#cressida acotar

[highladyofterrasen7]

Kallias and tarquin when their badass women say they’ll ally with feyre do they have to too

[toast-com]

Cressieda gives off Sailor Neptune vibes to me. Sailor Neptune is the guardian of the deep sea, and Cressieda is of the Summer Court so...

[rosesncarnations]

Cressida sketchy sketch

[1800naveen]

If Emerie were to get with someone, let it be either Cressida or another Illyrian woman.

KEEP THE RED WEARING, ILLYRIAN HATING CHICK AWAY FROM HER.

Are y'all forgetting that Mor said they should burn Illyria? Y'know, she's casually talking about ethnic cleansing them off the map. And said that Nesta should be tossed into the court of nightmares, the same place where she was brutalized.

And you think she should get with Emerie. An Illyrian woman who was brutalized and besties with Nesta.

She'll probably lead her on like how she did Azriel.

(Also could someone drop the quote of where Mor says this? Page number or chapter number is fine. I assume it's either in acomaf or acowar)

Mor after leaving women and children to suffer even though she's literally in charge of the entire place and for some reason, she doesn't have the guts to kill her father (nothing is stopping her from doing that):

Mor after another day of not doing her fucking job and only going down to Hewn city to piss people off (GET HER FIRED):

[huntquinlan]

gwyn/cressida. is this anything

[extremely-judgemental]

Welcome to another one of my long rants!

Media has been violence porn for men since forever with female characters reduced to no more than an object to project their fantasies onto. So, when I read a book written by a so-called feminist woman who writes about badass female leads and feminist characters, and uses major societal issues to push her narratives, I’m expecting her to treat them for what they are and not brownie points for her creativity and aesthetics for her characters.

I'm glossing over every abuse mentioned in the ACOTAR books. I won't be taking responsibility for your reactions if you choose to read.

SJM loves trauma dumping, especially on her female characters. Whether a lead or a supporting role, every one of them undergoes a form of abuse.

Feyre is sexually assaulted by Rhysand for two months on top of being starved, imprisoned and forced to participate in life-threatening games. After this, she becomes a victim of domestic violence at Tamlin’s mansion. But in her apparent safer life with Rhysand, she’s thrown into the house of the Weaver—a death god whom even the ‘most powerful HL’ himself is afraid of. From there, the amount of physical violence she suffers is lessened though she becomes a perpetrator herself. And then, there is the impossible pregnancy (because even in a book about her sister, Feyre can’t take a fucking backseat) that even the best minds in the Prythian can’t save her from (since apparently these two bigger-than-thou are the only ones to ever mate or crossbreed).

Nesta is abused at the hands of her mother and grandmother, and she’s neglected by her father. She’s sexually assaulted by the man she intended to marry. She’s thrown into the Cauldron against her will and killed—which is equivalent to SA. She’s exploited in a war when she has no experience or training. She’s verbally abused by her sister’s family and disrespected. She’s imprisoned, tortured and tamed like an animal by the man she’s meant to end up with. She’s emotionally manipulated and psychologically abused by Cassian in the entirety of SF. She’s sexually abused by a Kelpie and to some extent by Lanthys. She’s kidnapped again and thrown into a game where she’s hunted and expected to kill.

Elain suffers the same fate as Nesta during the transformation. She’s later kidnapped by Hybern and the Cauldron during the war. (And in her book, I will bet anything that either some heinous abuse she suffered in the past from Graysen/his father or before her rescue from Hybern’s camp will come up, or she will be abused somehow by at least one man. Given how Rhysand abused Feyre and Cassian abused Nesta, I won’t be surprised if SJM drags Lucien down the same path as well because that woman’s idea of romance is hurting someone and apologising which is the equivalence of vulnerability in her stories. She would even use the ‘fire in his veins’ to push this, something he couldn’t control or whatever.)

Morrigan is brutalised by her father and dumped naked in unknown lands. Her abuse is so grotesquely described and too twisted for her crime of sleeping with a man out of wedlock.

