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#LADY ABIGAIL PENT!!!!!!!!
oh-jail-for-mother · 2 years
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you know it. i know it. we all know it
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longearedhare · 29 days
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not gonna lie if you’re catastrophizing about some bullshit it kind of helps to imagine Abigail Pent firmly yet kindly telling you “This is NOT how it happens”
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field-s-of-flowers · 7 months
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I think it’s very important that Abigail Pent is a little bit strange and off-putting. Like yes, she’s the oldest non-lyctor necromancer on cast and she’s a maternal figure and she generally makes smart decisions, but also! She’s a spirit magician! She knows everything there is to know about ghosts! She makes overly intense eye contact! She got so caught up in her research she forgot her own anniversary! She’s definitely the best-adjusted compared to the other necros and yeah she looks pretty normal but as soon as she opens her mouth you’re like “oh she’s not all there is she.” I fully believe she clocked Cytherea on some level at the dinner party but she was too distracted telling her about her research to really think about it. And most importantly I think Magnus Quinn is the normalest guy you will ever meet and he loves his weird weird wife with his whole entire heart and soul
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ohladydimitrescu · 11 months
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' Lady Abigail the First.
Saint of Love. '
I’m on an Abigail Pent brainrot and I needed to depict her as a lyctor
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pencildragons · 2 months
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is this anything (i made this in powerpoint)
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poppxjos · 8 months
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TLT as these random t-shirts (pt 2)
(With the help from a friend)
Abigail
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Magnus
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Literally any of the OG lyctors lets be real here
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Jod
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Commander Wake
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Pyrrha
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Nona
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Pash
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Alecto
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carys-the-ninth · 1 year
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With inspiration from @gideonisms, undisputed in the field of mashing Locked Tomb ladies together like erasers, may I present:
The Locked Tomb Femslash Rarepair Generator
Please comment your result in the tags (and maybe also a ship name).
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gil-estel · 17 days
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hoopla has the french language audiobook of harrow the ninth available to borrow and tbh im having a blast listening to it
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meltdownmillennium · 1 year
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I have been so in love with The Locked Tomb series, so I did a super basic interpretation of Abigail Pent
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katakaluptastrophy · 5 months
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Can we talk about Magnus in Harrow the Ninth? Because there's a tendency to paint him as this constantly cheerful figure and he's not - he's just very Fifth.
He's the only person who seems even slightly upset about the whole gun-toting horror thing:
“Did the Sleeper get them?”
“Only by assumption,” said Harrowhark, while Abigail’s dolt of a husband said, “I bloody hope so.”
“Magnus,” Abigail said, a touch disapprovingly.
“Well, if the Sleeper didn’t, that’s two maniacs with an ancient weapon and a love of blowing off faces, dear,” said Magnus.
And he's got a very low opinion of Silas:
"She won’t tell me what he said to her, just that he ‘was horrid.’”
“Cheeky little so-and-so,” said Magnus. “If he were my son, I’d give him something to think about. I’m not surprised he’s gone to ground.”
“I would hope your son might be of different character,” said his wife, half-smiling.
“Protesilaus should have biffed him.”
“It’s strange,” said Abigail, ignoring her husband’s exhortations to biffing.
Behind the jolly Jeeves and Wooster-esque talk of biffing people, let's remember that this is Magnus - who from Gideon's POV never saw a teenager he didn't want to adopt - earnestly wishing that a grown man had hit a 16 year old kid.
And when Harrow explains that she thinks she saw him jump to his death, Magnus isn't particularly sympathetic:
“We should have made him a greater priority,” said Lady Pent.
Magnus said, “I’m not certain.”
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“We didn’t need him,” he said bracingly.
Abigail said, “We need everyone.”
“I never thought he was quite the thing.”
This "never quite the thing" line is the same one Abigail uses when she says Ianthe shouldn't have become a Lyctor and you get the sense it has a quite specific meaning on the Fifth. You get the distinct feeling Magnus is saying "good riddance" in response to a teenager's apparent suicide.
And then of course there's Magnus' conversation with Harrow as the River bubble collapses, as Harrow debates whether she should leave her body to Gideon:
She said: “If I go back, it will finally destroy her soul.”
It was Magnus who stepped forward and looked at Harrow face-to-face. And perhaps she felt that more keenly: that he was the man who had, in Gideon’s own words a lifetime ago, been nice to her cavalier. His mouth was hard now, but his eyes were as kind as they had ever been. And kindness was a knife.
