#in fact nesta was in a fairly similar situation in fan spaces after acomaf and especially acowar

[huntquinlan]

everyone expressing disappointment in the vast majority of elain week content not actually being about elain (centered around how she’d be with xyz ship) i see you and i agree.

but also it’s because she is 100% used as a self insert character by the majority of the fandom to self-ship with xyz character (regardless of whether the person is aware of it or not). the majority of the content around her has always been how she would be in xyz ship or xyz theory that contributes/supports development of xyz ship. very few people put effort into content that has to with her character as an individual.

it’s similar to how there is very little content for nuala and cerridwen in general. and how they are often tagged together, a package deal. what content there is of both characters largely subscribes to the face-value canon of their characters (ladies maids / domestic workers who get paid extra to snoop)

it’s the same reason why elain gets a fraction of the hate nesta does, despite being largely complicit for the same things. and the rest of the hate she gets is for being ‘too boring’. her characterization has been fairly subtle across the series, it’s there if you look for it but not overt like nesta.

ultimately it comes down to whether a person is just a fan of a ship elain is a part of, or if they’re a fan of her character beyond her relationship potential. and many people are more into potential relationship aesthetics and dynamics than they are to an individual character. that’s fine, there’s no moral significance to any of this. it just is what it is, and it will likely change a lot once elain’s book comes out.