#rand x aviendha

[thesevenwondersofawitch]

Spoilers for the season 3 premiere of Wot

Holy shit the rain oh my god Siuan is so beautiful

The yearning in Moiraine's eyes🥺😭

Ohhhhhh Liandrin is in trouble 👀👀👀

Oh I'm freaking oyt

You can practically feel the tension oh my God

Holy shit Siuan is being called out holy shit

Oh I'm screaming

SIUAN SHIT YOU'RE IN TROUBLE NOW HOLY HELL

Oooooooooooo Siuan outed Liandrin as a dark friend 👀👀

Oh if it is in the consequences of her own actions

Aw, the way Liandrin can't even look Nyeneve in the eye because she knows what she did

I kind of love how she was just like eh, I tried

Holy shit there are so many dark friends 👀👀

Alanna's boys immediately being like don't worry babe we're coming

Holy shit! Siuan really hit Liandrin hard lol

Siuan has fallen omg!!!

My poor babe oh no, no they're black Ajah

Oh shit things are really going to hell

No the good Ajah have been hit noooooo

Siuan my poor babe🥺

Nooooooooooo Verin's sister doesn't know who she is😭😭😭

Why do the dark friends kind of look like the poster for like a rock/indie/folk band 😂

Ouchie (Liandrin getting stabbed)

NOOOOOO SIUAN!

Oh Alanna I adore you🥰

NOOOOOOOOO IHVON😭😭😭😭

Moiraine's always out here stating the obvious and I love her for it

Oh no Siuan 🥺

Oh my God Siuan's wifey shielded her 😭😭😭

The way Moiraine's face shows so much and then she strides away and Siuan moves to follow her before stopping herself 😭😭😭😭

Oh my God, all the warders are dead🥺

Damn they left my girl Nyeneve to die 😭😂

"Why does she always want to leave at dawn?" Me

Awwwwwww they're going to Tear 🥺 the place of Siuan's birth

The way that Aviendha's fellow warriors are watching her interact with Rand, they can tell there's something there lol

It's the classic enemies to lovers

Aw girl talk with the trauma bonded three🥺

Nooooooooooo 🥺 the way Egwane has PTSD my poor girl🥺🥺

Matt you are really the worst at staying undetected 😂😭

Oh Mat, Rand has done wayyyyyy more then kiss another girl, he did the do with a Forsaken 😂

Oh dear, he isn't lying but he's also not telling the whole truth 👀

Oh who is sheeee? (I thought it was Moiraine, but now I'm thinking it's Lanfear)

Ooof, poor Verin is beating herself up 😭😭😭

Mat it's me coming in to a conversation not realizing the vibe has changed LOL

OH SHIT IT IS LANDFEAR

Oooooooooooo Lanfear and Moiraine may have common ground 👀

Oh damn Moiraine seems a bit surprised that Lanfear thinks she will hurt the others in order to get to

The way Moiraine stopped dead in her tracks at the sight of the two guards outside their place 👀

Siuan is discussing stuff 👀

Oooooooooooooooo👀 the way Egwane just flat out said she won't go back is a vibe and so much growth in her character

The way Moiraine is eavesdropping👀😂 (completely Fair considering everything)

I'm low-key obsessed with Siuan's dress in this next scene👀

Aw, Nyeneve is still haunted by what she saw in the arches, and the way Lan immediately knows that he was part of what she saw 😭😭😭😭

Well now I ship Elayne and Aviendha

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh👀 so this is the scene we'd gotten stills from👀 with them all decked out in fancy armor

Ha, Rand asking questions like a child is a mood

Damn, Moiraine really just got straight to the point, telling Rand he can never go home

Ha, Egwane flat out telling Siuan that she's unaccepted now so she's going to Just bounce lol

Siuan's bafflement 😂 like Egwane did say she'd go back to the tower today if she was made an accepted, which she did do she didn't say she would stay lol

Awwww the way Moiraine is looking long angry at the tower where her wife is 🥺🥺

"To seeing double and staying single"😂 Mat is a vibe lol

Mat you should listen to Perrin

Oh I ship Aviendha and Elayne so fucking hard

Oh my God I am screaming!!!!!! Get it!!!

