May 2024

Figure in orange jumpsuit with long red hair stands in contrapposto, half obscured by smoke. Their face is covered by a mirrored, full face gas mask and they are wearing metal military dog tags on a chain, black gloves, and a black belt, with a black knife sheath strapped to their left thigh. In their right hand they hold a telescoping baton out to the side and in their left they hold a ka-bar knife pointed at the cameraALT
Photo of the same figure as described above, now in shot in profile: they are sitting down against a concrete wall and are slumped forward as if dead. Next to them is a cylindrical, metal-appearing canister with translucent yellow sides. Inside the tube is a baby wrapped in bloodied cloth. ALT

“My master in life was revenge,” said the Sleeper. “My mission is one of—Goddamn it, I’m not going to start talking like this.”

- Harrow the Ninth, chapter 49

Wake: me!

Photo: @wyyrdplayy w/ fog machine assist by @cassylvan

[baby tube progress and WIP]

bonus:

Edit of photo of the same masked figure as described above with the baby tube slug over their back. The photo is placed onto a white background. Overlayed text reads: This cosplay is NOT about Among us, death stranding, lethal company. (Characters from said video games are placed around the central photo, and crossed out in red.) it is about the locked tomb series by tamsyn muir. (quotes from the book descriping Wake/The Sleeper are placed below the central photo, checkmarked in green)ALT

hey so like when Gideon was visiting her mother’s niche all those years did she ever pass by the crypts of those 200 dead children or does the Ninth House keep dead kids in a seperate area? because like…

your name is Gideon Nav and you are the only survivor of something horrible, and you don’t understand why. every time you walk to your mother’s grave you have to pass by the bones of 200 dead children knowing you could have been one of them, and you weren’t. everyone you know hates you, and the only reason behind your survival that you can guess at is maybe the dead kids hated you too; maybe they shunned you so thoroughly that it inadvertently saved your life. every year you survive is a year that you know your peers did not get to see, and when you know when you turn 18 you will finally eclipse them totally.

anyway. when she walked to her mother’s grave did Gideon ever pass by the bones of 200 dead children and wish she was haunted.