Thank you guys! I’m so excited. I didn’t know how a project just about Magnus, especially one that was co-authored and e-book only, would go, so I am so grateful to you for trusting me, Sarah and Maureen and coming along with us for Magnus’ story!
Mortal Instruments is #2 on the bestseller list and ID is #7 — I don’t even know what to think. Mostly I just feel extremely humbled and grateful! Thank you!!
I so do actually see Tyler Posey being Raphael. Sarah torments me. Well, here’s hoping for a City of Ashes movie. :)
I did co-write Saving Raphael Santiago, yes. ;)
And it explains a lot about Raphael: about his family (an immigrant Mexican family in the 1950s, humans who are aware vampires exist, i.e. badasses), about his temperament, what he cares about and the lengths he will go to in order to achieve his ends.
I always like the very practical character in a world of people being dramatic. Magnus—though he is dramatic—and Raphael actually have that in common: that they are the ones arching their eyebrows and judging the others a bit. They’re the immortals: they’ve seen a lot of this before. And they have a dryer wit than most. (Wit dries over time, like beef jerky.)
I also like the character who’s not characterised as on the SIDE OF EVIL, but who isn’t on the side of good either: who has different priorities than the main characters, whose loyalties are thus uncertain, whose motivations are different but understandable. I think that happens a lot in real life and should happen more in fiction, and that character’s always so interesting because a) they show the world and the people in it are complicated and b) YOU JUST DON’T KNOW WHICH WAY THEY’LL JUMP.
In Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles books, there is a fifteen-year-old-looking vampire from the Renaissance, Armand (inexplicably played by Antonio Banderas in the movie) and as an Anne Rice fan I was always interested by the idea of someone wise, someone old, stuck at that age—how it affected perception of them, how it affected how they behaved and thought of themselves, how they struggled with it or how they used it.
Like, Raphael when we first see him in City of Bones totally tricks the main characters, because they see a kid younger than themselves.
Would you not trust this little face?
Raphael’s also not that old (for a vampire… we see a lot of hundreds-year-old vampires, but not that many fifty/sixtysomething-vampires) and yet he’s powerful, and that says a lot about Raphael, I think: who he was, even when just turned, when he was so young.
Basically, I think Raphael is very smart, very practical, very determined on his way and on cutting down those *in* his way. And thinking of the evolution of Raphael and his connection to Magnus was a lot of fun for me: it made me care a lot about Raphael. (Now I interrupt plotting sessions going ‘Raphael would say this’ and ‘HE’S A HERO… SOMETIMES!’)
There is actually a moment in City of Heavenly Fire which calls back to the story. We all just came up with it on Monday, in between the disturbingly sexy stuff. ;)
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Magnus Bane, Alec Lightwood, Simon Lewis, Isabelle Lightwood, Clary Fray and Jace Wayland.
Kevin says hi to readers! If you have questions for/about our Alec, as them in the comments here! :
Kevin Zegers (Alec) Talks to PagetoPremiere Fans of ‘The Mortal Instruments’ (by PageToPremiere)
Nicely done! By elainemargret
Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace Wayland of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Okay so I wasn’t quite satisfied with my pastel portait of Jace… So I did a digital makeover.
Now this is more like it!Soft pastels & Photoshop
September 2012
This is beautiful - great job!
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Kiss Me Then by *Street-Angel
Yup, you guess it, it’s the Dirty Sexy Alley Scene.“Kiss me then”, she whispered and he pressed his mouth against hers, their hearts slamming together through the thin layers of wet fabric that divided them. And she was drowning in it, in the sentation of him kissing her; of rain everywhere, running off her eyelashes; of letting his hands slide freely over the wet, crumpled fabric of her dress, made thin and clinging by the rain. It was almost like having his hands on her bare skin, her chest, her hips, her stomach; when he reached the hem of her dress, he gripped her legs, pressing her harder back against the wall while she wrapped them around his waist.He made a noise of surprise, low in his throat, and dug his fingers into the thin fabric of her tights. Not unexpectedly, they ripped, and his wet fingers were suddenly on the bare skin of her legs. P. 187 City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare What I was listening to: [link]~mikey922 requested some more Clace and ~cris310tina said ‘Jace + Clary + brick wall, would be awesome!!!’. wannabephotogenius on Tumblr suggested the same ‘I want to see the scene with jace and clary in the alley way when they get interupted by isabelle i think it was. ‘So there you go little chickadees, some steaming sexy Clace.Sorry if this is a little too steamy for you, it does say he touched her chest and this scene has been drawn many times by many artists, gotta put a twist in there somehow.Do you think it needs a mature content filter? A ‘sexual themes warning’? I figure there’s no age limit on the people that can pick up these books and read this scene so I don’t see why I should age-filter an illustration of the scene. If they were topless and I was straying outside the borders of the written word then maybe.Enjoy~](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gwcw7RsL1r4qmxro1_500.jpg)
Yup, you guess it, it’s the Dirty Sexy Alley Scene.
“Kiss me then”, she whispered and he pressed his mouth against hers, their hearts slamming together through the thin layers of wet fabric that divided them. And she was drowning in it, in the sentation of him kissing her; of rain everywhere, running off her eyelashes; of letting his hands slide freely over the wet, crumpled fabric of her dress, made thin and clinging by the rain. It was almost like having his hands on her bare skin, her chest, her hips, her stomach; when he reached the hem of her dress, he gripped her legs, pressing her harder back against the wall while she wrapped them around his waist.
He made a noise of surprise, low in his throat, and dug his fingers into the thin fabric of her tights. Not unexpectedly, they ripped, and his wet fingers were suddenly on the bare skin of her legs.
P. 187 City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
What I was listening to: [link]
~mikey922 requested some more Clace and ~cris310tina said ‘Jace + Clary + brick wall, would be awesome!!!’. wannabephotogenius on Tumblr suggested the same ‘I want to see the scene with jace and clary in the alley way when they get interupted by isabelle i think it was.‘
So there you go little chickadees, some steaming sexy Clace.
Sorry if this is a little too steamy for you, it does say he touched her chest and this scene has been drawn many times by many artists, gotta put a twist in there somehow.
Do you think it needs a mature content filter? A ‘sexual themes warning’? I figure there’s no age limit on the people that can pick up these books and read this scene so I don’t see why I should age-filter an illustration of the scene. If they were topless and I was straying outside the borders of the written word then maybe.
Enjoy~
She heard him as he approached and turned around, her pale face going even paler as he sat down beside her. “Simon,” she said, on an exhale of breath. “I wasn’t sure you’d come …”
“Hi, Rebecca,” he said.
The TMI crisis by *Street-Angel
SPOILERS BOOKS 1-4!
As you can see the interview went a little of course.
Jace and Clary belong to Cassandra Clare
Also Jace’s line ‘If it’s any consolation, that’s how you know in genre fiction that someone is important.’ is a Cassandra Clare quote from here .
Enjoy~
