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Some moments in which jealousy may or may not be speaking through Marius
Vipers together 🥰 🐍🥰
Also, Lia looks so small but Emer is “tall dark and handsome” and Key is morally gray hero tall and Eric is taller than Octavian (who is the stereotypical story book hero) and Marius isn’t even here but he’s approximately 7 feet tall. Basically they had a “let’s all be tall and not tell Lia” meeting.
I love Eric and Marius and their fucked up relationship in All Hail Chaos so much.
Eric being a free spirit (or at least he pretends to be) who is trying to save everyone in the story he can, but this means he's burdened with knowledge of what could happen if he does or doesn't intervene versus Marius being the most repressed man alive who just wants to be told what to do (by Eric) because he fundamentally doesn't trust himself and believes he's inherently bad (and he trusts Eric's judgment more than anyone else's).
They're both deeply ethical people who are also trying to avoid responsibility for their actions and this is all bound up in their love for each other and everything is a big mess. It's so good!
thinking about the golden cobra again. you gotta love a guy who broke up his own (heterosexual) otp by making the guy fall in love with him through the power of being a theatre kid

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I adored the scene of Marius making his oath to Eric. Absolutely stunning, deeply moving, very emotional, the culmination of an extremely well developed dynamic between two characters.
BUT ALSO absolutely fucking hilarious. This poor man spent YEARS being absolutely baffled by Eric, going though so much unnecessary emotional torment because he just could not fathom Eric's internal motivations/values. When Marius goes to make the oath it feels like, without even realizing it, he FINALLY turns the tables and gives Eric a heart attack for a change.
I hope it continues in the next book. I hope Eric is just internally bluescreening so hard thinking he broke his blorbo that he does not realize the depth of Marius' feelings for/about him while Marius is the one who has clarity and purpose and is fully comfortable with his relationship to Eric. And I hope Marius' sister finds the whole thing as funny as I do.
The irony of Marius's whole "I am so devoted to you I would do terrible things are your command" thing about Eric is that Marius tortured himself about that willingness to put Eric before everything and Eric finds the notion of Marius surrendering his own sense of moral judgement over to any evil Eric could come up with horrifying, but the underlying truth is Marius is only so devoted because Eric is so very much not a person who would ask him to do terrible things, the 'worst' Eric thing Eric asked of him was to kill the King which challenged Marius to re-examine his rules-focused moral framework but was not bad by most people's definitions considering the harm Octavius was doing by that point, if Eric weren't such a good person I don't think Marius would have developed the same devotion, so they're both just agonised by this willingness to do terrible things that exists only because such a request would never come.
Okay genuinely, I recommend you guys go in blind like I did to this book and read spoiler-free first like I did because oh my god. what a ride. Wonderful story. Anyway--art underneath the cut.
@sarahreesbrennan's the author, by the way!
(tagging @jackofallrabbits too because she's the one who recommended this book to me in the first place.)