Emerie loses her wings to wing-clipping, an improper method no less. Later on, she is abused by her father after he killed his wife in the same way. She even digs her own mother’s grave on his orders. She’s kidnapped and forced into Blood Rite for being a woman and wanting to never be abused by men again.

Gwyneth is r*ped by Hybern men. And she suffers the same as Nesta and Emerie for wanting to grow stronger and defend herself in the future.

Lady Autumn is abused by her husband.

Cressida suffers under Amarantha’s rule. (I don’t remember how exactly but I know it was mentioned somewhere. Remind me if you know.)

Clotho, other priestesses—all of them end up in the library after they suffered at the hands of men. They are too afraid of the world and broken by their trauma that they are content to spend the rest of their years never once leaving the library even for daily lives.

Almost every woman in SJM’s books is tormented in so many ways and it’s always the men who perpetuate it. And this is a theme that spans over all of her books, not just this series. Micah abuses Bryce. Pollux SA’s Lydia. I haven’t read TOG nor am I planning to, but I know there’s something in there to pick about.

I don’t mind a little violence and I don’t mind representation of such issues in a female oriented books. What I can’t tolerate is the idea is that a woman has to endure such things and rise above it all and only then she can be labelled ‘strong’.

Elain is the only soft character so far as SJM wants to keep that ‘inclusive writer’ status, and this pattern is also seen in the CC series where June is the only soft-spoken female and every other woman is either rageful or a fighter.

These characters are introduced with violence, their whole identity revolves around this. Their emotional intelligence, capacity and growth all stem from violence and how they heal from it. Feyre’s MO is her hunting and her trauma. But there’s no self-reflection to drive her growth. It’s her relationship with Rhysand that takes precedence and even then the SA is swept under the rug. Same with Nesta—her trauma is on the forefront while her healing is so vague and none of her real issues are ever addressed. In fact, violence is a core part of her healing. During majority of her screen time, Elain cries, suffers and gets rescued. Morrigan is all hatred and trauma and wine. Emerie and Gwyneth have depth but the first thing anyone recognises in either of them is their trauma—Emerie’s wings and Gwyneth’s indefinite abode in the library.

Clotho’s past alone is enough to prove SJM’s obsession with women’s pain. Clotho is not a major character and she has little screen time and yet her abuse is described in such detail for pages and often. Even a fleeting character like Lady of Autumn suffers the same fate. SJM’s idea of cruelty in men is perpetuating physical violence against women.

Moreover, all of these characters have the sense of justice and power which are strongly rooted in these abuses. None of them see the cruelty in the world and choose to stand up to it or fight it unless they have suffered too. As if one can have strength and courage only if they have been broken down by a man first. Like their fight can’t be driven by kindness and compassion for the people around them.

See, my female hero doesn’t have to be abused by every man as a trial for her to overcome. She doesn’t have to be a siren 24x7 seducing men left and right. She doesn’t have to sleep around with different men every night to let me know she’s likeable. She doesn’t have to kill in every chapter to be strong or brave. She doesn’t have to be sex on stick to be beautiful. She doesn’t have to have big boobs or ass in leathers to be beautiful. She doesn’t have to be thin and fair to desirably moderately tanned or dressed in skimpy dresses to nothing at all times. And she doesn’t have to have miracle sex with her abuser partner to heal every one of her traumas.

It’s infuriating how criticising these books calls for such hatred when these topics are exposed to young audience without proper warnings or sensitive measures. These are defended as written for and marketed to NA as if the brains of the 17 year olds level up to the full functioning adult brain overnight when they turn 18. The first book is still sold as YA and there is no warning in it either for the amount of violence, gore, SA in it. Even if the latter books are NA, someone who reads the first one in a series is bound to pick up the sequels.

SJM hides behind these technicalities and refuses to educate herself or take accountability for all these toxic narratives she’s passing off as feminism and ideal romantic relationships. She shouldn’t be writing about these topics as she herself has a warped concept of violence and she can’t recognise the different kinds of SA and uses it freely to pass them as sexual tension like in case of Feyre and Nesta.

She’s not the best fantasy writer out there. She’s not a progressive, feminist writer. She doesn’t even respect her own female characters for more than playing out her fantasies with these ‘ideal’ men she created in her head. If anything, SJM writes like a man who hates women.

[polysjmweek]

Look at this preview of the yumminess that's coming our way in April. We can't wait to see these three ladies together!

EXCUSE ME, LESBIANS COMING THROUGH

ROUNDING THE CORNER WITH A COUPLE LESBIANS

meet one of my favorite rarepairs: cresseida and emerie!

they both deserve the world

come back for more from them for @polyacotarweek where i'll add nesta to the mix

[ofbreathandflame-archive]

i haven't read the acotar series but yeah there are...SO many issues with it. I was about to say I'm not surprised that people wanted the racism to be more violent so they could acknowledge but actually, y'know what? No, I am surprised. I'm concerned that people want characters of colour to be dragged through the dirt and be the victims of horrific acts before they can acknowledge the racism of the author. I cannot emphasise how crestfallen, how upset I felt when I searched up what Illyrians were for the first time. Like...oh. They are brown, like me. But they are also a whitewashed version of what white people want them to be: a violent, primitive nation that treat their women awfully, just so that white people can come in and save them, as if they weren't the ones ramping up that kind of misogyny in the first place.

I look across the YA sphere and I see white authors constantly say, through their writing, that poc are violent, that we are backwards, that the women should not exist and do not have lives unless they are attached to white people. I feel that the only time this has kind of been challenged in a mainstream YA fandom has been the grishaverse, and even then, the rep for brown peoples is muddled and vague at best, and the rep for Black people feels like there was no exploration of culture at all.

What I'm trying to say is: it's not great in the YA market, but SJM is by far one of the most racist authors out there. White fans shouldn't be begging for the violence against characters of colour to be ramped up so they can decide when they can step in and say enough is enough.

ugh! this was so beautifully put!

thiis will be a long discussion!

i really want to preface this by saying i would really implore everyone in their free time to read toni morrison's playing in the dark! it's a deep dive into the ways blackness (and in this case minority status) is defined by white superiority; how the very presence of the non-white is always used to reiterated the inherent superiority of their white peers! poc are used as conduits to uphold beliefs of white supremacy - the very existence of the nonwhite existing to boasts the intelligence of their white peers.

sjm's work moves in such racist territory that it so easy so see these mentalities etched into her work. every single poc that is included in the story is relegated to this ideology; their very existence speaks to the power of the main character. the primary function of the interactions deal in shame, humiliation, and cowardice (see: tarquin, nehemia, thesan, helion, tarquin, cressida, nesryn, lucien, the unnamed enslaved @ endovier, baxian, unnamed illyrian population etc).

morrison opens up her novel by asserting that we should be conscious of the way the author's imagination expresses itself:

“Both [reading and writing] require being mindful of the places where imagination sabotages itself, locks its own gates, pollutes its vision. Writing and reading mean being aware of the writer’s notions of risk and safety, the serene achievement of, or sweaty fight for, meaning and response-ability.”

morrison also posits that author's intenionality and/or bias are unfortunately apart of the creative process of imagination, reiterating:

“The imagination that produces work which bears and invites rereadings, which motions to future readings as well as contemporary ones, implies a shareable world and an endlessly flexible language. Readers and writers both struggle to interpret and perform within a common language shareable imaginative worlds. And although upon that struggle the positioning of the reader has justifiable claims, the author’s presence—her or his intentions, blindness, and sight—is part of the imaginative activity.”

