#Daniel José Older

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Alys “Crash” Ongwa- The High Republic: Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older

Lady Ursula- Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra

Max Owen- Magical Boy by The Kao

Alanna of Trebond- Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce

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The first of three cover illustrations that I painted for Star Wars: The High Republic Phase 1 YA Paperback Box Set. Here's Zeen for Daniel José Older's Midnight Horizon! 💖🌟

(Tara Phillips)

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THE HIGH REPUBLIC: ESCAPE FROM VALO TOMORROW

that is all

[lowcountry-gothic]

No one actually possessed any other person, no matter how much they held on to them. And that was just it: attachment was itself an illusion. Not because it wasn’t real but because it became so gigantic so quickly, became a weight, like it had mass and took up space...

Daniel José Older and Alyssa Wong, Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape from Valo

[darth-memes]

I just learnt that he has a tumblr, so if this gets to @danieljose... Thanks for the tears, can't wait to read more!

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Name: Cohmac Vitus Pronouns: he/him Era: High Republic Appears in: Into the Dark, Out of the Shadows, Midnight Horizon

Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus was a well-respected scholar and mystic during the High Republic era. He was the master of Padawan Reath Silas, and was good friends with the Wayseeker Jedi Orla Jareni. Cohmac had a very strong connection to the Force, and he was more affected by disturbances than other Jedi were. While Cohmac was rational and steady, he had unresolved issues with how the Jedi Order dealt with grief and emotions, which intensified during the Nihil conflict.

Check out Cohmac's video profile here!

Full profile under the cut:

Cohmac Vitus was a Jedi Master in the High Republic Era. In the Jedi Order, he was a well-respected scholar and mystic, particularly in the fields of folklore and ancient cultures. He was highly sensitive to the Force – moreso than most Jedi – and generally preferred reason and logic to acting on emotion. Cohmac was considered by many to be very handsome: he had light brown skin, greying black hair almost to his shoulders, and an angular build. In phase one of the High Republic, he’s probably in his 40’s or early 50’s. Nevertheless, Cohmac was “more resolute in his vows” than many other Jedi, although there were rumours he had once been in love. In any case, Vernestra Rwoh still caught Cohmac admiring Xylan Graf’s chest when he thought no one was watching.

While Cohmac considered himself to bring steadiness and rationality to the Jedi Order, that in itself came from a place of repressed emotions. Cohmac’s master, Simmix, died on a mission while Cohmac was still a Padawan. Not only did Cohmac feel responsible for his Master’s death, he was angry at the Jedi Order for not allowing him to grieve. He bottled up that anger within himself, but after the Great Disaster and the rise of the Nihil, it came to the surface. Cohmac began to question the Jedi philosophy and their approach to fighting the Nihil. Why were they expected to hide their feelings? Why did they ignore the Dark side of the Force instead of examining it?

While Cohmac often appeared to be unshakable, the Nihil conflict spurred his inner turmoil. He went from thinking like a scholar to believing that the Jedi could not flinch while facing the Nihil – and he started to fight like it.

Cohmac was the master of Padawan Reath Silas, another Jedi who preferred scholarly pursuits before his path led him elsewhere. Cohmac said that Reath would be his greatest instructor in the force, and they both pushed themselves to the edge of their comfort zones. He was also good friends with the Wayseeker Jedi Orla Jareni, who he had grown up with as younglings and who was with him on the mission that Master Simmix died. Orla was Cohmac’s opposite in temperament, but also one of the people he trusted the most. 

🚨 Spoilers for The Fallen Star and Midnight Horizon: 🚨

While Cohmac hoped teaching Reath would help him find balance within the Order, Cohmac couldn’t get past his grief, anxiety, anger, and doubt. Orla’s death during the fall of Starlight Beacon was the last straw. That night, he officially named Reath a Jedi Knight and gave him his lightsaber. Cohmac said that he was no longer a Jedi, and disappeared into the night. 

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Star Wars: The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life

By Zoraida Córdova, Tessa Gratton, Claudia Gray, Justina Ireland, Lydia Kang, George Mann, Daniel José Older, Cavan Scott, and Charles Soule.

Cover art by Tara Phillips.

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The High Republic: Escape from Valo Review!

The High Republic: Escape from Valo is deeply heartfelt, moving, and full of hope and chaos that speaks directly to its readers. All while overflowing with action, fun, and laughs. #StarWarsBooks #TheHighRepublic

“We spent a year searching for the others. We couldn’t find any traces of them. They were gone. It’s just been us ever since.”Tep-Tep Just when you think that The High Republic can’t get any more bombastic the dynamic duo of Daniel José Older and Alyssa Wong double the chaos in Escape from Valo! Trapped behind the stormwall, Ram Jomaram fights the Nihil invaders on Valo. When he finds a trio of…

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Title: Last Canto of the Dead | Author: Daniel José Older | Publisher: Rick Riordan Presents (2023)

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Star Wars - Max-Rebo #1 (2023)

Return of The Jedi

Marvel

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Title: Fresh Ink

Author: Lamar Giles, Nicola Yoon, Malinda Lo, Melissa de la Cruz, Sara Farizan, Eric Gansworth, Walter Dean Myers, Daniel José Older, Thien Pham, Jason Reynolds, Gene Luen Yang, Sharon G. Flake, Schuyler Bailar, Aminah Mae Safi

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2018

Genres: fiction, anthology, contemporary, LGBT+, fantasy, romance

Blurb: Careful, you are holding fresh ink - and not hot-off-the-press, still-drying-in-your-hands ink. Instead, you are holding twelve stories with endings that are still being written, whose next chapters are up to you, because these stories are meant to be read and shared.

