more than anything else acosh showed us that most of the fandom doesn’t even understand azriel as a character at all, starting from his shadows and also his personality as a whole
ive never viewed his shadows as a good thing, they’re a trauma response he’s developed & a darkness that still keeps him chained…he hides behind them and though they help him at spying he showed multiple times that he doesn’t like them & considers it a blessing when he loses one
Yes, he wished he could say to her, mind to mind. Yes.
Rhys could go to hell. So could Bryaxis and that vision she’d shown him.
It turned out, he did have something left to fight for.
@jusfeelsad “if she wants to be with azriel why doesn’t she just break the bond” and its a tiny ass book where she doesn’t even have a pov because its main purpose it to set the story