#mentioned: harrowhark nonagesimus

[mayasaura]

So I noticed something in Harrow the Ninth. In chapter two, when John is trying to console Harrow over having lost Gideon, he puts his hands on her shoulders, and he says "Gideon Nav did not die for nothing."

Harrow feels "a hot whistle of pain run down [her] temporal bone," which is, we know now, Harrow having a stroke as her skull alters her brain so that she hears him say 'Ortus Nigenad' instead. And she replies to him in kind, using Ortus' name. So the interesting bit is John's reaction, look:

He had his hands on her shoulders the whole time. Physical touch negates lyctoral blindness, and she had a stroke while he was touching her. That look on his face. Is he working out an emotionally taxing anagram, or is he taking a good look at her and working out what the hell just happened? Then he says Gideon's name again, like he's running a test, and Harrow has another stroke. That's exactly the same test Mercy performed to figure out what Harrow did to her brain in chapter twenty-nine.

He knows. He's known about the lobotomy since chapter two. He thinks she did it to forget her grief and guilt, and he thinks he understands.

Which means when he 'notices' the lobotomy in this scene:

He's not really noticing it for the first time at all. He's calling attention to it. He's just told Harrow that she didn't open the Tomb, that she's wrong about the events of her own life, and then he deliberately 'discovers' and points out her brain damage to seal the deal.

John Gaius uses: Gaslight! It's super effective.

#the locked tomb #emperor john gaius #harrow nonagesimus #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #htn spoilers #here's that fun new John crime I mentioned!! #lmao he touches her cheek and tucks her hair behind her ear just before this #he has never touched her like that before and he never does again #he just needed to make physical contact with her head in that moment so he could 'notice' her fucked up lobe #what was it Augustine said? John is never as sentimental as you think #incidentally this has me thinking he took her claim MUCH more seriously than I'd first assumed #he didn't get distracted—he pulled out all the stops to shut her the FUCK down #she scared ya didn't she John?

[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

[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

[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

[apotheotic-cravings]

What was meant to be a sketch of Harrow in formal wear quickly devolved into a shitty comic of perhaps my favourite scene in htn

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #ianthe tridentarius #harrowhark nonagesimus #augustine quinque #mercymorn #wtf is her last name… ouogh #mercymorn the first #john gaius #dios apate minor #THESE GUYS HAVE SO MANY ALIASES ID RATHER DIE THAN TAG THEM ALL #semi related- I drew this before god asked harrow if her and Ianthe were having safe sex. which is also. SUCH a scene #ALSO?? Whooooo gives a fuck if they weren’t having safe sex they’re literally lyctors….? couldn’t they just necromance away the crabs like #my art #fanart #comic #also I love how exactly you can see how much effort I put into which panels lmaoz #it’s partially because I’m lazy but also partially because sometimes a more simplistic style can evoke the right emotions better #if anyone mentions the disappearing glasses they three of them are fucking while casually shredding their soles on a pile of broken glass k

[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

[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

[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

[ethosiab]

The eyes of god

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#the locked tomb fanart #the locked tomb #harrowhark #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #illustration #fanart #harrow fanart #tlt #tlt fanart #my art #harrow tlt #no sketch this time because the process was so fuck it we ball that the sketch looks completely different #also have i mentioned that i hate the fucking white robes #because i hate them

[theriverbeyond]

me and my girl don't argue i kill myself to force her to undergo apotheosis and make her walk it off like a man

#the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #cristabel oct #mercymorn the first #suicide mention // #trb.txt #spoiler alert she doesn't walk it off she preforms a lobotomy on herself #spoiler alert she doesnt walk it off she becomes a raw nerve of rage and grief and in 10k years will kill god in your name #x

[derseprinceoftbd]

