'To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen's hospitality. The hospitality of knives.’
all hail the high king & queen of elfhame 🧚
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Cardan: I don’t want to exile Jude
Cardan: but the parasites in me want to exile Jude 👹👹
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Rereading The Cruel Prince:
Me: Oh no, I'm going to hate Cardan again 😡😡
Also me, in chapter 4: Who is that bitch, Cardan? 🤨🤨🤨
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cardan and jude ♔
idk if i like this but whatever
this will also be available to buy on my inprnt so stay tuned 🫶🏻
(based on dolce&gabbana 2006 fall/winter collection cover by Steven Meisel)
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All hail High Queen Jude!
“But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”
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Jude: *falls from ceiling*
all of Elfhame: clap her in chains!
Cardan:
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Cardan not going after Jude during her exile always makes me cry because the only reason he wasn’t is because he wanted to respect her wants and autonomy so bad. He didn’t want to make her come back if she didn’t want to, didn’t look for her because he genuinely believed Jude would come back if she wanted to be found. And again it’s just so in-character of him to automatically think she’s just found something better than him because no one ever willingly picked and stayed with him when they had a choice so why would she?
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cardan’s letters to jude in a nutshell
That’s a waste of pap— that’s a waste of grief, begging, love and I quote, “indiscreet promises”
the “I expect you to come back now that everything is settled” letter
lol the “I want you to come back but I don’t want to say it so just come be angry at me closer” letter
The second half part though- 😭. the “just come home I don’t care what you do to me but just COME BAAAACK” letter
Cardan be like: tf does this queen think she is not responding to my letters, AKA the “YOU HAVE NEVER DONE MORE OF A SIN THAN THIS JUDE DUARTE” letter
Also cardan: yeah I’m doing something wrong, how about I address this to The High Queen of Elfhame, ha this will definitely work AKA the most heartfelt, poetic and longest letter
At this point cardan just gave up and started doing what he does best: writing Jude’s name in an angry, passionate and grieving fashion. This is called the, “ I give up you win” letter.
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Just finished a reread of TFOTA and this quote from Locke (of all people) stuck out to me.
"Do you love me enough to give me up? Do you love me enough to weep over me?"Jude finds the questions off putting and odd, which I don't blame her.
Flash forward to QoN: *Jude, willing to cut off snake Cardans head, not knowing what would happen, but knowing it would break her*
When she truly loved someone, she was willing to give them up, and weep over them.
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The fact that exchange of rings during marriage isn't a tradition in faerie but Cardan still knew of it and did it with Jude 😭😭✋ the bastard had his research done just in case
Also probably had it planned in his mind when he took Jude's ring days ago... I love this cheeky bastard 😭😭
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I CANNOT take cardan seriously after that scene in twk when he was poisoned and picked up the lute and started playing 💀
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it’s bound to be a fun time with the queen and the bomb 🃏
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Jude: who else here thought Cardan was my boyfriend?
Jude: Cardan put your hand down
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