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it would be so funny, I mean, I don't know about everyone else but I want to see Jacks suffering and almost begging for eva's love.

me personally, I want to see Jacks at his absolute worst drunk hungover state idk if Fate’s can get drunk at the beginning of A Curse for True Love and then LaLa talks some sense into him to pull himself together and make Evangeline fall in love with him again just give it to me

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SPOILER ACFTL

So there's this girl that got an early copy of ACFTL and in one video she opens the book for like one second. So I attempted like a psicopath, to slow it down, take a picture and read the pixels. And I kind of succeeded.

It isn't much information but then again this is still SPOILERS and if you don't want to know not even a line before the book comes out please stop reading.

The thing is, I even know which page she opened the book in because there is a phrase at the top that Stephanie had shared before. The one in page 213. In the video you can also see page 214.

I'll transcribe down here in case my writing isn't clear:

Page 213

Evangeline whirled on him. Or she tried to. Whirling wasn't exactly possible with the rope of flowers binding their ("hands" probably)...

... tie people up and whisk them whenever you want to (this is the one Stephanie shared before)...

... just remember" He... (that's clearly Jack's response)

Page 214

He held her to him, fingers gentle and firm as... her scalp.

...wanting the man who've tied her...

...countless other unspeakable things... all she...

...that she wanted him to do even more.

...He was like poisoned fairy fruit—one bite... something else. But she hadn't even...(bitting, maybe?)... him...

...She tried to pull away but Jacks hold tight...

Why is Jack holding her? Is this a memory, a dream or in between page 213 and 214 they suddenly have to hide which would explain why they're close out of nowhere?

Anyway, take this by a grain of salt as this is a REALLY blurry photo but if you up for guessing the words here's the pictures:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMjQXLQ7A/

(That the link of the video)

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YESS

jacks confessing first and eva initiating their first kiss in acftl >>>>

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So these are just notes and random things I wrote down from Stephanie Garber's London tour:

● Her favourite character used to be Jacks but now it's Apollo *gasp from the audience*

● She wrote Finale chapter 16 ( the one where it mentioned that a wedding party was turned to stone and the bride's sister took their place) before she wrote Once Upon A Broken Heart, which actually contradicts what everyone believes- that she wrote chapter 16 to set up ouabh.

● In the first draft of ouabh, Evangeline was a spy sent from Valenda to the North to kill Jacks.

● She's written her next book (secret project #7) and it's probably going to be announced around a month after acftl is released.

● When asked if Chaos, Lala and the Valors are going to return she said yes and that there is going to be a Chaos/Lala scene (a scene where Evangeline is like "hey I'm still here guys") (Stephanie's words)

● She said she also has a Chaos/Lala story in her head but I think there was something about Secret project #7 having nothing to do with the ouabh/caraval universe but don't quote me on that.

● Jacks was hard to write in acftl

● Also mentioned that Legend was easy to write until Finale

● When asked about alternate endings she said she:

> she doesn't like writing bonus material

> she feels like she puts everything she wants to in the book

> they are not canon

> there is one light ending, one dark ending and one that's in the middle (out of all the bonus epilogues/alternate endings)

> she prefers the dark ending and doesn't really like the light ending

● There actually is something about Jacks liking apples and sometimes the colours were intentional

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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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ACFTL THEORY: MAYBE TIME TRAVEL WAS ALREADY DONE WHEN JACKS MET EVANGELINE AT THE CHURCH THE FIRST TIME.

I could be wrong and just might be putting meaning to everything but…just look at this. 🕰️

*Evangeline met Jacks for the first time in OUABH*

*Chapter 44 of TBONA after time travel*

It’s also interesting to see that in some of the lines in the 2nd book, Time always has the capital T. As if it’s a name of a person, a being, or someone.

Here’s a line from Caraval:

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ACFTL WISHLIST

Ok, so I’ve been doing some thinking about a ACFTL wishlist of things I would love to see. Honestly, I know I will 100% love and appreciate whatever Miss Stephanie Garber comes up with. So this is just for funsies!🤪

- Apollo dead LMAOOOO

- Jacks having nightmares about losing Eva

- Detailed descriptions of Eva’s beauty in Jack’s POV. I want him being so affected by her that he catches his breath every time he sees her and can’t keep his hands to himself. I want him SIMPING.

