every locked tomb character is one of the characters of all time but ortus nigenad really is The Character Of All Time my guy brought a fanfiction to the gun fight AND WON

For one chapter of one book, Ortus Nigenad singlehandedly changed the entire genre of the Locked Tomb series with a simple "observe my stand,「The Man in Black」"

It's finished. You can't take loved away.

I could say more if I did a proper character analysis here but, for now, I’m just musing on how John Gaius absolutely captures a very specific kind of It’s Never My Fault guy.

And John is SMART and he’s good at talking and so he weaves it in so smoothly and like. His uninterrupted monologues in NtN absolutely make you want to be frustrated for him! That dude got put through the wringer!

And these parts are so Good to me because like, if you pay just a little bit of extra attention the patterns emerge. Everyone external to him and his group is an idiot, and can only be cast as such. And they’re stupid and scared and they Wrongly demonize John when he was only trying to help and wait John what was that part in the middle. Repeat that part in the middle. You did WHAT to the cops exactly.

HE never wants to be the Guy Who Says It. He wants to be liked too much. So he relies on people like P— and G— and A— and M— to say it for him. Negotiating for a nuclear warhead but HE John didn’t really wanna be a jerk about it you know? That was everyone else. The cows the cops the people who die on his compound are all brushed over or mocked. His sleepless mad actions, his raising of the dead, his setting off the nuke these are all just, actions. Unfortunate. Necessary. Of a guy who’s been having a REALLY hard time and has been victimized by EVERYONE and he really just wants to save the world, guys, if you’ll just LISTEN.

He’s gotta be the Funny Guy. Everything’s gotta be a Joke because, oh, was that bad? No, I was just joking, you’re taking it too seriously man chill out. He needs to be Liked he needs everyone to Like him and the biggest injustices he faces, in light of nuclear warfare and the eradication of humanity, is that people are being so mean to him.

And the closest he gets to letting flashes of his wrongdoing through are when it challenges his ego to deny it otherwise. Because he’s Smart and he’s Competent and you need to know and recognize and worship this. He didn’t kill all those cops by accident. “Come on, love. Guys as careful as me don’t have accidents.”

He’s just! He’s so! He’s entirely This Guy and he’s GOD. He’s bisexual he’s depressed he’s an obsessive Funnyman he’s blinded by his own ego he’s immortal he’s never to blame he’s more tormented than Jesus if you ask him and don’t ask the people he’s victimized in ways so much worse and he’s. LITERALLY. MADE HIMSELF GOD. I’m obsessed with him.

i cannot conceive of a universe without you in it

Fellas is it gay to give yourself a lobotomy to possibly preserve the soul of your one and only companion who died to save you? Asking for a friend

Also who put Gideon the Ninth on the cosy fantasy table. Absolutely nothing about Gideon could be mistaken for cosy

“You know everything will be alright in the end” this is the cruelest thing you could do short of intentionally exposing an 8 year old to anime

tower princes doodles i made when i was reading nona the ninth (a few of them were wips but they're all abandoned at this point)

leaving an ianthe under the cut bc i'm not sure if it counts as suggestive or not 😭 cw ianthe tridentarius??

love the "she wouldnt be goth shed be catholic" take cuz ive been thinking that for months

Thinking about Gideons "are you EVER too late to come into my life and say that now" feeling betrayed by the fact that someone knew she was out there and didn't come for her all those years vs Pyrrha's "but why'd you bring along the baby" when she's literally about to let Wake kill her. Gideon felt so alone and she's so used to feeling alone that she lashes out at the first suggestion that maybe she wasn't as unloved as she thought because in the moment it just hurts even more but god. Nineteen years and Pyrrha still fucking haunted by Gideon. Her last words trying to find out why Wake would put Gideon in danger. Not why the Ninth, not why let me kill you, not did you ever love me. Why'd you bring the baby. Wake, why did you have to do that to our baby. God. Pyrrha thought Gideon was her fucking baby. Like we talk about Pyrrha saying she never mentioned the baby to John because she thought it was hers but we're ignoring the fact that she found out the baby wasn't hers THIRTY SECONDS AGO. She's been mourning her dead kid for NINETEEN YEARS and she just found out that not only was said kid alive and suffering alone for all those years, shes NOT EVEN HER KID. And still! And still! Pyrrha immediately risks everything to save Gideon. Never considers leaving Gideon behind for an instant. Not for a moment. Live or die she was not leaving that girl's side. And I don't think Pyrrha was disappointed that Nona wasn't Gideon but it really says something that she was so willing to care for this body which was the last place she saw her daughter. Buying her a half-birthday present because what if they don't have birthdays on the Ninth. Thinking about nineteen years that Gideon was alone and she was angsting about it alone in space when she should have been helping her. God. Jesus fucking christ. Pyrrha Dve.

Camilla HECT💜

can't stop thinking about those skeleton lesbians (pt 1)

hi i finally read harrow the ninth and WTF??? WTF???? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!???????? maybe sometime in the future ill draw more real fanart but until then take all my cope meme doodles

hi i finally read harrow the ninth and WTF??? WTF???? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!???????? maybe sometime in the future ill draw more real fanart but until then take all my cope meme doodles

ianthe tridentarius is not real and she cannot hurt me, i think

Everyone else: "Stop his perfect little meow meow before she harms herself or others."

Ianthe:

tumblr keeps putting posts on my dash about how it’s not “realistic” for Gideon to be fat/buff/fat+buff bc all the Ninth House eats is snow leeks and oatmeal

I’m so sorry, I can’t seem to hear you. I was too busy adding 20 pounds to her, as I do every time I hear this rancid opinion

Not to sidetrack from this, but honestly fat/buff/combo Gideon is also a good way to portray something important about her: she's the first non-resurrected/non-thanergy-irradiated human born in the Dominicus system in 10k years.

Think about how the other Housers are described. The necros are all "starved" and "raw boned" and even trained military non-adept Marta has a staggeringly average running speed. There is something stunted and sickly about the thanergetic Dominicus system and the impact it has on people.

And then there's Gideon, the child of an honest to goodness regular human and John who...well, never died and clearly doesn't have a typical necromancer's relationship with thanergy. And who is regularly described as seeming more real and more vital than those around him.

Gideon should look fit and fat and compellingly more *alive* than her House compatriots. And her physicality *should* defy natural possibilities - if she can improbably survive nerve gas and blunt force trauma and frostbite, she can build improbable muscle on snow leeks and oatmeal.

harrowhark getting her lobotomy done at claire's

(ps: merry christmas eve! you can't see but we just hit 10k on here... my christmas gift to the world, thank you dearly)