this initial opening builds an understanding of the creative process, in a wholesome way. what i mean is - morrison is establishes that the creative process is informed by our own perceptions and understanding. the way our the narrative voice reconciles normalcy vs. unknown says something about the author. or what the author has put to page. the reason i am even discussing this is to make a similar point: sjm's writing oftentimes subconsciously asserts the dominance of the 'main, white character,' in conjunction with a ethnic, poor, nonwhite individuals of the story. when we meet celaena, we are immediately aware of aelin's 'superiority' over the slaves in endovier. the function of her slavery is to relate her power, while the story views the enslaved as dump, hopeless, individuals whose only goal is to die for their liberation in an endless cycle. aelin even complains that she 'finally' can talk to compotent people with assumption that the enslaved at endovier were somehow too dumb to adequtely communcate with her.

a court of thorns and roses invents an entire culture whose only cultural practices seemed be filled with violence, misogyny, and brutality. then the story argues that only three (3) out of thousands of brown men actually have common sense. that they're so dumb and brutish that they'd absolutely choose to have barely any resources out of spite of their benevolent high lord. cassian, rhys, and az are the strongest in history. and to relate their power, we get these dumb brutes who just seem okay for fighting for a country that would not even be allowed to enter....that's actually some crazy racist writing lmaooo. or the fact that nuala and cerridwen are trained spies, who up to this point, make so much money they'd probably be able to retire...and they just choose to be also the handmaidens...for five-hundred year old fae. like...immediately after acotar, there back working. rhys and feyre can still be reeling from that experience but nuala and cerridwen can just serve because that's just what they like to do.

the next notable quote states:

“These speculations have led me to wonder whether the major and championed characteristics of our national literature—individualism, masculinity, social engagement versus historical isolation; acute and ambiguous moral problematics; the thematics of innocence coupled with an obsession with figurations of death and hell—are not in fact responses to a dark, abiding, signing Africanist presence”

“The fabrication of an Africanist persona is reflexive; an extraordinary meditation on the self; a powerful exploration of the fears and desires that reside in the writerly conscious. It is an astonishing revelation of longing, of terror, of perplexity, of shame, of magnanimity. It requires hard work not to see this.”

in this way, the nonwhite becomes the site of a descent into darkness, hypersexality and power for white people. think of the way in which feyre's darkness is often times heavily associated with the nonwhite (see: court of nightmares). this sexy, liberated, dark woman using south asian culture to establish superiority while eschewing the people who are the originators of said culture.

but - really want to move this away from a discussion on individual characters and really focus the subject on sjm's role as the write. ultimately, feyre, aelin, nehemia, rhys...aren't real. they are reflections of the author's own internal dialogue. i actually really resonated with this observation/ assumption morrison's makes and that is:

“I assumed that since the author was not black, the appearance of Africanist characters or narrative or idiom in a work could never be about anything other than the “normal,” unracialized, illusory white world that provided the fictional backdrop.”

ultimately, i believe the racism comes from the fact that, although these are fictional worlds born from sjm's imagination, a lot of the racism comes from the fact that sjm is writing what she believes to be normal. and so - that's why the problem ultimately persists. violence against woc and poc are justified already. it doesn't matter that rhys slaughters hordes of illyrians because the assumption is that they're probably horrible, brutish people who ultimately deserve to die; nevermind, they could have had complex reasons, just like rhys. it's okay that the illyrian women are oppressed because...that's just the way things have always been. the only queen who helped rhys and feyre is humilated, murdered, and has her head shaven. we get one sentence about her and the story moves on. nehemia planned her own brutal murder, awoke dorian's power, and as a reward....her entire country is burned to the ground and the liberation of ellywe is delegated toward one sentence about maybe going to visit. , sorcha gets her head cut off (and its treated as a joke by the fandom) and dorian blames her for essentially being 'too fragile' or something like that. poc are already being brutalized in these stories, we're just positioned not to care.

and im not saying that ya isn't extremely racist - but i think sjm is by far one of the worst racist authors i have come across. not even ms. bardugo or aveyard or her other peers have this many racial problems by comparison and boy are there still problems even in those stories. like damn even george rr martin has like...semi-better writing (but he's actually another author that really exemplifies what morrison was talking about and id love to one day talk about that. but it woul take me quite awhile. i do like like asoiaf obvi, but it just has a lot of problems that i cant ignore). lmaooo even armentrout made some attempt to rectify her representation issue and thats saying a lot.

