#lorn au arcos

[vices-aand-virtues]

Red Rising Characters + Reductress headlines

Kavax

Fitchner

Diomedes

Darrow

Victra & Sevro

Cassius & Darrow – Virginia & Victra

Roque

Lorn

Red Rising Characters + Reductress headlines (2/?)

[boykingmaven]

[marauderjojo]

“Don’t worry. You’re not senile. They’re just odd.”

Pierce Brown- Golden Son

[helldiver-of-florida]

If anyone asks i still havent gotten over Lorn

HOWWW are you gonna be like CONSTANTLY CONSISTENTLY mention him with his grandkids and how much he loves them and is willing to lay down his life to protect them then be like oh yea we killed him

EVIL. EVILLLL. Also i loved him. I love grandpas.

Sobs. I misss him

[virginiaoflykos]

In another life, you would have been one of my sons, Darrow. I would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage. I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love. Now all I can give you is a chance.

[rhearedrising]

in this reread, now that I have space and time to actually evaluate stuff like this, it’s so fascinating to compare and contrast Darrow with different characters. Like recognizing that Adrius and Darrow are truly mirrors of each other-except one has the capacity for compassion and care for other people and the other does not. How does this impact their actions, their relationships, their timelines? Darrow and the ArchGovernor are very similar in many ways as well. Again, we see them differ in the conditionality of their care, where they draw the line, and what they value above all else. Looking at Lorn and Darrow is heartbreakingly interesting. All of them lend to so much speculation on where I think Darrow’s story will end up by the end of Red God. So bloodydamn fascinating!

[thehaemanthus]

“You’ve another grandson to raise. Maybe you can teach him the peace you couldn’t teach me.”

- Golden Son, Darrow to Lorn

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[dangerandbeauty]

This parallel 🤌🏻

“I am Sera au Raa,” she says proudly. “Were you really a red? I heard my father speaking,” she explains.

“I still am a red,” I say. “It’s not something I stopped being.”

“Oh. You don’t look like one.”

She must not watch holos if she doesn’t know who I am. “Maybe it’s not about what I look like,” I suggest. “Maybe it’s about what I do.”

Minutes later…

“You whelp. I pity a world where you decide if a man like Lorn au Arcos lives or dies. Did your parents never teach you?”…”What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read.” Romulus thumps his chest. “Honor is what you do.”

[panzerkatzee]

"When falls the Iron Rain, be brave. Be brave." - Lorn au Arcos

Darrow o' Lykos as The Emperor Card

A project I was toying with in my mind for a long time... a new set of Tarot Cards, inspired by Red Rising in the style of the Cyberpunk Tarot cards... for the second part of the series, bc @phantomrin already did an amazing series of tarot artworks for the first three books <3

[boneskullravenriver]

I know we all hate Lysander but finishing IG chap 41 right now, the bit where he finally reveals who he is to the Rim Golds is such a chilling, absolutely fantastic image. Like, it's something that I can imagine in a tv show and the reactions from the audience, you know? It's cinematic. The way he immediately switches back to his native accent and leaves everyone in the room gagged with this:

“I am the blood of Silenius the Lightbringer, son of Anastasia, son of Brutus, grandson of Lorn au Arcos the Stoneside and Octavia the Sovereign of Man. I was born upon the Palatine, west of Hyperion, at the heart of Luna and the City of Light. I may know little of the Rim, but even in the heart of the empire, they spoke of the honor of House Raa. Of the Moon Lords, chief among them the Ionian Golds. Where has it gone? Has it deserted you? Has it fled after the tremors of war? You may have lost it, forgotten it, but I have not forgotten mine. And my honor will not let me sit idly as this travesty unfolds.”

Like brooo what the fuuuuck. I would pay to see this in live action. I begggggg for a live action so badly. I need to see the Tiktok edits. I NEED to see the fights and *hear* with my own two ears all the quotes that leave me at the edge of my seat, you know??

[385bookreviews]

1.3.2 Golden Son by Pierce Brown

SPOILERS

Pages: 442

Read Time: 11 hours and 37 minutes

Overall Rating: ★★★★★ Storyline: ★★★★★ Dialogue: ★★★★★ Characters: ★★★★★

Genre: Adult Science Fiction

TWs for the book: Violence, death, gore, war, blood, murder, slavery, classism, sexism, torture, grief, child death, addiction, bullying, child abuse, genocide, mentions of r*pe, kidnapping, slavery, racism, mentions of cannibalism, cursing, colonization, drug use, betrayal 

POV: First person; Darrow

Time Period/Location: A future of genetically enhanced and segregated humans across the Solar System, including Mars, Europa, and Luna (Earth’s Moon).

First Line: My silence thunders.

