#isaac tettares

[mayasaura]

why do you think cytherea targeted the fourth the way she did? we know why she killed the fifth, and we know why she killed people generally, but the writing in blood and the chasing jeanne after killing isaac feels weirdly personal

It does seem personal, yeah. I'm sure it was intended to. I'm also sure it wasn't. I doubt Cytherea even noticed they were people enough to have beef with them.

Let's look at her goals:

She's using the heirs as bait to get John's attention, but doesn't want to make the real stakes apparent. So she kills them off, one by one, slasher movie style. She's playing with them, creating a narrative so that when the terrified survivors call for help, John is curious enough about whatever theory they've come up with to come take a looksee.

That's probably why she planted the idea of vengeful angry ghosts so early. She knows it's something that's bound to get John's attention without alarming him enough for him to be on the defensive. His old house is haunted by violently angry revenants? That doesn't sound right, but you never know with ghosts. Seems both interesting and a bit concerning, he'd better take a look.

The Fourth specifically were targeted because their investigation into Abigail and Magnus' murder posed a threat to her plan. They had found Dulcinea and Protesilaus' ashes in the incinerator and raised the alarm, which put them way too close to asking the right kinds of questions. Like: "Whose ashes are these?" and "Is this connected to the other murders?" They had to die, and they had to die in a way that drew attention away from their investigation and lent credence to Cytherea's angry ghost narrative, or the story they had to tell when they called John might be a little too close to the truth to get the intended effect.

So. Giant bone monster in the basement laboratory, a sleeping child skewered in a locked room, and ominous writing in the victim's blood. A tableau designed to be so horrifyingly personal it doesn't occur to anyone it might have been pragmatic.

#the locked tomb #cytherea loveday #tlt meta #gideon the ninth #gtn spoilers #jeannemary #jeannemary chatur #isaac tettares

[spookyscaryfox]

i thought about canaan house crowd ascending with cytherea as catalist and made myself sad.

need to establish my vocabulary first though:

to pull a cristabel — kill yourself as a sacrifice with no apparent danger outside of your necro stagnating in her studies and aging.

to pull a gideon — kill yourself because there's an immediate danger to life and your necro's survival is more important than yours.

so. judith does not ascend unless really backed into it. marta would 1) cave in and pull a gideon 2) prefer fighter's death. judith anyway bears guilt for millenias.

ianthe is ianthe. though corona would absolutely pull a cristabel and/or gideon if only she knew.

poor isaac is against this shit much like abigail but both jeannemary and magnus can (and in case of jm will) pull a gideon on them. grief.

with palamedes and cam i see many paths. 1) they make paul from the beginning even though they didn't have enough time to discuss and research. paul is wobbly and cyth is livid at them for doing something she couldn't so she decapitates them. 2) pal pulls a reverse gideon and explodes as per canon, then they make paul. 3) camilla pulls a gideon on pal. i am not interested in thinking about paul paths because anything i come up with pales in comparison with tamsyn's imagination. so in case of traditional lyctorhood pal is grieving and has cool knives. and maybe develops some muscle.

dulcie will pull a reverse gideon just so protesilaus doesn't do it on her. she's so sick of this shit already, she's not spending myriad like cyth. pro wouldn't pull a cristabel and would prefer a fighter's death to pulling a gideon anyway.

silas would like his nephew NOT TO DIE. colum would not pull a cristabel, he has seen enough of the river for a lifetime. colum could 1) choose to pull a gideon because as much as he doesn't want to die he absolutely should like a good cav, shouldn't he? 2) choose to not pull a gideon because silas is against it/stopped him midway screeching tome proverbs at him entire time.

gideon is gideon. harrow does lobotomy.

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #silas octakiseron #colum asht #dulcinea septimus #protesilaus ebdoma #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #magnus quinn #abigail pent #jeannemary chatur #isaac tettares #ianthe tridentarius #coronabeth tridentarius #judith deuteros #marta dyas #cristabel oct

[thechekhov]

Harrow's necromantic power includes the ability to create underlighting whenever it's necessary.

Bonus:

#tamsin muir let me in i just want to make a full manga adaptation of your books #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #gtn #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #palamedes sextus #chekhov draws tlt #chekhov draws the locked tomb #camilla hect #ianthe tridentarius #coronabeth tridentarius #judith deuteros #marta dyas #jeannemary chatur #isaac tettares #comics #tlt comic #the locked tomb fancomic #tlt fanart

[chimchiri]

Small art gift for @admiraldora who chose the awful teens as a motif. Had a lot of fun looking up their scenes again and figuring out their overall appearance and outfits.

