We have only gotten bare snippets of Azriel and Lucien’s POV and they both to some extent focused on Elain. There is no way this juxtaposition of the two males’ “there she was” moment was not very intentional by SJM.
Lucien, ACOWAR: “But there she was. His mate. She was nothing like Jesminda.”
Azriel, BC: “…and there she was. The faelights gilded Elains unbound hair, making her glow like the sun at dawn.”
Lucien immediately thinks of her, not by her name, but as his mate. And then proceeds to immediately compare her to his lost love (and find her lacking). (Bonus points for saying she’d been “thrown at him” a few paragraphs later).
Azriel, meanwhile, waxes poetic about the woman he adores and her beauty. It can’t be a coincidence that they both have a “there she was” moment with Elain in the only times we read their POV, and we all know which of the two is superior. SJM was telling us everything we needed to know.
If it isn’t Prythians favourite no good scheming con artists🤭
I personally thought Feysand makes so much sense for Road to El Dorado with the way they play their enemies like a fiddle.
Trying to think of childhood film duos that fit Rowan and Aelin….they are schemers too but more so than Tulio and Miguel. Hell Aelin even tricks her own friends 😭😆