How do you want Lysander to die? And why is it anything other than the Obsidian Blood Eagle?

I just started Morning Star and I realize I've been reading Sevro as Servo for 2 fucking books.

He’s so campy. But I love him. Why isn’t “bequeath hell of course!” Corny?

FUCK YOU CASSIUS FUCK YOUUU!!! Oh my god I knew sevro was done for when he got married and everything was happy. This series really holds nothing back does it 😭😭😭

I honestly had so much hope for Cassius. It felt wayyyy too easy tho, especially for all that he went through while captured. I can’t believe that tho especially after sevro saved his life and FORGAVE HIM!! Sevros charecter development was incredible and I now realize pierce brown is a genius and I’m a damn fool. I can’t wait to start the next one but I’m brokennnnn

EDIT: okay okay I just thought of a theory- don’t confirm or deny. WHAT IF Cassius did that to get Darrow close to the sovereign so he can take her out?? Idk.

2nd EDIT: HOLY SHIT I WAS RIGHT!!!! Yay!!

2rd EDIT: okay I just finished it and I’m blown away. The ending was a little flat to me with the exposition dumb but it’s honestly a great ending to the first trilogy. Wow. I’m in awe. Thank you all for sticking this out with me and YAY LITTLE PAX!!!! I just bought iron gold lol

For months now, I have had a post sitting in my drafts that asks about the hate for Lysander.

I can understand a troubled villain, and I still wholly believe he is a character written incomparably well, but I kept seeing posts saying he’s a pixie or a cur or any other of a variety of insults.

This made me confused - why take your hate for a man outside of the media that causes you to hate him? A beautifully written demon is still beautiful, no?

Anyway, I am on chapter 87 of Light Bringer. In fact, the book is currently in front of me and open to page 658 (>!orbital strikes during Nivalnight!<), and I can now confidently say the following with all of the past 11 years of my consumption of Red Rising:

Fuck. Lysander.

People get angry about the twist in Morning Star with Servo's fake death, saying that Darrow suddenly becoming an unreliable narrator and lying to the reader is really strange and out of character. But it's not the first time he's done, it's the same thing he does the first time he meets the Jackal, he leads the reader to believe he has no idea who Lucian is and that his army are drunk and acting stupid but all the while he has a plan and he reveals it to the reader at the right moment. If anything it's exactly in character for Darrow where Adruis is concerned.

Virginia and Darrow’s relationship invites a deeper literary reading of how intellect, power, and emotional recognition intersect in the series.

What do you imagine it’s like for Virginia to be able to call a man like Darrow, the big bad Reaper himself, a conqueror without equal, her husband?

I wonder what that must mean to someone like Virginia, who is intelligent enough to understand exactly what Darrow represents to the rest of the world.

We got a glimpse of it in LB when Darrow was approaching Mars.