i just think ianthe is working very hard and deserves to do a little self modivated sulking and scheming, as a treat. we only really see her through gideon & harrow’s very uncharitable perspectives, but like!!!! she spent most of her time at canaan house solving necromantic puzzles in the basement and not causing any trouble. she killed the thing posessing colum, saving gideon’s life. she intervened when cytherea was about to slaughter harrow and gideon and cam, and got the shit kicked out of her in the process. she helped harrow do a homebrew lobotomy to save gideon’s soul, even though she didn’t agree with harrow’s reasons for it. she saved harrow from gideon the first that one time by rolling her down the hall in a ball of fat. she helped harrow plot g1deon’s murder. when mercy (temporarily) killed john and the whole system of dominicus as a result, she was horrified at mercy’s callus disregard for the massacre that would have happened if john had not gotten better. like she’s definitely a murderer and has done several other bad things but also i think she is underappreciated for the sheer number of times she has bailed our beloved protagonists out of bad situations or otherwise managed to Hold Everything Together