#I love wren

[ezziefae]

Thoughts on Chap 2 of The Prisoner's Throne.

"Oak takes the stairs, careful now. He has the surreal feeling of being in a video game. He played enough of them, sitting on Vivi’s couch. Creeping through pixelated rooms that had more of the appearance of Madoc’s stronghold where he grew up than anywhere they went in the mortal world. Leaning on Heather’s shoulder, controller in his hands. Killing people. Hiding the bodies."

Okay, starting off strong already. I squealed when I read the part where Oak has his head leaning on Heather's shoulder. The "Killing people. Hiding the bodies" part was an obvious reference to Oak's blood thirst.

This is a stupid, ugly, violent game, Vivi said. Life isn’t like that. And Jude, who was visiting, raised her eyebrows and said nothing.

JUDEEEEEE

a few selkies hang around at the edges, no doubt gathering news of a rising power to take back to the Undersea.

These selkies are snitches. Holly did confirm that we were gonna see many familar faces from TFOTA, so I am definitely expecting to see Nicasia or Orlagh.

But after he and Vivi and Heather had to carry bags of laundry to the basement of their apartment building and feed quarters into a machine, along with detergent and fabric softener, he realized that someone must have been performing a related service for him in Faerie.

AWEEEE! how humble Oak has become. I'm so happy we're not only getting more Jude and Cardan but also Vivi and Heather.

He feels a bit foolish as he wades into a vat, naked. Should he be discovered, he will doubtless have to play the silly, carefree prince, so vain that he escaped his prison for a bath. It would be a crowning achievement of embarrassment.

LMAO! I can just imagine how hilarious this would be.

Oak knows it’s ridiculous, and yet he can’t help feeling as though they have an understanding of each other

Oak had the bridle placed on him, he was imprisoned for three weeks, he was starved and neglected, and he still thinks this way of Wren. This boy is soooo in love.

Nor is he sure what it means about him that he finds hope in the fact that Wren has kept him. Fine, not everyone would see being thrown into a dungeon as a romantic gesture, but he’s choosing to at least consider the possibility that she put him there because she wants something more from him.

Oak is absolutely DELUSIONAL, DE LU LUUU. LIKE BOY FINDS BEING IMPRISIONED A ROMANTIC GESTURE. THAT IS VERY CONCERNING. IM CRYING

since Hyacinthe was the one who stole Damsel Fly

NO! NOT DAMSEL FLY TOOO! Oh a war is definitely coming.

Hyacinthe is now Wren’s second-in-command

oh this will not be a fun discovery for Tiernan.

Either way, he’d be free. Free to not need rescuing. Free to attempt to talk his sister out of whatever homicidal plan she might foment against the Citadel. Free to return home and go back to performing fecklessness, back to sharing the bed of anyone he thought might be planning a political coup, back to being an heir who never wants to inherit.

The way Oak believes he can talk Jude out of battling with Wren. Like does he not know his sister?

"Back to sharing the bed of anyone he thought might be planning a political coup" WHATTT!!! okay this is a huge deal, Oak has been sleeping with people to find out if they are a threat to him or elfhame. My poor boy, does oriona not watch over him??? or jude?? how did it get so bad that he had to start doing that???

Not that he knows how to stop either of them if he remains here. He’s not sure anyone knows how to stop Jude. And Wren has the power of annihilation. She can break curses and tear spells to pieces with barely any effort. She took apart Lady Nore as though she were a stick creature and spread her insides over the snow.

Yeah so when I finished The Stolen Heir, I feared for Jude and Cardan. Oak is right, Jude is dangerous and she will try to fight ANYTHING that gets in her way, but Wren is horrifically dangerous as well. I fear for both Jude and Wren. This is gonna be chaos.

Then he sees Wren, and longing shoots through him like a kick to the gut. He forgets about risk. Forgets about schemes.

OH OAKKK STOPPPPP.

“Not my future.” There is a hollowness to Wren’s cheeks, Oak notices. She’s thinner than she was, and her eyes shine with a feverish brightness. Has she been ill? Is this because of the wound in her side when she was struck by an arrow?

Oh no.

Bogdana does not contradict her this time. “You have need of my strength. And you have need of my companions if you hope to continue as you are.” Oak stiffens at those words, wondering at their meaning.

so wren is not doing so well, and bogdana hope she listens and gets help from her companions. the real question here is what is the problem?????

