#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.

[atlanticum]

A rundown of my favorite "The Queen of Nothing" moments<33333

• Does he have a new seneschal? Does he have a new lover? <…> Does he talk about me?…

• “Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's hearts.” I feel like Jude agreed with Heather at that moment:/

• “You,” I say to my twin. “Get out.” YOU GO GIRL

• “Locke is dead” LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS IS THE MOMENT WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

• The very thought of being there, of seeing Cardan, speeds my heart. Oh juuuuude

• "I knew you liked her," says Locke. "That's why I had to have her first. Do you remember the party in my maze garden? How I kissed her while you watched?" "I recall that your hands were on her, but her eyes were on me," Cardan returns. I FUCKING LOVE THIS

• "I loved him." "Sometimes I believed that you did, yes," Cardan says absently. AND THE FACT THAT HE KNEW IT WAS JUDE

• "Jude never loved Locke." "She loved someone else. He's the one she'd want dead.” —or in her bed who knows;)?!

• WHEN CARDAN SAYS HE’LL “EXAMINE” HER ALONE IN HIS CHAMBERS. Naughtyyy boy;)

• “Well, didn’t you get my letters?” “What letters?” THIS LITERALLY RIPS MY HEART OUT AND TEARS IT TO SHREDS

• "Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh." *Crying, screaming, throwing up*

• When Cardan tries to explain the exile to her and that it was all a trick that she was supposed to figure out and be proud of him, but he doesn’t have enough time… :(

• I am the Queen of Elfhame. Even though I am the queen in exile, I am still the queen. And that means Madoc isn't just trying to take Cardan's throne. He's trying to take mine.

• The fact that even when The Ghost betrayed her, when Jude found him she still wanted to save him!!! SHE’S THE BEST

• I'm not going to let myself get distracted by letters I never received or the way he looked at me when we were alone in his rooms or my father's theories about his weaknesses. I’m a tad speechless…

• WHEN THE ROACH COMES TO SAVE HER WITH CARDAAAAN!!! AND FOR HER HE LOOKS EVERY INCH A SPY FROM THE COURT OF SHADOWS

• “That boy is your weakness” OH WOW stupid Madoc is right about one thing. SHOCKER.

• Let Cardan not be shot. Let the Ghost be clumsy. Let me get inside easily. Let me stop him.

I do not pause to ask myself why I am in such a panic to save someone for whom I swore I rooted out every feeling. I will not think about that. Oh, sweetheart.

• “Do not touch her. She is my wife," Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. “The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile." CHILLS. literal chills.

• Cardan stands over me. <…> His white sleeves are rolled up, and he’s washing my hands with a wet cloth. My gods, i’m dying, he cares about her so much

• (about the gown)>> It is perhaps too plain for a queen, but Cardan is extravagant enough for both of us.

• “And the next thing we know, the High King is on our doorstep looking ready to tear down the whole apartment complex to find you” AAGHAHAHA I LOVE HIM

• “It was terrifying watching you fall. I mean you’re generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you. And then I was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before”

• “I was afraid of you when I had a knife to your throat” this tore my heart open

• “This is my room” he points out, affronted “And that’s my wife”. FUCK YEAH “So you keep telling everyone” the bomb says AAAHAH LOVE HER

• “Oh, I don’t know,” I say “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream”. oh he would “I would” Cardan says “And perhaps one day I will” I’M FOLDED.

• “Unlike Locke, I never thought love was a game” he says “You may accuse me of much, but not that” oh boy

• “I offer my queen’s hospitality. The hospitality if knives” ah, yes, badass jude

• “You looked like a knight jn a story tonight” I’M ON MY KNEES CRYING. THIS IS TOO CUTE.

• “By you, I am forever undone” I AM SCREAAAAMINGGGGGG

• “My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned”

• “It’s you I love” he says “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours” ABSOLUTELY MELTINGGGGG

• I can’t believe he said that and then just walked out, leaving me reeling. I am going to strangle him. I adore her

• When the bomb hugs her once they see each other, when Cardan was turned into a snake.

• “Please. I will do whatever you want. I will give up the crown. I will make any bargain. Just please fix him. Help me break the curse” im gonna cry

• I was happy, just before everything went so terribly wrong. This is gut wrenching

• They won. Everything was going to work out. AND HE LOVED HER

• “I would settle for even his worst self, his cruelest trickster self, if only he could be here” THIS IS ENEMIES TO LOVERS AHAAHAHA

• The Ghost’s eyebrows rise, and he glances at me. I grin.

• Like the whole thing how the Roach is telling the Bomb that he loves her is hilarious and super cute.

• The way Jude thinks that she can never tell Cardan how she feels is so sad. If Holly black had actually killed him off I would have died with him.

• “With my whole heart, I wish Cardan was here” she is longing for his annoyance I CANNNOT

• WHEN NICASIA TOLD HER THAT HE SENT THE GOWN I WAS SCREAMING MY GODSsss “He never told you, did he?”

• “And I saw the way you used to look at him when you didn’t think anyone was watching you” AAAH YESSS

• He’s every bit as terrifying as any serpent. i don’t care. I run into his arms. IM ON THE FLOOR SOBBING

• He holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world. im absolutely dead in the best way possible

• “You don’t want me dead” “If you joke about this, I am going to—“ “Kill me?” I think I might hate him after all Thin line between love and hate, right Jude;)

• “I knew little else, but I always knew you” MY HEART IS EXPLODING

• And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again. MY HEART SQUEEZED IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY

• When Cardan silences Randalin when he interrupts Jude. You tell them KING

• THEY’RE CELEBRATING THAT THEY GOT MARRIED YEYYYYYYYYY

• When Cardan adjust his crown and she rolLs HeR eYeS and HE GRINS.

• To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.

i’m absolutely in love with these series🤍

[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

[clarissaweasley-10]

Cardan Greenbriar really took "would you still love me if I was a worm" to another level...

[atlanticum]

in my very honest (maybe unpopular) opinion the ghost started to have a “crush” on Taryn, because they’re twins and she looks exactly like Jude, because i had a feeling he had feelings for Jude first, but he knows she loves Cardan and he could never have her, so he can have Taryn, because that’s as close as he can get.

[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!

[lockethefox]

@thetarynduarte how have you and Leander been?

[thejudeduarte]

Period.

[starrynightsxo]

MY MAN CARDAN REALLY DID THAT IM DYING