fitting perfectly in the arms of mama
“In all timelines, in all possibilities, only you can show me this.”
(this is gonna be a bloodbath)
I'm sure this has been said before, but I really like the idea that Tadius fantasized about killing the king (and probably the prince, too) before he met Ella, in the same way Ella fantasized about killing her step sisters and mother. They both feel trapped, aidless, abused, and lack a large level of autonomy; which is why both of them are eager to enact their revenge the second they have the ability/opportunity to do so.
That's why Tadius is so quick to:
1. Believe Ella is talking about the king in her monologue (she's hypothetically saying what he's secretly been thinking for a long time)
2. Smother the king with a pillow (both enact unapologetic (/pos) vengeance before their exact plan is fully realized because they are so eager to gain both freedom and justice)
Oh so when Ella Ashmore finds out her God(s) are false and gets power from a new more Eldrich one to defeat her enemies it's a good thing and she's seen as a hero. But when I, Grace Chasity-
Meet Pando, not a forest but a single tree. Every trunk of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical & connected by a single 80,000 year old root system, making it one of the largest and oldest living entities on Earth!
in the words of the great Elizabethan wordsmith William Shakespeare, in Hamlet Act IV Scene V, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” or, in the words of the great Twitter wordsmith @Horse_ebooks,
why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.