Y'know one thing that Squeenix could've done to give Jill some life as a character is a personal quest to actually save the remaining women from the Ironblood + have the survivors come to the Hideaway after. This would also give the player something to imagine Jill doing when Clive is away: helping the women adjust to their new life of freedom.
Cuz idk about y'all, but I can imagine literally every other character having something to do when Clive is gone: Gav is drinking at the pub or planning his next bout of scouting, Otto and Vivian are combing through intel, Charon is sneakily spoiling Torgal while she does inventory, Joshua is reading every tome he can get his hands on, Torgal is collecting pats and treats from everyone he meets before having a nap in the sun, Tarja is attending to her patients and teaching her helpers, and so on. Jill? I can only imagine her powering down like a robot until Clive returns. Even just a small thing, like moving her down into the backyard admiring the flowers/having a line about helping out with the gardening would've given her a little more spark of life.
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"Strong women don't have attitudes, they have high standards and firm boundaries." - Marilyn Monroe, I'm pretty sure <3
omg i'm so sorry, this must've been sitting in my inbox forever?!?!? <//3 my apologies 😭 i didn't see the notif queen but i agree!! marilyn had a lot of brilliant takes for her time 🫶🏻
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The in-canon explanation for mates makes little sense. If mates are supposedly matched for their equal powers, only one of the three canon mates makes sense: Lucien and Elain. And I say this mostly because of how they found out + their respective power levels.
Elain is a Made female and a seer, and Lucien—while the son of the current HL of Day—is just an ordinary, if particularly powerful, Fae male. Elain has no idea what she’s capable of yet, because no one lets her do anything. Even before Nesta’s magic began manifesting as silver flames or her connection to the Trove, the IC used her for the war by scrying and stuff. Elain is so far untrained even in the one gifts she’s aware of. In a way, it matches with Lucien and the heritage he’s still blind to (potentially anyway). And just like Elain has to potential to be very powerful someday, Lucien may very well be HL of Day.
Plus, they make sense in ways Rhys/Feyre didn’t. Elain became Lucien’s mate after she was made fae, because then the canon theory works. But Rhysand somehow knew Feyre was his mate even before she became Fae, but that makes little sense when you think about it. If the canon theory is accurate, why would the Mother pair the *most powerful* HL with a mere human girl? You can’t even say its about the potential of her becoming fae, because that’s bargaining on fate.
What if Feyre hadn’t been chosen by Tamlin, or she had died before the events of ACOTAR? Or if Nesta or Elain had been brought to Spring instead, and Feyre remained human. What if Feyre never died UtM? Would the HL of Night spend a meager 60ish with a human mate? And while I disagree about Feyre’s power levels, the canon given one is on par with a HL’s, so at leats they match in that.
The same problem with Nesta/Cassian. The bond didn’t snap when she was human, and neither really had a clue before she became Fae, which works. But the power disparity between them is odd. For all that Cassian is a powerful Illyrian, he doesn’t hold candle to Nesta, power loss or no. He has six siphons and nothing else; she has command over life and death, has the power to Make (and Unmake probably), and the Trove answers to her alone. Paired with Gwydion, Nesta rivals Rhysand. So how are they equal to one another? It would make more sense if Nesta’s mate was Azriel even, or Lucien like the original plans. Eris, even.
And honestly, I really abhor the whole “mates are chosen for the sake of breeding powerful children” theory so goddamn much. I know Rhysand said it so most readers accept it as truth, but it really shows SJM’s values if she goes through with it. The idea that a woman is only worth a mate if she can give him children is gross. It also goes against both Feyre and Nedta being mated to Illyrians given the whole wings debacle. But mostly it’s just disgusting that even in a fantasy book, the females are just incubators for powerful heirs. Even the Helion/LoA being mates thing fall under this considering the whole point of it was to birth Lucien.
And it’s also just really homophobic? Because then it means mates can only happen in a heterosexual relationship that would inadvertently result in babies. Kinda disgusting to imply that two males or two females aren’t deserving of such a *beautiful* bond just because they can’t pop out children from it.
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