Mother Marrow does not seem discomfited in the least. She walks to Wren and deposits the white walnut in her hand. “Remember these words, then. To conjure it, say: We are weary and wish to rest our bones. Broken shell, bring me a cottage of stones.”

So wren can make a cottage appear and dissaper with the shell she received from mother marrow. Im assuming that this shell will be used in the story somehow. But what would get to that point? wren already lives in a palace of her own, so why give her a shell that can make a cottage house appear? will Oak use it when he escapes? will wren run away and use it???? im guessing this cottage house will be used significantly.

And yet, Oak notices that she sways a little before gripping the arm of her throne. Forcing herself upright. Something is very wrong.

Yikes.

The man steps forward. “Though I do not like to be outdone, I have nothing so fine to give you. But Bogdana summoned me here to see if I can undo what—”

So from what I'm getting, there's something more about wren we don't know about. something that's hurting her or affecting her deeply. Her power? stress and anxiety? I might need some time to crack this one.

Her eyes move restlessly under their lids, as though she doesn’t even feel safe in dreams. Her skin has a glassy quality, as though from sweat or possibly ice. What has she been doing to herself ?

I'm starting to feel very overprotective of Wren. With Jude and Cardan coming to the citadel to save Oak I fear for both sides.

But as though she can sense him, Wren opens her eyes.

SERIOUSLY THIS IS HOW THE CHAPTER ENDS??? At this point Oak is asking to be killed, he could've had the oppurtunity to escape, yet he chose to follow wren to her room. This chapter made me feel very empathetic of Wren, she looks like a villain, but she's really not. She has been betrayed, tortured, abused, neglected for many years, her actions of becoming queen and imprisoning Oak all come from hurt.

[sergeantcowboy]

hii!!

Do you have any hcs for my oc Wren and Crow??

I absolutely adore Crow, btw !!

Thank you sm! I think Wren is super cool too!

Crow and Wren headcanons coming up

Crow hangs out with the greasers so he would definitely find Wrens obvious crush on Lefty to be entertaining.

Like if Wren stumbled over his words or did something else kinda stupid around Lefty and then happened to make eye contact with Crow (which wouldn't be unlikely because he'd be looking at Wren already) he'd smirk and make a kissy-face just to tease him a bit.

He would gladly smuggle him some art supplies or fashion books/magazines if he was too embarrassed to go out and buy some himself.

Religious trauma! Crow's been mainly raised by his grandparents who are pretty devout catholics and also a bit harsh with him so he can relate to some extent.

He wouldn't bring it up unless Wren brought it up first though.

Crow always appreciates to have someone around to have deeper conversations with.

He's very into social philosophy so he would get kinda technical if they talked any deeper about society. (Insert Joker meme here)

Idk if Wren is out as gay or not but it's still pretty obvious so I feel like he and Crow would have some (mostly silent) shared understanding on how they're both not straight.

Crow would be questioning Wren's 40% reputation with the preps though. Especially since he's a greaser. Like "these guys are your arch enemies what did you do? Are you a suck up to rich people or something?"

He would only bring it up if it seems relevant though.

Wren would also likely be getting cheap prices unless he's secretly mega rich.

Crow sometimes gets the greasers help with the smuggling but he probably wouldn't get Wrens help unless absolutely necessary. He thinks he's a nice guy but lacks confidence and deception skills and that would make him a liability.

He would think it'd be rude to just tell him that so he'd simply avoid the truth there.

Also

Non-straight brown guys with small but still noticeable facial scars and a four letter nickname.

Crow🤝Wren

[dutyworn]

She’s so out of character snippy during the Mars mission on ME3 prologue, but can you blame the girl. Spent the past half a year in Alliance Jail. Can’t do anything to help when the Reapers attack Earth because no one prepared because no one listened to her literal years ago. Now they want her to tell them what to do and save the day. Then there’s the reunion with Kaidan, who used to be one of her closest friends, but that was, also, years ago, and he has no idea how much what he said to her on Horizon a year ago hurt her.

So she yells at Kaidan a little on Mars (generally mostly lower dialogue wheel), Liara and Vega are probably both like "what the hell" because she’s not usually like that (sure, Vega only knows her because Alliance Jail but he still knows her some), then Eva Coré nearly murders Kaidan on the spot and Wren is so guilt-ridden about yelling at him that she sort of freezes on the spot and seemingly loses her usual hope. Like. Like.

On the Normandy, Liara has to (CANONICALLY) snap her out of just staring at Kaidan and tell her they need to go to the Citadel. On their way, their little chat about the Crucible, you can tell Liara is trying to kind of coax her into giving any kinda comment about having any faith in their mission but Wren doesn’t give it. I can’t tell you loudly enough that this isn’t me making things up, this is canon dialogue.

