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[spookyseasontime]

THIS 👏🏻 CHARACTER 👏🏻 GROWTH👏🏻

[rosiethorns88]

Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish voted on by my lovely Patreons for July! Fourth Wing (by @rebeccayarros) making a quick reappearance as we reset our author list for Sketch-a-Wish! This time featuring a sparring scene between Violet and Xaden as the former snatches daggers away from the latter. This was such an odd perspective angle to tackle, I was chastising Past-Rosie for considering this a good idea throughout the entire process. But we got to the end! This piece is licensed and available as a print preorder in my shop via my bio link. ✨🧡

[chaoticneutraltor]

[incorrect-fourthwing]

Violet: Two years ago today, I married my best friend.

Violet: Xaden is still angry about that, but me and Rhiannon were drunk and thought it was funny.

[happyinternetcollector]

Xaden: ugh I need to feel something, Liam can you tell me something that will piss me of

Liam: Aetos kissed Violet before you

Xaden: yup that'll do it

[jacqueillustrates]

[mysterylilycheeta]

Tairn: Look, I don't want Violet to die. You don't want Violet to die. Let's work together to make sure Violet doesn't die. Xaden: Fantastic plan, my lord, but have you ever fucking met Violet?

[stormcloudbringer]

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

Best thing I’ve seen this week is a video of Rebecca Yarros talking about how Xaden knew all the filthy thoughts Violet was having about him in Fourth Wing because of his second signet, and that there are several moments in Onyx Storm when he’s like “yeah I remember you thinking that”

[illustratinghan]

baby vi and xaden ✨📚🍰

characters by @/rebeccayarros

follow me on instagram! @/illustratinghan

[stupidlybookish]

Violet: You aren’t allowed to fall in love with me, okay?

Xaden: That won’t be an issue

[One week later]

Xaden: THERE’S AN ISSUE.

[lighthousepigeons]

Bodhi: I sleep with a dagger under my pillow.

Garrick: Weak. I sleep with two swords under mine.

Xaden: You are both pathetic.

Garrick, sarcastically: What killer weapon do you sleep with, Xaden?

Xaden: Violet.

[batnardomcfly]

Cat: “Does it bother you that I was with Xaden first?”

Violet thinking: does it bother you that I fucked him last night

Andarna: SAY THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW

[ksenitaart]

There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, Violence

[incorrect-fourthwing]

Xaden: I like your dress.

Violet: Thanks. It was 50% off.

Xaden: I’d like it 100% off.

Violet: The store can’t just sell free stuff.

Xaden: That’s not what I-

Violet: That’s a terrible way to run a business, Xaden.

[shipmistress9]

Iron flame spoiler (ending)

Wow… wow! I’m not okay!

But also, I am. As devastated as I am after finishing Iron Flame, it was also so satisfying.

Xaden turning venin is exactly what I expected to happen during this series. (My personal prediction was for at the end of book three, but since book two was divided in two parts, I’ll take that, too.) But that’s not even it.

Xaden and Violet were both in the exact same situation, quite possibly at the exact same time. After fighting for so long, they were burning out, putting everything they had into the one task they had to accomplish. They were at the absolute end of their strength, at the ground, defeated, hopeless. They both felt the power of the earth beneath their hands, both knew how wrong it was to use it… yet also that it would be the one thing that could save them. And they both would have made the same decision.

But while Violet had her friends and family around them, the people she loved, the people she couldn’t cut out of her life even when it would have been for the best, Xaden was alone. And where Violet had people fighting for her, keeping her from doing the unthinkable, sacrificing themselves for her… Xaden had no one.

It’s tragic poetry, this parallel to how they live their lives.