[image description: a digitally illustrated comic of judith deuteros and camilla hect from the locked tomb series. judith sits in a hospital bed, chained to the bars on the side. she frowns and says “what you’ve just said is indicative of everything that is going wrong.” camilla looks at judith from over her shoulder with a neutral expression and says, “thank you.” she then turns away and adds, “i’ve had enough education.”]
I’m currently re-reading Gideon the Ninth and cultivating a newfound appreciation for how simply fucking disgusting Harrowhark is. Like she’s constantly covered in dust, sweat, scabs and sores, half-dried crumbling face paint that might or might not be flaked with her own blood, blood which also drips out of her pores and crusts around her nose. Absolutely revolting. I love her so much
What kind of fountain pen does Harrow jab her mouth with. It’s less fountain pen and more of dip pen if we’re rolling with the definition of “fountain pen” as a pen whose ink is held by a reservoir
[img id: Digital Painting of Gideon Nav from Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Bust portrait. Gideon wears a spiked leather jacket with an expression of panic on her black and white painted face. Her aviator sunglasses are partway down her nose, revealing her golden eyes. She has a necklace of bones and a low cut red shirt. Her shockingly red hair is shaved at the back. Her skin is littered with smeared paint and scars. The text next to the image reads ‘Oh, no. Nonagesimus is hot.’ /end id.]
[Text ID 1: Palamedes suddenly grinned. It was a curious act of alchemy that turned his raw-boned, plain face into something magnetic: very nearly good-looking, instead of being the act of three jawbones meeting a chin. “We’ve got three…” End text ID 1
Text ID 2: “…bring hell first,” said Harrow. Gideon looked over her shoulder at her, and caught the Reverend Daughter’s smile. There was blood sweat coming out of her left ear, but her smile was long and sweet and beautiful. Gideon found herself smiling back so hard her mouth hurt. End text ID 2
Text ID 3: …terror rising in her mouth. He smiled, and with that strange alchemy he made lovely, his grey eyes bright and clear. Palamedes entered the sickroom. End text ID 3
Text ID 4: Her eyes opened. A small, astonished smile creased her mouth. The smile transformed her face into an affliction of beauty that Gideon had heretofore managed to ignore. End text ID 4]
Hello! I loved Gideon the Ninth so much!! and would like to draw fan art, would you mind sharing any helpful summaries of what each character looks like? or must us fans hunt through the book for every offhand line of description? (not that I'm not planning on rereading it anyway)
I have let myself drift back onto Tumblr after two weeks, am deeply affrighted and excited at the idea that anyone has drawn my kids (I had an AMA on Reddit and as said there, my editor every so often hollered into my inbox about amazing shit people were doing, but I was too busy complaining back to him that my face had gone numb and that I no longer slept, but instead the darkness of the grave claimed me for four to five hours each night). Thank you so much to anyone who has already done this. Many people on my team have yelled and yelled.
Back early on in the piece I made a document for him about what characters looked like in terms of basic ideas/outlines for copyediting, covers and sense purposes, and I’ve dug out that document and slapped it up here for general delectation. As a note: I imagine specific things when it comes to my characters (I am a Kiwi: I write Kiwis In Space as a default) but as I have nothing but joy in my heart for how anyone would want to draw these characters, feel free to glance over this, then toss it out the window. It would bring tears of beauty to my eyes if anyone was like “Yes, but when I was reading I imagined Naberius Tern as a huge monitor lizard,” because absolutely yes, Naberius Tern was just a huge monitor lizard, godspeed.
I had only described below the specific cavalier-necromancer pairs, so that’s what you’ll find below, sorry if anyone wanted Teacher.
Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus Characters: Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Camilla Hect, Coronabeth Tridentarius Additional Tags: alecto au, double amnesia, Perfect Lyctorhood (Locked Tomb Trilogy), Falling In Love, Telepathic Bond, Fluff and Angst Summary:
Gideon switched gears from confused to annoyed. “Excuse you, but I didn’t get my ass kicked up and down the steps of Drearburh for eighteen years just to have the world’s tiniest asshat give me lip about it.”
The girl stood now, drawing herself up to her full height, and the exhausted circles around her eyes made her face gaunt and skull-like. Gideon’s palms prickled when she spoke, intoning in a way that reminded her, terrifyingly, of Crux.
“I am the Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus, and I know the face of each one of my supplicants. If someone as feckless as you, Gideon Nav, were among my congregation, then I would have tossed you out the airlock when I first laid eyes on you.”
[Gideon and Harrow wake up back in their own bodies but both of them are missing large parts of their memory. Camilla tries not to kill everyone.]
my fav part of a doodle page that didn’t work out,which is fine because I only started so I could draw our fav lil nunlet with some tasty imagery
[image description: a digital illustration of harrow from the locked tomb series. she wears a huge necklace of spines and a pale laurel crown. blood drips from her temple and the palms of her hands. she lifts out out a hand and a gold skull hovers over it. a gold and silver halo is behind her head. her expression is serene and her eyes are golden.]
