nonbinary harrow truther

icon by @sunlit-mess - locked tomb sideblog - i cant spoil my mutuals - they/them - how can you have a gender when you're 200+ souls in a meatsuit? - yes harrows butch. and nonbinary. we exist - wont spoiler Tag bc thats the entire reason i made a sideblog

[2gmja]

saint of patience

[sthaid]

“Of such banality was grief made.”

[herrmit]

prequel to the harrowhark collage. we love you gideon nav

[herrmit]

started reading harrow the ninth. here's a collage

edit: gideon edition

[scholarhect]

pyrrha: everyone get unemployed. i will provide for us.

corona: I love how safe everyone feels about being entirely dependent on a potentially psychopathic benefactor 😬

pyrrha: im nice……

cam: She’s literally nice

[nervous-energyyy]

Mercy could have stopped harrow’s heart with a tap on the shoulder. Instead she’s all “I wanted to be nice, so I dulled some pain receptors stabbed her in the back and left her to bleed out and get eaten alive.” Wtf Mercy. That is not nice.

[itsactuallynothingatall]

peeking through the blinds at varun the eater. my good friend varun the eater

[itsactuallynothingatall]

why is this getting notes again 0_o hi

[sermna]

"My name is Cytherea the First," she said. "Lyctor of the Great Ressurection, the seventh saint to serve the King Undying. I am a necromancer and I am a cavalier. I am the vengeance of the ten billion. I have come back home to kill the Emperor and burn his Houses. And Gideon the Ninth..." She walked toward Gideon, and she raised her sword. She smiled. "This begins with you."

I did my best and that's what matters here folks

[normalguy3001]

[knightlyninthnaturalknockers]

Has anyone else considered why, in the Locked Tomb, firearms, or even some kind of directed energy weapon doesn’t exist after 10,000 years of continuous civilisation? Firearms are considered antiquated or even a little taboo, even Harrow doesn’t mention any actual weapons being equipped to House warships, and Jod and the Lyctors only talk about armour and troop compliments.

Outside of the Houses firearms seem about as common as they are in the US. Setting aside the slightly more external discussion about cultural influences for the Houses vs BoE vs just normal people. BoE (and Pyrrha) seem to find them extremely effective for countering necromancers. Swords force you get close, close enough that a Lyctor like Mercy could smite you with a single touch, and even more regular necros like Judith or Palamedes still have the upper hand.

10,000 years is an extremely long time. That the Houses frame ranged combat in such a derisive fashion speaks volumes about the depth and breadth of Jods manipulation. He knows damn well necros are can’t ever be the majority, they have to have something to feed on and the point of tools is overcoming biological advantage. How quickly might the balance of power shift if the masses could hit back?

[katakaluptastrophy]

This is presumably (at least in part) why preparing conquered planets for necromancy is so significant for the Houses, as they'd otherwise be at a significant disadvantage on the ground. From the BoE Memorandum, we know that once necromancers are in play, guns become as much of a liability as any other weapon.

But House warships do seem to have fairly advanced weaponry. They are not turning up at planets and just dropping down a unit of longsword-wielding infantry.

When the inhabitants of New Rho realise the Houses might be returning, they're specifically worried about getting bombed from orbit: in NTN chapter 17, the Angel worries that "if the necromancers don’t have necromantic abilities to fall back on they may simply shell the place", and the children discuss finding hiding places that are "not a priority target for any kind of orbital strike or bombardment".

So we may also be seeing a discrepancy between the romantic way the citizens of the empire are encouraged to imagine their military endeavours and the reality of how they're creating conditions where that sword-wielding infantry and the necromancers that follow them can really get to work...

[y-yyak]

“gideon had always known that this would be how she went: gangbanged to death by skeletons.”

turn your brightness up for a better experience !

[eskildit]

have we considered that campalpyrrha is arguably a type of enemies to lovers. annoying roommates to kissing on the mouth

[eskildit]

sorry that was wrong. pal and pyrrha are experiencing an enemies to lovers arc. cam is also there

[milkteamoon]

I think one of Gideon's funniest moments is when she learns that Pal and Dulcie have a Thing and she's so distraught about it because she feels like a complete homewrecker. Like she just made one of her first ever friends, this weird little man whom she diagnosed as Bitchless upon first sight, and then she learns he actually does have A Single Bitch but it's the woman she's been flirting with nonstop since she got there. So naturally her reaction is to start mourning for him because literally, how was her new bestie The Most Bitchless Man Alive ever supposed to compete with her

[runningonspitensunshine]

i need everyone to get 300% more insane about mercymorn right the fuck now. this is a lady who spent ten thousand years learning everything there is to the human body to the point where she could just modify a person blind. just reach in and and tie harrow’s lil noodle spine into a knot, bypassing her lyctoral shielding. seduced her best friend, worst enemy, and sworn god to steal his sperm (it’s also apparently implied she just. summoned it out of his balls instead of collecting it the normal way) to help a terrorist make a baby from it.

she slaps augustine across the mouth and he spits out his teeth, despite the fact that he is a ten thousand year old lyctor who should have had ironclad shielding. out of all the necros that swore themselves to god, she was one of the remaining ones, one of the last lyctors to survive the resurrection beasts.

she vaporized god. she vaporized god. she unwound the most powerful necromancer she knew on the fly and reduced him to his base components because she just. had the knowledge in her brain. mercymorn turned a man running on the souls of ten billion into fine red mist on a fucking impulse.

she spends all of htn trying to kill harrow out of some bizarre attempt to live up to her name. she’s kind about it, even. she draws weird little squiggles that look like everything but monsters. she fantasizes about putting her idiot boss in acid jail. she worries about her dress making her look like a melon even though she literally seduces god and also a guy who hates her.

and nobody really likes her. g1deon is g1deon, by which i mean he is being tortured and weird about everything on account of being two people and thus has little to no opinion on what she does. augustine fucking hates her unless they’re working together to honey trap god (no i will not stop mentioning this) and it wasn’t even her fault that alfred died, not really. ianthe follows augustine around like an evil little duckling - does she even have strong opinions on mercy except that it’s gross she’s having a three way with jod and augustine? she was supposed to mentor harrow, but she got the defective one - the one that didn’t even make to lyctorhood properly (does she wish she could’ve done what harrow did? sealed cristabel away forever, even if she had to butcher herself to do it?). and jod. jod loves her, of course, but he’s just so. so. he doesn’t fucking listen is the thing. he deflects and he jokes and he doesn’t say “mercy, i didn’t meant to, mercy, i’ll fix it, mercy, please, forgive me.” he says everything but that.

god fuck what is wrong with me. what is wrong with you guys. be more insane about mercy she deserves it.

[beguilingcorpse]

happy griddlehark easter

[edalynn-ink]

I recognize that sometimes Cytherea feels like a cartoon villain but I would just like to say, as someone with chronic illness, the idea of having the person I loved most in the world die so that I could get better, only to find out she died so that I could be sick for eternity.... and then to BE sick for TEN THOUSAND YEARS, watching every but you and four people who don't even remember your last name die, while you are still in horrible pain. Bro I would be kicking puppies like there was no tomorrow.

[kittykatninja321]

there are sexual violence narratives everywhere for those with eyes to see them