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laurents-laces · 1 year ago
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It took me 84 years, but here's the notes for Pacat's Instagram live on January 22, 2022! You can find previous summaries here. This time I added a section for things that involve both capri and dark rise because there was a lot of that.
“It’s funny, I tend to write, as I think back on Dark Rise and then before that, Captive Prince, I tend to write these book ones that kind of don't necessarily reveal themselves until the end or cohere until the end or maybe are written for the re-read rather than necessarily for the first read… I kind of have this philosophy that difficult pleasures are the most enjoyable because you have to work to achieve them, and so you know, I like the idea that you get rewarded at the end of Dark Rise for reaching the end.”
Important Updates
There has been some progress on the capri News™, though it was epically delayed by the pandemic. It’s not a fourth book, hardcovers, Laurent’s POV, or a TV series
There were updates about Dark Rise and Fence too but none of it is news anymore because this happened so long ago. The capri fandom is just unlucky like that
Pacat has a new project! It’s very different and is more adult in tone than his previous works. It’s kind of monster-horror-gore, he’s been wanting to do something with a shounen horror vibe like Berserk or Attack on Titan. It’s coming in the distant future, not soon
Captive Prince
Pacat hasn't heard of the capri fandom term Smaurent (small Laurent) but thinks that the idea of him does exist in the books as he was a very different person as a young child. Pacat likes writing characters who explore the idea that one’s past leaves fingerprints on one’s present self and Laurent is the most extreme version of this that she’s written
A fan said that they think of “Damianos V” as being a roman numeral, so that Damen would be the fifth King Damianos. Pacat really liked the idea
Pacat cried for a really long time while writing Nicaise’s death scene. Got a few strange looks as he sat in the Melbourne State Library with tears streaming down his face for a few hours. Nicaise’s death was planned from the beginning, he was always a bittersweet character to write
Laurent is such a private person. Writing more from his POV would risk exploding the mystery of his character and might kill some of the tension in capri
The capri News is like a missive from Rohan- it's on its way and it'll arrive at some point, just when you need it most
A fourth capri book isn’t completely out of the question but there isn’t one planned for now
The Brazilian capri covers are their own thing but they don’t represent the books well. They have a very dark-ages-hard-masc-medieval aesthetic
How tall is Damen? Laurent thinks that he’s a foot taller and that sometimes it feels like more
Orlant: Rough exterior, heart of gold, didn't deserve what happened to him
Pacat pronounces Vere like Veer (veer off course) but that is not the correct pronunciation that Laurent and the Veretians use so feel free to pronounce it how you want
Pacat wasn’t really involved in the art for the Japanese edition but has been a fan of Chinatsu Kurahana for a long time. Usually the author doesn’t get much input for foreign editions. The Japanese publisher was very welcoming and let Pacat have some input, but he was such a fan of the artist that he let her do whatever her vision was. He gave a bit of a description for clothing but didn’t tweak any character concepts once they were drawn because he likes having different versions of the characters in different media. We shouldn’t think of it as an official version of the characters or as Laurent’s canon hair length
Dark Rise
The submission date for the Dark Heir manuscript was June 2022. At the time of this live, Pacat was just past writing the midpoint of the first draft, heading towards the climax. The climax has been planned for a long time
We absolutely get James's POV in Dark Heir. Pacat had just finished writing one of his chapters when this live happened
How would Anharion describe Sarcean in one word? The answer would change depending on whether Anharion was wearing the collar. If he was wearing it he would say whatever Sarcean wanted him to say
James is not named after the gay king james (James I of England)
We will find out about James’s mother at some point, either in book 2 or later
Pacat’s current favourite Dark Rise character to write is a new character from book two
It was important that the stewards were racially diverse. When Pacat was pitching Dark Rise he had little pictures of the characters to show what the aesthetic of the book is, it was art that he found online. Things might have changed since then but this was three or four years ago and it was really hard to find fantasy imagery of non-white characters. If you wanted to find mages or warriors in suits of armor, all the artwork had white characters. So he wanted to include different types of people in the traditional western fantasy aesthetic
Favourite part of Dark Rise #1 is the ending because it was all of the pieces falling into place
Cyprian’s surname is not St. Clair but saying more than that would be a spoiler
Stewards have family in the outside world
Pacat would love to write short stories for Dark Rise like the ones for capri but she’s a slow writer so it would be some time in the future
Dark Rise/Capri
Justice’s appearance wasn’t specifically influenced by danmei, he has long hair because all the Stewards have long hair. The Stewards have long hair because everyone in the Old World had long hair and the Stewards carry on the sacred traditions of the past. This was inspired by the delightful long-haired-Laurent contingent in the capri fandom because they were so underserved by Captive Prince. No one in capri other than Ancel has really long, butt-length hair so Pacat wanted to change that in a new series
