#antigwynriel

guess what! she didn’t. gwyn was never introduced to be a love interest for anyone, she was introduced to support nesta through her journey.

the only character who has canonically been introduced as a love interest for azriel is elain. that is what’s written in the books, that is the direction SJM is going.

Rhys

Cassian

Azriel

Mor

Amren

Feyre

Nesta

ELAIN

"It was too late to bank without appearing like he was running." He literally wanted to run away from her.

“Fine,” he said, and realized a heartbeat later that it wasn’t a socially acceptable answer. “It was nice.” He could barely manage civil conversation.

"She opened her mouth to ask more, but he didn’t feel like explaining. Or demonstrating, since that was surely what she’d ask next." It's almost like he knows Gwyn will keep prying despite his obvious disinterest.

"He wouldn’t go so far as to call Gwyn a friend." Ooof.

"Gwyn let out a high-pitched noise that was nothing but pure excitement. Azriel, on the other side of the ring with the rest of the priestesses, half-turned at the sound, brows high." This isn't because he's drawn to the sweet sound of her voice. He's irritated at the disruption.

It doesn't exist.

Everything about that ship is based on stringing together out of context scenes to create fanon theories. If Gwynriel were going to happen - SJM had plenty of chances to do it when ACOSF was literally focused on Azriel and Cassian training Nesta and the priestesses.

Every single day was spent with Gwyn and he doesn't even think of her as a friend. Every single day was spent with this alleged mate, he has rescued her from a terrible fate, and STILL - he does not pursue her romantically. Doesn't bend any rules to get her out of the blood rite.

Everything in ACOSF shows Azriel is pining over Elain. It is obvious. There IS not other interpretation of why he wants to fucking go down on her, listen to her talk about the garden, why he follows the sound of her laugh.

Be so fucking real. Saying something is canon because you interpreted a line a certain way is NOT ACTUALLY CANON. It is your interpretation, therefore it is fanon.

Here are a list of things that are canon:

Cassian was interested in Nesta before he thought they were mates.

Elain and Lucien are mates.

Azriel follows the sound of Elain's laugh.

Azriel gave Elain truth teller when he has never let anyone touch it in 500 years.

Azriel yearns for Elain. He wants her BAD.

Azriel was willing to die if it meant he would be able to get Elain back from Hybern.

The only reason Azriel didn't completely ravish her in the hallway is because Rhys interfered. He had no intention of stepping away otherwise.

Please don't kid yourselves people. Don't make yourself look like such clowns because you want your ship to be canon when it's literally NOT. Just ship them happily, and if it's not canon it's not canon!! Nobody is stopping you from shipping them but the argument comes when you insist your ship is printed in the text at the same level as Elriel (clear mutual romantic interest) or even Elucien (canonically mates).

So bro was losing sleep thinking about another woman & longing for her… while interacting one on one with “his endgame”?

It boils down to two main points:

1) Elain is written to intentionally be overlooked and underestimated by the average reader, to showcase how she is overlooked and underestimated by most of the other characters.

2) Just like every other gods damned character in these books, Elain is traumatized. She was groomed from birth to become a meek and mild wife to some lord or another, whomever would be the most socially advantageous for their family. There’s a reason she’s associated with a deer or doe or fawn, because that is her trauma response.

To (greatly) expand on these for those interested:

You like Emerie (me, love her) but when you discover that the big talk is about Gwyn being the next love interest like Cassian:

You read the series and love Feysand/Nessian/IC. But online fandom be like — anti-Feysand, anti-Nessian, anti-Inner Circle, anti-Night Court, anti-Elain, anti-ACOTAR. But! they are pro-Nesta, pro-Valkyries, pro-Tamlin, and pro-Leave the NC but it doesn’t work only for the “golden couple” who will go to Illyria for the third time (no, the FMC is not Illyrian who lived there for 70+ years):

You read the main series (three books + novella); however, you don’t care about Nesta, so you don’t bother to read ACOSF.

💝 friendly passive-aggressive reminder: “You must read a huge spin-off because the next main character is a Nesta’s friend who appeared only in one book. Not that female from the novella but the other one.”

You are curious about Vassa because she was promised since ACOWAR with her connection to Human Queens, Koschei, and Lucien. But one loud part of the fandom says she’s a throwaway character:

You read Feyre + Rhysand books, Nesta + Cassian, and, whether you like it or not, you expect Elain + Azriel. Or maybe Lucien. But the fandom says that it’s too obvious (foreshadowed):

You like Elain and think the next book will be about her choice, Seer powers, two spy friends, cooking, gardening, and her growth.

But you discover that actually Elain will have to move from Velaris (her already building there life) to Spring Court bc she likes flowers/Day Court/Human Lands, maybe fuck Azriel but understand that they are wrong for each other, dump her friends to become besties with Lucien’s friends (Feyre getting hated for this), and become an emissary or High Lady of the Court with a healthy living HL:

You come to ACOTAR online fandom and see #anti-SJM, but then they expect the author to rewrite everything so the plot will be about perfect four side characters:

You simply join any ACOTAR related platform these days: