A female character who is a cold, relentless leader, always pragmatic, and able to make whatever hard decisions need to be made in order to ensure success and survival, tremendously skilled and devastatingly efficient at her job, tragically terrible at being overtly nice to people, who is also not evil and is still fundamentally a good person.
The Moral of This Post is: No matter how genius your idea is, Hiromu Arakawa probably already did it, and she did it better than you could ever hope to.
New year, new novel! What’s your next book going to be?
if you get a redundant one (looking at you flames and fire) you gotta choose one of the following to substitute in: disaster, agony, thunder, meteors, the forge, or thorns. Sorry, not sorry.
The Court of Smoke and Ravens
The Court of Ash and Daydreams.
The Court of Bone and Darkness.
….
The Crown of Stone and Flames
WHY CAN’T I ESCAPE!!!
I know, right?
The responsibility of the crown is such a hassle.
Oh get fucked you dickhead.
The Court of Decay and Shadows
…can I make it a Zombie love story?
The Court of Fire and Ghosts.
The fuck is Firebrand doing in a royal court while the band Ghost plays.