@thursdayplaid thoughts/predictions for harrow the ninth
harrows hallucination is not new. nice to know. (she had that question after the first bit. we just finished chapter two and paused to chat)
whether she’s actually hallucination or seeing the body in a vision (is it internal or external) it doesn’t rly matter cause of what they cause to happen narratively. the result is the same
the body isn’t the first resurrection?
what would be the irony if you kill an entire planet to resurrect someone and that creates a crazy beast and then the person immediately just offs themselves (she means the body, though she did add this was more of a fun theory)
doesn’t like jod. he’s now a villain
he doesn’t have to play nice. he’s the only person in the book who could pretty much do whatever he wanted
the fact that there is consequences to killing a planet- very satisfying. like our world is being killed by ppl we cant touch and even if we can they’ll be replaced
jod needs to get another hobby
very happy the planets are fighting back
he doesn’t deserve eyes that cool!! we need to invent a new color that’s bad just for him
what should happen is- actually killing a planet slowly also creates resurrection beasts except they take longer to show up
he doesn’t even deserve to look upon soup!!! and also broth. no broth for jod. or stew. banned
even tho now it makes sense in hindsight, she’s a little sad the body wasn’t Gideon and just that harrow couldn’t bear to say her name
harrows gonna resurrect the body. or gideon. or both. might be almost worth it to kill more planets just to have more creatures to go after the emperor
jod is like if someone took like a shell ceo and made him god
like to charge reblog to cast that harrow brings about the death of the emperor and does it like three more times
she said i could copy paste this as long as i also told everyone that i am the best
bonus thoughts/theories about gideon the ninth under the cut
we’re right before the pool scene
she’s like- oh something about dulcinea is off
not saying she’s the bad guy, not that this story really has bad guys and good guys, but the ways she react dont really add up
“also it seems too far fetched that gideon would be like- the kid of the emperor or something” 👀
“her eyes and her hair are just such a unique color and other characters seem to emphasize that and be like ‘i wonder where you’re from’
but i think it might be a bit too cliche for this story if she was the kid of the emperor”
also theorizing about all the ninth kids dying being a necromantic experiment
“maybe they accidentally created a biological weapon?”
“maybe gideon was the first person who was resurrected, and she like absorbed life energy. and when she was a child she accidentally absorbed the life force from the other children and as she grew older she became in tune with the planet so she didn’t have to absorb from other people anymore” (almost reverse lyctor?)
maybe she was a created child, like the person wasnt actually her natural bio mom
omg she just said “alternate theory- harrow absorbed all the children oh wait nvm forget that theory it doesn’t make sense”
“my theory is gideon finally ends up escaping at the end of the book and the next book is harrow trying to get her back, maybe not in a traditional sense”
“what’s in the tomb? a disease that killed the kids? the emperor? the first emperor? is it not a tomb at all but a prison??”
is gideon the thing that used to be in the tomb?
“i think what’s in there is the first and only resurrected creature and that for some reason it’s tied to the ninth house or the emperor or something like that. maybe it’s like the emperors power source or something’
the heads of the ninth house saw their kids were dying and tried to wake up the thing in the tomb that knows the secrets of immortality and resurrection and tell it to bring back the children only they open the tomb and oops it’s a baby (gideon) who isn’t really of use, maybe she has the secret in her but she can’t tell them
or maybe they tried to synthesize a cure from the baby but were too late
harrow opens the tomb and sees its empty, or sees the lock is broken, and when the parents are like- you’re in trouble harrow does uno reverse and threatens to call the emperor and tell him they released his immortality baby
i dont actualy think gideon is the tomb baby, but if she was, it would make sense why they were so obsessed with not letting her leave
I’m rereading the Wee Doctor series by AmericanJedi, and once again I cannot get over the idea of a tiny, angry John Watson: doctor and assumed super genius child soldier. Just had to try and create what I thought he’d appear as based on the story. Small stern face, judging everything a bit not good. :)
This series is, like, over a decade old, but I never tire of it. Thank you americanjedi/ thursdayplaid. Wherever you are, you gave so many of us an excellent Sherlock au.
Whew ... okay. This is many, many months in the making. It feels like I have waited forever to post this, only because I kept working on it, and feeling it wasn’t perfect, and working on it some more. I still have the feeling that it’s not there, but I’m gonna post it anyway.
Okay, @thursdayplaid . I read Wee Doctor ages ago when I was on a break from college. I didn’t sleep much as I read the entire trilogy in a few days, completely hooked. When I finished it, I went out and talked my mom’s ears off about it, how it made me feel, how the characters were so complex and shaded and motivated, how it was so different from any fanfiction I’d ever read. I thought about it almost constantly for weeks after. The tragedy of W, John’s devastating determination personified at the core of him; the original John, trapped, doing everything he can for a Sherlock that no longer existed...
I began composing this piece soon after, needing to process the emotions of Wee Doctor my way—through music. It has gone through many iterations, revamps, and redos. I knew the song was going to be about loss. At first, it was just John’s loss of his Sherlock. But then, slowly, it also became about Davey’s loss of self, and Rooster’s loss of stability, and Tim’s loss of family—and then I finally got it, what my music was trying to show me.
So the piece got its final title: Lament of the Lost Brothers. All these characters have lost their worlds, and they can never get them back, and they have to deal with that the whole story. They try, and fail, and hold each other up while trying to prevent it happening from anyone else. And in the process, they become family, brothers.
@thursdayplaid I hope you can hear through my music how much I loved Wee Doctor, and I hope you like it. I know it’s not what you envisioned in your head those years ago, when I first asked you what kind of music you thought would be best for your story ... I always end up adding more instruments the more I work on something. ooooops. but I hope you enjoy it just the same. Merry Christmas!
My music is best listened to with headphones. Also my music is (c)opywrited. Please do not use it without my express permission. The album cover image comes from a post of Rooster by @jokerteeth . I’m not sure who the image depicts, and neither did Google. Maybe jokerteeth can tell us!
god is like a rich person who’s trying to pretend he’s normal but doesn’t know anything about normal life so he ends up getting everyone around him into trouble then blames them for it
like him creating lyctors to deal with the consequences of his actions (RBs)
every tech bro middle manager who’s ruining peoples lives while working inside a system that automatically forgives him
he’s late stage capitalism, the diety
the cancer has metastasized
he’s crushing the brain of the universe against the bloated disease of his existence
like the emperor is causing an autoimmune response in the body of the universe
just finished reading act three with @thursdayplaid so have some theories!
was ortus trying to free his daughter from harrow?
cause of his reaction to them bringing up commander wake. one of the hottest things someone can do is meet you in battle… and his physical description is kinda close to gideon’s…
at first i was wondering- is he speaking romantically? maybe he’s not, i call you darling and such pet names as well
or maybe he also sees the body in the tomb and that’s who he was talking to? maybe because he’s the one who killed her?
The general frolicking and cheery sort of ramblings of Thursday Plaid (who is also AmericanJedi) and accompanying adventures in Sherlock BBC. If you're here for the flower language check out the...
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