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windmillcrusader:

dragonretirement:

There are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja.ALT
The Emperor of the Nine Houses Crossed out: “A.L.”, his guardian Augustine the First Crossed out: Alfred Quinque, his cavalier FIRST SAINT TO SERVE THE KING UNDYING Mercymorn the First Crossed out: Cristabel Oct, her cavalier SECOND SAINT TO SERVE THE KING UNDYING ORTUS the First Crossed out: Pyrrha Dve, his cavalier THIRD SAINT TO SERVE THE KING UNDYINGALT
They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction and;ALT
Ianthe the First Crossed Out: Naberius Tern, her cavalier EIGHTH SAINT TO SERVE THE KING UNDYING Harrowhark the First Garbled lettering NINTH SAINT TO SERVE THE KING UNDYINGALT
and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was the obverse of Enjolras.ALT

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (trans. Isabel Hapgood) | Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

#the cavaliers and their names as metaphysically secondary to their necromancers is good on its own#but the obfuscation of harrow’s cavalier in such a way that we understand what must fill that place#that gideon is the logical shape that harrow + absence makes#to me ​implies that harrow is her obverse instead#that htn is literally a sequel to an existence not hers constructed around the empty place where someone else is supposed to be (via @corpsesoldier)