everyone wants to talk about gideon must feel about pyrrha’s relationship, well I want to talk about how gideon must feel about john’s relationship with harrow. like, you’re trapped in the body of the girl you love and your long lost father is telling her how he wishes he were her dad, how if he had a daughter he would want it to be a girl like her. like, everyone loves harrow and no one loves you. fuck!!
ok rereading nona the ninth and i can’t believe this never occurred to me but. the kids know about resurrection beasts. they know varun the eater by name.
but like. of course they do. this is what people are constantly being “resettled” over, isn’t it? it’s not just the war. the lyctors move people off populated planets to flip them. of fucking course beautiful ruby knows what a resurrection beast is. even if he doesn’t understand it, even if he doesn’t know it by that name, of course he would know what it is. of course these people have names for them.
i can’t believe i never considered this before. the children of the nine houses are raised not even knowing about them. harrow, with all her appetite for learning, with an entire library of nasty, forbidden little books at her disposal, had never even heard of them until she became a lyctor. but fucking kevin knows what a resurrection beast is. he knows their names, because he has to.
john has spent ten thousand years keeping them off his precious houses, and he did that by leading them straight into the path of populated planets. this isn’t even subtext. we knew this. this isn’t new information. i had just never really thought about it in those terms before.
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