#this is so rambly… I’m fully brain-barfing here anon lmao

[lexalovesbooks]

whats the most underrated character in ACOD

Hmm… I think the acod fandom is a little too small to have ‘underrated’ characters in the way I usually think of, but if we take underrated to mean characters we could have seen more of in canon, I’m going to go with Sheloran I think. I really liked what we saw of her! She’s a fun mix of confident with the skills to back it up while still being fairly lighthearted and easy-going (as opposed to say… Senera, who is all these things but who I’m not convinced has ever chilled out once in her life). In book one she’s just a side character who’s immediately down to help kihrin with his ‘spying’, just for fun and something to do outside of usual royal activities, and then book four reveals that not only have her parents BOTH been god-kings all along, but she also was 100% a crazy powerful spellcaster the entire time who has her eyes on changing the world. I also really like the line in the discord of gods where she expresses a bit of disappointment that she didn’t get chosen to become a herald of one of the eight, but then is like “though actually this probably works out fine, bc in the future Galen and Qown will have immortality and power already guaranteed for them, and we all know I was the most likely to become a god-king before all this. This is just motivation to get there faster.” I love ambitious girls who know exactly how powerful they are <3 Also overall the contrast of how she’s portrayed by both kihrin and Thurvishar in book one vs what we see of her several books later is just… great. Not quite a facade but definitely a very different side of her.