#TWK

[astraeajackson]

the roach: why are jude and cardan just holding hands and sitting back-to-back?

the bomb: well, they got into a pretty big fight, and now jude is really mad at cardan.

the roach: but... why the hand-holding then?

the bomb, grinning: well, cardan got scared that jude doesn't love him anymore, and you know jude can't bear to see him like that. so that's their solution until they both calm down again.

[roslynn777]

cardan and jude ♔

idk if i like this but whatever

this will also be available to buy on my inprnt so stay tuned 🫶🏻

(based on dolce&gabbana 2006 fall/winter collection cover by Steven Meisel)

characters by Holly Black

[deceitfulapple-eatingscoundrel]

elithienart.

[mxngieemanhaa]

THIS is how jude looks as the queen of mirth?!?

....locke fumbled

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

Jude: *falls from ceiling*

all of Elfhame: clap her in chains!

Cardan:

[shizzlesisntevenaword]

Cardan not going after Jude during her exile always makes me cry because the only reason he wasn’t is because he wanted to respect her wants and autonomy so bad. He didn’t want to make her come back if she didn’t want to, didn’t look for her because he genuinely believed Jude would come back if she wanted to be found. And again it’s just so in-character of him to automatically think she’s just found something better than him because no one ever willingly picked and stayed with him when they had a choice so why would she?

[highladyofterrasen7]

If you know, you know

[thejudeduarte]

Cardan is our favourite drama queen lmao

[madockisser]

cardan just wanted love. 😐

i was just replying to someone regarding nicasia and i had this sorta realization moment abt cardan lol

Cardan is consistently merciful toward people that wrong him. To his abusers.

He spares his mother when she leaves the tower of forgetting. He gives her a courtier title. After her lifelong abuse. he spares balekin from execution time and time again, despite all the death threats and beatings and humiliation. he forgives nicasia and Locke and remains (sorta) friends with them after they screwed around behind his back and broke his heart. He forgives Jude for putting him on the throne, for killing balekin.

Cardan has the capacity to be a lot kinder to those he cares about. While he attempts to act like he has a stone heart, he cares so deeply about the few people around him. No matter how they treat him in return.

Even his sisters, whom treated him like a dog when he was a child, throwing food at him under the table. He held balekin responsible for killing them, even when they had little love for him.

and his father, whom tossed him out of the kingdom for dains lies. He still strove for his fathers love and attention. And he did what he thought he needed to do to get that attention.

All he wanted was love, and he gave a lot more of it than he wanted to show. I’m so glad he found it w Jude 😭

And with Jude, he gave her everything. He gave her half of his army bro. HALF OF HIS ARMY just because she ASKED. She didn’t even have to order him to do it, because he trusts her and he so badly wants her to trust him too.

He secretly desired (and eventually cared for) her for yearsss. It’s so sweet how they went from school rivals besting and beating one another, to them making each other king and queen. ENOUGH

moral of the story, he just wanted LOVE. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I’ll never stop thinking about them, idc how generic and obvious my posts are, every throwaway thought i have of them i will post

[thebestbrunettee]

jude: so, cardan and i are engaged.

madoc: i wish you asked me first, greenbriar.

cardan:

cardan: i’m sorry, madoc, but you’re just not my type.

[elwoodallimann]

Madoc, a trained war general : takes 3 days to realise his daughter is in fact his other daughter, finds out only bc she looked at the war map for too long

Cardan, who used to bully said-daughter : takes 0.5 seconds to realise they switched place and that its not Taryn standing in front of him but Jude

[kaipaedyn]

nobody's doing it like judecardan i fear

🎨: frostbite studios

[hope-di-angelo]

Ok, you know what scene I still can't recover from?

Locke: Remember when I kissed Jude in the garden?

Cardan: I recall your mouth was on her. But her eyes were on me.

LIKE, woah. The possessiveness practically DRIPPING from his tone. Yes I know that we didn't hear hear it. But let's be honest, we all heard it loud and clear

[deceitfulapple-eatingscoundrel]

All hail High Queen Jude!

“But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”

ARTIST: frostbite.studios.

[tothestarsinvelaris]

The fact that Cardan falls for Jude because she's human. and because she's fierce and badass and determined and will absolutely never back down from something that she believes in. and she is still loved despite those things and because of those things.

and Cardan is just so damn jealous of it but he admires it so much he can't help but notice her and all the silly little things about her, like her round ears and the way she bites her lip when she's thinking hard.

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

no one:

not a soul:

cardan greenbriar: