Hi, Cassandra! As a writer, what's your favorite aspect of Kit's personality to write?
I like writing Kit because he has a very funny internal monologue. He is usually wryly observing things, including his own behavior. Mina can get him to do whatever she wants pretty much. He owns dinosaur socks and does not want them criticized.
These are all cute things, but I am wary of just listing things about Kit because I think they are much more fun discovered as part of the story. It feels a bit like a spoiler, in the sense that just being told this stuff, like just being told what happens in the book, is less fun than finding it out inside the story, and kind of less meaningful.
Wesslunardi asks "Hi Cassie, I have a question about the former members of the Cohort, such as Anush and Paige. We know that Anush left the Cohort at the end of The Dark Artifices. Will we see a redemption arc for Paige?I love your books!"
Your question is the reason I included Paige in the list of "characters people have asked about!" So . . .
Paige was a member of a hate group, and we've never really seen her demonstrate the kind of self-reflection or compassion that would suggest she's already on the road to becoming a different person. She didn't even leave the Cohort for particularly admirable reasons—it was mostly a matter of expediency.
Could she be redeemed? I think almost anyone can be redeemed if they're willing to do the work. But redemption isn't something that happens because the author declares it; it's something the reader has to believe. At the beginning of The Last King of Faerie, Paige is still a bully—that's why Dru is fighting with her. Realistically, it would take a great many pages (Paiges?) to show her confronting her beliefs, making amends, changing her behavior, and earning the trust of the people she'd hurt. She would be a very major character.
In some ways Dru's discussion with Luke about Paige at the beginning of TLKOF (should Dru forgive her, does she deserve a second chance) is about all of the Cohort, really. Can any of them be redeemed? Can they ever be brought back? Many families have someone they care about still in Idris, and we don't know if any of those people in Idris are having regrets about what they did. . . .but we will.
is zara still mad at emma? does she want revenge if she gets out of idris?
Zara is still mad at everyone.
