Lucien’s fate at this point seems very uncertain, and not because it doesn’t seem like he has no future or nothing ahead of him but because many possibilities are at his feet. Like the fate of becoming a High Lord.

It is justifiable to believe that he would eventually (in hundreds of years) become High Lord of the Day Court because he is Helion’s only son. However while I do believe (and want him to) become a High Lord, I believe there is a possibility of him, and see it as better fitting, to become High Lord of the Spring Court.

I don’t believe Lucien is meant to become High Lord of Day because even as Helion’s son the Day court is still strange to him. Even if Feyre and Rhys bother to tell the two their secret and Helion and Lucien develop a bond of whatever strength and length, Lucien became Lucien in the Spring Court. His growth has not stopped now that he no longer lives there, but when Tamlin took him in and for once he was away from his abusive family he got the chance to finally be Lucien—not the youngest son of the High Lord of Autumn or a victim. Lucien did experience horrors in the Spring Court but he learned to face them as Lucien from the Spring Court.

I do not see Helion dying (hopefully) or giving up his place as High Lord any time soon. And say that Lucien does accept becoming his heir, we wouldn’t see it in the books because it would take place in such a far future that there would be no point in seeing Lucien be next in line and not go anywhere with it. Also there is a chance that Helion may have more kids. Now, I don’t seem him settling to produce an heir any time soon at all but he can still have another child. Yes, Fae children are rare but he has hundreds of years to try.

Lucien wouldn’t have to wait hundreds of years to become the High Lord of Spring. The Spring Court is in shambles, barely a court and more like a wasteland thanks to Tamlin. Tamlin is destroyed, and it seems to me, beyond repair. He is unfit to take care of his Court and it doesn’t seem like he will be okay any time soon. Maybe in years time, but for now he is not what the Spring Court needs, he has proven to be a disgraceful High Lord, and it would be best of him to step down. And who better than to take the title than Lucien, who has lived in and knows the court. Who cares for the court. Who wants a better world and is willing to fight for it.

Lucien becoming High Lord would make the series do a full circle. If Lucien and Elain’s book is the last novel then the series would end right where it started but in a much better world. The series introduced Prythian with the Spring Court. The first taste of magic and wonder happened there. The thread that has spun this enchanting tale first unraveled there. Spring right now is a fractured, wounded, ghost of what it once was. I don’t believe the world of ACOTAR should close with it in such a state.

So far the focus of the books have been the Night Court for reasons I’m sure I don’t have to state. And despite Nessian’s book taking place and focusing on the Night Court and the Inner Circle, this new trilogy is meant to explore the world of ACOTAR more. Going back to the Spring Court wouldn’t necessarily be expanding the world since it would be going to where it all began, however, the Spring Court we would see is a new Spring Court. With Lucien as High Lord of the Spring Court, it could heal and once again be glorious. Some daylight in world wrapped in Night.

The symbolism of a new a new day in Prythian and the ways it will bloom are many.

And because I am tying in this theory with Lucien and Elain ending up together it would be so fitting that his mate represents beauty and flowers. The gardener (Elain) and the sun (Lucien) cultivating the Spring Court.  

Lastly, this next bit is a stretch, but in ACOSF when Lucien said to Cassian “Easy” with “surprising dominance” it “hit Cassian like a stone to the head, knocking him from his need to kill and kill and kill whatever threaten—” which made me think that Lucien has the commanding quality of a High Lord. Where would Lucien need such a presence? How else could he exert it? By being a High Lord.