Bestie. You Need Therapy. Not A Fae Prince With Midnight Hair And Razor Sharp Jawline Who Hates You Because

Bestie. You need therapy. Not a Fae prince with midnight hair and razor sharp jawline who hates you because he thinks of you. Often. It's disgusting, and he can't stop.

"You are my creature, Jude Duarte."

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"Tell me that you are mine, Jude."

"I am your creature, Prince Balekin," I say, looking into his eyes and lying with my whole heart.

dunno if this makes sense but I found this parallel. turns out dain and balekin are more alike than we thought 🤨🤷

friendly reminder that jude was so furious with balekin for poisoning cardan in twk that her hands shook

Macbeth/ The Cruel Prince

"Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up thine own life’s means!”

“The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.”

I know that in the first, Ross is talking about patricide, but in general, when it comes to ambition and how far a person will go, there are a lot of parallels between The Cruel Prince and Macbeth. (Never mind the fact that Madoc always reminded me of Macbeth, and so did Jude, for those parts of her that reminded me of Madoc.)

jude duarte's heroism and bravery lies in her standing up for herself it's not some lame and boring captain-america-standing-up-for-the-little-guy bullshit that main characters generally have and i LOVE that about her folk of the air would have changed the trajectory of my life if middle school me had read the books her selfishness and survival is so admirable most of the times people overlook her characterisation because we're all focusing on jude x cardan and it's ridiculous because she's such a layered character everything she does is for her own survival in this essay i will-

i can’t stop thinking about this