#jest

[maddfran]

“A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.” (Heartless by Marissa Meyer)

[captain-hooks]

Any Heartless fans out there?

[reminiscentreader]

I am actually in love with this man

[theanxiousfireblossom]

So I finished Heartless by Marissa Meyer a couple weeks ago and something I have been nonstop thinking about is Cath’s parents.

100%, I blame them for everything that happened, but they are just so interesting to me. They spend the first 90% of the book telling Cath what is best for her, but never truly listening when she tries to talk to them. Even her father, the one that was more open to her baking and recognized her talent for it and the joy it brought her, would not even CONSIDER the idea of her opening a bakery with a maid.

I kind of see where they were coming from. Their daughter was part of the gentry and would have no real concept of working her way through life. She also was seventeen, and few teenagers know what will actually bring them happiness, but they wouldn’t even let her try. They were forcing their dreams down her throat and ignoring how it was drowning her even though there were signs of it.

Cath hadn’t become cruel before she ran off with Jest, but you can see how she is starting to unravel into what will later make her the Queen of Hearts we all know and love. She stops holding back her thoughts, telling multiple people off, and generally just being grumpier.

Then everything falls completely apart and suddenly her parents are like “you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to”. To which she, rightfully so, tells them things could have been wildly different if they had thought to consider her actual happiness sooner.

To me, it really feels like they ignored the signs and with the gift of hindsight, realized their dreams were genuinely not going to make Cath happy, so they try to back peddle not realizing it is far too late for that. Cath’s reputation has cut Mary Ann out of her life. Cath’s reputation is so far gone, bakery would never succeed. Jest is dead. She has nothing left that brought her joy.

So, yeah. Her parents drove me crazy, but their reactions at the end of the book were just so amazingly blind to me.

[carrotsnake]

Key art for Kefka Palazzo - Yoshitaka Amano

[wildesqdreams]

it's a normal thing to fall in love with movie stars book characters.

[unhealthy-obessions]

Fun fact:Jest knew he was going to die!! <3

Everyone knew that if they went through the door the prophecy might come true. Cath went through to save Mary Ann but she told Jest to stay, so it wouldn’t come to pass. Just in case the sister’s rambling wasn’t just stuff and nonsense.

And yet he followed after her to help her, to keep her safe, to protect her. He knew what would happen and yet he followed afterwards. If he didn’t know, he guessed at it. He knew or had an idea of what would happen when he stepped through the door.

He knowingly died for her before he was ever killed. He really was dead all along.

[our-tale]

*Slaps it down* I finally finished!! I went overboard again but everyone had unique challenges and it was fun working around them! Thank you so much everyone for the suggestions TwT Jest belongs to @justexistingsomewhere

Coach Toriel belongs to @ask-cagestale

Epic Gaster belongs to @/yugogeer012

Crescent belongs to @nashdoesstuff

Blueberror belongs to @/loverofpiggies

Speedcore Sans belongs to @y0rr0y

[reyreadersblog]

I love characters that haunt the narrative.

[fieriframes]

[In jest, there is truth.]

[ihateleviack]

Ref:

[your-mommy-ems]

heartless - marissa meyer

im on the fence abt this one but its ok ig. i will never get over this book

@nqds, @midiosaamor, @xo-zozo, @reminiscentreader

[caihosreads]

“A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back”

Jest and Catherine inspired by Marissa Meyer’s Heartless🖤

this book man this book 🙇🏻‍♀️

Never thought I’d ever be sympathising for the Queen of Hearts and yet here we are… painting an extra squishy happy scene hoping to fill up the void this book left.