ok but what if aiglamene didn’t push back and harrow’s insistence about gideon’s offhand was obeyed. and they get to canaan house and naberius challenges gideon to a duel and he busts out his gay little trident knife and gideon just pulls out. a gun
this is mostly funny to me bc it’s made very clear that the ninth house, as focused as it is on survival, does not operate by the same social rules/expectations as the other houses:
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like it is fully established that the ninth house has No Chill and that gideon has been taught to fight for survival, while the other cavaliers primary have been taught to duel for sport.
gideon might very well have shot naberius if harrow’d had her way
none of the other cavaliers brought “powder” as their offhand like come on harrow is that even an actual thing or are you just being a creepy and violent little ninth nun!!!
can you imagine chuckling at none pizza with left beef and then living through the death of humanity and resurrecting a chunk of it and becoming a god figure to the new society you create and then 10,000 years later referencing it in conversation to a horribly traumatized teenager who has no possible frame of reference for this ancient meme that no one else alive has ever heard of
i assume this is a reference to something but choose to believe it is simply a creative exercise that tumblr user spleen9000 is inviting me to participate in. like yes. yes im imagining it
Ok but Harrow’s “Love Interest“ possibilities are so funny from ANY angle. Her MOST HEALTHY option is her (physically)dead cavalier who hated her guts for sixteen years. Her ONLY ALIVE option is the most fucked-up gaslight gatekeep girlboss bitch in existence. Her third option is an eldritch horror. Harrow tried to smooch it.
Still losing my mind over Harrow’s attempt to edit Gideon out of her memory and replace her with Ortus somehow creating an entire alternate universe: canon divergence populated by actual ghosts which rapidly diverges so far from what actually happened that it actually causes more plot holes in her memory and makes it even more obvious that something is wrong than if shed just given herself amnesia or something
Apparently the only books I’m reading this year involve sapphic blonde necromancers fundamentally opposed to their own identical twin sisters so this happened
(In Ianthe’s defense, so far she’s way better at avoiding getting her body stolen)
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[ID: a virgin/chad meme. The left side is labeled “The Virgin Ianthe Tridentarius”. The normal picture has been edited to have light blonde hair, blue eyes, no glasses, and a white robe. Various text boxes read “Would rather kill anyone else than her identical twin sister”, “Lost out romantically to someone who’s been effectively dead for millennia”, “Simps for the local evil immortal ruler even when given other options”, “Totally unhelpful when people around her start getting killed”, “Zero Friends”, and “No proof she’s ever had sex.”
The right side is labeled “The Chad Jack Wolcott”. The normal picture has been edited to have glasses, a high collar, a cravat, and gloves. Various text boxes read “Killed her identical twin sister twice without hesitation”, “Now-fiancee abandoned her ghost boyfriend to be with her”, “Ditched the local evil immortal ruler within a day of meeting him”, “Helps dispose of the bodies when people around her start getting killed”, “At least three friends”, and “Has sex regularly”]
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