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re-listening to this bit in GtN and he might be an ass about it but u can't deny that Silas Oktakiseron was THE realest dude at Canaan House bc has anyone ever been so frank with Gideon before or since this moment

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Harrowhark Nonagesimus vs. Miles Edgeworth

Propaganda under cut:

Harrowhark Nonagesimus:

she is a sopping wet rag of a girl, a sad puddly kitten with a permanent cold. her life is one long continuous sneeze. she is a nun, she sees visions, she is in love with a body, she is in love with a girl who is the daughter of God, she did a diy lobotomy, she spends her every moment consumed in grief and guilt, she tried to kill a guy with soup containing her own bone, she does not like the taste of anything stronger than mild water.

Miles Edgeworth:

emotionally traumatized special lil guy with a burning desire for his childhood best friend i adore him and he deserves the world

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gideon nav, upon meeting someone nice for the first time:

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normalize having ships where they aren’t attracted to each other and both think about somebody else during sex 🙏🙏

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I think a lot about the moment where young Ianthe realised the double act wasn't fun anymore actually, and she'd rather be the only necromancer in the family, but it would absolutely destroy Corona socially... Corona who canonically threatened suicide at least multiple times to get Ianthe to change her mind. I wonder if Ianthe wasn't tired of keeping it up. I wonder how often she fantasised about telling people. because u know she had that villain monologue fired up and ready to go

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The Locked Tomb Definitive Reading Order

Gideon the Ninth

Harrow the Ninth

Gideon the Ninth

Nona the Ninth

Harrow the Ninth

Gideon the Ninth

Nona the Ninth

Hope this helps!

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my headcanon is that Camilla and Palamedes were both virgins because they didn’t really want to have sex with each other but they never fucked anyone else because doing so without the other’s company sounded too lonely

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Every single one of you has managed to somehow be wildly, stunningly incorrect as to whether Silas Octakiseron would become a Lyctor in the absence of external pressure, which is sort of insane given the multiple chapters clearly stating the extent to which he Would Not Do That, including the chapter in which he literally dies in large part due to his staunch opposition to Doing That. But we can go over this again, that's fine. Hopefully this is in some way clarifying.

The first indication we're given regarding Silas's attitude toward Lyctorhood is when he's talking to Gideon in chapter 28, when he reveals that he's not just opposed to the Ninth achieving Lyctorhood, but that he thinks no one should, and that he himself has already abandoned the entire endeavor.

"In fact, I am unsure that any of us should become Lyctor. Since when was power goodness, or cleverness truth? I myself no longer wish to ascend, Gideon."

We can combine that with his specific breed of annoyingness in chapter 33 to deduce that whatever he saw in the only Lyctoral challenge he completed (implied to be Anastasia's, since he has the black key already when he takes Cytherea's off her) was enough to put him off the concept entirely:

"I won the first key to see what I was up against, and took possession of two more to preserve them from misuse," said Silas. "I hate this House. I despise the reduction of a holy temple to a maze and a puzzle. I took the keys so that you wouldn’t have them. Nor the Sixth, nor the Third."

Then, of course, we get to chapter 34, in which Silas literally dies because of how staunchly morally opposed he is to the truth of Lyctorhood as a concept and how convinced he is of the idea that Ianthe should be put down like a dog for having pursued it.

"So that is Lyctorhood," said Silas. He sounded quiet, almost fretful, lost in thought. Gideon thought—just for a moment—that she could see Colum Asht's throat working, that his pupils had dilated just a very, very little. "To walk with the dead forever … enormous power, recycled within you, from the ultimate sacrifice … to make yourself a tomb." "You understand, don't you?" said Ianthe. "Yes," said Silas. Colum closed his eyes and was still. "Yes," repeated Silas. "I understand fallibility … and fallibility is a terrible thing to understand. 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." Colum opened his eyes again. "Silas—" he began. "I will forgive you eventually, Colum," said his purse-mouthed uncle, "for assuming I would have been prey to this temptation. Do you believe me?" "I want to," said his nephew fervently, with a thousand-yard stare and his missing finger twitching around his shield. "God help me, I want to."

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he’s autistic. he’s bisexual. he’s the smoothest motherfucker you’ll ever meet. he’s a loser. he’s a 35 year old man. he’s babygirl. he’s brooding. he’s a ray of sunshine. he’s an optimist. he’s passively suicidal. he has knee problems. he’s a househusband. he’s a powerful magical being. he’s a recent divorcee. he’s a slut. he’s a canon munch. he’s a romantic. he has an ego the size of the sun. he’s the most insecure man you’ll ever meet. i didn’t say his name but you thought of him didn’t you

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the locked tomb series is really like. maybe love doesn't conquer all. maybe love is not pure and good and holy. maybe love is not a white dove come to save you from yourself. maybe it won't fix you. maybe it'll make everything worse. maybe love is dirty and ugly and terrifying and awful. maybe it'll kill you. maybe it'll warp you into something unrecognizable. maybe love is a parasite and by the time you realize it's there, it's too late to tear it out of you, no matter how badly you might want to. maybe it's a cordiceps fungus, tangled up in your nerves, making you do things you'd never ordinarily do. maybe love is a dog with its jaw locked on your arm. maybe love is an angry ghost. maybe love is a brain hemorrhage, a seizure, two weeks of sleeplessness and cracking open your own tibia unanesthetized in a bathroom. maybe it's the ocean you'll drown in. maybe it's poison. maybe it's scary and filthy and difficult and bad for you.

so what now? are you going to stop? are you even going to try?

no. of course you aren't.

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Consolation Prize Match

Sister George Michael (Derry Girls) vs The Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb)

Sister George Michael is headmistress of Our Lady Immaculate College

Harrow is a nun of the Ninth House. She's been described as a space goth necromancer fantasy sci-fi bone nun.

Sister George Michael

Have you seen her car? Her sunglasses??? The way she effortlessly drags those Derry girls within an inch of their lives every episode? Unbothered queen.

Also, the Delorean:

The Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus

She’s great. She has so many fucking problems. She’s been running the goth space convent since she was 10. She’s puppeting her dead parents around. She doesn’t like tastes. She is extremely passionate about bones. She’s locked in a twisted bond of love and violence and devotion and sacrifice with her childhood best enemy. She lobotomized herself to preserve the best enemy’s soul. She’s been in love with the corpse of the Devil all her life. She goes around in bone jewelry and skull face paint. She’s a sad wet cat who was born in a cardboard box all alone, etc. She chopped another woman’s arm off and regrew a skeleton arm, in a sexual way. She has awkward little fireside chats with God where he makes millennia-old meme references at her and she does not drink the proffered tea. She saw God make a your mom joke and it “destroyed some cavern of her reverence”. She’s even gay. She’s everything.

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Reblog if you have made yourself a mausoleum to Gideon Nav

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heir to the house of the ninth

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new favorite lesbian just dropped