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GO GO GO

GO MARCILLE GO

edit: in case it wasn't clear, this is (semi)canon art by ryoko kui from "daydream hour", and not fanart! please support the manga through official means if you can ^___^

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Isolated Marcille hanging off Falin in this panel

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elf and human lesbian couple

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Some bubbline I had drawn these days!

Thank you Fiona and Cake gives me more bubbline power!🙏

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butch princess peach (+daisy)

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i'm puffer jacket snoopy this winter

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When she was 90 percent asleep, she heard the door very quietly unlatch and close. Then she counted, and at the end of five counts there was Pyrrha at the door saying, “Ah, my darling hearts, my sleeping babes, Daddy’s own treasures,” and Camilla saying without opening her eyes, “Go to bed. I just got her to sleep.”

Nona fell asleep and was happy.

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OLS sketches before august ends

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hi! i saw your tlt explanation post, if you can could you post a quick explanation of what happened with gideon's sword? i've heard that it was haunted by wake but when did that happen? how would harrow know about wake, and how did john not know when he gave her the sword? and how did it get into the sleeper's coffin? sorry i'm just kind of confused, you obviously don't have to respond, ty for the post

oooooh all good questions! this is gonna be as comprehensive as i can make it, so...

welcome to Swords 101 with your friendly neighborhood tlt blogger! here’s my rundown of what we know about wake and gideon’s sword:

im going to talk about the sword in terms of what happened in (mostly) chronological order and at key points ill attach relevant excerpts of where in the text we learn about it

1. so first, wake travels down to the ninth house with gideon in tow. she obviously... does not quite make it.

2. wake dies, becoming a revenant attached to her bones, before later transferring to her sword.

we know this because wake explains it here:

3. we can likely conclude wake transfers from her bones to the sword when gideon is eight

gideon says here:

eight is also the year gideon started training with her two-hander! (she’s 18 at the time of this quote):

and as to how exactly wake got from her bones to her sword, that’s left unconfirmed. here’s what we DO know about how gideon got her sword: harrow identifies the sword wake is lying on as gideon’s, she says:

so somehow wake got in there and was giving bad vibes to harrow. which harrow also says in gtn here:

a theory ive seen going around is “aiglamene is a BoE operative” and i think that’s a fun idea, personally. but it is still heavily on the speculation side of “it could fit” rather than “the signs point to it”

4. gideon takes her sword to canaan house

i probably don’t need to insert any relevant quotes, as this was a very major hard-to-miss plot point

5. harrow kills cytherea with the two-hander, but wake does NOT transfer then

we confirm this here when john says:

so wake was still in the sword at the beginning of htn. which leads to this right here:

6. harrow instructs herself in her letters about the sword

and throughout htn harrow describes how the blade hates her, gives off bad energy, etc. and g1deon calls it a “damned sword” and demands harrow to hand it over (which she refuses without know why)

as to how harrow knew to instruct herself/why she instructed herself? that’s been my major mystery!!!

as to how john didn’t notice when he gave it to her? i honestly don’t know. ive been puzzling that one over as well. ya kno he also denies thinking cytherea’s body is being possessed when harrow brings it up, so maybe he honestly just can’t tell?

7. harrow stabs cytherea’s corpse in the chest in chapter 11 of htn, completing the transfer

as wake was not in the corpse at the end of gtn, this is the only contact that could have transferred her. afterwards, wake-in-cytherea starts haunting the mithraeum. curiously, harrow has no memory of how she got there.

anyways that’s my long winded explanation of how wake goes from: bones -> sword -> cytherea’s corpse

now as for your last question about “how did the sword get in the sleepers coffin”: so the sleeper and wake are the same person and the coffin isn’t really a physical place, it’s all in harrows river bubble. wake is wearing the hazmat suit from her time of her death, and it’s assumed that the sword has some importance to how wake came to be there (and we later learn wake haunted the sword). abigail is confused about how wake had even managed to get there, stating:

AGAIN referencing the mystery 'thanergetic link' john did!

curiously, at the end of htn, harrow falls asleep with the two-hander and frontline titties of the fifth (not a real publication is not just a punchline, IT IS TELLING US SOMETHING)... not to plug my own theories... but i talk about the possible significance of all of that when i answered another ask here which i think has some significance with the sword... and thanergy links... and revenants.......

anyways, hope i answered everything well enough!!!! i tried to include all the passages so you could see where i took everything from. not sure if the was organized enough or if i just came off rambling lol. if you have anymore questions or if i didn’t explain something well enough feel free to come back and ask more!

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the moment when harrow saves gideon prime from the incinerator was kind of jarring to me when i first read it but now it’s one of my favorite harrow character moments… i think from the reveal of her 200 dead kids backstory harrow has been shown to be someone who, even in fucked up situations she has no control over, is compelled to take responsibility for others.

like, she had absolutely no agency in 200 children being murdered so she could be born, but she still feels guilt for it and the responsibility to live her life to honor them.  and clearly she is deeply motivated by her feelings of having to do her best by the ninth, up to yk, the whole parent-corpse-puppetting, running-a-dying-society thing starting at age 10.  which must have been deeply difficult and draining work and i get very emo reading the section where she talks about getting really good at deathbed services and trying to give advice she was in no way prepared to give.

anyway, then there’s her time on the mithraeum which is wholly marked with like, an ethos of deep moral rot.  everyone’s deeply unconcerned with everyone else’s well-being, least of all harrow’s.  see: gideon prime’s repeated violent and traumatic attempts on her life, which just become an accepted part of routine and end up having been facilitated by god himself.. mercy mistaking harrow’s hesitation in planet-murder for impatience instead of sorrow, all the lyctors and god sitting around a dinner table talking about whose dead murdered cavalier was the hottest, nobody believing each other about cytherea’s body and just letting that happen, etc.  (relatedly: isn’t it fucked up that god was like “oh i wanted my new lyctors to have free choice to pick that path for themselves” but also placed them on a planet where murder was allowed?)

(and there’s also ianthe’s clear trauma over her new arm, which any of the older lyctors or god could have easily fixed for her.  it seems stupid that she’s left trying to hack it off with her rapier when she’s on a ship with the three most powerful necromancers in the universe, and god.  but guess who actually makes her a new arm she can accept?  right, harrow.)

i’ve joked about gideon’s hit list for people who’ve hurt harrow upon waking being like literally everyone on the mithraeum but i think there was a real sense in which her fury over the violence done to harrow gave me a little surprised jolt, when harm to others had come to be sort of an accepted background element.  but in the middle of all that, when harrow was faced with the choice, she couldn’t kill gideon elder in cold blood–when she was terrified of him, when he’d been making her life a bloody misery for months.   she couldn’t even stand by and leave him to die, when augustine, who had supposedly been friends with him for 10,000 years could plan his murder.  it’s such an illogical choice, but at the same time one that makes perfect sense for harrow specifically, who all her life has been handed the shittiest possible cards and responded with feeling responsibility for others’ well-being…  even her rejection of gideon’s sacrifice falls under this in some ways i think.

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is this something

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coloured some griddlehark sketches✌🏻✌🏻

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warden. its from the emperor. 

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abigail mentioning “home” and harrow’s instinctual thought being of gideon,,,,,,, im going to launch myself into fucking dominicus

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mercymorn sketch

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Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House

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Nona having a swimmingly good time with deadly jellyfish

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