I think the most interesting thing in the whole world is application of DOTA to times where the Author's journey and nature is supposedly important. Kit Conner as Nick, whoever that is-what changed? To one who watches without knowledge, what will they assume of all that? Some say Nabokov had the right to write Lolita due to his experiences-but the reality of that theory shows little actual support! So does anything change there? Muir, who was inspired by him, her stories so personal to her-I knew she was a lesbian dealing with great trauma even before I opened Gideon, but not of her schizophrenia, and so latched onto and understood the personal elements of Nona, so close to Nabokov-but thought Harrow, at one point, was being revealed as "not actually schizophrenic" as a plot element, until I was told otherwise. Art Spiegelman had to declare the unsympathetic greed of his own Jewish father was reality. The themes of the Matrix; have they changed with the directors? Were they always there? And do those line up necessarily with the assumptions of viewers with lenses of queer theory, then versus now?

This fascinates me, it really does. Where does the right to risk offense derive? What is the line between an unusual, perhaps stereotypical, depiction, as personal versus bigoted? Is there a duty to assume? To research? To inform? Does it change if you assume the blind viewer will take offense, or will assume the offensive fine and personal?

Pierre Menard was no Spaniard; how could he say his depiction of the nation's history was accurate, and not merely based in stereotypes?

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #nona the ninth #nona #tlt meta #lolita book #vladimir nabokov #nabokov #tamsyn muir #urbananchorite #pierre menard author of the quixote #pierre menard autor del quijote #menardism #don quixote #don quijote de la mancha #nick nelson #kit Conner #heartstopper #tw: sa mention #philosophy #matrix #the matrix #the wachowskis

[locked-tomb-shenanigans]

Incredibly stupid yet hilarious moment from a dream I had recently:

Can’t remember the exact circumstances but Gideon got stabbed with a rusty knife. Harrow was absolutely horrified, using necromancy to remove it from her side and going on about how dangerous that is and how they “have no idea where it’s been”

To which Gideon just replied “you don’t know where I’ve been, either. If anything, I need to apologize to the knife.”

#Griddlehark #gideon x harrow #harrow x gideon #Gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt #The locked tomb #cw stabbing #I think so at least since it’s mentioned #knife mention #cw knife #I’m not even sure if Gideon was loopy or just trying to lighten the mood about the fact that she was *literally stabbed* #But either way it felt very in-character

[eyo-captain-blue]

Meme redraw time!!!

You guys can repost this so long as you credit me!! I'm on every platform so theres no excuse not to!

#griddlehark fanart #griddlehark #the locked tomb #locked tomb #Claire's lobotomy #harrowhark fanart #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #harrowhark the ninth #harrow the first #abigail pent #magnus quinn #I tagged cause they're mentioned #harrow you insane little lesbian #she really fuckin lobotomized herself to save Gideon #as she should #gideon the ninth

[procrastinationaccount]

Gideon. Darling. Babygirl. What do you think Harrow was expecting in this scene????

#my brother in Christ she is obviously attracted to you #did you notice that her oc The Body suddenly got your eye color? #And that shortly after she attempted to kiss her for the first time? #Nav. She has heart eyes. #This is all without mentioning that she broke her brain rather than live without you #Gideon the ninth #Light spoilers #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #griddlehark

[thermodynamic-comedian]

thinking about the scene in htn where everybody's talking about what they think mercy's sketch of a resurrection beast looks like, and both harrow and john agree that it sort of looks like a flower.

and then i fucking realized that flowers are significant to both of their stories.

harrow's is somewhat obvious: "the first flower of my house", gideon nav.

but john grew flowers for cassiopeia's and nigella's wedding. the flowers that went a little wrong, the flowers that had teeth.

idk man im thinking thoughts and perhaps feeling feelings

#does that mean that all the things the others mentioned are significant to their stories? who knows. #tlt #the locked tomb #htn #harrow the ninth #harrow the ninth spoilers #ntn spoilers #?? i guess #tlt spoilers #mercymorn the first #john gaius #harrowhark nonagesimus #cassiopeia the first #nigella shodash #fritz rambles too much