#daddy xaden

[amanita-muscaria-lover]

"Give us a second, and keep Aetos breathing for now," -Iron Flame (chapter 36, page 323

[aclawthorne22]

Xaden 🤝 Tairn

Making people apologize to Violet in the most humiliating way possible for almost killing her

[themusingsofacurlyhairednerd]

Xaden 🤝 Rhysand kneeling to strap things on their women before they’re even officially their women

[praetorqueenreyna]

Karl Urban in The Boys is the shadow daddy that I've been waiting for. The perfect mixture of "morally gray badass" and "pathetic loser" and "dad that doesn't know his kids' birthdays"

[highladyofterrasen7]

My holy trio of book bfs

- xaden “my house my chair my woman” Riorson

- rhysand “I want you splayed out on the table like my own personal feast”

- Dorian “I’ll bleed whatever colour you tell me to” Havilliard

At the moment and in no particular order

[chaoticneutraltor]

[shayennelovesbooks]

What does it say about me that I didn't bat an eye when Xaden "betrayed" Violet but my heart dropped when it was revealed that Tairn knew about it?

[love-and-swords]

Violet x Xaden (Fourth Wing)

OMG I CAN'T WITH THIS ART! Throwing my laptop to the side and continue reading Iron Flame, BYE. (Special Edition in link above🔥)

Art: DreamWorldDweller

[mydairpercabeth]

Violet and Xaden are Gwynriel coded and thats why im so obsessed with them

[thingsforlola]

for violence, i'm yours

a mixtape from xaden to his girlfriend, violet<3 // soundcloud and spotify

[tothestarsinvelaris]

.....

okay, I'm sorry I talked a little shit about Fourth Wing. 😬 I kept listening to the GraphicAudio and Xaden made me change my mind.

the annoyance had me in the first half but then

Xaden showed up to save Violet and the man said "You're all fucking dead. You think surrendering will save you?" and I stopped what I was doing to immediately make this post.

"she's merciful, but that's not a flaw I possess."

"are you hurt?"

"don't lie to me"

"I know how to handle a corset"

MY GUY?! 🥴

then this man gets on his knees in front of her and puts her boots on?!?? I'm not breathing holy shit

how are you gonna hit me with all of that in the course of like 5 fucking minutes??

[wingedshadowfan]

i don't think xaden lied when he said he had nothing to do with tairn (or andarna) bonding violet btw... like, ppl are out there theorizing he told sgaeyl about her as soon as he met her at parapet - which is allegedly why sgaeyl checks violet out when they get into formation for the first time - and that they came up with this plan for tairn to bond violet at threshing back then but that's impossible for a variety of reasons, like:

if you met your mortal enemy, would you seriously ask your ginormous fire breathing beast of a dragon to do you a little tiny favor and ask their even more ginormous mate to bond them ?? because it simply makes no sense for him to want her to have a dragon as strong as tairn

xaden must've known what repercussions being bonded to mated dragons would have for him and violet (not being able to stay apart for long, causing a chain of deaths if just one of them dies, mental communication - like who would want that with their enemy?? he reiterates that so many times after the bond)

not to mention he has no say in the choices of dragons, as no human does - sometimes even other dragons don't, like it was with sgaeyl bonding xaden (a relative of her previous rider), or andarna choosing to be at presentation and then at threshing too

even if he somehow already liked her at threshing (or earlier), he still wouldn't want that because she's already got such good odds of dying, and being bonded to tairn means like fifty more people suddenly had it out for her, and he'd have to protect her while also being a wingleader, part of the weapon smugglers for the rebellion, and a personal counselor for all the marked ones

going as far as to say this happened months in advance (on conscription day, exactly after meeting her) is particularly illogical, when xaden told violet he wouldn't bother killing her because the parapet would do it for him - i have no doubt he believed it would, and a part of him maybe wanted it at that point in time too

xaden's not one for planning so far into the future, neither is he one for hoping - he's said that possibilities are dangerous because they distract from probabilities, and we all know violet surviving so long in basgiath basically had the odds of a statistical mistake - so he simply wouldn't have done that even if he thought she'd make it past parapet

now, despite still having a distaste for violet at that point, xaden was also admittedly interested in her, because he knew whose daughter she was and when he saw her and rhiannon's mismatched boots, he realized the former risked her life to save a stranger's - and that's probably what sgaeyl got from him that made her pay close attention to violet the first time she saw her after parapet

[morningstarprints]

Fourth Wing, Bonus Chapter 27, Xaden’s POV

Best one I’ve seen yet.

[themusingsofacurlyhairednerd]

Send help I started reading Fourth Wing thinking it would help with my writing slump but I just fell in love with Xaden Riorson instead!

[regent-overthinker]

No hate to Xaden tho

[highladyofterrasen7]

👑the council of shadow daddy meeting👑

Az: so

Dorian: you think you have what it takes to be one of us?

Xaden: yes

Rhys: many have tried and failed to get the prestige the comes with being anointed a shadow daddy, plus, you’re yarros, not Maas, and we don’t take well to outsiders

Xaden: I know and I am ready to prove myself

Ruhn: we’ll see… we’ll see

Az shadows- what do you guys think

Ruhn shadows- I think he could do it

Dorian shadows- definitely

Rhys shadows- they have to let him in

Az: so

Dorian: you have passed our shadow daddy trials

Xaden: all we did was brood with our shadows swirling around us and talk about our girlfriends and tragic backstories

Rhys: that’s literally all we do

Ruhn: yeah they think it’s some big meeting and all that

Xaden: so it makes no difference that I’m not Maas

Ruhn: of course not it just gives us an excuse

Dorian: but it’s an immediate in as long as you’re not an asshole

Az: but you’re a shadow daddy now

Dorian: congratulations