thinking about the fact that in finale jacks gives tella the dagger to stab him with to end their marriage right??? and she does. but in ouabh, jacks gives eva the dagger, and tells her to stab him but she chooses not to. which probably surprised jacks because it seems like he thought she would do the same as donatella 😭😭😭😭 help i’m in shambles
i am so shocked and so surprised! i didn’t expect that 😭 HOW DARE YOU APOLLO!!!!!
the difficulty jacks will have to regain evangeline’s trust will be immense! besides apollo saying that it was jacks who stole her memories, who put her through that terrible abuse, she will still find the letter she wrote about him 😭 their journey to have a happy ending will be so difficult and intense!
i’m increasingly looking forward to seeing him fight for evangeline though. 🤩
I can’t remember who said it, but there’s a great quote I read that went something like: “Corporations would do well to remember that workers didn’t start striking out of a boorish refusal to negotiate, but rather out of a gracious reluctance to storm the factory owner’s mansion and beat him to death in front of his children.”
FIRST AND FOREMOST: I know this is from the “one bed” trope and it seems like Evangeline is asking him to stay 🥹 it’s our hollow 2.0
second! it reminds me of this other art, cause they’re wearing the same clothes:
I really think this last one is from when they broke jacks’s curse and end up together 🥹❤️ the day after they spend the night together, maybe?
I hope we get to see them together before that too, as it seems to happen at the end. I will be sad if we just have one scene of them acting affectionate 🙃
i imagine evajacks always brushing their noses in little kisses since they can’t really kiss 🥺 evangeline would stand on tiptoe and rub her nose against jacks’s, or jacks would lean over evangeline, put his forehead against hers and brush their noses. they would then smile sadly remembering that that was the only kiss they could ever give, but they would always try to give this affection to each other.
When you realise that the mirth stone does not inspire feelings, but takes away fear.
Jacks’ behaviour towards Eva was real. Him asking her to stay the night and wanting to pretend that she was his for the night was real. He was acting on his true feelings. He really and truly loves her and is too scared to admit it. He’s scared of loving Evangeline and hurting her and thought that the safer option, the better option, was with Tella.
Jacks’ behaviour towards Evangeline was not artifical. It was REAL <3
🌸 some thoughts on this jacks interview, and on a curse for true love! 🌸
the fact he thought about evangeline first 🤭 just putting this here because i like that he thought of evangeline (like, where your head was, jacks?) and because he put in a “who” when asked about tella.
now, imagine jacks directing all of his sociopathic energy towards winning over evangeline instead of trying to get back to someone else 🤩 after everything he’s put her through and the things he’s said to her, it’s going to be really nice to see him have trouble winning her over again. it’s something i’m looking forward to see, and i believe it’s the kind of love evangeline deserves. (of course i believe he deserves love too, but evangeline has already made it clear how much she loves him and how much she wants to be with him.)
furthermore, after the interview where stephanie says that she needed to break jacks, i think that everything he will go through will be necessary for him to truly understand the things he did and his feelings for her. after all, he is not human and his journey will not be an easy one. i actually quite like that stephanie has realized this and intends to build on it.
also, we’re all worried about the next book, but im surprisingly happy with the “danger” that apollo presents and really interested to see how stephanie will develop the plot. apparently he’ll be an interesting villain and give jacks some work to do. i’m also taking the line that “two villains will fight for her” literally because jacks is no good and i’m dying to see all the things he can do to win her, and steal her from apollo. it’s going to be very interesting.
i always thought people never talked about this interview enough and how it explains a lot about jacks. i really liked this little interview page a lot<3
i totally agree though, my guy has work cut out for him
Okay… I have been thinking about this, and I really think book 3 will be all about this:
“She believed most characters would stay happy for now, but not forever. Then she’d point out things that would certainly work to wreak havoc in their future—the apprentice to the villain who was still alive, the evil stepsister who’d been forgiven but was still out there somewhere waiting to attack once more, the wish that had come true but wasn’t quite paid for, the seed that had been planted but had yet to grow.”
Evil sister anyone?!!! Also, the wish that wasn’t quite paid for!!!
Jacks: (to evangeline) “I’m a fate I don’t care about what happens to you.”
Also Jacks:
Jacks’s eyes cut back to the handkerchief he’d wrapped around her hand. For a second, he looked entirely inhuman. The calm fled his expression, turning his face vengeful and unholy.
“I hurt everyone, Little Fox. But you have to be alive to hate me.” His eyes iced over. “I do not want you dead, and I’ll kill anyone who tries.”