He doesn't pull any punches in laying out his understanding of the situation to Harrow:
“This whole thing happened because you wouldn’t face up to Gideon dying,” he said, which was a stab as precise as any Nonius had managed. “I don’t blame you. But where would you be, right now, if you’d said: She is dead? You’re keeping her things like a lover keeping old notes, but with her death, the stuff that made her Gideon was destroyed. That’s how Lyctorhood works, isn’t it? She died. She can’t come back, even if you keep her stuffed away in a drawer you can’t look at. You’re not waiting for her resurrection; you’ve made yourself her mausoleum.”
His wife looked at Harrow’s face and murmured, “Magnus, you’ve made your point,” but he uncharacteristically ignored her.
He's trying to get through to her in a very fraught situation, but he's certainly not pulling his punches:
“You’re a smart girl, Harrowhark. You might turn some of that brain to the toughest lesson: that of grief.”
Abigail is also trying to talk her out of things, but she's much more discursive and apologetic. Magnus is kind, but it's kindness as a knife, not a cushion.
Magnus is so often written off as just a silly, goofy character, when he's more complicated than that. He's allowed to have a very real frustration with the River bubble and with Harrow, however much he does also care for her and want to help her.
And you know what, he's a CFO stuck in a horrorscape with his delighted ghost nerd wife and a bunch of soldiers. He runs with it - he cracks one of his House ordinal jokes while physically tackling a gun-toting ghost and makes a decent go at it before getting shot. But he's very much out of his comfort zone, angry, and no longer entirely held back by propriety.
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m-to-the-6th-power · 25 days
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When Jeannemary Chatur opened her eyes she expected to see The Ninth sitting across the lyctor laboratory. What she saw instead was the face of Abigail Pent smiling warmly down at her, Issac and Magnus over either shoulder. Jeanne's heart jumped into her throat at seeing Issac wanting to jump up and hug him, but when she fully processed the adults standing there it was an icy fist around her oesophagus. Jeanne refused to let tears well up, fighting down the emotion until Abigail folded her into a hug. When Abigail pressed Jeannemary's feverish eyes against her cool clavicle, the tears would not be stopped. 
Jeanne cried like the child she never truly was, not even noticing the absence of Isaac and Magnus as her arms wrapped around Abigail like a vice. Jeanne tried to stop speaking, but apologies would not stop falling from her lips between sobs. “It was my fault Abigail, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it. I promise I didn't mean it. I was just angry. I promise I was just angry, please don't be mad. Please don't leave again, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.”
Abigail gently moved Jeannemary back to look her in the eye, gently stroking her hair and rubbing a cool thumb over her temple. “Jeanne, darling, what are you talking about?” Abigail asked, voice gently coaxing. “You have nothing to apologize for.”
“But I do,” Jeanne wailed, unable to meet Abigail's eyes, focusing on the steady movement of her ribs expanding and contracting with breath. “When you hushed Issac at the dinner I got so angry. And then after that when you told him to not get our key, I just thought... I wished that you weren't there. I wished that we could've existed without you hovering over our shoulders. Stopping us from doing anything you thought was dangerous.”
Abigail opened her mouth to respond, but Jeannemary cut her off. “Whatever was in the facility felt my emotions. It knew that I was angry. So it's my fault you died, if I hadn't gotten angry you and Magnus wouldn't have been attacked. I stopped loving you for just a moment, and because of that you died and-”
Abigail hushed Jeannemary with a gentle thumb over her lips, strong workers hands gentle on her mandible. “It wasn't a ghost and it wasn't spirits Jeanne. My darling sweet girl, it was the Seventh. The thing pretending to be Lady Septimus. When I was down in the facility, I found traces of her. Traces that were old. When you and Issac called, we tried so hard to answer but she blocked us.”
Abigail paused for a breath, marshaling her thoughts before continuing. “I know it's hard to believe, but I do remember what it's like to be a rebellious teenager,” Abigail said, lightly tweaking one of Jeanne's earrings. “I know you can only imagine me as a teenager using stone tools fresh from the resurrection, but I wasn't young that long ago. You're 14, which to me is so very young. But you're also the oldest you've ever been. The oldest you ever will be. You look in the mirror and see a young woman, fully capable of making her own decisions because you were never able to be anything else. I look at you and I see a child in the horrid throes of puberty. I can't help but want to wrap you and keep you safe Jeannemary.”
“I don't need to be kept safe!” Jeannemary snapped, anger damming the flow of tears. “You were the one who needed protection. If we had been with you, if you hadn't been so worried about our safety, maybe we could've beaten them. Or maybe they wouldn't have attacked at all. But because you decided that the Fifth was going to annex the Fourth, control the Fourth, you died. And Issac died trying to avenge you! Your choices cost you your life, which was terrible but it was your own life to lose; but they also cost Issac his life, and I can't forgive you for that.”
