#gideon x pyrrha

[alexeishostakoff]

Before there’s Gideon the First, there’s a man called G--. G-- has this best friend, has had him since they were both broke brown boys trying to make it out of the deadends they were drowning in, has been had by him since the very first day. G-- has this best friend, and he loves him, and his friend asks him to take a suitcase nuke to Melbourne, and G-- doesn’t say Anything for you, John, G-- just does it.

G-- is atomized and Gideon is resurrected. John rebuilds him from memory and an arm he cut off of G-- before he left, not that Gideon knows that. This body is the only one Gideon’s ever known, so it shouldn’t feel so wrong, but it. Does. A stretched out thing of muscle mass, at times too bulky or too frail, bits soldered together in a clunky mess. Gideon’s soul is awkwardly shoved into his skin, and he hones the whole of it into the finest weapon this galaxy’s ever seen, and it hurts every time he swallows for ten thousand years.

Gideon’s lips are not his own. His cavalier - no, he’s hers, before she’s his. Her necromancer, her Gideon. They say John and Pyrrha are the only two people Gideon listens to, the only two people to get him to do something he wouldn’t do himself. Augustine and Mercymorn ascended hours before, and Pyrrha hands Gideon his spear with one untrembling motion, and tells him to kiss her before he plunges it into her chest. He does, and it leaves his mouth bloody and numb, and he sits there for hours until she is cold in him, and they call him the Saint of Duty.

The thing is that. Sometimes, Gideon forgets. He wakes in a room with no memory of walking there. Cassiopeia references a conversation he doesn’t remember having. When he blinks once, Cyrus’ funeral passes him by. He finds himself terrified to sleep lest he miss another moment, and he knows then that he is insane. He cannot trust his mind, and so he hands over every last scrap of his faith to John instead, and it is from him that he takes all direction.

This body is a horror show. It is a constant cave in. He is not invulnerable; he breaks and he mends again. Flesh knits together, bones clatter into place, neck twists one hundred and eighty degrees to right itself. It is detached. It is not himself, but he is not himself, there is something else rattling around in this husk of him, and he does not know what it is. He puts his faith in John. He puts his faith in John. Salvation, to fight and die for him. He fucks him once, bruisegrip on his hips in John’s flagship, and he does not kiss him.

This, then, is to be Gideon: a string of orders, a constant motion. A love, an utter terror. He believed in something once, he did. He’s never been a fool, though he’s always been a landmine, always waiting for the right time to detonate. Hard way to live. Good way to die.

He finds a little moon once, a solid place to farm, twist his everunbroken fingers around a plow instead of a spear. He thinks about it whenever he comes to, cold and unsure of how he got there. He wonders if this thing inside him knows about it too. Wonders if one day, he’ll just wake up there, knuckle deep in the soil, and if he’d ever walk away for anything else.

He doesn’t know that he could. He doesn’t know that he wants to. They die like this: CyrusUlyssesCassiopeiaCytherea, and he hopes John’ll forgive him if he’s next on the list.

[augustmourn]

fic: Crashing

My fic for @tlt-big-resurrection, with absolutely gorgeous art by @canniefish here and here!! (Slightly spoilery; also linked in the fic!)

The Locked Tomb; Kiriona/Cytherea, Kiriona/Pyrrha, Kiriona/Harrow, with gen Kiriona & G1deon and Kiriona & John; explicit; 72k words

On AO3!

Tags: CNTW, Underage, Major Character Death, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Kiriona raised by John, Canonical Character Death, Parent-Child Relationship, Open Relationships, Dubious Consent, Communication Failure, teenagers being teenagers, Mommy Issues, Grief/Mourning, Explicit Sexual Content (detailed warnings in the end notes)

Summary:

Kiriona is looking for her mom. Pyrrha and Gideon are chasing Wake's ghost. Cytherea just wants a bite. Maybe they all should have known better. Written for TLT Big Resurrection Event 2023.

[nonas-third-tantrum]

gideon's having mixed feelings about father's day

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[nona-gay-simus]

Pyrrha Dve: Ah, yes. Here we have a beautiful couple… Palamedes: I really care about your feelings! Camilla: I really care about YOUR feelings! Pyrrha, turning her head: …and then there's the disaster couple… Gideon: YOU NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO ME INSTEAD OF BEING AT THE HOSPITAL! Harrow: I WOULDN'T HAVE TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME AT THE HOSPITAL IF YOU STOPPED INSISTING ON FIGHTING EVERYONE WHO COMES WITHIN A FIVE FOOT RADIUS OF YOU!

[l-a-z-y-o-n-e]

Family picture

[griseldagimpel]

What do we all think about "Landmine OT3" as a ship name for the Pyrrha/Wake/G1deon ship in The Locked Tomb?

[connielingus423]

New Chapter!!

The second time Pyrrha & the Stranger meet. 

