#Enemy. Lover. Queen.

[acourtofquestions]

“ Enemy. Lover.

Queen. ”

— When I first read this quote THIS stood out to me (in my current first reading analysis) —

The order of Chaol saying “lover” SECOND to enemy implies that she is NOT the enemy anymore… it also foreshadows that she will not become “lover” again (instead “queen”) it’s the past, present, & future for them & his character view.

[lochlot]

morgwen study

[lyyzismess]

the king and the queen

[kathrahender]

"I love enemies to lovers but without the manipulation stuff"

"I love enemies to lovers but without the abuse"

"I love enemies to lovers but without them hurting each other"

"I love enemies to lovers but without them trying to kill each other"

"I love enemies to lovers but without them wanting to hurt/kill the other"

"I love enemies to lovers but only if they fight for little things"

Ma'am, sir, or whatever you want to be called, do you even know the meaning of the word "enemy"?

Enemy: 1) a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. 2) a hostile nation or its armed forces, especially in time of war. 3) a thing that harms or weakens something else.

These are the different meanings of "enemy". So no, someone you disagree with about little things is not your enemy. For the love of God, understand it already. An enemy is someone you hate. An enemy is someone you want to hurt. An enemy is someone you want to see destroyed. An enemy is someone you'd like to kill. It's someone with a completely different morality, with different morals, with different ways of seeing the world.

An enemy it's not a person who jokes with you like "Oh, you're an idiot" "No, you". It's someone who takes seriously the fights against you, who would do anything to see you defeated and broken. That's what an enemy would do. If they do nothing like these things, they're not your enemy. They can be your rival, or someone you don't get along with, but definitely not an enemy.

And if you don't like these things, then you definitely don't like enemies to lovers ships. Because enemies to lovers ships are based on "two enemies -and I'll repeat it again just in case: two enemies- falling in love, after one corrupts or one redeems". If you don't like/don't accept two people hurting each other when they are enemies and then falling in love, don't pretend you like the enemies to lovers trope, because trust me, you really don't. You don't even know what's the trope about-

[teaitis]

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[mxngieemanhaa]

how I imagine disagreements between Jude and Cardan would go (fae cant lie):

Jude: That doesn't even make any sense. I hate you.

Cardan: I ha-

Cardan: ahem

Cardan: I ha- mmmmm

Cardan: I h- fuck I love you

[illustratinghan]

a cardan and jude bonding moment, we all know he actually really likes it when jude points daggers at him😏🖤

the iconic duo from @hollyblack 🫶

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[danygn]

I will protect you, at all cost 🤍

[always-reading-fantasy]

Fuck all love letters except whatever Cardan Greenbriar had going on when he wrote “my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. it was yours before i could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain”

[taylrartz]

Soft Jude x Cardan for the soul because Autumn is Jurdan season hehe🤭🍂

Additional variant on my insta @taylrartz !💓

[starrynightsxo]

MY MAN CARDAN REALLY DID THAT IM DYING

[carne-muerta]

[bluetalenerd]

Unknown to both of them, Jude sealed the trope of enemies to lovers there, and then when she kissed Cardan to get him out of her system....

[lyyzismess]

Jude Duarte

[snippets-from-my-mind]

"it's you i love. i spent much of my life guarding my heart. i guarded it so well that i could behave as though i didn't have one at all. even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. but it is yours." - cardan greenbriar to jude duarte, the cruel prince, by holly black

[theghostwrites]