#the locked tomb AU

[athunderstryke]

Gideon the Ninth Star Wars AU.

basically I was brain rotting the other day...

I thought the cult/witchy vibes of dathomirian nightsisters/brothers had pretty ninth house energy. The face painting is the face tattoos. Necromancy is the study of force magic (maybe in this certain cabal (?) they practice a certain dark side part of the force were its sorta necromancy stuff.) And also this certain cabal uses light sabers but only in a duo dynamic. There's gotta be a force magic user and an experienced light saber fighter in a unit to be considered a complete force balance fighting duo. Idk. (Ignore the fact that I gave Gideon horns(I thought it was cool, I didn't realize only biological males have horns in Star Wars canon)) Also, Kylo Ren shouldn't be the only one with cool cross guards on his lightsaber.

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb au #the locked tomb fanart #griddlehark #locked tomb #gideon nav #tlt art #Star Wars au #dathomir #night sisters #gideon the ninth fanart #gtn #gtn fanart

[ardentbonkers]

College Rugby AU brain fart with Cam, Gideon, and Coronabeth. Harrow, Palamedes, and Ianthe (she's always shamelessly flirting with Harrow or is on her phone probably) are always in the sidelines watching their games

#the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb au #gideon nav #camilla hect #coronabeth tridentarius #coronabeth #art.png #modern au

[idle-lark]

Me realizing I've never actually drawn Harrow Nova

#harrowhark the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow fanart #harrowhawk #harrow nova #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrow the locked tomb #the locked tomb au #the locked tomb #the locked tomb fanart

[nakji]

squash, not tennis. 

#tlt #tlt fanart #gideon nav #gideon nav fanart #the locked tomb #the locked tomb au #tlt sports au #my art

[ahollowgrave]

No thoughts, only more of Ninth House Cavalier Odette. Pictured here with two of her necromancer's skeletons.

#The Locked Tomb AU #Pigeon Screens #screams into my hands #these were real quick before making dinner so ignore the clipping and weird joints ahHHHHHHHHHH #anyway #the skull paint is by bani and it's so good i love it so much

[fishfingersandscarves]

more tlt au

#my art #fishfingersandscarves #the sandman #the sandman netflix #tlt au #the locked tomb au #dream of the endless #dream (the sandman) #hob gadling #robert gadling #BONE BOYS #blood tw

[herbgerblin]

i think the ask i just sent got ate so i will resend: taz tlt au??? :0 taako the necomancer and lup the cav or vice versa... whatever u feel in ur heart... otherwise i AM v interested in your gideon and harrow designs. mayhaps a little dulcinea

Ginny, this one was hard, I was sitting on it for days!! I couldn't decide who would be what. I realized I just really wanted to entertain "what if they were both necromancers?" first, so I will jump on those thoughts and if I have more about either or both of them as cavaliers I will make a follow-up (I also haven't landed on a Dulcinea design yet but I will keep u posted.) ID is in alt.

Taako | Bone Magic (Marrow) | Specialty: Organic Matrices

I think his interest in transmutation could translate to adeptness in living bone tissue, which is considerably more flexible and spongey than dead bone. Defensive capabilities include rapid bone growth and hardened cartilage. Offensive capabilities include severing nerves and fibrous tissue, inhibiting calcification, and malformed blood production. He'd be well-studied in mineralization and organic matrices (making fancy bone structures.) He has a bone hat, a hat with bones. Some of them are just decorations but you never know which :) He keeps several in stasis because he needs them to be fresh.

Lup | Flesh Magic (Blood) | Specialty: Circulatory Flow

I think her interest in evocation could translate to adeptness in cardiac conduction and thermoregulation. Defensive capabilities include conducting electricity to restart a failing heart and decreasing oxygen demand in low-oxygen environments. Offensive capabilities include restricting blood flow, forcing blood to pool in specific areas, or inducing hypothermia. She would also be well-studied in metabolic processes and hormone distribution (important!!) She has a cool cardiovascular tattoo on her back and arms (I was too sleepy to draw most of the lines don’t @ me.) And she carries vials of different blood types on a belt because you never know when you need blood :) :) :)

#I might circle back around to this because i have thoughts on their wacky blood and bone shenanigans #taako #lup #taz balance #taz au #the locked tomb au #necromany #blood #tw #body horror (cw) #bones #my art #herbgerbart

[sainamoonshine]

Okay so I saw that @foxy-alien made art of a TLT house swap AU and it started me thinking about how I’d do a similar AU… I did that instead of sleeping last night btw.

