#anastasia the ninth

[cutetanuki-chan]

I'm not sure how caption this, just hanging out near the pool

#barbie meets shape of water #idk i still never watched the movie #alecto turned out really huge here but why not #the locked tomb #alecto the ninth #anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #alectostasia #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #art

[homeofwyrm]

Character doomed by the narrative shows Earth a plant.

#art #the locked tomb #tlt #anastasia #anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #alecto #alectostasia #Im about to lose control and just draw them making out #they are literally that cheerleader emo girl meme template

[ashiistired]

Without paint

Anastasia concept

This is a very messy sketch but oh well

#anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #haunting the narrative requires a nice outfit #tlt fanart

[ghostsessioned]

the priestess crushed beneath the new - laid rock.

#artfart #the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb trilogy #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #htn spoilers #ntn spoilers #tentatively places her down #been working on her for a handful of days while my wife goes absolutely bonkers over her design in private #LMAO #anyway. my take on anastasia ! wanted to give her a face akin to harrow's but less scrunched #henneyways #enjoy you anastasia enjoyers #tlt anastasia

[domibomz]

MORE ANASTASIA! The design belongs to my wife @ghostsessioned ! Did you know she finds skulls to be the least interesting bone in the human body ?

#tlt #the locked tomb #tlt anastasia #do i need to trigger warning bones #tw bones #just in case #but if you have a bone trigger i have bad news for you i am about to dive headfirst into a TLT kick #which means i also have to confront the fact that i do not know how to draw bones #anastasia the ninth #my art

[noctilia]

#anastasia the ninth #anastasia the first #alecto the first #alecto the ninth #noctiliart #the locked tomb #fan art #nona the ninth #‘im so sorry about samael’ ;-; #i ship them your honor #i’ve been having a lot of anastasia/alecto thoughts lately #you might have noticed #also after months of painting various blonde women with issues i’ve finally nailed down how to paint blonde hair from imagination #and make it look fluffy #here’s a video bc some of you liked it when i include the progress last time 😘

[shayberri789]

My theory on the NtN ending:

Cassiopeia wasn't the only one to betray Jod thousands of years ago. She wasn't the only one to see that what Jod was doing was wrong and put plans in place to deal with it.

Anastasia the first almost had perfect lyctorhood and watched her God kill her cavalier in front of her so she couldn't do it. Maybe she really would have died. Maybe she would have gone the paul route. Maybe she would have survived and Samael would still be around. But he was killed in front of her and she had no say in it.

Alecto was odd, and a little dangerous, but she's the soul of the earth and if Jod could kill the most important person to Anastasia of course he could kill the thing who loved humanity so much she gave them power over life and death.

And when the Lyctors were convincing him to kill his pet revenent beast, the pin point of his greatest sin and a being in constant pain and hurt, maybe Anastasia, the one left behind, the one maybe magicked to silence through a sewn tongue, cursed jaw, felt sympathy and kinship with Alecto. Maybe she knew Jod would never truly kill Alecto. Maybe she was the first person in hundreds if not thousands and millions of years to look at Alecto with compassion and actually say "I will help you if only you tell me how". Maybe she made a promise to protect Alecto, maybe she made a promise to look after her while she sleeps. Maybe she made a promise that one day she'd come and wake Alecto up and they'd solve things together. Maybe one day they can undo what John did and maybe Alecto can have peace, finally, one day. And maybe Alecto swore that for the debt of waking her again she would do anything for Anastasia, any one thing, if Anastasia woke her up in a time when things could change.

But by the time Anastasia, frail with her necromancer build and squirreled away at the edge of the solar system, started reaching old age she realized it was too soon to wake her up. Too soon to send her into the lyctor viper pit again, not while Anastasia was so weak. So she tasks her daughter with guarding the tomb. "This door must stay shut until the day comes when the emperor must die" she says, and her daughter repeats this to her son, and so on and so forth until the body in the locked tomb becomes Armageddon. Not locked away for her own protection, not awaiting the day for the tomb keeper to wake her up and try again, not awaiting the day when the nine houses get to restart. No, she's the greatest enemy of god, she must be locked away lest she start Armageddon, locked away for the protection of the emperor and their duties to her tomb an icon for devotion.

But the bloodwards hold for 10000 years and one day the curse of silence will be lifted from the jaw of the ninth house tomb keeper, and the oath to Alecto is preserved in the Anastasian bloodline. And the daughter of the tomb keeper has awakened the monster once again

#this is me attempting to put a storyteller spin on a hc thats been buzzing around in my skull since i finished ntn #shay posts #tlt #the locked tomb #alecto the ninth #alecto the first #alecto theories #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #anastasia the ninth #anastasia the first #nona the ninth #alecto #griddlehark

[mossytrashcan]

colored some of the sketches!! yeah ik ana’s dress sucks don’t @ me it was mostly improv

#really wanted to make my own unique anastasia design that wasn’t just copying other people’s lol #tlt #the locked tomb #alecto the ninth #anastasia the ninth #sage’s doodle tag

[mercymcrn]

anastasia and alecto were the original tomb-keeper/tall deranged wet rat blonde duo btw.

