#red and gold reapers

[andieburky]

Reaperstang

~ the gala ~

[valkariel]

Sandstrider

I wanted to blend the hood with the capelet of the top to make it one big shawl/cowl, but the hood also looks really nice in default black too.

Head: Neo Kingdom Hood of Maiming - shale brown / chestnut brown Body: Augmented Lunar Envoy's Gambison of Maiming - default Hands: Virtu Reaper's Armguards - default Legs: Assassin's Brais - jet black / default Feet: Seigneur's Longboots - default / orchard brown

Alt Head: Neo Kingdom Hood of Maiming - default / shale brown Alt Feet: Isle Farmhand's Boots | YoRHa Type-53 Boots of Maiming | Urban Boots

Earring: The Emperor's New Earrings Neck: The Emperor's New Necklace Wrists: The Emperor's New Bracelet Right Ring: The Emperor's New Ring Left Ring: The Emperor's New Ring

Main Hand: Archeo Kingdom Sickle - soot black / ice blue Off Hand: --

Fashion Accessory: -- Minion: -- Mount: -- Location: Southern Thanalan - Sagolii Desert

Shader: Faeberry Bokeh

[m-check]

reposting some RR fanart and adding headcannons

hcs:

At some point Darrow got another scar that turned the slight curve of his Peerless scar into a slingBlade. Whether unintentionally earned in battle or intentionally marked by someone else, I'm not sure.

The curve of Darrow's slingBlade - the actual weapon and the icon - was designed with the proportions of a crescent. When held up, it directly mirrors the Lune crescent.

Sevro, of course, making constant jokes to Pax about "You've got your father's eyes - no wait, I do."

[bookishwithathought]

“Until then, endure, my love. Endure.”

Endurance was the name of the game for both the characters and me as a reader. Dark Age carried many heavy themes, pulling us into the darkest depths of war and the complexities of its consequence. Liberation isn’t pretty or clean. It is messy, it is long and it resides in a world of muddy grey.

Initially I was going to rate it 3.5 stars because there were a couple of deaths that felt wasteful and meaningless, and I very nearly discontinued the book. It didn’t feel like those deaths drove the plot forward. But now that I’ve had some time and distance from Dark Age, I’m able to gain some perspective. Plainly, in war and life, not everything carries meaning. It is a part of the human experience in its most basic understanding. And that is ok. For the visceral reaction Pierce Brown pulled from me alone, the ratings go up 😂

A standing ovation for the female characters. They were the stars of this beautifully chaotic story. Amidst loss, betrayal, grief and rage, time and again the women rose up to meet the challenges thrown at them.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Images: Pinterest + Canva

Edited by Me

On the Playlist: LIMBO - DPR IAN

[narucore]

sevro au barca and victra au julii-barca

[sarcasmiclife]

"Then my husband’s face appears on the viewscreen above the menu, and I stare at him like he is the first man I’ve ever seen."

Me whenever I see my babies Darrow and Virginia hearing from each other after months without any communication

[virginiaoflykos]

The dread monster rises in the belly of me. Laughter spews from between my teeth. I would die for the truth that all men are created equal. But in the kingdom of death, amidst ramparts of bodies and wind all of screams, there is a king, and his name is not Lune. It is Reaper.

[rkfkiller]

Size chart for bad sans (Lazy, also just realised I forgot Lust 😭😭)

[darrowsrising]

One of the worst things Pierce Brown has ever done to Darrow (besides once again having him pour everything into an empty shell that will never choose him) is how he had him do nothing about Quicksilver, basically ignoring his playing God on the backs of his own people.

Trying to convince us that unity is important is one thing, but Darrow only gets some gadgets out of the exchange, no back up. I don't care what happens from this point on, the way it was treated in Light Bringer is awful. It brushes away too much without proper reasoning. Darrow should learn to compromise and be more diplomatic, but setting up Quicksilver for 2 huge books to have him brusged off as of no biggie is a slap in the face for the character of Darrow.

Maybe that live action could have waited for Light Bringer to have a proper first draft. Writing a book is extremely hard and it's okay to miss, but it's just frustrating af to see all the build up amount to...not much.

[everyone-with-a-para]

I hope everyone with a para with a signature color has a great day!

(ngl this is just me wanting to hear peoples color associations in the replies lol. I have so many fictparas with a pink theme)

-🍒

Every para gets A Colour it is verrrry important to me

[andieburky]

Hail Reaper 💥 Young Darrow of Lykos

I wanted this to show both Darrow as a carved Gold and his past Red self.

[valkariel]

Kabuki

Head: Shishu Gozen Kanzashi - soot black Body: Genji Jin-baori of Maiming - dalamud red Hands: Virtu Reaper's Armguards - mole brown Legs: Imperial Longkilt of Maiming - dalamud red Feet: Peacock Shoes - ruby red

Earring: The Emperor's New Earrings Neck: The Emperor's New Necklace Wrists: The Emperor's New Bracelet Right Ring: The Emperor's New Ring Left Ring: The Emperor's New Ring

Main Hand: -- Off Hand: --

Fashion Accessory: -- Minion: -- Location: Kugane Castle - Noh Theater

Shader: Faeberry Bloom

[thegorydamnreaper]

‘LO HOWLERS!

It’s been a long time, I know, I know. I won’t bore you all with the details, but my ass has been kicked by life and there hasn’t been time for art or social media. Thankfully life has decided it’s won for now and has let me finally have some bloodydamn peace.

So! On to much more interesting matters - Lightbringer! New art! Huzzah!