The book opens 2 years in the future with Darrow, now serving under ArchGovernor Augustus, suffering a defeat at the Academy by the hand of his rival’s brother, Karnus au Bellona. Karnus becomes a Praetor instead of Darrow, and jumps him, accompanied by his brothers, sisters, and cousins. Since Darrow was humiliated by the Bellonas twice in a row, the ArchGovernor reveals he plans to sell his contract to another Gold family. They travel to Luna, the ruling seat for the Sovereign, Octavia au Lune, to attend the Summit, a meeting of the ruling Gold families. Upon arriving, Victra (Antonia’s sister who serves under Augustus), takes Darrow to Lost City, a lowColor part of the moon. There he meets Adrius, the Jackal, who has become a businessman, and schemes against his father and the Sons of Ares. Darrow makes an alliance with him, agreeing to let him buy his contact, when Evey, a Pink with ties to the Sons of Ares, enters in disguise. Darrow and Evey recognize each other, and she tries to help him escape after she plants a bomb, but he runs to save Adrius instead. Afterwards, he hunts her down, and finds her, Harmony (a Red he met when he joined the Sons), and Mickey (the Violet that carved him). She tells him that Dancer, Darrow’s recruiter, is dead, that Mickey is carving genetically modified Reds to fight for them, and that Ares requires him to detonate a bomb at the gala that will occur at the end of the Summit. Darrow refuses, saying the way to take down the Golds is from the inside, by causing a civil war, but Harmony shows him clips of Eo’s death, and reveals that she was pregnant with their child when she was killed. Resolved, Darrow decides to bomb the gala, but moments before it begins, he drugs Roque to keep him from dying. At the gala, however, he sees Mustang with Cassius (who has been given the mantle of the Morning Knight, one of the 12 Olympic Knights), and his resolve changes. He challenges Cassius to a duel to the death, even with Cassius’s fame as a dueler. Darrow defeats him, however, and cuts off his sword arm with skills he learned from secretly training with the former Rage Knight, Lorn au Arcos. The Sovereign then reveals her nepotism for the House Bellona by stopping the duel, which breaks the laws of the Society. Civil war breaks out between the Augustans and the Bellonas. When the Augustans try to escape, Fitchner, who has been made the new Rage Knight, stops them, and brings Darrow to Octavia. They play a game of truths in front of Mustang (who had infiltrated Luna) and Lysander (Octavia’s grandson), and the Sovereign is forced to reveal that she would have let the Bellona attack House Augustus at the gala anyways, and that the whole thing was a trap. She tries to bring Darrow into her house, and he agrees, only to escape from his room when Sevro, Quinn, and the Howlers come to fetch him. They free House Augustus from an onslaught of Octavia’s Praetorians, using Lysander as a captive, but Quinn is attacked and killed by the Protean Knight, Aja au Grimmus. As they are escaping into the atmosphere, Tactus steals Lysander and gives him back to Octavia, removing the leverage they had to escape. Darrow and Sevro capture a ship and rename it the Pax, where Darrow also gains the loyalty of a Stained Obsidian named Ragnar. After the ship is taken, Sevro reveals to Darrow that he is in league with the Sons of Ares. The Augustans flee, and make plans to overthrow the Bellonas and the Sovereign. Darrow forcefully recruits Lorn au Arcos, who kills Tactus. ArchGovernor Augustus is betrayed by his right hand man, Pliny, and Darrow, Mustang, and Adrius kill Pliny, and declare an Iron Rain on Mars. They wage war on the Bellonas, and the capital city of Mars, Agea, where Augustus is being kept and Octavia is also hiding. There are heavy losses from the Howlers, but the city and planet are taken. But as the Sovereign escapes, Darrow jumps into her ship, hoping to kill her. They overpower him, but not before he kills Karnus. The Sovereign, noticing Fitchner trying to save him, orders him to kill him on the spot. He doesn’t, wounding the Sovereign and fleeing the ship with Darrow, revealing to him that he is Ares. Darrow wakes a week later. He tries to mend his friendship with Roque, that has been slowly fracturing throughout the whole book. Sevro interrupts them, however, and says that Harmony, Mickey, and Evey have been captured by Adrius. Darrow goes to meet with Victra and Adrius as a distraction, and the Sons free the captives. Afterwards, Darrow reunites with Sevro, Fitchner, and a very much alive Dancer. Fitchner reveals that Harmony betrayed them, and that the reason he started the rebellion was because his wife was Red, making Sevro half-Red, half-Gold. Darrow then visits the mines of Lykos, and decides to tell Mustang the truth. He visits with his mother, who recognizes him despite him being so different, and then waits in the mines for Mustang’s reaction. She is angry and threatens to shoot him, but in the end, with some convincing from Ragnar, she leaves and doesn’t return. Darrow goes back to Agea to receive praise and accolades from Augustus and the people of Mars. Augustus adopts him as his son and heir, and there is a ceremony to be held for him. But at the ceremony, Roque poisons him, and Cassius, Adrius, Aja, Vixus, and Antonia, kill Lorn, Victra, the ArchGovernor, and others. Thanks to the Jackal, they found out he was a Red, and they give him Fitchner’s severed head in a box.