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Eris x Cresseida, if you're still taking requests

The Firedrake and the Sea Nymph (1-26-23)

Eris landed on the sandy shore, his talons sinking into the soft ground. He whipped his head one way, and then the other, before bounding towards the sea. Excitement was rushing through his veins, but he stopped before he reached the water's edge, and sank onto his haunches, and waited, watching the waves as they crashed against the shore. The crashing waves were soothing, and he lowered his head onto his front talons, and closed his eyes.

"I knew I was taking a long time to get here, but I didn't think you'd fall asleep, Ris." A bubbling laugh had Eris surging up on his feet, looking down at sea blue eyes. A laugh rumbled out of him, and he blew a plume of smoke at Cresseida, who smiled, as he lowered his head and nuzzled her affectionately.

[kristeristerin]

There’s not enough Tarquin content here so I was wondering if I could send in Tarquin x reader to Mary’s Song (Oh My My My) by Taylor Swift as a prompt for the drabbles you’re planning on writing? Thanks!

AN: Thank you so much for the ask! Tarquin is a character that I may not have chosen to do on my own, but after writing him I feel like I need to explore more with him! I hope you feel like I did him justice!

As Always my asks are open for more Taylor Swift song and ACOTAR pairings! (I'll take other requests too of course!)

Song: Mary’s Song (Oh My My My)

Pairing: Reader X Tarquin

Content Warning: None

Words: 860

Your hands were shaking as you looked around the Summer Palace. This was your first time returning to Adriata in over 50 years and while coming back home should feel like a happy occurrence, you can’t help but worry about seeing him again. 

When you last saw Tarquin he’d just been the prince of Udrin, and the man you’d loved since you were children. Now though, you supposed, things would be different. While you could convince yourself that love would have been enough for the two of you when he was a prince, High Lords have a duty to uphold and marriage to a lesser fae was not part of that. 

Varian gave you a tight smile as he held out an arm to you, “He’s been asking for you. Are you ready?” 

“I’m not certain I’ll ever be ready to face him if I’m being honest,” you looked away from the Prince’s eyes as he led you through the palace hallways. Your eyebrows draw together when Varian turns not toward the High Lord’s study, but instead toward the doors leading to the back garden. 

“He’s out there waiting for you,” Varian drops your arm and gives you a gentle push toward the doors. 

When you step outside he’s facing away from you, instead choosing to look out at the ocean beyond the city. You are several feet away from him when you stop and drop into a low curtsy. “You wanted to see me, High Lord?” 

You hear him turn, but you don’t dare look up. 

“Y/N,” Tarquin laughs, “Surely you know we are far past these formalities. We’ve known each other since childhood after all.” 

You rise but still don’t look him in the eyes. “I’ve never known you as High Lord, though.” 

He steps forward and runs his hand through your hair, using it to gently raise your gaze to his, “I’d like you to.” He whispers before his lips brush yours in a gentle kiss. He steps away but grabs your hand before you can mourn the loss of his touch. “Come with me, I wish to show you something.” 

He led you further into the garden to the all too familiar tree. 

“Do you remember when we first met?” He asked as he pulled you closer and wrapped an arm around you. 

You laugh at the memory. “I wanted Cressida and Varian to like me so bad. I followed them out here to meet their cousin, and you hated me. I believe you even threatened to throw me into the ocean that day.” 

He looked away, biting his lip to contain his own laughter. “To be fair that wasn’t until after you had threatened to tell my mother that I wouldn’t be the Prince in your game of make-believe.” 

“Mmm, yes, and fitting punishment for my crime,” you pull away from his grip and approach the largest tree in the corner of the garden. You touch the small carving in the tree and turn to him. “Do you remember this?” you ask in a small voice. 

When he approaches you, Tarquin turns you toward the tree and wraps both of his arms around you. “Of course, I do,” his breath tickles the shell of your ear as he speaks. “This was the carving I made into the tree 9 years later when I finally agreed to be your prince. Nostrus was very cross with me for carving our initials into the tree.” 

Smiling at the memory you turn in his arms so you’re face to face. “I always hoped I’d be your princess.” You murmur looking at him through your lashes. 

Tarquin cupped your jaw and returned your smile, “Now I’m hoping you’ll agree to be the High Lord’s Lady. Perhaps not right away, but if you’ll let me court you again I know I can prove to you that we can have everything we once had, and so much more.” 

His smile falters as you begin to cry, “Have I said something wrong, my love?” 

“No,” you sniffle and then laugh at the horrid sound you made, “this is just unexpected. I thought you had asked me to join you here so you could tell me that we were through because a High Lord could never spend his life with a lesser fae.” 

“Y/N,” his voice cracked as he looked into your eyes, “There is nothing lesser about you. It’s the thought of you and the life that we could have together that got me through every day under that mountain. I’d be honored to be able to one day call you my wife, and our people would be better off with you at my side. Please, don’t think for a moment you're unworthy of anything, least of all me. I have loved you with all that I am since I was 18 years old, Y/N, and I will continue to do so for centuries more.” 

You lift a hand to his cheek and lean up to press a quick kiss to his lips. “I love you too, Tarquin, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for us.” 

[b3anieperson]

I have NEVER read any Sarah J Maas book, do I want to? Kind of, just so I know what others are talking about. Otherwise? Nope.

I like dragons more than Fae and stuff.

repeat after me: fantasy existed before sarah j maas

[siderealxmelody]

Family trees & connections

Verse: Wings of Fire ? (Idk 😐)

Luneris (Acotar Night/Velaris)

Damian* & Ammalie (Velaris Court)

Aphaeleon → Daemon, Rhysand & Rhaenyra, Remus

Gewynrnon

Haldnunen

Ittshare

Hewn (idk a fandomless name)

Xander* & Evangeline

Maeve

Mora

Mab

Keiran

Morrigan

** Friends of Vincent, helped him kill his entire family. Xander and Imogen were lovers once. Damien and Xander were brothers, ran to the fae lands to make their courts to escape retaliation.

Solaris (Dawn/Day Sophos)

Qhohena & Priam

Ryenne → Ulther, Garath, Remis

Ammalie

Garath & Freah

Aemon

Taran

Alusina

Urstin

Nesta

Elain

Freya

Alina

Alina

Dusk (idk a fandomless name Dalos?)

Nyktos* & Seraphina

Vesperus

Theia

Cameron

Fion

*Nyktos is the only surviving remember of Kolis bloodline, the rest wiped out during the Gods War. He deeply suspects his older brother had his fate played with to pursue a female who didn't want him as clearly as Sotoria had. He fled to Fae after the war, becoming close to Damien and Xander.

Theia & Aidas

Helena → Seraphine

Silene

Winter

Carrion & Danya

Penelope (w/ Odysseus) → Sarai, Sebastian, Silba

Icarius → Boreas → Kallias & Xanthos

Winter General

Kingfisher & Saeris

Enva* (w/Dacre) → Rhain, Natalia, Athril, Nessyayn, Noelle

*Enva and Penelope knew Sotoria well, they were horrified when the Asteri took her and how she died. Her death propelled them to claim their mates and weather that storm. It made them make sure their daughters knew how to say no and never let a male take advantage of them.

Summer Isles

Aren & Lara

Dacre* (w/Enva) → Rhain, Natalia, Athril, Nessyayn, Noelle

Nyra → Cressida, Varien, Tarquin (eventually)

*Dacre and Enva's parents were briefly at war, and they ran away to mate and ended the war. Both courts were struggling post the war with Valg (Malcolm and Silas) and fought over a wellspring that could have helped their peoples.

