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sure Cardan loves when Jude is firm with him...but when she's tender?? and gentle?? and runs her fingers through his hair or along his tail while they lay together in the privacy of their room after a long day and their armor is shed??? Or when she removes his many earrings and necklaces from him patiently (bc the High King loves his jewelry) and he just watches her as she does so admiring her focused expression....AHHH

this man is forever undone by her

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I made more. Yeee.

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It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

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Cardan:

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Why is it they never appreciate ANYTHING I give them. Combat nives "OH HE'S JUST A BABY." A red cap "DADD it has blood" "ITS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BLOOD."

Madoc: Oh so what now you're mad at me for teaching the baby of the family to go into a dissociative state where he blacks out and kills people?? I'm supposed to feel bad about that? I'm feeling deeply unappreciated by this family.

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AVERY : what's your biggest fear?

JAMESON : losing freedom and losing you, heiress

GRAYSON : Being unable to do anything to protect my loved ones

NASH : similar to Gray's answer, and also tight spaces

XANDER : Avery, you know there's only one answer I have.

AVERY : what.....?

*Xander stares blankly into Avery's eyes as if looking directly at her soul, takes a deep breath*

XANDER : losing another eyebrow

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Avery: idiot

Jameson: :(

Avery: my idiot

Jameson: :)

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literally all of us when we got jurdan crumbs in tpt:

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Reminds me of:

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Cardan: here's the peas

Oak: why must you be my nemesis

Cardan: Jude your brother is talking to himself again

prisoners throne spoilers

oak was quite literally beefing with air i am dying of laughter. homeboy really said “you hate me 😔” to cardan who went “huh?”

BOI LMAOOO

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Jude Duarte is first her MOTHER’S daughter, then Madoc’s

People always say Jude’s personality is a copy paste of Madoc, which to some degree is true. He raised her as a father and very much shaped her. But she was like that before too… just like her mother.

In TWK we get the snippet of Jude taking the training wheels off her bike and getting all bruised up while Taryn stuck to the side walks. And then in TCP we get Madoc’s short description of her mother as being clever and brave and unafraid if the face of Faerie.

She burned down the General’s house with a mother and unborn baby inside so she could get away. To protect the people she loved, Jude would have too.

So yes, Jude was polished by Madoc, but she was shaped first by Eva Duarte.

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no but madoc has such depth you don’t understand because THIS scene in TQON

and this scene from TPT

Holly Black has said that she doesn’t want to write Madoc’s and Eva’s story because it would be too tragic. I get why now. He loved her. He well and truly loved her, as much as he could, in the only way he knew.

One of the several things that’s been made clear in The Prisoner’s Throne is how, in spite of Jude’s distrust in Madoc’s love for her and her siblings, it’s clear to everyone else that he does love them. We know Cardan had known it even before he really knew Jude, he said as much in TPT when listing all the reasons he “hated” her. But so does Oak. A clear example of this is when Oak observes it himself:

But there’s also a subtler example. It took a random, vulnerable mortal girl wondering about to make Madoc think about Eva. Because Jude and Taryn don’t. He thinks of them as his daughters, first, sharing his likeness and his hearth and cared for and raised and trained by him, and mortals, second. Sure, there’s an argument to be raised here in that if he loved them how could he be impervious to their perils, but he’s a Faerie, and a Redcap at that. Besides, he does know his children. He never doubted in Jude’s ability, only asking her to delay her quest for knighthood and not cancel it, insinuating that she would be in his war council. He knew Taryn was unsuited for Locke, knew she killed him, knew she would stand by her choice anyway. He knew of Oak’s bloodthirst and ploys; knew of Vivi’s preference for the mortal realm.

The character of Madoc is just so… Well done. I think he might be my favorite after Jurdan… and maybe Wren, despite her treatment in TPT.

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Madoc

It's crazy to think that Jude was Madoc's favorite because she was the most like him.

and she stopped being his favorite because she was the most like him.

They were too similar, bound to clash.

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tfota fandom memes??? perchance.

tfota fandom when jude is in crazy denial:

tfota fandom at cardan after twk:

tfota fandom rereading tfota instead of the other 40 books on their shelves:

okay thank u bye love u guys

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I LOVE being alive so I can be mediocre at SO many different hobbies

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Spoilers for The Prisoner’s Throne

Not Madoc giving me the most emotional responses in this book. 🥹

Listen, Madoc is the most complex, the most morally grey, the most treacherous, and yet, I adore him.

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I need all the jude and cardan spoilers

me reading all of the prisoner’s throne jurdan scenes bc i miss them infinitely more than i fear spoilers