#nausicaa kraken

[a-whore-for-the-void]

with a wild and ruined song now out, here's your friendly reminder to join the official, ashley approved, hollow star saga discord server

we do many things there, like question why there is a disproportianate amount of aussies, and talk about the books lol

(it is quite quiet because of how small this fandom is but we can make it bigger!!)

anyway, the link is here

enjoy!!

[hollowstarsaga]

More ADAHS headcannons

I imagine Lethe's personality as an orange cat (once he warms up to people) he has a lot of stupid idea's collected over the years, he gets bursts of energy, also will bring Cel shiny things he finds.

Vehan will go for runs with no direction and just zone out, then he'll be entirely lost when he zones back in.

Arlo is a booktok girly, she's a romance reader, mostly reading cute stuff but she's definitely found herself reading things that are less than family friendly.

Nausicaa is a language nerd and out of pure boredom over the years she has learnt a bunch of languages.

Aurelian is also a booktok girly but doesn't read as much contemporary romance, he read more fantasy and sci-fi.

Aurelian also definitely forced Vehan to sit down with him and watch good omens and dr. who.

Celadon is unbeaten at board games; the group will do board game nights and Cel always comes first at this point it's a war for second place.

Lethe has like a million-step skin and hair care routine; he researches all the products he uses and guards his hair like a prison.

Nausicaa hasn't read a book in a hundred years, but she has watched a majority of what Netflix has to offer.

Arlo did Ballet when she was young and wishes she kept doing it.

Cel can ice skate really well entirely unironically.

Vehan is super flexible and never utilizes it unless drunk or something.

Aurelian is scarily photogenic, like someone will snap a random picture of everyone and they'll all be pulling an odd face and he'll just be looking perfect.

Theo, Vehan and Cel all growing up in royal positions all can ride horses and play polo and will just do random intense competitions but get the others to join when they cannot ride horses.

Lethe is a plant dad and has like a greenhouse with a bunch of named plants that he will steal for to keep alive.

[thehollowstarsaga]

Hollow Star Saga Book Four Predictions

okay so since i've finished agasv it's time for my predictions for the next book:

the CeLeTheo polycule

so i remember Ashley mentioned that there's possibility for a polyam and the moment i heard that i was just immediately like, 'oh, they're definitely talking about Theo, Celadon and Lethe right?'

like i'm not the only one who thought Celedon and Theo had insane levels of chemistry in both agasv AND acafl???

and Celedon and Lethe are already super cute and canon by the end of agasv too??

I'd honestly love it if Lethe and Theo end up being into each other too like the dynamic sounds super fun.

anyway that's the prediction Celedon x Theo x Lethe is canon next book (i'm gonna look like such an idiot if i'm wrong)

2. dragon Theo???

now i'm not too sure about this one but maybe (just maybe) Theo's a dragon?

i remember i made this prediction all the way back when adahs was released and there was that random paragraph in the beginning on how people can be dragons without realizing it. i was like 'okay, so one of the characters we care about has to be a dragon right??'

by process of elimination i reached the conclusion that Theo was the dragon out of all of them.

i remember when we found out that his grand aunt is a dragon i freaked out like i was so proud of myself for reaching that conclusion cause there's a high chance that he inherited those traits.

buuuuuuuuuuuut i'm not too sure whether that's actually going to be explored or bought up or even be true in the next book so this is a very tentative theory.

3. if Riadne dies, then who's killing her?

okay so i'm not too confident about this because i don't actually know if Riadne will die in book 4, at least in the traditional sense. but if it does happen the potential candidates are;

Theo: NO LISTEN I'M NOT BEING BIASED ACTUALLY FR HEAR ME OUT; Theo wants to rule over seelie summer, and if i'm not mistaken you need to defeat the existing head in order to do that so... maybe? admittedly its not very likely though cause there aren't enough emotional stakes. unless Riadne just murders his parents or smth in the first half lmao. i'll say 5% chance

Arlo: since we're talking about murdering parental figures... yeah. i'd say there's like a 10% chance that it's Arlo who kills Riadne maybe?

Celadon: 25% chance it'll be Celadon simply for the emotional stakes... and murdering parental figures. but actually if we're talking about someone who needs to stab their mom in order to get over their mommy issues...

Vehan: him having some kind of arc in which he's vaguely unhinged would go so hard. sadly, however, it probably won't happen. he's still most likely to kill Riadne at 50% chance, because the angst would be so good.

others: this is just me covering up my tracks in case my top guesses are wrong so that i don't look like a total idiot. Lethe, Nausicaa and Aurelian take up the remaining 10%. although i seriously doubt it'll be any of them. if it is though, Lethe's most likely to and Aurelian's least likely to.

honestly the more i think about it Riadne probably won't be killed by someone else. either she'll manage to get herself killed in her quest for power or she won't die at all. it doesn't feel like all the loose ends would be tied up if she did (watch as she dies at the hands of someone i didn't mention on this list.)

