#war storm

[imjulia-andilikecats]

THROWBACK: When The Calore Brothers' IQ Momentarily Drop in Some Scenes:

The Red Queen Fandom:

[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).

[maryxherie]

mare barrow fanart in 2024

love ur work @vaveyard

[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?

[mavenne]

“Jon would not tell me about the dead futures—the ones no longer possible. I think about them, though,” he mumbles.

“A Silver King, a Red Queen.

How would things have changed? How many would still be alive?”

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[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

[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.

[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

[a-library-ghost]

so we all picture him as maven calore right

[darklinaforever]

Me, thinking back to this scene in volume 2 of Red Queen, where Mare's best friend, after declaring her one-sided love, also tells her that we don't choose who we love (who we fall in love with in this context of course), then she thinks back to Maven and their kiss from volume 1, when she had just kissed Cale not so long ago.

Me, thinking back to that moment in volume 3 where Mare says she's still clinging to the ghost of the man she thought Maven was and loved. That she wishes to believe that he is still there somewhere.

Mare telling Maven that he broke her heart as much as Cale did in volume 4.

Still in volume 4, Mare wanting to see Maven's body to be sure that he is really dead and that all her suffering is finally over, but at the same time, not wanting to see him and being relieved that his body was not found because seeing the Maven's corpse would have been the equivalent of seeing herself dead too.

Then, Mare, in the last pages, mentioning all the people she misses : Maven being in it.

Mare and Maven had a relationship that was twisted and toxic as hell, but they still loved each other...

Bonus : Maven briefly regaining control of himself, letting Mare kill him so he wouldn't have to kill her / because he didn't want to kill her.

[lilyharvord]

It’s all: “you could have been my red queen” this and “thief/obviously” that, but WHEN are we going to talk about: “I thought of you in the end, I saw your face in the water.”????? HMMM?! When? When are we going to talk about this?

[imjulia-andilikecats]

Gentle Remider...

Note: The fact that Mare thought Cal was such a liar for faking an accent, when Maven over here faked a whole personality.

[ball-of-butter]

red queen book 1 is just “daughter-in-law goes head to head with the ultimate boy mum”

[maryxherie]

and some tiberias vii calore fanart too cause why not

[northernember]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BESTEST BOY,

CAL!!!!

Im so sad I wasnt able to finish the piece I was drawing for this day, alas I was fighting for my life

so have this old drawing I never uploaded of the birthday boy

[king-maven-calore]

*Cal's inner monologue after Mare leaves him at the end of War Storm*