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[cassandraclare]

hii cassie! my question is about kitty, particularly ty’s pov on being around kit again after 4 years - i know most of TLKOF is from kit and dru’s pov and we get interstitial bits of others, since this is the first time we’re experiencing ty pov is there anything about how he perceives kit and the romance that you think we wouldn’t expect/would surprise us? i know you talked about how writing ty was fun because he doesn’t really lie to himself in his own head/try to deny his feelings so is there anything more you can tell us about that 👀

Hm. I mean there is so much more Ty POV in Last Prince of Hell, it's hard for me to say whether people will find his thoughts in TLKOF surprising — and of course his thoughts are not only about Kit. But part of the reason I stayed out of Ty's POV in TLKOF is precisely because I didn't want readers to fully know how he felt about Kit outside of interpreting the way Ty speaks and responds to Kit, just like Kit has to do. He does think about the reason Kit provided the Herondale pendant to him and I don't know if that matches up with what people would expect?

Also: I don't think of Ty as lying to himself, but that doesn't mean he isn't ever wrong. Everyone's wrong sometimes!

[cassandraclare]

Hi Cassie 💖 are we gonna get Dru and Ash’s Frostbitestudios art before TLKOF release?

All Frostbite's art will be released before the book comes out.

[cassandraclare]

is there any chance maryse and janus will interact at any point in twp?

All I can say is "Not in the first book." We'll see!

[cassandraclare]

Does ash still have that special connection to the land of faerie that makes animals be drawn to him? Is that something he and Ty might bond over? 💕

The chinchilla still exists and is mentioned. Ty loves animals; Ash just has a weird connection to the land of Faerie and the animals respond ti him weirdly. Some show up in his room, some don't like him off the bat, once he steals one. I promise it's a tiny tiny detail though and if you aren't following me on social media you would probably not notice!

[cassandraclare]

hi cassie!! can you PLEASE give us a kitty snippet i swear it can be a one word snippet!!!!!!!

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[marrr444]

"it began with a crime. The theft of a boy."

As far as opening lines go, you gotta admit the first line of Sword Catcher is a damn good one. It lives in my head rent free.

Also, if I were jolivet, I would hate kel for puking on my boots.

Everything about the prologue is amazing. Kel blushing at antonetta? His marbles and Cas? The orfelinat? Him throwing up on jolivets boots? (Cassie truly couldn't help herself)

[witchlingcirce]

Cassandra Clare shared on her instagram an article about the design/planning of the cover of tlkof (if anyone wants to read click here) and I wanted to share some of the things I found interesting :)

-> Both Cassie & Michelle (the editor for the cover) agreed that Dru should be the one on the cover.

-> It was Cassie’s suggestion for all of the art deco elements on the cover

-> The goal was for the series too look different from all the other TSC covers to make it stand out more. One of the things they mentioned was that they saw this as an opportunity to include more colour than usual, “and we saw an opportunity to amp up different colors in this one, packing in as many jewel tones as we could.” (Direct quote which is why the cover is lwk crazy looking)

-> Here are some sketches done by Cliff Nielson for the cover art!

-> Cassie hadn’t commissioned the frostbite art for the end papers but gave them too the team for free use (and frostbite adjusted the framing)

-> Addie Kincelle was asked to do the inside cover and here are some sketches that where shared with us :)

(Also can we talk about the bell theme for Livvy????? Interesting)

-> the four different edge ideas where an indoor waterfall, the masks from a faerie ball, insects and flowers, and finally interlocking crowns.

-> the special editions being named after gems was based off the gem coloured bugs on the cover!

Anyways, there is lots more to the article so you guys should check it out!!! Either way super interesting and wanted to share <3

[expiredkitty]

I wonder if kit almost associated his friendship to ty with how useful he was to ty? We know that kit has issues where if he does not have a use or cannot change himself to fit into what others want, he does not believe himself worthy of love (we can thank Johnny Rook for that).

Kit first believes Ty seeks him out so that Ty has somebody who can assist him to solve mysteries (‘you want some kind of Watson to your Sherlock Holmes?’) and believes Ty sought him out solely on the fact he gives useful insight of the criminal world. When Livvy dies, Ty become distant before once again seeking kit out because he needs kits help (which to someone like can be perceived as him being ONLY sought out when useful). Kit reflects how if he refuses, he knows he will lose Ty (if he refuses to offer usefulness, he will be cast aside, though it’s never confirmed nor denied whether Ty would’ve done this). So at Lake Lyn, when Ty ignores his pleading and confession, this subconscious mindset is only strengthened, as it seems the moment Kit refuses what Ty wants from him, he is rejected (of course this is not what Ty intended at all, but in Kit’s mind, it could be perceived like this), which is why Kit believes Ty never cared about him, and only cares about what Kit can give him.

