ok i’m sleepy and having emotions and i’m not gonna grab my copy to pull the specific quotes but. you remember that scene in htn where mercy and augustine are arguing. i think it’s the “you have rendered yourself unlovable” one. and augustine tells her that he could kill her if he wanted. he could do it without a second thought, could stub her out like a cigarette beneath his shoe, and john would forgive him? john would understand? augustine is his favorite, and they all know it, to such a degree that mercymorn ceases to matter in the slightest?
cool great. now remember that time when john killed mercy? without a second thought? stubbed her out beneath his shoe? and then he turned to augustine and he said, you understand why i did that, right? you know that you’re my favorite? you know i love you? she doesn’t matter. we can put this behind us. augustine, can’t you forgive me?
and augustine says no, john. no, i can’t.
cause i’m thinking about that and i’m tearing my hair out. i’m eating the drywall. her death was too far. it was too far and augustine couldn’t forgive him. he was right about john, probably more right than he realized, but he could never have brought himself to do it. it was unforgiveable.
Harrow: my deepest darkest trauma is that my parents killed a bunch of children in order to make me into a powerful necromancer. they died for me. their blood is on my hands.
Gideon: that sucks dude. anyways I’m going to sacrifice myself to save your life. you’ll be an even more powerful necromancer. pretty sick, huh?
Gideon: why are you so upset about this
Gideon: is it because you don’t like me
Gideon: my deepest darkest trauma is that nobody ever cared if I lived or died, except for you. the thought of being forgotten entirely by everyone is so terrifying to me that I have never cared if you loved me or hated me, as long as you were as obsessed with me as I was with you.
Harrow: that sucks dude. anyways I’m going give myself a lobotomy so I forget about you entirely. this will preserve your soul so you can maybe hypothetically come back someday.
🎵missing pieces of my skull, i’ll sew on patches of my own soul🎶
palamedes sextus, my beloved! this piece has been in my head for months, and it took so many tries to get it how i wanted. maybe someday it’ll get properly painted up, but for now here’s a bit of my favorite librarian, sex pal.
okay question: how did you imagine the dish abigail and magnus served at their anniversary dinner?
what food is this. i ask myself this on every reread what food is this.
because i am who i am, i of course imagined it as something like zereshk polo,
rice (white and fluffy boiled grain) with barberries (tiny tart fruits) and topped with pistachios (chopped nuts)
@mxsiralot oh my god how did i not consider jeweled rice. of course its jeweled rice. all the same elements as zereshk polo but also can have carrots orange peel raisins almonds and most importantly can be garnished with pomegranate seeds which are specifically mentioned in the same scene.
and! jeweled rice is typically served at special occasions, such as weddings! ty ive decided that Abigail and magnus served jeweled rice at their anniversary dinner. send tweet.
one of the best gideon moments hands down is when, post battle with new lyctor ianthe, she finds out that dulcinea and palamedes are sort of exes and she LIES DOWN ON THE GROUND ABOUT IT AND GROANS FOR FIVE WHOLE MINUTES. everyone is like “gideon get up” “gideon it’s not a big deal” and she is like literally i’m going to end it all. this is so embarrassing for me and palamedes must hate me (cam has told her four times this is Not True) i must go make things right with him immediately. babygirl there’s a feral infant proto-god who just consumed the soul of her 1950s greaser chewtoy sprinting around canaan house you HAVE to change your priorities. and yet she won’t and she doesn’t. i love her so bad
crucial elements of my vision for a locked tomb animated series:
First season starts with Gideon falling to her death—freeze frame, Gideon voiceover: “Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this fucking mess.”
We rewind all the way to Gideon choking Harrow out as children. Gideon says “Well, now that’s just too far.” The running joke of the season is that this memory REALLY wants to play out, but Gideon refuses to get into it. That way, we get a lot of tension building up to the full scene and, more importantly, the imagery of the blood in Harrow’s nails really sticks with the audience.
Regular jumps between the present day and flashbacks so that they’re baked into the format and the river scenes in HtN don’t feel out of place.
Gideon pauses scenes literally all the time for asides and narration, a la The Emperor’s New Groove. (I feel her voice is crucial to the story and must be preserved as much as possible in a visual adaptation. The goofiness inherent to this device is also, in my opinion, completely necessary.)
When we finally get to the season finale, and Gideon dies, she KEEPS cutting in for asides, except now she’s talking directly to Harrow, who is responding, and it’s not really funny anymore.
