#acotar nyx headcanon

[musingsofanunorgainizedmind]

Headcanon: Nyx’s favorite “uncle” is Eris (he’s used to taking care of younger siblings and pets, the guys got a secret soft side). Eris doesn’t know how this happened. It pisses off the entire inner circle. Lucien is highly amused.

[animezinglife]

Nyx Headcanons

Headcanons for my favorite little bean, because we don't talk about him enough.

He 100% inherits Rhys's "earth-shattering" power. That extra chapter where Feyre and Rhys were deciding on a name and basically felt powers shifting in the Force when Nyx came up makes me firmly believe that.

He's a good, sweet kid but also goes through a few phases where he's an absolute nightmare to raise through no fault of his own. Nyx is a happy baby, but has zero concept of his power when it starts to show, leaving one very tired High Lord and High Lady when he shatters a window in his nursery when wiggling his arms excitedly.

He's an intuitive little guy though and very quickly figures out he needs to be careful when Feyre and Rhys try to teach him to get a handle on that power. He learns this the hard way after accidentally nightmisting one of his toys.

Nobody for the life of them can figure out why he adores cranky Auntie Amren so much. Though he's not old enough to explain it, he thinks she's another child to play with. Cassian suggests this and Amren nearly rips his head off.

Nyx is a full-fledged mama's boy. He adores Feyre and is a complete snugglebug with her. He's also very protective of his mama.

That said, he idolizes his dad too and copies everything he does. He follows Rhys around and mimics everything, right down to trying to copy the High Lord's graceful swagger. Feyre, naturally, absolutely melts at the sight of him waddling after his dad with one hand in his pocket looking too cool for school on his tiny little legs.

Nyx is obsessed with Starfall, and his first-ever painting is a finger painting of him with his parents under those stars. Rhys gets misty-eyed when he sees it.

He's besties with Kallias and Viviane's little snow angel. The fact they're the same age is perfect--when the grown-ups are too boring tending to one courtly matter or the other, Nyx and his friend can easily pass the time playing in the snow. Nyx already has met his match in the realm of snowball fighting, and takes a new tactic or two back to absolutely wallop his uncles. Rhys could not be more proud of this fact.

Nyx takes his role as Eldest Cousin very seriously, but there's one cousin in particular who absolutely does not and will not listen to a word he says. Guess whose kid that cousin is.

Nyx takes a little too much after his mother sometimes in that he befriends every semi-civil demon-thing or dark spirit that walks the face of the earth. To Uncle Cassian's absolute horror, Nyx is apparently friends with Bryaxis...and Bryaxis loves this kid.

[achaotichuman]

Imagine Rhysand forcing Nyx to go to training but he manages to negotiate his way into training with the Valkyries. He hates it, but at least his aunties are with him, so it's less horrible.

But then, at some point, Cassian and Azriel have to step out, it's only Gwyn, Nesta and Emeries there, so they go out to do whatever. And Nyx is left with the orders from Cassian to just finish up his exercises and he can go home.

But Nesta also left her little music egg thing behind and Nyx is like

"Well, no one's here to tell me what to do soooo-"

Anyway, Nesta, Gwyn and Emerie come back, and as they're chatting and laughing, Gwyn just suddenly slaps a hand over Emerie and Nesta's mouth as she's staring jaw-slack at the training ring. And they all look down just to see Nyx absolutely busting his ass dancing and singing, and just having the absolute time of his life.

Long story short, most afternoons became dancing lessons with Auntie Nesta, Gwyn and Emerie instead of training with Cassian and Azriel to Rhysand's growing disappointment.

[honeybeefae]

Hiii☺️ for your Headcanon Monday I hope I'm doing this right: I reaaaally believe that Azriel is Nyx favorite uncle, and his shadows love Nyx too!

Hello lovely lovely love! Yes, that is right and also I totally headcanon this as well! <3

Azriel being Nyx's fav uncle would look like:

Cassian and Rhys arguing in the background on who Nyx likes more while Azriel is holding him, his hands making grabbing motions as Az's shadows tickle and twirl around him.

If Nyx cries out and Azriel, for whatever reason, doesn't hear them, his shadows are the first to alert him. It can get annoying at night.

Speaking of which, I like to think Azriel is a MAJOR help to Rhys and Feyre when Nyx is having trouble sleeping at night. He loves walking around with him and soothing him.

His favorite place to take him is out on the balcony to look out at the stars.

Nyx is always reaching out to Azriel whenever he walks into the room, poking his head around whoever is holding him when he hears his voice.

Az's shadows are Nyx's favorite toy.

He is a giggle machine as they tickle his nose and belly, his little squeals of delight ringing around the house as they play with him.

It's makes a small part of Azriel think about having a child of his own.

The IC would DEFINITELY have a baby race to see who Nyx would crawl too. Azriel wouldn't even be in it, he'd be on the sideline and Nyx would BEELINE over to him.

Making Cass and Rhys roll their eyes.

But Feyre gives him a secret smile while she "consoles" Rhys.

Also, just picture Nyx falling asleep on Az.

They're in his nursery, late at night, and rocking while his shadows dance above them and when Azriel looks down, Nyx is fast asleep and buried in his chest.

And bless him, he can't just move.

So, logically, they both fall asleep, and Rhys finds them a few hours later.

Feyre gives him a painting of the two of them in that exact scenario for his birthday, which Az keeps on his nightstand.

[glossamerfaerie]

Hear me out… Nyx’s first word is Nesta (or to be more precise: “Nes” while pointing at her and giggling). Do I think this will happen in canon? No way in hell; it’s probably something boring like “Ma” or “Dada” in a future bonus chapter (just kidding… or am I? Let’s face it, this screams bonus chapter material).

I’m into this headcanon for the pure CHAOS and comedy of it all. Rhys is incandescent with fury but forced to be outwardly happy around Nyx, praising his son for his first word. Feyre is a little disappointed but too thrilled with how intelligent her baby is (idk maybe he starts speaking two months ahead of schedule or something). Cassian starts chanting “Cas” at the baby to no avail — Nyx just stares at him blankly and repeats “Nes” confusedly again. Elain smiles and says that it’s only fitting considering how Aunty Nesta was responsible for Nyx’s safe delivery.

Azriel stays quiet and is the only person to hear Rhys mutter that maybe Nyx was trying to say his own name and that baby X’s sound like S’s. Right then, Nyx screams “Nes!!!” again and toddles into Nesta’s arms. Azriel fails to keep a straight face at Rhys’s quiet rage while Feyre is furiously lecturing her mate via mindspeak. Amren and Mor are sipping on glasses of wine, mentally promising themselves to continue a child-free existence for the rest of eternity.

Bonus: Nesta is shocked but privately very gratified. She hasn’t been trying to teach Nyx to say her name, unlike some members of the Inner Circle. But she takes this memory and holds it close to her heart for the rest of her life. 🥹

(I do not think any of this actually happens, but the Nyx vs Nes sound similarity is too good to ignore. It SHOULD be canon. Think of the comedy, Sarah!!!)

[areyoudreaminof]

Amren pays Nyx to untangle her jewelry. “Five silvers if you can get the knots out of the chains.” And little Nyx does it and saves his money to buy books and toys for himself.

[shallyne]

Nyx Headcanon

When Nyx starts to walk, he's following Feyre everywhere. He's her shadow. Where Feyre goes, he follows. Even as a teenager he still follows her around like a lost puppy sometimes

[lyssasdrafts]

head empty just thinking of nesta teaching nyx how to dance and cassian teaching nyx how to fly 🥺

[dreamlandreader]

Modern IC Halloween Headcanons

🎃 The Inner Circle all go hard for Halloween and put in lots of effort to make sure they make the most of it.

🎃 Rhysand and Feyre are absolutely a matching costume couple and you just know they’d be the sexiest pair in the room.

🎃 Until Nyx is born that is, when they would go full family mode. Nyx’s first Halloween Rhysand and Feyre dressed as the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood, whilst Nyx was dressed as a tiny lumberjack.

🎃 Nesta was never the biggest fan of Halloween as her parents never let her and her sisters go trick or treating. Once Nyx is born though, she loves getting to take him trick or treating with Elain and Feyre every year.

🎃 On the 1st of October every year, Feyre and Cassian would team up to drunk decorate like in ACOFAS, and poor Azriel would have to intervene so they didn’t just throw toilet paper everywhere, claiming it was a giant spiders web.

🎃 Elain would bake the BEST stuff. Pumpkin themed everything, deserts with spooky designs and the biggest chocolate orange cake as the centrepiece.

🎃 Mor would be on drinks duty. Coming up with cute cocktails and mocktails and maybe even some deathly punch.

🎃 Mor and Cassian would also fight over the right to make the party playlist and would eventually be scolded by Rhys for acting like toddlers. They would then be forced to make a joint playlist and would almost kill each other in the process.

🎃 The Valkyries would do a group costume and would be such a cute lil’ trio. Hocus Pocus remains their most popular costume choice, but Mean Girls was up there too.

🎃 Cassian would be very sad about missing out on Mean Girls and so the next year Nesta convinces the girls to let Cassian join in on their Wizard of Oz costume.

🎃 Amren would always turn up dressed in her regular clothes, because “Everyone tells me I’m scary, so I’m coming as myself”.

🎃 She pretends to be over the whole Halloween thing every single year, but Feyre has caught her on multiple occasions smirking to herself whilst watching Nesta jump-scare Cassian.

🎃 Az would also dislike dressing up and usually dressed in his normal attire of black jeans and a black t-shirt, but Elain and Feyre would always manage to convince him to let them draw some cat whiskers on his face.

[jmoonjones]

Honestly, at this point, I have an AU of the story and characters in my mind that has replaced canon entirely.

Some things are the same, but some things got a good and proper overhaul when I took mental custody of ACOTAR for my personal AU That said, there are some truly talented writers [on here and ao3] who have really taken that untapped potential to the next level. Especially when it comes to Illyrian lore, character nuance, and expanding secondary characters. I hope you writer folks know how deeply appreciated you are ❤️

[animezinglife]

Lucien: [minding his own business, making little foxes out of fire to make Nyx smile and laugh] Feyre: Feyre: Rhys, I want another. Rhys [realizing what/who inspired this]: what the fuck

[achaotichuman]

A Witch A Warrior And A Reckoning

A Court of Thorns and Roses next generation fiction.

This is the masterpost for A Witch A Warrior And A Reckoning, below are all the links related to this fanfiction.

Summary:

Life is peaceful for Dahlia Fairburn, running with her War Band, and commanding the Spring Court armies. Since the day she could wield a sword, she's been helping her father, along with her younger brother, to restore Spring to its former glory. Trying to ignore the festering magic in her body, that threatens to consume her.

One day, all that peace is threatened to be shaken, as a certain prince of Night asks for her to join the rebellion of the Hewn City and Illyria. From beneath the great mountains, an ancient song calls for her. She meets a woman with death in her eyes, and power in her veins, who makes Dahlia's blood boil while something clicks into place between them.

This new generation of Prythian was thought to be one of peace and prosperity. But the mask of the reigning High Lords begin to crumble, as secrets older than Prythian itself are uncovered, and darkness is unleashed.

Moodboard and Playlist Links:

High Lord Tamlin

Dahlia Fairburn (Tamlin's Daughter)

Eden Fairburn (Tamlin's Son)

Aisling Sapphirus (Dahlia's Love Interest)

Aesira Vanserra (Eris + Azriel's Daughter)

Cynthia Vanserra (Eris + Azriel's Daughter)

Nyx Archeron

A Witch A Warrior And A Reckoning: ACT 1 Spotify Playlist

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[harperbrynne]

Feysand Week 2023 Day 2: Hobbies

One day, Feyre brings Rhys to the cabin to show him some new artwork she made. He walks in, looks up, and his gaze meets a new pair of blue eyes smaller than the rest. Nyx’s eyes.