So here’s what I have so far:

Ninth House: Ianthe, Corona and Babs. Once upon a time a woman and a baby fell on their planet. When they saw the woman’s red hair they thought “ugh what Third House bullshit is this” and while they kept the corpse, they sent the baby back. We don’t want this keep your trash. They have their own drama to deal with anyway; the tomb needs its keeper to be a necromancer. Corona, while officially the heir and Reverent Daughter, is not one. Ianthe and her started hiding her lack of talent before their parents explained the whole “unbroken chain of the tomb keeper’s necromantic bloodline” thing. So long as Ianthe is around, the twins expect that everything is still fine. Still, their house hovers on the edge of breaking a promise of ten thousand years once their parents die and Corona inherits the duties of the tomb… unless they find a way to make Corona a necromancer, either by turning her into a lyctor, by making Ianthe a lyctor and then Ianthe makes her necromantic (?), or they just straight up ask Jod for a boon.

Eight House: Abigail and Magnus. Everyone is surprised when they meet them, as they do not meet the traditional pattern of their house; especially when you know the fact that Abigail’s cavalier was supposed to be a cousin but was replaced by Magnus when he married Abigail — their blood type was, luckily (or unluckily?) compatible. Like, who the fuck would want to be an Eight House cavalier??? (Magnus would. He think going into the river is exciting. He also trusts his wife.) It’s usually only when Abigail starts actually doing necromancy that people remember she’s scary AF. Through her interest in ghosts, she has developed her own custom safeguards against Magnus getting possessed when she siphons him… or if he does get possessed, she is a quick and extremely brutal exorcist.

Seventh House: Palamedes and Camilla. Pal decided on his medicine focus due to his house’s propensity for weird necromantic cancer. He firmly believes that if he can just find a way to either stabilize or treat it, the inhabitants of the seventh house will live more comfortable lives. He is considered something of an heretic due to this, but house leadership is willing to ‘let him cook’ -> they’ll wait to see if a necromancer with a stable cancer is still powerful before they decide whether to censure his research or not.

Sixth House: Jeannemary and Isaac. They’re still young, but very good at getting into places they’re not supposed to be, particularly by breaking wards and then rebuilding them better. Both of them keep trying to apply into the cohort but the scholars of the Sixth see Isaac’s skills with wards and want him to pursue academia instead. When the summons to Canaan House came the council all looked at each other, remembered they still had to appoint a new master warden after the last one passed, figured that nobody wanted to abandon their current study/experiments to go participate to what would be sure to be a tedious dick measuring contest with the other house heirs, and decided to invoke an obscure emergency clause in a law book somewhere in order to appoint Isaac to the title. He and Jeannemary really were the only ones who actually wanted to go to Canaan.

Fifth House: Dulcinea and Protesilaus. It is a shame that her health is so poor, because she would otherwise have become a hell of an ruler. While she has an ease with history and academia, her true skill is diplomacy. Dulcinea can get a very accurate read on most people, and she knows how to use their own psychology against them to make them agree to her ideas. She looks nice and fragile, but she is cunning. Meanwhile, Protesilaus is surprisingly good at paperwork for a guy who looks like he eats skulls for breakfast.

Fourth House: Judith and Martha. This AU version of them is less cocksure, but just as proficient at gathering information, profiling people, and writing down ample notes. Their rank in the cohort is lower than in canon, and they often get assigned to the tasks nobody else wants. Such as: overseeing security on ships bringing prisoners to the Ninth House prison installation… and this is how Judith and Corona met.

Third House: Harrow and Gideon. Once upon a time, the Ninth House sent them an orphan they claimed was theirs. The King and Queen didn’t pay the mystery much mind and stuck the baby in an orphanage. They had their own troubles to deal with: the royal family had not been able to produce a necromantic heir yet, and the vassal families were closing in. They figured that they couldn’t let a lesser branch of the family inherit the Third; it had never been done, would discredit them in the eyes of the other Houses, and would cause political instability. So in order to ensure the necromantic potential of their latest vat baby experiment, the King and Queen sacrificed the children in one of the lesser orphanages. They claimed that an hull breach in the space station caused the poisonous air of the planet’s upper atmosphere to get inside the ventilation system… except there was one survivor. The King and Queen were weirded out by that seemingly unkillable toddler but public opinion was heavily positive towards the ‘miracle survivor’. Not to mention having at least one person survive the incident helps make the ‘it was an accident’ excuse sound more credible. So the King and Queen brought the child to the palace and decided to do some PR by giving her a place to live and an education, and eventually made her the Cavalier of their (powerful) new daughter.