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Kantam Sy- The High Republic: Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older

Darcy Olsson- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Pip Quintana- Loveless by Alice Oseman

Vivienne “Vivi” Duarte- The Cruel Prince/Folk of the Air by Holly Black

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first read of the new year: Ballad & Dagger by Daniel José Older!

i’m a bit late to the party on this one but holy shit, i devoured this book in a single day. the blending of cultures felt so real, and immense care was given to representing the real world traditions properly.

Caribbean Pirate Culture, Sephardic Judaism, and Santería were all represented beautifully, as were the very real and deep relationships between characters.

i cannot wait for Last Canto for the Dead to see the story continue!

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He knew what to do with feelings; he'd been trained his whole life in that. Whether good or terrible, he acknowledged them for what they were, honored them, and let them go, knowing they'd surely be back anyway; so there was no reason to hold on too tight even if he wanted to.

Daniel José Older and Alyssa Wong, Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape from Valo

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(A while ago @apurpledust mentioned wanting to know more about Duroc's children, so here's what information I have)

Duroc and his wife, Maria de las Nieves Martínez de Hervas, had two children, both of whom died tragically young. (Hervas left instructions that her gravestone should be engraved with "To the unhappiest of mothers".)

Their first child, Napoléon Louis Sidoine Joseph Duroc, was born on 24 February 1811 in Paris. Named for the emperor and his two grandfathers (Claude Sidoine de Michel du Roc and José Martínez de Hervas), he lived for just over fourteen months. The infant’s health was never good; Duroc wrote to Bertrand in March 1812 that “[Hervas] is doing well but her son has been and always is ill”. (As Duroc’s biographer Danielle Meyrueix notes, when writing of his wife and child he habitually referred to “her son” rather than “our son”. Perhaps not the most engaged of fathers.) Napoléon died on 6 May 1812 at Maidières in Lorraine. The architect Pierre Fontaine, noting in his journal that Hervas had asked him to design a tomb for her lost son, wrote that the child had been “a few days older than the King of Rome and destined to enjoy at that prince’s side all the favor with which the Emperor honored his father.”

Their daughter Hortense Eugénie Nieves Duroc was born on 14 May 1812, eight days after the young Napoléon’s death. (In a letter, Duroc implied that the news of the boy’s death had been kept from Hervas, who was in Paris, to avoid imperiling her health.) Named for her godmother, Hortense de Beauharnais, she was baptized in January 1813 alongside the duke of Bassano's daughter. After Duroc’s death in May 1813, Napoleon transferred the duchy of Friuli to her, writing to Hervas that Hortense would be “assured of my constant protection”. He also remembered her in his will, leaving her a large sum of money and recommending, in one last attempt at matchmaking, that she marry Bessières’s son, the duke of Istria. Hortense’s aunt wrote in 1823 that “Hortense is perfectly sweet, she’s a rare child for her spirit and intelligence, who her poor father would have been happy to see so fine in all respects”. She died of pneumonia on 24 September 1829 after three days of illness, aged seventeen.

A 1933 biography of Charles-Nicolas Fabvier (Hervas’s second husband) identifies this painting by Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet as a young Hortense Duroc. It was sold at an auction a few years ago with the title “Young Embroideress”, so either the sitter’s identity has been lost since then or it may never have been Hortense at all.

Duroc’s long liaison with the dancer Emilie Bigottini may also have resulted in at least one child. Felix Bouvier, writing a biographical sketch of Bigottini in 1909, claimed that “children were born of this irregular union, a daughter and a son named Odilon”. However, Odilon (full name Pierre Dominique Jean Marie Odilon Michel du Roc), born in 1801, was the son of Duroc’s cousin Géraud Pierre Michel du Roc, the marquis de Brion. On Duroc’s death, Napoleon made Odilon a page in the imperial household. (This may have given rise to Bouvier’s claim, as it seems to have confused people at the time. Caulaincourt had been tasked with sorting out Duroc’s affairs, including a substantial amount of money for Bigottini, and Duroc’s sister Jeanne implied that he had gotten the wrong impression from one of Duroc’s requests: “On the subject of the allowance for little Odilon, M. the duke of Vicenza was misled…he took a step which pained me very much”.) As for the daughter, all I’ve been able to find so far is a remark from Laure Junot that “It was known that the count Armand de Fuentès had had a daughter with Mademoiselle Bigottini, and that Duroc was in the same position”.

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Hi welcome to a post however potentially I can be bothered about High Republic characters because there is so much rep you're sleeping on and I want people to know.

First up Tep Tep (She/her)

Tep tep is an Alcedian youngling who so far only appearance is in "Escape from Valo" by Daniel José Older (He/him) and Alyssa Wong (They/them).

It's revealed about mid book that Tep tep is a trans girl in a few short sentences during a flashback that refer to how much happier she's looked since growing out her hair, changing her name, and changing dormitories.

She also has a love for animals.