Chapters: 2/6 Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Pyrrha Dve/Wake | Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead, Gideon the First/Wake | Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Characters: Pyrrha Dve, Gideon the First (Locked Tomb Series), Wake | Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Additional Tags: Fucking, Pyrrha is French becuase I said so, Cunnilingus, Cussing, tw: french, Choking, Rough Sex, Rough Kissing, Cigarettes, Hair-pulling, Smut, Fluff and Smut, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Gore, canon-typical body-switching fuckery, romantic smut Summary:

Five times they did and one time they didn't for Pyrrha & Wake.

Takes place over the two years that G1deon was chasing Wake before the events of Gideon the Ninth. She gets away becuase Pyrrha keeps letting her get away.

[beguilingcorpse]

locked tomb 2024 discourse predictions (inspired by @procrastinationaccount)

booktok deems griddlehark a toxic relationship and bad queer representation. people on twitter try to publicly cancel the series. tumblr hears about this drama three weeks after it blows over

colum x protesilaus goes from a crackship to a rarepair to a genuinely compelling and tragic examination of missed chances and estranged love, mostly through tumblr shitposts

mass divide based in whether you think mercymorn dyed her hair or whether it was naturally rose pink. it's an old fashioned flame war. people are blocked, callout posts are made

everyone becomes convinced that admiral sarpedon will play a MASSIVELY important role in alecto. the fandom imprints on his character. #admiral sarpedon trends for two days

someone claims to have alecto leaks, and says that gideon dies permanently and harrow and ianthe end up together. everyone is suspicious that they're lying, but it's just plausible enough to make sense

poll about who on the mithraeum smoked the most weed. pyrrha sweeps

someone posts fanart of coronabeth with short hair and everyone goes feral for butch coronabeth for two weeks

chart of who aboard the mithraeum slept with who. there are lines between jod and everyone. there are lines between samael and no one

alecto the ninth release date drops. it's a date in 2024. the book comes out on the announced day. alectopause ends. [manifesting]

[muppetebbtide]

LOCKED TOMB CHARACTERS X CLASSICAL REFERENCES

explanations for parallels come from here and here

I know I spelt pelleamena wrong and missed off juno zeta btw but it was getting a bit crowded. I could also probably extrapolate more but it can stay like this for now

EDIT: BITS WOT I FORGOT AND ADDITIONS FROM TAGS:

@mayasaura makes a fantastic point about the treatment of gideon's body by BOE being almost identical to the treatment of hector's by achilles, down to animals refusing to touch it and it not rotting or tearing because of divine intervention. hence there should be a light blue line between gideon and hector. this hadn't ocurred to me is and is v cool, here is their post on it (the original asker's point about harrow and priam is also v good)

@iamanoccasionaldoodler points out that Pyrrha is named after Achilles directly, given the 'Achilles taking the name of Pyrrha while on Skyros avoiding the war' thing; I did just forget to draw the line here sorry lol it was in my post! also the tags about camilla and hector... no you're right. they feel so similar, there has to be something.

@zombified-queer mentions I left out dios apate; bugger it, so I did lmao. I was focusing mostly on characters but that's such a big one! in the iliad it's the deception of zeus, hera's plan to distract him by seducing him so that the greeks can regain the upper hand. in harrow the ninth, as we know, it's... not dissimilar! both times in fact it is very similar!

I did also forget Juno Zeta I know, but as it currently stands I don't really know if it has any narrative significance...? Maybe.

I also realised I forgot Protesilaus, god damn it

[mayasaura]

hello!!! I come to you with a locked tomb theory question! do you have any ideas on what the "Saint of X" epithets actually refer to? Jod says they're references to the lyctors' respective cavaliers, but 1) I don't trust what this man says even a little bit, and 2) Naberius? is Awe????? Pyrrha as Duty maaybe but? Naberius???? anyway, I've been rotating Duty, Patience, Joy, and Awe in my head for a very long time, with no insight to show for it. any thoughts?

I think there's a real good chance those first three titles did refer to the cavaliers. John didn't respect them enough to let them go, but he did love them, and he must have mourned them. The titles may have been a way of trying to preserve what he saw as their best attributes. To make that their first association. Before the rage of grief, remember the joy. I can see the intent, though it doesn't seem to have worked very well for anyone who isn't John.

The Saint of Awe is a different animal altogether. I don't think the title has much to do with Naberius, mostly because.... John never met Naberius. As little as we know about poor sweet Babs, John knows less. There's nothing in Ianthe for John to mourn.

So why give her an epithet at all?? Why that epithet? He was considering it as far back as chapter 23 of Harrow the Ninth, in relation to how continually Ianthe surprises him. Come to think of it, that's quite a feat. The man is ten thousand years old. He must be hard to surprise by now. Actually. Hold on.

John was described as looking awed when he met Gideon for the first time, and associates awe with surprise. He describes Alfred as "useless, but a darling," which. Is a description you'd use for someone you needed to have patience with. And Pyrrha was always going Uncle Ben on him, reminding him of his great responsibility. All, "If you’ve got a gun learn how to aim it. This is too big for fuckups now."

