More Anharion and Sarcean ✨🌘

Can we talk about how, when Anharion and the Lady arrest Sarcean in Will's vision, Sarcean says to them:

And then, when James arrives in the palace and stands alongside Visander in Katherine's body, Will says:

Punch me in the throat, why don't you, Pacat.

The Betrayer ✨

Like, can we talk about the fact the Will literally threw up when he saw the collar on James? The thought that James didn't come to him on his own, that he was now under his control, caused a physical reaction in him. This to me speaks for itself.

Some close ups of the special edition of Dark Rise by C.S Pacat.

Obsessed with the illustrations of Will and James.

instead of finishing reading the book i spent the day drawing the sarcean and anharion hair touching in the garden scene which made me feel completely normal obviously

The Dark King and his lieutenant 👑⚔️

I read the Dark Rise books and they're taking over my entire brain - so I had to draw Sarcean and Anharion

Anharion x Sarcean x Visander - in that legendary pose...

Thanks to @yv-sketches for this pretty art! Having those three posed together like this is among my art wishlist!

(i added the colored bits)

Also, I've finished reading Dark Heir... 😳

Old World

🎶🎶✨The boy is mine

I can't wait to try him

Let's get intertwined

The stars, they aligned✨🎶🎶 - Ariana grande

this piece took over 24 hour, sarcean didn’t like me starting at his wife for too long and anharion didn’t want me to paint his face unless it looked perfect 🫠 LMAOAO

(a special birthday commission for my friend💋💖)

The more I think about Anharion and Sarcean the more I'm convinced they are an allegory for queer trauma and Will will have to embrace, accept, and forgive himself in order change his narrative.

In which case I don't think the collar is compulsion but something else. James - once Anharion in a past life and a former novitiate in this one (he knows all the stories) - did say it wasn't. "All the stories are lies" and "the collar was working but he felt no compulsion", as well as his speculation the collar became tawdry wishful thinking by those who objectified him.

In many ways James has already accepted himself and embraced Anharion, and in so doing made himself a villain to the Light, polite society, and a self righteous religious order. Everything he does is repellent to them but they're also obsessed with him. He is unmentionable but always present. He is condemned for killing the Stewards but they're surprised when reminded they've been trying to kill him since he was 11. Of course he needed to die, he's an abomination. The Stewards were doing the Lor– Lady's work by killing such a corrupt creature.

If Sarcean and Anharion are queer allegory then there is definitely more to their relationship and perceived villainy than what we've been told.

I'm especially struck by how the Light always calls the Lady Sarcean's former love – using language that describes a tragic romance. All the while they dismiss Anharion as a perverse sexual fixation when it's clear in Sarcean's POV that it's Anharion who was the love of Sarcean's life. That Sarcean had loved him long before the Lady. That Sarcean chases pieces of Anharion throughout all his chosen lovers. That it's Anharion he bound to him across time and space. It mirrors how often queer relationships are belittled, the acceptable heteronormative relationship romanticized.

Will/James and Sarcean/Anharion's kinky preferences play into that too. There's a pressure for them to conform and never give into what they want to indulge.