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Edit: I forgot I plan to do Sweet Nothing for Mareven Week, replacing that option with Would've Could've Should've - something about Maven and Elara so if you vote for SN that's where it's going

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Maven's relationship with the concept of Love

I'm in my feels again, so we're analyzing Maven's relationship with the concept of love. It's messy. Everything that has to do with him is messy and complicated, this is why I love him, he's a disaster.

Anyways.

Maven has the worst combination of parents: an emotionally absent father and an emotionally abusive mother. Together they lay the groundwork for what becomes his understanding of what loves is. Tibe leaves him with emotional starvation that Elara takes advantage of, and then love becomes an excuse. "Everything she does, she does because she loves him." Everything she does, including mutilating his mind, isolating him from his brother, weaponizing his father's neglect. Love becomes a scapegoat for his mother's abuse. Thus Maven becomes unable to separate love from violence. After all his mother is the person who loves him the most in the world (she's not. Cal is the person who actually loves him the most in the world.) and she abuses him, she hurts him in the most aggressive way she possibly can. So to love someone is to hurt them. This mentality infects every other love in his life:

Thomas, his most innocent love, dies violently by his hand, Maven hurts Thomas, and Thomas (or at least the thought of him) continues to hurt Maven long after his death, because he loved Thomas so much, not even Elara could take him away.

Cal is his purest form of love. His brother loves him unconditionally, and he continues to love him after the betrayal. In Maven's mind, they've hurt each other equally, because Cal makes Maven weak; he makes him insecure. Cal never hurts Maven intentionally, and Elara takes advantage of that, because at least when Elara hurts him, she's upfront about it, she does it under the guise of loving him. So, Cal must not love him more than his mother does, because he doesn't mean to hurt Maven, but he still does.

This idea that love cannot exist separate from violence is the basis for nearly everything inflicts on the important people in his life. He can't look at his father when he's being murdered, despite orchestrating his murder, because Maven still loves his father, but it's only now that he's dying, now that Maven's betrayed him that Tibe is voicing his love for Maven as his son. Every violent thing Maven does to Mare (branding her, imprisoning her, killing newbloods to get her attention, the letters), he does using the excuse that he loves her, because that's the excuse he learned from his mother. He loves Mare so he hurts Mare. If he didn't love her, he wouldn't do any of what he did to her. He would've just killed her, shot her point blank with a gun or something quick and without emotion behind it. All his crimes are done out of passion. All the pain he inflicts is done out of emotion.

He feels too much and he was not raised with the understanding of how to properly express what he feels, at least not in a manner that again is not related to violence. His goodbye with Cal in Farewell for example. Cal is weakness, because despite everything he still loves Maven and Maven still loves him, that weakness he is lead to believe is what hurts him, but still no matter what Elara does that weakness remains so "I hate my brother, I could ruin him" still loses to "I love my brother, so I'll kill myself so he doesn't have to lose me again." Either way Cal still gets hurt, but Maven is the one deciding how he gets hurt because he loves him, and isn't that what love is?

So if you read this long, in simplest terms, to Maven Calore love is violence.

okay. bye <3

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Edit: I forgot I plan to do Sweet Nothing for Mareven Week, replacing that option with Would've Could've Should've - something about Maven and Elara so if you vote for SN that's where it's going

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i feel like your trademark is mareven, contributing significantly to the GDP of the red queen fanbase, and mouth watering characterizations of maven

giggling and kicking my feet . . . it's hard, but honest work <3 <3 <3

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Newblood Queen Update / Mareven Role Swap AU (Mare takes Maven out for Dancing Lessons)

Lyric from Glory and Gore by Lorde

Nominee for Best Fanfiction and Best Alternate Universe in the Red Queen Awards

In war, healers are the first to die. House Skonos stood tall and proud before the Newblood uprising, a noble house that served the highest titles in the land. Their head would heal the king himself, easing wrinkles and gray hairs for all his days. Mother liked to grumble about it in the mirror. Then came the mutations. Their sister house, Blonos, was able to flee. As their ability was to heal themselves, they thought they had nothing to fear when the rats came pounding at their door. But one arm was grabbed, then another, the life force draining from their skin. Leechers, they were called. House Carver, they named themselves. Skonos healed others. They could not heal themselves. _ Mareven Role Swap AU where Newbloods rule, Reds are still oppressed, and Silvers exist in a hazy space in between

Newblood Queen - Chapter 25 - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]

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. . . in going back to copy the text for this week's NQ update I realized I posted the notice but never the link for last week's . . . oh well

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A scene from the Vampire Fic with Zero Context just vibes, also Thomas has a mullet/Mohawk thing going on now I can’t decide what I want his hair to look like.

Also also shout out to @northernember and @lucy-the-cat for the things written in Thomas’s waistband <3

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New ask game:

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that really identifies you.

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Mavey calling mare "baby doll" sarcastically

thoughts?

Oh my god I think she actually killed him . . . Real talk tho, I don't think he would. Just plain "baby" feels out of character for him, more of a "darling" or "dear" or "sweetheart" guy. And "baby doll" is . . . it's a lot. Too much, honestly, I think Elara would be rolling in her grave.

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Edit: I forgot I plan to do Sweet Nothing for Mareven Week, replacing that option with Would've Could've Should've - something about Maven and Elara so if you vote for SN that's where it's going

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guys if I take a few days to respond to a really long comment that's literally just me figuring out what to say don't delete itttttt

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please consider writing more fucked up mareven AHHH i just binged ur cannibalism fics

LMAOOO we will see where mareven takes me in the future, thought those two have Issues so im sure it will be a wild ride regardless.

thanks for reading<33

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⚜️ one strange boy ⚜️

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Maven Poem

as a song he's written to this meme edit of MARINA

Like Thomas Was You’re like Thomas was My ever constant ache A lover now with claws The universe to take But now I let you wither My hands curled in your thorns Death that swift comes hither To lay across your bones I gaze upon your lips That wish me doom and terror Satisfy me with your drips Of the life I live in error The sun bleeding through a cloud Eclipsed by my soulless moon Blood trickling through the crowd Pooling in the crown’s lagoon You’re like Thomas was The pain I must endure A death that quickly gnaws In ways I can’t ignore But now you claw my kiss Digging deep within your skin A blow that once was his Smashing through my every win He lingers on my chest Squeezing without mercy Quick to rot the flesh Upon each night perversely And now I claw the kiss Digging deep within my skin A boy that never lives Gray lines bleeding, ever-thin You’re like Thomas was Digging through my endless grave And I still don’t know the laws That govern where I lay But I know where I am now And that you are here to stay In this mercy I allow Ticking by the waning days

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I got asked for more smut SO what shall I realease from my drive

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Hi. I’m just thirsty so I’ll ask directly. Will you consider writing more short/one shot mareven smut? Thank you.

sure, there's a ton of incoherent snippets in my drive, I'll see how soon I can finish one

unfortunately I am currently across the table from my dad soooo