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/Never read ACOTAR but follow several people who have/. Honestly one thing I’ve sort of… felt is that Nesta is one of the few female characters to have legit fans in this fandom of yours. Feyre doesn’t seem to have any which aren’t tied to shipping. And I mean I guess it’s a romance series and all but… still. Major fanfic vibes where the most popular pairing is only such because they use the girl character to project onto for their fictional crush. Tale as old as time. Or fandom anyway.

GOD YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!! Feyre really is such a self insert for people who want to date Rhys and don't actually care about her. And yeah, really does give the fandom vibes of people flattening out the female character into a shell of her former self so that she can be a self insert. Except this time it happened in canon. Which I GUESS explains how these books got so popular even though they are terrible.

And like you said, Nesta is much more divorced of the shipping drama. I know lots of Nesta fans who hate her canon ship (ME INCLUDED) and enjoy her without her being paired with anybody. But then again, Nesta is an actual three dimensional complex character, and Feyre is a flat mirror reflecting the reader and their desires.