gold blooded

So here's a little foreword for this illustration. First of all DARK RISE SPOILERS!!! Do NOT look if you haven't read it. Illustration under the cut. TW: blood

Dark king and his lieutenant

...Bonus angst justicus 🥺:

Unlikely? Yes. But I'm delusional so who cares

I couldn’t choose between those two colorings so just have both

No end and no escape

I have read the Dark Rise series. I have chosen to fixate in the most irrelevant ass couple. Thats Devon’s Lion for u

Yes, she's shallow. She's sixteen, engaged to a 37 year old man, raised by a woman implied to be a bit strict, and Katherine is the loving and more generally maternal figure to Elizabeth. She's young and old at the same time, materialistic and fixated on beautiful things, raised sheltered and ignorant. She's just a teenage girl

Yeah, her problems seem stupid and unfair compared to the plot of Dark Rise, but that's just the thing- she doesn't know about the plot of Dark Rise. Katherine is living according to everything she knows. When Will comes around, he's an exciting and mysterious boy her age and she feels like she's special to him. I don't think she loved Will. I don't think she had the time to, and he's too serious and haunted for her. Even Will Kempen, the Dark King, felt bad about manipulating her to get to Simon because she's literally just a teenage girl.

Her death is unfair. The Lady planned for it, the fate of the world depended on her drawing that sword and allowing it's power to kill her, and there was no point. She didn't die for a cause. She wasn't part of a cause- not the Stewards, not the side of the Light, not anything. I think the reader is supposed to feel the horror and sadness of Katherine's death, not despite her lack of importance to the main characters, but because of it. Everyone made their sacrifices or chose their fates, but not Katherine. She dies frightened. And she was just a teenage girl.

"I know"