#baby cardan

[viivdle]

baby cardan:

[starrynightsxo]

SHOUT OUT TO @viivdle the cat milk has been mentioned

[deathsweetblossoms]

The Cruel Prince Deleted Scene 3

Just want to say that Holly makes a note in this book that says any scene with Cardan was cut because she was trying to make him truly awful, and some of these deleted scenes showed too much of his sympathetic side (imsuffering)

Scenes 1 and 2, all scenes here

[shizzlesisntevenaword]

no cause it just occurred to me that even when cardan thought hoped jude might like him back, might feel even a morsel of what he felt for her, he still didn’t think she would ever choose him. Over her ambitions, her other loves, anything. Even if she desired him - and he’d known himself how desires could be so frustrating and, well, undesirable - surely she desired other things more.

And it’s just so in-character of him i want to cry. of course he thinks he’s expendable. no one had ever loved him unconditionally. his parents barely spared him a single glance, his siblings only took notice when it aligned with their interests (and often clashed with his), his only serious lover left him for a passing fancy, and then he was forced into a situation in which people had to swear to love him. Of course he didn’t trust jude’s affections. Of course he thought she probably just found something better to occupy herself with. Of course he didn’t believe he could actually mean something to her.

[darlingsclara]

Cardan's letters to Jude will always be one of my favourites pieces of literature. The yearning, the tension, the desperation COME BE ANGRY AT A NEARER DISTANCE??? IN MY MOST WRETCHED HOURS I BELIEVE YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK??? They are THE fantasy couple

[naughtnixnothing]

actual canon events to show how dense jude is when it comes to cardan

cardan: you seem to have cut yourself jude: maybe he was looking at the tower waiting for me to jump to my death

cardan when valerian was stabbed: it was no more than u deserved jude: valerian must have misunderstood. cardan must have been mocking him for letting me under his guard.

cardan: you’re mortal. it’s not safe for you here. especially if you go around stabbing everyone. jude: i try to remind myself he must be in shock and grieving, and that might make him behave strangely.

[cardudescrown]

We really forgot the fact that Cardan is 18 years old yet chugs wine like he has a 9-5 office job for 15 years

[mia-nina-lilly]

Since it's a book about Oak and Suren, and indeed it's a sequel, I suppose I should be paying attention to them, however, nevertheless, every time Cardan appeared or was mentioned, I couldn't help but think about how my boy went from the Cruel Prince to the damn badass king of Elfhame. Guys, Cardan practically owns anyone in conversation, knows the schemes alongside Jude, and on top of that, he's super powerful, a present husband, brother-in-law, and uncle. He's everything and then some. The way that Oak sees him aaaaaa.

I love Holly for giving us this development 🥹😭

[darlingod]

Jude in QoN: “Of course it was a trick” That’s what you said.

Cardan:

[fantasyfangirling4ever]

No because I need to see Jude as a mother- I need her to have her Bjork 1996 Paparazzo moment.

[starrynightsxo]

"Cardan looks taken aback. Or possibly I spoke so fast he's not even sure what I said. 'You need not say it out of pity,' he says finally, with great deliberateness. 'Or because I was under a curse. I have asked you to lie to me in the past, in this very room, but I would beg you not to lie now.'"

- Cardan Greenbriar, The Queen of Nothing

[chaiichait]

Jude and Cardan sketch (That high slit jude dress has been sitting in my mind for a while.)

I seriously need to finish TPT because it is getting hard to avoid the spoilers 😔😔

[viivdle]

what everyone thought was gonna be revealed in tpt:

[eglee]

Spoilers for The Prisoner’s Throne

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At the mention of his name, Leander capers over. “I’m bored and you’re bored,” he says. “Play with me?” It’s half request, half demand.

Cardan touches the top of the child’s head, brushing back his dark coppery hair. “Not now, imp. We have many dull adult things to do.”

Oak wonders if Cardan sees Locke in the boy. Wonders if he sees the child he and Jude do not—and will not anytime soon, it seems—have.

[lilyimmsim]

"he stares and stares as though he could see down to the depths where jude is being held.

as though he could see into the hearts of those holding her, to find a way to hurt them so dearly they would be forced to let her go free."

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS BONUS CHAPTER MY BABY CARDAN

[shinia]

E X C U S E MEEEEE ???!?

Am I crazy or is she implying more Jurdan content ???