JM always being in awe of Gideon's biceps are the cutest and funniest moments. I can only imagine how often she she gawks at Gideon in secret and inspects her own muscles in front of the mirror in the fourth's room.

#thank you again dear! #tlt #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #gideon nav #my art

[notedchampagne]

house of murder

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #ianthe tridentarius #coronabeth tridentarius #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #griddlehark #dudele #alecto #nona the ninth spoilers #kind of. not really #spoilers in a way that you wouldnt get it with no context anyway

[longearedhare]

mapping out what I think the Canaan House sleeping arrangements were like, i.e. usage of the Cav Cot™️

Second House: Judith sleeps in the bed and Marta sleeps in the cot, just like they’re supposed to, not least because it discourages Inappropriate Cav-Necro Relationships

Third House: canonically Ianthe and Corona share a bed. Naberius would probably sleep on the cot but only if the girls are feeling nice and aren’t making him sleep on the floor.

Fourth House: They do the intended sleeping arrangements until one of them has a bad dream and ends up climbing in next to the other. they also occasionally have sleepovers in Magnus and Abigail’s room.

Fifth House: this hardly needs saying but obviously they share the bed. The cot is where Abigail’s bedtime reading material lives (it is overflowing).

Sixth House: canonically Camilla and Palamedes sleep in the bed together and use the cot as weapons storage.

Seventh House: Dulcinea obviously uses/needs the bed but Protesilaus is too Large™️ for the cot so she has the skeletons bring in another bed for him.

Eighth House: EITHER they do everything as intended OR they both sleep on the floor because they hate themselves.

Ninth House: canonically we know that Harrow sleeps in the bed and Gideon sleeps on the floor because she refuses to sleep in the cot until after the pool scene. i think Harrow probably wanted her to sleep in the bed with her but was too Harrow to ask

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #canaan house #judith deuteros #marta dyas #tw ianthe #coronabeth tridentarius #naberius tern #jeannemary chatur #isaac tettares #abigail pent #magnus quinn #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #dulcinea septimus #protesilaus ebdoma #silas octakiseron #colum asht

[katakaluptastrophy]

Oh no now I'm thinking about the Fourth and the Fifth again and how Jod's awful colonial space feudalism poisons everything.

You are four or five years old. Maybe you're Isaac and you never knew your dad, only that he died at enemy hands in some far flung campaign and six years later you were made to ensure an heir for the baronetcy. Or you're Jeannemary and your mother defied orders, went beyond the rim, and jumped on a grenade. If either of you have surviving parents, they're not considered sufficiently important in this great process of ensuring a suitable heir with a suitable cavalier to keep you. There is no Baron until Isaac comes of age, and the leader of a House needs to be properly trained. You are four or five years old, and you are sent away.

You're five year old Jeannemary. You're not yet sworn to your necromancer, but you've been promised to him since birth and you've been sent away from your planet and your siblings to serve him. You are your generation's Chatur and this is your purpose. And when the cavalier primary of the House you have been sent to sees a little child struggling to see over the table at a reception and props you up with a cushion, you challenge him to a duel. You don't understand why all the adults are laughing. Your honour and your necromancer are all you have left of home. Far away, at the edge of the system, Harrowhark Nonagesimus decides that puppeting her parents' corpses as her House collapses around her is a better fate than yours. At night you are tucked into bed in a room that you don't have to share with any siblings and the man who is looking after you now reads to you from a book of adventure stories and strokes your hair until you fall asleep.

You're nine year old Isaac, swearing to be one flesh, one end with your cavalier in a foreign chapel on a foreign planet. You go to school. The woman who is not quite but almost your mother is helping you to discover spirit magic far beyond the thanergy fission you would have learned at home. She is teaching you to cook and to dance. She tells you that the parts of you which back home would have been considered flaws are your greatest strengths. You have friends and playmates who will never be on the front lines, whose parents write books or engrave stele or organise the bounty of empire from ledgers and transmitter boxes. You are loved and you love, but you are beginning to understand that love comes with a cost.

You are 13 year old Jeannemary. You are back on the Fourth and after last year's bombing you are now cavalier primary. As far as you are concerned, you are grown and ready to serve god and his empire. And you have been denied twice. You don't understand why the people who love you are going to such lengths to stop you from doing what you were born to do or why they have always looked so upset when glorious news comes from home about how someone you would have grown up with, had you not been sent away, has given the ultimate service to the empire. You are cavalier primary of the Fourth House and you fear you are still being propped up on cushions.

You are Isaac Tettares and you are Baron of a planet you spent most of your childhood away from. Everyone else your age long ago shipped out with the Junior Territorials. You are the Baron of a planet but you are not in charge and you have come to understand that your father wasn't in charge either. You love the closest thing you have to parents and they love you. You miss them terribly. You resent the fact that thanks to them you will never truly lead the Fourth. There is talk of a marriage alliance when you are older. You want to be family with them. You don't entirely believe you'll live long enough to marry him when you come of age. And if you do, your half Fifth children will be another crack in what's left of the Fourth House. You miss you dad's stupid jokes and your mum's earnest discussions. You're free of their meddling. You will never be free of their meddling.

You are Jeannemary and Isaac, properly off planet and on display as scion and cavalier for the first time, offered an unimaginable chance to serve god and his empire. You crave the security of your parents. You chafe at the idea that you might be perceived as children. But for a little while you are all together again. You are planning a party. You are making friends. You will all serve the empire together. Perhaps, when you are the fingers and gestures of god, none of these differences will matter any more.

They die horribly. And later so do you. God doesn't care.

#the locked tomb #tlt #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #abigail pent #magnus quinn #tlt meta

[henreyettah]

Glass House: a Keys Out mystery

(Veil-less Harrow version under the cut)

(I’m gonna make prints out of this but I’m not sure which version to do so if y’all have opinions please send them my way)

#please take some time to look at the deets yall #gideon the ninth #gtn #the locked tomb #tlt fanart #Gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius #Abigail pent #Magnus Quinn #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #Camilla Hect #palamedes sextus #dulcinea septimus #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #judith deuteros #silas octakiseron #tagging every bitch in this #tamsyn muir #she gets an honorary mention #art #doodle #henreyettart #glass house: a keys out mystery #canaan house

[ooctlt]

Alright, I can't figure out if you live in an apartment or a townhouse, but either way you must have neighbors -- what's the relationship like? Do all of the neighborhood kids think Harrow is actually a ghost/aren't entirely sure if she's even real?

#fourth #fifth #palamedes sextus #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #artlog #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #living together #apartment #abigail pent

[barghest-arts]

WHOAH y'all really liked these TLT TikTok AUs huh?? Ok have some more

Part 1 / Part 3

#idek I'm just having fun:-) #pal's shirt says “muscles losing please wait” #tlt #the locked tomb #ianthe tridentarius #abigail pent #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #palamedes sextus #tiktok au #i guess?? #my art

[n00talie]

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #gideon nav #spent forever on this but i'm deciding im done so if you see inconsistencies in shading no you dont

[raspberry-arev]

The Emperor's Houses Series complete! <3 All these people meet in Canaan House, what happens next will shock you [I'll appreciate any positive reaction, I spent like a month on these]

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #Gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #marta dyas #judith deuteros #ianthe tridentarius #coronabeth tridentarius #naberius tern #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #abigail pent #magnus quinn #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #cytherea the first #protesilaus ebdoma #silas octakiseron #colum asht #emperor's houses #tlt fanart

[thechekhov]

I may have fallen a bit too deep BUT.

The Houses.

#chekhov draws tlt #chekhov draws the locked tomb #the nine houses #tlt houses #judith deuteros #marta dyas #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius #naberius tern #jeannemary chatur #isaac tettares #abigail pent #magnus quinn #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #dulcinea septimus #protesilaus ebdoma #silas octakiseron #colum asht #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #ortus nigenad #camilla only looks so tired because palamedes just told the worst ever joke #and she is struggling with the biggest sigh #man these took a hot second

[msquitogenocide]

Gideon does magic 🪄

#the locked tomb #gideon nav #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur

[bugcowboyart]

Canaan Fodder

Fourth is for fidelity, facing ahead.

not to be old, but fourteen looks younger and younger every day

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #jeannemary the fourth #jeannemary chatur #isaac tettares #isaac the fourth

[vaunted-and-vilified]

Captain Sorotin Thennis has invited Abigail Pent to the prestigious Eclipse Symposium, led by his husband, renowned necro-physicist Viktoros Towa. But when Towa's lifeless body tumbles from the lectern, his spirit accuses Magnus Quinn of the fatal shove. Now, Pent must race to save her husband-cavalier before the heartbroken justice of the Cohort exacts its vengeance.

inspired by a tumblr post or tweet that i can no longer find that posited the idea of murder-of-the-week abigail pent serial novels. i really want it, but alas, i dont really write. this took me nearly five months from start to finish because i couldn't decide on a hairstyle for abigail (and rl stuff. but honestly? mostly the hair thing.)

#cog creates #the locked tomb #locked tomb #abigail pent #magnus quinn #jeannemary chatur #isaac tettares #artists on tumblr #fanart