And in tlkof, when Ty seeks out Kit, it will be because Kit is the only one Ty can reach out to in whatever situation he is investigating/involved in, indirectly strengthening his belief that Ty only cares for his usefulness, and for Ty to acknowledge him he must be useful.

[pizzamicrowave]

ASH IS IMMORTAL??!!!?!? Is this old news or why is no one freaking out? I literally had been wondering how Ash could be taken as a serious candidat as king when he was only half fae which I thought meant he was mortal? Aren’t Mark and Helen mortal? Or do I need to reread all the books?

[princeash]

Girl it's def news to me, I was like whaaat??? But it makes sense I guess

[toka-sketch]

Finally finished this piece!!!! Took me more than a week (with some breaks) but I'm happy how it turned out😊😊😊

Have fun with this Lucie and Jesse fanart😘

Can't wait to read more of them in Chain of Iron! ☺☺

Characters belong to the amazing @cassandraclare

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[cassandraclare]

Hi Cassie! Can we expect Ash to follow down the Morgenstern pipeline of refusing to call Dru by her nickname and referring to her mostly as Drusilla (and also calling other chars by their complete first names like Tiberius or Christopher I guess)? How would she react to this?

You know, he does call her Drusilla, but he calls Kit and Ty mostly Kit and Ty. He calls Kit Christopher once or twice but Kit is like, "Nobody calls me that," so then he doesn't. He isn't terribly dedicated to the concept, it's just the Queen mostly referred to Kit as Christopher.

[annameowbooks18782]

I hope TWP shows us Kit's character development separate to Ty. Don't get me wrong, Kitty is great, but Kit needs his own identity. I hope we get to see him just being a normal teenager, healing, just existing with Jem and Tessa.

[drusilla-carstairs]

Quick, Cassie has to kill a TMI main character for the TWP plot. Who do you secretly hope it is?

Clary

Jace

Alec

Izzy

Simon

Magnus

Remaining time: 5 days 5 hours

[saintmarysest]

ok part 2/many

[sir-william-herondale]

One thing I realised was that Malcom was really the only person Julian relied on to take care of his family.

Malcom would give Julian the “medicin” for Arthur, and even allowed his help with taking care of his siblings.

Just think of the heartbreak and betrayal Julian would’ve felt. We know he was obviously upset but what if we never saw the full extent?

[cassandraclare]

Hey Cassie I've been wondering if we'll be getting to know more about Simon and Isabelle. Or if we'll see their wedding?

We don't even know if they survive! I get a lot of wedding questions (Clace, Sizzy) and that's always my answer. Let's hope they live and then we'll see if they get hitched. We do see Simon and Izzy, but not enough in TLKOF to learn anything new except that Simon is still in a band and it still sucks.

[cassandraclare]

Hi Cassie! I have a question about Kel - will we ever learn about Kel’s family or is it not the important?

Ooh, Sword Catcher question, love that.

So I understand why people are curious about Kel's family—fantasy is full of hidden lineages and secret inheritances, and I love those stories too — obviously! They're mythically powerful for a reason.

But one of the things I wanted to explore with Kel is the opposite idea: that where you come from isn't the most important thing about you. Throughout Sword Catcher we meet people with ancient names, noble blood, and immense privilege, and we see that none of those things automatically make someone worthy or good. Most of them are pretty crappy really, as privilege has spoiled them.

I wanted Kel's story to stand in contrast to Conor, who is so constrained by what he was born to be and the obligations of his lineage. I wanted Kel to have free choice as well as a found family that makes a dependence on finding his blood parents not unimportant, but less pressing.

That doesn't mean Kel is totally uninterested; he'd probably want to know if the information was on offer. But he doesn't think about it all that much and he isn't searching — which might have been different if Conor hadn't given him a kind of family — and if he did search, I think it would signal that his lineage is important to the story. But it isn't really — I made a choice not to make his worth or his destiny about a secret ancestry. I wanted Kel's story to rest on the idea that who he is comes from the life he lives and the choices he makes, not from a revelation about where he came from.