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[cromulentreader]

Cardan Greenbriar - 10 quotes over 5 books

“Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.”

“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?”

“My lady, you flatter me. I had no idea you were interested.”

"I want to tell you so many lies."

“You didn’t mention my handsomeness.”

"I knew little else, but I always knew you."

"It’s absurd, sometimes, the thought that she loves him."

“You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?”

“Felicitations on the murder of your mother.”

“Love. That force that compels us to be sometimes better and often worse. That power by which we can all be bound. That which we ought to fear and yet most desire.”

[madockisser]

cardan just wanted love. 😐

i was just replying to someone regarding nicasia and i had this sorta realization moment abt cardan lol

Cardan is consistently merciful toward people that wrong him. To his abusers.

He spares his mother when she leaves the tower of forgetting. He gives her a courtier title. After her lifelong abuse. he spares balekin from execution time and time again, despite all the death threats and beatings and humiliation. he forgives nicasia and Locke and remains (sorta) friends with them after they screwed around behind his back and broke his heart. He forgives Jude for putting him on the throne, for killing balekin.

Cardan has the capacity to be a lot kinder to those he cares about. While he attempts to act like he has a stone heart, he cares so deeply about the few people around him. No matter how they treat him in return.

Even his sisters, whom treated him like a dog when he was a child, throwing food at him under the table. He held balekin responsible for killing them, even when they had little love for him.

and his father, whom tossed him out of the kingdom for dains lies. He still strove for his fathers love and attention. And he did what he thought he needed to do to get that attention.

All he wanted was love, and he gave a lot more of it than he wanted to show. I’m so glad he found it w Jude 😭

And with Jude, he gave her everything. He gave her half of his army bro. HALF OF HIS ARMY just because she ASKED. She didn’t even have to order him to do it, because he trusts her and he so badly wants her to trust him too.

He secretly desired (and eventually cared for) her for yearsss. It’s so sweet how they went from school rivals besting and beating one another, to them making each other king and queen. ENOUGH

moral of the story, he just wanted LOVE. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I’ll never stop thinking about them, idc how generic and obvious my posts are, every throwaway thought i have of them i will post

[thejudeduarte]

I read somewhere that this was Cardans' first genuine hug and wtf why is there water leaking out of my eyeballs

[deathsweetblossoms]

[murasaki-cha]

Jude and Cardan on a flower field. Cardan laying his head on Jude's lap. Jude makes a flower crown for him and puts it on his head. Cardan tilts the flower crown succeeding in making Jude laugh. The flowers bloom brighter all around them. That’s it, that's the post. Just happy and soft Jurdan.

[slarxsa]

The odd curve of her ear was what he had noticed first. A roundness echoed in her cheeks and her mouth. Then it was the way her body looked solid, as though meant to take up space and weight in the world.

When she moved, she left behind footprints in the forest floor.

Because she didn’t know how to glide silently, to disturb no leaf or branch. He felt smug to see how bad she was at even such an easy thing.

It was only later that it disturbed him to think back on the shape of her boot in the soil, as though she was the only real thing in a land of ghosts.

Something about the fact that one of the first thing about Jude that fascinates Cardan is her realness, the impression that she leaves on the world, her solidness, the fact that she takes up weight and space. Something about Cardan being a really small, light baby, something about Cardan being ignored his whole childhood. Something about Cardan never being noticed or allowed to take up space as a child, about everyone thinking he would never make any difference because he was sixth born. Idfk bro.

[darlingod]

Interact with this post if you would read a full length Cardan novel, I want to see how much of y’all want it

[romajuliettemai]

How The King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories Waterstones Exclusive Editition Bonus Conent

Creds to @letmeliveinelfhame thank you so so SO much for these pictures, I had no clue this edition even existed prev to this!!

[chaiichait]

I'd like to think that Cardan gives thanks to lady luck everyday for his marriage towards Jude

Mr Cardan how did I get so lucky? Greenbriar

[judesidepiece]

Something that I love about Jude and Cardan is they actually raise hell for each other. In other books, characters will often make these grand declarations of love and say things like 'i would burn the world for you' or destroy everything for you or whatever, but with Jurdan, they don't rlly say stuff like that to each other, they just do it. Like Cardan signing off a peace treaty allowing the undersea to attack the land and risk war to get Jude back, going against his morals and killing Madoc's guards when they were taking her, or Jude letting Snardan poison the land as long as possible because she was searching for a way to bring him back.

[viivdle]

there's two ways this could go...

[tothestarsinvelaris]

"And you think it was sunrise I was waiting for and not my queen"

"There is one thing I did like about playing the hero. The only good bit. And that was not having to be terrified for you." the things Cardan says <3

"The next time you want to make a point," Jude says, "I beg you not to make it so dramatically." "So long as you're begging," he says. Cardan, my heart

[thejudeduarte]

Jude Duarte is THAT fmc

"Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear."

"Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all."

"Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far."

"If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse."

"If you hurt me, I wouldn’t cry. I would hurt you back."

I would defend her with my life

[madockisser]

Autumn in Elfhame:

[clockworkbee]

ⓘ This user wants to be someone's sweet villain and darling god, dearest punishment and sweet nemesis, who they think is the only real thing in a land of ghosts, and by who they are forever undone.

[slarxsa]

Cardan slept in stables because they were warm and dry. He was homeless. A child. A baby. Homeless.