underrated palamedes moment when gideon first meets the sixth and camilla tosses pal the keyring from a few feet away and he completely fails to catch it. they hit his big graceful nerd hands and clatter to the ground. now that’s power. that’s sex appeal
A (very non-comprehensive) List of Things Alecto The Ninth Must Answer!
- Wtf are the towers in the River, what do they do, and why did not even Pyrrha know what they were?
- What is Aim, what is the message, and how does it relate to literally anything?
- Can Gideon’s body be healed or is she permanently a corpse?
- Does Pash have naturally red hair?
- Are the soul-possessing monsters from hell and how are they traveling into Dominicus?
- What was Anastasia’s favorite bone?
- How has the Ninth been running while Harrow and Gideon have been gone?
- Was Anastasia locked in the tomb with Alecto since her bones are guarding the rock? If not then how did her bones get there?
- Did Kiriona and Ianthe fuck?
- What are Ianthe’s plans?
- What are Corona’s plans?
- Can John be redeemed and forgiven? Can he and Blood of Eden understand one another?
- Will Wake’s ghost make a comeback?
- Will any ghosts make a comeback?
- What’s the real series of events for the end of the world because John has contradicted when the bombs went off. Is he just not remembering or is he still trying to play the victim?
- Will Pash and Gideon ever talk and realize they’re cousins?
- GRIDDLEHARK?!?!
- Why Sarpedon? Just why?
thinkin bout harrow, revealing her secrets to gideon, in the pool full of saltwater
thinkin bout camilla, who has no secrets from palamedes, in the empty bathtub
some tlt stuff!!!! i think this is my first time posting my traditional art on here ?? :0
also im obsessed w drawing kiriona rn shes my girlfail butch bf <3
Anonymous asked:
prompt: camilla and harrow being judgemental
they should have a beach episode
The fact that Harrows method of checking to see if Ianthe is really herself is to just full on French kiss her out of the blue. Totally not a suspect thing to do and definitly subtle Harrow great job. Just a normal make out sesh between rivals as you're coming to after a lobotomy. I love this book so much.
do yall think there’s atheists in the tlt universe? like god is some guy who is a dude who u have likely been raised to worship n ur still like “nah i think hes just a guy. yall stay safe tho xx” or even “no hes not real. government deep fake” like moon landing conspiracies but for religion
If the Ninth and the Sixth played Minecraft, Harrow and Palamedes would immediately get distracted by a skeleton spawner. Gideon and Camilla would go off and beat the ender dragon and when they got back five hours later Harrow and Palamedes would be in the middle of a lengthy debate about the spawner's thanergetic signature.
like yeah anthy and harrow are definitely similar flavors of character to a certain extent but like fresh out of finishing htn a mikage and harrow comparison seems just as interesting to me. The whole novel really reminded me of the black rose arc in some ways, especially considering the shared themes of tampered memories, and obsession with something long dead. Like you have this character who is so powerful and imposing but they are slowly coming apart at the seams trying to grapple with reality (specifically in discerning what's reality and what isn't). Also I think harrows relationship to The Body can kinda draw parallels to mikages relationship to mamiya, especially kind of in an aesthetic sense (a character constantly trailed by a ghostly presence that they themselves idealize)
literally inconsolable about cam and pal and paul btw. what do you mean you loved each other so much you ate each others souls and consumed each other so utterly that in that instant the two of you were destroyed and made anew as one. like what the fuck man
I’m sorry but you all aren’t listening, lyctorhood itself is not the “indelible sin” and you can pry this theory from my cold dead hands, honestly, maybe not even then. TazMuir herself could not dissuade me until she explicitly tells me otherwise. My proof for this you ask? Pyrrha’s conversation with Varun in NtN chapter 9.
But let’s backtrack for a second. John has stated that the resurrection beasts are after him and the lyctors for committing the indelible sin of lyctorhood, and as such the lyctors can never return to the Dominican System for fear of drawing the RBs back to the Nine Houses. I’ve never believed this was true given the fact that John is always the greatest common denominator when it comes to the presence of an RB and there’s no mention of an RB going after a lone lyctor. Sure, lyctors have been killed fighting resurrection beasts but there’s a huge difference between being caught in the crossfire and starting a firefight. For me, Nona the Ninth only reinforced that what we’ve been told is the “indelible sin” is either John misunderstanding the RBs (doubtful) or lying for his own purposes (more likely).
In chapter 9 of NtN, Nona recounts the story of her disastrous beach trip and towards the end of this recitation Nona says that Pyrrha;
“…crossed to the taped-up window, bottle and glass in hand. To Nona’s awe, she twitched the blackout curtains aside—stood bathed in the hyper-blue light from the sky as Nona held her breath—and she said to the window, “Here’s to Camilla Hect, yet another of devotion’s casualties,” and knocked back the glass. Then she said to the light, quite gently, “No, I don’t blame you, man … He was always looking for things to throw himself on.”
Pyrrha stands in front of Nona, bathed in the light of Varun the Eater, and proceeds to have a conversation with it. We only get one side but based on the context of the last line, “No, I don’t blame you, man … He was always looking for things to throw himself on.” Varun seemingly apologizes to Pyrrha for killing G1deon. It’s proven later on in the book that Varun can speak to Nona, and while it could be argued that since G1deon is dead and his soul is gone the “indelible sin” has been undone this still begs the question; why would the punisher apologize to the sinner?
If Varun and the other RBs are hunting the lyctors to dole out justice for their sins why would they apologize for doing the very thing they sought to do unless that wasn’t their true intent. The “indelible sin” is not the consumption of another soul, it is the consumption of a specific soul. It is John taking Alecto into himself, not being able to house all of her and instead making an exchange. Housing a piece of her in him, and a piece of him in her. Splintering the soul of a great and terrible force into manageable parts. Which explains Varun’s ominous presence hanging over the planet in the first place.
If RBs are hunting Lyctors there are no lyctors on this planet. Palamedes has not consumed Camilla’s soul, G1deon is gone, Harrow is in the River, Gideon is thumbtacked to her dead body, the only soul of any significance to Varun is Nona. Later on in chapter 13 Varun, by way of Judith, says to Nona;
“…what they did to you and what they wrung from you and what shape they made you fill—we see you still—we seek you still—we murdered—we who murder—you inadvertent tool—you misused green thing—come back to us—take vengeance for us—we saw you—we see you—I see you.”
And in chapter 27,
“….what did he do to you, to make you this way.”
What did HE do to you!!! what did HE do to YOU!! To give John credit he doesn’t deserve he may not realize it himself but the RBs have been looking for Alecto this whole time. They don’t want the lyctors, they want what John stole, they want the piece of Alecto inside of him. Want to make her whole again, their misused green thing. She’s almost there. She has her piece back from harrow’s body, united with the piece of her hidden in the locked tomb. She only has 1 piece left to collect. And god knows what will happen when the green and breathing thing is whole once again.
I've been trying to put a finger on John's vibe for a while, and I think I finally got it -- it's "area man miserable over his voluntary choices that he could stop making at any time".