#elains mate
My musings on the mating bond…
Lucien and Elain’s bond is really strong.
They’re yet to accept the bond but it’s arguably the strongest I’ve read about in the ACOTAR universe.
He declared her his mate the moment they looked into each other’s eyes.
I know there is an assumption that Elain’s turning Fey initiated the mating bond but how do we know that for certain. This was the first time they were both in the same room as each other and Lucien acknowledged the bond the first time he looked into her eyes. What’s to say this wouldn’t have happened regardless of Elain being changed fey. We can’t know because Elain’s changing was also the first time she’d ever met Lucien.
He was able to break the kings restraints to walk to Elain. No one else in the room was strong enough to do this except Lucien and when he broke the restraints Tamlin looked shocked as to how he could. Does this mean his bond to Elain is stronger than two high lords power? Because that’s a VERY strong bond…
Elain can feel the mating bond between her and Lucien to. She can hear his heart beating and when Lucien tugged on the bond she felt a tugging feeling around her heart. She might not understand the mating bond or even agree with it but she hasn’t denied feeling the bond.
I can understand the mating bond being wrong/faulty and I can understand the mating bond being rejected.
What I can’t understand is the mating bond being rejected when both sides are feeling such strong effects of it.
The strength of the bond has obviously caused Elain to avoid Lucien to the point where she refuses to get to know him and find out if she even likes him as a friend.
I wonder how Lucien and Elain would have reacted to one another if the mating bond didn’t exist or if Lucien hadn’t said they were mates. If Elain hadn’t felt forced toward Lucien would they actually be friends?
Rhys didn’t tell Feyre they were mates because he didn’t think she was ready to know. What might have happened if he’d declared them mates under the mountain after Feyre was changed fey? Would she have reacted like Elain has to Lucien? Would she have felt scared and stayed in the spring court with Tamlin?
How would Nesta reacted if Cassian had told her they were mates pre ACOSF?
With Elain’s Trauma and inexperience with the fey all the mating bond has done so far is create a wall between the two.
She refuses to get to close to Lucien because of the bond.
I personally think that Lucien and Elain’s bond is so strong it’s actually scared Elain from getting to know Lucien therefore causing any possible relationship between them to stall for however long it takes Elain to stop fearing/ resenting the bond.
Even Lucien was rattled by the fact he feels a stronger connection to Elain than his late wife and he was born fey.
If the bond didn’t exist between Lucien and Elain would Elain have visited the Spring Court? Or has the mating bond restricted her to the Night Court?
Despite her rebelling against the mating bond she still allows him to come visit on holidays and hasn’t rejected the bond.
I hear people saying if they were canon there relationship would have progressed more by now but how can they have any progression until Elain stops avoiding Lucien? There relationship can only evolve when Elain finally talks to Lucien.
