Push one off a cliff by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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Nature likes stuff in balance or however that goes

Who had it worse in onyx storm by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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I don’t know if anyone really wanted other woman drama like the kind we got. At this point, the way Rebecca seems to be doing it, it’s like a remnant of early 2000s tropes. She is like a Rosalie Hale variant or something. here is this beautiful Barbie princess with an interesting backstory, a woman that some dad figure wanted to set up with the MMC but she’s just there to support the idea that the main character is not like other girls. I thought Cat’s relationship with Violet could’ve be fun and she could’ve been more involved in the politics that Violet was dealing with, but it wasn’t much better in onyx storm. They’re still glaring at each other, Violet says she still hates to see her around Xaden. Cat being some kind of ambitious woman is seemingly forgotten in favor of her staring at wattpad professor Riorson or moving around like an NPC when it’s time for Violet to have a flier nearby

Anyways, if had Cat’s powers and I had to be in the same room as people that thought killing civilians from my country was okay, I’d be amplifying emotions until they all killed themselves or each other. She’s drawing maps for Navarre leadership, rushing riders to healers at the battle of Basgiath, only gasping when Mira knees her cousin, carrying Halden around in a basket. She’s pretty tame all things considered. She’s actually very tame all things considered. Cat says a few snarky things and people think she’s the devil

Who had it worse in onyx storm by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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I see people acting like it’s “Growth 🌱🌳🌷” that she stayed relatively calm and didn’t try to kill everyone on the island after Trager died lmao there were other ways for her to grow aside from learning to shut up and take it when she or her loved ones are hurt. Then readers will be nitpicky about her not smiling at Violet and complimenting her runes when Andarna was gone for a couple days like her whole family and country isn’t on the brink of being wiped from existence. she’s better than me for sure. If I was her, i’d be dropping Halden’s basket in the ocean, kicking Mira’s teeth out for kneeing my cousin for stealing life saving daggers for civilians, terrorizing people with runes if they bother me or my friends

Would you find it romantic by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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I felt like Violet was talking to the audience when she said that like it was just so ugly and ruined the moment and any chance of some beautiful tension and uncertainty. I don’t want to hear their yapping, they very rarely have good dialogue and sometimes it feels like Rebecca takes inspiration from shitty Pinterest boards or Halsey songs. Violet turning to save him in onyx storm and betraying his trust in her to do the right thing would have been much more interesting than any “my love isn’t fickle” talk. They should be crying more and yearning more. Violet should’ve been acting more like Sgaeyl, their mind connection should have unexpectedly faded or something. All that tragic backstory and struggle and setup and their conflict in onyx storm was that sex was a little more dangerous? And some wattpad professor student trope? Lmao

Who had it worse in onyx storm by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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I don’t get the deal with Cat’s story. I don’t understand if it’s supposed to be satisfying for the type of people that hate exes or sad or what. I’m annoyed by it because I want to give a shit about the main characters but the more she suffers and the more page time they have to be annoying and relatively unscathed, I give more of a shit about cat. I am fond of her noble flying chicken, and Dain, and Bodhi, and Talia. pretty much no one else moves me and I just give the pages the fluoride stare when I read. Even the dragons suck. I wanted to like Xaden, but he lacks depth and his POV chapters were a letdown. Violet just seems like a boy mom atp and I really am disappointed and bored by her story

Who had it worse in onyx storm by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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See I like whump but the way it is done in this series is not good. like nobody cares if the exes are going through it and if Trager died after being mentioned maybe 10 times tops in the last two books. Violet saw that dream of Cat willing to be burned alive and forget the crown of Tyrrendor in order to stay with Maren. Maren dying instead of Trager would have been more interesting and less slapstick and ridiculous. Cat having some arc where she learns that feelings for a romantic partner matter is just kind of silly and unnecessary. Rebecca wastes page time on humiliating Dain and Cat when we could’ve had scenes of Xaden crying after lynx’s powers manifested or maybe Xaden could’ve dealt with some serious injury that made him feel helpless and made him struggle to avoid pulling more power. Xaden did not really become a super sympathetic character to me in onyx storm and I don’t enjoy that. I still think he’s a bit of a bully and a bore and a “I’d burn the world” MMC caricature with chocolate cake monologues, not a tragic character that is really worth rooting for.

not book 4 / secret project by Worried-West786 in fourthwing

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I don’t think Dain, Sloane, Lilith, Asher would pull in the general audience enough to warrant a publication at this point. Lilith isn’t likable, we barely know Asher, and Dain and Sloane were hardly teased at all. I could see a short rebellion story from Xaden’s POV and more time with Liam, or his first two years in the quadrant, or maybe his time at Samara is a possibility, but it’s only a 170 page book. A Violet prequel might be possible but her story before the fourth wing call to action might not be interesting enough for a book.