- Jacks watching Evangeline sleep longingly and tucking her hair behind her ear

- FOREHEAD KISS🙏🙏🙏

- big angsty hug after something crazy happens!!!

- I want Eva to find some peace. My girl needs to catch a fucking break!

- Jealous Jacks!!!

- Unhinged, Vengeful, I-Will-Cross-Any-Line-To-Protect-you Jacks

- one bed trope but I really want Evangeline to make a pillow fort between them and then Jacks just throwing the pillows away LMAO

- Angry love confession?!? I think it’s kind of out of character for Jacks, I don’t know?!?!

- An “I choose you” moment where Eva is like Do you regret going back in time to save me? And Jacks is like “I could never regret that.”

- THE HOLLOW PLS, I need domestic Evajacks so bad

- A KISS!!!! Obviously. But I would love to see Jacks terrified of doing it and then Eva making the first move. And then HE GOES FERAL. YUHHHH.

- LaLa and EVERYONE who hurt Evangeline ACTUALLY apologizing and making it up to her. I want her finding a family and love beyond Jacks.

- Jacks’ backstory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What’s up with the apples!!?

- Luc and Jacks bonding PLS THIS WOULD SEND ME😭 I can just imagine Jacks so annoyed bc Luc is being silly af

- Eva subconsciously remembering moments with Jacks ( feeling a pull towards him, having flashes of memories, etc.)

- I want to know if Eva’s mom and dad knew she was a key!??!

- THIS IS SO RANDOM but like I keep thinking Jacks might find Eva’s letter and him just writing on the margins shit like “not true” “debatable” and “you think my dimples are charming?” 💀💀

- Evangeline re-igniting Jacks’ hope for infinite endings!!!

- Eva and Jacks smiling so hard that they can’t kiss properly AHHHHHH

- Evangeline somehow getting the curiosity shop back😭

Anyways, that’s all my two brain cells could come up with. Here’s a lil waffle for reading the whole thing - 🧇. OCTOBER 24TH IS SO CLOSE. We have almost survived the Evajacks drought🌵🌵

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FINALLY!!!

I honestly hope no one is a reincarnation of anyone else. I don’t think Evangeline being the first fox is necessary to the story or the romance, and I think it actually would take something away from their story for me. Like, part of the point of Eva and Jacks, in my mind, is the two of them wanting to have real genuine love without magic and curses and fate making it happen.

I know a lot of people want her to be the first fox. I just really don’t.

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THOUGHTS ON WHY JACKS IS THE WAY HE IS…

(WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD) So I’ve been thinking a lot about Jacks and how well-written he is as a character. I mean on the surface, his backstory looks simple, but when you really think about it, it is actually so tragic and really puts his attitudes and behaviors into context. The man has truly been going THROUGH IT for CENTURIES and it’s so sad. ALSO, this is just MY interpretation😆😆, I could be 100% wrong LMAO. I apologize, doing this is just my coping mechanism for the Evajacks drought we are currently experiencing. Here are a few things I considered;

The curse is supposed to be IMPOSSIBLE to break.

So we know that his curse is that his kiss is lethal and there is only one girl in the whole world that is immune to it, his one true love. Essentially, Jacks is robbed of ever kissing anyone without consequences. He can do anything he wants, but kissing, which is one of the most intimate and sentimental acts between lovers, is basically corrupted because it inevitably leads to the undoing of the objects of his affection. I mean, sure he can do it, but as long as he actually loves that person (Eva), he holds himself back. The curse is the way it is FOR A REASON. There is only ONE person who he can have a happily ever after with. It is meant to take away CHOICE. It condemns and punishes him with an eternity of loneliness. It is meant to tempt him with attraction and the idea of love, but never allows him to fully embrace it because of its consequences. The curse restrains him. He is meant to get close to love and pleasure, but never too close. In other words, there is only ONE person in the world immune to his kiss because he is NOT supposed to ever find that one person. I mean, what are the odds that you find your one true love in such a vast universe? At the right place and at the right time? And that she loves you back?