Darrow O’Lykos (Darrow au Andromedus; The Reaper): Darrow continues to be just as compelling a main character in this book as he was in the first. His constant decisions to overcome his grief and need for revenge against the Golds and stay the course of the plan for the rebellion make him immensely admirable. But he is willing to risk it all for love, as he has no desire to use Mustang or take advantage of her true affection for his own gain or the gain of his cause. He remains a flawed character, his mistakes with Roque ultimately leading to his downfall.

Virginia au Augustus (Mustang): Even though she is the daughter of one of the most wicked men in the series, she remains a force for good. What surprised me most about her character was, even though she is a Gold and raised in their superiority complex society, she has a place in her heart for all of the Colors, and mentions to Darrow several times that she wants Reformers to have a place on the Senate, so other colors, especially Reds, have a better life. She is worthy of all of Darrow’s trust and affection, despite her reaction to his true self. 

Sevro au Barca (Goblin): Sevro is my favorite character in the whole series. He takes the news of Darrow being a Red in the Sons of Ares quite well, loyalty to him winning out over loyalty to his race. He keeps Darrow’s impulses in check, and challenges anyone who questions him, including his own Howlers. His mouth and sense of humor carry the entire series in my opinion.

Storyline: As he did in the first book, Pierce Brown carries on his detailed world-building and emotional storytelling. The plot twists are captivating and leave you not knowing what to expect next. Golden Son, however, was not my favorite of the series, as the plot drags a little bit in the beginning with the battle scenes.

Representation: Harmony and Evey are shown to be in a relationship. Tactus and Roque make several comments throughout the book that have led some readers to surmise that they might have had feelings for one another. Tactus au Rath, Orion xe Aquarii, and Aja au Grimmus are the only people of color. 

Quotes: “Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”  “He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.”-Roque au Fabii “Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”-Roque au Fabii “I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”

[hyena-frog]

“I am the blood of Silenius the Lightbringer, son of Anastasia, son of Brutus, grandson of Lorn au Arcos the Stoneside, and Octavia the Sovereign of Man...”

— Lysander, Iron Gold, Chapter 41

“Lysander has been raised so long ago with poison in his ear that now it's in his blood. He is not my kin.”

— Lorn, Golden Son, Chapter 28

Oop

[evapunk333]

Red Rising Thoughts: Golden Son

Continued from previous...

Starting with my boy Tactus again!

You tell 'em baby!! ❤️❤️❤️

Also, @sushiwestern pointed out to me, because I forgot, that they were told to not drink and of course Tactus still gets drunk. And that's why we love this beautiful idiot 😂

God, every time I read this I wanna vomit. Cassius, why do you have to be such an insufferable asshole sometimes??? This is just in such poor taste that I wanna slap Cassius upside his dumb, blonde head. I know he's better than this but...ugh...gross.

This is such great fucking revenge that I get giddy reading it over and over again. I think the Hail Reaper podcast guys mentioned this was the equivalent of the changing of the sword hand by Westley in The Princess Bride and yeah...this is exactly what I was thinking!

For some reason though, I don't remember why Lorn ended up teaching Darrow...guess I will read it again later.

I seriously hope I get to see this razor in a tv show one day because it sounds so friggin epic and gorgeous!

All I can say here is...damn, poor Leto. He seemed like a really decent dude that really didn't deserve this. But, he made the mistake of getting involved with the wrong family. I almost wonder what Nero and Leto's relationship was like. Obviously, Nero seemed to treat Leto better than his own son Adrius...but, even if Nero is somewhat to blame for Adrius' behavior and eventual mental state, it's not like Nero didn't have his own trauma's that probably caused him to act the way he did. It's basically just a terrible cycle of trauma begetting more trauma in dysfunctional families. I feel like Mustang just barely was able to come out of it all mostly unscathed...but she obviously still had things she had to work through herself. I bet the Telemanus family was what helped her the most...

Also..I can really feel Nero's pain here as he calls out for Leto as he dies. Even if he was a dick, Nero still obviously cared for the boy and it's heartbreaking to see this happen.

[hoe-for-ares]

Lorn, seeing Darrow pick Nero over him: smh whatever... didnt even want you... *turns around, eyes filled with tears*

[virginiaoflykos]

Only a cursed few relish the dark thrill in discovering they are natural-born killers.

Alexandar is a killer. He has proven himself the worthy heir to the legacy of his grandfather Lorn au Arcos.

[rhearedrising]

new reread opinion: Lorn did the right thing in killing Tactus 👀