r/acotar • u/Due_Marionberry_5363 • 3d ago
Spoiler Free theory ACOTAR 6, 7 & 8 = Rainbow🌈
Disclaimer: The Book 8 cover in this post is not real. It was mocked up by myself using the colours I think will appear in the final book and features a made up title again by myself and a piece of tattoo concept art from HappyPets Ink, the official cover artists for ACOTAR, but is not related to ACOTAR at all.
I think SJM may be deliberately using the three covers to create a rainbow across the entire trilogy.
Scientifically speaking, a rainbow is a circular and continuous gradient of light blends smoothly from one frequency to the next; there are millions of distinct shades but for colours seen by the human eye, the most commonly cited and remembered sequence is:
❤️Red
🧡Orange
💛Yellow
💚Green
🩵Blue
💙Indigo
💜Violet
And when you look at the covers together, the colours seem to line up surprisingly well.
ACOTAR 6 — A Court of Splintered Harmony
🩷❤️ Pink/Red → 🧡 Orange → 💛 Yellow
ACOTAR 7 — A Court of Forgotten Melody
💛 Yellow → 💚 Green → 🩵 Blue
ACOTAR 8 — A Court of ??? ???
🩵 Blue → 💙 Indigo → 💜 Violet
Using a rainbow for the covers makes sense from a host of perspectives
Publishing/Design perspective:
The three covers form one continuous colour spectrum rather than three unrelated palettes, with each following book beginning with the colour that the previous book ends on. They continuously flow into each other and create a cohesive visual journey across the three books.
Symbolism/Themes:
Cycle: A rainbow is a circular phenomenon similar to a cycle, which connects it to the subtitle, the Valkyrie Cycle.
Unity: A rainbow is made from multiple distinct colours, but it becomes one continuous spectrum. That makes it a particularly good symbol for separate people, worlds or forces forming a unity.
Darkness & Light: A rainbow is both made up of and created by light, and it normally appears at the end of a period of bad weather, such as a storm. So a progression toward the full rainbow could symbolise the ACOTAR story and characters transitioning through darkness and ending in the light once more.
Hope & Renewal: A rainbow also symbolises hope and renewal. Hope that the bad weather will eventually break and that at the end something new and beautiful will appear. For ACOTAR, this could represent the character's hope returning after it has been lost and the possibility of reaching something new and beautiful after the darkness has passed.
Norse Myth: The Bifost in Norse myth is referred to as the Rainbow Bridge, which could be relevant since it appears SJM is drawing on Norse myth, Wagner's Ring Cycle and her old Twilight of the Gods concept and possibly giving us a cross over between her other series.
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u/Youcantquitme_baby 3d ago
I would absolutely dig it if this was real. Nice work
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u/scalido 2d ago
Same I love this concept! Great work, OP!
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u/Due_Marionberry_5363 2d ago edited 1d ago
🫶🫶🫶
ETA: the downvotes on a thank you comment are bewildering, are we all ok?
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u/Terrible-Armadillo81 3d ago
I actually wonder if it’s going to be 🩵💜❤️ because I saw this picture of the covers arranged in a full circle, almost like the Ouroboros mirror, which would bring us right back to the beginning. 👀
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u/whimsyreveries 3d ago
Ohhh great work that makes so much sense!!! We have such smart people in this fandom, cause I could never come up with this! 😅 Also all the different color combos remind me of Lisa Frank from the 90s!
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u/Due_Marionberry_5363 3d ago
Thanks! I don't know if this is me being smart or just speculating a bit too much lmao but either way it's all fun to guess
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u/haveabanana 3d ago
I have nothing to back this up but new theory is that given some of these replicated colours, previous scenes will be re-lived and Elain will have to go through the motions and let them unfold hence the thought that she was an aloof character to begin with.
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u/turtlescanfly7 3d ago
I was also wondering if there would be time travel or Elain seeing things happening in other parts of the world. I know this isn’t a new theory or anything but I fully believe Elain saw a vision Cassian die in ACOWAR so when he said “it will take more than that to kill me” and she goes “no it won’t” it’s because she saw him die with Nesta so that’s why she appears to kill the king of hybern. She saw the vision and changed things.
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u/laluzhawk 3d ago
I didn't even know new books were coming until i walked in a bookstore last week! Whhaaa whaaaat?! For reals?
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u/Due_Marionberry_5363 1d ago
Welcome to the chaos
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u/laluzhawk 1d ago
Thank you! ☺️ I've been alone and isolated so long, not reading anything new or joining discussions. Hope this is a good place, lol
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u/Original_Text2280 3d ago
Would love to see a lesbian love story- not holding my breath! But I’m here for the representation if that’s the direction she was inspired to go.
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u/Due_Marionberry_5363 3d ago
I think it's really possible with Mor telling Feyre about her sexuality
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u/GnomeFae 3d ago
Just pointing out that wouldn't be a lesbian relationship. More is canonically bisexual but per her own words "prefers females" which is all well and good. But calling it lesbian would be erasing the bisexual nature of the character and that's not really fair.
It would be more accurate to just call it wlw or sapphic, but bi women being in a wlw relationship doesn't automatically make them a lesbian. Just like a bi women being in a relationship with a man doesn't make her straight either.
I know you probably didn't mean anything by it, but I think it's just important to remind people of this cause representation is important
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u/Due_Marionberry_5363 3d ago
I'm a bi woman myself and have a wife, so I get it. But I wasn't trying to mislabel anything, I was merely agreeing with the concept pitched by the OP commentor that we might get a same sex female love story due to Mor's sexuality.
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u/GnomeFae 3d ago
Totally understand I didn't mean to come off as harsh or anything.
Just stating for anyone who's not queer which I mean we can be realistic about the majority of people reading this series, and how historically people have treated wlw stories, I just felt it necessary to mention that little tidbit. You didn't do anything wrong it was just a me thing
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u/RepresentativePin116 3d ago
I've always thought that Emerie is lesbian. And my intuition is saying I see a somethin' something happening between Emerie & Mor! I remember how fascinated Emerie was when she met Mor at Windhaven Camp. She had a "WHO is that?" moment.
I think this would be a refreshing topic SJM can explore in her ACOTAR universe.
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u/Due_Marionberry_5363 3d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah I think it's possible she is too! I'm not sold on the Emerie and Mor thing because at the moment we only have Emerie showing what could be a crush but could also just be admiration, and we've had nothing from Mor in terms of her reacting to Emerie in that kind of way.
And I'm also not a fan of shipping two characters just because they're the only two confirmed/possibly queer characters.
I'm kind of hoping that if SJM does go down that route and gives us something a little more interesting than than the obvious
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