I’ve finished Lightbringer - then read through it two more times just to really soak it all in. Amazing book, probably my favorite since Golden Son. That being said:

THIS BLOG WILL NOT BE SPOILER FREE.

This includes the new art I’ve been cooking up 😉

First piece will be out this weekend. Hope you’re ready to cry ♥️

Much love,

TGDR

[janesmitish]

"You're going to have to move, Wulfgar." "I will not." "You don't want me to move you." I take a step forward. The Knights ripple back. - fucking, some of the most highly trained fighters in the system, armed in the best equipment with the most advanced weapons and armor of the time, facing down a man with a single blade, covered in nothing but a leather jacket for protection and THEY step back in fear the goddamn Reaper, man

[sarcasmiclife]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the unending and unconditional support Darrow had from his family since the moment he came out to them as a Gold and even before that? No doubts no resentment no malice just blind faith and love for him and his cause and his found family. They all just opened their arms and accepted everything that came with Darrow because it came with Darrow. It is all so beautiful and I love it and I love that we have at least one amazing series where the main character gets some spectacular character development without having major mommy or daddy or other family issues.

[virginiaoflykos]

I’m not sure if you like asks or not but!! I saw your post about how Darrow and the reaper are different people and tbh I love that idea, physically they ARNT, but to me it feels like there’s a switch in darrows head that switches him to the reaper..it’s almost like a trauma response for him?

Which is an extremely intriguing and fascinating idea!

SPOILERS FOR MORNING STAR

I feel like after Darrow was saved out of the jackals prison at the start of morning star he switched pretty much fully to his reaper persona, conscious or not! It feels like, up until then he had been fighting for his family and for his people, but then when he was stuck in that small room it traumatised him so much he had no other mental option than to become the reaper permanently, which lends to him ‘abandoning’ mustang and pax, I KNOW it was the right thing to do, but it goes against darrows pats want to be a farther and a husband, that is my long special interest rant over :)

Enjoy your morning/afternoon/evening

Darrow and Reaper are not two different people, because the Reaper isn’t a person. The Reaper is only a symbol, and a mask Darrow dons to fight his enemies. And he embraced the idea of the Reaper way before the table.

Let’s start from the beginning. In Red Rising, “The Reaper” was only a nickname given to Darrow by Virginia; a silly, mocking nickname bestowed on him only because - and Pierce said it himself - he liked the idea of a character being known as “The Reaper”. At that point, Reaper was only a name: it meant nothing to Darrow, and it meant nothing to us readers or the members of his House. Darrow is a person: he is compassionate, angry, determined, he has his highs and lows, he suffers and laughs and cries, he is full of rage. Reaper is just a cool title he got because of the circumstances.

And then, Darrow starts to like the idea. We can first see this with his famous (and one of my favorite) quote: “I am the Reaper and death is my shadow”. Here is when the myth of Reaper begins: not when Virginia calls him that mockingly, but when he embraces this idea of himself, that he can be lethal and chose whom deserves to die. This is a topic for another post, but Darrow choosing to be the Reaper is another beautiful anti-parallelism with Adrius. Adrius becomes the Jackal because Lilath likes the name, and it eventually stuck; he however loathed the title, a title that only his boneriders (which he hated as well!) adored and cherished.

With the Institute being broadcasted to all of the Peerless, the myth of the Reaper spread. The Reaper became Darrow’s face to the public, a scheming commander with a penchant for chaos. When he became a member of house Augustus, the media started to spin his myth. It is at this point that we see truly a divide between man and symbol. Darrow is loving, compassionate, gentle and loyal; the Reaper is fucking war machine, full of rage and determined only to destroy. It’s not a coincidence that the Holo spits bullshit like the fact that Darrow eats glass: to them, the Reaper is way more appealing than the reality of Darrow, and so they constantly double down to make him look like a monster. I think it was at this point that Darrow started to use the Reaper as a mask: he could be Darrow in private and don the Reaper as a cloak, a shield, when confronting his enemies. When Darrow challenges Cassius at the Gala, Mustang asks him straight up if he was insane. Because that wasn’t truly Darrow, he was wearing the his bloody mask of rage, he had gone full Reaper. When Darrow cut Cassius’s arm, he was on the verge of decapitating him, but Mustang stopped him on his tracks. And what did she say when he halted? “Here is the real you”. Because the bloodthirsty monster, the Reaper, was only a mask.

As you can see, The Reaper was an part of Darrow way before Morning Star. On the contrary, I think Morning Star is the time when Darrow fully understood the ravine between himself and his Reaper persona. In MS, the Reaper of Mars is a literal god: the red who defied gold, the red who bested gold and died for his cause. The Reaper was a myth had inspired millions to join the Sons, to the point even Sevro was pissed when Darrow came back as only Darrow, not the Reaper. There is a direct quote from the book I posted a while ago about this moment. Darrow had abandoned the Reaper in the table, and only used it again when needed. The capture of the Colussus is truly the moment when Darrow became the Reaper again. On Phobos, he used his eloquence to inspire millions. On the Colossus, he used his rage and cruel ingenuity to destroy on of the brightest strategists alive. It is only on the Colossus that Darrow asks Eo to avert her eyes, because the Reaper is coming. And he would not spare anyone.

Ten years of war undoubtedly required him to be the Reaper more than Darrow, and slowly he started to lose himself. In IG, Darrow goes full Reaper, or as Sevro said, full Iron Gold to ensure a future for his family and Republic. However, even if Darrow wants desperately to live with his family, it was not his rage that lead him to Mercury, it was his duty.

I hope more answer was pertinent to the question. I really liked responding but I fear I might have gone off on a tangent!