#emery anden/lott jin

[alastair-spear-carstairs]

So, Kaul Du Academy and Wie Lon Temple School students start at age 10…. So Anden and Lott have known each other since they were 10?!

At the end of Jade Legacy they are ~45, that’s 35 years of weird tension brooo😭

[aytmadashis]

The innate potential drama of late-jade legacy Anden and Lott never addressing their personal history while constantly being stuck in the same Kaul family circles. The academy fight and rejection that they never talk about again. The slight discomfort and avoidance. The resentment that arises from remembering their teenage years and remembering that the other remembers their teenage years. Lott essentially being an honorary Kaul as the Horn who seems to have a good relationship with Anden's siblings, niece and nephew but a distant one with Anden himself. That he now lives right next door to most of Anden's family on the same estate and they all see each other regularly. The fact at least one family member knows Anden used to have a thing for him once upon a time. How Lott and Jirhuya must see each often enough when Anden brings him along to family events and we can only guess what they think of each other. Just WHAT am I supposed to do with this except imagine how awkward that very first family dinner must have been like for the both them

[wecalluyoung]

just wrote Anden x Lott fanfic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44380192 check it out if you want

[testosterogna]

me on my deathbed: why didn’t anden and lott make out

[ellcrys]

honestly at this point i feel like i don’t even care if anden/lott becomes endgame in the sequel we’re never going to get i just want my boys to be comfortable with each other. i want them to talk. i want them to have just one candid conversation about what happened in the past, what’s happening in the present, and how they want to proceed in the future. whether that’s becoming friends, staying polite acquaintances, or maybe becoming something more. but they need to talk. anden mentions in one chapter that he’s not quite sure if they’re friends. and sometimes that’s ok! sometimes it’s ok not to define things. but when you’re two of the pillar’s closest advisors and are frequently in the same room together, that type of ambiguity is unsustainable. you need to draw boundaries. you need to know who you are to this other person and who that other person is to you.

clearly they’re drawn to each other. anden thinks about lott in like 75% of his pov chapters. we never really get a lott chapter so who knows what’s going on in his mind, but he keeps asking anden whether or not he regrets his choices. clearly anden occupies at least some brain space in lott’s mind. and they don’t know what to do about this. i’m not sure if they ever even acknowledge that they think about the other.

lott clearly holds himself at a distance, and anden’s too embarrassed to bring up their awkward teenage years, and so they’ve never had a conversation that’s run more than surface deep. they don’t know what they are, and so they’re always left wondering, not knowing how they should be acting around each other, or how to proceed into the future. but it’s so clear that they think about each other and i want them to acknowledge that. and i want them to be comfortable with each other, so that they can move on and be free of these burdens and questions. and they can’t be comfortable around each other until they talk about their relationship.

honestly, i want them to be friends.

but if not friends, then i want them to at least acknowledge that something between them existed -- that spark of interest in each other, even if it won’t continue in the future.

they are both such lonely people and i just want them to know that at some point the other thought of them, that someone out there thinks of them and cares about them.

[lausol]

Emery-I’m not a goddamn surgeon- Anden being the one Lott (just a fist at the time) goes to so he can stitch his injuries. Lott, using the time Anden is  channeling to stop the bleeding and then cleaning the cut, to actually look at Anden’s face and see how he is doing, if life decisions have treated him well.

Emery -I’m not a doctor anymore- Anden still being the one to stitch Lott’s very occasional injuries, the years have passed but Lott still asks “are you happy with what you’ve chosen?” and Anden, whom has lost two of his cousins, whose Pillar looks at him for reassurance, whose boyfriend seems very far away even though they’re on the same room, saying that things have been fine.

Lott-not a Horn anymore- Jin asking Anden to join him at his house for a drink after his retirement party ends. Anden following him mostly because of  curiosity (and also a little bit of concern for Nico in case it is about him). Lott looking at Anden in the eyes and telling him “you’re not a mistake”.

Lott and Anden after decades of learning, knowing and re-learning the other, sitting together on the patio. Anden tracing with his fingers the scar on Lott’s forearm, feeling the difference between  the skin and the scar tissue. He doesn’t need to look at Lott in the eyes to hear the question, when he says “ yes, I am”

[paper-ish]

I also have the LottxAnden fever, but I suspect we’re both being delusional. Can you think of logical reason for why these two might get together in Jade Legacy? 🥺

Also, is there a group chat or discord for Green Bone saga?

ohoho mi amigo

“Heike was taller, had nicer arms, and was arguably the better-looking of the two, but there was something about Lott Jin that always drew Anden’s attention. A sulky but sensual curve to his bow-shaped mouth, slightly wavy hair that hung over unsmiling eyes hooded with long lashes. A sort of animal idleness in the movements of his well-proportioned body that made it seem as if he held everything in faint disdain.”

first, we have this part from jade city we’re anden describes lott. i think it speaks for itself 😳

“He did not personally know anyone else who was queer besides Master Teoh, the senior Perception instructor. Lott, he was not sure about.”

“Still, there were times when Anden thought he caught something from the other young man—a gaze held overlong, a quickness to be on the same side in a game of pick-up relayball, an interest glimpsed in an act as mundane as sharing the task of breaking up and clearing debris from a street.”

“In general, however, people were uncomfortable around misfortune and reluctant to admit to their own. He was certain that some people at the Academy tugged their right earlobes behind his back—but glancing at Lott again, watching him pause to draw a forearm over his sweaty brow and stretch his long spine before reaching for another branch, he felt a hurtful pang in his chest to imagine that Lott might be one of them.”

^and then we have all of these from the same scene.

[slightly more spoilery stuff for Jade City and Jade War under the cut]

and also, this after anden and lott get into a fight:

“It was the way Lott was talking, Hilo-jen. He was being disrespectful.”

Hilo nodded in understanding. “You were putting him in his place, then?”

“I …” Anden wasn’t sure. There was the faintest teasing suggestion in Hilo’s voice and in the curve of his eyebrow. Anden was appalled to think that his cousin might suspect some other reason for his emotional outburst at Lott. “I had to say something.”

Note that the only other time Hilo makes a guess like this concerning anden in with cory in the second book, and he’s right in that instance lol.

There are other little things here and there, but for the most part these are the main things in Jade City. Of course, in Jade War, Anden goes to Espenia and gets with Cory and Lott has a separate subplot in Janloon, and they don’t interact much for the book. However, i think it should be noted that a big theme of their relationship was specifically that Cory wasn’t clan and could not survive as a Fist in Janloon, Anden’s home where he wanted to return. It was the basically the big reason for the end of their relationship when push came to shove, which parallels with Lott quite nicely.

Further, in her Reddit AMA, Fonda Lee describes some of Anden’s sub-plot as him having his “first serious romantic relationship”. That’s not worthy of note by itself, but “first” is an interesting specification. 

And of course, after they break up and Anden goes on the Zapunyo mission and everything happen, in the very last chapter, Anden sees Lott again:

‘Juen Nu and Lott Jin paused when they saw him.

“Emery Anden,” Lott said after a moment. “Welcome back.”

Lott looked older; he was dressed in a collared shirt and smoke-gray jacket, talon knife sheathed at the hip, wavy hair cut short to show off the jade pierced through the tops of his ears. He didn’t smile, but the adolescent sulkiness that used to hang around his bow-shaped mouth was gone; he spoke slower and more seriously. Unmistakable as a Fist of No Peak.’

oh shit, he’s hot now

in summary, yeah i think there’s a pretty good chance for something lott-emery related in Book 3, considering where there character arcs are at this point (and how their arcs actually compliment each other’s..) and, well, i can’t think of a reason for all of these things if they weren’t going to have something.

Concerning if there’s a discord or a gc, the only discord i’m aware of is the Keeping Up with the Kauls read along one, but on twitter there’s one I could add you too if you dm. I also find the Green Bone fandom is more active on there lol :D

[aytmadashis]

Interesting to me that Deflection is Anden's weakest jade discipline and Lott's strongest jade discipline. Interesting to me that Anden finds it difficult to hide his feelings while Lott is like a deliberately closed book. Interesting to me that Anden is capital Gay while Lott deflects every homosexual feeling like his life depends on it—

[testosterogna]

green with envy

fandom: the green bone saga

ship: emery anden/lott jin

rating: E

words: 6,288

summary:

Here is the Horn of No Peak, a seasoned Green Bone warrior outclassed in tactical experience only by Hilo and Juen, trembling in fear at Anden touching his face.

Anden learns there is more to Lott than meets the eye.

read on ao3

[alastair-spear-carstairs]

OMG THERE’S A LOTT/ANDEN FIC ON AO3

God bless you laura_sommeils you’re a true soldier. Go give them kudos.

[aytmadashis]

Anden’s thirst for Lott is truly an Experience™

[aytmadashis]

Lott definitely has an 'oh no, he's hot' moment when he sees Anden at the end of Jade War and nothing can convince me otherwise