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i'm sorry i laughed out loud
He wouldn't listen to reason, she said calmly.
He became aggressive when i attempted to restrain him.
He escalated the situation.
the jodybeth tarot i drew as a commission for sofi >:)
judith marta, the saint of ease. judith marta, the saint of choice. judith marta, the saint of self expression
okay i was thinking about that post you made about what random house citizens are thinking and you know what would seem so suspicious? the state of the corpses (or lack thereof) that the houses receive back. the missing bodies, the cremated remains, the gruesome ones seemingly attacked by a monster, or perhaps even most suspicious, one body killed by a rapier to the thought. like im sure at least some of this info leaks to the general public and im sure to theories are intense.
Fourth House Tisis Reps getting Jeannemary "crucified on a bed" Chatur and Baron Isaac "colander boy" Tettares's bodies back like:
like they'd be used to getting fucked up and weird remains back, sure, but from the First House?? from the Lyctor trials?????
Imagine being the poor Third House guy who has to break the news that Ianthe's ascended but Coronabeth, the Crown Princess and heir is in fact dead but no you're not actually going to get any remains oh why? there was nothing to salvage :) so sorry for the inconvenience. you just KNOW they had a week of mourning. you just KNOW it was the topic of choice at every party for MONTHS. crazy theories. most people do believe she got eaten and are enthusiastic abt telling you.
Hi Trentham officials :) here's Lieutenant Dyas's remains. mhmm. yes, she did get turned inside out, what a bummer. We Could Not Recover Captain Deuteros's Remains. Everyone running the mile for the next fortnight is like "i mean yeah, judith was a chickenshit, stuck up nepo baby *spits* but uh, how can there have been NOTHING TO RECOVER??"
Would not wanna be the person who has to write down "mysterious post-mortem incision to large intestine" on Abigail's autopsy report. Yeah, no clue what happened at the First House but i do think it was a kind of Jigsaw Trap and unfortunately us Fivers are fucking weaksauce competitors who die first and get used as CHESTS
We already vaguely know abt the Sixth's response to getting pieces of a shattered skeleton and Cam's empty coffin (as fuckin if she wouldn't leave an equally dope corpse) (also shout out to whatever psychometrist studied Pal's bone fragments for a few hours before looking up and having to say that the explosion came from inside the Palamedes, must've been a tough gig, dude), but now i am thinking abt Rhodes recieving two urns and also this severed head :). that sucks. pressing F to pay respects to Mia and the kids, they deserved better than that.
truly believe the Eighth house had a distinct crisis of faith after recieving Colum and Silas's bodies. what the fuck else could you do. Silas was very clearly stabbed with Colum's sword and Colum has no eyes now. That does not bode well at all.
drawing corona in increasingly improbable bikinis in an attempt to coerce certain people to write a certain jodybeth au
drawing corona in increasingly improbable bikinis in an attempt to coerce certain people to write a certain jodybeth au
JUDITH MARTA, THE SAINT OF GRACE
grace /ɡreɪs/
1. smoothness and elegance of movement.
2. courteous good will.
3. (in Christian belief) the free and unmerited favour of God.
marta who was an excellent dancer. marta described by judith as: "Everything she did, she did well." marta who died quickly first time and died fighting the number seven.
and judith's whole deal with corona. judith's conversations with camilla. judith's decision to start a duel. judith suffering life, a sack of skin and blood, barely alive.
judith marta, the saint of ease. judith marta, the saint of choice. judith marta, the saint of self expression
ianthe coronabeth looking into the mirror and laughing, clawing at the surface until she breaks her nails or the mirror gets webs of fractures. eyes flash: dark violet like acai, light violet like anemones, dark streaked with light, light streaked with dark.
judith marta accepting rare gift from the god in the form of oddly shaped bottle with brown concoction inside. she tastes it in polite attempt to shut john up appreciate the gesture. it's beer. she takes an eager gulp with pleasure, one, two, three, then promptly throws up all over john's shoes.
silas colum walking out of the bath. he tries go brush out his hair, completely tangled after months of negligence. brush breaks, stuck. he looks at it, dumbfounded then, suddenly, as if struck, he reaches out for rapier on the bed. it takes him three attempts to cut through.
i love how when reading the locked tomb its like oh my god griddlehark is the peak of lesbian yearning- OH MY GOD WHAT? ITS JUDITH DEUTEROS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!! SHES BEEN THE ULTIMATE LESBIAN YEARNEE ALL ALONG?!?!
i thought about canaan house crowd ascending with cytherea as catalist and made myself sad.
need to establish my vocabulary first though:
to pull a cristabel — kill yourself as a sacrifice with no apparent danger outside of your necro stagnating in her studies and aging.
to pull a gideon — kill yourself because there's an immediate danger to life and your necro's survival is more important than yours.
so. judith does not ascend unless really backed into it. marta would 1) cave in and pull a gideon 2) prefer fighter's death. judith anyway bears guilt for millenias.
ianthe is ianthe. though corona would absolutely pull a cristabel and/or gideon if only she knew.
poor isaac is against this shit much like abigail but both jeannemary and magnus can (and in case of jm will) pull a gideon on them. grief.
with palamedes and cam i see many paths. 1) they make paul from the beginning even though they didn't have enough time to discuss and research. paul is wobbly and cyth is livid at them for doing something she couldn't so she decapitates them. 2) pal pulls a reverse gideon and explodes as per canon, then they make paul. 3) camilla pulls a gideon on pal. i am not interested in thinking about paul paths because anything i come up with pales in comparison with tamsyn's imagination. so in case of traditional lyctorhood pal is grieving and has cool knives. and maybe develops some muscle.
dulcie will pull a reverse gideon just so protesilaus doesn't do it on her. she's so sick of this shit already, she's not spending myriad like cyth. pro wouldn't pull a cristabel and would prefer a fighter's death to pulling a gideon anyway.
silas would like his nephew NOT TO DIE. colum would not pull a cristabel, he has seen enough of the river for a lifetime. colum could 1) choose to pull a gideon because as much as he doesn't want to die he absolutely should like a good cav, shouldn't he? 2) choose to not pull a gideon because silas is against it/stopped him midway screeching tome proverbs at him entire time.
gideon is gideon. harrow does lobotomy.
“Teacher, may I ask a question? What does it mean to love God?”
Thinking about Judith Deuteros, told that her Blood of Eden captors are debating letting her die from peritonitis without pain relief:
"I thank the Prince Undying my God, merciful in justice and gentle in remembrance, for this being so. I haven’t thanked God enough over my life. It always seemed incredibly sentimental. And I didn’t wish to presuppose his interest."
About Ianthe, who doesn't pray, but who
“studied what happened when the Lord our Kindly God took our dead and dying Houses and brought them back to life, all those years ago … what price he would have had to pay."
And yet, who will ultimately turn on her mentor to save god himself.
Abigail, who doubts:
“I firmly believe that the Kindly Emperor knows nothing of that undiscovered country. He never claimed omnipotence. I longed my whole life to give him my findings”
And yet amidst that doubt, even in death, believes the god whose servant brutally murdered her is good and prays for help to the man who never claimed omnipotence:
"Pent even murmured, “The King over the River is good”
“Oh, God,” she heard Abigail say. “God, please help me.”
About Silas, a child raised in vengeful fundamentalism to exploit his cavalier, and yet who cannot fathom the possibility that god would ask the brutality of Lyctorhood of him:
"I understand that if the Emperor and King Undying came to me now and asked me why I was not a Lyctor, I would fall on my knees and beg his forgiveness, that any of us had ever failed this test. May I be burnt one atom at a time in the most silent hole in the most lightless part of space, Lord—Kindly Prince—should I ever contemplate betraying the compact you appointed between him, and you, and me.”
And Harrow, the product of the murder of 200 children in the name of preventing the death of god, who desperately asks god what it means to love him:
“Decent dinner and a bottle of average rosé. Maybe a movie. I’m not picky,” he said.
JUDITH MARTA, THE SAINT OF GRACE
grace /ɡreɪs/
smoothness and elegance of movement.
courteous good will.
(in Christian belief) the free and unmerited favour of God.
Lieutenant Marta Dyas was in every line of her a smart, efficient fighter: not given to folderol or showboating, at the very peak of her fitness. Unlike the Third, she was a soldier, far more used to fighting people who weren’t moving to a playbook of legal duelling moves. She had trained her whole life with the front in mind, with veterans and bloodthirsty recruits. Her sword arm was balanced and light, her posture neat but not starchy. She was incredibly reactive, ready for any gambit her opponent could bring.
Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth
Lieutenant Dyas was everything a cavalier ever should have been, and in her private life thoughtful, considerate, insightful. Everything she did, she did well. Everything she didn’t do well she threw herself against so that she could do it better, or understand her weaknesses. I said, she loved music. She was an excellent dancer. She never took a seat when we were enduring a Fifth or Third ball.
Tamsyn Muir, As Yet Unsent
Default, Warden,” said the captain. “You are a good man. Don’t put your cavalier through this.
Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth
"There is something a great deal more dangerous than an old experiment loose in the First House, and he could have helped us find out what it is. But now you’re going to die too, and you’ll never know the whole story.” The whites of Judith’s eyes were very white, her carefully merciless face suddenly a picture of hesitation. Her gaze moved, more remorselessly than Gideon’s ever could have, to her cavalier; then she returned it to them, half-furious, half-beseeching.
Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth
BoE odds and ends featuring Captain Judith "Book Ended By Two Hotties And Somehow Still Having The Worst Time Of My Life" Deuteros.
Just a scattering of sketches.
Corona's 3 modes: Sword, Sulk, Snuggle.
Modern AU stuff???
Are these two dating? Are they just hooking up??
Either way Judith is gonna be tsundere about it.
I disagree on the count of Judith. She wouldn’t know what to do with her feelings if she didn’t have the option of bury them alive. If someone loved her brashly and openly and she physically couldn’t hide herself behind layers of well pressed shirts and starched collars, she wouldn’t know what to do with herself. She would shove them away, she would shove them so far away that she thought they couldn’t possibly come back. But, if they did, she wouldn’t know how to respond, what to do. She believes she is well adjusted, she thinks is the epitome of mental wellness. If she was loved and loved and couldn’t escape them or herself she would bite. She would lash out and gnash her teeth at herself and anyone near her. She would bite because the second doesn’t teach its soldiers, its bodies in command how to feel.
In conclusion, my girl would bite.
(She’d also chew gently on her lovers fingers or arm or shoulder, she wouldn’t draw blood and she would manage to say I love you, it would all be implied.)
locked tomb characters and whether or not i think they would bite as a sign of affection
gideon: yes
harrow: yes
camilla: yes
palamedes: yes
dulcinea: yes
ianthe: yes
coronabeth: yes
judith: no
nona: yes
Why am I blushin rn…
POV: you are Coronabeth Tridentarius about to wake up
PLEASE do a bonus gideon drawing i beg
@scorpling: *galaxy brains* someone should draw the TLT necromancers as their corresponding Sailor Guardians
Me: Oh that sounds like a great idea. Too bad I've actually never watched Sailor Moon tho
Me:
Me: Palamedes in a miniskirt tho.