#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 curling a strand of hair behind her ear and Lucien struggling to breathe as he sees her wearing the pearl earrings he had gifted her.

[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.

[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.

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[starsreminisce]

Lucien wanting to surprise Elain by adding to her garden, but instead of flowers, he plants fruit bearing trees: peaches, apples, cherries, lemons, all because Elain has made offhand comments about how wonderful it would be to pick fresh fruit for her baking instead of going to the market.

[acourtofthought]

She is so very young and this world so very new to her. The days and her distance feel so long and so far but for her, I will suffer them. I will hide the depth of my sorrow, my longing, so that she may have this time without feeling beholden to this link between us. For what are a few years of torment if there is still the hope of having her forever? So long as this thread binds us, so long as she does not reject our bond and this peace of me she carries with her each day, this piece of me that lays close to her heart each night, there is still hope. - Entry from the Journal of Lucien Vanserra

[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 rivals Lucien in sass and humor, shoots back whiskey like a male, and is the only female able to render her mate speechless, what, then?

[cauldronblssd]

Elain/Lucien headcanon:

Elain knows how much it means for her to claim Lucien as her mate, and makes a point to introduce him as her mate whenever she meets new people. Lucien knows how important human customs are to Elain, and introduces her as his wife (or himself as Elain’s husband). At political functions, everyone else is a bit confused by it but Elain and Lucien are happy.

[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

[hyacinthoideshispanica]

Imagine Lucien teaching Elain to winnow and after a few tries, she can manage a small distance. So, Lucien winnows a few feet away and tells her to follow him. Elain winnows to his side.

Lucien: Good. Now do it again.

He winnows again, and this time, he's a little further away. Elain follows, and he winnows again. They basically end up playing winnow tag.

After a few times, Elain is tired, so when Lucien goes to winnow again, she does it at the same time and crashes directly into him. They stumble to the ground and end up with Lucien lying in the grass and Elain straddling his waist.

Elain: I think that's enough lessons for today. Don't you?

She leans down, her hair tickling Lucien's face, and she kisses the tip of his nose.

Lucien: I think you may be right, mate.

Elain: I also think I was a very good student today and deserve a reward.

Lucien, while lifting himself up so he can kiss her: Absolutely.