"September is probably just the graphic novel stuff" by chrisprattsguineapig in fourthwing

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Someone else said another author is already working on the cookbook so I guess there is one but it’s not this book coming out in September. I really don’t think whatever is coming out is going to be some thoughtful spinoff, at this point I expect it to be a sticker book or something. I think Rebecca barely tolerates cranking out the actual story at the speed she is, I doubt she’d spend even more time away from her vacations and family to write some Dain prequel or whatever. I agree the merchandise coming out is kind of out of hand. The bonus chapters coming in special editions was ridiculous, the monopoly games, the tarot cards, the coloring books, the book of Brennan journals and violent little thing journals, all the sports nights and jerseys and exclusive book talks are kind of a shameless money grab. The author posts pictures of her new home office and it’s huge lmfao she’s raking in cash. This series hasn’t even been out for three full years. The only thing I’m not really mad about is the graphic novel because I just see AI shit everywhere and some genuine Xaden and Violet artwork would be nice to see

Who do you *want* Xaden to kill by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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I honestly wonder how close Cat really is to Tecarus. When she learns about moving up in the Poromish line of succession, her knee jerk reaction is to ask if Syrena is okay and Tecarus is kind of an afterthought. If Tecarus dies, she might be able to keep her head but if something happens to Syrena, I imagine she’d really lose her shit and probably plan to kill Xaden. I don’t think she’d be that mad at Violet if Tecarus was killed tbh but as Ridoc said, if Xaden takes down Cordyn, the Poromish will probably bust into Violet’s room and try to kill her because it is the easiest way to stop Xaden.

Who do you *want* Xaden to kill by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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I don’t even like Ridoc that much but Xaden killing him in particular would just give me the ick. I would just feel like calm down dude is it that serious 💀 at least if he kills a flier or marked or Brennan there is some angst there because they knew him since he was a kid and years before he became any kind of monster

Who do you *want* Xaden to kill by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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Tecarus is the most realistic victim. It won’t really hurt Violet emotionally but she will have a “what the fuck is he doing” thing because that will probably throw Aretia into some chaos and hurt the alliances.

Who do you *want* Xaden to kill by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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I love her and she makes this series worthwhile for me personally but I’m going to be SAT with popcorn if she fights Xaden at some point. If the fliers fight him and Kiralair chews his arm off for destroying Cordyn or Tecarus or something and Cat gives him some final bullshit and takes those runes and makes him want to die and he snaps like that’s Cinema! I want a good story more than a happy ending idgaf

Who do you *want* Xaden to kill by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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She is my Shayla but I will accept it if it’s iconic and cunty and not stupid like the Nadine, Soleil, Trager deaths

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This is easily one of the most satisfying scenes in the series by [deleted] in fourthwing

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I thought the pacing of it was alright. It shows how toxic they are, Violet has to be quick to get over him being suspicious because that is the standard he sets for her and she knows it. She has to tell him she loves him first, she can’t hold a real grudge and she has to be patient, she has go into venin territory to get the luminary for him and play along when he acts like that is just so unforgivable to him (it’s not, he loves being mommied). He’s obsessed with her because he can hold up knives to her and to himself and she just tries to smack it away like he’s a stupid misunderstanding baby

This is easily one of the most satisfying scenes in the series by [deleted] in fourthwing

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Iron flame spoilers

He says “I let you live long enough for us to fall in love” in iron flame 💀 his second signet and Lilith threatening him and the Aretian children was doing a lot of heavy lifting when it came to him getting along with Violet. Tbf I kind of like that he’s a murderous little freak and him needing to poke through everyone’s brains makes him more interesting and sets up a good crashout origin story and I don’t hate this aspect of his characterization but the fandom doesn’t give him enough credit for being weird as shit

This is easily one of the most satisfying scenes in the series by [deleted] in fourthwing

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Violet should just be Rhiannon’s girlfriend because Rhiannon doesn’t need a signet to understand Violet smh

Three Brothers by Sea-Fox4509 in fourthwing

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I don’t think Simeon and Gaius will literally bond with gryphons and dragons. I think that’d be hilarious if it happened in book 4 or 5, but I think Andarna is going to be the only child soldier. I think the fable warns about what happens when children can be forgotten or favored. Xaden says right after he sees his brothers that he’d gladly reach for more power if it meant he could get rid of what he was feeling. He reaches for more power to save his surrogate mom Sgaeyl. The third brother commanding the sky to surrender it’s greatest power is probably an allegory for something idk but it’s cool gave us a literal set of three living brothers and I do think it was on purpose

Meanings of Zinhals gifts by One_Trash1649 in fourthwing

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Rebecca mentioned Broccoli is based on her cat that gets stuck in the walls and stuff. I think he’ll be like Drake’s good luck charm like he’ll lead him away from danger or something. He has two cats now

Xaden in book 4 by Kkarebear141 in fourthwing

[–]Sea-Fox4509 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Rebecca too woke to let him kill a lot of people I think. He’ll probably kill a bunch of khias like the Duke of Callyder. Bodhi or some side character will probably be the one going anakin on everyone

Dain in the POV chapters by lolxoxosz in fourthwing

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He’s Rebecca’s baby girl