#EVA CHOSE NOT TO DO WHAT TELLA DID

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

thinking about the fact that in finale jacks gives tella the dagger to stab him with to end their marriage right??? and she does. but in ouabh, jacks gives eva the dagger, and tells her to stab him but she chooses not to. which probably surprised jacks because it seems like he thought she would do the same as donatella 😭😭😭😭 help i'm in shambles

[sjfwrites]

Did Evangeline make Jacks’ heart beat? My theory…

(Spoilers for both series)

So I’m re reading the entire series including Caraval and I’m almost through with OUABH

So when Tella stabs Jacks in Finale she asks is she will still be his true love. Jacks says he doesn’t know. There is no further mention in that book about his heart beating.

In OUABH Evangeline references Jacks chest many times.

Chapter 36

‘Evangeline wanted nothing to do with Jacks’s cold hands, or his cold arms, or the rock-solid ice that was his chest.’

Chapter 37

‘But even though Jacks had held her all through the night, his arms were wooden in their grip, his chest was a flat rock against her head.’

No mention of his heart beating until after the night in the crypt when she helps him home. The moment she touches his chest she feels it as he sleeps.

‘She might have suspected him dead if not for the rise and fall of his chest and the steady beat of his heart. His heart.’

This moment definitely feels monumental of Stephanie would have included it earlier.

Also I think are important

Jacks becomes very tired after leaving the crypt. Eva has to carry him before he passes out. He says it’s the vampire venom. Is it actually a result of his heart starting to beat again?

As Jacks is leaving the crypt his leaves his dagger on the floor, the dagger that Tella stabbed him with, as though he is ready to put that part of his life in the past.

I think it’s also significant that his hair changed back from blue to gold. I know it was due to the vampire venom, but blue is very much a colour linked to Tella, is this why Jacks chose blue out of any colour, as a reminder.

I think Stephanie included these changes to his character in this moment are significant to the change in Jacks character from that moment.

The only question is if his heart beat for Evangeline, why does he still want to go back in time?

Is it that he believes he can only have one true love, therefore he’s scared he might be wrong and kill Eva?

Is it that he actually loves Eva where he didn’t love Tella, making him more at risk of becoming mortal?

Personally I think Tella is a safe choice for him. He realises that what he felt for Tella was a fraction of what he feels for Eva. He’s still scared that his kiss might kill her. And the part of him that doesn’t understand human emotions believes going back in time for Tella is a way to get what he wants without the heartbreak that would come if something happened to Evangeline. For the first time he is loving unselfishly

What do you think?

[scrumptiousloveflower]

I just saw a tiktok that made me rethink everything I know about jacks and eva.

So we all know how tella is jacks' one true love right, but she basically chose legend over him even though for jacks tella was supposed to love him and be with him. Well the girl in that tiktok said that jacks has a curse which is tella being his one true love but since his one true love chose another that means that jacks could either let this curse ruin his entire life or he could do what his one true love did and CHOOSE who he actually loves. Which he did without eva's knowledge.

So this got me thinking, what if jacks choosing eva is what breaks his curse and now he isn't tied to tella and can actually be with eva without killing her with his kiss. And if that is the case this also means that each fate has the power to break their own curse so lala could finally be a bride without her husbands dying in the process and same for each fate.

Besides we know that in this universe each story has the potential for infinite endings and Stephanie said that curse has bonus scenes with different endings which means that there could be an ending where jacks breaks the curse and is finally with eva and another where he doesn't and she can never be with him cause he wouldn't allow it as he wouldn't want to hurt her in any way.

