#htkoelths

[thejudeduarte]

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

[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.

[deathsweetblossoms]

[darlingod]

HTKOELTHS by Holly Black

Cardan: since we’re on the topic of threats mY WIFE IS ON THE WAY—

[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.”

[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.

[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.

[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

[viivdle]

there's two ways this could go...

[thejudeduarte]

Cardan hiding away when he was younger, telling himself that the reason he's not being found is just because he's such a good hider when in reality it's because no one truly loves and cares for him. Him also getting lost during the coronation as his family didn't care that he wasn't on the dias.

But then there's Jude who finds him almost instantly without having any idea on where he could be, once out of pure luck OH MY GOD they're made for each other.

[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.

[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

[naughtnixnothing]

the cruel prince in a nutshell

jude: *is insulted* i beg your pardon?

cardan: *smirking* then beg.

[slarxsa]

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