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theory/speculation (add on) abt why cardan sent Jude the coronation dress

I know i answered this already (this post), but i was laying in bed and thinking abt jurdan

so Jude’s dress is the view from her bedroom window right, it’s INDIGO (in caps bc important) and is littered w stars (as gemstones) all over it.

and that got me thinking abt Jude’s mortal eyesight, and Cardan’s faerie eyesight…

how Cardan looks at the night sky and sees indigo, but Jude would see black.

Also how Cardan would see tons and tons of stars, but Jude would only see a few of the brightest ones.

and i think it’s sweet that her dress is a view that she sees from her balcony, except in his eyes.

like he’s trying to show her a different point of view, which could mirror how badly he wants her to view him from a different point of view.

Either that or maybe he wants her to see the world(amongst other things) through his eyes.

maybe indicating that she sees herself in a completely different way that he sees her? hinting at his unrequited love/desire for her?

which also brings me to how he knew that Locke was proposing to Taryn, which would lead to the downfall of Jude and lockes relationship. Jude would assume that the dress wasn’t from Locke, and maybe from another admirer?

Could cardan have been planning on telling Jude how he felt for her? (Unlikely, but cute.)

idk guys am i reaching or what. Nonetheless, cardan is the only man ever😭😭😭😭

I miss them too much. feel free to add on🫶

cardan just wanted love. 😐

i was just replying to someone regarding nicasia and i had this sorta realization moment abt cardan lol

Cardan is consistently merciful toward people that wrong him. To his abusers.

He spares his mother when she leaves the tower of forgetting. He gives her a courtier title. After her lifelong abuse. he spares balekin from execution time and time again, despite all the death threats and beatings and humiliation. he forgives nicasia and Locke and remains (sorta) friends with them after they screwed around behind his back and broke his heart. He forgives Jude for putting him on the throne, for killing balekin.

Cardan has the capacity to be a lot kinder to those he cares about. While he attempts to act like he has a stone heart, he cares so deeply about the few people around him. No matter how they treat him in return.

Even his sisters, whom treated him like a dog when he was a child, throwing food at him under the table. He held balekin responsible for killing them, even when they had little love for him.

and his father, whom tossed him out of the kingdom for dains lies. He still strove for his fathers love and attention. And he did what he thought he needed to do to get that attention.

All he wanted was love, and he gave a lot more of it than he wanted to show. I’m so glad he found it w Jude 😭

And with Jude, he gave her everything. He gave her half of his army bro. HALF OF HIS ARMY just because she ASKED. She didn’t even have to order him to do it, because he trusts her and he so badly wants her to trust him too.

He secretly desired (and eventually cared for) her for yearsss. It’s so sweet how they went from school rivals besting and beating one another, to them making each other king and queen. ENOUGH

moral of the story, he just wanted LOVE. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I’ll never stop thinking about them, idc how generic and obvious my posts are, every throwaway thought i have of them i will post

I have a little PJO headcanon that Percy likes to manifest heavy rain so that his school suspends and it works every single time.