If Azriel spends half, or even a quarter, of his book pining after Elain while Gwyn just quietly supports him….I will hurl myself into the sun and never read another SJM book again.
Gwyn deserves to experience proper romance and love without being the second choice.
Azriel deserves to grow and understand love without his lust for someone else overshadowing it.
Elain deserves to be more than just the object of someone’s lust or a catalyst for other people’s romance.
—So since everyone has been posted such amazing pieces of gwyn and azriel for the gwynriel week, I decided to whip something out as well! I love these two so much ahhhhh.
So I saw that @court_of_sketches made this beautiful drawing of Rhys from the Fallen Angel painting challenge that’s been going round, and I had to ALSO do it
But the original painting was giving me massive Azriel vibes so I drew him instead
I got inspired by the amazing @elizianna.the.one and @artywings (ON INSTAGRAM) and their chibi designs! I’m absolutely in LOVE with their art work, and I tried making my own chibi designs!
Im working on the rest of the ACOTAR characters, and I’m planning on making these into stickers for my Etsy shop! I’ll also be making chibi characters from other fandoms I’m apart of—so that’s fun!
“Nesta around Gwyn was a wholly different creature than who she was with the court. They didn’t tease or laugh with each other, but an easiness lay between them that he’d never witnessed, even when Nesta was with Elain. She’d always been Elain’s guardian, or Feyre’s sister, or Cauldron-Made. With Gwyn … he wondered whether Nesta liked the girl because with her, she was simply Nesta. Perhaps she felt that way around Emerie, too.” -ACOSF Chapter 27
Whenever someone asks me why I love the Valkyries I’m just going to show them this quote.
In the Night Court with the IC and even in their old house with the Feyre and Elain, Nesta still had to hold up a certain image because she was so used to that after being around these people after so many years or just because of the things these individuals heard about her.
With Emerie and Gwyn, there’s none of that. Neither of them had any sort of negative reaction to the animosity Nesta displayed.
““He does, but I am …” Fine. If the female could be blunt, so could she. “I’m cut off.” Curiosity flooded the female’s eyes. “Why?” Nesta stiffened. “I don’t know you well enough to tell you that.” The female shrugged.” -ACOSF Chapter 9
“I doubt you’ll enjoy the way I speak to most people,” Nesta said. Gwyn snorted. “Try me.” Nesta looked at her from under lowered brows again. “Get out of my sight.” Gwyn grinned, a broad, bright thing that showed most of her teeth and made her eyes sparkle in a way Nesta knew her own never had. “Oh, you’re good.” Gwyn turned back to the stacks. “Really good.” -ACOSF Chapter 9
Both of these women just understand Nesta and from the very first moment looked past her front. There was no history between them before they met, no Feyre or Elain to talk about their messed up family dynamics, no high tension first meeting, there was nothing but a clean slate for the eldest sister and that’s what she so desperately needed in my opinion. If there’s one thing I adore about Nesta’s journey it’s that she was able to find two friends, two sisters who see, acknowledge, but also look past her faults and love her.
I just absolutely adore these girls and I’m so excited to see their dynamic more in the upcoming books.
