Cuz it’s like. Ok. Right. In Nona there’s this whole thing about how like. What John did to Alecto was not lyctorhood. He’s using the life of a planet as a power source from the start but that power was given to him in the first place the betrayal was that he used it (used the earth itself!) to destroy all of humanity right. And it’s like of course John and Alecto are inextricably linked because well for one thing. That’s the fucking earth and John is a human being of COURSE he couldn’t live without the soul of the earth I would imagine that no human being could live if Alecto were to be destroyed! And similarly at this point John is the only person who REMEMBERS the earth so like. Yeah there’s that. But also I’ve seen things said about. How much of Alecto’s emotions are John’s? How much of John’s are Alectos? Are there rage’s feeding each other? Can John be calm because Alecto is angry? They are in separate bodies but we know that the soul is permeable and we know that the power of a planet is overwhelming and we know that it has been thousands of years. Even if she has been asleep for thousands of years she should be able to overwhelm him easily- the power is hers, isn’t it? They say that each of them can’t exist without the other but why is that? Does harrow knowing everything change things?
I’m so excited to read Alecto to get that perspective I’m sure it’s going to be wild. I wonder if we’ll get the story of how she was locked in the tomb? I wonder how that connection is going to play out.
