Rainbow Rowell: I think I felt like I’d created these characters and this whole world, but I’d never gotten to play around in it. Why did these two characters mean so much to you, and were you at all surprised to find yourself continuing their story? Nicole Chung: In your Author’s Note at the end of Carry On, you wrote that after creating Simon and Baz and telling some of their story in Fangirl, you just weren’t ready to let go of them. Leslie” found in Fangirl. This book - Rainbow Rowell’s fifth, and her first work of fantasy - is the story of “the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen” as well as an epic romance between longtime foes who find they are far more than friends. Last week, Rainbow and I discussed why she decided to return to these characters, what it was like to write her first fantasy novel, how she gets work done with all the other demands on her time, and why she loves Twitter so dang much. But Carry On is not a book-length version of Cather’s fanfiction, nor does it much resemble the excerpts from the “real” Simon Snow novels by “Gemma T. In the aftermath, Penelope and Agatha dropped out of Watford, Simon left due to his magic being gone, and Baz ended up graduating as a valedictorian.Carry On, Rainbow Rowell’s new novel (out today!), is the much anticipated tale of Simon Snow and Tyrannus Basilton (“Baz”) Pitch, magicians and roommates whose adventures at Watford School of Magicks so inspired Cather, the college student and writer at the center of Rowell’s 2013 novel Fangirl. With the pain and suffering she endured during her pregnancy, it is implied that she died in childbirth, as there was no medical assistance, and the conception of Simon drained her completely of her magic. Later, Lucy admits through The Veil that she wished that she could be there for Simon, and that she loved him. But with the remainder of it, he accidentally kills The Mage with a spell. The Insidious Humdrum appears, and Simon unloads all of his magic within him, draining him of his power. When Simon arrives to find The Mage, he is told that he was never actually the Chosen One, much to his relief and confusion. Ebb, who never used her talent of magic for battles, ends up killed by The Mage. He then almost murders Agatha in an attempt to steal her magic, but was intercepted by Ebb, who defends Agatha and helps her run away. Through Nicodemus, Baz learnt that The Mage allowed vampires to invade Watford (in promise that they could stay in London), leading to the death of Natasha Grimm-Pitch (Baz's mother), and consequently, Baz himself is vampirised.Īs Simon rushes to find The Mage, Agatha found him first in hysterics, demanding more magic. Horrified, Simon ran away to find The Mage, while Baz attempted to find Nicodemus, who knew who killed his mother. The Insidious Humdrum, a being who was responsible for causing 'holes' to suck away magicians' magic, was theorised by Baz and Penelope to be the aftermath of Simon's immense power. What actually happened was that Lucy ran away with The Mage, and under the Mage's plan, conceived a baby meant to be the Greatest Mage: Simon. When Agatha became curious about Lucy Salisbury, the Mage's lover, she found out that Lucy was theorised to have disappeared, with the intention of running away from the Mage. Her mother, Mitali, went to school with The Mage herself. The Mage then proceeded to raid other people's homes, such as from the Bunce and Wellbelove families, causing Penelope Bunce to be suspicious of the Mage. He attempted to move him out of Watford and send him to a safe zone, but Simon detested the idea so much that his magic almost activated. The Mage, through his brief viewpoints, was stumped over why Simon still wasn't able to control his power despite being the Greatest Mage, and was seen to become desperate to help him. Simon's large capacity of magic could be felt by every mage who met him. The Mage, fearing that Simon would be rejected due to him being considered a Normal, inaugurated him as his heir. His anger towards the discriminatory rules of the school ultimately led to his hatred of the Old Families. Before he became The Mage, his pursuit and obsession with the Chosen One led to him making it a primary topic for discussion. When The Mage came into power, the strict, discriminatory rules were struck down.īut he had also been proven to, when desperate, stop at nothing to achieve what he wanted. He was, however, critical of Watford for only enrolling the best of mages, and discriminating against other kinds of creatures, like pixies, from enrolling into the school. Through the perspective of Lucy, The Mage was a talented magician who was exceptional at magic. A talented magician who was enrolled in Watford, he was known by his classmates as affectionately (and not) as Davy, though his first name was actually David. The Mage helped discover Simon as The Chosen One and took him in at Watford.
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