Then he notices the pair next to Nyx’s. An outline of another set, the same small size, but with no color filled in. Yet. This is how Feyre tells Rhys they’re having another child.

@officialfeysandweek2023

[glossamerfaerie]

ACOTAR characters and the solar eclipse

Cassian: stares directly at the hidden sun without protective glasses, the dummy.

Nesta: whacks Cassian for his stupidity. She is unamused by her mate tackling her into his arms and flying straight into the clouds. Once she stops scowling and struggling, Nesta is quietly awed by how beautiful the sky looks. They spend the next few hours in the skies, flying north and following the eclipse’s path to the Illyrian mountains.**

Gwyn: hangs out in the training ground with her fellow priestesses, Emerie, and Azriel. Cassian had grabbed Nesta in the middle of training, and everyone else had agreed to pause their drills to admire the sky. While the priestesses and Emerie chatter amongst themselves, Gwyn notices that Az has removed himself from the group and is standing near the weapon rack. Gwyn approaches Az, teasing him that as a Shadowsinger, the eclipse is a triumphant moment for the shadows to come out and conquer the training ground. A puzzled Az asks what she means. Gwyn shrugs, explaining that she’d noticed that the shadows avoid direct sunlight and stay away during morning training. She’d only ever seen them at night or inside the house, you see. At these words, the shadows cautiously exit the House of Wind — but they don’t swarm the darkened training ground like Gwyn expected. Instead the shadows stay close to Gwyn for the duration of the eclipse. Gwyn laughs in delight and pretends to bat them away in jest. When the returning sunshine marks the end of the eclipse, the shadows don’t disappear into the safety of the house. To Az’s shock, the shadows hover around Gwyn for the rest of training, seemingly immune to their fear of sunlight for the first time ever.

Feyre, Rhys, and Nyx: Feyre has ensured that Nyx can’t take off his protective glasses by accident, taping them securely to the back of his head. When the eclipse starts, Nyx gets very upset and starts bawling — not because he’s scared of the dark, but because this has never happened before and it’s scary. Feyre quickly uses her Day Court power to light up her body, distracting Nyx and providing a source of light. When that doesn’t quell the crying, Rhys comes over and does his Night Court blanket of darkness trick, coating the River House with his power and stars. It’s still dark, but Nyx is familiar with this kind of darkness and stops fussing. 🥹

Elain: watches the eclipse in her garden. Alone. When the sun disappears, Elain suddenly, desperately, irrationally wishes for Luci sunshine. She wishes for sunshine, nothing else. Elain is relieved when the world goes back to normal an hour later, chalking up her pesky thoughts to temporary insanity and sun deprivation.

Helion: there’s no solar eclipse in the Day Court, duh. The Prythian path of totality has a random break between the Dawn and Night courts. Even science and gravitational physics have to obey the court borders, obviously. Rhys did invite Helion to view the eclipse in Velaris, but Helion declined. He’d attended a previous eclipse centuries ago and felt his magic wane during the phenomenon; while beautiful to witness, Helion has no desire to experience that vulnerability again after Amarantha’s imprisonment.***

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I wrote this out very quickly and missed some folks — I’d love to know how you think the characters would react! Wanna add your own take? Feel free to reblog or comment. ☀️🌄☀️

** Yes, I know the eclipse travelled southwest in the real world, but let’s pretend it can go north. I don’t know if that’s possible with science 😭

*** Idea shamelessly stolen from Avatar: The Last Airbender 😅 Hey, it makes sense!

[acotrash]

Temporary tattoos - Cassian

Feyre and Rhys had Nyx young- like really young. You had only been with Cassian for a few months but had grown close to Feyre and you and Cassian and Azriel and Rhys were there to support her through it all. That was 5 years ago.

