No, I don't consider any deleted scenes canon — I deleted them for a reason! I think they're interesting to see in terms of what stays in a book and what gets cut, but I don't think of it as canon (nor do I think of answers I give on social media as canon, because sometimes I'm talking about things that are not yet written and the details can always change!) The Shadowhunters Wiki is very good about marking what details are book canon (anything in the books, short stories, extra content if it's not "deleted") and what's not (me rambling, details that are corrected in later book versions, even.) I do my best to give you accurate answers and if the book has already been shipped off to the publisher (like LKOF) it's going to be accurate barring some tragic printing mistake. But for unwritten material, I have to allow myself to change something that isn't working, even if I talked about it before. I hope that makes sense!
I was about to write a longer answer but Holly said, "What about him would make people think he was straight?" She also suggested he could have gotten heterosexuality from his demon side, and I thought that was pretty funny so I'm sharing it. I don't think any faeries are really straight, though they can certainly lean more toward being attracted to one gender presentation or another. Some are aro/ace, but Ash is not. I do think he has a very very very hard time falling in love, as that requires trust and his has been broken many times.
It's not scrapped. :) Delayed? Unusual? Complicated?
Yes! It was very interesting writing what is a very very weird aunt/nephew dynamic. Interesting and fun. :)
They definitely discuss the whole "How long will you be mad" "I'm also mad" stuff, they kind of can't not discuss it. They do decide to put it aside in the pursuit of what they need to find, but that's temporary, as it has to be. If the kitchen scene gets a mention it is quite small as I think they definitely have much bigger emotions about other things.
He doesn't know . . . yet.
Conflicted.
Yes, Kit is not a very reliable texter and does avoid conversations about Ty especially with Ty's sister (unfortunate for him that Livvy can hassle him literally eternally if she feels like it) and when they meet again in TWP they haven't been texting for a while. They are fond of each other, though, in a familyish way.
She's seventeen. She and Ash are probably a few months apart in age though his age is slightly harder to pin down.
I also love Irene, but alas, you cannot take a lynx on a read trip easily. It does not mean Ty will never meet Irene tho.
She does think they should work things out, but she isn't really meddling. She at some point does warn Kit not to break her brother's heart (again) but otherwise she doesn't interfere, probably because she realizes that if they were to mend things with each other, it would have to be their decisions on their own terms.
Hi! Well, BVD takes place in the time period between book 2 and book 3 of The Wicked Powers. So it can't be published until after book 2 regardless of schedule — you're right that working out a schedule for a co-written book is doubly complicated since you have to work with two people's schedules!
Ash is actually around eighteen in TLKOF. I don't know if that changes the calculations!
The chinchilla did not make it into the book, though there is a hint about it if you're looking closely. The chinchilla is angry about being cut and its agent is arguing that it should get a larger role in the next book, or at least a credit as executive producer.
Ty, Kit, Dru and Ash are still the main characters; I wouldn't say any of the other characters are main characters.
Actually I had to deal with the fact that Kit at eighteen/nineteen cannot POSSIBLY fit into a jacket he had when he was fifteen so he obviously had to go out and buy the exact same jacket in a larger size. Which does get mentioned. Kit thinks that might make him weird, and it probably does.
(He does take it off when he wears gear, though, and enough time doesn't really pass in TKLOF to worry about laundry.)
She is separated from him a time or two, and the separation does affect them both. It's very clear that their bond is under a lot of pressure, magically speaking.
You know, he actually did remind me a lot of Conor while I was writing him — probably the dissipated prince thing. He definitely has nice clothes and is fashionable, and does a certain amount of complaining when his clothes are ruined, but I don't think anyone is as much of a fashion icon as Conor, though it would be fun to see if Ash could start a trend in court of like, faeries wearing cowboy hats made out of moss or something. If he wore it everyone else would probably have to.
That's a good question! TWP is the first series to really revolve around a prophecy. The current prophecy (not all of which has been deciphered) is a bit like a series of threats ("If someone does not do X, Y will happen) but they feel obligated to take it seriously since it's been right about a lot of things that have happened and continue to happen (so it cannot be mere speculation). Even though, you're right, they don't know the source. It's probably always a good idea to regard the source of a prophecy with some suspicion. :)

Hi! I am so sorry if there was confusion about this. The Wicked Powers was never supposed to be four books that I remember — it was sold to publishers as a trilogy. (If it was meant to be four books, it would have been sold as four books, publishers like to know what they are getting!)
Here is the official announcement of Wicked Powers being sold, which calls it “the final trilogy” in Shadowhunters.
In 2023 I sort of mused out loud about how many books it might end up being, but it was very “I don’t know” and that that was before the announcement (in 2024) that it was going to be a trilogy. And you never do know. I’d have to be further along in the story to decide whether a fourth book was needed, so all I can say is that it’s supposed to be a trilogy, it was sold as a trilogy, but then so was TMI.
I know there is a lot of anxiety about the fact that there are four main characters and three covers at the moment. I don’t know who is going on the later covers but I can promise you this is something my publisher is well aware of! We’ll figure something out. And if eventually it does stretch to four books, well, that would fix that problem!
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