Autumn Desserts

Malcom & Annabel

Aderyn

Taladaius

Aderyn & Kahlo

Nismera

Kaden & Isaiah

Sotoria → Brannon, Actaeon

Zefera → Amarantha, Clythia, Jurian & Anastasiya, Eris, Lucien

@luxmaeastra

@starlsssankt

[veenvss]

Summer Court

The Family 6/8

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ACOTAR to me has always had so much potential but it was just ruined by it's execution. however, I am a grown woman (I'm 18) and I also have free time so I though, "Huh, why not do it myself?"

Hi.

This is a post on the Summer Court and its royal family.

The Summer Court is one of the Seasonal Courts in Prythian. In terms of the named leaders of courts, Summer is actually one we know the most of. We have Tarquin, the current High Lord, Cresseida and Varian, Nostrus, the previous High Lord, and Brutius.

Summer is one of the three courts, along with Winter and Day, to rebel against Amarantha. As a result, their High Lords were murdered, which at the time was Nostrus.

I chose Latin names for Summer cause there was an overwhelming majority. Tarquin was the name of two Roman kings, Nostrus and Brutius, which is some variation of Brutus, one of the senators that conspired and murdered the dictator, Julius Caesar. Cresseida is a variation of Cressida, which is most commonly associated with the Shakespeare play "Troilus and Cressida" (rip troilus he did not deserve his fate). Varian could be a version of the Latin name Varianus? It was actually quite difficult to find something on his name. From those three (or four) I chose Latin names for their families.

Nostrus, Brutius, Tarquin, Cresseida and Varian, are all cousins. Cresseida and Varian are brother and sister. Tarquin is the youngest of them all, however, he was mentioned in ACOMAF to have only just reached maturity and is around 80 years old. Cousins is quite a tricky thing to work with cause they could be first cousins or second cousins or first cousins once or twice removed.

I made life difficult for myself but easier for you by creating a family tree in paint.

The ones with colours are who I'm naming cause that's too much work otherwise and I've already done too much here. Essentially, There are three different branches of the family, all coming from three siblings. The first of these siblings is Tarquin's grandfather. The second is Nostrus' father and the third is Brutius and Cresseida and Varian's grandfather. The next generation is Tarquin's father, Nostrus, Brutius' father and Cresseida and Varian's mother. The third and final generation is Tarquin, the youngest, Brutius, Cresseida and Varian. In my limited knowledge, I am 90% sure that doing it like this makes them all cousins.

Working left to right, I'm starting with Tarquin's parents. His father, Faustus Juventius. Faustus is a first name and a cognem from ancient Rome and it means lucky. Juventius is a Roman family name that means "youth", from the Roman goddess of youth, Juventas.

I named Tarquin's mother, Andronike Juventius. Andronike, from what I could find is the feminine version of the cognomina Andronicus, which obviously has Greek origins, which would explain why Andronike isn't similar to other feminine versions of names.

I named Cresseida and Varian's father Vitus Silvius. Vitus means "lively". The Silvia gens were actually the ancient rulers of the city Alba Longa, which was mythologically founded by Ascanius, the son of Aeneas and the predator to Rome, however when Alba Longa was destroyed and the people moved to Rome, there was no mention of the Silvii family in the senate.

I called Cresseida and Varian's mother, Saturnina Silvius, Saturnina is a Virgin Saint, who fled from Germany to France to keep the vow of virginity she took. The man she was meant to marry chased her, found her and when he attempted to rape her, she resisted, and he decapitated her.

i went with using cognomina as first names and then nomina as surnames. i was originally gonna use praenomina but then remembered there was only like five and i didn't want every character to be called marcus or lucia so i left it.

but then finding the feminine forms of different cognomina was so hard that i almost gave up and just called them all lucia anyway. so if you're weirdly knowledgable of roman cognomina and the women don't make sense it's cause i got bored of trying to find an appropriate cognomina and just made it up using my basic knowledge.

