#valerian the cruel prince

[skullywullypully]

Imagine if Valerian accidently went into Madoc's room instead of Jude's room, I would have loved to see that.

[straberryshortcake520]

Hum.. okay.. Spoiled of book one of the cruel prince.. but after reading chapter 18 of this book, I think I have a lot of issues.

Why did I like Valerian??? I still like him because I think he’s cool (he’s not cool, but my brain just doesn’t get it), maybe I think I will actually enjoy things he did to Jude if it was me.( I have weird fantasies).

I don’t know I didn’t want him to die though… I kinda wish I could be there and fulfill my wish to change the evil character and for him to like me??(does that make sense because I am seriously contemplating on going to therapy, since this probably a problem within me)

I really didn’t want him to die… weirdly enough… but I don’t think that Jude was wrong to kill him.

Now that I think about it… I do have some problems.

[thejudeduarte]

Is noone gonna talk about the fact that in tcp, in that scene where Jude gets poisoned by the faerie fruit, they see 7 shooting stars and Jude describes that at as dozen deaths. I haven't heard anyone mention that that could have been foreshadowing what was to come later during the coronation as 6 Fae died then (Elowyn, Eldred, Dain, Rhyia, Caelia and Taniot) and also Valerian earlier on which makes 7 deaths like prophecied.

I thought it was really clever, nothing a reader would have really paid attention too.

[praisethelorde]

Remembering that Oak has goat legs is almost as shocking to me as finding out that Holly Black confirmed that Valerian was sexually attracted to Jude.

[cromulentreader]

Valerian: May your hands always be stained with blood. Jude: The joke's on you. I'd love that.

[viivdle]

jude after killing valerian because she's not actually a blood-thirsty killer and she was just a girl and horrified

[circuslollipop]

my interpretations of some folk of the air characters!!

[bcloudsetior]

Remember the scene where Cardan pushed Jude into the river with the Nixies?                                  

When Jude slips and sink and then resurface she said ‘Cardan has one foot in the reeds, as though to get a better look.’ I might be delulu but I don’t think he was tryna get a better look. Man was prolly about to risk his ego and pull her out!!!!!!

[murasaki-cha]

Holly what the fudge-cakes do you mean Valerian was physically attracted to Jude? Holy what the fuc-

No because it makes sense but like......

Jesus Christ Jude really was pulling everyone in Cardan's friend group that woman is a goddess

[sweetvillainjude]

The way half the main characters in the cruel prince were at some point attracted to Jude is wild but SO girlboss of her. Like Locke had actual feelings for her, Valerian was lusting over her, I suspect that The Ghost did too for a time, and I don’t even need to say Cardan who was actually disgusted by how often he thought of her back when they had the enemies thing going on. Like no wonder she pissed them off, my girl Jude was KILLING it

[starrynightsxo]

nobody:

jude hiding valerian's dead body in the middle of the night:

[skullywullypully]

I wish Valerian and Locke could have witnessed Jude becoming queen, it would've been hilarious to see their faces.

[somewhereincairparavel]

Guys I just got to the chapter where valerian shoves faerie apple on Jude and Nicasia makes Jude undress herself, don't get me started on cardan almost making her kiss his toes. I think I need to reconnect with nature for a while, might hug a tree or two while I'm at it.

[bookaddictedrose]

We're back with the TCP posts!

Slightly nsfw? (but not really)

Cardan's long fingers 😏

The way she was constantly thinking about them 😭

[cromulentreader]

Unlike the whole High Court after the Coronation, I was thinking about Valerian the other day. His interactions with Jude escalated more into violence but they were somewhat similar to Cardan's: hair-pulling, name-calling, generally getting in her physical space, etc. Hell, they threw the girl into the river together. Quite frankly, in Jude's inner monologue in the first part of TCP, they sound very similar, with one being much prettier - guess who am I speaking of. Hint: they have really long fingers. However, Jude reacted differently to their "teasing" (trying not to swear on this one). With Valerian, she mostly ignored him and hoped he would go away, following Taryn's terrible advice. She's even trying to de-escalate when he tries to murder her in her bedroom. But when Cardan did it, she reacted to it as if interacting with Cardan was her new purpose in life. Even when both Valerian and Cardan did it. They both kicked dirt on her food and threw her in the river, yet Jude's eyes were on Cardan the whole time. She basically argued with Cardan and ignored Valerian whenever he spoke.

Now, from Jude's mind, this sounds like it's motivated by hierarchy (both in Elfhame and in their friend's group), as we don't know much about Valerian except that he's part of the Gentry. But I wonder if part of his escalation was that he could see the toxic obsession going on between those two and he hated it.

[viivdle]

cardan when he heard jude insult him:

cardan when he found out she killed valerian: