#THE CINDERS ON VENUS DESTINY SERIES#
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What Ruby chooses to do with her silver eyes, aka her mother’s legacy, will probably be her self-actualizing choice. Not only that, but Ruby activating them is linked to her witnessing Pyrrha’s death and being unable to save her friend.

She receives knowledge about them from Maria, who plays the role of the Grandmother in Ruby’s Little Red Riding Hood allusion:Īnd they are linked to both creation in how they protect life, but also to destruction in how they kill Grimm. So far they are at the centre of Ruby’s story-line.

#THE CINDERS ON VENUS DESTINY SERIES#

This is why the eyes Ruby inherited from Summer are so pivotal not only in the series itself, but in Ruby’s personal arc too. To Ruby Summer is both hope and despair, creation and destruction since she gave life to Ruby, but is also the girl’s first experience with death and loss. It is a powerful juxtaposition that fits Ruby’s character and her complicated feelings over Summer: Ruby embodies purity also because of her young age that lets her be hopeful. I was like that as a girl, but time and… a lot of other things, took their toll on me. They are associated to life in how they are linked to a young life blooming:īlake: I know you don’t always know what to do, but that’s never stopped you from doing something. Similarly, red roses are symbols of both life and death in the story. In her struggle to move forward Ruby might spread herself too thin and her petals might get lost. Maria: You know, you don’t give yourself enough credit. On one hand Ruby scatters because she is flexible, has an original approach to things and can’t be restrained by gravity or any kind of obstacle. Both imageries are linked to contradictive ideas. They are clearly conveyed in Ruby’s Petal Burst, which appears as a rose scattering. Not only that, but as gatheringkeepsakes notices in this post, the moon itself is like a “scattering rose”:īoth scattering and roses are two recurring motifs in Ruby’s design. What is more, both the Silver Eyes and Crescent Rose are linked to the moon. Once again, we have the dychotomy Soul (the eyes) = Creation and Body (the weapon) = Destruction. Still, her weapon is a scythe, which is symbolically linked to death aka Destruction: Preservation is an extension of creation, or, at the very least, an enemy of destruction. Maria: Precisely! It is the desire to preserve life which fuels the light inside you. Ruby’s design is interesting because it combines elements of both Creation and Destruction.Īfter all, her silver eyes are linked to Creation: 'Drake is one of the most gifted users of historical and military raw materials at work today.Here are some of my favourite designs in no particular order! 'Drake is one of the most gifted users of historical and military raw materials at work today.' the master of the mercenary science fiction novel. David Friedman, Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life 'Only a few of us have enough willpower, when a new Dick Francis or the latest volume of a David Drake series comes out in hardcover, to wait for the paperback.'

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But there are a handful of courageous visionaries in the Keeps and in the Free Companies where death is a way of life! Publisher's Note: Seas of Venus has been previously published in parts as The Jungle and Surface Action.

The Free companions live till they die with the searing thrill of danger, and their deeds bring excitement and color to the bored residents of the Keeps but Mankind is doomed unless something changes.įew are willing to risk their lives for that change, battling both the terrifying environment and the ruthless oligarchs for whom the status quo means a lifetime of luxury. Their warships course the seas, battling one another in struggles to decide victory or defeat for one day, life or death for a few individuals. Only the Free Companions, the mercenaries who fight proxy wars for the Keeps, live on the surface of Venus. Mankind huddles in domed underwater Keeps, living a purposeless static existence-dedicated to pleasure but destined for oblivion later if not sooner. On a terraformed Venus the land is ruled by savage plants and the even more savage beasts that prey on them, while monsters out of nightmare swim though the globe-girdling seas. Earth is a dead cinder beyond the dense clouds.

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