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No.

The beauty of the AU bubbles is it's just Harrow, nine months worth of repressed feelings about Gideon, and a trio of bemused 30-somethings that she keeps putting in outfits.

in harrow's bubbles, was gideon's soul aware of her au's? was gideon's soul aware of how harrow saw herself meeting her in every universe? was she aware how she built entire worlds around her because she couldn't conceive of a universe without her?

#The locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus

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the switch in tenses was one of the highlights of this book 💛

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Short break from Ianthic (???) drawings! I'M SORRY

Alecto I'm waiting for youuuu

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[Harrow Font: (239): I'm wandering around outside asking things if they are god]

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i dont “have ptsd” that’s all just the wizard’s curse

#It might be easier to list the characters in TLT this doesn't apply to

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#Teenage Abigail while Magnus is sitting finishing off his homework for Remedial Swords or Evil Necromancer Business Studies

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hope you’re having a good morning! it’s a lovely day to remember that Harrow said Gideon’s name as she died even though she physically couldn’t remember it at the time

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John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) "Originally part of a team of scientists tasked with saving humanity from climate change, John was gifted strange necromantic powers by earth itself. He proceeded to use these powers to essentially start a cult. He attempts to convince various nations and companies to follow his plans for how to save the planet, but nothing works and eventually the whole thing has gone to such shit that John NUKES THE EARTH AND EVERY HUMAN STILL ON IT. He can feel them all die and uses their power to fuel himself, spending the next ten thousand years chasing after the trillionaires who escaped the planet, blaming them for the destruction of humanity. He is so afraid of Extinction that he literally causes the mass Extinction of every living thing on earth. Oh also he takes the dead, resurrected soul of planet earth and traps it in a barbie doll, and what is more Extinction than the soul of our planet trapped in plastic?"

The Final Pam (Monster Factory) "Well, you start with Fallout, already a highly Extinction-aligned game. Then, by breaking the laws of the universe, you begin to tear it apart from the inside out, bare-handed, no holds barred, accompanied only by the memories of your many husbands and sons. Then, when that is not enough, when the level of visceral destruction you have left in your wake is not enough to slake your thirst for vengeance, when the firepower of a thousand landmines is not enough, then! You ascend. You rip down the world layer by layer, until all that remains is the delicate framework that holds it all together. The world combusts and reforms, an endless, deathless realm that you are simply too great to be confined by.

This is what it is to be the Final Pam.

(For anyone not familiar with the story of Pam, Who Death Forgot, take about an hour or so and treat yourself to the three-part epic. Congratulations! You're one of today's lucky 10,000.) (CW: video game blood and violence, insects, occasional flashing lights and loud noises)"

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The locked Tomb and the Furies

The Furies, one of which Alecto is named after, relentlessly pursue the transgressors to the point of insanity. Screeching at them. Nona screaming at Ianthe until water comes out of her mouth and ears, breaking Ianthe's focus. Her tantrums, where she screams and goes on a murderous rampage. These behaviors must've been why she was given that nickname by the lyctors. Also, at the end of the book her behavior fits her title of "endless anger".

But here is the thing. What about the other 2 famous Furies? Because here is my, probably bad and wrong, theory: the three title characters represent the 3 furies. We know The Locked Tomb was supposed to be a trilogy from the start. Alecto got split but Nona is still Alecto.

The characters Gideon and Harrow still have more development to go through, and this Furies parallel that I'm proposing could be a partial indication of where they are going.

I think Gideon is Megaera, that is defined as "jealous rage".

Evidence of that is her wish to fight Alecto as she declares herself Harrow's cavalier. That's Gideon job, and she knows Harrow would gladly accept Alecto as her replacement because she has been in love with her since childhood. John said in the second book that he wished Harrow was his kid. Meanwhile, Gideon is the unwanted child that the mere existence means a risk to god, so he had to modify her body (and probably only keeps her around because he lacks powerful and trustworthy allies). She is hostile to Ianthe's attempts of seduction (and manipulation) directed towards Harrow. The Ninth took everything from her. She can't have nice things.

That's why forgiveness and being selfless is important to her.

That leaves Harrow as Tisiphone, "vengeful destruction".

In the second book Ianthe mentions that inside the ship Harrow had 2 modes: murder and projectile vomiting (or something like that). This sounds really similar to Nona's tantrums, that I previously mentioned that is like a Furies' behavior.  The vengeful part, I think has been building up ever since Harrow met Jod. Their first interaction he confesses his limitation, and maybe unwillingness, to undo the lyctoral process. Later, John asks her if she will join him, and if she accepts, she won't be able to return to her house. We know there was never a choice with the RB around. Harrow accepts, but in her mind she's is already defying his orders because she says that she will return to the Ninth House. Then, there is a bunch of stuff that happens to Harrow in the Mithraeum that makes her live in fear, while at the same time she sees these beings that she was told to worship, live these petty frugal lives. While her house wasted away and starved, god can simply use his necromancy to stop food from spoiling. They have alcohol and reminiscence the old times and sexy parties.

Then there are the John chapters in Nona. Where Harrow goes through Alecto's memories of him ranting about how things turned out this way. Imagine Harrow that had to puppet her parents as a child, because they died in fear of the sin that they committed to this god, listening to him cosplay a cult because he prioritized being seen as a good guy instead of doing what needed to be done. If Harrow was in his place she would've killed those billionaires as soon as she knew she could. While he killed some cops and waited until it was too late. So it's no surprise she's going to find "god" by the end of that book. And would be no surprise if she decide to bring some vengeful destruction upon everything.

I was just going to write the first paragraph but then it became all of this bs that is probably wrong.

#Oh I like this

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currently reading htn and i just have a feeling this fanart is gonna circle back to bite me in the ass. Anyway.

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More doodles from divine highness au. I imagine it would be neat if Harrow was groomed to be Kiriona's advisor. She can rock the evil vizier aesthetic while trying and failing to babysit this spoiled oafish god-prince

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thank you scherz et al. for bringing us the frogs Mini ature, Mini mum and of course, the Mini scule

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He often summoned you for a theoretical lesson, or the cups of tea you still hated but would have rather seen your skin flagellated off than say so, or simply to sit in silence. He had a trick of asking you to come over and talk, and then never actually talking, but sitting with you watching the asteroids continue their graceful orbit around a thanergenic star.

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Some scribbles.

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midnite hagette does math in god’s least favorite basement 

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i knew we shouldn't have come to the club on catharsis night. everyone is weeping and wailing as their negative feelings are cleansed through vicarious emotional experience and it's really bringing the mood down, which is simultaneously bringing the mood up. plus all the fake blood from that production of the agamemnon is making it too slippery to dance

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ortus nigendad inherited his position as cavalier primary to the ninth. he would have started training with the sword before his adept was even born, and been pledged to her the moment she could speak. reasonably, aiglamene would have been working with him since he was a boy.

do you think he was the only swordsperson aiglamene trained?

do you think he learned what a formal duel was by sparring with someone his age under their teacher’s watch? do you think maybe there was another child or two who showed promise, someone with a future in the cohort? and it frustrated everyone that *he* was the one to be cavalier when he was the worst swordsman in the bunch. do you think he tried to be better back then, to measure up to the other kids, even though he would’ve preferred to be doing anything else?

of course, he’d have needed one on one help from time to time. having classmates makes certain things easier to learn, but he was the future cavalier primary. he was meant to represent his house someday, and he hardly even seemed interested in it. some lessons would be for him alone even if the whole generation went through martial training.

do you think they called him for training one day, when every other child was meant to be in the nursery? do you think the older ones were jealous he was getting out of prayer circle, and the little ones were jealous he was missing naptime? and he told the more athletic ones not to worry and that he’d show off what he learned when he got back, but he didn’t mean it. they were meddlesome and annoying, and he wouldn’t think about swords for a second longer than he had to. everyone called him lucky, and he didn’t much feel like it.

do you think he got back from his lesson to find his home under quarantine?

do you think he was told that some unholy illness had broken out in the nursery and that they’d have to test him in isolation, but he couldn’t be allowed back in his bed out of hope that he was spared? it killed them all so quickly; the fact he was alive at all meant he’d likely gotten lucky. he didn’t feel like it.

do you think that was the day ortus nigenad gave up on the sword for good?

#Everybody knew and Ortus knew most of all #That's why Ortus is like that #He was 17 and all his friends died and he was spared under some flimsy pretext #But everyone knew it was because he was the the next Cavalier Primary #And no one in his family ever really recovered from that horrible bargain #No wonder he gave up