All of you had grown to be a little family of sorts, figuring everything out day by day. 

You and Cassian were known as the fun aunt and uncle to Nyx as he loved it when you and Cassian got to babysit him

Azriel was the only level headed one most days, calming down both Rhys and Feyre, that “yes that is normal, no you shouldn’t worry”, or the occasional “okay...that that is not normal I’d take him to the doctors” but luckily that only has happened twice. 

 Rhys and Feyre spoil Nyx to no end, as you constantly trip over new toys whenever you visit their townhouse 

You were always thinking of fun new things to do with Nyx, mainly to see Rhys’s reaction. That was the fun part of it all 

Like last time, when Rhys had planned some overnight trip with Feyre and Azriel was on a work trip and you and Cassian had to watch Nyx overnight. You stood there, listening to Rhys lecture about Nyx’s routine, Feyre had stood next to him, rolling her eyes and shaking her head at some of them, practically giving you the okay to break them You had broke every single rule the second Rhys’s car pulled out of the driveway

You had found some old hair chalk when cleaning your bathroom the day before, streaking Nyx’s hair with blue and green, before Rhys came to pick him up. Nyx absolutely loved his new hair style. Rhys not so much

So this time, when Rhys had asked you and Cassian to watch his son, he added a new rule “No hair chalk” since apparently it was a pain to get out, and got in his eyes when Feyre was washing his hair. You felt bad, and did agree to no hair chalk

You still allowed him to have a single piece of candy though. You had to stay the favorite aunt somehow, till he realizes how cool Nesta or Mor is

This time, you and Cassian took Nyx while you had to run some errands, the first stop being a store 

You were about to text Feyre to ask her if Nyx was allowed to have whatever sugary juice he currently had in his hand when he saw a package containing temporary tattoos, he picked up a package to ask Cassian if he could look like Cassian, his dad and Uncle Azzy 

Cassian immediately said yes when Nyx held the package out to him, already making plans to have matching ones with his nephew. You bought two packs because you didn’t want to be left out 

Cassian used the entire two packs on Nyx, putting them all over his arms

You, Cassian and Nyx had a spiderweb on the back of your hand to all match 

There was even a little heart with ‘Mom’ written in it that Cassian placed on Nyx’s bicep 

Nyx could not wait to show his mom and dad in a few hours when they picked him up 

You couldn’t wait to see Rhys’s reaction, having taken some pictures of all three of you with tattoos, Nyx sat between you and Cassian proudly holding up his hand to show off the matching tattoo 

Rhys’s eyes nearly popped out of his head at seeing his son, you and Cassian just smiled innocently at him, but Feyre thought it was hysterical 

Her favorite one was the heart with ‘Mom’ in it 

Eventually Rhys did calm down, his heart melted a bit when Nyx proudly said he looked like his dad and two uncles now 

The three of them left a little while later with Nyx proudly telling his parents he was never taking a bath again so his temporary tattoos could stay on forever. Rhys shot you and Cassian another look. Cassian and Feyre were trying to not laugh 

You turned to Cassian once they left “How much do you wanna bet next time Rhys drops Nyx off he adds ‘no temporary tattoos’ to the list?” “Oh 100%” 

[inkedinshadows]

Has anyone ever thought that Chris Hemsworth as a dad is how Cassian would be?

I remember an interview where Chris told a story about bringing his children to Disneyland (or some place like that) and his daughter was too short to get on one of the rides, so he stuffed paper in her shoes so that she would meet the height requirements. And he realized only later on the rollercoaster that maybe there was a reason for that height requirement. I can totally see Cassian do the same.

Or that video of Chris throwing his son into a pile of snow. But since to me Cassian is a girl dad, he'd do that with Nyx. And Liam pushing Chris in the snow immediately after? That's Rhys standing up for his son.

Does someone else ever think about this? No? Just me? Nevermind.