#queen channary

[wassupnye]

Selene x Kaito lives on

[impossiblesuitcase]

So interesting to think about how Channary would view Cinder. Would she find her cybernetics disgusting? Of course. But would she blame Levana and declare her precious Selene innocent? Undoubtedly.

She would hate Adri for mistreating her daughter, and be proud of Cinder for reclaiming the throne and becoming queen. She would be satisfied that Cinder marries Kai—Channary's own choice—and becomes empress. But she would mock Cinder's humble job as a mechanic, and certainly would disagree with her decision to dissolve the Lunar Monarchy.

Channary loved Selene, but would Channary love Cinder?

[abeehiltz1159]

so y’all are trying to prove that Cinder’s Asian but you are aware that her mom was just a tan Lunar and had no connection to the Commonwealth right

[chemicallyyourss]

i wanna say that i finally realized the wordplay with the Lunar Royal Family’s surname, like, 3 days ago.

It’s not even that well hidden, and I could figure out all the other little subtle wordplays in the series, but it stumped me at Blackburn??

[bellatrixnightshade]

If Rafal Mistral met Queen Levana

I think that if they met, they would be best friends. Especially the original series versions of themselves. Heck, if they weren't from different stories and universes Levana could have been Rafal's queen.  (spoilers ahead for both series)

Both had problems with their siblings. Levana hated her sister Channary and Channary was the one who manipulated 6 year old Levana to burn the left side of her body. Channary also was known to go after the wrong men or always be in love with people in a not so serious way.

With Rafal, hopefully Rhian isn't such a psycho as Channary. But Rafal is annoyed constantly with Rhian's crushes and, well, he kills him. he thinks he's the better twin, like how Levana thinks she would be a better queen than Channary, but the difference is that Rafal loved Rhian, while Levana hated her sister.

Levana has fantasies of her niece dying and Rafal did imagine Rhian and James dead. (I actually like Rafal but I hate Levana, just because she is much worse.)

Both have horrific/ugly versions of themselves. For Levana it's when she looks at a mirror and her glamour disappears and Rafal when Sophie destroys the ring.

Both are tyrannical people who use torture and manipulation to get what they want. They are sad to kill, but all they want is power (though I think Rafal is more toned down than Levana in this regard, because Levana, you know, torched a toddler. I don't think even Rafal would do this if he did have a nephew.) Levana uses Emperor Kai for power and to get control of Earth and has no problem disposing of him. She kills Evret, her husband, to be free to marry for ambitions, even though she "loved" him.  She manipulates Evret to love her and forces him to marry her. She even wears his dead wife's face. Rafal loves Rhian but kills him for his own gain. He may have genuinely loved Sophie, but he did manipulate her a lot to accept the ring and stay with him, mentioning how he was the one, etc. Luckily, Sophie had more of a choice than Evret did. Rafal tries to copy Tedros for Sophie, so he'd totally agree with Levana about using Evret's dead wife's face. He disposes of Evelyn Sader when she fulfills her purpose.

Levana was obsessed with getting Earth, all for Luna. Rafal wanted Evil to win and wanted Gavaldon. Both do horrible things to get power and control. Levana uses letumosis and her wolf man army and Rafal has his zombie army and Sophie. Both also do everything for "love." Levana says (originally it was her sister):" Love is a conquest, Love is a war. Here is what I think of love." Rafal is literally a living example of how to live out this saying. (look at what happened with Rhian, Sophie, etc) Both were hurt in some way and are desperate to be loved, and you can see they are people who are lonely and have no friends in their backstories, which is why they are so.. insane. Both are people I wouldn't want to piss off, to be honest.

Both cover their faces, at least during certain parts of the story.

Also, Rafal would probably use a glamour. As who, or what I don't know. (He did shapeshift as other people.) And probably a slight glamour because he's already attractive and ethereal and all that but who knows-- (in the Lunar Chronicles his appearance would probably thought of as glamour made so..)

I originally posted this on my Wattpad account.

Okay so this is embarrassing and maybe just me overthinking and getting distracted when I should be doing something else.

I will crawl into a hole now. I know this is really dumb.