5. Vehan does some insane shit

this actually isn't me pushing my let Vehan go batshit crazy agenda. i mean insane as in he's going to have a major battle or show off some huge feat of power.

extra points if it happens in front of Riadne.

i think the best case scenario is a Riadne vs Vehan fight scene.

6. Who's the big bad?

see this is more of a discussion than a prediction cause i know Riadne's our main antagonist but i feel like there might be an overarching one as well.

easiest answer to this is Cosmin, and honestly, yeah it probably is him. however, Luck seems like they have a good head on them and that they might stop him from doing anything that would harm Arlo, so i actually think that maybe, just maybe it's someone else.

Fate, maybe? i'm not sure, but it seems we don't like them.

it could be another one of the titans but i'm not too sure they'd introduce a completely new major antagonist by the fourth book.

7. Theo has a bigger role.

there's no evidence no nothing i'm just manifesting stfu

[catastrophic-chaoss]

Sure enemies to lovers is good but how about character a is heartless and terrible and doesn’t care about their reputation or what they cause even often take pride in it because they feel like they don’t have a purpose anymore and slowly lose who they once were only ever relying on themself until they meet character b who sees them for who they really are despite their tough exterior and shows them the unconditional love they never got and suddenly they care about how they’re perceived but only by that one person they view themselves as not good enough and unworthy for character b so they want to be better but only for them they do all they can trying to earn the love they’ve been given they become incredibly loyal to this person and constantly wanting to make them proud and slowly come back to themself finding new purpose and a reason to keep going and overall do become better while character b finds they finally have a place and become confident in themself because they feel important and fully seen in the eyes of character a who is always there to support them and show them how strong they really are the two find a safe space with one another and become stronger together. That’s the shit

And yes I’m talking about Nausicaä and Arlo

[adarkandhollowfandom]

Alright everyone... what's the ship name for Nausicaä and Arlo?

Narlo? Arlicaä? Jarsden?

[itachi86]

"It was right at that moment that Nausicaä appeared before them, serious and frowny and kind of blurred around the edges… With zero preamble, and full sincerity, she said by way of greeting, “Ever look at over eight hundred drunk people and think to yourself, Wow, I sure would love to try and wrangle them all into holding hands for a mass teleportation in under half an hour’s time limit? ’Cause if so, I’m about to make your fucking night, boys.”

-A Wild and Ruined Song

[shitty-goose-quack]

I would like to formally rescind everything i said about Nausicaä's trauma not being developed after reading the second book. i was wrong and im sorry.

oh my god these 2 angsty boys i can't with them i love them so much help

friends >> strangers/enemies (?) >> friends >> lovers <333

that last one is unconfirmed as of where im at rn but whatever its totaly going there

i love them

the angst

how arelian is protecting him with his life and withdrawing to keep him safe

how vayan is slowly questioning everything not know his mom is plotting and his ex best friend is fated to die

just god

they're so much more developed than nosicaa and arlo. like, they're childhhod best friends and we know they both like each other, and why they can't be together, and they both feel like real characters, but arlo is every main character from a ya fantasy ever (red hair, royal but isn't treated like it, has a bunch of insecurites about how her power isn't good enough, power is actually off the charts but she still doesn't believe it, litteraly chosen by a god, no one at school likes her, divorced parents, very obvious secret about one of her parents, lots of very obvious secrets that she doesnt pick up on). nossicaa is a little bit more developed, but all we see is like, she has trauma and heres why, not ever actually talking about how that trauma affects her. like once she gets sad and its because of her trauma, but we never really see inside her brain, she just makes jokes about how depressed she is

like one time she snaps at vayan, but

[switch]

its never explored beyond "i am sad because my sister died. i was punished bc i did smth when i was angry/greaving bc my sister killed herself, so now i am the textbook sassy dangerous gay badass". we just get mentions that shes depressed, and never actually what it means

and also no information on why shes willing to defend arlo so hard?? like it just happens. she just suddenly starts being really defensive of arlo and acting like shes her world, when they barely know each other.

[vehanlysterne]

nausicaä: so here's the plan. i go in, i start stabbing people and we see where that takes us

arlo: no. absolutely not.

[willowbirds]

This my have taken me a lot longer then expected, but I have finally drawn the main characters of A Dark and Hollow Star!!

(Style is a tad bit inconsistent, but that’s what you get for spending more then a week working on these with other drawings in between)

ALSO BONUS: Luck

[hollowstarsaga]

My predictions for A Wild and Ruined Song (AGASV SPOLIERS!!)

No one asked but here is an incomplete list of what I think will happen.

So, since Arlo traded her role as the Hollow Star for Vehans role of Ruin, Vehan will be the Hollow Star, but it won't look the same way as it did for Arlo.

Arlo is going to get a lot of badass revenge (duh).