Second House: Silas and Column. Duty-bound, fanatic, no fun allowed Silas is a bit young for military service, but that doesn’t stop him from climbing the ranks. Column is still used as a battery, even in this AU, except his role is to start killing people to produce the initial necromantic boom to give Silas something to work with when they deploy to new battlefields. He hates doing this btw.

#the locked tomb #the locked tomb AU #house swap AU #gideon the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #the locked tomb fanfic

[mfdoombox]

hi I’m working on a hercules griddlehark au idk. i feel like a hercules au would fit them and be cute

#gideon the ninth #gtn #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #tlt fanart #gideon nav #tlt au #the locked tomb au #art wip

[ambiguouswren]

TLT BRE Cosplay Progress Thread!

Between working Summer Stock I've also been helping organize and participating in the @tlt-big-resurrection event! One of my favorite things about this event is it includes cosplayers! When I was browsing fic summaries to find what I wanted to do I came across @incorrect-house-of-nine 's fic. Title pending but its a steam/chem/desert punk Locked tomb AU Mummyesque/Indiana Jones type adventure. (Yes I stole that description straight from them kfjjlasdjfsdf) It's been a blast learning about their amazing world building for it and I've REALLY enjoyed reading it as it unfold. Y'all are in for a treat. This is for Gideon's outfit so far. I ended up having to draft the harness thing from scratch after trying to alter patterns (just worked better) and I still gotta add the hood and strap and stuff. It's great to finally see it all coming together finally. I'll be making Gideon and Harrow for this event (and probably doing more after when I have more time/better locations/can maybe drag friends into this dfafd) Photos are: my progress, the inspiration, and a super quick sketch to get an idea of the pieces together for my own brain.

#tlt bre #tlt big bang #gideon nav #tlt #the locked tomb #the locked tomb AU #cosplay #wrenegade cosplay

[kendrene]

avatrice + rescue

Beatrice wakes with a gasp, clawing at the unknown weight that sits across her chest. Her fingers are met with something soft, something quite damp, something that smells of the sort of stuff which can only be categorized as dank.

“Tell your necromancer to lie still.” A disembodied voice growls somewhere above her. “She’s going to give herself an aneurysm.” 

“You tell her.” The second voice, a mixture of worried and aggrieved, Beatrice recognizes. It’s Ava’s. “She never listens to me.”

“Can’t blame her.” At that, Beatrice tries her hardest to sit up. It’s not that Ava is a great cavalier. She’s not even good. Can mayhaps grasp for passable if she stretches. But she’s her cavalier. Hers to command and order about. Hers to bully, too, should Beatrice want to. 

“Hey,” The voice says to her directly, and fingers snap suspiciously close to her nose. “Quit moving or Camila will never be done fixing you up.” 

“There isn’t anything to fix.” With great difficulty, Beatrice opens her left eye. Her right is gummed shut by a substance it doesn’t take a genius to identify as blood. And Beatrice, who’s been acknowledged a genius practically since she could walk (begrudgingly by her parents, with great enthusiasm by the remainder of her House) gets to that conclusion before the world has a chance to get its shit together and come into focus. “She’s just exhausted herself.”

“Stop,” says Beatrice weakly. Her dry lips crack open and blood drips inside her mouth. “Stop talking like I’m not here.”

“Right. Sorry.” Camila, necromancer of the Sixth House, blushes hard. “There’s nothing wrong with you.” She continues, addressing Beatrice directly. A length of wire is coiled tight around her hand, one end of it suspiciously red. “Your blood sugar got dangerously low and your heart rate reads slightly bradycardic, but it’s nothing that fluids and rest won’t remedy.” 

“Can you repeat that in layman terms?” Ava leans in, worry now decidedly more noticeable than aggravation.

“She means idiot terms, Cam.” The owner of the first voice enters Beatrice’s field of vision. The cavalier is taller close up than Beatrice had given her credit for. While Beatrice is indisposed and horizontal she feels positively looming. In the not so pleasant way of an owl regarding her dinner of mice.

“Be nice, Lily.” Camila chastises. 

“Yeah, Lily, be nice.” Ava, sick from birth with an incurable case of foot in mouth syndrome pipes up. “Let the adults talk.” 

Lilith’s hand drops to the hilt of the rapier at her waist. Her eyes narrow.

“Lilith.” 

“Ava, enough.” 

The two cavaliers glare at one another with all the intensity of a pyromaniac-started fire. If a way existed to harness the level of loathing on display and turn it into thanergy, Beatrice would be able to raise innumerable dead. But no such technology exists, and all the mutual animosity accomplishes is an increase in ambient temperature of maybe half degree. 

