#randlayne

me: what do you MEAN they're not doing randlayne??????

ELAYNE

ELAYNE TRAKAND

That's all, that's the post

Okay, no it's not, I can always talk about Elayne

The best scene in show is, we all agree, her singing in the tavern. But she just had so so so many amazing scenes left and that's why WoT needs to be saved!

But even in this short time, the show did great in showing how she would always go to bat for her friends, her sense of duty and justice, but also her funny and cheerful side, and how helpful and accepting and accommodating to other cultures she is.

I'm going into spoilers now

Her bath scene would absolutely need to be in the show! A lot of people don't like this scene, I've seen a lot of complaints along the lines of: "Why do we need to read the whole chapter about her in the bath?" And like, first of all, because that is so Elayne. But second, that's the point! She's fighting for her throne, she's an Aes Sedai, she's preparing for The Last Battle, she's hunting the Black Ajah, she's incorporating a new type of channelers into the world, she's pregnant!!! She doesn't have a moment to just take a bath, she keeps getting interrupted, and she manages to do it all 😌 👑

I love her bickering with Mat and her learning swear words from him sjsjsj. And I need the scene of Mat protecting Elayne in Rand's name and yelling 'You can't have her!!' to Gollam

Elayne and Nynaeve as a duo will always be iconic

Her and Birgitte! Give us Birgitte, I need to see her!

And of course her other Warder ❤️ I love love love Elayne and Rand together. One of my favourite moments in the books is her reaction when Rand tells her about LTT memories. Others' reactions to that ranged from thinking he's mad to 'we're just gonna ignore that'. But Elayne? She says 'Oh, that's so useful.' Rand is in love, I am in love (and of course I love the whole polycule of Elayne/Rand/Aviendha (and put Mat there instead of Min) but Rand and Elayne together are so special to me.)

The most romantic thing ever: Rand trying to channel to make feathers into flowers for her and failing, and Elayne keeping those feathers five books later because Rand wanted them to be flowers for her!!! It's okay, I'm fine. Also them having marathon sex all day and night and Rand leaving a lily on her pillow, which is her personal simbol!

Their meet-cute! It didn't make it into the show, but it will always be famous!

Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rand al'Thor/Mat Cauthon, Aviendha/Elayne Trakand, Rand al'Thor/Aviendha/Mat Cauthon/Elayne Trakand Characters: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Aviendha (Wheel of Time), Elayne Trakand, Alanna Mosvani Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Fate swap, book canon, diverges at book 6: lord of chaos, after Rand’s encounter with Alanna Mosvani, spoilers through book 14: a memory of light, Spanking, Rimming, Master-Servant Roleplay, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Kink Discovery, Past Mat Cauthon/Melindhra Summary: A confession from Rand reshapes Mat's future plans and choices.

Mat tugged lightly at the marriage ribbon around his neck.

Strange to think of himself as a married man.

It wasn’t exactly following Two Rivers’ custom to hide the marriage ribbon underneath a scarf but marriage was about compromise, or at least that’s how Mat understood it. Officially, Rand was dead. The soldiers and nobles who’d guessed that Mat was sleeping with Rand would have been fairly surprised to see Mat marry some random man so soon after Rand’s death so… a secret marriage.

Reminded me the first time Eric saw Ariel: