Imagine you’re some little evil woman sitting in Hades’ throne room when Orpheus walks in to make a deal to get Eurydice back, and Hades is like “yeah ok, just don’t look back otherwise she has to stay here” then walks out of the room. Almost immediately after hearing the conditions, Orpheus breaks his own neck so that it is physically impossible for him to turn it, and then demands that you gouge out his eyes for good measure. Eurydice then gets really upset because she’s convinced this is a sign that Orpheus hates her and never wants to see her again, and Orpheus is completely convinced that this was a normal and logical thing to do.
You are literally the only person in the universe who recognizes this as an act of love. They both then insult you to your face for thinking this is anything other than very normal (Orpheus), or petty hatred (Eurydice).
Ngl Ianthe is my fav character ever. The way she acts, totally careless of others but following some sort of fucked up plan she made, very girlboss of her. And also I LOVE how Muir potrays her, as a tall seraphic crazy lady thirsty of blood but yet very pale and weak. I haven’t read Nona the Ninth yet, I hope to see her again there.
The reason Ianthe is Like That btw is because the locked tomb is an video game told from the perspective of the NPCs and she’s the Player Character, hope this helps!
Trying to romance every character? ✅
Making the worst possible decisions for no reason other than “unlimited power, and my face on posters”? (That was definitely a multi-choice dialogue option) ✅
Constantly being relevant to the plot and thinking every character in the game loves her even though she has almost exclusively caused misery? ✅
First one to reach the big goal, but not a high enough level for the boss fight, so the NPCs had to step in to remind the game that they are also cool and powerful? ✅
Avatar and clothing change options she keeps using all the time? ✅
Had to level up in friendship with the major NPC of the second arc in order to unlock the legendary item that would boost her weapons damage because she accidentally maxed out on magic in character creation? ✅
I was walking home from work and thinking to myself… host club and Gideon the ninth. And here we are, many weeks later. Hope there’s a target audience out there to reach with this lolllll
I can’t participate properly in Inktober this year, but when’s a better time to post spooky skeleton arms than October? So here’s the universe’s most terrible apple enthusiast, accidentally matching today’s theme – dangerous.
“ianthe has a secret plan” ok yeah probably but it’s funnier for me to imagine she fulfilled all her dark machinations by becoming a lyctor, and is now just desperately scrambling from book to book trying to stop everyone from blowing up the solar system and ruining it for her