#tfota throwaway

[ivycrestfell]

madoc giving jude a ruby ring in her childhood and also a ruby studded pen is terribly on brand for him. Of course he favors rubies, the color of spilled blood.

Anyways, what are the chances he draped his daughters in them, allowing them to make merry with his ridiculous wealth as a way to try to atone for what he cast onto them. am i remembering incorrectly or was Jude’s original coronation dress supposed to be red and probably covered in rubies?

i guess it’s his signature symbol, a part of his family crest. Whereas eldred had the blood crown (or perhaps a tree? Or does that just represent his family/kingdom?), balekin had a grackle, dain a falcon, Elowyn- most likely a lark, and all of the other crests that were mentioned that i forgot. (Would cardan have had a raven? If he had a choice in the matter- rather than just taking balekins crest as a grackle.)

(i imagine jude and cardans crests merging when they wed (or rather when jude became queen), so a sword cutting through a tree and its roots, with the two broken halves of the blood crown on either side. plus a rubies littered across the roots like spilled blood to resemble all of the blood that was shed for and over the blood crown. just a silly headcanon but it’s cute to me)

i can imagine all of the enraged faeries at court seeing human children basking in the wealth of madocs love and money. Cardan certainly felt that way.

wish we got more of jude and Taryn’s childhood, more details of madoc being loving rather than a bloodthirsty one. would’ve made his betrayal hurt all the more. Love a good excruciating father-daughter relationship.