Inner Circle Critical
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A Court of Vice and Victors by wishcamper
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
30 Aug 2025
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“Then stop, Cassian!” She was shouting now, inches from his face. “Stop fighting for my life! I never asked you to! Forget about me and move on!”
A sparkling tear froze on the tip of her eyelash and he felt a triumph in it, this sign that she was in there somewhere. His hands ached for her. This had all gone so differently in his head.
“I can’t,” he admitted.
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Or, a therapist's attempt at an ACOSF rewrite, because trauma's a bitch and muscling through isn't the only way.
Featuring:
-Nesta's alcoholism and trauma taken seriously
-IC family dysfunction reckoning
-recognition of Illyrian oppression and effects of colonization
-women being resourceful and empowered in spite of their circumstances
-healing not being a straight linepro Nesta, pro healthy Nessian, anti nobody, pro everyone is capable of change
CW: This work explores themes of trauma recovery, colonization and systemic racism, and gendered violence and reproductive abuse, and contains mentions of physical and emotional abuse, suicidal ideation, abortion, substance use, and sexual assault. Specific warnings will be included for each chapter, please take care of yourself.
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Guilty as Sin? by clinatasha
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
29 Apr 2024
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It has been decades since the Koschei War. Eris Vanserra has been High Lord for years now and remains in contact with the Night Court through emissary Nesta Archeron. After Rhysand requests a last minute meeting, Eris asks Nesta to accompany him on a hunting trip to discuss what the High Lord of Night wants from him.
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A Court of Fire and Darkness by clinatasha
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
22 May 2025
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During the Koschei War, the Night Court deals with an unthinkable tragedy. In their grief, the Inner Circle decides they need to take matters into their own hands and make Rhysand and Feyre the High King and Queen of Prythian.
Nesta Archeron is caught in the middle; will she aid them? Or will she betray her court and her mate?
Eris Vanserra has committed countless sins in his quest for the Autumn Court crown. Now that he finally has it, he learns that it might be ripped from his hands. He will do whatever it takes to stop that from happening.
With Prythian on the brink of civil war, Nesta and Eris find themselves in an alliance—and perhaps something more.
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The Flames that Bond Us by Thalassa_05
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
06 Jan 2025
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What if Nesta Archeron decided to not conform to the Night Court and found her own way in the world?
A Neris fic <3
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She is the Great Witch, she doesn't bow to anyone, she doesn't yield to anyone, and she has no intention of doing so. What can the Inner Circle, Cassian, and Feyre do with a Nesta who only does what she wants, when she wants, and how she wants? Oh, Great Witches have always been capricious creatures after all; you either learn to love them, or you have no choice but to hate them.
A story where the Nesta called to the House of the Wind is actually a 2000-year-old Great Witch with a bad temper.
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Ella es la Gran Bruja, no se doblega ante nadie, no cede ante nadie y no tiene intenciones de hacerlo. ¿Que puede hacer el Inner Circle, Cassian y Feyre, con una Nesta que solo hace lo que quiere cuando quiere y como quiere. Oh los Grandes brujos siempre han sido criaturas caprichosas después de todo, o aprendes a amarlos o no te queda otra que odiarlos.
Una historia donde La Nesta que es llamada a la casa del Río es en realidad una Gran bruja de 2000 años, con mal carácter.
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Neighbors by sillylittlelizard
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
11 Feb 2025
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“You brought me breakfast. Of course. Some kind of peace offering from the great High Lord and his inner circle?” Cassian finally rallied his composure before this conversation could get any further off track.
“Yes. Breakfast.” He held out the bag to her. “Seemed like an appropriate gift, from a new neighbor.”
Someone who didn’t know her might have been forgiven for thinking they were already witnessing the pinnacle of Nesta Archeron’s rage. But as her scowl twisted into something deeper, Cassian knew he’d only scratched the surface. “Neighbor?!”
