RUSTED PARADISE

Tumblr's #1 Incarceron fanblog and Keiro's #1 fan.

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so um. I made a mistake... I deleted my account haha. whoopsies. anyways uh. I managed to snag my username back so uh. if you remember me at all then gimme another follow and bear with me while I work on getting my content back. haha oops.

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I will try to analyse this better later on, but one detail that I find interesting about the Incarceron duology* is that Keiro of all characters is the one consistently referred to as Incarceron's "son". He's nowhere near the mythical messianic figure that Sapphique was but on a certain level Sapphique's story and his have more parallels between them than between Sapphique and Finn or even Jared, who seem more likely candidates for the role. And yet.

And yet we get this outwardly selfish rogue side character whose conflict with Incarceron turns out more intense and personal than even Finn's, despite him being much more adapted to this environment than his oathbrother, and seemingly able to thrive there. Keiro is Incarceron's perfect creature, much like Sapphique is said to be, and he hates it so, so much. Finn escapes first, but unlike Keiro, he doesn't "belong" there, and has help from outside.Claudia is an outsider as well. Jared "escapes" into the prison, not out of it**.But Keiro is part of the system(literally), and also the first one to escape on his own accord like Sapphique, using Sapphique's own tool.

I wonder if his hatred of and fight with Jomandric in book 1 was intended as foreshadowing...

*hopefully soon a trilogy

** which in itself is has very interesting implications that merit further analysis

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A digital drawing of Finn Starseer from Incarceron. He is a teenager with wavy dark hair, dark eyes, light brown skin, and an oval shaped face. He has the tattoo of an eagle on his left wrist. He is drawn three times. The first with a neutral, soft expression, looking right at the viewer with his hands folded over the hilt of his sword. He wears a roughed up old-fashioned poets shirt under a magenta vest with a brown collar. Above him is written his name, and doodled a crown. Next he snarls and swings a simple rapier with both hands. Finally, he wears a royal suit and a gilded crown. He looks off to the side with a focused expression, and a european golden eagle flies behind his head for effect. The background is rust-red, with blue halos around his face. End ID.]

Underground, the stars are legend.

I cannot overstate how surreal it is to have finished and colored Incarceron fanart in the year of our lord 2024. I have loved this book for over a decade now and only just now actually drawn something for it. I'm currently working on adapting the main characters of this duology into the tarot Major Arcana, and having a blast doing so!! but, in preparation for that, I drew a lot of Finn.

For those who haven't read the duology, Incarceron is a science fiction novel about a war-torn world where half of our cast are trapped within a massive, sentient prison by the name of Incarceron, from which only one man has ever Escaped. The idea of the Outside is a legend, a religion, a fantasy, until Finn, a memory-less cell-born, finds a Key that connects him to a girl Outside, who becomes devoted to helping him Escape, in the hopes that he will free her from the prison that the Outside has turned itself into. Finn must face allies and enemies, gods and queens, the Prison itself, and above it all: his own fractured identity.

It's a magnificent duology with a third book supposedly on the way, and genuinely it has lived in my head rent free for Years. It's steampunk, it's high royalty, it's gripping and dark and decidedly aromantic and it plays on SO many fascinating questions of reality, and I recommend it a thousand times over.

[rusted-paradise]

So a witch, a zombie, a scientist, a vampire, and a werewolf, all walk into a castle…

[oviids]

I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

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Don’t be heckin rude Claudia. That’s what four years away from floral baths and satin sheets will do to ya.

[theyacover]

Incarceron series by Catherine Fisher:

Incarceron

Sapphique

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Do I have a terrible habit of ignoring canon? Yes. Am I aware of this? Also yes.

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incarceron 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

i love incarcerob

[anilyan]

Fanart #3

Link to the portuguese post: [www]

I will never complete this, will I? I may do a “draw this again” because the idea of having characters sitting on a key is interesting, but not finish this fanart from the book Incarceron. I’m not sure if I read it before or after 2015, tho… I will bet 2015.

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“Uh, Finn? Isn’t that Keiro and Attia dancing together?” “Spits!”

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Ellen: so I hear you’re a fan of Incarceron?

Me: that’s right

*my memory gets wiped and I’m sent to the prison to fight for my life*

Me: oh my god Ellen you didn’t!

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Finn: Forget me nots and columbines (remembrance, commitment, and foolishness)

Claudia: white roses and peonies (beauty, wealth, and family honor)

Attia: sunflowers and baby’s breath (adoration, loyalty, and purity)

Keiro: amaryllis and freesia (strength, determination, and friendship)

Jared: lily of the valley and clover (luck, humility, and hard work)

[redoxchai]

Inktober Day 30: “The Remade Man” (Steampunk)

Scene is a (really) vague minor spoiler for the YA novel duology, Incarceron.

Even if it was overall irrelevant to the plot, this was one of my favorite scenes and it was pretty memorable for me as a kid even when I forgot practically the rest of the book lol. I didn’t even like Keiro and, I mean, when you think about it, he wasn’t really important to the main story, but I guess this was just one of my earlier exposures to the concept that even characters with nasty personalities have reasons for how they act.

List by @dropthedrawing

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Look what I’ve got! RECTANGLES!