The curse irrevocably affects his notions and ideals of love.

I think that after a few lifetimes of being so close enough to touch but never hold, he basically convinces himself that his curse is his destiny. That there really is only one pathway to happily ever after. The lines become blurred and he forgets that his curse is a curse, and instead, simply perceives it as something that is set in stone, and established and completely unwavering. He genuinely believes that he has to make the best out of his situation instead of changing it. So he closes himself off, he refuses to be tempted with love ever again, or hope for something to break his curse. To him, those things are not only unrealistic but a waste of time. Jacks does NOT hope. He hates hope. Because where has that ever gotten him? Absolutely nowhere. He is still cursed. In fact, he is always laughing at Evangeline for being so hopeful about love and happily ever afters and infinite endings (I think by the end of TBONA, he admires her for it, but he does not see the value in her philosophy immediately). In his eyes, there are no infinite endings. If there were, there would be one feasible way to make it work, to find a happily ever after. But no, to him, there is one simple ending for him and he sees it so clearly and vividly and fixed that he cannot ignore it. And so he turns his pain and resentment and hurt into drive. He decides to play into the game of destiny and laugh in its face. He is determined to do the impossible; find his one true love. As we know, Fates are obsessive. So he becomes obsessed with the idea of fulfilling what he now sees as his destiny and not a curse; finding his one true love. In fact, he becomes so obsessive that he starts not giving a fuck about the consequences and will do whatever it takes; kiss as many girls as it takes, play with as many humans as it takes, hurt people, scheme, etc. He does not see himself being capable of having a happily ever after beyond what he thinks is his destiny, which is why he is so determined to go back to Donatella. Even if she doesn't love him. He does not care about that, all he knows is that she is the only person that he will ever be able to have a happily ever after with.

The constant failure in his efforts to break the curse convinces him he is unworthy/incapable of love.

He also starts seeing himself as incapable of love. Not only because he is a Fate or because he is cursed, but he does not believe it’s in his control, he has concluded that his destiny has already been decided. But it’s not only that. The events in the Caraval series are extremely significant. He finally finds his one true love. The ONE person that he can have a happily ever after with and not only does she NOT love him back but also not even a curse/magic can make her love him. This further feeds into his perception of being incapable of love. If not even a curse can make the ONE person that he is supposed to be with, love him, then who will ever love him WILLINGLY and NATURALLY? (Music break: Who could ever leave me darling? But who could stay?🎵🎵🕺)

Which is why he is deeply hurt when Evangeline tells him in The Hollow that they are only feeling that way because of the Mirth stone. He says something along the lines of, so you think you would only ever feel that way about me because of the stone? This brings back his fear of being incapable of experiencing love, not because of the curse, not because of being a fate, but because no one ever will do it out of their own initiative. So he closes off again and that’s why he goes cold again after the incident with the mirth stone. He allowed himself to get lost and entertain the idea of experiencing love with Evangeline for a few days. He allowed himself to imagine and hope that there was another ending, to “pretend” as he said. And it felt so real, it was terrifying to him. Terrifying because it was love but also terrifying because he got a taste of it knowing in his heart he was doomed to never have it or experience it again.

He sabotages himself.

Jacks once said that he was a villain even in his own story, and he really is because he consistently sabotages himself. We know that there is a loophole to every curse and yet he never even entertains the idea of finding it (When Evangeline suggests there might be something for him in the Valory Arch, he says “That’s not how it works.”). He never tries to break his curse, only fulfill it. He never dreams, hopes. He yields to the curse. Every. Single. Time. He refuses to see that he has a degree of free will, no matter how limited. That he does not have to settle for what he thinks destiny has already planned for him. I am NOT saying that he has given up or anything, because WE know the passion and desperation and DRIVE that he has. And he DOES fight against FATE in a way, but I just think all that energy is being channeled in the wrong direction. I think he knows that he COULD dream and hope, but he KNOWS that it takes courage and vulnerability. He KNOWS that to hope and dream is to drop your guard and shield being fully aware that it could end badly, that you could still bleed. He KNOWS that allowing himself to believe in infinite endings HURTS. Because another failure would END him. So he refuses to put himself in a position where he will get hurt. (Music break: I see right through me, I see right through me🎵🎵✨✨✨)

Final Thoughts

In conclusion, he is so babygirl AHAHHA, I love him sm. Anyways, I have an unhealthy attachment to this character and I hope he gets to love and kiss and just be happy with Eva. I really just want him to find peace.

