#madoc

[scarlet742]

I love how despite having power of full greenbrair bloodline, they always sought to Jude when it comes to threats or bargains.. Oak- heir to greenbrair line, Cardan- king of Elfhame and pure blooded greenbrair, madoc- red cap commander and at the end it’s the JUDE DURATE that has the power cause the measly mortal they hate is the creature of their nightmares !!!! 😤😮‍💨✨🤌

[doodlingraka]

Love the rivalry between Jude and her stepfather.

[sydneymack]

Species from The Cruel Prince

Artist: @/queen_joey

[wickedweasly]

It's crazy to think that Jude was Madoc's favorite because she was the most like him.

and she stopped being his favorite because she was the most like him.

They were too similar, bound to clash.

[praisethelorde]

I just remembered that Balekin was the one who told Madoc where Jude and Taryn's mom was after she ran away from Elfhame. So Balekin's the reason Madoc took Jude, Vivi and Taryn back to Elfhame with him which indirectly caused Jude to kill Balekin all those years later. He would've still been alive if he weren't such a snitch lmao what a loser.

[wheresmypineapplebro]

Ghost: are Jude and Madoc having a staring contest?

Cardan: Madoc is, but I’m pretty sure Jude is just plotting revenge for something and forgot to blink.

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

jude duarte (my beloved)

[peletiersdixon]

Spoilers for The Prisoner’s Throne

Not Madoc giving me the most emotional responses in this book. 🥹

Listen, Madoc is the most complex, the most morally grey, the most treacherous, and yet, I adore him.

[waytoooldforthissh]

Madoc

Madoc has never met a lover that didn't need murdering.

[ezziefae]

Holly Black confirming that Jude and Taryn are in fact Latinx!

As a latina myself, this is a W

[deceitfulapple-eatingscoundrel]

This is the coolest thing ever! I can’t wait to see the finished product.

livish_art.

[bannedfrombookclub]

Quick shout out to the balls on Jude, Taryn, and Vivi's birth parents for not only sucessfully fleeing faerie but for showing up to a hospital with NO IDEA what a half red-cap baby would look like and no way to glamour hospital staff.

Nurse: Ma'am we'd like to keep your baby in for observation and maybe also to contact some kind of government authorities?

Ava: No she's FINE cat eyes and furred ears run in the FAMILY.

[ineedtoventaboutbooks]

Jude Duarte is first her MOTHER’S daughter, then Madoc’s

People always say Jude’s personality is a copy paste of Madoc, which to some degree is true. He raised her as a father and very much shaped her. But she was like that before too… just like her mother.

In TWK we get the snippet of Jude taking the training wheels off her bike and getting all bruised up while Taryn stuck to the side walks. And then in TCP we get Madoc’s short description of her mother as being clever and brave and unafraid if the face of Faerie.

She burned down the General’s house with a mother and unborn baby inside so she could get away. To protect the people she loved, Jude would have too.

So yes, Jude was polished by Madoc, but she was shaped first by Eva Duarte.

[f0reverundone]

Oak : *goes on a killing frenzy*

Jude :

Taryn:

Oriana:

Cardan : *bleeding out but dumbstruck as the rest of them*

Jude : MADOC!! WHAT TF DID YOU DO?

[praisethelorde]

Jude is actually so psychotic because wdym she beat Grima Mog (a literal Redcap probably twice her size who's heavily skilled in fighting and whose very nature is to violently kill on instinct) in a one-on-one duel???

[messofalpansexual]

"Cardan stands over me. His jacket is thrown on a nearby chair, the velvet soaked through with some dark substance. His white sleeves are pulled up, and he's washing my hands with a wet cloth. Getting the blood off of them"- The Queen of Nothing (Ch. 17)

Can I talk about this scene for a moment, because it really shows how much Cardan loves Jude. Here is a man who had been raised as a spoiled, neglected, cruel prince, caring for a mortal girl. He is helping her when she is in pain, and he is by her side even though he is High King of the Fae, and she is an (though technically not anymore) exiled mortal. He could have easily called for a servant to clean her, he could have given her her own room, he could have left her side, left her to die on the table. But no, here he is, lowering him self to her side, abandoning all the egotistical ways of thinking he was taught, and doing such a simple action, however unfitting of a king, because he doesn't trust anyone else with her to do it right.