Celadons going to go on a whole thing if recruiting other courts and people into his new and improved system.

The majority of Vehan and Aurelian chapters they will be together (and they deserve it)

Theo will end up getting the leader of the seelie, and Aurelian will get the Wild but with Vehan helping him as Vehan has far more diplomatic sense.

Lethe will be more comfortable around everyone (yay)

Nausicaa is going to be pissed at Celadon and Lethe.

Nausicaa will get her heart back (and be even more pissed)

[thehollowstarsaga]

i read a wild and ruined song in a day and ive got so many questions so heres a list!!! theres a few spoilers in this btw proceed with caution.

whats celadons proficiency with all his elements? i know the sidhe fae rank elemental proficiency by tiers so is there a different level for each element? im assuming hes a 4 to 5 with every element he has (maybe except for lightning? he might be a 3 with that) but idk

is harlan doing okay he was mentioned like twice in the book i hope hes doing okay

what about aurelians parents??? theos parents???

whats nausicaa and urielles relationship like post-awars?

or nausicaa and the new furies???? and megaera.

what's theodore's like. secret fae name. does he have one?

are fyri and theo dating cause they were giving fwb so bad throughout the whole book?

actually wait why were fyri and theodore lowkey giving lesbian fwb energy...

does celadon know lethe banged his mom because i CLEARLY remember that being said at the end of book one.....

post-awars im assuming that the faerie political scene changed like. so so so very drastically considering literally everything that happened. hows that going?? also lowkey feel bad for celadon he must be struggling with that.

and since we're talking about politics whats going on with all the courts post-war??? hows the relationship between the ones that sided with riadne, the ones that sided with celadon, and the ones that were neutral?

was the high council dissolved? awars really emphasized that it was a corrupt establishment and i think all the counsellors sided with riadne so... hows that going for them?

also lowkey what happened to all the side characters in acafl and agasv im curious how are they doing

especially the children of the sidhe fae elite

more of a curiousity but do people like. refer to lethe as misfortune directly? or is there like a prefix. is he like. mister misfortune.

i hope its not just misfortune is kinda cunty

what are the elements corresponding to all the other courts around the world? who are they governed by?

also there might be a slight power vacuum left over now that the mortal worlds bone crown is gone considering this is a world that has had it for ages. whats up with that?

what are all the other gifts that people can have?? lowkey wish that those were used more throughout the book

whats fyri's last name?

is everyone experiencing like weekly assassination attempts now that theyre in such positions of power? like i know that they probs cant even be killed and most people probably know that but i cant imagine that people dont try.

ESPECIALLY HUMANS like does the fbi have a sniper trained on arlo at any point.

actually in general how are humans doing cause considering the political climate of our world generally cant imagine theyre taking this well. true crime and conspiracy theorist communities would be having a field day.

is rory jarsdel living his life happily i hope rory jarsdel will live out the rest of his life happily

who takes the last name between vehan and aurelian. i think they hyphenate it personally but yk.

theoretically if lethe and celadon got married and theoretically if they had to pick a last name and theoretically if lethe took celadons last name would he be referred to as Former Hunter Mister Misfortune Lethe Fleur-Viridian Lysterne??

do arlo and nausicaa ever marry?? do they ever feel the need to??

whats lethes relationship with luck and cosmin now???

what happened to the madam in the final battle??

what happened to the grim brotherhood in general???

what happened in the final battle in general??????

how did i not know that aurelian was a vegetarian?????????

feel free to correct me in case the answer to any of these was given in the book. high chance i'll keep adding more since im on my awars reread

[catastrophic-chaoss]

sometimes a family can just be a gullible prince who somehow embodies all the goodness left in humanity (despite not even being human), his emo hot topic bodyguard boyfriend who watches star trek, an ex fury with a bad temper and a sick fashion sense who hates everyone except her socially anxious ginger girlfriend whos probably more powerful than all of them combined. 

[adarkandhollowfandom]

"I can snap your neck in, like, less than a second. I think you should let me call myself whatever I want." -Nausicaä Kraken

A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth

[itachi86]

"The line parted like spooked fish for the beauty melting away to horror—to tattered wings like the sails on a gutted ship; to flesh pulled taut over skeletal bone; to razor-sharp claws and white-fire hair and steel like knives for eyes."

-A Grim and Sunken Vow

[cataclysmic-catastrophe]

Arlo “I don’t even know if I like girls” Jarsdel: I probably just admire nausicaä

Arlo: and the curve of her throat and muscular thighs and the ethereal otherworldly glint in her steel eyes

Arlo: anyways. I’m gonna go binge watch She-ra and the princesses of power

[eya-razrushaya]

My take on aDaHS characters and their Hogwarts houses:

Nausicaä - Slytherin

Arlo - Hufflepuff

Aurelian - Gryffindor

Vehan - Ravenclaw

Celadon - Hufflepuff

Hero - Ravenclaw