...........do you think maybe the titles refer not to intrinsic traits of the cavaliers, but to what they brought out in John?

[fkapommel]

Alecto the Ninth theories round up

Here's some of mine:

I look pretty good for a dead bitch (she's alive!) moment Octakiseron slay

Relatedly, we get answers on what the fuck ate Colum

Alecto revealed to have power over life and is the key to properly harvesting and manipulating thalergy, which is the key to "perfect lyctohood." This is what Jod kept secret from his lyctors

Harrow and Gideon are able to become perfect lyctors, but don't, or somehow reverse the process so that they become mortal again

The blockage of the stoma in the River is what is fueling Jod's powers. Uncork the toilet bowl, and he goes back to fail Twitch Streamer, but this time with no magic powers to boost his numbers

Vacay back to the Nine Houses! Def visiting First House (gotta return Alecto to her ACTUAL body) but maybe visiting another place we haven't been to before, like Ida

Jod doesn't die. He either becomes mortal again and lives out his wet rat days on a planet he ordered to be murdered or retains immortality but is functionally useless

Flesh Magician!Harrow makes her first heart for a special Valentine ❤️ (there's no atomical heart emoji?? That's so fucked)

Pyrrha and Kiriona bonding bc my soul needs it

Continuing in a similar vein with Nona, ATN's going to be FLASHBACK CENTRAL. Based on her using antiquated language and mistaking Harrow for Anastasia, Alecto may have an inability to differentiate past/present, or better yet, since she's a PLANET, she may perceive time differently with the past and present co-existing. I've seen theories about Jod's (and possibly Gideon's) manipulation/perception of time distortion, and that may stem from Alecto. Regardless, we're going to learn more about the lyctors and the building of Canaan House.

>>>> I know my baby girl Mercymorn is coming back I feel it in my bones.

ALECTO X ANASTASIA SMOOCHING

Reblog with ur own theories! No bad ideas ☠️☠️

[nonas-third-tantrum]

sexpal69 gives valentine's day advice, gideon fends off minors, and pyrrha gets caught

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[hobiinobs]

This is absolutely based on my very limited understanding of Tarot, but I thought it might be fun to map characters from The Locked Tomb on to the major arcana. Please if you disagree tell me who you would put where.

0 - The Fool - Paul

I - The Magician - Augustine The First

II - The High Priestess - Cytherea The First

III - The Empress - Mercymorn The First

IV - The Emperor - John Gaius

V - The Hierophant - Gideon The First

VI - The Lovers - Camilla & Palamedes

VII - The Chariot - Coronabeth Tridentarius

VIII - Strength - Pyrrha Dve

IX - The Hermit - Ortus Nigenad

X - The Wheel of Fortune - The Resurrection Beasts

XI - Justice - We Suffer

XII - The Hanged Man - Gideon Nav

XIII - Death - Harrowhark Nonagesimus

XIV - Temperance - Dulcinea Septimus

XV - The Devil - Ianthe Tridentarius

XVI - The Tower - Commander Wake

XVII - The Star - Abigail Pent

XVIII - The Moon - Anastasia The First

XIX - The Sun - Kiriona Gaia

XX - Judgment - Alecto

XXI - The World - Nona

[diosapate]

top 5 tlt ships!

5. kirianthe because its funny 4. whatever the fuck pyrrha and wake and g1deon had going on 3. whatever the fuck cytherea and gideon had going on 2. whatever the fuck mercy and augustine have going on 1. john gaius x torture labyrinth

ask me my top 5 anything

[gideonisms]

Favorite ships I have discovered tonight thanks to tumblr user carys-the-ninth:

ianthe/pelleamena-- ultimate power move fucking your crush's mother once she rejects you

coronabeth/abigail pent--abigail could not fix her but Coronabeth would find her gentle but firm demeanor captivating. she could never truly win abigail's affection because Abigail's heart belongs to Magnus. this turns coronabeth on

Aiglamene/wake--listen sometimes you fall to the ninth almost die then get nursed back to health in secret by a grouchy milf who wants to take care of you and your kid/human sacrifice. ships that would have either fixed gideon nav or given her new problems

Gideon nav/Juno zeta--ships that would have made gideon nav worse! as well as camilla, palamedes, any combination thereof, harrow, pyrrha,

Pyrrha/we suffer--pretty much guaranteed to go canon next book I mean come on you can't say they never did

cytherea/pash--girl who speaks in cursive x girl who speaks like karkat. they understand every third word the other says and hate each other on sight. Fortunately, they're not doing a lot of speaking when they meet up,

Judith/ianthe--steal her girl!!

aiglamene/dulcinea--both supposedly doomed to die on their home world, and you can't tell me they wouldn't have found each other charming. princess dress femme x sword butch

Wake/we suffer--another one that's BASICALLY canon. Why else would we suffer have promoted pash

And finally! Dulcinea/alecto--girl who's dying x girl who's the death of the solar system what's not to like