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Surprisingly, I'm developing interest towards their relationship. (Don't get me wrong I don't like Nicasia not even a little but I love how she was written)

I'd like to hear your thoughts about them. Why did he love her? (She's really different from Jude so I'm curious what attracted him to her)

How deep was his love for her?

How deep was their relationship?

Did he love her just as much as he loved Jude?

And any other thoughts about them is very much welcomed!

Posting this here as well (:

Surprisingly, I'm developing interest towards their relationship. (Don't get me wrong I don't like Nicasia not even a little but I love how she was written)

I'd like to hear your thoughts about them. Why did he love her? (She's really different from Jude so I'm curious what attracted him to her)

How deep was his love for her?

How deep was their relationship?

Did he love her just as much as he loved Jude?

And any other thoughts about them is very much welcomed!

I was telling my mother about tfota series, when I finished the events of the first book she said her fav was Jude. But after going further in the story she said her fav now is Cardan. She said the reason was because he had grown to be something different from his initial nature.

I never thought of it this way and to be fair I was always saying whenever I bring the story up is that all the Fae are different than humans and they are morally far from them.

But now I'm thinking of it. Cardan always had a good intentions since he was young. He didn't want to risk hurting a human, he was glad when he noticed that Jude isn't glamoured (when he first met her and she looked into his eyes), he freed the human servants, he wasn't actually THAT much cruel like the others (who were cruel for no reason other than they liked being cruel) most of his cruelty is a defence mechanism (which actually any human beings might develop it, it's not a Fae thing only), he values loyalty and love (ik some fae does but it's not that common), he forgave his mother (kinda) and still wanted her around and still yearned for her love, and overall I really see him as a forgiving person (he really forgave a lot of the people who did him wrong and didn't try to revenge), he mourned his family death and blamed his brother for killing his sisters, he never tried to glamour Jude even though he didn't know about her ability, and many more other things.

I don't think this traits are normal between the folk, and if you excluded the fact that he's not human and looked at his character as a whole at the end of the QoN I feel he'd seem like a human? I feel he gained a lot of humanity during the series and maybe reading all this human stories played a factor in it?

What do you think?

If she didn't cheat do you think they'd have stayed together? Was Cardan's love real enough to stay?

This might be a really dumb question but:

1. Why did Cardan ask Jude to tell him again that she hates him during the queen of mirth scene

2. Why did he ask her to say that again during that scene

3. In how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories. When Cardan ask her why she didn't hate everything and everyone, why Jude answered "I hated you"? What was this moment intended to show exactly?

So I hated him in the beginning of the wicked king because he was so irresponsible and my baby Jude was so overwhelmed with everything (but who am I to judge the boy was literally forced into the rule)

Then I was soooo disappointed when I thought he was drunk while the night before he was literally planning with the court of shadows to solve the problems (but then it was revealed he was poisoned lol)

However; in oak doulogy some folk said that Cardan leaves all the work to Jude. I'm not sure if their opinion is reliable. So what do you think Cardan is like as the king? Is he a good ruler?

Part of me thinks that Jude is the one who overwhelmes herself with all the tasks to prove she belongs and Cardan doesn't mind the folk to think of them like that because he would prefer them to be terrified of her (since she's human, so it's safer)

Also Oak mentioned Cardan using his true voice and stopped pretending when he was alone with jude?

UPDATE: after going back and forth in his novella, I'd assume that he doesn't "leave all the work for her" I feel he's more of against that work but Jude does it anyway since she wants to reassure herself and the others that she's worth of being a queen. I feel like Cardan hates to do dangerous things with no obvious profit (which Jude adores) and he's obviously against killing

Does Cardan canonaly have black nails? Where was it mentioned? Is it because he's fae and he does have non human/animal traits?

It was mentioned before that Madoc has long black nails, and some faeries have green? nail but they never mentioned Cardan's

Also in htkoelths's illustrations Cardan had normal short nails

Is it just me who don't like him in most fanarts? I feel like he's always mischaracterized

Also I don't like the heavy eye makeup he's frequently given; as far as I remember he only wears kohl, underlying his eyes with it (from time to time) but most fanarts gives him a lot of stuff going into his face

And they ALWAYS forget to draw the golden ring in his eyes 😭