Where do you get inspiration for jewelry like Nicaise’s earring or James’s collar? Pacat has been thinking lately about the importance of creating a strong visual aesthetic for a character. The earring was created as a plot device. It’s long because it had to be very gaudy and noticeable because Laurent would use it as a disguise later, and it has blue sapphires because blue is Laurent’s colour. It's one single earring instead of a pair because it felt more poignant as a memento. The earring was more about purpose than aesthetics, but Pacat paid more attention to aesthetics in Dark Rise. When working on Fence, Johanna is so good at creating characters with an iconic visual look, and Pacat was thinking about that when he created James. He started with the idea of red because it's the colour of blood. The collar started off as a necklace that was a drop of blood, but it was changed to be more interesting and to have more of an impact. Pacat often thinks about the scene from the Hunger Games when Katniss is about to prove herself to the sponsors and they're not paying attention to her so she shoots the apple in the boar's mouth. A lesser author would’ve had her nail the bullseye but Suzanne Collins souped it up one more level, to come up with something slightly cooler or more imaginative. So Pacat goes through his finished drafts and thinks, is there anything I can turn up to 11? And the necklace wasn't at 11. So he thought about making it a choker, then a collar. A choker with rubies looks like a slit throat and that’s a very cool image, so that’s what it was changed to
Pacat is an only child so Tom and Auguste as older brothers aren’t based on personal experiences, but the idea of siblings has a strong importance to her. Dark Rise is dedicated to her half-sister Mandy who committed suicide when she was 15, which was the year Pacat was born
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Fence Comic
The process of creating Fence: First Pacat writes the script, then it gets sent to the illustrator Johanna. It goes through a few rounds of notes where the two of them talk about the kinds of things they want to see happen, what would be cute or great in the upcoming storyline, and then Johanna does sketches. Then art edits happen, but usually the art is so incredible that it doesn’t need many edits so the only usual change is to make sure that Nicholas is left handed when he’s fencing. Then Boom (the publisher) looks over it before it goes to inks, then to the colourist Joana Lafuente, then to Jim Campbell for lettering. Jim places the speech bubbles and fits the script onto the page. Where the bubbles are placed and which words are emphasized makes a big impact on the flow of the script. Then everything gets sent back to Pacat for proofreading and editing of the lettering and then it’s done
Pacat worked very closely with Sarah Rees Brennan on the fence novels. They talked a lot about how events would play out, biographical details of the characters, made canon compliance edits, saw the books at every level and loved them. It’s impressive how Sarah can turn on a dime between two sets of opposing feelings when transitioning between emotions. Her books have a lot of wit and charm but also a lot of hard-hitting emotion
There was information about Rise and a preview but I'll skip over that part because it's already out now
Personal
When creating characters, Pacat often thinks of them in terms of dynamics they’ll have with other characters, or what they want to achieve, or what kind of archetype they resonate with, or how to build a backstory that gives them layers. Characters are interesting when they have more than one motivation, when they look one way on the surface but then different aspects of them from the past are revealed
Pacat was an Earth sciences major
Pacat chooses all the fanart friday posts himself and then his assistant Hannah sends a request to the artist
Least favourite book trope: band of misfits who save the world through a hail mary pass. Pacat likes a highly confident crew, not a small rabble of people who fluke their way into saving the world. It's not a bad trope, he doesn't know why he doesn't like it. He doesn't like Firefly because of this trope
He often reads fanfic on ao3 for more of a story than was in the original or more of a dynamic that was underserved in the original. But authors can’t read fic of their own works for copyright reasons
Owns multiple copies of the Lymond Chronicles. Book four is her favourite because the ending is so intense and devastating. Pacat often thinks of that ending when deciding what to do with her own works because most authors would’ve chickened out of writing an ending like that. She read book one for the first time in a restaurant at 9:00am and stayed there until she finished the book. She probably looked like a mess because of all the laughing and crying, and at one point one of the waiters came over to bring her a handkerchief and said “are you okay?” and Pacat said “I’m just at a really intense part right now"
Pacat does brainstorming sessions with friends to come up with ideas for books and looks at art books for inspiration
He’s reading the BL manga Twittering Birds Never Fly
Danmei dramas/web novels are really long so he isn’t familiar with most of them, but he ordered MDZS and he’s looking forward to reading it because he’s heard a lot of good things about it
Pacat doesn’t usually like love triangles, whenever he ships something in a love triangle he ends up choosing the unlucky guy. He liked Gale more than Peeta and liked Edgar more than Heathcliffe
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tajmutthall · 20 days ago
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more on the webinar I just posted
https://www.instagram.com/p/DA9eaU6v8cG/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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sarahreesbrennan · 1 year ago
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This is one of my favourite bookshops and favourite writers! I’m really excited to celebrate the release of DARK HEIR and talk surprises, slowburn and the nature of evil with C.S. Pacat, whose storytelling brain is a delight. Click here to book!
