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Tridentarius sisters redraw

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one of the bookmarks that went with the t-shirts

both Nona and Corona won by people's vote on whom to draw

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Things Ianthe calls Coronabeth during their reunion:

"Corona" x5

"(my) darling" x5

"love" x2

"sweetheart"

"honey" x2

"more beautiful than ever"

"my heart's love"

"my pretty golden girl"

"baby"

Things Coronabeth calls Ianthe:

"Ianthe" x8

"a dick"

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With how much we as a fandom discuss what will happen to John in AtN, it's kind of surprising how little I've seen on what the future has in store for Alecto. Since I already love her, I've decided that won't do. So here's a bunch of possible endings for Alecto:

1.) Alecto dies (alongside John): We know that neither of them can die while the other one is alive, so if John dies in AtN the most likely result would be that Alecto does, too. There are several ways I could see this going down. To the subsections!

1.1) The cycle of violence: Alecto is killed unwillingly as collateral damage by someone who wants John dead more than they want her alive. This ending mirrors how John killed Alecto the first time trying to get revenge on the billionaires. I really hope this doesn't happen. Not only does Alecto deserve better, it also doesn't bode well for everyone else's future.

1.2) The self sacrifice: Alecto dies willingly so John can be killed. Slightly less horrible for her than replaying the trauma of her death and birth to the letter, but still pretty damn sad. We know from Nona that Alecto at the very least has the potential to love being alive. I want her to get that chance. But at least this ending gives her some agency.

1.3) The peaceful rest: In this version Alecto wants to die. Something something necromancy as a violation of the natural order, something something everyone John wanted to keep around died 10000 years ago and his desire to hold onto them only caused everyone pain, and so on. A more bittersweet ending. However, I still struggle to believe that the entirety of Nona didn't mean anything about Alecto's will to live. Nona accepts her death, but that's for the lack of a better option. I firmly believe that Nona is still a fundamental part of Alecto and I want her to have the chance to live and be happy again. The odds of survival for Gideon don't look good in this ending either. If keeping someone alive via necromancy is meant to be categorically bad, the only way we're getting a happy ending for griddlehark is on the other shore of the river.

2. Alecto stays alive as Alecto: We know Alecto doesn't like her current body, so this goes square in the middle for me.

2.1) The survivor: I know I was just talking about how John and Alecto live or die as the world's worst package deal, but to be fair, their situation is entirely unique. There could still be some way for Alecto to survive John's death. There's an entire book left to find loopholes. Alecto would probably have some kind of feeling about whatever ends up happening to John, but I don't think we've seen enough of her yet to know what these feelings would be. Not to mention, part of her soul is stuck in John, and I suspect it's a tad optimistic to think she'd get those parts back if he died. Killing him would leave her with a literal hole in her soul. My girl deserves better. In any case, I dont think this ending is likely. It's too neat and basic for a series like tlt. And besides, why have a 'perfect' solution when it's so much more fun to make characters choose between flawed options?

2.2) The wanderer: This one's not tied to Alecto remaining in a humanoid form, but I'm putting it here anyway. This ending sees Alecto leave the Houses behind to travel the universe. Possibly with someone else. John? Paul? Pyrrha? Varun? Who knows. This ending is pretty open and feels more like a new beginning, but it's also rather hopeful. I could live with that.

2.3) The probation officer: This would be a version of events where John survives and is sentenced (by anything from court to the narrative) to some version of restorative justice. In this ending Alecto finally gets to see John use her powers the way she intended. This is basically the antithesis to the cycle of violence ending. Whoever chose this weighed saving the innocent (Alecto/humanity) against punishing the guilty (John/the billionaires) and decided that Alecto's life matters more than revenge. While I'm not entirely happy keeping Alecto in a body she hates, I think it would be an otherwise satisfying, hopeful ending for her. And hey, maybe someone can give her a necromantic makeover.

3.) Alecto lives, but not as Alecto: I don't think it's unreasonable to think that the planet who became a girl, who became a different girl and then became the first girl again might end up going through another transformation.

