#light bringer spoilers

[insignificant457]

Sevro “major depressive episode” Barca and Cassius “functioning alcoholic” bellona: *two seconds away from tearing each others throats out*

Darrow, on a journey of healing and self-actualization:

[visit-ba-sing-se]

I could have lived in peace (emotionally stable) but my enemies (author i admire a lot) brought me war (devastating character death)

[thegorydamnreaper]

Eagle and Eaglet

Finally finished and omg I’m gonna cry 😭 Thank you to everyone who voted in the poll, I hope you like how this turned out as much as I do!

Closeups below the cut ♥️

[rangersbecket]

manifesting 🙌

[darrowsrising]

Alternative titles for Light Bringer:

Darrow O'Lykos and, yet again, the audacity of this Pixie Bitch.

The Misadventures of the Wayward Chin.

The Reaper of Mars and his himbo collection.

You can take the boy out of the pyramid, but you cannot stop him from becoming a fucking tyrant.

Martian Cookbook: The Reaper Reveals How To Best Kill Annoying Enemies (may contain honey, berserkers and new butchering techniques).

All Quiet on the Martian Front: Virginia Augustus has a Crown.

Hell hath no fury like Victra Julii-Barca.

The Odyssey where they gave Darrow a self-help book, because therapy would have made him overpowered.

Reading for filth: 10 ways you can send your annoying allies into a downward spiral by just telling them the truth in a mean way.

The Archimedes Beginer's Guide: the braincell supply is always scarce.

Don't Drink and Tell Secrets.

How much character growth can a 7 feet tall man even handle?

Lysander au Lune: from bitch to puppet to genocidal maniac.

How to deal with Depression and Hypocrisy by Sevro Barca, Goblin of Mars.

Diomedes au Raa and the Very Bad, Not Good, Fucking Stupid Days.

Atlas au Raa: Fall Skin Collection.

En Vogue: If he cannot be the narrative's favourite, he'll be the most hated.

Darrow O'Lykos: Augustan Traditions Must Live On.

The Spy That Booped My Nose.

Local Lesbian Saves Obsidian Princess.

Reaper Caused Blood on Dancefloor. Again.

[msunitedstatesjames]

Lysander au Lune, every time he sets foot in a room with a man of honor:

You better watch your back, Diomedes. Because this bitch is shooting everybody out here.

[cassius-erosennin]

darrow being sad about cassius death is one of the most painful things ive ever read but right after that seeing that diomedes au raa, storm knight of the rim, one if the most stoic figures in all of the books is CRYING because cassius is dead… it just made the whole thing hit a lot different

lysander you will pay for your crimes

[violetqueenofwands]

[constant-book-hangover]

Darrow: heartbroken

Lyria: heartbroken

Sevro: heartbroken but will barely admit it

Volga: “He was the most handsome man I have ever seen.”

[insignificant457]

It’s so funny to me that victra has like…a normal job. Everyone else is either military or military adjacent, but she’s literally just the ceo of a huge shipping company, she’s not even in politics. Like sure, she’s former military, but she hasn’t been doing that in years until the war comes back to mars. Like imagine turning on the tv and you see footage of Jeff bezos beheading an enemy general. That’s what the citizens of mars were experiencing during the battle of Phobos.

[worldwithinworld]

Ever since Iron Gold, there's been all this discussion in the books and even more so in the fandom about Lyria's anger. Is it justified? Is it whiny? Is it reasonable? Is it ungrateful? Is it helpful or harmful? So, in Light Bringer, Cassius's first impression of Lyria was such a breath of fresh air for me. He saw her anger right away and was just like, "Sweet! She's House Mars, like us! Of course, we're keeping her!"

[the-quasar-hero]

Lyria will see someone bigger, stronger, more experienced and genetically predisposed to thrive in combat, ask “is anyone going to protect them?” and then not wait for an answer.

[rangersbecket]

[ihavenomoralsss]

red rising crack headcanons

while i procrastinate my essay

cassius bellona's gay awakening was lorn in the dueling clubs on luna

victra and antonia have done a lot of geuinely horrible things to one another, but i think the real reason antonia was so bitter was because victra once put worms/something slimy in her bed and she never quite recovered from the scare

alternatively just the good ol 'YOU TOOK MY SHIRT' 'this is your shirt?' 'YES AND YOU KNOW THAT YOU WERE THERE WHEN I BOUGHT IT' 'shirt? what shirt? my shirt?'

quicksilver once tried to launch an app about himself that was like instagram but Just quick. jeremy renner app 2.0

apple had a quick stint as luna's most famous soap opera star! you can still find the holos of him if you dig reeeal deep.

diomedes gets regular marriage proposals and just acts obtuse to avoid them

clown and pebble were a shotgun wedding that nobody knew about because everyone kind of assumed they were together from the way they interacted? like wdym you're married like you havent been this whole damn time

victra and sevro's wedding went down as the most infamous event of the century. it took three howler black-ops teams to clean up the aftermath.

lyria regularly caught cassius staring longingly at darrow's ass on board the archi

[msunitedstatesjames]

Reasons I love the Red Rising series (spoilers for Light Bringer):

Darrow, hardened warlord, while surveying the utter destruction of a civilization: "Is Cassius a best friend?"