Moar Directors Cut for Up We Rise? 🙏🙏🙏
For you??? Anything
-Josiah doesn’t know who his biological father is. Theo thinks he knows (and he’s correct), but he’ll never tell him
-Theo’s middle name is Joseph. Dom’s is Timothy. Josiah’s is Aaron
-Fia’s full name is Seraphina, but no one calls her that
-Their neighbour, Dorothy Kusiak, was married but never had any kids. She does have one brother and two nephews, but they are not close for a number of reasons.
-The curly-haired cop who helps Josiah and Dom in Ch 4 is based on a coworker of mine
-Deuma/Lethe is French Canadian and French is his first language
-Theo has a tattoo, but no one else knows that (it’s a small anchor on his ribs). Also, I have his future planned out, and he marries an awesome nurse and has a little baby girl with her (I maaaaay have a scene written out when he first brings his daughter home. It has no relevance to the book, but I wanted it to exist, even just for me)
-The descriptions and sensations Dom gets when dealing with his diabetes (what a high or low blood sugar feels like, how it changes his behaviours, etc), come directly from my little brother who’s 15 and Type 1 diabetic too. I check with him and get his input so I can make it authentic
