an ember in the ashes series: main characters
↳ laia of serra, elias veturius, helene aquilla
“I do not doubt. I do not hesitate. I am the Lioness’s daughter and I have the Lioness’s strength”
This #Ember fanart from @victoria.quezada is so beautiful!!! (Victoria, I love the background, too). ❤❤🔥#Repost
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#Repost from @victoria.quezada
Not really feeling this background but then again I could have just been staring at this too long. It was a try I guess🤷🏽♀️ just An Ember in the Ashes fan art over here. @sabaatahir #anemberintheashes
Laia of Serra
“As long as there is life, there is hope.”
i said i would draw some of the other characters and so heres laia, wonderful brave and strong laia, i really admired her character development
goDD how am i going to wait another year for book 3??? well i guess by rereading of course
A quick Elias and Laia smooch, cause I’m in the mood to draw kisses
One day I’ll actually clean up something I draw and make it look really pretty but for now have some colored sketches
I keep seeing tweets like “okay so america is a dystopian novel now wheres the 16 year old girl to save us” and other condescending shit like that and i just….
where are the girls who are saving us you ask?
oh i don’t know, they are at the Oceti Sakowin camp fighting for the right to clean water and treaty rights. They are protecting their land and water against heavily militarized police forces.
They are and have been at many Black Lives Matter protests. Girls have fought against police brutality in black communities. Women, in fact, are among the top leaders of that movement.
They are the muslim girls who continue to fearlessly wear their hijabs in public despite rampant islamophobia.
And there were plenty of teenage girls at the women’s marches across the country.
So while a single Katniss Everdeen figure has yet to emerge, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t exist. Because young women are protesting every day. They are the Katnisses and the Laia of Serras and the Aelins and the Mare Barrows and the Nehemia Ytgers and the Lihn Cinders that you’ve all read about. These girls exist.
Realize that the fallacy of most dystopians, and many books, is that they often presents a single cohesive narrative of revolt and change. And in our huge, wide world, that is not how change works. But the books themselves are not incorrect in assuming that young women will be the arbiters of change. They are spot fucking on.
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2) by Sabaa Tahir
Review by Meg: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.
Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.
But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene—Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike.
Bound to Marcus’s will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own—one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape…and kill them both.