[therealkaidertrash21]

channary isnt asian and neither is levana. they’re caucadian

That would be kinda impossible because Cinder, Channary's daughter, IS asian. but, ok.

Also, even if they weren't canonically asian, it wouldn't even change the plot at all if they were. it wouldn't be wrong to headcannon them that way. Like Annabeth Chase in the Percy Jackson series, in the books she was white and blonde, but in the new Disney plus series she's black. And it's ok, it doesn't change the plot, the actress is great for the job.

I guess it's fine if you don't see them as asian, but it's not necessary to send me and ask about it, because is not that big of a deal, Is not like I'm erasing representation.

[moonsstan]

okay but imagine vampire by olivia rodrigo but its cinder saying those things to levana.

[gingerale2017]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE AMAZING AWESOME WITTY SARCASTIC HOT GORGEOUS SMARTASS MECHANIC QUEEN/ EMPRESS

🎊🎊🎊🎉🥳🥳😘😘💕❤️‍🩹👩‍🔧👩🏽‍🔧🦾🦿🧰👑👸

[linh-cindy]

Levana: i like my toast the way i like my niece Selene

Levana:

Levana: BURNT

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[yellowraincoat]

Plot holes in the lunar chronicles that I’ve noticed on my millionth read through that WILL NOT detract from my enjoyment:

1) Marissa Meyer does not know how freckles work

see Cress having freckles despite zero sun exposure (but ig probably the exact amount of vitamin D she’s supposed to get) aboard the satellite

2) Cinder is wasian/more generally mixed raced and Channary looks so similar to Cinder that Kai sees a portrait of her and thinks for a moment that it is Cinder… but Levana is… white?

I guess the logical conclusion is that levana is also wasian, but I feel as tho that is not the authorial intent bc that is white woman behavior if I’ve ever seen it

the other logical conclusion and the one I personally subscribe to is that Cinder’s father had Asian heritage, but Channary and Levana were white and Cinder just… westernizes/whitewashes herself a little when she uses her glamour…??? Like… to match westernized beauty standards?

idk neither answer is particularly satisfying but I feel as tho the series is thematically stronger if the former lunar queens who want to do colonization, genocide, and imperialism are white women.

3) Dr. Erland should’ve absolutely infected Cinder and Thorne in that tunnel based on the absolutely unhinged and unrealistic but pre-established rules of letamosis

They were in very close quarters for at least an hour as he was entering stage 2 or 3 of the disease. They should’ve all been fucked. (Not to mention how closely Erland interacted with Thorne when they went to the labs)

4)… shouldn’t Dr Erland have had a perfectly good letumosis antidote on him (or at least on the Rampion) yk, from when he stole it from the palace and fled the country???

What happened to that huh? Did we just forget about her?

[wassupnye]

I just KNOW once adri and pearl kick the bucket, Channary will be tearing them apart for what they did to her baby

[impossiblesuitcase]

your post about levana's glamour made me realize that she probably never looked like herself. i think it's safe to assume that she didn't feel safe to "look like herself" after she was disfigured as a child but that really is so sad. it's also interesting in comparison to channary, whose glamour was basically a "perfected" version of her natural appearance. levana would rather wear a modified version of a dead woman's face than think about how she looks without glamour.

Exactly! Channary traumatised Levana so much that she physically struggles to remove her glamour. We saw that in Fairest, Channary slaps Levana and calls her "my ugly duckling". If Levana 'fixed' only her deformities with a glamour it would require her to look in a mirror and look at her natural features. But she is so mentally scarred that she cannot bring herself to do it. When she finally does in Fairest, she has a mental breakdown. Levana has been avoiding the reality of her appearance for decades, perpetuated by Channary's constant reminders that she is damaged. Even when Levana removes her glamour to show Evret, she struggles to do so because she is completely unaccustomed to baring her true appearance.

Channary further insults Levana by herself using mirrors. It tells Levana that she is so confident in her beauty that she has no fear that someone would see her true face in contrast to the "ugly princess." That destroyed Levana's psyche.

