#Elucien headcanon

[gwynrieldreams]

My headcanon is that Lucien was awake during that night, that he knows exactly what happened between Azriel and Elain and he is heartbroken after that. Everyone believes he would fight Azriel, instead he was crying all alone in his room, because his mate was about to kiss another man, when she can't even look at him.

[oristian]

Elain grinding back against Lucien while they ride horseback through the mortal town. His grip around her waist tightens and he rasps against her ear, “Keep that up, and we won’t be making it back to the Inn after all.” Elain only bites down on her lower lip, tugs it back into her mouth, and glances up at him prettily through her low-lid stare.

“You promise?”

[bonecarversbestie]

Don’t mind me, I’m just having my weekly cry thinking about Lucien picking out those pearl earrings for Elain.

Cause you know he agonized over it and went to multiple stores to find the perfect pair.

(I also know Elain secretly tries them on and wears them around the house when no one is home)

[sad-scarred-sassy]

I have this headcanon that Elain kinda sucks with animals at first, bc it would be so funny and cute for her to be so eager to approach them but like scaring them off a little or not being able to read their physical language and Lucien just showing her how to get close to a horse and helping her feed them with his broad hands, making her blush as she feels his fingers gliding through hers.

Or showing her how to make owls and ravens and all types of wild birds approach her and not be scared of her, and then when she gets the hang of it (after a quite a few tries) they just simply love her and they start surrounding her like the disney princess she is.

I was literally writing this and I remembered where it all came from:

Good night

[dawntoducks]

I just know that the first time Lucien catches Elain checking him out (our girl will be basically salivating over him-as she should tbh) he’ll see the glazed over look in her eyes and think she’s having a vision LMAO.

[starsreminisce]

Rip to Elain when the downward draft carries her arousal scent toward Lucien after he saves her from some shady tavern and hides her in the woods. He makes her a fire, then fishes for her using only his hands after hearing her stomach grumble.

The Cauldron bless Lucien for not saying anything, even though the tips of his ears turn pink.

[acourtofthought]

I can absolutely see Elain and Lucien as the couple who heads into the forest to cut down their own holiday tree.

Who lounges together on a fur rug in front of a fire while sipping hot chocolate.

Who cooks the holiday feast together. I can't imagine Lucien ever out with the group while she's in the kitchen preparing.

Where Lucien creates a snowfall of petals for her in Spring / Day since he knows she thinks snow is beautiful but dislikes the cold.

Where they convince Helion to fill a chariot, pulled by his Pegasus, with toys and deliver them to the children of Day.

Where every year Lucien insists he does not want a gift because Elain is the greatest gift of all.

[hyacinthoideshispanica]

Because of the cauldron, Nesta has a fear of baths, right?

Well, what if Elain now has a fear of the dark? I mean, it's stated that she wants sunshine and has all the windows in her room opened to let in as much light as possible. So, maybe when she went into the cauldron, she was consumed by darkness.

The cauldron loved Elain, so I'm imagining her kinda floating in darkness, terrified, and the cauldron reaching out and handing her a warm kernel of pure light to comfort her and ever since then, Elain has been trying to find light and feel that warmth and comfort again.

I'm also imagining an Elucien situation where Lucien uses his day powers in front of Elain and she realizes that she feels the same sense of warmth and comfort from him that she's been searching for all this time.

[gwyn-nesta-emerie]

On the nights it gets cold and sleep doesn't come easy to her, Elain can be seen walking around late at night with a coat wrapped around her.

Though most of the scent on the coat has faded, Elain lifts up her arm and smells the little spot still there that has the scent of her mate. It instantly calms and brings comfort to her.

Elain then will venture back to her room where she will lay down and curl around the coat as she drifts off into a dream where Lucien has her wrapped in his arms while she sleeps.

Art is by @rosalynnart

[bookishwithathought]

Lucien believed Jesminda was his mate. He believed strongly he’d found the highest form of love, a mating bond with someone he actually cared for and who reciprocated those same affections. That was the highest standard of love for the High Fae, and he’d been blessed to have it.

With her tragic and horrific death, Lucien believed he had lost his greatest love. That was it for him. No other love would compare or measure up. He grieved a love, a bond and a mate. That’s an unimaginable pain, but he moved forward with life believing he’d never get to experience this kind of love or connection again.

Time (Decades? Centuries? I forget.) went by, and then:

Friends, his voice broke. Because for so long he thought his one mate was gone. Because he’d grieved the loss of the bond. Because he realized his one possibility of a mate’s love had not been buried with the female he loved, whose torture and execution he was forced to witness, as he thought it’d been. Because something so potentially beautiful as the mating bond holds such horrific trauma for him.

So no, Lucien WHISPERING (not yelling) to Elain that she’s his mate is not a claiming, a possessing. It is heartbreak, shock, surprise, grief, tainted hope and cautious understanding.

I refuse to believe SJM would then turn around and give this character a rejected bond and make him settle for something other. Because no matter what, it would be a lesser love for Lucien and he certainly doesn’t deserve that.

It’s the highest standard or nothing for our sassy fox 🦊

[animezinglife]

Imagine Elain absolutely annihilating Eris at whatever kind of card game is most popular in Autumn—one he’s excellent at himself—and him being both impressed and increasingly frustrated by it.

Lucien is sitting with them trying not to burst out laughing.

[ennawrite]

imagine Lucien somehow getting caught by Koschei and the Inner Circle can’t agree on how to save him so Elain is just like “fuck it. I’m getting my mate back.” and they all just stare at her in awe as she jumps on a horse and races away

[oristian]

And when Elain is kept up late at night by the onslaught of visions featuring Lucien servicing her oh so very well, paired with the chafing of the bond every single time he comes around, what, then?

(her bedsheets are ablaze; she’s screamed his name)

[lainalit]

Elain is either headcanon as this soft character or this warrior-esque character but my elain headcanon of her is that she is a weirdo

And who better can handle elain weirdness than Lucien who works with weirdos like Rhysand and the rest of the IC, is friends with weirdos like tamlin & Jurian and grew up surrounded by weirdos alà his brothers

[sad-scarred-sassy]

Watch Elain be able to control her phyisical attraction towards Lucien, but then when he starts showing his personality and values she just loses it.

Like imagine she can explain every horny thought about him as “Just the bond” but then she hears him talk about ways of finding peace with the humans or she sees him make sassy remarks at Feyre and Cassian and she’s blushing and thinking about him constantly.

And then this makes her remember how hot she thought he was that day he declared he would go to the continent on his own even though it was so dangerous, how hot he was when he said he would like to never fight in a war ever again, how hot he was when he came running to ask her if she was okay.

And she would not be able to blame that on the bond

[gwynethshadowsinger]

Elain and Lucien are gardening together.

Elain is watering some flowers while Lucien, shirtless, is hauling fresh soil in for the new flower bed. She feels a sudden urge to mess with Lucien.

Quietly, and stealthily, she moves towards Lucien just as he is bending down to drop the soil. She lifts the watering can up and tips it. Water falls onto Lucien's head and down the back of him. Soaking him. He gasps in shock and quickly rises.

Elain giggles and turns as if to flee. She's not fast enough, though. Lucien catches her around her waist and turns her towards him. She looks up at him.

Lucien smiles wickedly as he leans down and whispers in her ear, "If you wanted to soak me, I can think of much more pleasurable ways to go about it." He places a scorching kiss on her and then saunters away, whistling, as he leaves her stunned and soaking wet 😉