my absolute favourite FAVOURITE thing about john/alecto is that they are both each other’s fucked up little science project that got Very out of hand.
they are both simultaneously victor and the creature to each other at all times. they love each other they ARE each other, they are divorced and married at the same time. they (literally) can’t live without each other and each will be the other’s end. they still love each other despite this.
Not enough discussion of the absolutely baffling blink-and-you-miss-it line in As Yet Unsent when Coronabeth casually drops the fact that it’s apparently the done thing for the population of Empire-occupied planets to be stuck with one-sided treaties/contracts/trade agreements “to be re-negotiated when the Emperor dies” and then when they dare to ask if Johnny boy is gonna hurry it along bc it’s kinda been awhile, they just get told “Lol the Emperor doesn’t die straight up ever, you ignorant rubes. He literally has “King Undying” in his name, how did you not know this”
WILDLY unhinged way to do foreign policy. I mean if your world gets conquered by a dude who has “King Undying” as one of his dozen titles, obviously as someone unacquainted with necromancy, your mind would go to “Ah yes, standard vainglorious dictator way of calling oneself” and not necessarily directly to “This guy is an unholy wizard with powers and he’s literally factually immortal and it’s not a bit”
Also consider: the Houses first made contact with other descendants of humanity five thousand years before canon. Depending on how old the first imperial settlements are, that’s millenia of waiting for someone to die. Unhinged
jarpedon where john makes the first move is nice but pretty pedestrian, jarpedon where sarpedon is the one to actively pursue his 10,000 year old immortal god emperor is Literal god tier, never to be beaten, show-stopping, incredible, etc.
rotating john in my mind today. his longing for destruction vs his desire to live vs his deep regret vs his justifications for everything he does. Making himself god and then being slutty about it. guy of all time
*breaks down the door* HI new fandom! First ever fic. John/Alecto after the end.
John POV pastiche featuring: lovingly descripted
body horror, romantic strolls on a nuclear wasteland, sex on the beach, romantic cannibalism (meat loving meat), and teeth growing in places where teeth shouldn’t be. And puns.
Rated E,
Graphic Description of Violence,
5k words.
here’s my tlt exchange art! I will post part 2 here once I make it safe for tumblr, otherwise go to my twt (@DMSR__) if u wanna see them sucking and fucking >:3
asking for an anonymous friend of mine in the cohort: does it count as a nepotism promotion if the only reason you got promoted is because you fuck like a freight train?? 🤔
