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toxictrannyfreak · 2 years

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Thinking about Matthias Nonius. Nonius as the one Gideon can never live up to. Nonius as Ortus’s ideal. Nonius as the Ninth’s last hero, what Harrow desperately needs to be. Nonius as the equal and rival of the Saint of Duty in all their forms. Nonius as the perfect cavalier; the one who fights for and obeys the Ninth out of unending duty, a millennium later. Nonius as what Harrow and Gideon and Ortus want to be, Nonius as the legend of the Ninth, Nonius as a poem, but never Nonius as a person. Nonius as a man entirely trapped by his own myth and memory and name. Nonius as Nonius, never Matthias, always and forever the Ninth. Nonius as a heap of bones forgotten long from home, free from the Ninth at last. Just. Just thinking about Matthias Nonius

#the locked tomb #love characters so trapped and doomed by the narrative that they’re already dead #but even death cannot save him from this story because the Ninth needs him once more even so long after his end #not at peace. never allowed to be at peace. spirit always awaiting the Ninth’s call #I think we’ll be seeing him again #his complete and other omission from Nona is v suspicious #he’ll be back one last time #to watch the fall of the Ninth and make his peace and finally be free #Nonius as the only character able to live for the Ninth and then die beyond it #idk just Matthias Nonius #he’s everything to me #tlt #tlt spoilers #matthias nonius #character analysis #meta #kind of? fuck it I’m tagging anyway #tlt meta #9 for the tomb and for all that was lost #<- that’s my new tltposting tag #stfu kor

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