Abigail reared back, letting the metaphorical slap land clearly. “I'm sorry Jeanne. I'm sorry for getting you wrapped up in the mess that we made. If I had known, not what would happen, but that it would harm you and Issac in any way, I never would've taken that first step off the shuttle. Because while my final cause was the lyctor... my true death came when I was foolish with that first step.”
“Why did you take the step at all?” Jeannemary asked, honestly curious. “Why follow directions from someone that you didn't know had your best interests at heart?”
Abigail worked her hands in the air between them, like kneading dough. “Because, that first step, and every step after was to be in pursuit of my passion. I didn't take the step because I didn't love you or Isaac or Magnus. I took it because I thought I was safe. I was never hurt before, and so I thought I wouldn't be hurt now. I thought that someone with a better vantage must've been looking out for my safety before asking me to embark on some foolish errand. But they weren't, and I was complacent in my mortality.” Abigail took both of Jeanne's hands in hers, stroking her thumbs over Jeanne's knuckles. 
“Who did you think was looking out for you?” Jeannemary asked, looking down at Abigail's hands, shoulders losing some of their tension.
“I know it's probably quite silly,” Abigail began, “But I thought the Emperor must've been looking out for us, for all of us. There were strange energy signatures coming from Teacher and the other priests, so I thought that they must've been communicating with him somehow. But, I was wrong, if he was watching he didn't see fit to save me.”
“He's the King Undying, he's God,” Jeannemary protested. “Why wouldn't he save you? Why would he let any of us die? He asked for us, so he has a duty to save us doesn't he? Maybe he'll bring us back once this is all over.”
Abigail did not have the heart to share her suspicions with Jeannemary about why the Emperor would let her die, or why he would not put forth the effort to save the Fourth. “He might try that,” Abigail allowed, “He is God, but he was a man, with all the fallibility that entails. Sometimes people with too much power don't realize how to use it for the good of those under them. But that's a conversation for tomorrow, let's go and see Issac and Magnus.”
When they saw Magnus and Issac, Issac had an arm thrown over his eyes in teenage grief. “Magnus... Maaagnnnuuuusssss, that's a terrible joke Magnus.”
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winterburn · 3 months
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I just finished Nona the ninth from the locked tomb series and I finished harrow not long before that. To be perfectly honest, I hate John giaus, from the flashback chapters it’s clear the man’s a bloody sociopath, he’s also one of those irritating sociopaths who can’t accept when they’ve messed up and blames everyone else. He’s so stupid as well pre-resurrection. Dude, don’t threaten nuclear devastation to get your way, then you murder your last living friend once the sh!t hits the fan, triggering the nuclear devastation. Then he kills the entire solar system during a big ol’ tantrum. Piss off. Alecto gave him his powers so that he would help her, save her from humanities screw ups and then he makes the biggest screw up possible and murders the entire planet with nukes and necromancy. ALSO HOW THE F#CK DID YOU THINK CREATING AN ACTUAL CULT FULL OF GUN TOTING LOONEYS WAS GONNA GO!!!
I hate him more for what he did to his Lyctors too. He murdered Mercymorn in a moment and then he let Augustine into the stoma, he drove Cytherea mad, then she killed all the people in Canaan house (I am so mad that lady Abigail Pent died, she seemed lovely and I wish she was still alive, the fourth kids just didn’t deserve their fate and Magnus was lovely, he was the best of them all and he got murdered so violently. Also Dulcinea seemed lovely, which made her death more upsetting.) why the hell did he let them murder their best friends and siblings, knowing that there was a perfect form of Lyctorship? Why keep it from them? They surely wouldn’t be stronger than him, it would be an exchange of human souls, which probably wouldn’t have the same impact as John having the soul of an overpopulated planet in him.
Also screw the colonist, imperialist bastard whose going round murdering planets willy nilly. What’s the end goal for him?
He’s so awful. I hate him. Keep your damn hands off Gideon.
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longearedhare · 29 days
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RIP Abigail Pent, you would have loved medieval manuscripts written on vellum (imagine the thanergy signatures from animal skin!)
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11/13/2023: Everyone, please meet Camilla Hect!
Camilla here was originally Just Like You #62. I was absolutely dead-set on finding this exact doll for Cam because of the following logic: I personally use the actress Ariela Barer as a drawing reference for Cam. Ariela Barer, coincidentally, played Sonali in the American Girl movie Chrissa Stands Strong. While the Sonali mold is used by a variety of dolls, #62 is much closer to Ariela Barer's actual skin tone (and the skin tone a lot of fan art uses for Camilla) than the Sonali doll proper (and Sonali is extremely hard to find for prices I'd pay, especially for a doll I'm modding). #62 also has what are described as "amber-brown" eyes, but look passably grey-brown in person, so I'm not going to have to eye-swap her!