What a waste.

“It’s unbelievably dangerous down here.” Camila gestures, putting into words what Beatrice is thinking. Beatrice is grateful; she is way too tired to talk. “We shouldn’t squabble.”

“But—!” 

“She started it!” 

“You can bicker once we’re back above ground.” Leaving Beatrice’s side, Camila places herself between Ava and her own cavalier. Next to Lilith she is the kind of diminutive that borders on too short, but Beatrice doesn’t doubt she could have everyone writhing on the floor in seconds. Most consider the Sixth House too bookish to present any real danger. She knows better.

“Fine.” Lilith relaxes, which is to say that her teeth stop their audible grind and merely clench. “Once we’re on the ground floor, I’m punching you.”

Ava shifts her weight to the balls of her feet and grins.

“You can try.”

Beatrice very rarely, almost never wants to bully her cavalier.

Sometimes, she’d like to strangle her.

#avatrice #warrior nun #the locked tomb au #ava x beatrice #ava silva #sister beatrice #dren writes

[jeeyonshim]

redraw of an old sketch, about four months later. what a fucking relief to see i'm getting noticeably better lolololol

#jeeyon shim art #natalia koutolika #hayden sorrows #chuubo's marvelous wish granting engine #cmwge #valedictorian godkiller #cagematch wizard #the locked tomb au #sixth house

[thermodynamic-comedian]

a good nap might not fix him, but maybe one that lasts 10 000 years will. especially if it's on pluto, inside a tomb he designed for his lover who turned out to be stronger than him. that just might fix him, and i am willing to try,

#this is about my au john gaius #but if you somehow find another blorbo to tag this as feel free #emperor alecto au #tlt au #the locked tomb au #fritz rambles too much

[ahollowgrave]

Odette Hollows - Cavalier Primary of the Ninth House.

A friend and I have been building a Locked Tomb AU and I just wanted to see her.

#The Locked Tomb AU #<- I'll name it something else later probably #anyway #the facepain is by Banished!!!! #i've had it for so long and now I get to use it!!! #anyway odette would be a cav because she's not a high int character and I think necro is a high int kinda vibe #but also a cav needs a natural inclination towards service and obedience. and BOY doe she have that #but also she's as death themed as she is she's not a necromancer she's a psychopomp #and i've always thought the two #different #she would be very into her holy work is all i'm saying

[guentzel]

🍄sidgeno, 🦷, 🪲, 🌸

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

stooppp scratching my brain for headcanons my headcanons are so... generic kjdfhgdkjfgc but geno totally thought jack and sid were an Item so he stayed away otu of respect, then gets super mad at himself when he discovers that they were never a thing and he wasted his time by not pursuing sid

🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on

life hacks... have i ever hacked anything in my fucking life. something i do that helps me from making impulsive purchases is going to the store, picking up said item, and then wandering through the shop with it in hand. i have the entire shopping experience to decide if i want it or not, and if dont, i put it back and go on my way.

plotting out fics like youd plot out a novel goes a long in helping w the writing process.

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here

He expected a burst of necromantic energy, for a charge of undying devotion to rush through him until he couldn’t imagine wanting nothing more than to die for the man before him. Instead, Leon was left empty, waiting, and received a dead-eye stare from the man who he was supposed to die for. McDavid stared, his stupid red cape billowing in the breeze. “Who all knows of Cam’s death?”

“The ones who are supposed to,” Leon replied, easy as anything. He was always good at following orders. “Me.”

🌸 ⇢ do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

here is my one and only pet:3

#answered #theflirtmeister #THANKS ELLIOTT #yay locked tomb au snippet :) #the locked tomb au

[fiendfluid]

i wonder if tumblr would like to see my tlt tma au.... it was basically just a retelling of the first book with tma flare...

martin is the (illegitimate) necromantic heir of the seventh house, with lukas as his cav. and jon is the (illegitimate) cavalier of the sixth house's necromancer, elias :)

third house (michael/helen) find the first body that no one can identify (you can guess who it is based on the last paragraph)

jon and tim (fifth house cav) have a friendly duel :))

a totally normal duel :)))

huh its a bit odd that a sixth house necromancer keeps using eighth house soul siphoning 🤔 anyways.

on learning the truth of lyctorhood ^ jon does not take it well

edit: turned it into a fic

#jack speaks #sowwy this is long i have so many feelings on this au #i have read gtn 7 times =) #tma #the locked tomb au #the magnus archives