best thing about Ianthe is that the bone arm is so fucking stupid. it doesn’t make any sense. it sounds cool in theory but in reality having her entire right arm reduced to only skinny little bones probably just make her look off-balance and weird. the joint that connects to the shoulder is either surrounded by open exposed meat or has had skin manually grown over it so that her upper arm looks like a corn dog. I assume lyctorhood + bone magic means that her body can do whatever it wants but also how is an arm without muscle going to have any strength behind it. she’s one unlucky landing away from snapping clean through the gold plating and exploding her rapier arm into a dozen useless shards. Yes she can just regenerate it but why go through the effort. Why is she only making herself a Fat Glove on an as-needed basis she is a flesh magician just put the meat back on it. except she never will because it’s her daily reminder of the closest she ever got to having sex with harrow
#it’s her consolation prize #i also think there’s something here about. like she experienced a traumatic event and then decided to display it proudly forever #it’s like her battle scar #you can’t really see the lengths she went to in order to become a lyctor unless you knew what her eyes looked like before #and lyctorhood is this state that sort of. erases all harm done to the necromancer’s body like it never happened #so then it’s this whole deal where you can go through immense physical pain and just get fixed over and over #but ianthe wants to finally be acknowledged. she wants her villain speech she wants posters of her face #she wants people to know who she is and what she’s capable of #the arm is a lasting symbol of that imo #ianthe doesn’t actually want to be this anonymous physically perfect gesture of the emperor forever#she wants notoriety
(via @gideonisms)