I think I've now illustrated/papercraft every corner of this scene now. But it's such a great contrast to Night-Glimmer (shown side-by-side on the last slide). In Night-Glimmer, we're in Evangeline's perspective as Jacks carries her to a warm and safe tree-house. But turn the camera around, and from Jacks's POV, we see a dark void behind him, surrounded by the snow-tipped pine trees, a trapped feeling, stars hanging out of reach. It's still touches on the magical aspects of this scene, but frames a very different perspective!
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evajacks tension is sooo insane. wdym jacks saw blood on evangelines lips and decided to clean it off with his tongue of all things. he couldve easily handed her a tissue - or really anything to wipe the blood off, but no, this man full on leaned into her face and dragged his tongue up across the center of her lips. not to mention softly and slowly like how evangeline described it. and holding evangelines head in place so she wouldnt lean in as much as he knew how much she wanted to??? INSANITY. oh that evajacks kiss in acftl is gonna destroy us all
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Breaking Jacks' curse and mine
One of the main comments I’ve seen on ACFTL is that there were lots of questions that did not feel answered. Many of those involve Jacks’ curse.
The curse:
I, personally, am also cursed. I am cursed to wake up in the middle of the night with this stupid answer. and spend an hour hunting down quotes.
I don’t know what Stephanie intended, but I do think the answer helped.
The answer, obviously, requires so many spoilers
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The kissing curse on Jacks was broken by Vampire Venom in OUABH when Jacks pushed Evangeline out of the way of Luc.
Relevant Events
Jacks hair is blue when we meet him in the North after the events of Finale. He has a scar where Tella stabbed him. There is no mention of whether his heart beat after the stabbing. Ch 14.
He uses his poison blood to “break Apollo’s spell” (poison Apollo) after the wedding. Kissing curse presumably still in play. Ch. 34
Enter Luc
Luc comes to Chaos to get Vampire Venom to cure his unsexy scars. Ch. 42.
Luc realizes, for the first time, that he must have had a love spell on him. Ch. 42.
Vampire Venom cured Luc of Marisol’s spell
Jacks pushes Evangaline out of the way of Luc, getting infected with Vampire venom himself. Ch. 42.
Shortly after, Evangaline notices that Jacks’ hair is gold again. Ch. 43
“His heart. It was really beating.” Ch. 46 Evangeline is shocked to hear Jacks’ heart beating. Its the first mention of it since his intro in the North.
And these next points are critical AND SPOILERS:
One way or another, Aurora placed the curse on Jacks. Its not a mythical curse placed by Fate. Some jealous bitch like Maarisol just dropped a spell on him.
JACKS DOES NOT KISS ANYONE IN OUABH, TBONA, or ACFTL *UNTIL* HE KISSES EVANGaLINE
He tries, but Evangeline stops him at the party is TBONA.
Aurora’s kissing curse was cured by the vampire venom.
OUABH, Ch. 1.
In ACFTL we learn that there are two versions of the curse. Jacks’ cure works either way.
Aurora says:
She is about as trustworthy as a tarantula, but that story curse does like to change endings.
If Aurora really did curse Jacks’ heart only to beat for someone who could never love him, then Tella survived because she didn’t love him, but Aurora’s petty curse was broken just like Marisol’s love spell by the vampire venom in OUABH.
But, Jacks’ cure also fits the original curse:
Not capable of love because his heart stopped
Only one person can make it work, his one true love
His kiss was fatal to all but her
His only weakness
Like all prophecies and curses in stories, you got to read them a little backwards. Evangaline was Jacks’ weakness. Without thinking, he jumped in front of Luc, pulling her out of danger. His selfless protection of her caused him to be exposed to vampire venom, the strongest known cure. The vampire venom restarting his heart after he was stabbed in Finale. And, as far as he is concerned, Evangeline is the only one who can survive his kiss because she is the only one he has or will kiss.
This version is satisfying to me, because its Jacks’ selfless act that leads to his freedom. He does not know it yet, but she has already saved him.
Like Jacks, I have wasted my morning writing this for others and I am also free.
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"Her eyes were too heavy to open-but she could feel him. He held her with the type of intensity that only happens when a person wants something that isn't quite theirs. But she was. She just needed to tell him she loved him."
"The story curse was familiar with pain, but this was agony, the sort of raw grief that was only seen once in a century. The Fate was every tear that anyone had ever shed for lost love. He was pain given form."
Excerpt From
The Ballad of Never After by @stephanie_garber
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Nobody:
Cardan:“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
Nikolai Lantsov: "Kiss me Zoya, I need reassurance that you are real and that we survived."
Jacks: "In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don't like me, and I can pretend that I don't care. But for tonight, let me pretend you're mine"
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Daily evajacks quotes part 60
"Her eyes closed, and her breath went shallow. She shouldn’t think about Jacks’s lips on hers. And yet she couldn’t help but wonder if maybe she could kiss Jacks here, in the Hollow, in the one place curses couldn’t touch them. The idea was painfully tempting. But even if Jacks’s kiss couldn’t kill her here, that didn’t mean it wouldn’t ruin her in other ways."
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