#archeron sisters
Nesta Archeron.
I’m so existed for her book! can’t wait to read her story
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I don’t like going to parties, I hate public speaking, talking about myself gives me hives, I would throw myself in front of the bullet for those that I love, my family misunderstands me, it’s hard to “get” me, I hide my soft feelings behind a suit if armor made or rude remarks, there is definitely some sexual frustration and tension in my life, I find it hard to start a fire, I never want to go to the gym and train, and yeah I love a good romance novel.
Oh crap. I AM NESTA
So Feyre starts off thinking about her sister, her thoughts and feelings. But the moment she has any discomfort all thoughts of Nests and her needs go out the window. As long as Feyre is comfortable and as a easy life everything is ok.
Stupid
I Voted
For NESTA to get the happiness she needs in ACOSF.
Normalize This…
It’s ok to hate the main character and consequently most of the series but still love it for the side character that carries the story emotionally and makes it relatable because they are not perfect and neither are you.
Nesta. Nesta. NESTA
Nessian Head Cannon
Even when depressed Nesta keeps all the newspaper clippings or updates on what the heck Cassian is up to.
Kind of like Nathan and Haley from OTH
A COVER REVEAL WON’T MAKE ME FORGET THAT THE RELEASE DATE GOT PUSHED BACK
Nesta is probably the most relatable character in the ACOTAR universe
Feel free to add to this!
List of Special Nesta Moments
Moments that hunt at Nesta being more aka more powerful, not fae, future queen of something
- Tamlin’s fae magic couldn’t trick Nesta’s mind. She saw right through it all ACOTAR
- Nests could tell when Feyre went into Lucien’s mind and Feyre had know idea how she knew ACOWAR
- Devon and all the Illyrian commanders were freaked out by her (and they live in the dangerous mountains) ACOWAR
- the Bone Carver spoke about how she is acient and yet she is newly born ACOWAR
Can’t wait to see this in ACOSF
Nesta being super stubborn about a small thing that doesn’t really matter to her but then she realizes how much it means to Cassian and quickly compromises.
The Archeron sisters - A court of wings and ruin
“I didn’t know how long my sisters and I lay there together, just like we had once shared that carved bed in that dilapidated cottage. Then—back then, we had kicked and twisted and fought for any bit of space, any breathing room. But that morning, as the sun rose over the world, we held tight. And did not let go.”
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Lucien VanserraandElain ArcheronfromA Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas.
A Court of Silver Flames (2021): Chapter 44
“Nesta tried to win a duke out of spite? At fourteen.”
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The Archeron Sisters
ACOWAR, ch. 65:
Running steps approached, and then Nesta rounded a tent, skidding to a halt in the mud.
She let out a sob at the sight of Elain, still in Azriel’s arms. I’d never heard a sound like that from her. Not once.
She isn’t hurt, I said to her, into that chamber in her mind. Because words … I couldn’t form them.
Nesta broke into another sprint. I reached for Rhysand, his face taut as he stalked for us—
But Nesta got there first.
I swallowed my shout of pain as Nesta’sarms went around my neck and she embraced me so hard it snatched my breath away.
Her body shook—shook as she sobbed and said over and over and over, “Thank you.”
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Before I could turn back, Elain threw her arms around me.I did not remember when I began to cry as I felt those slender arms hold me, tight as steel.
I did not remember the healer who patched me up, or how Rhys bathed me. How I told him what happened with Jurian, and Tamlin, Nesta hovering around Elain as Helion came to remove her chains, cursing the king’s handiwork, even as he admired its quality.
But I did remember lying down on the bearskin rug once it was done. How I felt Elain’s slim body settle next to mine and curl into my side, careful not to touch the bandaged wound in my shoulder. I had not realized how cold I was until her warmth seeped into me.
A moment later, another warm body nestled on my left. Nesta’s scent drifted over me, fire and steel and unbending will.
Distantly, I heard Rhys usher everyone out—to join him in checking on Azriel, now under Thesan’s care.
I didn’t know how long my sisters and I lay there together, just like we had once shared that carved bed in that dilapidated cottage.Then—back then, we had kicked and twisted and fought for any bit of space, any breathing room.
But that morning, as the sun rose over the world, we held tight. And did not let go.
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This description of Feyre,Nesta, and Elain after Feyre has rescued Elain from Hybern’s camp (with essential assistance from Azriel, Jurian, and Tamlin), is an incredible illustration of the love between sisters they have for each other. It’s right there in the storytelling of the scene, how they have grown and come so far in this regard from where they were at the start of the series.
They carry a lot of trauma, individually and collectively, so there is still much healing work to happen between them…
But I can’t imagine reading this scene and concluding they don’t love each other, or that given the hard won opportunity, they wouldn’t choose to be a family together.
(Also, thank you for indulging my color coding—I just love how the sisters layer each other during the movement of the scene, just as they do in the bed they share at its conclusion, and I wanted to try to capture that visually. It reminds me of the dresser Feyre paints with a drawer for each of them from before she came to Prythian.)
The scene where the 3 sisters lay together is by far my favourite scene. ❤️
omg is there a pro-Archeron sisters discourse happening right now? this post getting lots of traction is bc this blog is absolutely a pro-Archeron sister space ✨ (and if this means there’s also an anti-Archeron sisters position out there I literally don’t know what to even do with that )
I just referred to “my Archeron Sisters are the Center of Everything lens” in a theory flail to @arielle-reads and I am not remotely sorry for it ♀️
(In case anyone new to my page is unsure of where my allegiances lie ✨)
~25 ACOSF Days of Solstice~
A hand slid into Nesta’s, and she found Elain there, shaking and wide-eyed. Nesta squeezed her sister’s fingers.Together, they approached the other side of the bed. And when Elain began praying to the Fae’s foreign gods, to their Mother, Nesta bowed her head, too.
—ACOSF Ch. 76
This chapter is a heavy one. Pregnancy plot coming to its fruition, etc. But more important to me, Nesta wielding all three Dread Trove items.
But my passage isn’t directly about either of those.
It’s this moment at a dying Feyre’s bedside, between Nesta and Elain. It’s a moment really between the three of them, and if I may be so bold, the Mother as well.
I softly gasped when I reached this moment during my reread. To have a vulnerably strong moment of openness and care between the Archeron sisters in this room where Death hovers to take one of them away from the others…
To have Elain, who has perhaps struggled most of all with her forced turn to Fae, invoke the Fae gods including the Mother in a prayer for Feyre, and for Nesta, who we recall has been attending the priestesses’ evening worship services to fill the part of her that loves music, to join in that prayer…
Nesta who has also been blessed and favored in some way by the Mother throughout this story…
I just think this is a really meaningful and powerful collection of images when considering the series-wide character arcs of the Archeron sisters, as a family and as individuals.
I also think (predict) that this moment situates our thoughts of the three sisters in a way that sets up for what will come in future books.
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❧ art byImperiness
⤞ commissioned by me
Dedicated to my Elriels— keep positive, always.
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Characters Elain Archeron and Azriel belong to Sarah J. Maas
My sister was beaming, content—prettier than I’d ever seen her, even in her simple muslin gardening dress. Her cheeks were flushed beneath her large, floppy hat.
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⤞ art by catherine7mk
⤞ commissioned by me
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one thing i will praise sjm for is giving the archeron sisters a relatable and realistic dynamic (as realistic as fantasy can get). they love eachother deeply and would arguably go to the ends of the earth for one another but they are not besties lol
Fassian (FeyrexCassian) Brotp:
Idk why but I hoped that Feyre would be protective over Nesta: (in a good way)
Like I wanted a scene where Feyre is completely oblivious that Nesta and Cassian are together (even tho they’re mates) and when someone tells her that they are, she runs around the house with a shoe behind Cassian.
Like she will be on his nerves (cause she knows he’s a player) and she would be repeatedly REPEATEDLY threatening him that if he ever hurt Nesta she would make sure that she hurt him.
Feyre : *with a knife against cassian’s throat* Are we clear?
Cassian : *genuinely scared by her psychotic behaviour* *croaks out* yes
Feyre : *insert my scary pt sir’s voice* I COULDNT HEAR YOU ARE WE CLEAR?!
Cassian : Yes ma’am.
And Nesta won’t even try to like intervene cause she’s so fascinated by her sister actually caring about her.
Lucien’s (and Feyre’s) Powers
This theory relies somewhat on and mentions HOSAB spoilers, so proceed at your own risk! Also I apologize for the length but I couldn’t help myself.
Reblogging to add a crack theory based on something discussed in @offtorivendell’s amazing post on Theia (credit for this research and line of thinking also goes to @wingedbloomsand@psychee92).
In Greek mythology, Theia had three children: Eos (the dawn), Selene (the moon), and Helios (the sun). Helena seems like she might represent Selene, the moon. We know Theia also had a second daughter—could she represent Eos, the dawn?
Of course, the question is whether Theia only had 2 children, or might she have had a third, a son. @offtorivendell theorizes in the post I linked above that the son might be Pelias, which is a fascinating theory. But I wonder if the son actually remained in Prythian, and if that son is the direct ancestor of Helion. I mean, this would make sense given Helion’s name. And it would also explain why Helion reacted to the mask’s presence how he did—it’s likely because his ancestor interacted with the mask 10,000+ years ago. So this would mean Helion and Lucien are direct descendants of Fionn and Theia and are starborn, and that Feyre has that starborn power in her veins from Helion as well.
Also interesting about this, of course, is the parallel to the Archeron sisters. Nesta has been described as the moon, and would thus be Helena’s heir. Elain has been described as the dawn, and would be the second daughter’s heir. And then of course we have Feyre, who is called a star, and whose light is bright white like Helion’s—the heir of the sun?
And would this mean that Theia’s children/heirs have essentially been reborn, either for the final battle against Koschei (to finally defeat him), or for the upcoming fight against the Asteri?
SHADOWS & SORROWbykatsum1Almost a year after the events in A Court of Silver Flames, Elain tries to figure out how she fits into the Night Court, wanting to find a purpose. Her sisters are anxious to help her, one thinking Lucien might be the answer and the other wanting to push her to expand her horizons. When more of her gifts are uncovered, she jumps at the chance of serving the court in new ways. Meanwhile Azriel continues to wonder how he can feel so drawn to a female who belongs to another.
this fic has me in a chokehold ok i have to share it
it’s new but there’s already 20+ chapters out which is great for a binge read
the writing, characterization of every single character, PINING, ANGST, plot is absolutely fantastic (and there’s elriel smut too no worries ch 12 im lookin at ya)
this is definitely a must read for elain fans especially oh my gosh the fic goes deep into her headspace and reading her journey has literally brought me to tears so many times if SJM gave elain even an ounce of development in the books like author does here maybe people wouldnt dislike her character so much lol not to mention she doesn’t just exist in a vacuum here and actually has meaningful interactions with all the characters ok rant over just wanted too pop in and rec this fic
