Some spoilers in general below.
Alright, so this has probably been talked about a lot already, but I’m throwing my two cents in just because.
I think Corona will kill Ianthe in AT9, and I have reasons!
I’ve read a lot of speculation on what makes Corona the “bad twin” according to Tamsyn’s extra notes at the end of GT9. Corona was supposed to be called Cainabeth and Ianthe was supposed to be Abella originally, but of course they got changed. In the biblical story, Cain kills Abel, and since Tamsyn went out of her way to point out how she aligned the sisters, my spidey sense went off about Corona possibly killing Ianthe.
2. Sacrifice and rejection
In the biblical Cain and Abel, Cain kills Abel because God preferred Abel’s sacrifice over Cain’s. In a more watered down version of this, Ianthe chose to kill Naberius instead of Corona to become a Lyctor and Corona canonically is upset about this. She sees Ianthe ‘rejecting’ her in a sense and choosing Naberius as an (albeit unwilling) sacrifice. By Corona’s wailing at the end of GT9, and the fact that she was not a necromancer, I think we’re supposed to get the idea that Corona was Ianthe’s true cavalier, and Naberius was kind of a smoke show, which makes Ianthe taking Naberius even worse.
Essentially, Corona has to do something worse than Ianthe’s actions to fulfill the title of bad twin, and while murder is pretty bad, Ianthe clearly has done a lot of other messed up stuff. But what Ianthe has done all makes sense in context. She worships John as her God like almost everyone else, so of course she’d do whatever it took to be a Lyctor, and of course she’d save his life at the end of HT9. The big reveal about perfect Lyctorhood doesn’t apply to her since she didn’t even like Naberius; why would she be upset that there was a chance he could have lived?
Further, Ianthe’s dialogue makes it very clear she would never hurt Corona. She leaves the p.s on Harrow’s letter that Harrow can’t hurt Corona when she silences her, and she uses the trident knife on Harrow when she implies Corona might have died. Ianthe killed Naberius because harming her sister is unfathomable to her. So if Corona intends to kill her sister, an act not even Ianthe would consider doing, that makes her the “bad twin” in moral comparison.
Those are just some thoughts of mine and if I have something wrong I’m sorry!
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