The Queen and The King are both beautifully doomed by narrative
It's them
*Margo and Miles just existing in the same room with many other spider-people*
Fans: "OMG! THE TENSION! LOOK! MILES JUST LOOKED AT HER FOR 0000,1 SECOND! THEY ARE SOOO ENDGAME!"
Pavitr: "What about Miles and Gw-"
Fans: "Don't bring that betraying jealous snowbunny into this!"
Pavitr, Hobie and literally everyone with mind: "...."
Jinx was holding her so soft here
JINX ENTERING HER SINGLE MOTHER ERA, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO
Ekko: WHOEVER CAUSED THIS MESS IS GOING TO-
Jinx: It was me..
Ekko: ...is going to be forgiven because everyone deserves a second chance.
Sobs, anyways, work I finished for a convention a bit ago!!
She's just marking her territory at this point tbhš
The straights, the lesbians and the gays
a while back i saw someone (or rather, a thread of ppl saying that they hope cardan and nicasia donāt get it on in the next book which is supposed to be nicasias book (supposedly) and i even saw someone say they WISH THEY DO ?!
so hereās your fun reminder of what nicasia put cardan through!
Iāve gathered together all the shit nicasia did to cardan: being the first girl he loved then breaking his heart w his friend, allowing cardan to catch them ON HIS BEDROOM FLOOR. (not entirely her fault but she totally had shits and giggles abt it when cardan confronted her) then when Locke screwed her over, she got CARDAN and his power as prince, to harass the girl(s) locke chose over her, one of which cardan liked, then later on was trying to manipulate him to marry her (which i think is when cardan realized they werenāt rly even friends anymore), THEN kidnapping and torturing the girl she knew cardan loved, AND befriending his abusive neglectful mother!
like damn. how u even fumble that bad, not just romantically but as a friend.
also Iād like to add her consistent entitlement, not just the whole āi bully girls bc Iām a princess and i can!ā but the ācardan take me back even after i emotionally ruined you multiple times!ā š
poor cardan
anyway, Iāve read lots of holly black books, and she is VERY mindful w abusive sort of relationships. and cheating relationships. she writes about them a LOT and each time they are pretty irredeemable.
note(the only exceptions):Taryn and hazel (darkest part of the forest) who sorta cheated on accident/ it wasnāt their fault-> but didnāt end well
add on note sorry: ābut nicasia cheated on cardan on accident bc Locke was a gancanagh!ā false! nicasia admitted that what her and Locke were doing was prolonged, the scene that cardan finds them is not their first time screwing around. nicasia KNOWINGLY cheated on cardan. then she was like āok but i still care abt u! take me backā ?
now you can say that it could sorta be classified as an accident due to lockes natures (which are actually really disturbing if u think abt it) and thatās true, i never blamed nicasia for that relationship, but i do blame her for all the utter dogshit she not only put cardan thru, but Jude.
and this is cardan we are talking about. he who killed half an army for Jude when madoc tried taking his daughter back (sounds funny out of context).
we must remember that cardan does not want Jude hurt and humiliated and thatās exactly what nicasia went and did to Jude. through all the books bro. nicasia literally kidnapped and tortured Jude in the undersea so thereās 0 chance of cardan touching nicasia unless maybe to turn her into a tree again (but he can always just do that at a distance š)
anyway back to the cheating:
which is why i know that holly would never pull any sort of bull w cardan and nicasia, and you may be thinking (well thatās bullshit what do u know?) 3 separate books w cheating tropes, and 5+ diff relationships that involve cheating w no redemption. LOL
anyway black and i certainly agree on that front, and the way she uses the trope so consistently, and makes it so the cheaters are never endgame, or have a horrible death (Locke AND his mom, also Eva Duarte šthe dude Ben dated from dpotf, and Kaye and that guy Janet was dating, Val and Tom and dave and lolli (modern faerie tales)) is pretty telling!
holly is great at writing healthy relationships, and she knows that tcp is her biggest hit w the media, so she wonāt go and fuck that, not just bc she would never and itās out of her writing style and character and literally moral compass when it comes to writing relationships, but also bc her publishers/editors would NEVER let that slide.
but i canāt wait for her book! i love knowing that nicasia will never have a chance w cardan again, itās no less than what she deserves š
anyway sorry for ranting! I just feel so strongly abt this topic, cardan would never cheat on Jude, since heās been cheated on before, and it was heart wrenching, and bc of his upbringing, he would never. if you havenāt, go thru my masterlist in my pinned and find the cardan /nicasia thing where i explain why he wouldnāt cheat far better there!
But feel free to add on, i probably missed a few things so lmk!! š«¶
Black cat and orange cat, grumpy and sunshine, musician friend and gamer friend, pink and blue duo āØ
In my head they are bestiez and no one can convince me otherwise tbh