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Cassian is outraged by the Inner Circle's plan to force Nesta to move into the House of Wind against her will. To make sure she has support available without taking away her choices, he proposes an alternative : he's moving in next door to her, and is determined to earn her trust by not repeating their earlier mistakes. -
Shadows Beneath the Crown by Stellariium
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
23 Nov 2024
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What happens when Montesere’s winds of rebellion reach Prythian, bringing new danger, unmasking the tyranny hidden in plain sight, and unveiling the pain of those judged for the sin of being born in the wrong place?An OCxOC / Elucien story, where they help to end a cycle of violence, slavery and innocents paying for the mistakes of their forebearers.
Be aware, this fic will be very IC critical and delve into subjects like abuse and misogyny.
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A Dance of Silver Flames by maevelin
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames - Fandom
09 Mar 2025
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When Nesta Archeron is presented with the choice of being confined in the House of Wind and training along with Cassian or being exiled to the human lands she turns the tables on the members of the Inner Circle of the Night Court and chooses her own path leaving Velaris and her sisters behind as she enters a new chapter in her life.
Two centuries later nothing is the same.
Dreams of cracks in the lake and Koschei rising alert Prythian that a new devastating war is looming in which Nesta Archeron vehemently refuses to participate. Despite her resistance fate seems to have other plans in store for Lady Death.
Only problem is that Nesta Archeron no longer believes in fate, other than the one she alone can forge for herself. -
First there was Chaos, then Eros and Gaia by maevelin
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
02 Jan 2025
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“Fear me.”
That is what the Mother’s Daughter whispered to the Darkness. The Winds called her name and the Night bowed for she never would again. She would not bow, bend or break. Never again.
Chaos erupted from Nesta Archeron and sent her into the Mother’s embrace. All it took was saving a world without asking permission and a cancelled mating ceremony. Then she was back stranded into the House but this time there would be no containing her. There would be no saviours to heal her this time.
This time Nesta Archeron would save herself. Herself and the Seven Courts of Prythian.
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Burn The Path by Thalassa_05
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
02 Jun 2025
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"She could forge her own path, one with happiness, one where she was in charge. One where she finds peace."
After a dream that gave her more questions than answers, Nesta Archeron decides that the life she's living is not the one that she wants.
So she makes her own path. -
Eris by illyriansforautumnheirs
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
03 Oct 2025
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A glimpse into the boy Eris once was—before the bitterness, before the mask. He didn't save Morrigan. But he tried. (might continue and make it Azris)
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Always in the Light, My Love by Vanserreneity
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
07 Oct 2025
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After Nesta is rescued from her Death Hike with Cassian, she finds solace and healing among unexpected friends. Gwyn defects from the Night Court to support Nesta and they explore their draw towards each other. Azriel struggles with his loyalties, torn between Eris and his court, while Beron plots against Prythian. Azriel, Eris, and Lucien work to uncover his schemes and bring down his centuries of tyranny, and hopefully save Prythian in the process.
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Fluttering Wings by olenvasynyt
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
16 Aug 2025
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Plagued by mysterious visions and war on the horizon, Elain Archeron must challenge herself and her usefulness to the Night Court. So when Lucien is called back to his estranged home to stop Beron from gaining territory in Spring, the two mates find themselves confronted with similar paths, forced to address the mating bond they've been avoiding for two years.
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The breaking happens three weeks to the day after Bryce Quinlan retrieves her parents from the House of Wind.
It is brutal, and as unapologetic as Lady Death herself often was, when fighting for what she believes in.
More than anything, it is loud.
Books are thrown around the private library, glasses are shattered with the intensity of a power that was supposed to have been bargained away yet lingered.
Unofficially (yet all but officially) confined to this place that was somehow both a beloved home and glorified prison, banned from her work in the Library or from interacting too frequently with her Valkyries, Nesta Archeron shatters into a million pieces.
Screaming and wailing, she breaks for hours, nearly throwing herself off the nearest balcony, before the lights flicker and a stray curtain wisps out to catch at her ankles, drawing her back.
Nesta Archeron breaks on a bright, sunny morning.
No one is there to witness it.
No one except a magical abode and its many, many ghosts.
The aftermath is as follows.
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Written for Day 2 of Cassian Appreciation Week: Shield
Series
- Part 1 of Cassian Week 2025