as it stands harrow still does not know gideon is god’s daughter. it is going to be such an insane reckoning when harrow comes back, looks at gideon and goes “what the fuck are you wearing” only for gideon to hit her with “well i am a prince you know”
i think what makes the whole harrow being in love with alecto/alecto looking like barbie so funny to me is that. if harrow saw an actual barbie doll she would hate it from the depths of her soul. would pulverize it into mush. you have to put barbie through five rounds of dirt and blood and salt water and ice before harrow recognizes her.
“‘What would you do if you discovered Camilla was a murderer?’
‘Help her bury the body,’ said Palamedes promptly.
‘Sextus.’
‘I mean it. If Camilla wants someone dead,’ he said, ‘then far be it from me to stand in her way. All I can do at that point is watch the bloodshed and look for a mop. One flesh, one end, and all that.’”
sooooo enamoured with harrowhark rn she’s a creepy little freak she has fits of manic paranoia she’s a goth lesbian nun raised in a necromancy bone cult she was awake for six days straight just making soup she’s like a drenched shivering chihuahua left out in the rain i want to carry her by the scruff she’s my pathetic little meow meow she’s an unparalleled necromantic talent she flirts with her hallucinations i want to trap her in a tupperware container and shake her around a bit just to see what she’d do
People go on about good healthy queer rep but I cannot express how much I want unhealthily devoted queer rep. Raise your lover from the dead no matter the cost. Kill to get them to safety. Trade your soul for theirs. Die to reunite with them. I want gothic hyper-devotion codependent lovers
god I’m just never gonna fucking recover from “harrowhark, I gave you my whole life and you didn’t even want it.” the use of her full name. the agony. the shakespeare-level comedy of errors with the angst turned up to 11 and the comedy turned down to 0. the fucking. tragedy of it all. I’m unwell no fucking talk me rn
Ortus: I believe that we are trapped in a labyrinth of, consciously or unconsciously, Lady Harrowhark’s making. Although she is a mere seventeen years of age, she has endured enough pain and accrued enough power to fell a Lyctor. Do not underestimate the machinations of her dark, twisted mind.
The machinations of Harrow’s dark, twisted mind: What if I was Gideon’s cavalier 🤔🤔🤔🗡🗡🗡What if she was a charming princess and I was an impoverished little nun 🤴🤴🤴💓💓💓 What if she worked at a coffee shop ☕☕☕🤗🤗🤗
Tragedy enjoyers when characters haunt the narrative, when nothing can be done to save them, when small moments of respite and happiness only serve to send them closer to their inevitable end
Cassiopeia sent the Sixth a letter years ago warning them, telling them to prepare. And all this time they’ve been preparing in secret to run, to get out of the line of fire, to betray the Emperor and keep themselves safe. All without letting the other houses know anything! Keeping it their most precious secret, most closely guarded bit of information because who outside of their house could they trust with it?
Camilla and Palamedes went to Canaan house with this knowledge, with this secret they had likely grown up knowing and guarding, aware that the emperor did not mean well for them and that their loved ones back home were ready and waiting and willing to flee.
“When the time comes to really fight” Camilla said, and she wasn’t just being cautious, she had known from the moment the invitation arrived to the house that there would be a time.
the locked tomb is a fun series because you start gideon and you’re like enemies to lovers! hurt/comfort! skeletons! duels! memes! this is gonna be great! and then you get out the other side of nona and you’ve been completely hollowed out by unfathomable, immeasurable grief
9 times out of 10 when someone is like “now THIS is mean lesbian rep!” its like. random female character in jeans who makes like a quip or two about like whatever male protagonist. harrow told gideon that she wished dulcinea would kill herself bc she was jealous. THATS mean lesbian rep.
the thesis for the locked tomb series is that to love and to have been loved is to change and to have been changed, fundamentally, forever, and nothing can take that from you. that love is transformative. that love survives within those that have loved and have been loved. that love perseveres. that love matters. that life is too short and love is too long. that love is an indelible weight that you carry with you forever, for better or worse. that love transcends your body and your soul. that love and freedom doesn’t coexist. that love is a terrifying mutual ownership, and by having a part of someone in you, and a part of you in them, you are forever tied. that to devote yourself to another person may lead to your destruction, but you do it anyway because life without love is only a shell of itself. that devotion is violent, and we are all its casualties in the end. that love is a force of nature, and it is the one thing humanity has always known, and will always know, how to do. that even when it doesn’t change anything, you just cant help but love anyway — and that changes everything. that love is horrifying and it can consume you but nothing is more important than love.
“Green-and-breathing thing, big ghost, the drinker, transformed, what will you eat now? Where will your body go? What did he do to you, to make you this way?”
One thing (of one million things) I love about Camilla Hect is she holds a motherfucking grudge. Dulcie slights the Warden for a handsome ginger butch? Ten year long childhood friendship OVER, Cam literally acts like she doesn’t know her. Will she keep Jody alive? Sure but she’s going to make sure she does not enjoy one moment of it. Camilla has had enough education THANK YOU. Coronabeth saved her life once but does that matter? Absolutely not, Corona was part of the lie, nickname privileges REVOKED, found family status TERMINATED. Camilla does not need to be a peacemaker, the Warden has enough diplomacy for the both of them. She stands behind him with her big knives and says the Sixth House remembers, bitch.
she LOVED them and it’s finished it’s done and pyrrha will keep loving her cause she doesn’t know how to stop and she bought her a birthday present that she’ll never get for a party that will never happen and cam and pal wouldn’t have let her wear it but paul would bc there is no cam or pal anymore and soon there wont be any nona and she wants to make herself remember and she’ll try not to forget bc she doesn’t want to be gone forever but i don’t know that she can and i’m FINE
between gideon yanth and alecto harrow really does get the most bitches out of everyone. her swagless looks and cringefail personality have captivated them
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