[rosesfox]

Do you think Jacks will find out that Tella is not his true love and did he really give up on that idea? and what do you think will make him want to be with Eva?

that's what makes me most curious tbh. because even though he went through that traumatic moment, he still chose to reject her knowing that he couldn't keep her. it's not that he doesn't want to, he can't. jacks is aware of how much he cares for evangeline, but he knows that if he keeps her, he will eventually kill her. it's one of the reasons why i think we need a pov of someone close to him since it won't be him.

i could also say that he will only try to help her because what apollo did is horrible, but the synopsis indicates that he will fight for her heart. it makes me think that he will find out early on in the book that he has a chance with eva, or it could really be that he just wants to help her.

i think from the moment he sacrificed his goal for eva's life, he's already given up on the idea. it would be a little redundant if he pursued the subject, especially when stephanie has already established that eva's death broke him (which makes me think he really stopped and understood the magnitude of his feelings there.) it would be repetitive, so i don't think he's going to insist on it anymore.

it's possible, because he's kind of crazy and he's spent ages killing everyone who got close to him. it messes with someone's head, so it wouldn't be surprising if he still insisted. i just wouldn't like it lol

[littlefoxandthearcher]

SPOILERS ….Sobbing and shaking at this. I know Stephanie already said Jacks would relate to Taylor songs but I can’t help but imagining him listening to the Archer….

“Combat, I'm ready for combat

I say I don't want that, but what if I do?

'Cause cruelty wins in the movies Combat, I'm ready for combat

I've got a hundred thrown-out speeches I almost said to you”

This just hurts him to his core… he tried so hard to be the hero he even said “This isn’t a fairytale, either. Fairytales have heroes.” And

“He’d been stabbed in the back, and I foolishly thought I could save him… Life is not a kind storyteller. And I’m not meant to be a savior.”

And in the end he wanted to save Evangeline giving into her instead of the comfort of Tella (not being able to hurt her). He was a savior…he saved HER and chose her..

Easy they come, easy they go

I jump from the train, I ride off alone

I never grew up, it's getting so old

Help me hold onto you

Jacks has killed so many looking for the one he wouldn’t hurt anymore…he spent hundreds of years and this accumulated so much pain that he believes he could love Tella for the both of them -there’s no more heartbreak if he has her. He was alone in his search for love until Evangeline. He begged the valor queen to save her - making her immortal like him just to have her alive…holding on to her.

I've been the archer

I've been the prey

Who could ever leave me, darling?

But who could stay?

In all of his cruelty…it was for self preservation. To keep his goals of going back in time to Tella and to finally be able to live a life he (thought) he wanted. He was the archer and as tormented as he was he could never catch the prey (his love). The hope of Tella’s true love dissipating was too painful…he’s cursed to be heartbreak incarcerated. Devastatingly gorgeous and alluring to find love but never have it.

“What about the Archer?” “He was no one,” Jacks said coldly, “except maybe to the Fox.”

Dark side, I search for your dark side

But what if I'm alright, right, right, right here?

And I cut off my nose just to spite my face

Then I hate my reflection for years and years

Jacks knows love is his torment…but is faced with the reality that Tella’s true love wasn’t him…he believes that the answer to keep Evangeline safe is to keep her away- to have never met her.

“How did I look?” “Like you would kill for her.” “I would kill for a lot of things.” “Just be sure you don’t kill her,” (LaLa)

Lala sees right through him. She knows his torment and that Eva is the fox for him to chase and not Tella. He hates himself for the curse to be so afraid of himself and to love Evangeline that he pushes her away.

“This doesn’t end well.”

welcome to my very concise and detailed explanation of why this love by taylor swift was written for evajacks (specifically the last 10 chapters of the ballad of never after)

Your kiss, my cheek

I watched you leave

evangeline when jacks didn’t go with her and chaos to the arch / or basically everytime jacks leaves her

Your smile, my ghost

I fell to my knees

when jacks was holding evangeline’s body??? hello???

When you’re young, you just run

But you come back to what you need

jacks running away from his feelings & tries so hard to stay away but always comes back to her in the end

This love is good

This love is bad

need i say more?? it’s their entire trope

This love is alive back from the dead, oh, oh, oh

These hands had to let it go free, and

This love came back to me, oh, oh, oh

basically jacks in the last few chapters / jacks in the third book + evangeline literally came back from the dead ! ! !

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

you are so right!!!!! i love this take

thinking about the fact that in finale jacks gives tella the dagger to stab him with to end their marriage right??? and she does. but in ouabh, jacks gives eva the dagger, and tells her to stab him but she chooses not to. which probably surprised jacks because it seems like he thought she would do the same as donatella 😭😭😭😭 help i'm in shambles