Creepy Elain - Headcanon.
Ok So I was talking with @bookofmirth about how Elain is creepy in ACOWAR and creepy Elain doesn’t really get *seen* by this fandom. We get cute flower growing Elain and because of ACOFAS we have baker and homemaker Elain.
But a lot of people forget about creepy Elain. And since it’s October I’ve got a creepy Elain Headcanon that still works with the other side of her character.
Things We Know about Elain (not necessarily creepy)
- She loves Gardening, enjoys it, wanted to go to the continent to see the tulips (acomaf)
- Elain took charge in Acotar of planning a ball and finding dresses for the sisters.
- She enjoys baking with Nuala and Cerridwen (acofas)
- She does well in Human Social Circles where Nesta floundered. (acotar)
- She can schmooze people into thinking she’s innocent
- The cauldron wanted to offer her a gift
- She was given powers of a seer
Why This Could contribute to her “creepy” ness.
- Elain could be a poisoner/apothecary to murder people - we could have our own sweet little serial killer here.
- Flowers and plants she grows and cultivates without the help of gardeners and on her own. Feyre merely digs a new plot of dirt for Elain to garden in (acotar). Is she growing some toxic plants?
- She cooks and kicks people out of the kitchen while she is cooking (acofas). Maybe she’s cooking something else.
- She has the necessary skills to plan and organise a party while acquiring dresses at short notice, she has many contacts and is able to use them when the time is right, she also has access to many costumes through this supplier - perfect for meeting people on the sly/in disguise.
- Elain doesn’t have the same aversion to dresses as Nesta does - perhaps that’s because she’s worn pants before and often (for gardening or more sinister things).
- Her best friends in ACOFAS seem to be Nuala and Cerridwen - two of Azriel’s best spies and assassins - maybe they have more in common that we realise and Elain is also working for Azriel, in the brewing poisons sense and is actually learning those skills from the twins.
- Azriel has lots of quiet moments with Elain, to find out information or get a new poison.
- While Elain is troubled when the Cauldron gives her the ability to see the future, it seems she starts to accept it by ACOFAS. Maybe that’s because she is deciphering her visions like code and with the help of her spy team.
- Elain had a creepy asf ghost vibe in ACOWAR and maybe her visions actually come in the form of spirits talking to her - the spirits of those people she has killed or those around here… where are her visions “coming from”, could be asking advice from equally creepy asf Azriel.
- Also - anyone going to remember she fucking stabbed Hybern in the throat. That’s a bit dark. Sure she didn’t finish the job but she had no aversion to killing him.
And cue - creepy Elain.
Please note it’s all totally circumstantial and can be refuted of course - I just really really want a creepy Elain vs a Stepford Wife Elain.
Oooomg Renee I’m totally going to incorporate some of these ideas in my fic especially Elain brewing poisoning from her herbs like can you imagine the badass duo of the spymaster and the poisonist 😎😎
Lol - go for it. Creepy Elain needs more airtime. :D