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8th and 9th parallels
Can’t stop thinking about the 8th/9th house parallels. Silas is a dick etc etc but come on guys let’s be real, he’s basically just Harrow if she was (presumably) more privileged and slightly less traumatized and also a year younger. Teen religious figure; the hope of their people. The children of the 8th and 9th designed and sacrificed respectively to craft an heir who will live up to expectations. Religious devotion to the max.
(Another difference is that Harrow’s devotion is to her heresy of trespassing in the tomb and seeing the body. But then again we don’t know enough about the 8th to compare Silas to anything. We know he’s dogmatic, but like, how orthodox is he really? What does orthodoxy even mean when god’s Just A Guy and the founder of the 8th and presumably its theology briefly killed him?)
The planning for Harrow and Silas, the use of their house’s children for their power. (children as fists infants as gestures bleh ick etc etc). The Asht brothers, designed for Silas. Ortus spared and the other children (including his siblings) sacrificed for Harrow. These cavaliers in theory semi-responsible for this cocky asshole kid who treats them like shit but who Ortus and Column can’t bring themselves to hate because they know how the kid grew up, they’ve seen the kid become this, and they feel guilt for their part in crafting the kid into what they are even as they continue to hesitate to do anything. What could they even do?
They die or worse through the carelessness of their respective charges. Their deaths are inadvertent but how much does that matter? The kids are smart. The kids knew the risks. The kids took this responsibility upon themselves.
The kids are also kids, and neither Column nor Ortus can ever forget that, no matter how much everyone else around them seems to.
Ortus, first killed by shirking his duty, returning in death to fulfill it. Column, [redacted] by refusing to shirk his.
Also can’t stop imagining what would have happened if Colum and Ortus had ever interacted, either in life or in the river bubble. I feel like they would have taken one look at the other and fallen passionately in love out of sheer commiseration and narrative parallels while Silas and Harrow hissed at each other like angry cats.
We all know if harrow liked poetry she’d be writing epics about the body
ok. youre a thousands year old ghost and Some Guy wrote a poem that goes so fucking hard it brings you back from where-ever your soul had been wandering to fight a pretty tough opponent and you LOVE fighting tough opponents and after you win you get to help out a guy you fought while you were Alive (and who has a history of fucking the people he fights If They Impress Him 👀) to fight a Really Really Tough Opponent and poem guys coming too!!! Matthias Nonius is having the time of his death you cannot convince me otherwise
i also appreciate the line "a man who looked as though he would weep if he could only figure out how" about him. so much description filled in such a small part of a sentence.
Mortus
He is like an unimportant character but his quick characterization is very efficient.
He was cavalier primary and didn't seem to hesitate on having the same end as his necro. I wonder if this fact scared Gideon or amplified her impostor syndrome in a messed up way.
Ortus didn't have a good relationship with his dad, but Mortus would pick up little Harrow during mass to help her see her father speak. I like to imagine he picked her up by the middle, like a cat, like baby Simba.
These 2 things help us understand that he really liked this position as a cavalier, and liked the Ninth main family. That's why he was disappointed with his son.
I think this type of characterization is something less refined writing miss.
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I’m listening to htn w my sister rn and Ortus just said, basically,
yeah we shouldn’t call it the sleeper. Maybe we should call it,
THE WAKER
