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I think it would be funny in Alecto, if we spend more time on the Ninth, for the great aunts to, very affectedly, inform Harrow of her parents' passing during their silent practice to which Harrow barelly even manages to act either surprised or mournful (while Kiriona has a fit of laughter nearby).
"And that makes you, Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus, our 311th Reverend Mother."
Freshly out of Hell and still dazed by whatever happend post tomb opening, Reverend Mother Harrowhark Nonagesimus, can urge no other reaction out of her but a slightly out of breath, shamefully informal "Ok."
Cue a pleathoa of mom jokes that everybody seems to get into.
"Reverend- forgive me Harrowhark, I cannot in good faith look at your face and call you-"
"Then please don't. Thank you, Paul."
"Oh, mother!" ejaculates Ianthe at her every movement.
"Oh, sorry mommy", Kiriona is already begging for it.
Worst things worst she is still, functionally, the last person ever born on the Ninth.
college au tridentarii where instead of a major political conspiracy spanning almost two decades, the big secret is just that. ianthe does all of coronabeth's homework for her. and helps her cheat on tests. that's it that's the secret.
coronabeth is palamedes and harrow's biggest competition for valedictorian. she discretely falls asleep during lectures and she hasn't studied all year.
Thinking about Them (the threefold Cavalier-Necromancer-Saint of the Third).
Thinking about how little effort Coronabeth put in at any point to try and pass as a necromancer at Cannan House. Going so far as to risk blowing their cover by trying to duel Gideon only to be stopped by Naberius, who promised not to tell Ianthe.
Thinking about that bit in the Harrow Nova scene where Harrow tries to challenge Ortus to a duel so she can take the role of cavalier primary.
Thinking about how Ianthe, according to Judith’s records, never preformed necromancy without her sister in the room prior to Cannan House.
Thinking about how Ianthe, evil, lying, cannibalistic, soul-eating weirdo that she is, denied killing Naberius even as she was happy to brag about her years of pretending to be two necromancers and how she surpassed all of them to become a Lyctor.
Thinking about the man who said he should have stayed home and gotten married instead of dealing with this nonsense. Thinking about the woman who said she was going to marry Harrowhark one day.
Thinking about the permeability of the soul.
Thinking about how Naberius was killed with a sword through the back. Thinking about the Crown Princess of the third. The non-necromantic heir. Thinking about how if she was unable to fulfill her duties then Ianthe would become the scion of the Third.
Thinking about how Harrow didn’t remember how well the title “saint of awe” would have fit Naberius Tern. Thinking about how John said he picked the titles for the cavalier and not the necromancer.
Thinking about the deal with the devil made with a soul that was never her’s. Thinking about how the Third plots and plans and then acts.
Thinking about the Butterfly and the Moth and the Tern. About Cainabeth and Abella and the one named after a demon prince of hell. Thinking about the twin necromancers of the Third. About the two cavaliers.
I’m thinking about a murder, and an ascension, and a girl left crying on the floor because her sister, didn’t take her, and a girl who would stab someone over the implication that her sister was dead to her.
ianthe-as-dominant-twin this, coronabeth-as-dominant-twin that. here's the real answer: it's push and pull. it's give and take. they're partners in crime, they're a one-sided obsession, they're a codependent clusterfuck. they take turns manipulating and belittling each other. coronabeth is the spoon flashed in front of your face so you don't see ianthe's hand in your pocket and they both think they're the brains of the operation. and they both think the other is so stupid and would be lost without them. and they're both right.
when you say you love fucked up freak characters that had better extend to female characters too and not just the men you want to write horny self insert fanfiction about
how fast do you think a— realized the smart move was to tell john his new eyes looked super cool
Gideon: I have made Harrowhark into a Lyctor The Emperor: You've fucked up a perfectly good necromancer is what you did! Look at it. It's got anxiety
freaks
cannot recommend more putting secrets and hints in your creative work that you dont expect anyone to figure out
ORA ORA !
ty to my partner for the idea ebdjjrjenr
Shuttle ride super awkward (saw a meme)
i desperately need to start rereading harrow the ninth but i am purposefully putting it off because i KNOW that i am going to get completely obsessed with mercystine. and knowing me that’s equivalent to the commitment of a full time job
Ianthe Tridentarius I mean Naberius I mean the saint of Canned Butter
Straight romance books:
Rose likes John, but oh no, Rose also likes Mike
Lesbian romance books:
Rose has asked her toxic coworker, who kinda has a crush on her, to give her a lobotomy with an Icepick so she can forget about her situationship, who she killed and canibalized, and focus more on the love of her life: A corpse that is at least a few hundred years old.
