#mentioned: gideon the ninth

[sixtharrow]

#maybe they do i don't remember if TLT mentions halloween #anyway enjoy my five second meme #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #griddlehark

[procrastinationaccount]

My favorite little pet theory I have scant evidence for is that the default voice Harrow hears for the Body is actually Gideon's, she just can't recognize it.

Hear me out:

Harrow usually hears the Body speak in others' voices, presumably the voices of people she wishes on some level that she could speak to in the moment - she mentions her mother's, Crux's, and later Aiglamene's

The Body's physical appearance shifts to resemble Gideon's in other ways - there's a lot of focus on the change in her eyes and her arm muscles (I know Alecto was a cavalier, but I'm not even sure if the body John made could develop muscles the same way humans can or not). I even find the descriptions of her very blonde hair as "resinous" and "might have been anything" suspicious, although it does stay long.

Related to my last point, the Body begins speaking to her only after her ascension with the exception of the night her parents died; it's not specifically mentioned whether her voice is the same as it was then, but I think hearing Gideon's voice would really help calm her down, and she probably wouldn't notice if a little nosebleed came of it.

The Body's speaking parts in HtN aren't stylized the same way Alecto's are in the NtN epilogue - the Body gets quotation marks. This could easily just be because of the change in POV, but given the way punctuation quirks like Mercy's double exclamation marks carry across multiple points of view (Harrow's and Judith's), I thought I'd mention it.

The Body's voice is described as "low, husky, musical" and "the voice that prickled each hair on [Harrow's] scalp with a sweet, deep electricity," which sounds about right to me for Gideon. We don't get an exact description of her voice to my recollection, but we know that she can do husky.

#I didn't pull a lot of quotes because I felt that might get excessive but I'd be happy to compile everything I mentioned here #the locked tomb #griddlehark #harrow the ninth my beloved #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth spoilers #htn spoilers #tlt

[lishenkaaa]

i think something we sometimes ignore when we talk about tlt's themes of love is its incredible focus on familial love, like the books' romantic and sexual themes are very clear but also it truly is a series that questions what a family is from the very beginning. gideon's lack of both a biological and chosen family (at least in her eyes) and harrow's almost decade-long attempt at maintaining the illusion of one in gtn. the fifth and the fourth, filling in the missing parts of their own families with each other. coronabeth, ianthe and even naberius' entire deal. the focus within silas and colum's dynamic of their biological compatibility as a necro/cav pair. john's desire for a daughter in harrow and then discovery of one in gideon, as well as pyrrha's desire to find out why her kid had to die only to find out 1) not her kid, 2) didn't die originally, 3) still died in the end. nona and pyrrha and pal and cam, which tazmuir herself has specifically highlighted we should question if it even counts as a family at all, but has also made sure we know they loved each other anyway. kiriona as her mother's daughter and her father's son but ultimately neither and how it kills her even as a corpse. and anastasia, the series' godot who despite making no appearance is felt in its every corner, who pyrrha painted a nursery with and who started the lineage that opened the legendary tomb.

can't wait to see how this is all explored in atn, especially when nona's family is only a "dress rehearsal" for the real horrors of love.

#this ramble was inspired by a recent post i saw about how gideon's displays of devotion diverge from john's #which i can't find rn but once i do i will credit here #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #not tagging every character i mentioned i am too lazy #actually except for one bc i love her sm #kiriona gaia #omodru talks

[toweringclam]

Gideon Nav was all like, "sorry Harrow you're gonna be really sad about this, but I'm gonna do it before you talk sense into me," then just yeeted herself onto some spikes but you know Harrow Nova would raise her sword to the sky and shout, "I am Harrow Nova, Forsaken Daughter of the Ninth! Scion of Genocide, Last of the Anastasian Line, and cavalier to the Lychtor Gideon Navagraha! Today, I redeem my house's dishonor and reclaim my birthright!" then fall on her blade in the most dramatic fucking way possible.

#harrow nova #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt spoilers #locked tomb spoilers #trying to get this to catch on #Gideon Navagraha #cw sui mention #sui mention

[theriverbeyond]

i WILL defend Kiriona being a total ass to everyone in NtN because Gideon spent her entire life just watching those damned skeletons and wishing that the bones would show her any kind of acknowledgement. and then Gideon went to Canaan House and she made her first friends ever, the first people ever to show her the kind of love and tenderness that she had needed her whole miserable life, and then she died.

and when Gideon came back, practically the first thing she learned is that her mother, who she had spent her whole life dreaming about, hated her. like, suprise!!! you weren't just despised & hated after birth, but also before and during!! her mother thought of her as a parasite and a bomb. just a key to a lock that Gideon had never given a shit about.

and THEN!!! Gideon gets swept off in the River and she comes back as a corpse and the first time she sees her friends again, the first friends she ever had, all they can talk about is using her body -- not even her as a person, just her meat and blood -- for the same end as her mother wanted. just a key for the lock on that same damn door. like, yeah, Cam & Pal & crew thought she was gone and they wouldnt have any way to know that her soul was there. but also, their first words in her earshot were about using her and the first thing they did to her was try and violate her corpse. so basically. Kiriona deserves to have her villian era.

