#erestyal

Halline!!

oh you didn't deserve any of it im so sorry

Full name: Halline Cor'Dahlia

Role: Queen's advisor

Relationships: Best friend to Evangeline (wrong, doomed lovers), but she doesn't really talk to many of the main characters

-Associations!

Colour: Ivory Gold

Animal: White Swan

Trait: Compassion

Plant: White Dahlia

Songs: I Know by Fiona Apple, Forget Her by Jeff Buckley

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and if i said this is the most evangeline thing ive ever seen?

She's got, she's got a way She's got a way, she's got a way > halline and evangeline and it's JUST them. halline comforting eva, them walking around Maritirri markets together, them walking around the forest surrounding the castle together. just them being each other's lifelines.

And she got, she got away > halline's dead. serrabi lured her out in the middle of the night, and she's dead. evangeline's looking out from halline's bedroom window, finding her lover lying outside, the first green of spring drifting past. but it's still just winter enough for her halline to freeze to death (NO IT'S NOT JACKIE) because of serrabi's hate for her. her halline, her swan, dead. punishment? revenge?

She got away, > so overcome with grief, evangeline kills herself. even with her brother there, right by her side, she can't handle it. she needed halline like the earth needs the sun. but she was never halline's sun, was she? no, she was verratorin's sun. both of her lovers, dead because of her. she dies by using the swan blade halline bought for her at the markets.

We were in a race to grow up > The race wasn’t really true, they weren’t racing against each other, but both of them certainly grew up very fast (and were forced to) due to the war and Erestyal

Yesterday through today 'til tomorrow > This doesn’t symbolise actual days, but instead events. First war, Erestyal war, the future (tomorrow)

But when the plant blew up > This is exclusive to Ethel Cain’s story, but the ‘plant’ in this case is mainly the war, or simply just Serrabi, who blew up with madness

A piece of shrapnel flew and slowed that part of you > The shrapnel is Serrabi’s control and presence. The slowing was Halline becoming somehow even more mindful and calm with Evangeline after the war, knowing all that she’s been through and how different they are.

The doctors gave you until the end of the night

But not 'til daylight (not 'til daylight)

Not 'til daylight (not 'til daylight) > NONONO not till daylight😭. Perfectly describes Halline’s death. The cold slowly took her during the night, and by day (when Evangeline found her) she was gone. ‘Doctor’ could also be Serrabi

Time passes slower in the flicker of the hospital light > Correlates with The Frost, and how Evangeline’s whole world is gone, and she just feels numb. Things pass a lot slower, or not at all

I pray the race is worth the fight > It wasn’t. The fights she put up still managed to take Halline from her, just like Verratorin

Made a fool of myself down on Tennessee Street > The street could be the podium, and all her mistakes when ruling, or it could be her impulsive decision with the blade.

It wasn't pretty like the movies > Eva’s death was the worst it possibly could have been. It was peaceful, but it wasn’t proper

It was ugly, like what they all did to me > Her feelings and world post-The Frost was ugly and passed by quick. What they all did was constantly hurt Evangeline, just like how she kills herself. Could also mean different battles she fought in different wars, with blades and all that

And they did to me what I wouldn't do to anyone

You know that's for sure > They talk about it all, Halline knows her Evangeline is truly kind and doesn’t want to

Tell me all the time not to worry (worry) > Halline calms down Evangeline constantly, offering solace and solutions. Always making sure to solve all of Eva’s worries

And think of all the time I'll, I'll have with you > This is when Eva wants to kill herself. In her dull, numb world, she has pointless hope that she will meet Halline again. Somewhat like heaven, or some afterlife that she never believed in before

When I won't wake up on my own (wake up on my own), wake up on my own > Thinking of the afterlife with Halline, so she won’t need to wake up alone without Halline just a door down anymore

Held close all the time, knowin' I'm half of you > It feels like her world has closed in. She always used to hold Halline with her, and then when she held her after finding her in the snow

Lay me down where the trees bend low > This is Halline now. Evangeline held her close and brought her into her arms after finding her in the snow. It was also because of Eva that Serrabi finally let her go so that she finally laid in the snow

Put me down where the greenery stings > NO. Obviously, the greenery in this case is Serrabi. And his effects and actions cause a numb constant stinging to Eva

I can hear them singin' (singin') > Eva wailing

"To love me is to suffer me," and I believe that > This is exactly what Eva was afraid of. Loving someone romantically, just to be the reason they’re dead. And now, as Halline is captured by Serrabi, out of spite and pain she believes that

When I lay with you in that auld lang room > Days after the civil war were lazy and kind. It was just the two of them, and Halline is thinking about those moments as she dies

Wishin' I was the way you say that you are > Correlates with MCPDC again, Halline wants to be like Eva, commanding and leading and independent. Even though Eva is hardly any of those

You'll go fight a war, I'll go missin' > Eva fights in both wars occurring during her lifetime, and on the morning of discovery she’s “missing”, as Eva can’t find her when she first wakes up

I've warned you, for me, it's not that hard > It’s not hard for Halline to go missing. To slip away from the world and society, with no one noticing aside from Eva

That picture on the wall you're scared of looks just like you (you) > The Crown family is obviously what’s on the wall. Evangeline is terrified of treating her people the same way her family treated them, but eventually it could be all too similar (although I haven’t quite developed how eva actually rules her people)

I wanna bleed, I wanna hurt the way that boys do (oh) > “I want to be seen like a normal person, hurt and take up space like boys”

And maybe you're right and we should stop watchin' the news

'Cause, baby, I've never seen brown eyes look so blue > This refers to both Eva’s feelings after finding Halline, and also her worries and stresses while growing up and ruling over Erestyal. She’s a happy person in general, but when she gets sad it’s painful to see for Halline

Tell me all the time (tell me all the time) not to worry (not to worry)

And think of all the time I'll, I'll have with you

When I won't wake up on my own (wake up on my own), wake up on my own

Held close all the time, knowin' I'm half of you > see previous chorus

Think of us inside (think of us inside) after the weddin' (after the weddin') > Thinking of the possibilities for a different future, where nothing goes wrong and they can be in love forever

Sufferin' the while to lie a time or two

When we won't wake up on our own (wake up on our own)

Wake up on our own (wake up on our own) > Where they can be together, and no longer separated because of Serrabi’s anger

Held close all the time, knowin' (knowin')

This was all for you > Evangeline wanted to be a good ruler and prove herself to Halline. Erestyal itself wasn’t necessarily solely for Halline, but all of Evangeline’s actions end up coming back to Hallline

Think of us inside > An alternate future

Gardenias on the tile > Gardenias? DAFFODILS

Where it makes no difference who held back from who > Evangeline’s avoidance for a romantic relationship, and Halline’s extreme introvertedness and professionalism

To love me is to suffer me > Evangeline’s fears came true.

Lucy Gray Baird is Halline OH MY GOODNESS these parallels are positively killing me rn

whitequeen (eva x halline) = jackieshauna

goldensun (eva x verratorin (more on them later!)) = zelink

evangeline = shauna (leader, brash, brunette, angry) & zelda (royalty, can't catch a fucking break, passionate)

halline = jackie (...freezes to death, situationship with an angry and hurt leader, calming presence, haunts the narrative*)

verratorin = link (young soldier, quiet and stoic, blonde, opposing a large power)