#and flies towards freedom and bodily autonomy and all the love they'd both been denied

[jayktoralldaylong]

TOG Final Book SPOILERS

The only thing more depressing than your favourite character dying is mourning a character that no one even talks about anymore. Connal Moonbeam existed for just 6 pages but he'll live forever in my heart.

I hate it. I hate that he died exactly the way he'd feared to live. I hate that he probably felt he deserved it. I hate that his final words were stolen. I hate that their final moments were stolen. I hate that he died on cold tile staring helplessly at his brother. I hate that him being an SA victim is never addressed. I hate that he was a few days away from rescue and freedom but not even that could save him from Maeve.

If there's one thing I'll never forgive that author for, it's not what happened at the gate. It's that Connall Moonbeam never got to tell his brother "I love you." I hate that Fenrys will never know how much his brother loved him, so much that Connall understood that Fenrys had made a choice, he'd chosen Aelin. Fenrys wanted Connall to choose Aelin too, but Connall knew Maeve wouldn't let them both leave alive, so he chose to do one last honourable thing for the brother he'd accidentally dragged into hell with him.