Many e/riel fans use the bonds of Rhys and Tamlin’s parents to argue about elucien not being endgame, but I find that baseless and contradicting, because for something like that to be true means that both Lucien and Elain need to accept the bond first.
But let’s look more on the bonds Rhys and Tamlin’s parents had. What really made those bonds fail was not the luck of connection, they had all the potential to flourish just fine. What made those bonds fail was the ambition the male mates had towards power and rulling. They were blinded males by greed and that overuled their entire lifes, including personal relationships with family, leading to a very unfortunate ending as we know.
Lucien has been hunted, exiled, wounded, hurt. He needs healing and also to find his true identity. His place. His home. However, he is not a male near similar to them. He needs to love and be loved. And as we saw with Jesminda he loves beautifully and wholeheartedly.
Elain needs to find herself too, both physically and mentally. I’m sure has a voice and many things to say, but I know damn well she doesn’t have the right ears to listen to her. She needs to find her place too and I look forward to see her journey.
Considering how unexpected Lucien and Elain’s bond was to both of them, I think it is only natural to take time until they get there. However, I cannot unsee the fact that once they get there nothing will be more right, more whole.
In his rooms, where none is watching, the apparently impassive general can let go himself and his fears. During his duties he seems so confident, but it’s just because he is very good to hidden what haunt him from his childhood
Of COURSE LucasFilm fumbled the epic romance of Reylo. They managed to take a fantastic tragic romance (Padme + Anakin) and turn it into something that made folks laugh or cringe.
*watches pear float by*
Well, now I just feel silly. I’m a historian and I KNOW it repeats itself.
The western stereotype about Ukraine and Ukrainians was created by the russiacentrism in the entire field of slavic studies. Remember Yuval Harari, who in 2019 consented to have russian edition of his book censored and even rewrote some parts, because “russia is world-leading power”. So it goes: russia is a “world-leading power” and Ukraine is its backyard, a bleak suburb; something that makes no difference if it exists or not. We were invisible, hidden in the shadow of this great giant.
The origin all these stereotypes come from the history textbooks. All politicians, prior to choosing whether to send us weapons or not, were sitting their asses in Oxfords, Harwards, Cambridges, etc. And when they opened the history textbooks, they learned that russian history began at the christening of Kyiv. And what was ukrainians’ place in this history? Bah, that’s just some primitive tribespeople running around, who cares. That’s the worldview russians taught the european politicians.
In 2014 I was approached with an apology from Karl Schlögel, one of the leading german specialists in slavic history, who told me “My whole life, I only saw Kyiv as a third biggest city of the russian empire”. This is a very typical situation. You can waste your entire life telling western europeans about our culture, our authors, etc., but they would only be looking through you. We remained unseen and unheard, because there was only “big russia”, and who the hell you are? You have never been here. You have 72 hours to spread your legs before great russian army and appease putin, to make everything fine again.
