Nona leant into her and said, “Thanks. I love you too, Camilla,” and: “Do you know who I am yet?”
Beyond the fact that this scene instantly came to mind — a parallel to the Rider-Waite tarot card with a figure merrily walking off a cliff, white dog trotting at their heels — when I thought of this card, Nona as a character works perfectly for The Fool.
On both literal and metaphorical levels, she is experiencing life for the first time. Her existence represents a new beginning for the series, with a new unanticipated book exploring new people and new stories.
Her innocence, however, sees her delve several times into the reversed meaning of the card: taking on tasks she can’t fully comprehend, throwing eldritch tantrums, and making naïve mistakes and misunderstandings which drive the plot.
The jig was finally up. […] “Nona,” said Palamedes […] “that was very important information—information that changes everything—[…] and the type of information Camilla and I personally trusted you to prioritise.” This was too much to bear. “I’ve had things to think about,” Nona wailed. “I didn’t want to get in trouble.”
ID: A digital collage of “The Fool” tarot card as Nona from the Locked Tomb series. The design parallels the Rider-Waite Fool card. Nona, dressed in a yellow raincoat and respirator, is stepping off the edge of a cliff with Noodle at her heels. A destroyed city is in the background in tones of orange and purple, and Varun the Eater is a bright blue orb in the top right corner of the smoggy yellow sky. Nona’s outfit is from illustrations by Holly Hobbie, Lou Rogers, Howard Smith, and Henry Hintermeister. The cliff is from Brunhilde by Arthur Rackham. The city images are photos of 1940s Warsaw. Noodle is from a painting by Cecil Aldin, with some added legs. The left side of the card shows the upright meaning of The Fool and reads, “Beginnings | Innocence | Leap of Faith | Spontaneity | Idealism” in all caps. The right side of the card shows the reversed reading and reads “Chaos | Foolishness | Naïveté | Poor Judgment | Gullibility” in all caps. The base of the card reads “The Fool | Nona” in a groovy font.
“I haven’t had human meat for 10,000 years” weak ass mindset. We’re talking about people with perfect mastery over their bodies, bone flesh and spirit. If anything, the Lyctors SHOULD hold regular cooking competitions where they use their own body parts. And then they debate over who tastes best. Get creative with it!
“Yeah, so this roast is made of a mix of cells from my calf and my lungs, served with a broth of rips” - “Hmm, interesting flavour profile, but the consistency is kinda gross.”
It would provide ample enrichment.
I think it’s unfair of them to ban Harrowhark for the Soup Incident
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