#jod tlt

[paleonymy]

reading john’s narration in ntn is INSANE bc he’s talking about how he incited a nuclear war and began consuming the souls of planets just to say some shit like “you and i went full fucking hungry caterpillar” excuse me WHAT

[ofroseandivory]

did he just. did he just fucking say kumbaya

[mouldybrie]

[evilfuckwad]

I ave concluded that John is sort of an infinite glass onion of a character somehow because on the surface he’s a fun guy but beneath that he’s a creepy and possessive evil asshole but beneath that he’s a nuanced and morally grey character but beneath THAT he’s and even more creepy and possessive evil asshole but beneath THAT he’s an an interesting and nuanced morally grey character but beneath THAT-

[bugpurity]

ok but imagine if john met a blood of eden member and they had the stereotypical boe name (quote + anthem + song lyrics) and john is ofc acting rlly smug and pretentious like ooh you dont know the actual history behind that haha im immortal lol but hes internally panicking bc he doesn't know the song lyrics and he thinks oh ill just google it but he ate google along with the rest of the world and it drives him crazy bc hes meant to be the arbiter of all lost human culture BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW THIS ONE SONG THINGS EXIST OUT OF HIS VIEW AND MAKING HES NOT GOD AFTER ALL. imagine that. itll make your day better promise

[anxiousbiscuit]

Currently going insane over how masculinity is represented in The Locked Tomb within the linguistic power structure of the Lyctors as shown in NtN. Kiriona and Ianthe are princes and Kiriona says she would be John's son. Even in a world so far removed from our culture, the language of masculinity is still given the position of power because John still has the linguistic biases of English, no matter how godlike he becomes.

[runningonspitensunshine]

quick question

what the fuck was john, necromantically speaking

i don’t mean after the genocide/resurrection thing. we have plenty of theories about what he is then (i personally favor the theory that he’s a new and exciting kind of resurrection beast).

BUT. before that, but after he gains necromancy, he should just be a normal necromancer, right? but instead there’s a bunch a weird shit:

1. he isn’t frail? like necromancers are canonically pretty physically weak and sickly. but john mentions no illnesses or new limitations (there’s an argument to be had about his mental state, but that can easily be attributed to the Everything Burning Down)

2. doesn’t eat?? PLEASE correct me if i’m wrong, but i believe that john stops eating food while back on earth and he’s fine (for a given definition of the word). afaik, necromancers still need to eat, right? canaan house served kind of shitty meals that the necromancers still ate. why would they eat plain leaves if they didn’t have to? sooooo why could john starve himself without actually starving?

3. is more powerful that most necromancers??? at some point, john drops 100 people in a kilometer radius, and he can pinpoint the ones with guns. if adepts can do that, why aren’t the battles against boe and the rest being won much faster? if that level of power is - we’ll say slightly above average, for the sake of argument, then the normal necromancers are really not up to par.

the thing is, we know necromancy has a genetic component to it. it is possible to alter dna to make an extra strong necromancer (hi, harrow). john’s eyes turned gold when his necromancy kicked in and his daughter inherited them, as well as a portion of his unkillability, indicating they were at least partly genetic traits.

so. how exactly was john the necromancer made? and why are post-resurrection necromancers so different?

[cyclicalaberration]

Okay I know this is the world's most basic take but like. Gideon is the world's most Jesus-coded character. She's the illegitimate daughter of god, conceived without his knowledge (rather than without her mother's), she dies, impaled on a spike, for the sins of the 9th house (Harrow and the tomb), and she is ritually eaten and taken into the body of the sinner (harrow) and then she is resurrected by God, her father, and she EVEN HAS STIGMATA. She's like if jesus was dave strider was a butch lesbian.