Ok I can't be the only one who doesn't ship Rand and Egwane? Like no thank you

Awwwwwwwwwwwww🥺 the way Moiraine is fighting with herself looking at the tower 🥺🥺🥺 she misses her wife 🥺

Aw, Nynaeve trying to help Mat🥺

Wait, Lan glaring back at Moiraine who shakes her head? Moiraine has been messing with them to get them to split up from Rand

Aw, the way Lan immediately ran to Nynaeve when she called for him🥺

OH NO HE STABBED HER

Oh good Moiraine was able to heal them

Nooooooooooo they were working with Lanfear😭😭😭

Yeah, it went very far lol

Aw, Egwane saying she won't go anywhere 😭

But also I still don't ship them lol

Nynaeve apologizing to Lan when he secretly knows the whole attack was partially his fault🥺

Aw they're holding hands

OH MY GOD HE GAVE HER A RING FROM HIS MAMA

He wants Nynaeve as his queen 😭😭😭😭😭

Oooooooooooo the subtle hand holding between Elayne and Aviendha🥺😭🥰

Mat about to say the white tower resembles a dick is fabulous 😂

Oooooooooooo 👀 Mat going against Moiraine to go to the Aiel waste

Who's the dude that's suspended by webs? Who is Jaichim?👀👀

[wexpyke]

Aviendha & Rand al’Thor in the official trailer for The Wheel of Time Season 3

[christophernolan]

The Wheel of Time | Episode 5

[wheeloftimecentral]

THE FIRES OF HEAVEN | Chapter 53

THE WHEEL OF TIME | S2 | Sep 1st on Prime Video

[kaiartx]

Rand/Aviendha in 2C?

cuties <3

[queen-of-andor]

I think the trailer tried to mislead us by putting the scene where Egwene asks Rand if he loves someone else right after a scene of Rand and Lanfear.

I believe Egwene refers to Elayne or Aviendha instead of Lanfear. After all, it seems that this season will show both of Rand ships ( as well as Elayne x Aviendha!)

[iliiuan]

You guys forgot Aviendha. She doesn't understand what's going on, but she doesn't understand Wetlanders anyway, and she enjoys drinking with Mat. He's like a spear-sister, which is weird, but again, Wetlanders, eh?

it's always wild to me when pro-matlayne arguments are that it would be better than BOTH their canon romances because i'm like. oh you think matlayne would be.........REPLACING randlayne? you think this would be a monogamous relationship? you think rand would just be off doing his own thing rather than being the filling of a tasty matlayne sandwich? if so, you are entirely missing the true appeal of matlayne

[pillowfriends]

help me settle a roommate dispute

please put your reasoning in reblogs or tags if you feel so inclined. I have Opinions but I will wait to share them until the poll is over.

[asha-mage]

WoT Meta: Prophecies, Fated Lovers, and Robert Jordan's knack for finding the nuance underneath the myth

One complaint I've never understood about the way Jordan writes romances is the persistent claim that he over uses the 'prophesied love' trope.

In part for me, I think it's a little bit folks not seeing the forest for the trees. WoT is fundamentally about the relationship between myth and reality: the place where the fallen angel meets the disgruntled academic, the bitter accountant, and the man who never got over being too short. It's a story where the messiah is real and dealing with chronic pain and PTSD from his stigmata. Where a legendary High Queen has to deal with both marching armies to the apocalypse, and the irritating banal realities of being pregnant at the same time. Of course Jordan digs into the idea of prophesied love- it's a huge theme in folklore and mythologies the world over. Jordan wants to dig into what it really means for there to be a person out there that you are destined to be with: that is a match for you, decreed so by the universe itself....and that you get absolutely no agency and choice in choosing. If anything Tumblr, which adores the 'red string of fate'/'soulmark'/'soulmates share pain'/'world is black until you look into your soulmates eyes' (to name a few of the more prevalent ones- some of which Tumblr practically invented), should be super on board for the parade of fated lovers to be found in WoT. It's nothing short of baffling to me that their not more fondly viewed.

