#mareven

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

[mavencaloreswife]

she has no idea…

[imjulia-andilikecats]

Cal in Glass Sword, Whenever he Slept Next to Mare

[ball-of-butter]

worst decision aveyard has ever made ever was make maven a man because can you even CONCEIVE how legit fem!maven would be can you even conceive it can you even conceptualise toxic yuri mareven omg omg you guys would never hear from me again

[darklinaforever]

“If you loved me, you would have let me go by now.”

“It is because I love you that I won’t.”

I love these dialogues from Addies and Luc in the invisible life of addie larue. It totally represents two different perspectives on love.

Addie, like many people, thinks that love is purely selfless and good. (While she herself can have selfish actions or thoughts) Luc thinks that love is selfish, or at least can be. (Because to say that Luc is purely selfish would be quite hypocritical given all the events of the books and what he does there. Luc is much more complicated than that)

But I like that these two sentences summarize these two visions of love.

Love is selfless. Love is selfish. When in fact... it can be both, separately or together. Love can be something uniquely good and positive. Just as it can be negative. And sometimes it's both together. They are simply different forms of the same feeling.

All this to say that I hate when people try to say that love must be pure, good and selfless. It's bullshit. Whether in fiction or reality. The difference is that in fiction you can explore relationships with toxic connotations without risk, unlike real life or if there are red flags, you obviously have to just run to protect yourself.

Justice for romances like Luc & Addie, Jane Eyre & Rochester, Heathcliff & Catherine (Wuthering Heights), Coriolanus Snow & Lucy Gray Bird (The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Christine & Erik (The Phantom of the Opera), Thomas & Edith (Crimson Peak), Hannibal & Will (Hannibal), Hannibal & Clarice (Hannibal), Raistlin & Crysania (Dragonlance), Sarah & Jareth (Labyrinth), Qu Xiao Feng & Li Cheng Yi (Goodbye My Princess), The Darkling & Alina (Grisha), Mare & Maven (Red Queen), Julian & Jenny (The Forbidden Game), and so so many others...

Not without kidding, there are so many examples in general, but also that I know and love that it is impossible to cite them all !

[mavenne]

“Jon would not tell me about the dead futures—the ones no longer possible. I think about them, though,” he mumbles.

“A Silver King, a Red Queen.

How would things have changed? How many would still be alive?”

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[imperatrice21]

You know, I think it would be pretty interesting if in War Storm they actually did find a Newblood to cure Maven but when he gets cured and back to normal he doesn't remember a single thing he did while under Elara's control because it wasn't him at all and he's like super confused or something when they tell him how long its been and something something idk

[annamatix]

you have no idea how relieved i am that i'm not mentally insane and it's actually normal to like maven better than cal and prefer mareven regardless of how "toxic" it is

[lucy-the-cat]

"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" is giving such Mareven I'm sick

[artsychanel]

posting this mareven art i made a while ago based on this vampire!au i read on ao3 (To Drink a Poisoned Cup - beforeilearnedcivility), i should draw them more! [ID: Two paintings of Maven Calore and Mare Barrow from the Red Queen Series. In the first one, Maven is on the lest, wearing a black shirt with a red vest and black ascot with a gem fastened at the neck. Mare is wearing a black dress, grey cross necklace with a red gem at the intersection, and holding a dagger. The second painting is the same, but both of their mouths are open to reveal fangs. Maven has blood dripping from his mouth. /end ID] ty drewtanakagf! 

[evillious-trash]

only acceptable het trope is crime girl x "lawful good" guy whose also done some questionable stuff

[planetmaven]

thinking about maven stepping outside when it was storming to miss and remember mare.

the way he pales when the thunder rolls

honestly this scene makes me so sad for what...like truly idky

i wonder if maven ever wonders what could've been if his mother hadn't have done what she did to him

[mavencaloreswife]

thought i would drop this here

[imjulia-andilikecats]

THROWBACK: When The Calore Brothers' IQ Momentarily Drop in Some Scenes:

The Red Queen Fandom:

[ball-of-butter]

maven playing fuck marry kill but his options are all three of his fiances

[darklinaforever]

Me, thinking back to this scene in volume 2 of Red Queen, where Mare's best friend, after declaring her one-sided love, also tells her that we don't choose who we love (who we fall in love with in this context of course), then she thinks back to Maven and their kiss from volume 1, when she had just kissed Cale not so long ago.

Me, thinking back to that moment in volume 3 where Mare says she's still clinging to the ghost of the man she thought Maven was and loved. That she wishes to believe that he is still there somewhere.

Mare telling Maven that he broke her heart as much as Cale did in volume 4.

Still in volume 4, Mare wanting to see Maven's body to be sure that he is really dead and that all her suffering is finally over, but at the same time, not wanting to see him and being relieved that his body was not found because seeing the Maven's corpse would have been the equivalent of seeing herself dead too.

Then, Mare, in the last pages, mentioning all the people she misses : Maven being in it.

Mare and Maven had a relationship that was twisted and toxic as hell, but they still loved each other...

Bonus : Maven briefly regaining control of himself, letting Mare kill him so he wouldn't have to kill her / because he didn't want to kill her.