Tell me you don’t get a tiny bit hopeless vibe from ME3 prologue Shep.

OH ALSO THE CHILD ON EARTH. I play with the happy ending mod but I integrate indoctrination theory, but either way, the kid. Is a real kid, not some... Catalyst hallucination. I will say that Wren doesn’t see the kid when she’s still just moving about with Anderson, because there is NO WAY she wouldn’t go into the ducts after that child to make sure he’s OK. So she only sees this child, this random young child, in the middle of it all once she’s watching on the Normandy as they’re preparing to take off. Sees him get into the shuttle, sees the reaper shoot it down. So the child’s face stays with her, and in her nightmares, as someone she failed to safe.

Also also also I play with the Dreams Remade mod and it’s. You’d think adding some personal grief into the vanilla nightmares was some feels. MULTIPLY YOUR EXPECTATIONS BY 1000X. I did not expect that mod to make me feel visceral grief but here we are. Love it.

[cardanapologist]

i thought it was common knowledge that oak would have some physical animal characteristic. like we didn’t think his itty bitty horns were gonna be the only thing right?? WE KNOW WHO HIS FATHER IS

[wr1tten]

@holyones asked : i never wanted any of this .

pacing,    the  terrible  sound  of  silence  echoing  in  a  reply  to  her  words.    feet  devoid  of  tangible  placement;    an  unknown  force  keeping  her  soul  planted  on  the  ground.    only  the  eyes  of  people  like  nora  able  to  gaze  upon  her  hauntingly  beautiful  face.    dangerous  tides  did  a  rotation,    scoffing,      ❝ boo-hoo! ❞      blonde  curls  fell  to  the  side  as  she  tilted  her  head,    so  close  that  her  breath  would  have  been  grazing  nora’s  cheek      ( 𝘪𝘧  𝘺𝘰𝘶  𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥  𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭  𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 )      ❝ i  didn't  want  to  be  dead  either!    we  don’t  get  what  we  want  all  the  time. ❞      she  growled.    wren  didn’t  envy  the  living.    the  pain  she  endured  in  life  never  stopped  when  she  died.    life  meant  suffering.    in  death,    she  could  ensure  the  suffering  of  others.      ❝ nora,    dear,    if  you  leave  me  be  with  what  i  am  doing,    i would no longer bother you, ❞      long  digits  wrapped  around  her  shoulder,    gripping.    flesh  so  warm  it  could  burn  her  hand.    feelings  were  lost  long  ago,      ❝ you  insist  on  being  insufferable.    two  can  play  that  game. ❞

[stars-n-spice]

Happy Mother's Day :)

To all the wonderful space moms of the galaxy 🩵💫

[aardvaark]

what you have to understand about sophie devereaux is that despite how she might first come across, she is deeply uncool. she is a theater kid and she’s also really, really bad at theater. she mentions her high school angst while beating the shit out of an assassin. she loves crime so so much. she thinks of life in terms of noir movie tropes. she struggles in all relationships that aren’t for grifting purposes. as a teenage girl she had a poster of a flight hijacker over her bed.

[stevenrogered]

Destroy them.

+ Bonus:

[redeemed-wren]

I do find it facinating how Dracula Daily has turned Dracula into a different kind of myth now that we're in its third year running. I've seen a few people compare it to Hadestown, or a timeloop. The enjoyment isn't JUST from engaging with the story now, it's engaging with the experience, and while the emails are still the same as previous years, we've been through this before.

The way we as an audience interact with this story and this way of telling the story changes the genre. Its no longer a gothic horror, classic lit story. It's become a mythology, a tragedy, a repeating loop. Jonathan Harker returns to the castle every year. Every year it happens again. And that changes it, builds up new mythos around it, even if the words stay exactly the same.

[trashcora]

AHSOKA | Part 3: Time to Fly

[swedenis-h]

Why are you traveling across galaxies with your mortal enemy?? To explore them together?? 🤨🤨🏳️‍🌈🤨🏳️‍🌈🤨🤨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈‼️‼️

[milkcioccolato]

Sabine Wren

it is a very grave offence that I never made an illustration for her! So I had to rectify it😌

[thenegoteator]

it's a busy busy time but I did manage to bang out this one prompt for @sabineweek

[rancidsugar]

[fictionproblem]

any last words? <3

[cabysoft]