I hope you're okay with spoilers because my oh my do I have a headcannon for this.
My headcannon is that Aviendha is actually in love with Elayne, not so much Rand. Which made it even worse for her when she went to Rhuidean and discovered that one of those things that hád to be in her future, is that she had to have kids with Rand, who'd fall in love with her. Which to me is a great explanation of how she treats Elayne versus how she treats Rand, even after they slept together (imagine the shock when she turned out to have to do it again when she didn't turn up pregnant, and ironically, Elayne did).
Furthermore, the way she talks about Elayne to Rand, describing how beautiful she is and how nice... I don't recall her ever saying anything complementary about Rand to Elayne or Min. Also, knowing her future as the mother of Rand's children and knowing Rand is falling for her (while not knowing about Mins viewing of the 2 other women), the only real way to keep her actual love interest Elayne close was to make Rand love Elayne and maaayyybe be sisterwives.
I feel like everything that is said in the actual chapter where Avi&Rand bang makes so much more sense when you read it in this way: "the rings do not lie" making us believe that it's about love but it's actually about their offspring and in order to get those, they have to bang at least once, and followed by "it will not happen again" (probably because Aviendha thinks she can get away with a first time lucky shot with a ta'veren).
I doubt this is what Robert Jordan actually had in his notes, but it's just sooo convincingly coincidental...
Rand's Three "Wives"
in Wheel of Time Books
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I hope you're okay with spoilers because my oh my do I have a headcannon for this.
My headcannon is that Aviendha is actually in love with Elayne, not so much Rand. Which made it even worse for her when she went to Rhuidean and discovered that one of those things that hád to be in her future, is that she had to have kids with Rand, who'd fall in love with her. Which to me is a great explanation of how she treats Elayne versus how she treats Rand, even after they slept together (imagine the shock when she turned out to have to do it again when she didn't turn up pregnant, and ironically, Elayne did).
Furthermore, the way she talks about Elayne to Rand, describing how beautiful she is and how nice... I don't recall her ever saying anything complementary about Rand to Elayne or Min. Also, knowing her future as the mother of Rand's children and knowing Rand is falling for her (while not knowing about Mins viewing of the 2 other women), the only real way to keep her actual love interest Elayne close was to make Rand love Elayne and maaayyybe be sisterwives.
I feel like everything that is said in the actual chapter where Avi&Rand bang makes so much more sense when you read it in this way: "the rings do not lie" making us believe that it's about love but it's actually about their offspring and in order to get those, they have to bang at least once, and followed by "it will not happen again" (probably because Aviendha thinks she can get away with a first time lucky shot with a ta'veren).
I doubt this is what Robert Jordan actually had in his notes, but it's just sooo convincingly coincidental...