#war storm

[lenstarsx3]

mare after being told “you have terrible taste in men”

[lucy-the-cat]

Favorite Maven lines?

ugh I have to read the books again but:

"The punishment she deserves. Really. Are my parties that bad?"

"I don't use my spies to track your emotions, Mare. No, my darling. I just know you better than anyone else."

"But yours is coming up, isn't it? I have no doubt we'll spend it together."

I forget the exact wording but something in his letters in Glass Sword about how Cal wasn't going to escape Mare's leash

"But if you'd like to return, and pretend you're doing it to save some nameless soldiers, then I'm happy to welcome you back."

"But I do so miss our conversations. You keep me sane, Mare."

"Jon said he couldn't see them, the dead futures. An easy lie. It let him manipulate me in a way even Samson couldn't. And when he led me to you, well, I didn't argue. How was I to know what a poison you'd be?"

"I like your hair."

"I tried, Mare."

The entirety of the bathtub scene

And that's all I can remember off the top of my head

[kelpweedkelpweedingkelpweeds]

There's something so special about marecal's dynamic because instead of "I'd burn the world down for you", it's "I love you, but I will choose my loyalties over you. If I had to I would leave, although it would destroy me on the inside. I would sacrifice everything we have for the sake of what I believe is right, even though I would hate myself forever because of it. I would let go when the time comes, but it would ruin me in a way that nothing could ever come close to fixing. I can give you up, at the cost of my sanity and my heart and my soul and never loving anyone the same way ever again."

[ball-of-butter]

rest in peace to the real ones (mare barrow and runin fang) for having to put up with their crazy rich bratty mentally unstable ex-situationships whose betrayals shifted the entire narrative and who couldn’t help but induce psychological warfare through the messiest, most passive-aggressive letters

[imjulia-andilikecats]

Cal Fighting For His Love in the First Half of War Storm

[maveys-baby]

no bc the part in War Storm, right after they capture Maven and they're carrying him away and he's talking to the voice in his head saying, "I did as you said, I did as you said" breaks my heart into a million pieces every single time omg.

[the-best-skibidi-rizzler]

What do the silvers even look like?

Like i was thinking about it and realised how strange they would look, like any undertones or pink in our skin would be silver for them like...

their mouths, their tounges, when i first read the books i kinda just pictured a silver blush maybe twighlight esque looking y'know? but like they'd be so freaking silver

please tell me I'm not the only one who took this long to realise

[kracenstar]

Controversial take here but: the horrible and horrific things Maven had done wouldn’t have been overlooked or forgiven by the fandom if Maven wasn’t attractive.

[lily-style]

*spoilers about red queen/ending&theories*

I'm curious about something.. did Ptolemus ever try to apologize for what he did to Shade.. I know he kinda feel guilty but as they live somehow together (as Mare and Evangeline get close) did he ever try to talk with Barrow's or Farley? And also there is a whole new generation coming in, Shade and Farley's child and Mare&Cal's.. so are they try to become a big family or still hate and ignore each other?

[highladyofterrasen7]

Me @ cal

[eduarda-everhart]

In war storm Mare wanted Cal to join her in the shower.

And it got me thinking...

[a-library-ghost]

so we all picture him as maven calore right

[sixofhoez]

No one understands how much I love Mare for not hiding her M scar. Instead, displaying it proudly to not only show that she survived, but to really paint the picture of how much of a Monster Maven was.

She so brave

[ball-of-butter]

i love that red queen puts family as the chief unit of love even above true romantic love like that for some reason is SO overrated in ya media. i dont think of the characters within friendship or romantic groups first, i unconsciously catergorise them into their family.

cal loves mare but cal will put maven first always and he loves his dad and his image so much he’s willing to sacrifice his character and relationship with her to fulfil the expectations set by his family and its not until realising what his MOTHER wanted for him that he lets go. and mare loves cal but she will always put her siblings and parents first which is why everything started with gisa and shade’s loss and it ended with her sister and the loss of her brother too. maven loves mare but he loves elara more even if she twisted him and elara loves maven more than the entire kingdom and thats why she twisted him. and elara couldn’t enact her plan to make maven king without getting rid of his love for cal first!! when shade gets killed mare HAS to kill elara because that is the only way she can make sure her pain is even with at least one person.

cameron does everything for her brother’s safety, she was willing to abandon her morals and dehumanise anyone standing in her way if thats what needed to happen. and after morrey was safe she quit— nothing was worth losing herself over except him. farley and shade’s love was so pure that it brought life and family to the farleys who were already broken with the grief of being halved. their love brought a daughter named after the death of the woman that destroyed the family, and it was so healing.

and that is what KILLS me about the samos family!!! that compared to all this unconditional loyalty— the samos family is a continuous act of playing at love and loyalty, when in reality volos and larentia could not care less about their children because they dont know how to. silver society never showcases this love and so then you have so many parents fucking up their kid in so many ways but doing it out of love because thats how they see it— all except volo and larentia.

so the samos family is an exception. i cant think of evangeline without thinking of elane and ptolemus and i cant think of ptolemus without thinking of evangeline and wren. thats their family. and at least evangeline and ptolemus experienced real love with each other, even if they were never taught it (evangeline’s fear over shade’s death was proof that she could imagine a world without him and it was one of the few times she was genuinely scared in the series).

[imjulia-andilikecats]

Mini Calore Bro Headcanon:

When they have their Chess Game Night. 60% of the time, they sit in utter silence.

Then Maven would open his mouth and start serving the hottest, juiciest gossip he picked up within the Whitefire Palace. Cal might be a polite gentleman, but he would never say no to tasty gossip. A.k.a. The Gossip Bros.😎

[maveys-baby]

Thinking ab how insane it would've been if Victoria included a moment in RQ that showed King Tiberias being kind/gentle/loving toward Maven, and then Maven later denying that it ever happened. It would show how Elara went into his head and changed him. Took things out to make him believe his father didn't care for him when, in fact, he did. Thus making the rest of it that much more heartbreaking.

Cal says Tibe loved Maven and I genuinely believe it. My masochistic little heart wishes VA would've explored that a little more.