And I think that is tied to the follow up complaint: the criticism that Jordan 'uses prophecy love as a replacement for a romance arc'. But that is something that is just. Patently untrue.

Cause the thing is that is how soulmates are often used...in the majority of soulmate au fanfics you find here and on AO3- an excuse to get the really hard part (two characters realizing they are right for each other and love each other, then having the communication skills to articulate that so they can start a relationship) out of the way, so the author can focus on the fluff or angst or other part they and the audience want to get to. And that's fine! But that's not at all what Jordan does. Just like he does with the Prophecies of the Dragon, or Elaida's fortellings, or even just most of Min's viewings- Jordan takes the idea of the prophecy soulmate, this person decreed by some higher power to be Perfect For You and being right about it, and digs deeper, shining it in different lights and attacking it from different angles. Jordan gives the concept of the soulmate teeth, explores the spines and the sharp points of it: is it real love if it's fated and not your choice? Can you trust your own feelings, or are they fate's design working against you as surely as Aphrodite worked against Helen or Eros against Apollo? What is it like, to see someone one day, and know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that you would love this stranger? This question mark? This wildcard?

Rand's relationships with Min and Aviendha, as well as Mat and Tuon's courtship are great examples of this conundrum. Min and Aviendha have completely opposite reactions to the same information that demonstrates their unique strengths and weaknesses as characters and people, while Tuon and Mat's courtship is all about two people who know they will marry trying to figure out what that means, without ever confronting the reality of those prophecies directly.

Min, as befits a Seer who has learned time and time again that her viewings can not be changed, has resigned herself in an almost fatalistic fashion to all of them, and to loving Rand no less. Min knows that she, and two others, will love him, and she accepts its inevitability the same way she accepts Colavere's death, or Logain's glory, or the shattering of the White Tower. What is, is, and there is no sense or point in struggling against it. What concerns her a great deal more is what she doesn't know- she doesn't know if Rand will love her in return, she doesn't know the identity of the other two women who will love him, and she doesn't know if he will fall in love with one or both of the others but not her. Add to that Min's own insecurities about how she stands out and doesn't fit what her society deems 'proper', between her crossdressing, and her offputting manners, and it makes perfect sense that she's worried about making Rand love her. She doesn't mind sharing him- she hates the idea of being in love with a man who doesn't love her in return, of being stuck like 'Elmindreda' of the stories, sighing and pining endlessly for a man instead of being able to act, to take control of her own fate. 

So she takes control: she learns to flirt from Leane, works hard at making herself desirable, and also indispensable: with her visions, her advice, even just her emotional support to Rand when he otherwise has no one else. The irony is that whenever Rand thinks of Min prior to her return to his side in LoC, it's about how much he liked her earthy honesty and lack of wiles: how she was earnest and made him feel at ease, and didn't 'spin his head like a top'- and that's still what he loves about her after they get together: the fact that she isn't fooled by his front, that she sees him clearly and refuses to be driven away the way so many others are so easily. The point is that Min never had to change, and in the ways that matter she didn't- she only thought she did because of her own fatalism.

Contrast that with Aviendha, who, after learning about being destined to fall in love with Rand, does everything in her power to prevent that outcome- because she is a warrior, a soldier, who has never yet met a problem that could not be killed, endured, or retreated from. Aviendha values nothing so much as her honor and her word- she has promised to keep Rand safe for Elayne and what greater act of dishonor could there be in that situation then not just failing in that promise, but despoiling (and she does view it that way) said man herself? So she is awful to him in the hopes of poisoning the well of affection or at least keeping him far enough away that she is never tempted. Aviendha hurls contempt and anger at him, berates him, does everything short of trying to stab him in an effort to make him hate her, and it doesn't work. Despite all her efforts to keep her thorny wall up, they are literally made for each other and can not help but be drawn together time and again. Despite all her efforts to insist, to him and herself, that she hates him, she can not hide entirely that the opposite is true: that she likes him, sees his strength and courage and resilience, and is a little in awe of his generous kindness. 

