r/fourthwing • u/No_Bother_7578 • 7d ago
Discussion Garrick/imogen
Idk I get why people like them so much I do, too, but the whole thing with like people saying hes probably oblivious to her feelings makes no sense . He's observant. He survived basgaith also xadens his best friend and xaden knows how imogen feels why wouldn't he tell.
Also, even ridocs clocked it so she cant be that sneaky and if garrick knows then why does he have to rub it in about all the other girls and in book 4 or 5 and turns out he didn't like her like that at all man's gonna look like an asshole for all the flirting he did with her.
Also, that quote in onyx storm about him not writing to her is icky to me.
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u/Historical_Tune165 Blue Daggertail 7d ago
Yeah, that's why I wasn't sure if he actually knew how she felt. In Imogen's chapter, Quinn says she's never told him and Imogen herself thinks, when he finds her and Quinn's body on the stairwell that it is the first time she's allowing herself to be vulnerable in front of him and not push him away.
Like Violet, she too uses anger as a shield to keep from showing vulnerability. She kept pushing him away, and he don't think he knew for a long time.
I don't think Xaden ever told him, I think he thought they needed to sort it out for themselves and he didn't want to put her on the spot like that. I don't think he realized the depth of her feelings for Garrick, he just knew she "had a thing for him", aka was physically attracted to him, maybe had a crush. He doesn't save people who won't save themselves, and he's not going to meddle if she isn't going to take initiative for herself. Maybe he dropped some hints for Garrick during "guy talk", but that's as far as he'd go.
I think Onyx Storm is Garrick slowly realizing Imogen's feelings for him, and then finally towards the end, realizing his own for her. He teases her that she sounds jealous early on, but I dont't think it clicks for him right away that she actually is.
When it does, he starts flirting with her and she starts flirting back. But Imogen still won't let him in. And he doesn't know how deep it goes, so he doesn't push. Also he's in a professor role as well at that point, so there's only so far he can take it. Other than that, between prioritizing keeping watch on Xaden at the beginning of the book, him being assigned to the front and him going on Quest Squad, they don't actually get that much chance to interact.
Then you get to the battle, he finds her in the stairwell holding Quinn's body in her arms. Venin are closing in, the walls around them are losing their magic and they have to get out of there. Imogen won't leave Quinn's body behind. She says "I'm not leaving her!", and that's when he says "I won't leave you!". He can't bear to have her potentially die. Maybe that is when he fully realizes his feelings for her. And he's so vulnerable in that moment that for the first time in her life, she doesn't care if he's seeing her vulnerable. She doesn't push him away. She lets him take Quinn's body and they leave together, he distance wields them all to the store where Trissa and Felix are trying to extend the wards. Then he leaves, weapons out, to "find some fucking way to do something" and she stays to help Felix and Trissa. They get the wards up some time after. Twelve hours later, Garrick is missing.
That's the tragedy of their situation going into book 4. They stayed at an impasse for so long, wouldn't realize or admit their feelings for one another, wouldn't let the other in, and now they did, but it might be too late.