#Red queen series

[keistance]

"he has a terrible personality" well yeah. obviously thats part of the charm

[ball-of-butter]

i love that red queen puts family as the chief unit of love even above true romantic love like that for some reason is SO overrated in ya media. i dont think of the characters within friendship or romantic groups first, i unconsciously catergorise them into their family.

cal loves mare but cal will put maven first always and he loves his dad and his image so much he’s willing to sacrifice his character and relationship with her to fulfil the expectations set by his family and its not until realising what his MOTHER wanted for him that he lets go. and mare loves cal but she will always put her siblings and parents first which is why everything started with gisa and shade’s loss and it ended with her sister and the loss of her brother too. maven loves mare but he loves elara more even if she twisted him and elara loves maven more than the entire kingdom and thats why she twisted him. and elara couldn’t enact her plan to make maven king without getting rid of his love for cal first!! when shade gets killed mare HAS to kill elara because that is the only way she can make sure her pain is even with at least one person.

cameron does everything for her brother’s safety, she was willing to abandon her morals and dehumanise anyone standing in her way if thats what needed to happen. and after morrey was safe she quit— nothing was worth losing herself over except him. farley and shade’s love was so pure that it brought life and family to the farleys who were already broken with the grief of being halved. their love brought a daughter named after the death of the woman that destroyed the family, and it was so healing.

and that is what KILLS me about the samos family!!! that compared to all this unconditional loyalty— the samos family is a continuous act of playing at love and loyalty, when in reality volos and larentia could not care less about their children because they dont know how to. silver society never showcases this love and so then you have so many parents fucking up their kid in so many ways but doing it out of love because thats how they see it— all except volo and larentia.

so the samos family is an exception. i cant think of evangeline without thinking of elane and ptolemus and i cant think of ptolemus without thinking of evangeline and wren. thats their family. and at least evangeline and ptolemus experienced real love with each other, even if they were never taught it (evangeline’s fear over shade’s death was proof that she could imagine a world without him and it was one of the few times she was genuinely scared in the series).

[silkpages]

i think i have a gift for being part of obscure, small or dead fandoms 🥹 love it.

[rainstorms-moonrivers]

the true villains of Red Queen

you want to know who the true villains of the Red Queen series are? Julian Jacos, Elara Merandus, and Anabel Lerolan.

Especially Julian and Anabel.

Because at least people acknowledge Elara's involvement in Maven's mental abuse.

But Julian and Anabel. They had a hand in that abuse being actively ignored and no one ever called them out on it.

Ever.

Cal should've ripped them a new one.

It's because of them he lost his little brother.

They knew what whisper influence looked like. They saw it in his mother and they would've recognized it in Maven. They should've done something. They should've done the bare minimum of telling Cal's father what was happening to his other son.

But Julian was holding a child accountable for his mother's crimes and Anabel had blatant favoritism.

[kracenstar]

Controversial take here but: the horrible and horrific things Maven had done wouldn’t have been overlooked or forgiven by the fandom if Maven wasn’t attractive.

[king-maven-calore]

"I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind" (the perfect RQ screen adaptation)

[jm-chrome]

Tried making my own design of Mare's purple dress as Mareena Titanos. I gave up on trying to render it tho dkhsdfb

[mavens-calwhore]

"he k*lled babies" this and "he branded mare" that. have you ever considered: he is pookie? 🥱

[lucy-the-cat]

"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" is giving such Mareven I'm sick

[bruised-punk]

the biggest crime of the Red Queen series is that we could've had Evangeline and Maven be WLW & MLM solidarity but instead Victoria Aveyard choose to make them WLW & MLM hostility.

[lady-stirling]

Randomtober #27: Mare Barrow~ The Lightning Girl from Red Queen~

[keistance]

bitches hate me for serving cunt. and also my crimes against humanity

[ball-of-butter]

i come back to say that maven's back had to be somewhat arched in that bathtub scene. he did not take his heat suppressants or something. because like what was that.

[aerticent]

was reminded that Maven’s entire motivation primarily revolves around his need to be better than Cal at literally anything so much so that he basically kills himself when he loses it

[rahwle]

you bet on the wrong mare, my king. - Iris Cygnet

[northernember]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BESTEST BOY,

CAL!!!!

Im so sad I wasnt able to finish the piece I was drawing for this day, alas I was fighting for my life

so have this old drawing I never uploaded of the birthday boy