This is why she vacillates wildly between wanting desperately to get away from him in The Fires of Heaven, to not wanting to leave his side: they are two planets caught in each other's gravity, with about as much chance of escaping each other. When she resorts to the last recourse of a soldier- retreat- and runs headlong into a blizzard that would surely kill her, Rand follows to try and save her life and she can deny the truth that she loves him no longer, nor can she resist taking him, even knowing that to redress that balance, she will one day have to offer her life to Elayne (as she attempts to do in LoC)- though fate still has other plans in store.

But in many ways the apex of this, the relationship that really shows Jordan's deconstruction of this trope, is Mat and Tuon. Before they ever lay eyes on each other, each is given a prophecy that they will marry the other: not that they'll love each other, not that they will be able to trust each other, not even that that will like each other: just that they will marry. And their strange courtship is a result of this knowledge, as each attempts to suss out the other, to try and understand them without ever overplaying their own hand. Each believes that the moment they admit their prophecy they will destroy any chance of real connection or understanding.

To Tuon, if Mat learns he is destined to wed her he gains something she can not abide: power over her, leverage that could be used to subvert her own plans and visions- because nothing matters more to Tuon than control, especially over herself. So she keeps her 'fortune' secret and tries to figure out: What will it mean to be married to Mat? Will he be a pretty trophy? A liability? A threat to her Empire? Will she have to kill him once she gets her heirs?

To Mat, if Tuon learns of his prophecy, she gains the power to take away his freedom, to snare and collar him and bind him to her, because that's how Mat deep down views marriage: as a binding cord, a loss of freedom, and nothing matters to Mat more than freedom. So he keeps his *Finn gained knowledge secret and tries to figure out: What will it mean to be collared by Tuon? Will she she treat him as a pretty and plaything the way Tylin did? Will she try to use him against Rand and the Westlands? Will she make him a slave and sent him to be beaten anytime he disobeys her? Will he have no choice but to fight her one day, this woman he is going to swear to spend his life with? Will he have to kill her the way he did Melindhra, and carry that guilt of mariticide on top of all else?

So the two stay in their strange limbo, because as long as they don't admit it out loud to the other, they can pretend they are still two people forced together by happenstance, and (each thinks) they can continue to try and understand and figure out the other, to find out where this inevitability of their marriage will really leave them, and if there can be even the faintest possibility of love in such circumstances. And that limbo- that protracted refusal to act as if they are under fate's direction- is what allows them to build a genuine bond of trust and respect for each other, and to start seeing the other person with the clarity that love requires. All this, so that when Tuon finally does play her hand, and reveal the truth....it's obvious they've long since fallen in love with each other (even though Tuon won't admit that to herself), and come to trust each other (even though Mat won't admit that to himself).

And the thing is- all of Jordan’s prophecy romances are written like this: from Egwene seeing that loving Gawyn might be both their downfalls in LoC and seeking him out anyways, to Perrin misinterpreting the 'falcon and hawk' viewing and thinking Faile is a danger to him when she's the love of his life, to Galad and Berelain not even being AWARE they’re fated to fall in love and just....do, at wild first sight (Another classic folklore/mythology trope). They also never find out:  always remaining unaware that the Pattern had long since decreed that they would be together and being incredibly funny/annoying about it. The prophesied love is an example of classic Jordan: taking a common, maybe even ubiquitous premise, and asking those complicating questions that allow him to write it as something much more nuanced and interesting and fascinating. And he gets no credit for it, send tumble.

[hikarielizabethbloom]

Egwene/Rand is the toll I must pay to get Rand/Lanfear, right?

[thesevenwondersofawitch]

Spoilers for WoT S3 e2

Oooooooooooo Elayne's Mom flashback👀

Awwwww baby Elayne

Oh hell nah, I see a traitor acting as an advisor👀

Oh wow, she really had them all killed huh👀

Oh👀 Elayne's Mom is here👀

That is a very dramatic outfit

Siuan making them wait is iconic lol

Eladia sucks

Morgane snapping at Siuan about what it means to be a mother is fabulous

Oooooooooooo Siuan is gonna take Morgase to see Elayne👀

Oooooooooo pretty topography 👀👀👀👀👀

I love Aviendha

Moiraine's lil sunhat🥹

Elayne seeing her little brother is so sweet🥹

Elayne's older brother underestimates her toughness lol

Oh no why are they there?👀 To bring Elayne home?