#gideon nav #ntn spoilers #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #kiriona gaia #i am never going to shut up about her. when will she recieve some god damn love. some TLC. when!!!! #not to mention EVERYONE she cared about being obsessed with the stupid tomb!!!! #gideon never gave a shit abt it!!! but everyone else is obsessed. her mother. her father. her friends. harrow!!!!!!!! #when will gideon nav get a break. #to be clear i dont think she IS a villian. but she's in her villian era. u understand. #trb.txt #tlt thoughts

[ridrawsart]

First Flower of my House / The Roses had Teeth

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #kiriona gaia #tlt #the locked tomb series #wonder what she's dreaming about #Harrow sure has a thing for pretty dead girls #the mention of flowers in the tlt universe always makes me side eye #freckled gideon truther #the saddest girl in the universe #my art #ridrawsart

[sunbites]

I know little, but I promise

There’s a slow, slow death if you want it

#they make me so fucking sad you guys #griddlehark i will die on your hill #gideon is a ghost here btw. thought id mention that for the extra Owie #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt #gtn #art i made in my basement #lo! doodles from val

[prokopetz]

I think fanart of The Locked Tomb represents one of the starkest cases I’ve ever seen of popular fandom depictions of two characters from the same piece of media being taken in wildly different directions. fanart!Gideon is out there looking like an impossibly jacked nine-foot-tall Juggalo who beat up a late 1990s JRPG protagonist and stole their accessories, while fanart!Harrow resembles nothing so much as a chronically sleep-deprived bookstore clerk whose wardrobe consists exclusively of heavy metal band merch. These characters fundamentally do not look like they belong in the same universe, and they’re girlfriends.

#media #literature #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #fandom #fanart #character design #violence mention

[saddest-girl-in-the-whole-world]

It must be really terrible to be Harrow for all the obvious reasons but imagine there's been (aside from herself) two different souls controlling your body at some point and they BOTH had a much better time with it than you. Both while hanging out immediately next to a resurrection beast too.

#anyone mentioning the 200 children gets kicked down the facility hatch #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus

[justalittleguyyouknow]

I feel like there are two types of The Locked Tomb fans

Type 1: Knows every detail about the books, the characters, every character who’s ever even mentioned, the world, knows exactly what is going on (or thinks/hopes so) and at any time has three or more theories about how it’s going to end and a separate theory and several headcanons for every single character

Type 2: doesn’t know what’s going on at all but is having a blast

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #the first one is sara and the second one is me btw #i have to send her fanart like i know this is locked tomb characters but who and shes like thats [character mentioned once and never again]

[biannual-fixation]

I've always loved the way they loved...

#i saw the toxic relationship compilation and i couldn't help myself #kiriona gaia #ianthe tridentarius #cw ianthe tridentarius #kirianthe #the locked tomb #tlt #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn spoilers #gideon nav #nona the ninth #tlt fanart #tlt memes #my art #cw suicide mention #x

[procrastinationaccount]

Either a) Cytherea brought multiple trashy romance novels with her on her little expedition to Canaan or b) Dulcinea was some kind of trashy romance aficianado. Imagine if she brought along "The Necromancer's Marriage Season" specifically to trash it with Palamedes.

#This has probably been said but I don't remember any post mentioning it #Or c) they were Pro's. Has potential but seems unlikely unless it's actually written in verse. #Harrow the ninth my beloved #Gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #dulcinea septimus #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #palamedes sextus

[n1ghtwr1ter]

Dear Tamsyn Muir,

Is the terrible joke that The Locked Tomb is a setup for that

gingers have no souls???

No love,

Me

#slow clap.gif #this has been in my brain for literal years now #I just figured that it was too basic to mention #that everybody had already had the thought #but I just had two otherwise brilliant people be today years old when they realized this applied #so maybe the butch himbos have some good ideas after all #🤔 #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt theories #gideon nav #griddlehark #harrowhark nonagesimus

[toweringclam]

Harrow Nova is absolutely baffled by how Gideon is so buff. It's completely unfair. She eats like garbage and never seems to work out. She should be as big as Ortus and half as muscular, but no, she's got the body of an ancient statue. She has to be cheating somehow (she is, but doesn't know it).

Harrow, on the other hand, carefully monitors her food for optimum nutrition. She can't get bulky because her fighting style relies so much on speed, but she can't neglect her muscles either. She has to scrape for protein on the chronically malnourished Ninth and sometimes has to force herself to eat at all due to her natural inappetetic tendencies.

(This thought brought to you by the realization that main-series Gideon also has very disordered eating, though Harrow's is more obvious)

#harrow nova #harrow nova au #nova au #novaverse #gideon Navagraha #food mention #tw disordered eating #the locked tomb #locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth

[theriverbeyond]

I, Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier // Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

#im so upset about her rn. oh my god. #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #hozier #trb.txt #tlt thoughts #imgs have alt text #suicide mention //// #gideon the ninth is a CORRUPTION ARC

[the-living-undead]

This is a PSA to say: I AM THINKING ABOUT THE NECROMANTIC LESBIANS AGAIN.

#the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #honorary mention: #ianthe tridentarius #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth