#high queen jude

[illustratinghan]

king and queen ✨👑💞

jude & cardan by @hollyblack 🫶

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[murasaki-cha]

Absolutely priceless to me that Jude only realised she's in Cardan's room in Hallow Hall because she saw his closet.

Like the school books did not raise any flags at all. Why wouldn't faeries that went to that place for nothing more than partying and getting high, have their homework spread out on the table?

But the second she laid eyes in that wardrobe she really went "No bitch dresses THAT extra even in Elfhame besides THAT ONE!"

Keep staying iconic Cardan✨️

[thejudeduarte]

Cardan is our favourite drama queen lmao

[kaipaedyn]

jude poisoning both cups to trick madoc was such a power move bc that woman literally planned everything. she did not take one risk in her plan and succeeded. down from feeding herself small amounts of poison to get used to it to poisoning both the drinks bc she didn't know for sure which one madoc would choose. that's a mastermind right there if you ask me

🎨: frostbite studios

[frogyayfroggay]

soooooo i just finished the folk of the air trilogy and basically this is how it felt reading it

[oh-my-wolfstar]

Jude one-upping Taryn

Taryn: marries one of cardan’s friends

Jude: marries cardan

Taryn: Becomes a Lady

Jude: Becomes a Queen

Taryn: stabs her husband

Jude: Beheads her husband

[mylovecardan]

the Bomb: I can't believe you and Jude broke the bed last night.

the Roach: Yeah, what were you even doing?

Cardan: um....

*last night*

Jude: Bet you can't jump high enough to touch the ceiling.

Cardan: Try me

[cusswordsbutmakeitgay]

My favorite thing that Holly Black did with Locke was having him be obsessed with stories, convinced he was the main character and puppet master and then killing him off in a footnote

[dorcasmckinnonn]

how dare cardan greenbriar casually drop a number like "yes, my sweet villain, my darling god" and kiss jude duarte on the mouth in front of basically the whole damn kingdom

[tothestarsinvelaris]

okay so Cardan hides his tail because it gives away his real emotions. It makes him feel vulnerable, so he hides it away. and like, it can't be super comfortable to tuck it away all the time, but its better than having people use it against him. and when Jude is interrogating him, she first mentions the letter she found with her name on it over and over again - he's not really ready to admit his feelings for her, so he tries to redirect by bringing up his tail.

"Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don't you want to see it?"

Like, he is absolutely terrified of her (which he also had literally just said) nearly his whole family is dead, he doesn't want to die too, he knows she is capable of killing - and at this point he thinks she hunted Valerian down to kill him. and despite all of this, he's like 'let me offer you my most vulnerable and true self' but she doesn't quite get it bc she's also dealing with a lot and trying to process a lot.

and then by the Queen of Nothing, he has his tail out. his clothes are now cut in a way to let his tail be free. and its all because Jude has helped him see that sometimes being emotional and vulnerable isn't so bad. Even without her there with him, even with him horrified that he ruined everything because she hasn't responded to any of his letters - lets his tail be visible. And to quote him from How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories:

"Everyone finds different lessons in stories, I suppose, but here's one. Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway."

[illustratinghan]

seeing as the two never got a real wedding ceremony, jude, being the queen she is, decided to surprise cardan with a new white dress and a banquet for two on their anniversary to make up for it✨💐

oh how i adore these two! @hollyblack 🫶 (peep their matching necklaces)👀

[highladyofterrasen7]

Some faerie: is she- covered in blood?

Cardan: yes. It really brings out her eyes don’t you think?

[whisperingreader]

I adore the Greenbriar boys. Well when I say that, I mean Oak and Cardan. They are down bad in the best way possible. They’re fae so their charm makes sense, but it’s so easy to love them as characters. They’re just two guys who love dangerous women, I mean who wouldn’t be obsessed with Jude and Wren??

[kaipaedyn]

get yourself a woman who can do both

🎨: lotusbuble, frostbite studios

[thejudeduarte]

Is noone gonna talk about the fact that in tcp, in that scene where Jude gets poisoned by the faerie fruit, they see 7 shooting stars and Jude describes that at as dozen deaths. I haven't heard anyone mention that that could have been foreshadowing what was to come later during the coronation as 6 Fae died then (Elowyn, Eldred, Dain, Rhyia, Caelia and Taniot) and also Valerian earlier on which makes 7 deaths like prophecied.

I thought it was really clever, nothing a reader would have really paid attention too.

[marecalshipper]

TQON, summarized (spoilers):

Jude: *thinking she might have time to confess her love to Cardan*

Cardan: *turns into a huge, black serpent incapable to communicate with anyone*

Jude: Fuck.