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Heard some very 🤨 takes about Roque and Darrow being two faces of the same coin. I get it that Darrow is incredible and everyone wants a piece of him, but that's just not true.

Roque and Dancer are two faces of the same coin. They were both hurt by their own respective people, but they esteem their Color nonetheless. They both overlook the dark side or try to excuse it (they try to pass the blame - Roque tries to blame Darrow for Quinn and Lea's deaths, while Dancer tries to pass the entire blame on Gold propaganda) and instead of actively trying to change their people, they enable their people's bad sides and they believe that their respective Colors are entitled to rule, but they must be fair. They both seem friendly and approachable from the outside, but they are fearsome underneath these façades. They both had meaningful relationships with Darrow, but they discarded those for their views. They both are influenced by the core vakues of their Colors - Roque takes his life, because he lost and Golds cannot accept defeat and he doesn't want to shame his...species, and Dancer understands that the slingBlade is to survive at the price of a limb, hence why he refused to help the Free Legions, even though it was his own fault they were in that predicament to begin with. They both had a Pink lover that used them and betrayed them.

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It's so Reaperstang golden son/gala coded when Darrow was low-key delusional 😭 love a man that is shamelessly down bad and on the verge of tears tho

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you must try so hard to be this annoying

no it actually comes to me quite naturally

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one of the worst feelings in fandom is when the canon version of a character is one of your favorites ever but their fanon interpretation is just something you want to dropkick into a dying star and watch it all go supernova hopefully from close enough that it will obliterate you and your memory of what the fandom did to them in the process

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People have been fighting about who is worse: Roque or Lysander and now, while Roque was winning for two book, Lysander won the war in LB.

After Roque there is series of fandom faves that will get people mad af, so that would be a fun guessing game if anyone is brave enough 🤭

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Happy 'Roque? Ew!' Day (because the Triumph took place on the Ides of March)!

We shall take time to bash Roque even more than usual:

May he know that Obsidians use Gold Sigils as torcs and bargain lowest value with them;

May he feel the burning of New Thebes when the Ash Lord nuked it to bits;

May he be haunted by the blood of his beloved fascist Golds and blame himself for having failed them;

May Tactus be there to hate him for betraying Darrow every second ofthe afterlife;

May he be deprived of any books and any other form of art there is;

May he never know peace, for he deserved none.

Why? Darrow may have forgiven him, I never will.

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I think about this date and the fact that the man she loves the most and is now her husband is a carved creature all the time, Darrow is so romantic 😭

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Darrow had enough of these two on the Archimedes

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apollonius au valii-rath

also an older darrow portrait and a mini darrow because ive been playing with the idea of making a keychain of him for myself

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Did his death put food on your table? Did it make any of our lives any better? Dying for a cause doesn't do a bloodydamn thing. It just robbed us of his laughter.

Pierce Brown, Red Rising.

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All ears yearn for a voice to lead them through darkness

Pierce Brown, Red Rising.

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imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

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I actually cannot emotionally get past Sevro being like, "Babe, LOOK I have your eyes!!!"... *crickets* "Omg omg omg wait was that a weird thing to do?!"

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Darrow of lykos since golden son:

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Without me, she would not eat. Without her, I would not live.

Pierce Brown, Red Rising.

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I've been reading the Red Rising series and am absolutely loving it. I cannot express how much of my soul lights up anytime I get to see Sevro if anything happens to this little wolf boy I'm going to cause bad things to happen

I need more people like Sevro in my life

Like why is he so catty