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i don’t really have much evidence other than Vibes but i lowkey think that sjm meant to make aedion gay until she realized that she needed him for the KoA baby daddy plot line and had to back petal and make him bisexual

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aedion 🤝 ruhn

order brother figures turned fathers because their mates have kids

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like i think it could have been very interesting if she made the point that the more of theia’s power bryce got the more it like “corrupted” her and the more she acted like theia and have that be something bryce had to come to terms with and actively think about and change. because the more power bryce got the more out of character she acted and it could have been so interesting and it just. wasn’t. she just felt out of character for no reason

*this is kinda hofas bryce criticism so if you don’t want to see it please scroll*

i know the book just came out and people are still trying to finish but i’m shocked that no one has pointed out what a hypocrite bryce was in regards to theia and her (attempt at) sending her daughters to another world to save them from the asteri. because that is literally what bryce did with her parents and she saw no issue with it, in fact when adais compared bryce to theia before he went back to hel she was still riding the theia hate bus.

like yes bryce was using her parents as collateral to get the mask from nesta but she still sent them away to another world to keep them safe. she literally says that she would rather have them in prythian during the battle just in case they loose. which. again is exactly what theia was doing with her daughters. because obviously theia didn’t plan on loosing to the asteri 1500 years ago, just like how bryce didn’t plan on loosing to them present day (because she almost did loose too, and if she had died with the asteri in the black hole no one would have been able to get her parents back to midgard, leading her parents (and nesta and the rest of the IC) to believe that their children and whole planet were enslaved or dead).

i’m not saying that theia was right to send her kids away while damning the rest to stay behind with the asteri, and the mental image of the fae who were left behind banging on the portal begging to be let into prythian is not one that i think anyone would argue was the right choice. but bryce did the same thing in sending her parents away and just. never addressed the fact that is was just like what theia did.

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*this is kinda hofas bryce criticism so if you don’t want to see it please scroll*

i know the book just came out and people are still trying to finish but i’m shocked that no one has pointed out what a hypocrite bryce was in regards to theia and her (attempt at) sending her daughters to another world to save them from the asteri. because that is literally what bryce did with her parents and she saw no issue with it, in fact when adais compared bryce to theia before he went back to hel she was still riding the theia hate bus.

like yes bryce was using her parents as collateral to get the mask from nesta but she still sent them away to another world to keep them safe. she literally says that she would rather have them in prythian during the battle just in case they loose. which. again is exactly what theia was doing with her daughters. because obviously theia didn’t plan on loosing to the asteri 1500 years ago, just like how bryce didn’t plan on loosing to them present day (because she almost did loose too, and if she had died with the asteri in the black hole no one would have been able to get her parents back to midgard, leading her parents (and nesta and the rest of the IC) to believe that their children and whole planet were enslaved or dead).

i’m not saying that theia was right to send her kids away while damning the rest to stay behind with the asteri, and the mental image of the fae who were left behind banging on the portal begging to be let into prythian is not one that i think anyone would argue was the right choice. but bryce did the same thing in sending her parents away and just. never addressed the fact that is was just like what theia did.

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sjm trying to beat the de-powering her female cast allegations by giving every character in hofas a magical power up potion

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HOFAS TARGET BONUS CHAPTER

Ruhn & Lidia <3

PDF VERSION HERE

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really my only gripe with hofas is that the inner circle never met ruhn or even saw a picture of him. i think that’d be funny like they’d go insane and probably tease rhys about it for weeks

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THIS IS A LIDIA CERVOS STAN ACCOUNT OH MY GOD

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i’m excited for CC3 obviously but i’m not as excited as other people which i find strange because one thing about me is that i am a sucker for a crossover but i think the reason that i’m less excited than others is because in my day i have read so so so many crossover fan fictions (not just for sjm, i’ve read them for so many series. crossover fic is actually the reason i discovered the existence of fandom at all when i was like 13) that simply never got completed that my brain won’t believe that we’re actually going to get a canon crossover event that won’t be abandoned the second it gets interesting

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people freaking out about sjm posting spoilers for CC2 in promotion for CC3 as if it’s not been out for 2 years now. and also. tf you doing following the author if you haven’t finished the series yet? take some responsibility for yourselves

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i always love all the theories on what Rhysands last name is bc they’re always like really good points and well thought out but in my heart of heart and my soul of souls i need his last name to be Darling.

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i’ve been thinking a lot about Mor and what it means that her “power is Truth” because i see a lot of people making jokes about it (bc like,,, ya it could have been explained and it seems kinda silly) and it’s got me thinking

so basically i think it means that she has the power to make whatever she says true. like for example, we know she is crazy powerful, powerful enough to have beaten Amren in a fight, so what i’m saying is what if she didn’t actually beat Amren when they fought and just said that she did, and since her power is Truth it became real, kinda like making a wish. and if that’s how her power works, than it makes sense that the queens and everyone else would fear it when she brought it up.

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thinking about Rowan and Lyria

“she was mine. and no one could tell me otherwise”

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hey everyone it is once again Aedion Ashryver Defense Time brought to you by the fact that i have seen yet another Aedion bashing video on tiktok.

So let’s again run through the reasons that i think Aedions actions in both Empire of Storms and in Kingdom of Ash were, if not justifiable (which i think they were), completely understandable.

