Ok, since I’m now a locked tomb blog kinda now, and I Have Thoughts, I’m gonna share them with you. What would happen if Cytherea hadn’t shown up? I don’t mean like “everyone has happy fun times and works on necromancy together!” First of all, Silas Octikiseron is there, and he always gonna be No Fun. A non-Cytherea Canaan House would still be full of petty sniping at each other. What I’m saying is, the necromancers of Canaan house are some of the most brilliant to have ever existed.
We’ve got Ianthe , Abigail , Palamedes, and Harrow, who could all make claim to being the best in their respective fields. You honestly think these four couldn’t figure out perfect lyctorhood together? Hell, in canon Palamedes figured out Something that allowed Cam to both survive and get his eyes, and they had this planned out before his suicide attack on Cytherea. Ianthe figured out imperfect lyctorhood without any help, Cytherea killed Abigail first explicitly because her spirit medium abilities and knowledge of history could figure out who Cytherea was! And then Harrow, who managed to preform the lyctoral process while being attacked by a much older lyctor! If we get into Harrow the Ninth, she’s one of two people in canon who can manage theorems in The River! You honestly wanna tell me if they put their heads together, they couldn’t figure it out?
So my idea is that the Necromantic Dream Team over here figures out perfect lyctorhood, thinks “Oh yeah, this is probably how we do it.“ Then everybody who wants to be a lyctor becomes one, cavaliers intact, and they send a call to God like, ”Ok everybody’s done”. Could you imagine? Everybody just walking on the ship with their cavaliers like it was nothing? I can’t decide if it would be funny or absolutely heartbreaking. Funny from an outsider’s perspective, but Augustine and Mercy and maybe Gideon the First would just break. Pyrrha, Cristabel, and Alfred‘s sacrifice meant nothing, and these children figured out what they couldn’t! The angst potential here!
This picture has sat on my fridge for like two years, held up by magnets of the greatest characters in the world to guard them (Jade and Sterling from Chris Dane Owen’s SHINE ON ME video), so forgive its fold marks and low quality, which do not at all do justice to the art.
From top to bottom, although it is fairly obvious if you’ve read the book: Camilla, Palamedes, Dulcinea, Harrow, Gideon.
This was my first piece of fan art. It kept me going on bad days. Camilla’s side-eye in particular encouraged me to eat a lot of yoghurt. If you go and pre-order a copy of THE UNSPOKEN NAME, written by its artist, I’ll draw an erotic stick figure of hermain characters writhing in a pile of snakes. I can’t draw snakes or even frankly stick figures, so it’ll be a wild ride
[ID: A digital illustration of Cytherea the First and Dulcinea Septimus from the Locked Tomb Series. Both are wearing regency-style dress, Dulcinea is turquoise and Cytherea in white. Cytherea is in profile, staring forward as she pierces Dulcinea’s heart with a rapier. Dulcinea is turned to face the viewer as she smiles softly and presses an index finger over her lips. End ID.]
… more gideon sketches. sorry, bear with me, we’ll cross this River eventually
[id: four painted sketches, one is of two girls in black clothes, Harrow putting her foot on Gideon’s face, they are both bloodied and Gideon’s wrists are held by skeleton hands. Second is of a girl, Dulcinea, with white skin and light brown hair, in a green dress and in a wheelchair. Third is of Harrow putting makeup on Gideon’s face, Gideon is laying down. Forth is of Orthus and Harrow, Orthus is a fat man with light skin and brown hair, in wet dark robe, he holds an umbrella over Harrow’s head. end id]
This isn’t how it happens aka the battle in the River
[ID: A drawing of characters from The Locked Tomb trilogy. Harrowhark stands at the bottom, raising one hand to form skeletons in the background. Her face is painted like a skull and a black dripping band is painted over her eyes. Ortus is to her right, clutching a hand to his chest valiantly. Abigail is above Harrow, in the center, frowning with her hands outstretched at her sides. Dulcie is behind her to the left, sitting in a wheelchair. Magnus is to Abigail’s right. Matthias Nonius is at the top center, solemnly holding his rapier pointing upwards. He is flanked by Protesilaus and Marta, who are both in ready stances with their own rapiers. The Sleeper looms over all of them in the background. Black bands radiate from Matthias. End ID]
(Harrow voice): griddle why are you giving your attention to other women when you have me, a person who treats you badly every day of the year
(Spoilers from GTN under the cut)
Me in the middle of the book: I know the main ship is harrow x gideon but i like dulcinea x gideon more because she is a nice person :) LMAO how did that went
