#Luc and Addie

[darklinaforever]

“If you loved me, you would have let me go by now.”

“It is because I love you that I won’t.”

I love these dialogues from Addies and Luc in the invisible life of addie larue. It totally represents two different perspectives on love.

Addie, like many people, thinks that love is purely selfless and good. (While she herself can have selfish actions or thoughts) Luc thinks that love is selfish, or at least can be. (Because to say that Luc is purely selfish would be quite hypocritical given all the events of the books and what he does there. Luc is much more complicated than that)

But I like that these two sentences summarize these two visions of love.

Love is selfless. Love is selfish. When in fact... it can be both, separately or together. Love can be something uniquely good and positive. Just as it can be negative. And sometimes it's both together. They are simply different forms of the same feeling.

All this to say that I hate when people try to say that love must be pure, good and selfless. It's bullshit. Whether in fiction or reality. The difference is that in fiction you can explore relationships with toxic connotations without risk, unlike real life or if there are red flags, you obviously have to just run to protect yourself.

Justice for romances like Luc & Addie, Jane Eyre & Rochester, Heathcliff & Catherine (Wuthering Heights), Coriolanus Snow & Lucy Gray Bird (The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Christine & Erik (The Phantom of the Opera), Thomas & Edith (Crimson Peak), Hannibal & Will (Hannibal), Hannibal & Clarice (Hannibal), Raistlin & Crysania (Dragonlance), Sarah & Jareth (Labyrinth), Qu Xiao Feng & Li Cheng Yi (Goodbye My Princess), The Darkling & Alina (Grisha), Mare & Maven (Red Queen), Julian & Jenny (The Forbidden Game), and so so many others...

Not without kidding, there are so many examples in general, but also that I know and love that it is impossible to cite them all !

[blumoonfiction-blog]

Bleu's Reviews: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Muse, Memory, and the Mark We Leave V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a modern myth wrapped in historical fantasy—haunting, artistic, and deeply human. It’s a novel about a girl who makes a deal to be free, only to spend centuries invisible, forgotten, and fighting to matter. A Faustian bargain, yes—but this isn’t your typical tale of hubris and hellfire. It’s quieter. Sadder.…

[m-4-gp-13]

ve schwabs ability to make murder and mutual hatred the most romantic gesture ive ever seen has fundamentally altered the structure of my brain

[booklover-s]

Just remember when Addie is at the marquise's house wearing her things, about to cover her freckles with makeup and Luc appears, with: “I would rather see clouds blot out the stars.”

DAMN HOT VILLAINS WITH DARK HAIR!!!!

[iknowitwontwork]

do u guys ever think abt how addie was covering her freckles with makeup and luc appeared and said "i would rather see clouds blot out the stars" and go a little bit insane? no? just me?

[peraltuki]

y'all don't know Addie LaRue and Luc like I do and it shows

[sunrisewithmist]

It was such a smart and nice move of Henry to only place the name of Addie on the cover so now she can hear her name said by different people and not only by Luc

[lilyimmsim]

i feel like people completely misunderstand addie. like no, she didn't fight in a war or do something so drastically incredible with her life, she spent her time trying to leave a mark on the world - but isn't that what so many of us long to do? writing "___ was here" in concrete, posting things on social media, creating businesses that will hopefully out-live us. people seem to limit her to the bland storyline and 'pick-me-ism', and that's a valid opinion, but i disagree. life itself is not going to always be exciting. what addie does is continue to live, not just survive, ignoring the hollowness that could just as easily swallow her up. she romanticises her life, that is true, but what is wrong with that? don't we all sometimes? she is making the best of the bad cards she got dealt. she can still appreciate the art in the world, she can still enjoy the sunshine and good food and lovely music. she did not let bitterness suffocate her; she made a life out of it

[super-oddity]

the best thing about the ending of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is that her ending, not yet reached, is entirely dependent on the truth. if Luc does not love her, she will have “won”. she will be free. if he does love her… she’s loved! their relationship is the teensiest bit less toxic, and they can enjoy one another forevermore. i love it.

