So we found out from Palamedes and the Unwanted Guest that lyctorhood is not perfect and leaves a mark on the necromancer. The necromancer devours the cavalier’s soul, and unintentionally gains something from it, mostly emotions or new urges or something like that. Like Ianthe getting Babs’ hatred/distaste of Gideon.
John devoured Alecto. For a little while, John and Alecto were one, two souls intermingling like two pieces of flesh bleeding together. Then John created her a body and poured her soul back in, unintentionally creating a perfect lyctorhood.
John didn’t really know what he was doing. He was running on guesswork and instinct. So I think he and Alecto shared and gained something from eachother.
Alecto is always described as angry. Which makes sense, considering the circumstances. But when John killed and devoured the earth, he was furious. He was raging. He hated.
What if Alecto got most of her anger and hatred and rage from John? Some of it was hers, yes. But hatred? A never ending anger? What if Alecto got what John was feeling when he ate her, made her?
And John. What did he get?
The thing is, we don’t know what Alecto’s personality was like. She was a planet, not exactly a person with feelings.
But we do know what Resurrection Beasts are like. They are relentless. They hunt and hunt and hunt John. Angry, yes. But mostly unstoppable and stuck in a never ending cycle of hunting John no matter the cost.
John won’t forgive the Trillionaires. He doesnt even seem that angry anumore. But he won’t stop hunting them, not for anything. Augestine begged him to stop. John doesn’t let his lyctors tell him to stop. John doesn’t care how many worlds he kills, how many people he displaced. He doesn’t care about the cost to the Houses. He is relentless. He hunts and hunts and hunts.
John acts like a Resurrection Beast. And Alecto acts like John.