their failed relationship.
Elain loves to sit back and do nothing, willfully letting Nesta do all the heavy lifting throughout the series, always hiding behind Nesta's skirts while Nesta faces down Fae warriors who could kill her with half a thought, but the second Nesta needs Elain, Elain ditches her for Feyre. Whoever keeps Elain fed and warm, comfortable and protected, rubs her belly and gives her treats when she does something good is where Elain's loyalty lies.
Feyre and Elain treat Nesta like a rabid animal. They dehumanize her every chance they get, all so Feyre and the IC can make Nesta into their slave/property/weapon. They don't treat Nesta like a Fae being, whereas Gwyn and Emerie do. Feyre and Elain do not treat Nesta with kindness and respect, whereas Gwyn and Emerie do. Feyre and Elain only look down on, insult, belittle, and judge Nesta, whereas Gwyn and Emerie do not.
The Archeron sisters will always have a failed relationship until Feyre and Elain can actually admit they're in the wrong about something. People want to hate Nesta for making people's lives miserable, but Feyre, Elain, and the IC make Nesta's life miserable, too. They willfully cause Nesta to suffer, whereas Gwyn and Emerie do not.
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I say this as someone who loved Elain in the original trilogy, but I absolutely hate her in ACOFAS and ACOSF. Her and Nesta's fight scene is truly baffling and reveals a lot about Elain's character. Elain was the instigator of that fight and said incredibly cruel and hurtful things, yet she pulled her fake tears and cried to Rhysand about Nesta? I'm not denying that Nesta said some cruel and hurtful things, too, but so did Elain. Where was the accountability for Elain? Elain has a habit of making Nesta's trauma all about her, which is exactly what she condemns Nesta for supposedly doing. Elain's such a hypocrite. This whole fight scene just really proved that Nesta is never exclusively the one in the wrong - she's just the only one ever held accountable by the narrative.
There's even scenes where Nesta's not in the wrong at all, yet she's condemned by the narrative. Case in point: the Nessian interaction in ACOFAS. Nesta said nothing cruel or hurtful - Cassian did - yet Cassian threw a pity party for himself in front of the IC, so they all thought Nesta was in the wrong when, really, it was Cassian in the wrong.
Another example is the "Everybody hates you!" scene. Once again, Nesta said nothing cruel or hurtful - Cassian did - yet Cassian and Feyre threw a pity party for themselves, so the narrative paints Nesta as being in the wrong when, really, it was Cassian in the wrong.
No character is perfect, but it's the way every other character says cruel and hurtful words to Nesta while simultaneously crying about her hurting their feelings and that's just a turn-off for me on so many characters.
I had someone comment on one of my posts, and the gist of it was "...just because Elain doesn't admire Nesta..."
It's not about Elain admiring Nesta. It's about how Nesta is always there for Elain; it's about how Nesta will do anything for Elain, including marrying an abuser to keep Elain fed, or selling her body on the streets to keep Elain fed, or taking care of Elain 24/7 when she's too traumatized to take care of herself, but as soon as Nesta is too depressed and traumatized to take care of Elain, Elain turns her back on Nesta when Nesta needs her the most.
I had an Elain stan tell me that Elain just didn't know that Nesta needed to heal away from her siblings, but Elain didn't give Nesta personal space to heal. She willfully isolated Nesta, purposefully excluded her, lashed out, and then joined the IC in ganging up on Nesta, manipulating her, and was complicit in their abuse of Nesta. Elain didn't give Nesta the space she needed for Nesta's sake. Elain isolated her for Elain's sake and as a form of punishment for Nesta not healing quickly enough for Elain. She silently suicide-baited Nesta.
I get that Nesta was lashing out and hurting Elain's feelings, but Elain still had no right to turn her back on Nesta when Nesta needed her for the first time in her life. Most of the times Nesta hurts Elain's feelings, I fail to see the cruelty. Elain has been so infantilized her entire life (and yes, Nesta is partly to blame for this) that she has such thin-skin and gets hurt way too easily. I had thicker skin than her by the time I was ten. Even though I'm not a Nesta, I have worked and met many Nesta's. Nesta is every foster child I've ever worked with. She's everyone I've ever met who's been raised in an abusive home and is struggling to make the transition to adulthood. That's what traumatized people do: they lash out.
Chronic, unrelenting stress in early childhood, caused by repeated abuse (Nesta being beat, verbally abused, and groomed before the age of seven) can be toxic to the developing brain, which can lead to lifelong problems in behavior and physical and mental health. People can't expect Nesta to act like a normal 25-year-old when she's endured so much trauma as a young child.
I know of a 17-year-old foster kid who burned down his foster parent's garage on the weekend they began fostering him. Why? Because everyone had given up on him and kicked him out, so he was trying to speed up the process before he grew attached again and was left heartbroken when he believed they would inevitably kick him out. What did the foster parents do? They refused to kick him out and instead loved on him, and that made all the difference in his life. Nesta's the same way. Everyone has either abused her or neglected her or isolated her or given up on her, so she lashes out at everyone to cause them to give up on her before she grows attached, and they hurt her.
I think the reason I take personal offense to Elain's actions in ACOSF is because I've taken about 100 hours worth of training to work with foster kids and heavily traumatized individuals, and I know that Elain's approach is wrong. Elain did what I spent 100 hours learning not to do. She made Nesta's trauma all about her. She forced Nesta to heal on her terms rather than Nesta's. She made everything all about her, even though Nesta has made her entire life all about Elain.
This narrative paints Elain as the selfless one and Nesta as the selfish one, but really, Nesta is one of the most selfless characters in this entire series, and Elain is one of the most selfish. Elain is the shitty sister everyone claims Nesta is.
Elain's comment to Nesta, "Somehow, all you can think about is what my trauma did to you" is such bullshit. Nesta never made Elain's trauma all about her, but Nesta can't be faulted for being scared to scry again, considering the last time she did, Elain suffered the consequences of Nesta's actions. Not wanting Elain to suffer the consequences of Nesta's actions is not the same as Nesta making Elain's trauma all about herself.
Feyre is the one who makes her sisters' trauma all about her. She's the one who spent more time and energy talking about how their torture and violation in the Cauldron affected her than she talked about how their trauma affected them. Feyre used Nesta and Elain's trauma as an excuse to have the IC faun over her and tell her what a good sister she was to care so much about them. Which is funny because using someone else's trauma to gain attention from others is something Feyre hated Nesta for in book one, although Nesta doesn't do that; Feyre does.
