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ok so i got a theory about colum asht’s death and alecto and nona … bear with me!

so at the end of GTN when the 8th go up against ianthe, silas siphons colum. And siphon as I have interpreted it is draining one soul to enhance the another (and with it to become more powerful) so when siphon happens i presume that the soul almost floats further and further away from the body and deeper and deeper into the river.

So when colum is siphoned to a point where his soul is no longer with his body i believe that it created a portal into hell. (The soul been siphoned to the deepest depths of the river and when it reaches the stoma it’s can be siphoned no longer)

Colum’s eyes are described as “socket ringed with teeth with little tongues slithering out of them”

sound familiar….

the description above (“weird edges”…”edges of the holes were enormous human teeth”) is of the stoma found at the bottom of the river , which are the gateways to hell.

so in my mind if a portal had opened up from colum to hell then that would explain why eye socket had been turned into a sort of stoma.

Next we have to figure out what possessed colum. So i think that straight after the portal was open malevolent spirits were fighting to take possession…

to me i think of colum is staggering/out of control because six soul are fighting for complete control of his body. Additionally the “never been inside a human body before” suggest that the spirit are from devil/ other beasts from hell.

ok so this is where the real far fletched bit comes in. The ‘eye stoma’s’ start looking real stoma-ry when colum is face to face with gideoen and she’s looking at his eyes.

Now i think potentially Alecto spirit (collective souls probably) is a part of -or trapped in -hell and she might have some powers that allow her to control the stoma at times. This is important because if this portal allowed Alecto to see through the portal and into gideons eyes. She will see the gold eyes staring back at her and automatically think it was jod. Therefore at this point she takes control over colums body and tries to drag gideon into hell with her.(“the tongue in his original mouth extended out,down, wrapping itself around her neck”)

At this point ianthe twists colums neck from behind causing colums body’s death. Now as this was done from behind this would have caught Alecto by surprise, therefore not allowing Alecto the opportunity to get out of colums body and back into hell. And therefore because of this instead she ends up in the river.

Now onto the nona part - you can probably see where i’m going with this…

If Alecto was lurking in the river she could have inhabited harrows body - again maybe drawn to the gold eyes (maybe forgetting that her own eyes now possess jods face).

And therefore Nona is Alecto inside Harrows body (potentially alongside gideon).

Why didn’t she go back through the stoma and back into hell? Maybe she couldnt get through. Maybe hell was a jail that she is glad to have escaped from. (Personally the second option makes most sense to me)

(may also explain why colum wasn’t in harrows river bubble in HTN)

Ok i think that’s it … my 3am theory that i need to share

also shoutout to @mayasaura for inspiring this theory particularly this post:

@onefleshonepod - what do you think?

mercymorn after exploding god

god after getting exploded, reforming, exploding mercymorn and taking her robe

augustine after watching god and mercy both explode

at first i thought the recurring point about nona walking on the balls of her feet was just a coordination/sensory thing on account of, you know, being an amnesiac soul learning how to be a person from scratch in an unfamiliar body. then of course the idea that she wasn't human at all to begin with, that she was something with different anatomy or even no anatomy at all. but then i was like. huh. do you think...? no. but maybe?

What if Noodle being "the most important dog in the universe" is something bigger than NTN let on? We assume that Noodle is the most important dog in the universe because his very existence gets Nona to pull herself together and drive them to the Ninth. But what if there's more than that?

Aim is a veterinarian, right? They knew about "cradle creatures" because of special zoology courses they took at university. And Noodle doesn't just happen to have 6 legs, Noodle was bred to have 6 legs (they tells that to Beautiful Ruby after he draws Noodle with 8). And it's not just that Pash goes where Aim goes, Aim also takes Noodle wherever they go. Aim decides they're going to the Ninth, both Pash and Noodle are going to the Ninth.

Before the bloodbath in the classroom when Aim is on the radio with the unit from Merv Wing they "look, don't you dare- we've got my dog in here!" Why would Merv Wing care about the dog unless Noodle was somehow important? I don't think it would be reasonable to expect Merv to be so sympathetic to a puppy unless there was something critical about Noodle specifically.

When Camilla asked We Suffer who the Angel is, We Suffer replies "All you need to know is that they are the one with the little arboreal dog who is elderly. That is enough to know." And then she says "The Angel is Blood of Eden."

I've said before my theory that Blood of Eden is a message continuity cult, and interesting to me that AIM and MSN (the things that the messengers are named after) are not messages in themselves, they are messenger protocols. They convey messages. What if Aim's job (again as a veterinarian who worked at a zoo) is to carry and protect Noodle? What if Noodle is the message?

And what’s with the “arboreal” legs anyway???

Gideon in GtN says "hot damn what a beautiful corpse" about the first house, which is the Earth, which is literally Alecto?? Who is also a beautiful corpse?? Fucking incredible, taz.

“average person has 3 brain hemorrhages a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has 0 brain hemorrhages per year. Lobotomies Harrowhark, who lives in all-consuming grief & has over 10,000 brain hemorrhages each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

the reason I'm still like this about tlt is that who else in sff right now is writing character interactions like tazmuir. is anyone else giving me horrible goth nun queen evil mastermind x han solo but goofier and a girl and she's also lesbian jesus? I ask you who else would have written mercymorn. Or pash?? is anyone else giving me women so on purpose irritating and abrasive and putting them ALL in the same room where they can bounce off each other like angry horny little ping pong balls? No they are not. so I'm still here

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All three Locked Tomb covers together with a new lettering style! I’ve posted all of these so many times now lol but I like having them all together :)