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Locke:

[The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds]

I made this on my wrong blog, I meant to make post this on @tttfota

Jude: I’m a reverse necromancer. 

Cardan: Isn’t that just killing people? 

Jude: Ah, technically.

Cardan: We all have our demons. 

Cardan, grabbing Jude: This one’s mine.

Jude: I am in charge of this disaster! 

Cardan: I have a name, you know.

Jude: *walks into the room* 

Oak: She's covered in blood again. Why is it she's always covered in blood? 

The Roach: Well, it looks like it’s her own blood this time.

Cardan, dramatically: They called me a fool. 

Jude, sick of Cardan's shit: They weren’t wrong.

I've read the folk of air series a while ago and I don't remember correctly. Did Cardan ever straight up told Jude he loves her?

basically yeah. he did that whole 'shabby worm-eaten heart' thing and jude was so pissed that he just walked away afeterwards and didnt give her a chance to say it back. and then he turned into a snake yippeee

That's literally how it was lmao

everybody: jude broke her exile! she tried to kill cardan! arrest her! kill her!!

cardan:

I'm pretty sure it was about 9-10 months.

Because at the end of The Wicked King, it's hunters moon and that's about midst/ends of autumn, meaning october, and then Jude is taken to the undersea for a month/ month and a half, and not long later she is banished, that could be anywhere between november/december.

And then at the begining of Queen of Nothing it's mentioned that it's early autumn, so maybe the first weeks of semptember? Maybe a little later.

So I believe it was around 9 or 10 months

Did Holly ever confirm how long Jude was exiled for? I've seen people speculate from few weeks to five months... and now I really need to know.

Sometimes I just think of when Cardan is telling Jude about the whole thing where her exile was just a scheme or whatever, I think of how Cardan just wanted Jude to be proud of him, proud because he fooled everyone, just like she does. I think about it and break just a little bit more, because that's how he would have made Baelkin proud, by doing what his brother would have done, so he just assumed to make Jude proud he had to do what she does. Our baby High King was just so desperate for love and validation, indeed.

I don't think we talk about it enough, but Cardan is simply the world's last romantic. Think about it, when most fae have an open relationship (even Taryn, who is considered the romantic character, didn't have a monogamous marriage) he ended his relationship with Nicasia when he discovered her betrayal. He never had anything more to do with her either. Even if it was just for sex, there was no love anymore. Even when Jude tells him to seduce Nicasia, Cardan doesn't go any further than a few kisses. Also because, for me it's canon, he was thinking about another girl.

The breach of trust was the main factor, of course, but I believe Cardan wanted to be the only one for her. In his novel, it is said that Cardan is a little afraid of Balekin wanting to get close to Nicasia, but she reassures him that she has no interest in another man - Locke not included, apparently. He's never been special to anyone, so having someone's heart all to himself was all he wanted.

In The Wicked King (after the kissing scene), Cardan goes to Jude to talk about that night. They didn't even get to "finally", but he was already completely in love and I'm sure that if Jude hadn't dismissed him, he would have talked about feelings and tried to formalize their relationship. Also, despite the fact that, using Jude's words, he was always "practically draped in courtiers", Cardan didn't try to pressure her. Although he desired Jude, it was never just about sex for him.

Now in The Queen of Nothing, even though they're married, Cardan never tries anything with Jude and when he does, he waits patiently for a signal and even when he gets one, he's totally cautious, pulling away at the slightest sign of Jude's discomfort. He still thinks she might change her mind. We only see Jude's pov, but it's evident from Cardan's nervousness that even though he's so experienced in the "art of love", he wanted their first time to be special, because Jude was special. The detail that they only have sex after the wedding is also so cute, not in a puritanical, annoying way, but as if they were both waiting for an important moment. When they finally trusted each other enough to give themselves completely.

Please, Cardan likes books, flowers, sleeping cuddled up with Jude and caress her with his tail. For me, he will always be the most sensitive, romantic and faithful husband of all time.

this parallel lives rent free in my head

reading Sueño for class and tell me this isn’t about Cardan (especially the last line)

I think about this alot