Awwww Elayne's chipper tone when addressing her mama🥹🥰

Oooooooooooo her mom saying Elayne has to leave👀🥺

Moiraine's outfit is so freaking cute

Oooooooooooo the way Moiraine asks Egwene if the bruises are from Rand👀

Well I guess even Moiraine doesn't know all the prophecies lol

I'm not gonna lie, I'm thrown off by the music a bit this season (I still like itz it's just unexpected)

And now they're back where it allcstaryef

Oh my god Alanna! And Maksim!

They've gotten quite far👀

Mat flirting with the aes sedai in training is great lol

The way everyone has gathered to watch Elayne's brothers spar😂😂

Aw, Elayne and Nynaeve are the only ones Siuan can trust within the tower

Of course the white cloaks are looking for Perrin

Poor Alanna and Maksim

Rand you are still sleeping with Lanfear? Not the wisest move in the grand scheme of things

Ooooooooooooh Egwane's nightmares and bruises are from Lanfear👀

Poor Mat being subjected to hearing people having sex😂

Oh god he has a room between the two princes 😂😂😂

Oooooooooooo👀 Elayne's searching for her mom

Aw, she's trying her mom's crown🥺

I do not trust Galad

No Elayne! Don't drink the wine! He isn't trustworthy (I wouldn't put it past him or others to lightly poison her to use it as a way to prove the tower is unsafe and unable to keep their own safe)

Huh I guess it's just them vibing then

I just realized this is the first time Siuan and Mat are meeting lol

"Normally I would never be one to brag" that's a bold faced lie my guy

Her advising him against showing his horn and brandishing it everywhere 😂

Siuan patting him on the shoulder after he hands the horn to her for safe keeping 😂😂

I guess Galad is just chilling, my bad

Good on you Elayne for standing up to your mom

I feel like Morgase is gonna find a way to prevent Elayne from doing her own thing

Moiraine is too cute I can't 🥺

Oh shit Eladia is staying at the tower 👀

And so are Elayne's brothers 😂

Oooooooooooo it's the lady from Egwane's dream!!!!

[dream-of-ravens]

Sees Rand: that’s Elayne’s wife!

Sees Avidendha: that’s Elayne’s wife!

Sees Birgitte: that’s Elayne’s wife!

[christophernolan]

What do you see when you look at me? Rainbows and carnivals and three beautiful women.

[highfantasy-soul]

wait....is avienda/elayne/rand - elphaba/glinda/fiyero?

Glinda/Elayne falling for Fiyero/Rand immediately - seeing so many similarities (both pushed to positions of authority and power - also both v pretty leading to a whirlwind romance)

Avienda/Elphaba and Elayne/Glinda creating a tight bond and admiring the differences between them (and also finding each other incredibly beautiful)

Avienda/Elphaba falling for Rand/Fiyero but feeling she can't/ he'll never love her back because he loves Elayne/Glinda and is betraying her friend if she acts on her feelings (and then waxing poetic about how beautiful Elayne/Glinda is to Rand/Fiyero (or in Elphaba's case, waxing poetic in her song about how she's 'not that girl'))

The obvious sexual tension between the two women and the entire fandom agreeing it should be a poly relationship!!

Idk man, the parallels are paralleling

I'd find you in every lifetime, etc etc

[kaiartx]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rand al'Thor/Lanfear | Cyndane Characters: Rand al'Thor, Lanfear | Cyndane, Aviendha (Wheel of Time), Nynaeve al'Meara, Logain Ablar, Ishamael | Moridin, Asmodean (Wheel of Time), Lews Therin Telamon Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe, i will update the tags as i post the chapters, eventual rand/logain, And other ships Summary:

Lanfear, the other Forsaken, Rand and his group navigate through the chaos that is high school. Who will date who? What kind of drama is everyone gonna be involved in? Who knows!

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

the randie My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.

(edit: artist is Ariel Burgess)