#Kings Cage

[lucy-the-cat]

Favorite Maven lines?

ugh I have to read the books again but:

"The punishment she deserves. Really. Are my parties that bad?"

"I don't use my spies to track your emotions, Mare. No, my darling. I just know you better than anyone else."

"But yours is coming up, isn't it? I have no doubt we'll spend it together."

I forget the exact wording but something in his letters in Glass Sword about how Cal wasn't going to escape Mare's leash

"But if you'd like to return, and pretend you're doing it to save some nameless soldiers, then I'm happy to welcome you back."

"But I do so miss our conversations. You keep me sane, Mare."

"Jon said he couldn't see them, the dead futures. An easy lie. It let him manipulate me in a way even Samson couldn't. And when he led me to you, well, I didn't argue. How was I to know what a poison you'd be?"

"I like your hair."

"I tried, Mare."

The entirety of the bathtub scene

And that's all I can remember off the top of my head

[lenstarsx3]

mare after being told “you have terrible taste in men”

[ball-of-butter]

rest in peace to the real ones (mare barrow and runin fang) for having to put up with their crazy rich bratty mentally unstable ex-situationships whose betrayals shifted the entire narrative and who couldn’t help but induce psychological warfare through the messiest, most passive-aggressive letters

[maveys-baby]

no bc the part in War Storm, right after they capture Maven and they're carrying him away and he's talking to the voice in his head saying, "I did as you said, I did as you said" breaks my heart into a million pieces every single time omg.

[the-best-skibidi-rizzler]

RQ Maven

I wish in the RQ books they explored Maven's love for theatre, like it's so ironic how he says he loves plays and shows but then you find out his whole life is pretty much an act. I think it would be so interesting to know why he liked it too, did he like the actors ability to pretend? The chance to escape the real world? I was so surprised that VA like never mentioned it again, maybe because by the time we got to his pov so much was happening? but then Cal never mentioned it either so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[kracenstar]

Controversial take here but: the horrible and horrific things Maven had done wouldn’t have been overlooked or forgiven by the fandom if Maven wasn’t attractive.

[isabellaapotter]

kings cage spoilers (red queen) ‼️

“maven is below the treasury, he has a train” i say as we clamber away together. his arms tighten around me. he steers us toward the main gate, quickening his pace with every step.

“i’m not here for maven”

I PHYSICALLY CANNOT. mare and cal are just too fucking perfect and those are the first words he says to her??? after MONTHS??? and stupid fucking samson merandus trying to FIGHT THEM AGAINST EACH OTHER ARE YOU KIDDING?? he could have had other motives for staging the attack but instead his only concern is getting. mare. out. i need them to hug and never let each other go again thank you

[highladyofterrasen7]

Me @ cal

[a-library-ghost]

so we all picture him as maven calore right

[kindarella]

Mare Barrow as the gladiolus flower meaning strength, infatuation and remembrance

[unknown198913]

Matchstick #2

[lenstarsx3]

maven calore sketch???

[ball-of-butter]

i love that red queen puts family as the chief unit of love even above true romantic love like that for some reason is SO overrated in ya media. i dont think of the characters within friendship or romantic groups first, i unconsciously catergorise them into their family.

cal loves mare but cal will put maven first always and he loves his dad and his image so much he’s willing to sacrifice his character and relationship with her to fulfil the expectations set by his family and its not until realising what his MOTHER wanted for him that he lets go. and mare loves cal but she will always put her siblings and parents first which is why everything started with gisa and shade’s loss and it ended with her sister and the loss of her brother too. maven loves mare but he loves elara more even if she twisted him and elara loves maven more than the entire kingdom and thats why she twisted him. and elara couldn’t enact her plan to make maven king without getting rid of his love for cal first!! when shade gets killed mare HAS to kill elara because that is the only way she can make sure her pain is even with at least one person.

cameron does everything for her brother’s safety, she was willing to abandon her morals and dehumanise anyone standing in her way if thats what needed to happen. and after morrey was safe she quit— nothing was worth losing herself over except him. farley and shade’s love was so pure that it brought life and family to the farleys who were already broken with the grief of being halved. their love brought a daughter named after the death of the woman that destroyed the family, and it was so healing.

and that is what KILLS me about the samos family!!! that compared to all this unconditional loyalty— the samos family is a continuous act of playing at love and loyalty, when in reality volos and larentia could not care less about their children because they dont know how to. silver society never showcases this love and so then you have so many parents fucking up their kid in so many ways but doing it out of love because thats how they see it— all except volo and larentia.

so the samos family is an exception. i cant think of evangeline without thinking of elane and ptolemus and i cant think of ptolemus without thinking of evangeline and wren. thats their family. and at least evangeline and ptolemus experienced real love with each other, even if they were never taught it (evangeline’s fear over shade’s death was proof that she could imagine a world without him and it was one of the few times she was genuinely scared in the series).

[persontotnormal222]

Marven was very busy today 😔 He just visited 3 make-up salons, hairdresser and Sephora... at end of day he went to Rossman *optional*

Yet the effect is amazing, he is slaying ✨

(Sorry for bad looking art, I draw on my computer, which make my style bit different... and as idiot I take picture from computer 🙂👍)

[the-best-skibidi-rizzler]

What do the silvers even look like?

Like i was thinking about it and realised how strange they would look, like any undertones or pink in our skin would be silver for them like...

their mouths, their tounges, when i first read the books i kinda just pictured a silver blush maybe twighlight esque looking y'know? but like they'd be so freaking silver

please tell me I'm not the only one who took this long to realise

[lucy-the-cat]

Flipping through King's Cage to find the bathtub scene again and finding Mare referring to Maven as "My black-hearted king"