[hazellevessque]

WINTER HAS BEEN COMPLETED HOORAY

This book was so long lmao. I was thinking about it and it’s technically the longest book I’ve ever read. However it was 10000% worth it

This book also took me a lot longer to read because school started again and then the new PJO book came out and obviously I had to drop everything for that

Anyways I said that I thought I was going to love Winter and I was RIGHT. THAT IS MY GIRL. MY DAUGHTER!!

Also everyone telling me that I would love Winter because I said that Scarlet had sapphic energy…yeah

Kai and Cinder being a canon couple <33 I love them

Also Kai/Throne friendship?? I would like 20 of them immediately

I GASPED when Winter said that Jacin killed Ryu. Literally choked on air omg

Also CRESSWELL!! I remember on my Cress thoughts post everyone was like “yeah there’s this theory that Throne is 18” and I took it and RAN with it. They give me life I love how awkward they were in this book

The chapter where Winter used her glamour on Scarlet…I don’t think I’ve ever talked about how good the writing it in this series but the WRITINGGG

And those last few chapters with Levana and Cinder in the throne room?? My flabber was gasted my dumb was struck

I had this whole theory when Levana’s glamour went down and Cinder was like “those are burns omg” that Levana was actually Channary but alas. However still a banger backstory I’m really excited to read Fairest

And RIP Maha Kesley. I was so excited to meet Wolf’s family and then she died and I was like “WHAT THE FUCKKK��

Im also really happy that Cinder chose to abolish the monarchy because the entire series I was like “But is becoming Queen really the BEST thing for her??” and then she chose to abdicate and I was like “yeah that sounds right”

Still love Iko

I’m sure I have more thoughts but my mind is still in shock and I can’t really think straight so I’m gonna end it here

Also my sister started reading the series!! She literally JUST finished Cress which is a reason I was like “ok I have to finish this book in the next two days” because it would be hard reading the same book at the same time lol. (Yes she was able to read all three books in the time it took me to read this book. I’ve been busy and she had to read the books for school so she was reading it quicker)

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@permanently-stressed @caliburn-the-sword @livie1507 @silverstarssart @desi-hijabi-bookworm

[chemicallyyourss]

Levana: “I can’t let my planet have another horrible Queen like my sister, I need to get rid of Selene! She won’t be fit to rule and she’ll be just like my sister! This is what will be best for Luna!”

Also Levana: Indirectly attempts to kill her niece, orders her husband and step daughter to be killed, takes babies from their parents mere hours after birth because of something they can’t control and leads parents to think it’s an infanticide but really she’s enslaving the children to harvest their blood to make a lab made virus, takes kids at young ages from their homes to tamper with their genetic makeup and make them into human-wolf hybrids and strip them of their humanity and rights, lets the majority of her planet live in poverty and work in extremely unsafe conditions and only give them weekly rations that barely sustain them at all, executes people randomly and publicly for little to no reason at times, does corporal punishment and executions of ENTIRE FAMILIES and groups of people for the little actions of a single person that could range from saying the princess is pretty to trying to flee the country to escape infanticide and slavery and poverty

[bellatrixnightshade]

I do not like Queen Levana at all, but to be honest, Queen Channary is no better. I don't really understand why some people like her.

[therealkaidertrash21]

Chapter 2

white-noise output? I need that desperately.

Chapter 3:

You are right, Cinder. Kai would never...

this is so 💔💔 and so ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 at the same time. I love them sm

( I'm trying to ignore what I know is going to happen next 😭)

Chapter 4:

😭💕 I can't she's adorable

no, sweetie, she murdered you so she could take the throne.

the fact that he did both...

💔💔 Peony will always hurt.

Cinder re-read ✨

obviously, spoiler warning for the entire series

Chapter 1:

Iconic ✨

"every girl in the country had admired" its me, I'm every girl

honestly, nothing important has to happen, I'll fangirl over anything tlc related.

she's so Iconic (I can't)

i love reading Cinder after knowing Kai's perspective, it's hilarious

Iko is so Iconic and so relatable

hardly noticed? yeah right. His Imperial Highness noticed everything. He was probably simping over that grease splotch.