#taryn x Locke

[stargirlfeyre]

Taryn really got with a man who from the beginning was playing games with her and using her twin sister to do it and she genuinely believed that he was in love with her…

I can’t stand a bird brained bitch.

[maingh0st]

saw a post ridiculing taryn for believing locke when he said the fae love differently than humans (& therefore believing his cruelty was necessary). not responding to the post directly because like. I’m not here to bully people about their takes lmao

but omg can you not see the tragedy in that? this young woman has had such a traumatic, frightful upbringing—her main models of fey love have been madoc the wife murderer/adoptive father and distant, proper oriana—why wouldn’t she believe locke? who, as a reminder, can’t lie; he really meant and believed what he said, as messed up as that is.

give me a reason for taryn not to believe him—for her to want better for herself—that’s not (1) based in our world and therefore irrelevant to taryn or (2) based in how cardan grows to love jude, because that’s meta-knowledge that taryn is not privy to

it’s just so sad and strange to me when people hold up jurdan as a way to ridicule taryn. like it’s beautiful and wonderful and rare that jude and cardan found safety and belonging in one another—and you’re really going to use that to mock a girl who believed it when she was told that kind of love wasn’t in the cards for her? holy shit dudes

[lockethefox]

Hi.

@highking-cardan my friend.

@mortalqueenofelfhame hello Jude.

@faerievalerian @nicasiablueblue also my friends.

@thetarynduarte my wife.

@leander-duarte my son

@pr1nce0fsunl1ght brother

@faerieliriope mother

@theghostoftheshadows you killed my mother.

+ inconsequential people.

[thejudeduarte]

One of the things I hate most about myself is realising that I am more similar to Taryn than I am to Jude 😭💀

[shadowqueenjude]

FUCK YOU HOLLY THIS IS MY WEAKNESS. THEY SOUND LIKE ELUCIEN NOW AND I DON'T LIKE IT.

[i-only-see-daylight]

Locke: You’re insane! 

Jude: Sure I am, what’s your point?

[brookesophelias]

The Cruel Prince seems to be a story that was only written because it had a better sequel coming later.

— me 45% into this aforementioned book (hoping it will improve later)

[herwold]

The Folk of the Air moodboards

~ 3/13 ~ Taryn Duarte

[elwoodallimann]

Madoc : *kills spouse*

Taryn : *kills spouse*

Jude, looking at Cardan with knife in hand : I'm sorry apparently there's a new family tradition

[xcruelprincessx]

Locke being obsessed with wanting to be the main character in his stories and ending up being murdered off screen would never not be funny to me 🤣. I just know how much he would hate that his murder wasn't even important enough to make it to the books!

[starrynightsxo]

MY MAN CARDAN REALLY DID THAT IM DYING

[lockethefox]

@thetarynduarte how have you and Leander been?

[thejudeduarte]

Period.

[madockisser]

cardan coming to jude’s defense and calling taryn out for her mistreatment toward jude in the first book means everything to me.

“no wonder locke likes you so much, you’re awful.” ( not exact quote but from taryns novella)

[clarissaweasley-10]

Cardan: Jude, do you love me? Jude: We are literally married Cardan: But as friends or-

[praisethelorde]

Has anyone else noticed this about Locke?

In The Stolen Heir, it's revealed that Oak is a Love Talker aka Gancanagh (a faerie who is able to quicken desire in both faeries and mortals and also seduce them just by word of mouth) because his mother, Liriope, was also one. This means that--because Oak and Locke share the same mother--Locke was most definitely also a Love Talker. This could explain why Taryn so easily betrayed Jude, her own twin sister, for Locke. It could also be the reason Nicasia suddenly cheated on Cardan with him. It was so easy for Locke to manipulate and seduce almost everyone around him because of this power of his. It could also explain why Cardan remained friends with him even after what he did.