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Rewrite the stars from the greatest showman is SO EVAJACKS coded. I do not make the rules.

EVANGELINE: “You claim it’s not in the cards and fate is pulling you miles away and out of reach from me. But you’re here in my heart, so who can stop me if I decide that you’re my destiny?”

EVANGELINE: “What if we rewrite the stars? Say you were meant to be mine, nothing could keep us apart, you’d be the one I was meant to find.”

JACKS: “ You think it’s easy? You think I don’t want to run to you? But there are mountains and there are doors that we can’t walk through.”

JACKS: “No one can rewrite the stars, how can you say you’ll be mine? Everything keeps us apart and I’m not the one you were meant to find.”

JACKS: “You know I want you, It’s not a secret I try to hide. But I can’t have you, we’re bound to break and my hands are tied.”

Anyway, that was painful. These motherfuckers are so star-crossed it actually hurts. 😆

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So I see a lot of people thinking that evajacks might end in a romeo x juliet fashion, I also believe that as well. However, my theory is that Jacks kills Apollo in which he dies in the process. Evangeline at this point in time, has her memories back and is completely broken. She confesses to Jacks that she loves him and goes fuck it and kisses him on the lips not even caring if she dies anymore because she can’t imagine a world without Jacks. And just as she thinks she is going to die, she doesn’t and boom Jacks is also alive because some how her kiss brought him back to life. Apollo is dead, they get married and live happily ever after??????

I hope???

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And I hate Apollo what about it

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started reading the Caraval series just for Jacks. I’m reading Legendary now and Tella is currently meeting Jacks for the first time. And im over here jealous bc she doesn’t know him like I do 😭🤣 And I don’t want to see him talking to a girl that’s not Evangeline 😭😭

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jacks in acftl:

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I'm so ready for when Evangeline and Jacks see each other for the first time in ACFTL because she's gonna be mesmerized immediately (just like the first meeting) and he'll probably take that as a chance to say his favorite words:

You're staring 😏

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“Children have treated toys better than you’ve treated me.”

As much as I love Scarlett (I’m an avid Tella hater im sorry), Evangeline is absolutely my favorite MC that Stephanie has written so far.

Here you have a deeply lonely character who hasn’t even turned 18 yet. All Evangeline wants is love — she gives so much of it (again and again) and it’s all she wants back. She forgives Marisol, befriends Luc again, and gives Jacks and the other Fates second and third and fourth chances. That’s why it hurts so badly when she gets so little of it. Everyone in the book uses her. Tiberius (to frame her for murder), Marisol, her Stepmother, Chaos, LaLa, and even Jacks. She stayed the entire night hugging (kind of) almost-vampire Jacks in the crypt just for him to abandon her when it was her under the venom 😭. In Jacks’s own words, she’s “the unluckiest person he’s ever met.” Our poor girl cannot catch a break: everyone in the books manipulate her for their own gain while she gets absolutely nothing in return, despite getting things done for the people around her. She found the stones, she unlocked the arch, and what did she get as a thank you? Dying in the arms of her almost-lover, before being turned away cruelly by said almost-lover. Jeez.

But that’s why it’s so inspiring seeing her get back up again and again. Evangeline would kill them with kindness if she wasn’t nice enough to try and save each and every one of them. She hugs and forgives LaLa after she placed a curse on her. She tries to talk Petra out of killing her (we all know how that went, yikes). She chooses Jacks again and again, because that’s what love is. It’s everything she stands for: fighting for the people you love and never abandoning them.

Idk, maybe it’s just me, but I really would love to see more of the characters appreciating her, this girl and her blind faith in everything that moves, who’s stubborn and fearless and determined to help others instead of herself. So excited for acftl <3

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evangeline telling jacks they only felt a certain way towards each other because of the mirth stone was the equivalent to a third act breakup they were both so miserable up until the end of the book