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fire-on-thirst · 2 years ago
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landonorris
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landonorris Started off 2022 single but leaving it and going into 2023 with you. carlossainz55 it wasn’t an easy ride to get to where we are now but it doesn’t matter. Together we are going into 2023. I Love You 🧡 Te Quiero ❤️
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carlossainz55 Te Quiero 🧡
danielricciardo Aw the baby’s found himself a boyfriend. My boy is growing up 🥺🥹
landonorris you’re an idiot
danielricciardo look maxverstappen1 our boy is growing. It’s an emotional day for all
georgerussell63 Double date?
landonorris What? You, me, Carlos and your right hand?
georgerussell63 haha very funny you gremlin
mclaren Have a Good New Year!!
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carlossainz55 2022 is over but 2023 is going to be better with you by my side. Te Quiero Cabrón 🧡
landonorris 🧡
charles_leclerc Happy for you mate. Glad it’s finally out there. Have a good new year!!
carlossainz55 Have a good new year!!
danielricciardo CARLANDO IS REAL
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multinanichi · 4 months ago
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Happy Birthday to my favorite Pevensie. 🥺 Happy Birthday to Lucy Pevensie. 🥳
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tragicc · 5 months ago
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“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.” —C.S. Lewis
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elytrafemme · 11 months ago
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life update i will NOT be elaborating on but my entire friend group now knows i have written a dreamSMP fanfiction (which apparently now TWO people have read? i know one of them has but who is the other...) and one of my friends (dsmp hater) distantly knows several dsmp members. i hate college
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mygentlehope · 2 months ago
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“He also loves. He also has suffered. He also has waited a long time.”
—C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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canadachronicles · 1 year ago
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Fit for the Queen!!
It would be nice if it lasted more than one night, though. Christine Sinclair Place has a nice ring to it, and she certainly deserves it, eh?
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sarceananharion · 3 months ago
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This is available for pre order again!! If you missed out I highly recommend ordering now. It was very unexpected of them to do a reprint I doubt they’ll do anymore!!
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Some close ups of the special edition of Dark Rise by C.S Pacat.
Obsessed with the illustrations of Will and James.
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jjongribo · 4 months ago
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kstarlitchaotics · 8 months ago
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Tolkien and Lewis
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sarahreesbrennan · 8 months ago
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My Spanish language edition
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I implore you, pick my Spanish cover! I am so thrilled to have sold the Spanish language rights for LONG LIVE EVIL in a pre-empt to Umbriel Editores/Urano,  who publish Jay Kristoff, Shelley Parker-Chan, Naomi Novik, Holly Black, Olivie Blake, CS Pacat, SA Chakraborty, VE Schwab, Zoraida Cordova, Justin Cronin… too many favourites to name. But before we villains can party in Spain, we love both my English language and my Dutch cover. Which would you like to see for my Spanish edition? 
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ymmtknt · 1 year ago
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multinanichi · 4 months ago
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Happy Birthday to my favorite Pevensie. 🥺 Happy Birthday to Lucy Pevensie. 🥳
@charmingsmolbear
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sweetshuga · 17 days ago
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Roommates ✧ CS
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roomie!chris! When your roommate gets a little too comfortable with you.
"Hey, have you seen my navy briefs?" Chris called out from your shared bathroom, you closed your phone and looked at your closed door. Sighing as you mumbled to yourself, "kid’s always asking me for his belongings like i take ’em or sum’," a groan of annoyance left your lips, "no? Why would I have seen them?" You shouted back, earning a laugh from him, causing you to roll your eyes, "now, what’s so funny about that?" Just as you spoke, Chris walked out of the bathroom and straight into your room, clad in only a towel around his waist.
Your eyes widened briefly, your gaze darting down before snapping back up to his face, your voice slightly shakier than before, "why are you in my room?" He nonchalantly looked around, "do you even clean-" A pillow flew up to hit him square in the face which he caught before it did, causing a fluttering feeling in your stomach. Butterflies. "Get out!" You yelled, more out of nerves than anger.
"Alright, alright, no need to get violent, I’ll just go back to my room then," he jutted his bottom lip out dramatically, pouting, causing you to let out a small amused laugh despite your flustered state. "C’mon, get out Chris, come back when you’re fully dressed or sum’," you said as you pretended to scroll through your phone again—you obviously couldn’t focus on anything the Instagram reels – you idly scrolled through – provided, your mind stuck on the image of him in only a towel around his waist– don’t, he’s just a roommate. Rule number 1: Do not fall for each other.
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note. English is not my first language—if you didn't catch on with my poor vocabulary and writing skills.
Isa's notes. A little blurb<3
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