[maidragoste]

I've been thinking about this concept for a long time but I know I'm not going to write it (I already have too many unfinished fics) so I'm sharing it to see if anyone else wants to develop it

AU of The Invisible Life of Addie Larue with Aegon. But Aegon takes Addie's role. He doesn't want to marry Helaena so the night before his wedding in the midst of his desperation he asks the gods for help and then you appear. You don't look like the Mother or the Maiden so he assumes you are a Valyrian goddess and decides to trust you. He tells you everything, how his father ignores him, how his mother wants him to be the perfect heir, how he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life tied to his sister and that he doesn't want to be king or have any kind of obligations, that he just wants to live without worries and fly with Sunfyre. Of course you ask for something in return to help him but you reject the money, the jewels, the dragon eggs, you reject every offer he makes you making him more desperate—and you know it, you can see in his eyes that he thinks you are his last salvation—until it gets to the point that you know he will say yes to whatever you say so you ask for his soul in return.

Aegon accepts and now he is tied to you for the rest of his life because only you remember him.

[darklinaforever]

One thing I particularly like about The Invisible Life of Addie Larue is that Luc is right ; Addie shaped him.

She gave it a shape and a name.

I'm convinced that Luc didn't have a name before Addie gave him Luc's, or perhaps a very old name unpronounceable to humans, who knows. Or simply a title to designate the creature he is. But personally, I don't think he had any. After all, his first response to Addie's question was why he should have a name, not the one that he shouldn't tell her. Especially since if names do indeed have power in this universe as Addie and Luc say, it should be noted that yes, in the rest of the story Addie has power over Luc. Just letting her name it gave her power. It is precisely after this point in the book that the relationship really evolves. I don't think it's a coincidence. Names have power, and Addie begins to have a real influence on Luc after giving him one. (Therefore reinforcing my interpretation that he actually didn't have a name before Addie)

Also, she gave her a shape.

He have been used to taking on an appearance based on the people he met, and or simply speaking while remaining among the shadows, but strangely after taking on an appearance for Addie, he sometimes kept it beyond of her. This can be seen the first time he meets Henry. He presumably maintains the appearance Addie gave him outside of when he sees her. Which for a being such as Luc, is not nothing. Without forgetting the quote according to which Luc is deprived of stars at night, and that Addie, through her freckles, is rightly associated with the stars. Addie therefore helps complete Luc.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Sideways Pike/Jing Gao - The Scapegracers by HA Clarke

Humaira Khan/Ishita Dey - Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

Addie LaRue/Luc - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Xie Lian/Hua Cheng - Tian Guan Ci Fu / Heaven Official's Blessing by by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

[runwiththerain]

mutual tag list !!

this is not a limited list just send me a ask n im happy to add you i was just lazy when i made this lol

#addy !!!!! ( @lost-in-reveriie )

#alexander finnegan !!!!! ( @thepaladinstrait )

#andromeda !!!!! (@i-am-an-arson-enthusiast )

#ash !!!!! ( @bassguitarinablackt-shirt )

#blue !!!!! ( @qwerty-keysmash )

#cat !!!!! ( @catinasink )

#ceri !!!!! ( @sweetnnaivete )

#dandy !!!!! ( @dandelions-fly-in-summer-skies )

#els !!!!! ( @loveyou-imsorry )

#em&m !!!!! ( @flowers-for-em )

#issy !!!!! ( @sapphic-lottienat )

#jae !!!!! ( @floatinglanterns16 )

#juno !!!!! ( @glcive )

#kat !!!!! ( @daydream-of-a-wallflower )

#lou of my life !!!!! ( @a-beautiful-fool )

#luc !!!!! ( @svnflowermoon )

#luke !!!!! ( @the-stars-were-his )

#may !!!!! ( @maybxlle )

#oli !!!!! ( @albi-bumblebee )

#rory !!!!! (@lostbuoyinblue )

#vix !!!!! ( @sleepy-vix )

#vick !!!!! ( @cuyberpunk )

#z !!!!! ( @closetoyou-pdf )

#zelia !!!!! ( @pinkwinesupernovas )

[vesper-the-solitaire]

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab

Addie LaRue x Luc

[selenita31]

“ Ela descobriu que os livros são uma maneira de viver milhares de vidas diferentes - ou de encontrar forças para viver uma muito longa. ”

[iknowitwontwork]

screaming giggling blushing kicking my feet!!!!! aaah!!!! they are so!!!!!