3.1) The Resurrection Beast: What it says on the tin. I'm not sure if Alecto technically is one already, but who says she can't turn into an eldritch being even larger than the planet she used to be? Unless this is combined with a wanderer ending (probably alongside Varun), I see this more as a temporary step that happens during the finale. In this case, I am incapable of imagining as anything other than an even messier version of the Steven Universe future finale. John being eaten by RB Alecto would also be one of the few ways I can think of to achieve a John dies, Alecto lives ending.

3.2) The planet: I feel like I'm daying 'hopeful ending' too much, so I won't do so again. It's a good one, though. I picture Alecto walking into the sea and dissolving into foam like the Hans Christian Andersen version of the little mermaid as the planet comes back to life. I like this ending a lot, not only because it would be a happy ending for Alecto (but bittersweet enough for those who loved her to still be exquisitely painful), but also promises a chance of healing for the rest of the cast.

3.3) The Paul: Short version: Alecto and John do a Paul, but since John's just a guy and Alecto is literally the world, it's not an equal fusion like, well, Paul. This post already says everything about John's side of this better than I could, but I have some additional thoughts on what it would mean for Alecto. Because part of her is in John, right? Doing a Paul would return these parts to her and (hopefully) heal the damage John did when he ate part of her and stuffed the rest in her barbie form. I think this ending has a high potential of going into the planet ending as well.

And that's all the endings I can think of right now!

For everyone who read through this entire thing, please tell me which one of these endings you're hoping for. Here's a poll!

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Kiriona Gaia

breaktime sketch

i havent draw this version of Gideon

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Knight Gideon sketch

knight gideon sketch/warmup

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After ECCC I refused to get out of my Harrowhark cosplay until my friend let me boil water on her stove for a soup photo shoot (iykyk)

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✨ Most Venerated Saint ✨

PoV - You're a Cohort officer on the Erebos. The most drop dead gorgeous woman you will ever see enters the room. You are about to have the worst day of your life.

Face/eyes close-up:

This pair of eyes were a slumbrous, sand-tinted hazel with grey-madder clouds within them, like a red hurricane moving over a gaseous mantle, like a storm-ridden planet of red dust. The expression did not match these dreamy and quite beautiful eyes: the expression was paralytically repellent in ways that had nothing to do with your dorsal nerve. It saw right through you, marked what you had done, and let you know that there would be a reckoning. No signs of age touched the corners of those screwed-up, dust-storm eyes, but nonetheless it was a gaze as elderly as Crux’s.

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nona brainrot

not pictured: magnus (would never do a crime), marta dyas (would never do a crime where anyone might see), isaac and jeannemary (the pents would maneuver them out of trouble), ortus nigenad (???), numerous well-deserving others

judith | jod | palamedes | cytherea | wake (lol) | coronabeth | mercymorn | ianthe | harrow | nona | silas | gideon | augustine | camilla | pyrrha / g1deon | abigail | alecto

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MERCYMORN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGHGHGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Immortalizing my Gideon the Ninth rebind on the newly resurrected blog 🫡

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“She said, Did you know? Every birthday we got to have one person we’d invite and our mother and father would invite the rest, and Ianthe always invited whoever Babs didn’t want to see at the time, and I always invited you.

I said, I assumed your parents made me the invitation.

She said, it was always me.”

(brb going insane over As Yet Unsent bc I can’t resist doomed yuri)

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A TLT Bedtime Rhyme For @toomuchpurple ‘s tiny baby

Goodnight Baby

Goodnight Tomb

Goodnight Harrow

Whose house is Doomed

Goodnight Ortus

Goodnight Crux

Goodnight Parents

Who have no Pulse

Goodnight Snowleeks

Goodnight Nav

You’re the worst Cavalier

The Ninth’s ever had

Amen

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Mercymorn, the Saint of Joy

I feel like Mercy really is such a layered character, a bundle of grief and love turned sour over time, and she mirrors harrow in so many interesting ways… basically I miss her and I hope that we learn more about her in Alecto!

Lineart under the cut because I thought it was pretty. :)

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sparkle on it’s mercystine monday don’t forget to fuck someone you hate

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Somes sketch about Nona the Ninth because I just finish It and GOD I love this book !!!