GRIDDLEHARK AND CAMPAL ARE OPPOSITES BUT ALSO PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER AND IT MAKES ME SO INSANE
6th House is on mercury and 9th House is on pluto so they're on the opposite ends of the dominicus system
9 is 6 uspide down and 6 is 9 upside down
the Ninth House and the Sixth House are religion vs science
Gideon and Harrow are (were) childhood enemies, Camilla and Palamedes are (were) childhood friends. Gideon and Harrow had a hard time trusting each other, Camilla and Palamedes trusted each other with everything.
Gideon and Harrow are all about forgetting ("But I donāt even remember about you most of the time", the whole lobotomy situation), Camilla and Palamedes are all about remembering ("Iāve carried you, Warden. And Iāve carried your memory ā¦ Iād rather carry you", "Palamedes remembers everything: That was his problem. I always remember him. Thatās mine")
Gideon and Harrow are water (the Pool Scene, Gideon being in the "well" in Harrow's mind, Harrow deciding to stay in the River and Gideon "dying" in the River), Camilla and Palamedes are fire (Palamedes's first death, Palamedes and Camilla's lyctoral ascention)
in griddlehark's case the necromancer carried their cavalier's soul, in campal's case the cavalier carried their necromancer's soul
Gideon and Palamedes sacrificed themselves, Harrow then carried Gideon's sword even though it was killing her and Camilla carried Palamedes's bones even though boe electrocuted her for it
Gideon and Camilla are both "devotion's casualties"
Harrow and Camilla risked permanent brain damage to save the souls they carried
Gideon barely had any training for her position and Camilla trained her whole life, but they both didn't normally use their rapiers and were both set on fighting rather than on traditional duelling
the 6th and the 9th are both poor, underestimated, dying houses. Harrow and Palamedes have been leading them since they were very young and they do anything to try to improve the situation
Harrow fell in love with the Body when she was 10, Palamedes began writing to Dulcinea when he was 8. both into old dead chicks (as Gideon phrased it) while also loving their cavaliers
Camilla watched Gideon impale herself to force Harrow's ascention, Gideon watched Camilla light herself on fire during her and Palamedes's ascention
"This was your shell but it was all filled up with me" & "It's not you. It's me wearing you"
"I keep turning around to find you, and thereās nobody there." "I know the feeling." & "Youād touched that letter, and Iāyou know it was killing me twice that you werenāt there, right? You must know it was destroying me to be there in your body, trying to keep your thumbs on, and I couldnāt even hear your damn voice?"
"Kiriona Gaia was staring politely at the side of the truck, as though there were something really interesting on the paintwork" & "Even Camilla, who had turned away to politely investigate something on the opposite wall, wasnāt there"
"It was just her and Harrow and Harrowās bitter, high-boned, stupid little face" & "Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasnāt speaking to anyone else in the universe"
there's probably more, that's just from the top of my head. but yeah, they make me insane and i'm foaming at the mouth.
