6. Build the apron. When you think of
your mother, she is wearing an apron.
When you think of your mother, she is
holding a knife. She is in the kitchen—
and the kitchen is the heart of the house,
and yours was always bleeding.
JOAN TIERNEY / How To Build A Table.

Some say God is where we put our sorrow.
God says, Which one of you fuckers can get to me first?
RICHARD SIKEN / War of the Foxes.

Let me tell you a story about war. It is not folklore or mythology; a fabled hero who's country awaits their glorious return. It is not an uprising of hope for the masses, the chance to right centuries of wrongs. It is brutal. It is vicious. And it takes no prisoners. Owain Glyn Dŵr is familiar with the savage song of cruelty that is sung by the voice of war. The last true Prince of Wales driven from his homeland by a tyrannical monarchy of Englishmen.

Let me tell you a story about war. It has its repercussions. It crowns the power hungry and the selfish. It gives way for destruction. And it births darkness. Mercy King, the disillusioned daydream Queen, reigning from a long family line of rogue Greywarens, plagued with the black ink stains of tywyll, seeping from their cavities. They are doomed, you see. Damned from the beginning. A line born in darkness, thrusted into a cold universe where birth is the death of them.

Let me tell you a story about Mercy King. Nothing about her is real. Webs of reality thread together at her fingertips like the gossamer string of a spider's web as tywyll pools on her top lip and she laughs without a care. But Mercy King has a destiny, one that she cannot escape. A foretold tale of building the bridge between the monsters and their creators, building the road to an emend. A responsibility to fix a broken bond. To rectify the imbalance.

Let me tell you a story about now. Mercy King is no fabled hero with a country who awaits their return. She is not the ruler of an uprising or the bringer of hope. She is brutal. She is vicious. And takes no prisoners. But Mercy is the last standing King, and it is finally time to reap what they have sown. 

Mercy Antigone King.....
THE DEVIL / THE GUARDIAN.

Is it a god inside you, girl?

FEATURING:

Richard Campbell Gansey III.....
THE KING / PRINCE AMONG MEN.

Blue Sargent.....
THE MIRROR / OF THE DEEPEST BLUE.

Ronan Niall Lynch.....
THE GREYWAREN / KEEPER OF SECRETS.

Adam Parrish.....
THE MAGICIAN / HANDS AND EYES.

Noah Czerny.....
THE GHOST / BOY TURNED SACRIFICE.

Circe King.....
THE HANGED WOMAN / FALLEN KING.

a/n:
          📍welcome all to the shit show! so i've been crying over these books for years so i thought i'd give myself my OWN reason to cry by creating mercy. my best idea in a long time, to be honest. anyway so, welcome to my rendition of the raven cycle universe. everything in canon is exactly the same other than some slight tweaks to dreamers but that solely surrounds mercy's family and the long history that exists there. you will learn it along the way. yay curses. also it says eventual oc x oc but thats a little up in the air. we'll see.

          📍trigger warnings: these comes with the usual trigger warnings surrounding these books. which are as follows: suicide attempts, referenced child abuse/child abuse, drugs (both recreational and abused), overdose, mental illness, alcohol abuse, religious conflict, internalised homophobia, nightmares and some terrible family dynamics (particularly father-son, brother-brother and mother-daughter). but along with this are strong themes of disassociation, warped sense of reality and derealisation/depersonalisation that stems from mercy.

          📍thank you soooooo much to  for making mercy's and all of the new graphics!! really grateful for that since we both know that i absolutely cannot make any for shit. and thank you can and aimes for encouraging me!!! i love you my trc gang. and also thank you for sitting with me for 45 minutes as i try and figure out the timeline, i was losing my mind sfkdsj ...... and thank you taryn,  bea and faith for being excited because it helped me make sure i was actually planning and stuff ...... otherwise who knows if i would've actually gotten this far in the planning 

anyway, enjoy!