#they walked so harryanthe could run #the blueprint #anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #alecto the first #alecto the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #ianthe tridentarius

[fkapommel]

Seeing tlt fanart made me realize that Nona's amorousness and attraction to Corona is almost a visual inversion of Anastasia and Alecto. Corona *ahem* Crown and Alecto are both described as near perfect articulations of their gender - bosomous, voluptuous, blonde, beautiful. Both a little mentally fucked as a sprinkle. But Alecto hates her physical form, implicitly because it was created with such a vision by a mortal-made-divine man. It shows how disgustingly tragic Alecto's lot in (human) bodily existence is, how she could have loved her body if it wasn't crafted by a man intending her body to be something he would be sexually attracted to, if it didn't confine her to such a limited physical experience (where are the rest of her legs!), and if it could be a body that she grew with and learned to mold and use like Corona. Alecto hates her form, but when she is placed in the body similar to her true love and partner's, she is able to appreciate and be attracted to a body similar to the one crafted for her. Harrow's body is a descendant of Anastasia's. She is able to love her body (ie something approximating it) literally through her lover's eyes.

#nona seeing corona: dam crown ur bobbies! #coronabeth tridentarius #nona the ninth #alecto the first #tlt #anastasia the ninth #the locked tomb #fyi #i use “perfect forms of their gender” purposefully and not lightly #i felt like that one image of charlie with his conspiracy theory board of connections trying to word this correctly #mine

[cutetanuki-chan]

close up

Alecto postponed means more time to gaslight myself about Anastasia and Alecto

I think they should have a pool scene too

#the locked tomb #alecto the ninth #anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #tumblr dont eat quality please

[homeofwyrm]

Post-work sketches

#art #the locked tomb #tlt #alectostasia #alecto the ninth #anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #honestly dont love any of these but sometimes you gotta practice for the sake of it #headcanon anastasia cant swim

[sainamoonshine]

Me: I just don’t get that whole Chain of Samael thing, Samael didn’t even get to see the Ninth be established

Also me: suddenly remembers that the weighted end of the chain is a Pelvis bone & that it is called the “relic of this long-dead warrior”. In catholic parlance, a relic can either be something that belonged to a Saint but is also very often a piece of physical remain of said saint. And such a thing is usually a core component of churches (legit for the longest time you could not have a catholic church without a relic it was MANDATORY). In ye olden days, there was also a HUGE catholic tradition of building cemeteries on top and around the graves of martyrs. And the Chain of Samael was kept in monument in the Anastasian, which is described as the sacred tomb of warriors and second most holy place on the Ninth.

Me: OH it’s not the chain of Samael it’s the chain OF Samael. It’s MADE with Samael!

#the anastasian #samael novenary #anastasia novenary #anastasia the ninth #the locked tomb theory #the locked tomb speculation #the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #the ninth house #harrow nova

[ghostsessioned]

minis for your every need ( inspired by @/civetside )

#artfart #the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb trilogy #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #alecto the first #alecto tlt #anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #coughs

[nona-gay-simus]

John, Paul and Perfect Lyctorhood

Here's the thing: I think One Flesh, One End is the wrong way to think about what lyctorhood is, or at least, what it ideally should be.

Think about it: John never had his "cavalier" die for his lyctorhood. And yes, the reason for that is because he tried to consume the Earth's soul and it was too big for one human. But more importantly: this was non-consensual and one way.

Presumably most cavaliers (besides poor Babs) choose to die for their necros, so that's a step in the right direction. And then we have Paul - the death of two people, melding of two souls to create a third. But at the same time Paul didn't really feel like "the best" of Palamedes and Camilla, and mostly felt like a stranger (despite the fact that they clearly have their memories). Maybe they are too new and still have to discover these parts of themself, I don't know but I think we can all agree we didn't like it and I think that's the point. Pyrrha said Paul is not the end but just "a step in the theorem".

Personally, I'm most curious about what Anastasia was doing. According to John, she "freaked out and couldn't get the soul all the way in" and that's why he killed her cavalier, but how reliable of a narrator is John? We know he has a bias and is trying to make himself look better so personally I think that if he isn't outright lying (and we know he's not above that) there's probably more nuance to what he admitted.

So I would like to pose the following theory: Perfect Lyctorhood is not about one person dying for the other, not two people melding into one. Instead it's a process of exchange where both people take a part of the other 's soul in themselves consensually. They are both split and whole at the same time. And I believe (hope) that is what Gideon and Harrow will achieve by the end of the series.

#pyrrha dve #palamedes sextus #camila hect #camilla hect #john gaius #necrolord prime #alecto the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #anastasia the ninth #anastasia the first #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #harrow the ninth spoilers #nona the ninth spoilers #htn spoilers #ntn spoilers #the locked tomb #the locked tomb meta #the locked tomb spoilers #tlt spoiles #tlt meta #griddlehark #griddlehark meta #ship: one flesh one end bitch #mine

[domibomz]

OG sad but also scary tomb lady is playing with her bones again She's royally pissed off

#tlt #the locked tomb #tlt anastasia #i did this RIGHT before i had to go to work so the skeletons and bones are #a bit lacklusted to say the least but you get the idea #this anastasia design belongs to my wife @ghostsessioned #she is my partner in crime and very talented please go check out her stuff she is also about to start spamming a bunch of TLT #anastasia the ninth #my art