[mossytrashcan]

90% of their POVS are “omg… pretty women… bewbies…” and Sarah expects us to believe that they’re not girl kissers

All the Archeron sisters are lesbians

[talkingfishb0ne]

RP Rules

⸻ [ about the writer . ]

Sup! You can call me Fish.

This is my account for roleplaying, specifically for the cinematic adaptation of Cressida Cowell’s book and Dean De Blois’ animated series How To Train Your Dragon.

I’m a roleplaying writer and small digital artist (20) originally from platforms like Twitter, Amino and Instagram- but finding roleplayers there has either been too toxic or too bland of an experience, so now I’ve decided to see how Tumblr works. (If you have seen this RP rules wiki elsewhere, it’s cause I have a separate blog for the ACOTAR series called surielgossips :) )

I’m new to this app, so please be patient as I gain my bearings and try to figure out how this platform works.

⸻ [ rules / info . ]

I’ll try to make this as concise as possible so I’ll put it into dot points:

Themes || Adventure | Quest / Prophecy | Horror / Gore | Survival | Fluff | Mystery / Investigation | Angst | Comedy | Spice | Multi-Perspective | Trauma / Healing

Literacy || Semi-Literate | Literate | Adv. Literate | Novella

Dynamics || Romantic | Platonic | Monogamous | Friend Group | Mentor/Student | Found Family

Style || Third-Person Omniscient/Limited

Disclaimer || I haven’t read Cowell’s books.

Do || Discuss the plot with me | Introduce any ideas you have while we’re RPing | Tell me about your OCs in more detail | Read all the rules and say the password before DMing me | Be 18+

Don’t || Force AUs or characters from another fandom | Mary Sue / Gary Stu | Describe excessive gore | Make unexpected turns in the plot that have not been discussed

Triggers || Inc*st | P*dophilia | R*pe | Ask if you think you have a triggering theme or these might be part of background trauma of your OC.

Muses || Hiccup | Astrid | Fishlegs | Tuffnut | Snotlout | Hertha (OC) | Xarius (OC) | Alvis (OC) | Meria (OC)

Pairings || Hiccstrid | Hiccup x Fem!OC | Hertha x Fem!OC | Xarius x OC | Alvis x OC | Meria x Male!OC

AUs || Motorcycles | Hunger Games | Modern | Aquarium / Mermaids | Mute | Blind | Genderbend | Ask if you have something in mind.

⸻ [ outro . ]

Thanks for reading this post! Password is pegleg. Be sure to message me or comment if you are interested in RPing with me and building a plot together!

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Hi Han! You seem tired of Aries questions lol so coming here to ask a random one! How many people do you think Rhys has had sex with by the time of ACOTAR? Hit me with an estimate over his 550 years and throw in some names from HoN if you have any! Let's stir up some drams!

Plz say Helion.

this actually made me snort reading it, never tired of the questions! however i do love this question...

ok hear me out hear me out

i dont think rhys has had sex with that many people. sure he was crazy when he was younger but let's be real he slowed down after the war soooooooo

i'm going to say

more than 40 but less than 50. somewhere around 16 or 18 people after the war and the first 30 are before the war when he's young and horny...because i love an even number

to be fair that is not a lot for being 550 years old which is like 1 partner every 13.5 years

math

my reasoning is that i think he's a secret relationship guy. he stays with his partners for a significant enough portion of time where like azriel might be knee deep in a few girlies at a time (horrible reference)

as for who...i don't want to ruin some stuff but i'll throw a juicy bit in bc i like this ask...lilah (obvi), suniva (juicy juicy), cressida (cmon there was too much tension), amarantha (sad)

ok here's my thing about helion. i just truly think rhys's worst quality is that he's too straight

cassian however...cassian would hit