Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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LATE ECLIPSES open thread. Have a party.

To celebrate the release of Late Eclipses [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy], here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned.

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence.

Have fun!
Tags: late eclipses, toby daye
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rymenhild

March 3 2011, 18:47:04 UTC 6 years ago

Well, what do we expect from an incognito prince? Perfect manners, perfect honor, desire to be a hero, surprise at encountering the hoi polloi, gradual mellowing into someone who's enjoying being treated normally, right? That's Quentin to a T.

Besides, there's a scene in Local Habitation where Toby says something like, "I order you not to die!" and Quentin looks amused and mutters, "Are you pulling rank on me?" I bet no one ever did that before. Yeah, he's crown prince.

sumeria

March 3 2011, 20:06:54 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, he totally is. That said, I'm pretty sure he himself doesn't know; isn't he in the kind of fosterage where he doesn't get told who his actual parents are till he leaves it?

vixyish

March 3 2011, 20:24:30 UTC 6 years ago

Not quite. In Seanan's post about fosterage, she never said there was a kind where *you* don't know who your parents are. She said there's a kind of fosterage (blind fosterage) where *everyone else* doesn't know who your parents are.

So to relate to that post, it would've been "This is Quentin. He lives here now." But not "You're Quentin. You live here now."

sumeria

March 3 2011, 20:43:02 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, I was thinking of something from R&R, not from the fosterage post.

Just went back to check book, and was totally misreading it.

Conclusion: you are entirely correct.

swevene

March 3 2011, 20:27:05 UTC 6 years ago

I think it's the kind of fosterage where no one around him except Sylvester knows who his parents are. In Rosemary and Rue, I think it was implied that he definitely knew who his parents are, and if he hadn't grown up with them he wouldn't have the Ontario accent.

sumeria

March 3 2011, 20:45:06 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, I was operating under a misreading. I am now covered in shame.

(Hilariously, that "are you pulling rank on me?" stuck me as damn odd at the time because while *I* thought (and still think) that he's got to be the High King's son, I didn't think he did.)

vixyish

March 3 2011, 21:26:03 UTC 6 years ago

That line *still* makes me giggle. :)