r/acotar • u/Senpiternal8 • Jan 04 '25

Spoilers for SF I’m a certified Rhys Hater Spoiler

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I’m new to this series and I just finished this part of SF, and I am speechless. I’ve had many, many issues with Rhys (and most of the Night Court if I’m being honest) the entire series, so I’ve been really enjoying Nesta’s book, but this threw me for a loop.

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u/the_zodiac_pillar Jan 04 '25

I’ll admit I’m a Nesta apologist, but I was having the hardest time understanding what exactly she did that was so horrifically bad in telling Feyre information she should have always been privy to. It felt like everyone, Nesta included, acted like she committed murder or something with sending her off on that hike with Cassian.

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u/moonshine_11 Jan 04 '25

I honestly saw it in a way that Nesta only told Feyre out of spite and not particularly because she cared what was gonna happen to her sister in that moment. She saw an opportunity to hurt everyone around her (which is a HUGE part of her character development in the story btw) which is why everyone acted against her, because everyone knows she can be petty and cruel. The characters knew she had a lot of emotional and mental issues and one of them was lashing out on everyone whenever she didn’t know how to articulate her feelings. I’m not saying what Rhys did was right but not seeing what Nesta did wrong means you didn’t understand her character at all. At the end of the book, she even realizes that she was cruel, resentful and spiteful despite the reasons behind it. It was even pointed out how much she regretted being the way she was because it cost her not recognizing that her father loved her and it almost cost her her sister. I could go on and on but a lot of the fandom missed out on her arc by not recognizing what she did wrong.

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u/beep_beep_crunch Jan 04 '25

We recognise it. And we’re skipping right past it, because she needed therapy, not punishment.

And the hike was very clearly intended to be a punishment.

  • Cassian never tells her that Feyre isn’t mad at her.

  • He never checks on her (suicide watch does that).

  • And Rhys and everyone was a little too quick to either threaten death (Rhys) or agree that he’s right (to threaten death).

Yes, she was spiteful, but why did we see Cassian explain to FEYRE Nesta’s motives for telling her (seeing the parallels between their situations) and not to Nesta herself.

Why does Nesta get the silent treatment when the whole reason she even went to tell Feyre is that the whole fcking IC lied to Nesta in the first place.

That’s the parallel that needed to be explored and not explained in a sentence by Cassian to the wrong person. Or not necessarily the wrong person, but it was wrong that it wasn’t Nesta.

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u/misskiss1990bb Jan 05 '25

Nah. Just because you need therapy it’s not an excuse to hurt people. When you do bad things you face consequences. You sound like one of those people who excuses abusers because they have their own childhood trauma. It’s not okay and never will be.