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do you ever think about corona and gideon. how ianthe and harrow respectively refused to consume them. how they took it as a sign of rejection when it was a symbol of love. or are you normal.

Millions Knives is to Vash the Stampede what Ianthe Tridentarius is to Coronabeth. Not sure what to do with this information other that rotate it carefully in my brain

Ianthe Tridentarius 🤝 Tara Abernathy

Necromancers woth one metal plated skelly arm appreciation

My poor girl was losing her religion every day on that space shuttle

Some good points, and if anyone in this series is playing 5-dimensional chess, Ianthe is.

But I also think the simple motivations make sense.

Ianthe is a pragmatist. She explicitly said sucking up to Augustine was a survival strategy - ingratiating herself so that he'd think twice about leaving her to be eaten by an R.B.

John is exponentially more powerful. Helping him in a rare moment of vulnerability is a completely in-character, strategic move. She saw a chance to make the most powerful man in the universe her grateful benefactor and she seized it. I buy that.

And also… she just found out John's death means her home solar system will be destroyed!

I don't know why everyone's overlooking that. When Mercy and August were talking about watching their people die up close, she seemed horrified.

If there's any one on third, or any place even, that she doesn't completely hate... or if she even idly suspects Corona might be near harm's way... her choice to save John makes perfect sense.

This too is part of her pragamatism. She doesn't care what he's done. She cares what his death will do.

“Based on various Ianthe analysis I have seen floating around lately, today’s Locked Tomb meta thought is: what does Ianthe think Augustine can do in the stoma?

The more I think about it, the more I conclude that Ianthe’s reason for tipping the fight between Augustine and John the way she did cannot have been out of desire to protect John.

Reasoning:

-She didn’t join in the prayer to John in the first scene at Canaan House. Previous meta I have seen discussing why Ianthe would have saved John has pointed to culture/religion, but from what we’ve seen, Ianthe is actually much less religious than is typical in the Nine Houses. It seems odd that she would feel more religious after living around John, and witnessing Augustine and Mercy confront him.

-Ianthe respects Augustine as much as she respects anyone. We see her seek his praise and wilt in the face of his criticism. She is genuinely interested in learning about necromancy from him. He is probably the second-to-last person I would expect her to sacrifice. (Corona obvs being the first.)

-Ianthe’s necromantic interest in the river and stomas. This ties neatly into previous mention of Augustine’s knowledge pool. Ianthe does not seem content with the idea that stomas are just garbage collectors. She wants to know what it’s like inside them. She is convinced there is an inside them to learn about. And based on her respect for Augustine, she would trust him to figure it out.

Final thought, more speculative than the rest of this, is, What if Ianthe not only trusts Augustine to explore the inside of the stoma, she doesn’t want John to learn more about them?? 

all the “harrow’s three weed smoking girlfriends” jokes are ten times funnier when you remember that the three weed smoking girlfriends are god’s daughter god’s girlfriend and god’s only saint

remind me to draw these three more often

fun fact I actually own the “lurk laugh loathe” t-shirt that Ianthe is wearing

“Ianthe the First is a continual surprise to me. If I was going to pass out a fourth epithet, I’d call her the Saint of Awe.” - Harrow the Ninth, ch. 23

(alternately: “Why did you ascend to be a Lyctor?” “Ultimate power—and posters of my face.” - Harrow the Ninth, ch. 48)

Lyctor!Ianthe: @incandescentorrery Photos: @featherbreak at Dragoncon 2024

PLEASE do a bonus gideon drawing i beg

@scorpling: *galaxy brains* someone should draw the TLT necromancers as their corresponding Sailor Guardians

Me: Oh that sounds like a great idea. Too bad I've actually never watched Sailor Moon tho

Me:

Me: Palamedes in a miniskirt tho.

Ive rewatched this a million times it's just too good-

I couldn't put it as a thumbnail so here's just Gideon seperatly

this is the dumbest thing ever but I had so much fun with it

once again, a quick sketch

someone called her “yucky” and i could not stop admiring at how on-point this descriptive is // still an s-tier character tho

Then giving her a pet Draco clone to bully mercilessly before killing and cannibalizing him offscreen and having no one care beyond finding it a vague shame she didn’t eat anyone more interesting. Visionary, really.

tamsyn muir seeing the draco in leather pants trope and deciding not only to write a hot lesbian version but also make her complex and interesting instead of just regular boring evil was objectively one of the top ten sexiest things tlt has achieved

worlds first normal girls