#jarogen

Villian who everyone hates yet finds interesting at the same time: Bevin Conner

Criminally underrated: Serena, Errol and Mavis

Peak meme material: Every joke Jaron made throughout the series

Worst scene ever: When Imogen told Jaron to leave Darius behind and go back to carthya.

Most iconic scene: Jaron and Roden sword fight in book 2 and The cliff climbing.

Absolute cringe fest: All Jarogen (Jaron and Imogen) scenes.

Uhm who are u again?:(forgot their existence after their role ended) Master graves and Mistress Havala

Deserved better: Latamer, Errol and Serena

i am!! i’m glad you liked the ones about fink and darius ❤️

i don’t dislike jarogen. i had thought it was an interesting perspective when i wrote that fic, but i totally get where you’re coming from when you said you didn’t like imogen being the love interest. imogen never stood out to me much either but i kind of went with it because she was the canon love interest, and the one that jaron liked. i feel like since the story isn’t supposed to be romance centered, the love interest didn’t have as much of a need to be carefully crafted to be a “perfect fit”, and also since the story is middle grade it’s more like “she’s the one that jaron loves” type of thing. (obviously a better love interest never hurts even if it’s middle grade and not the focal point of the story) it’s always interesting to see other perspectives on it though.

Kay, I did not rig this but what I got was

I don't mind Amarinda and Tobias being together like how much I mind and have problems with Jaron and Imogen being together though. (maybe because it is the main romance and yet very forced one but the other is the side romance happening off page so I  am fine with it. I am a bit critical about romance related to the main character though I always end up approving it in the end but Imogen is not that good enough for me to approve it. ). But yes I never saw the Tobias and Amarinda one coming cause of how it was introduced  in book 1 . Mostly it was because of how often I have seen a side character or some other character  having a crush on the most popular and beautiful and the rich girl without even understanding her or meeting her properly and most of the time that girl ends up falling in love with the protagonist. Anyway I think I am tired of the servant-girl and prince trope romance even though I like it mostly when the servant-girl is the protagonist and not the other way around but that trope was not necessary  in this series cause this series was unique and Jaron was not a typical prince . Also Imogen never felt like the Cinderella kind of servant girl who still dreams and smiles despite her situation. So Imogen was less interesting than Cinderella. though book 5 plot-twist of Imogen being royal to justify why she is acting like queen suddenly took away that trope.  Also Jaron shines so much in the series he overshadows Imogen a lot and they don't feel equal. Most of the romances I like or that work well in a series or book is when you have two characters who are better when they are together but Jaron and Imogen are working solo in the book even if Imogen is working passively to help Jaron it is always them working separately and most of the time they are apart and Jaron looks so good when he is doing something on his own in the climax of every book I don't find the characters to be better when they are together.

(And it was told to be a forbidden romance but it was only in name cause once they confessed to each other  they got together so easily in book 3)