Rereading Empire of Storms and once again notice a difference between Rowan and Lorcan regarding their paramours… When Elide is close to breaking from despair, Lorcan offers her pleasantries and comforts, the bed, a bath, a tin of salve for her leg. He talks about trying to use kindness to make her want to help him, be grateful to him.
Then there’s Rowan who sees Aelin about to snap and is like “Lol backflip bitch”
Everyone talks about what a cold hearted bastard Lorcan can be, but pre-QoS Rowan is 1000 times more of a prick lol
If I won’t be able to stand in the edge of a cliff waiting for the dawn beside my fey mate to march with our army for a war while Harry Potter Lilly’s theme song plays in the background and the cold wind blows my hair…
His eyes close. He leans his forehead against mine. “You have no idea what you do to me.”
“I hate you.”
He shakes his head very slowly. Dips down. His nose brushes the nape of my neck and I stifle a horrified shiver that he misunderstands. “God I’d love to just take a bite out of you.”
~Aaron Warner to Juliette in shatter me. He then proceeded to kiss her because love<3
•“You’re my sister,“ he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—he laughed soundlessly without any humor—"to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.”
~Jace Herondale to Clary Fray,, love between siblings is so rare these days :’)
•“I do so prefer hand-to-hand combat with you,” he said, catching my other wrist when I swung my fist down. “I like how close it brings us, Princess.”
I shrieked my frustration—my irritation—at him. At myself. “There is something so wrong with you!”
“Probably, but you know what?” He lifted his head off the ground. “That’s the part you like the most.”
~Casteel telling Poppy that he’s getting turned on while she’s trying to kill him. Who said romance is dead?
•“When you lick me,” he said roughly, “I want to be alone—far away from everyone. Because when you lick me, Feyre,” he said, pressing nipping kisses to my jaw, my neck, “I’m going to let myself roar loud enough to bring down a mountain.”
“And when I lick you,” he said, sliding his arms around me and tucking me in tight to him, “I want you splayed out on a table like my own personal feast.”
~my personal fav. Rhysand comparing his wife to food,, the same food that he gives her a choice in eating<33 100/10 love it. Mates 4 life.
•"There is nothing that I can give you. Nothing I want to give you. You are not owed an explanation for what I do outside of training. I don’t care what you have been through or what you want to do with your life. The sooner you can sort out your whining and self-pity, the sooner I can be rid of you. You are nothing to me, and I do not care.”
~Rowan to Aelin while she’s desperately looking for a friend. Awwww do birds say different stuff to the people they like? Love to see the representation<3
•James,“ she said. "You don’t love me.”
He rose to his feet. He was no longer kneeling, and she was glad for it, but he was still close to her– so close to her she could have reached out and set her palm against his chest.
“No,” he said. “I don’t.”
She knew that. Hearing him say it still felt like a blow, unexpected and shocking, like the moment when you were stabbed. The surprise was how much it hurt.”
~James to cordelia,, such a beautiful scene. 1000/10 love it<333
•“There will be nothing left,” I whispered.
“No,” he said gently as he folded me in his arms. He pressed a kiss to the top of my hair. “I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but me.”
~Aleks tryna get the girl by murdering everyone she knows :’)) play lover by Taylor swift<3
•"Did you …“ Luke coughed and his lips glistened red. "Did you love me?”
Annabeth wiped her tears away. “There was a time I thought … well, I thought …”
“You were like a brother to me, Luke,” she said softly. “But I didn’t love you.”
He nodded, as if he’d expected it. He winced in pain.
~My boy Luke flirting with a 16 year old while bleeding to death :)) he’s the definition of dedication. Spoiler- he doesn’t get the girl.
•“You came back for me.”
“I protect my investments.” Investments.
“I’m glad I’m bleeding all over your shirt.”
~Kazzle Dazzle calling the girl he likes an investment. Guys take notes<3
The trope where a character has lots of scars and is given the opportunity to heal them but while the healer is doing their thing the character looks at a particular scar and goes “No, not this one.” because it reminds them of something they survived will ALWAYS, ALWAYS SERVE
AN: Thank you all for being so patient with me as we embark upon this final stretch of IDWTW! I think there will be approx. 15 chapters left until the end (and we’re already over 300k lololol). This signals the beginning of the end, and there’s a lot to unpack in this one. I really enjoyed writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it. I’ve been waiting for this reveal for LITERAL YEARS. I hope it makes as much sense to you as it did for me. 5k words of getting into it. See you on the other side. Can’t wait to hear what you all think!!!
Based on the prompts:
Person A: “I’m glad you are here.” Person B: “Really? Admitting that you missed me, are we?”
Aelin forced a smile and saw it reflected back on her cousin’s face as he rounded the corner toward her table. Her mind was reeling. What the hell was Aedion doing here? Of all places to be on New Year’s Eve, the tiny diner on the suburban outskirts of Orynth was the last place she thought she’d find him. And that wasn’t even taking into consideration the extremely surprising company he was keeping.
Adion’s blue-gold eyes crinkled at the corners as he scrunched up his face in a carefully constructed expression of surprise and joy as he wrapped her in a giant bear hug, pulling her out of the booth and into his thick embrace.
“What the hell, Aed?” Aelin muttered into his ear as he squeezed her tighter.
He ignored her, simply putting her back onto the floor with an ungraceful thud and ruffling her hair, as if she were a small child. She poked at his side and simultaneously stuck her tongue out in his direction, expressing her annoyance in the only way she knew how, causing a genuine sliver of joy to appear in his turquoise eyes.
Rereading Heir of Fire and read the first time Manon says “from now until darkness claims us” let’s just say I’m in tears. Had to close the book and put it down, I need a moment.
