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

More of the dark rise kids in modern highschool!

fox women celebrating based on that one clip of christiane endler picking up her teammates

More intense

More disturbing

Even worse than it was in Captive Prince

Oh, we are so in the right hands with Pacat! Book 3 is going to end us.

Source: this Studio GJ interview

Full quote:

"I really like these tense relationships between characters… "And I remember when I was building the relationship between Damen & Laurent and I wanted an enemies to lovers story, and I thought: ‘What’s the worst thing that you could do to someone that would really make them your enemy for life?’ And at that time I thought: ‘Well, what if you killed their brother and then that act left them in hell?’ And that was what I came up with for Captive Prince. "And then I was coming up with the enemies to lovers backstory in Dark Rise and I was like: ‘Oh, I have to come up with something WAY worse than that.’ So I would say, yeah, the connection between the characters is like even worse, even more disturbing, even more intense than the one between Damen & Laurent in Captive Prince."

FINALLY DONE

So for those of you who didn’t understand this animation, here is a short explanation:

At first Will tries to figure out how to get the collar off of James. So he tries to access his magic, but he still can’t get that inner door open. Then James comforts him, and they live happily ever after, with no one ever trying to harm them. 🥰

I’ve abandoned this animation soo many times and took lots of breaks, but here we are.

And now that I’ve finished this animation, let’s jump right into the next one. I want to animate an actual scene from the books. But now the question is..WHICH ONE??

Song: Overcome - Safari Riot Remix

"This one pleaded for you."

"Even before Laurent had hit the ground, the man had drawn his sword. Damen was too far away. He was too far to get between the man and Laurent, he knew that, even as he drew his sword—even as he wheeled his horse, felt the powerful bunch of the animal beneath him. There was only one thing he could do." -Prince's Gambit by C.S.Pacat

and a continuation of the same scene with more spoilers: