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i'm positive this has been discussed already, but i'm going insane over it, and it's my blog. so.

here, gideon is quoting from Ruth 1:17. in the full context of that line, ruth tells naomi: "Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." (some versions have translated the line as "if even death part me and thee")

taking the full passage into consideration, gideon quoting this in response to harrow's "don't leave me" turns gideon's vow to always remain by harrow's side (as is inherent to lyctorhood) to also being a plea for harrow to not "urge [her] to leave [harrow]", setting up how gideon will view harrow trying to reject their lyctorhood and preserve gideon's soul as a betrayal.

furthermore, i love how this line also comes after:

because, harrow's people have become gideon's people.

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chussy (plural)

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one thing I have been thinking about a lot is how desperate Kiriona seems for John to have been telling her the truth. she starts stuttering, repeating herself when she says "he said". Kiriona knows he is a liar. she needs her father to have been telling the truth because if that was a lie what else is?

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there’s something tragic about you (prince kiriona gaia)

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cause everybody knows that

teeth are where your heart was, love

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Kiriona

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‼️Non-sexual nudity warning‼️

Oh Kiriona💔

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Golden brown texture like sun

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the arm scene but it’s gideon’s heart

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i miss her like a mf...🚬

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I’VE BLOWN APART MY LIFE FOR YOU (gideon nav/kiriona gaia)

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AND ALL THIS DEVOTION WAS RUSHING OUT OF ME

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[...] the Tomb I will serve till the end of my days 

and then see me buried

in two hundred graves.

ig: d.ill.usion

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i love the mental image of the nova au btw. necromancer gideon getting into an argument with you and doing her boisterous annoying shit talking about how she could explode your spine out of your back with a snap of her fingers (doubtful), and you're just about to call her bluff when you notice that her little yappy dog of a cavalier is standing just behind her giving you the most intimidating look you have ever seen in your life. this five-foot-nothing coil of lean muscle with a sword is looking at you like she's trained her entire life to kill you specifically. she is looking at you like she's wondering what your jugular tastes like. she is looking at you like she's already bested the devil in single combat so just imagine how completely unconcerned she is about her ability to put so many new holes in you your soul is going to sink to the bottom of the river in minutes. her necromancer appears completely unaware that she's even in the room.

you politely end the conversation.

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What happened to Protesilaus's facility key?

We know it existed, because we see it on Dulcie's key ring at one point, before the Avulsion trial.

We know the teens saw him go down the hatch (using the key) and then told everyone that there was someone dead in the incinerator. Notably, the teens do NOT, at ANY POINT, say that they don't know *who* is dead in the incinerator, and are covered in ash when they say this. When Palamedes conjectures about who it might be, Isaac giggles. Furthermore, their responses can easily be read as wanting to know *why* Pro was sent down the hatch alone, not *where he went*. Additionally, when Harrow dismantled Pro, she only took the head, leaving his body and everything on it in the facility.

We also know that, while the teens did not go into the facility by themselves, they clearly "know all about the doors". And shortly after this exchange, Cytherea specifically and aggressively targets the Fourth House for destruction.

We are told repeatedly to count the keys and not to discount the Fourth House (or, for that matter, the Third House, who cheat).

Palamedes assumed there were eight keys. But there are nine houses and ten labs (and for someone who "hates people who make asumptions", Palamedes sure makes an awful lot of them). We also know that the Lyctorhood process detailed by Ianthe is very likely missing at least one step, and that you can't really do it properly without the theorems (which Ianthe explicitly says that she does not have). We ALSO know that Jod likely had his own lab, somewhere in Canaan House- door 777.

It seems likely to me that Cytherea sent Pro down into the facility to retrieve a final key, he was deconstructed by Harrow, and (whether by accident or not) Cytherea left that key with his body in the incinerator. If this is true, then the teens (and/or Corona, who is said to have had a big fight with Ianthe immediately after the incinerator scene) found the key in the incinerator and accessed Jod's study with it. If she thought that they'd found something important, this would explain why Cytherea felt it necessary to swiftly and brutally target the Fourth House.

What was that something?

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Rereading NTN and found this:

Mercy’s so real for that

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everyone’s favorite worst girl, ianthe tridentarius!