I recently finished Gideon the Ninth for the first time, and I'm going to start on Harrow the Ninth soon. As such I have decided to implement two rules going forward
1) If there is no body and/or we don't have confirmation that someone spoke to the person's ghost, we can not assume that they're dead or permanently dead
2) Claims and explanations of phenomena should always be suspect unless they are given by characters who have proven to be reliable narrators (so far this list only includes Camilla and Palamedes), and even then, it should be kept in mind that it's being filtered through the protag's understanding, and they are not on the reliable narrator list
It's also really interesting looking at the fandom's reaction to the naming conventions and titles and stuff. Really shows who either a) didn't grow up catholic and thus are inoculated to weird titles and kennings or b) has had little exposure to the Latin or Greek languages or the history of those cultures
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if you're someone who goes out to eat occasionally, try to make it a habit to remember to pray for the staff, by name if you can for the ones you know and for all the others you don't. a lot of the time service workers are kids, and even when they're not, they're doing a hard and often thankless job, so much that almost nobody thinks of them unless they screw something up. but they deserve to be treated like human beings and respected for their work. (and given a radical overhaul of the system that lessens the pressure on them and demands their protection, but that's another rant shhhh.)
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I genuinely forget that T7-01′s default colour is orange, because in my brain T7-01 is a blue-hued combo of letters and numbers and I always, always set him as blue.
And then I see him out in the wild with his default colouring and go WAIT WHAT DROID IS THAT oh it’s my buddy T7 in an alternate colour.
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3, 6, 14, 15, and 20
uhhhhh i'll just do these 3 b/c i've been thinking abt them lately
3. have they died before?
as it currently stands, spencer's dead dead yeah and not coming back, lucian is also dead (stuck as undead in his main timeline and while he might've suffered a less terrible death in other ones he still is probably dead in those). in aurelio's case they tried to execute him but it didn't work so i don't know if that counts as a death technically? don't know if he's completely immortal either but he survived the execution so that's gotta count for something lmaoo?
6. what's their greatest fear?
aurelio's is loneliness and i think lucian's would be death; at the moment i can't think of one for spencer but? i suppose fearing consequences would be very fitting for him.
14&15. are they trans? / are they neurodivergent?
up to interpretation.
20. will they recover from their trauma or will it consume them?
i actually think, given enough time after the main story events, aurelio might, eventually. but the whole point of spencer & lucian's storylines is that, no they dont lol: i'd say their stories focus on the effects of not allowing yourself to move on from your trauma and fixating on it to the dangerous point of destroying everything around you and yourself (ESPECIALLY in lucian's). there is the small chance that maybe in one alternate timeline lucian does actually somewhat recover in some part, but for his main timeline nah
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