#lucien vanserra
A teaser for the Elucien 3 parter I’m writing:
“Mother, are you using me to make the shadowsinger jealous?” Lucien asked, trying not to snicker.
When he looked back down at Elain he found her face had paled — her lips were pressed in a flat line. The expression of someone who knew they’d slipped up.
Lucien rolled his eyes. “Did you believe I was laboring under the illusion you were not pursuing his affections, lady?”
Elain’s mouth opened and closed and she fumbled their steps briefly before Lucien steered them back on track. “It— How long have you known?”
He snorted. “Both of my eyes see just fine.”
Elain’s troubled expression softened into puzzlement. “But you never…”
He arched a single brow. “I’ve never caused a scene? I’ve never objected to another male pursuing my mate? I’ve never gone on a bloody rampage snarling about how our lives are woven together by fate itself and as a result I’m entitled to your heart over a brooding, emotionally unstable spymaster? Hm?”
And just a bit to make ya thirsty:
Lucien’s hands instinctively gripped her waist and he said in a rough voice, “I want to see how badly you want it.” He pulled her closer. “Ride my cock and show me, Lady.”
watching azriel being antagonistic towards lucien while lucien doesn’t even think about it twice, calls him decent and goes on with his day indifferent is pure comedy.
you know where elain would fit? with a human that was tortured and enslaved by a fae general, brought back to life only to be further used by her king, who doesn’t know who he is and where he belongs anymore. with a human queen that got punished for refusing to ally with fae, sold off to a death-lord to become someone without any control over her own body left. with her mate who more than anyone knows how it is to lose the person you loved the most, the place you called home.
elain, jurian and vassa are all human victims of fae politics. no longer human, they struggle with the reality forced on them and can’t recognise the person they are anymore. they’re stuck in-between the two worlds along with lucien, having lost everything that defined them. I hope that they find each other as their story unfolds because if anyone could make elain finally open up, it’s those that suffered the same fate as her.
does sjm even realise how much power she holds, one scene with sweet elain yanking lucien’s hair and him whimpering into her mouth and I’m buying 5 of these.
too many people mock lucien for not being the strongest warrior. literally grown women glorifying aggressive behaviour in the name of love and viewing diplomacy as weakness. saying lucien is a lesser male because he would be easier to defeat. physical strength and violence are apparently the only things these men have to offer.
lucien is born from love, to be loved while elain is love personified. he is the sun, she is a flower that blooms. he is fire that consumes all, she is earth that grows life. a fox and a doe. a courtier and a lady. spell-cleaver and seer. autumn and spring. equals. mates.whatever our souls are made of, his and hers are the same.
endgame ships don’t keep me up at night, it’s the dire possibility of sjm giving lucien the rowan and hunt treatment and cutting his hair off in the future.
I do feel that gifts play a role with elain. she was given the engagement ring from graysen and because she was truly in love with him, she refused to take it off when he broke it off with her. then she was given the necklace from azriel and when he said that it was a mistake, she didn’t hesitate to give it back. lucien gave her two gifts and despite her underwhelming reaction, she kept them both—like there’s a chance they will grow on her. like there’s a chance he will.
I’m just so ready for helion, lady of the autumn court, lucien and elain to become the IT family in prythian, owning the looks, the style and golden hour aesthetics.
found elucien secret dating spot
it’s the way lucien is just standing and looking pretty and antis can’t stop talking about him. he’s so famous.
feyre glows multiple times in the story, introducing it as one of the day court’s powers. lucien, being the sole heir to the court, is first shown unlocking its power when he breaks free from hybern to reach for terrified elain. when feyre goes inside elain’s mind, she describes it as “solid iron, covered in vines of flowers, the blossoms sealed,sleepingbuds tucked into tangles of leaves and thorns.” elain spends weeks in a stagnant state following her capture, just looking out the window, onlyleaving her room shortly after lucien arrives. their first interaction happens in front of another window in the library. elain looks away from it precisely when sunlight on gold catches lucien’s eye. something sparks in hers when their gaze meets—which is, notably, the first positive emotion she shows since hybern. as if she was subconsciously waiting for it, for him. “if anyone can sense if something is amiss, it’s a mate”—and lucien does recognise what she needs despite being a stranger and advises feyre. then elain finally shows clarity when lucien tugs on their bond. “what can I get you elain?” nesta asks right after. “sunshine.” from that point forward, she slowly gets better.
the mother loves elain, she would only choose the right person for her. rhysand notes that all her life, elain has been doing what is expected of her. sleeping beauty, like her mind showed feyre. lucien could be the key to unlock her true potential, just like she is to his. the day court power manifested because lucien was determined to protect elain. elain is compared to sealed blossoms, sleeping buds seeking sunshine in the night court—in the wrong place.
once lucien glows, elain will awake.
actually, give me elucien sabotaging their mating bond and it just gets more and more creative until they both realise they’re having fun with it and start laughing together and it gets to the point where they’re looking forward to the next stunt but then either of them tries to make the other jealous and it works and suddenly it’s not so funny anymore and they get mad and the other person starts to feel their absence and it all leads to a heated argument where they angry confess.
people just never read a good arranged marriage trope where you don’t want to have anything to do with your spouse at the beginning just to find out they’re everything you’ve ever prayed for along the way. the first time elain calls lucien her mate is going to hit like a truck.
lucien catching fishes with his bare hands? talented. sleeping naked? brilliant. calming a raging mate with two words only? incredible. calling amarantha out right in her face? amazing. having fire in his blood and fucking like it too? show stopping.
remember when feyre got inside lucien’s head?
“thoughts slammed into me, images and memories, a pattern of thinking and feeling that was old, and clever, and sad, so endlessly sad and guilt-ridden, hopeless”
“betrayal, queasy and oily, slid through his veins”
[after elain said he betrayed them] “he wished she’d shoved him out the window behind her”
lucien had been battling with survivor guilt for decades, if not more. he spent all this time firmly believing that he got his mate brutally murdered for loving him. he was blamed by her people for this. then he found out that she wasn’t his mate at all—instead, it was another female that suffered because of his indirect involvement. it’s his worst nightmare replaying all over again.
I’m guessing that elain feels so uneasy in his presence because, as his mate, she can feel all of it too—guilt for what happened to her, guilt for his former lover dying in vain, guilt for longing for another despite barely knowing her. terrible, terrible things to feel when you don’t know each other enough to allow and accept this vulnerability. of course it’s awkward. the mating bond’s nature is very intimate and they just met. of course it’s uncomfortable and complicated. yet elain never says that her problem is with lucien personally. she circles around him in acowar, eyes sparkling at the sight of him, taking a step as if to stop him from going after vassa, following him after the battle and peering at him curiously, inviting him to velaris. the book ends on a positive note for them, as if she is willing to try. but then he never gets to velaris and only visits every now and then. they’re both ignoring each other because, as mor pointed out in acofas, they aren’t ready for it. that doesn’t mean they won’t find each other at the end. it’s a very sjm thing to do.
where did the idea that sjm hates or wants to get rid of lucien even come from, she mated him first with nesta then elain, whom she absolutely adores, gave him powers of both autumn and day court and clear connections to spring and human lands, made helion his father, can’t have a single character addressing him without mentioning how handsome he is or how well he’s dressed, and writers paragraphs on the sun reflecting on his hair like a lovesick teenager. someone’s projecting.
when elucien happens, I hope it’s elain making the first move. I need her to yank him down to her level and kiss him senseless, leaving everyone shocked out of their mind and lucien too flustered to cope. I know my girl will never be caught waiting for males to come around again, and I know lucien will love every minute of it.
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?