L + Ratio + I hate you all ✨ I have hated you for millennia…except you, my lord 🥺 I merely want to put you in a jail 🪨 and fill up the jail with acid once for every time you made a frivolous remark 😠 or ate peanuts in a Cohort Admiralty meeting 🥜 or said, ‘What would I know, I’m only God 🤡’ Then, at the end of a thousand years, you would say, ‘♥Mercy, I have learned not to do any of these things, because I hated the acid you put on me 🫠’ And I would say, ‘That is why I did it, Lord 🙏 I did it for you 😍 and for your empire 👑’ I often think about this 💀
“john created a new gender binary with the necros and cavs” is all very well and true. but.
never forget what he did to mercymorn. never forget what he did to her. never forget the way he turned her into the nagging wife. never forget how he rendered her unlovable. never forget how he (and augustine) discount her at every chance they get. never forget how john turned her into the ‘hysterical’ woman.
ok i'm sleepy and having emotions and i'm not gonna grab my copy to pull the specific quotes but. you remember that scene in htn where mercy and augustine are arguing. i think it's the "you have rendered yourself unlovable" one. and augustine tells her that he could kill her if he wanted. he could do it without a second thought, could stub her out like a cigarette beneath his shoe, and john would forgive him? john would understand? augustine is his favorite, and they all know it, to such a degree that mercymorn ceases to matter in the slightest?
cool great. now remember that time when john killed mercy? without a second thought? stubbed her out beneath his shoe? and then he turned to augustine and he said, you understand why i did that, right? you know that you're my favorite? you know i love you? she doesn't matter. we can put this behind us. augustine, can't you forgive me?
and augustine says no, john. no, i can't.
cause i'm thinking about that and i'm tearing my hair out. i'm eating the drywall. her death was too far. it was too far and augustine couldn't forgive him. he was right about john, probably more right than he realized, but he could never have brought himself to do it. it was unforgiveable.
How to incorporate the Mercymorn aesthetic into your daily life
wear a labcoat 👩🔬
say "Hiss" out loud 😤
drink water from a beaker 😃
assume everyone around you is an incompetent child 👶
wear your hair in a bun! 👵🏼
form intense homoerotic bonds with women who cannot return your affections 👭
dye your hair pink 💗👩🦰
be better than everyone else at your job 💯
plot to kill God 💣
My highly intelligent prediction for what’s gonna happen with the Eighth House in Alecto the Ninth lol
Harrow: God have mercy
God:
Mercymorn:
God: here? right in front of your salad?
the love triangle in TLT is so funny because it's not even a true love triangle. it's like a shape that hasn't even been invented yet. first you've got Ianthe, who thinks Harrow is totally into her but isn't. and Harrow is into Gideon but also this really sexy corpse. the sexy corpse was maybe probably in a relationship with Gideon's dad who's also the leader of the solar system. he hooks up with his officers sometimes and has hooked up with his best friends over the last 10,000 years because they were bored. Ianthe also has this weirdly borderline incestuous relationship with Coronabeth but Coronabeth is in love with Judith who had a crush on her now-dead cavalier. the only ones who've got a semi-normal relationship are Camilla and Palamedes and even then they had a weird poly thing with Dulcinea even though they never met her in person. and they have another weird poly thing with Pyrrha but by that point they're sharing a body. then they decide to do a mutual suicide/soul binding ritual and become a whole new person in Camilla's body. also they're second cousins. oh Pyrrha also had a weird poly thing with her necro and Gideon's biomom/the leader of the rebellion who's fighting against Gideon's biodad. I don't even have time to unpack all that and that doesn't even cover half of the shit happening here. there's also the whole Cytherea thing
POV your 12 year old coworker keeps saying insane shit