the* revolutionary thing about mercymorn nolastname is that she’s a pastel girl with a hater attitude, scrambling the common tropes of “goth girl with hater attitude” and “pastel girl with sunny attitude.”
pre-gtn harrow through whatever twist of fate figuring out that gideon is the child of the emperor, but she’s 13 and mentally ill and Going Thru It so instead of like, handling that information in any other manner, she sends John Gaius a child support request. and he’s like “wtf is the ninth house taking about” but it’s kind of worrying and he can’t GO to figure out himself because hello resurrection beasts? and then harrow sends another because the ninth is BROKE and she may not be letting go of her indentured servant but she is going to get that bread and anyway i think this ends with pyrhha politely and amusedly drinking tea that harrowhark brews her at an official diplomatic meeting while pyrhha is pretending she doesn’t notice the corpse puppeting. and then there’s like revolution idk
theres something so special about ianthe tridentarius being a genre-destroying caricature of an edgy YA badboy sexy flopvillain and i mean it. no emotional stakes just this 6 foot tall gumby looking creature in a open shirt doing fuck all but leaning on doorways sauntering around and smirking at y/n. babygirl