We will begin with why I think it is utter bullshit that Aelin never told Aedion any of her plans. Aedion is a well respected and well fought General who has been fighting for their country since he was around 13/14 years old. You cannot reach that level of military leadership at as young of an age that he did, despite being an enemy prince, (i believe he was General by the time he was 16/17 but don’t quote me i might be wrong) without being damn good at military strategy. Even though Aedion has all of these qualifications, Aelin never once told him a plan. When he yelled at her in Empire of Storms it was because he believed that the only army that they had to fight for Terrasen was the Bane, Aedions army of allies and friends that he has gathered over the years. Us as readers eventually find out that Aelin had reached out to her own allies that she gathered but didn’t want to tell anyone because she “didn’t want to let anyone down if they didn’t show” which is a bullshit excuse I think. There is no reason that you should not tell your General your war strategy plans or the number of allies you may or may not have. And it is worth remembering that Aedion is not just the General of her armies but also her cousin. So of all people she really didn’t have to worry about letting him down. He would have understood if she had just told him.

Next we will be discussing Aelin and Lysandras stupid plan that is reveled at the end of Empire of Storms. (something that I have already made several posts about so if this sounds familiar i apologize)

So, Aelin and Lysandra have the brilliant idea to make a plan that states that if Aelin is killed or captured, Lysandra will shapeshift to look like Aelin and lead in her place. They will then have Aedion have kids with Lysandra in order to pass them off as Lysandra and Rowan’s because he looks just like Aelin so there would be no question of the childrens parentage and the royal bloodline can continue without Aelin.

They made this plan without even consulting Aedion. Despite a large portion of the plan involving him having children and then giving them up to he raised by Lysandra, the woman Aedion loves, and Rowan, his cousins mate and husband as well as a man that Aedion considers a brother. I don’t know about the rest of you but i would be furious. Aedion will be forced to have kids that he can’t even call his own and he has absolutely no say in the matter. I don’t know why these women who have had their choices taken from them time and time again thought that this would be a good idea.

I would also like to note that literally anyone who spends even a second of time in Aedions presence knows that he has some of the worst parental issues and trauma that i have ever seen. A huge obstacle in Aedions life has been him not knowing who his father was. His mother not telling anyone who his father was got them both kicked out of the Ashryver family and got him sent off to Terrasen, a complete other continent, after his mothers death to be raised by Aelins parents, the only people who would take him in. And they think he’s just going to be okay with the fact that he will have to have children and then not raise them or call them his own? It’s insensitive and completely over looks his trauma. (This also explains his hesitation to allow Gavriel into his life once he finds out that Gavriel is his father.)

Throughout the series Aelin has consistently not told Aedion huge important things some being:

1. Not telling Aedion that she had given the blood oath to Rowan, despite there being opportunities to say so, thus allowing Rowan to drop it casually in conversation, and resulting in Aedion finding out about it in a rather not good way.

2. Not telling Aedion about the armies she was trying to gather despite him being the General of Terrasen.

3. Not telling him about the plan that involved him having children with Lysandra to pass off as Aelin and Rowan’s.

Given all of these reasons, i think it is perfectly reasonable that Aedion is angry and frustrated and mean at the end of Empire of Storms and throughout Kingdom of Ash. I would have been worse actually.

And I have mentioned in a previous post that I truly don’t think Aedion was all that angry at Lysandra, he was angry at Aelin. But Aelin just sacrificed herself for them all and might never come back and Lysandra is there and wearing Aelins face so Lysandra gets the full force of his anger at both of them, which is unfair but also understandable.

I would also like to point out that Aedion is one of, if not the, only character in the series who consistently apologizes for his actions or feels remorseful.

He apologizes to Aelin after he gets mad about the blood oath and he apologizes to Lysandra for yelling at her and treating her poorly in Kingdom of Ash. And yet he is the only one that the fandom doesn’t forgive (it could be argued that the fandom also doesn’t forgive Chaol which i also think is kinda dumb but that’s the topic for a different post)

People say that they think Aedion was acting out of character in Kingdom of Ash and i don’t think that’s the case. I think people just didn’t pay attention to his character or motivations previously.

I think that Aedion is the most human character in the books because he has flaws and doesn’t always react in the most story-convenient ways. I think that a lot of people would react the same way as he does, myself included, had they been in his position.

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HOSAB SPOILERS

yanno what i’m unreasonably upset about? the fact that the Asteri are probably gonna cut ruhns hair

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hey do y’all remember when Aelin and Lysandra planned to use Aedion as a sperm bank so they could pass his kids with Lysandra off as Aelins if Aelin died in the war and didn’t tell him about it and just expected him to be fine with it and were confused when he was rightfully upset and then the fandom made him out to be the asshole in that situation

i’m not angry. i’m not bitter.

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y’all i-

i can’t

people fucking compare Aedion to Tamlin??? TAMLIN??? and fucking say they prefer Tamlin over Aedion?? what??

you’re telling me that you think Aedion leaving Lysandra in the snow and being a bitch for a couple months during war is comparable and worse than Tamlin: ignoring Feyre for months while she pukes her guts up at night, refusing to let her train, locking her in the house while she’s yelling and screaming and having a full on panic attack, siding with Hybern, and saying all that shit at the high lords meeting.

You’re telling me you looked at those two characters and decided that Aedion was the one that should be hated more? that Aedion is the worse of the two?

look i understand that people don’t like Aedion. he can be a dick sometimes and can let his anger get the better of him but if i see one more person say that he is in any way comparable or worse than Tamlin i am going to fucking loose it