#Wames

[hayesdraws]

forgot why I got this app for a sec. Anyway here's Anharion and Sarcean from Dark Rise by CS Pacat

[quelmdn]

"I remember everything."

[trinityprocessing]

Anyone else thinking about how during Dark Heir everyone was having literally the worst time of their life? Like Will desperately trying to hide his identity and deal with his visions, Cyprian having an identity crisis, Violet got kidnapped, Sarah fucking died, the entire white death thing.

And meanwhile James was just having his teen drama hot girl summer in Italy, trying to figure out how to get Will to kiss him the entire time.

[domo-arts]

Dearly beloved

[tackletofset]

Yes yes, it's a very well known bigoted mindframe to associate hetero = " L O V E ", and queer couple = perverted, sex-oriented degenerates

The more I think about Anharion and Sarcean the more I'm convinced they are an allegory for queer trauma and Will will have to embrace, accept, and forgive himself in order change his narrative.

In which case I don't think the collar is compulsion but something else. James - once Anharion in a past life and a former novitiate in this one (he knows all the stories) - did say it wasn't. "All the stories are lies" and "the collar was working but he felt no compulsion", as well as his speculation the collar became tawdry wishful thinking by those who objectified him.

In many ways James has already accepted himself and embraced Anharion, and in so doing made himself a villain to the Light, polite society, and a self righteous religious order. Everything he does is repellent to them but they're also obsessed with him. He is unmentionable but always present. He is condemned for killing the Stewards but they're surprised when reminded they've been trying to kill him since he was 11. Of course he needed to die, he's an abomination. The Stewards were doing the Lor– Lady's work by killing such a corrupt creature.

If Sarcean and Anharion are queer allegory then there is definitely more to their relationship and perceived villainy than what we've been told.

I'm especially struck by how the Light always calls the Lady Sarcean's former love – using language that describes a tragic romance. All the while they dismiss Anharion as a perverse sexual fixation when it's clear in Sarcean's POV that it's Anharion who was the love of Sarcean's life. That Sarcean had loved him long before the Lady. That Sarcean chases pieces of Anharion throughout all his chosen lovers. That it's Anharion he bound to him across time and space. It mirrors how often queer relationships are belittled, the acceptable heteronormative relationship romanticized.

Will/James and Sarcean/Anharion's kinky preferences play into that too. There's a pressure for them to conform and never give into what they want to indulge.

[dranka]

'There was only one bed' wames, Dark Heir 'The Bed' 'Le Lit' Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec overpaint

[eternalibrairie]

sir, that's my emotional support blonde x dark haired mlm ship

[marzipanthots]

DARK HEIR CH 51

Fan comic (⚠️⚠️mega spoilers) PART 3

READ THE REST BELOW 👇

PART 1

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Chapter 51 of darkheir is officially done (I’m never gonna do this again. Actually I’m a big fat liar I might depending on book 3 gosh golly fatigue is no joke.) had a lot of fun. It’s great to experiment. Special shout out to all my great mutuals supporters and close friends.💕💕💕

[glitteringpoet1685]

*Dark Rise Series spoilers*

I was not prepared.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Paul Fleischer/Julian Fromme- These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

Will Kempen/James St.Clair- Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

Shen Qingqiu/Luo Binghe- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Damianos (“Damen”) of Akielos/Laurent of Vere - Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat

[pijulle]

Waiting since forever for book 3, so here is a bingo card with all I imaging happening in it

[vellichor-lover]

Ok I know I say a lot of characters are “the character ever” and it’s true. About all of them. But rn I can’t stop thinking about Will Kempen. Holy shit.

**SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT BTW. READ DARK RISE WITHOUT SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T YET GUYS IM BEGGING YOU**

He’s the main protagonist. He’s the main antagonist. He’s a boy who has never had a friend, learning to have friends. He lives with the knowledge that if his friends knew who he was they would turn on him immediately. He’s falling in love with a boy. He already fell in love with him centuries before either of them were born. When the men hired to kill him caught up with him and his mother, she yelled “Run”. She was talking to the men. His mother had two other children, daughters. He longs for a sister. One of them died trying to kill him. His world is falling apart. It’s all his fault. He’s never done anything but try to fix it. He’s the most evil person to ever live. He’s so heartbreakingly good.

[quelmdn]

wames!

[smurny]

Will: *sneaks

Everybody: ur a lying liar

James: that’s hot

[picturebird]

In case you were wondering… haha

[domo-arts]

Hits them with the utena beam 🌹⚔️