#62, however, came with some beautiful, glossy, very un-Camilla hair.
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Lovely, right? But very not her.
(Also, look at her face, she is so cute. All of the dolls are cute, but I am particularly delighted by the Sonali mold dolls, I think because that was one of the molds that wasn't released until after my original childhood dolls phase so it's new to me.)
Luckily, this provided a very convenient solution for another problem here at Saint Alecto's: Abigail's poor coiffure.
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As you can see, the hair our dear Lady Pent came to us with has seen better days. To say nothing of the frizziness (which we would gladly treat if that were the only problem!) there's that inconvenient case of back-of-head bangs she had going there.
So!
As I have done several times now, I set about removing the girls' wigs. (I get my advice, as I'm sure many of us do, from @desertdollranch's rewigging post.) This is a significantly more stressful process when you're trying to maintain the integrity of one of the wigs you're working with! (And okay, Gideon's wig actually came on Harrow's doll so I have reused before... but it didn't matter if Gideon's hair got a little messed up in the process. It adds character.)
My beloved wife and fellow... uh, guardian (I guess? God, we're not their moms, that would be so weird!) of the dolls @incomprehensiblelentils was, as often she is, ready with the Magic Eraser for sudden trouble spots; she also provided support (literally: holding the girls as I worked) and company.
And lo and behold!
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Abigail Pent now has a beautiful new hairdo! (And I am more convinced than ever that she's going to need some lipstick. Nothing crazy, just a bit of color. That's for another day.)
More importantly, Camilla now has her trademark bob, as seen above. It's the Hoshi in chocolate brown by PurplePlumWigs (and yes, it is kind of gay* that Cam and Dulcie's wigs came from the same shop! This is part of why we can't be their moms: so many of these kids are in lesbians* with each other!) Her overalls are by StarBriteDoll on Etsy; the boots and tank top are harvested from eBay outfits.
(Abigail's outfit is also from eBay: glasses, sweater, skirt, shoes.)
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ohladydimitrescu · 11 months
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' Lady Abigail the First.
Saint of Love. '
i decided to expand the concept of lyctor Abigail Pent with some doodles
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artbyblastweave · 1 year
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Gideon The Ninth Liveread, Chapter 15
In which we have the obligatory party/ball scene. Obligatory to what? Off the top of my head, Murder Mysteries and Fake Dating AUs
A few hours later. A lot goes unsaid with this; it’s a time skip, but it’s a telling one. It means that nothing happened in the few hours between Harrow collapsing and waking back up; Gideon didn’t leave, didn’t look around, didn’t see or examine anything new of import. She kept vigil, and the narration breezes right past it.
“Necromantic Theorem.” So the magic system is formalized and not just pure will. Gideon’s being glib but this IS essentially how I thought this worked, so it’s nice to have this clarified.
Ha. Gideon remembers the name of the fourth Cavalier but not the fourth necromancer. Priorities.
“Fan Mail.” Possibly a concept Gideon picked up from the backs of the comic books. and from this fan mail we derive that Abigail and Magnus have a dynamic. Stern cop Jovial Cop.
Harrow jumps right to a (I assume) completely appropriate assessment of the genre they’re in and starts hypothesizing assignation plots. Gideon, meanwhile, demonstrates greater Machiavellian acuity than I’ve previously ascribed to her, purely because her first-ever dessert is on the line. She’s like Roger Rabbit with the Handcuffs. Extremely conditional trains of thought.
Harrow is nervous about the function. Gideon assumes that this is because she wants to get back to the trials, since she used to run Ninth House functions without a sweat. This brings us back to Gideon only really being able to model Harrow in a combative context; it’s cripplingly obvious why Harrow is afraid of this function. She ran a transparent con against addled, devoted, elderly clergy, many of whom were literally blind. This is a gathering of High Society, which Gideon herself just painted as a potential hotbed of information gathering and Machiavellian politicking- a thought that apparently literally stayed in Gideon’s head for the exact amount of time it took her to win the argument, and no longer. 
Glad Rags! Magnus is great.
Abigail Pent, Intense Librarian. Very curious how things are between her and Magnus, just generally. Political marriage? According to Teacher (they (helpful exposition dispenser) She’s a spirit-talker. A necromancer in the traditional use of the term. That’d be Fifth House’s bag?
Interesting exposition on the Fourth and The Fifth here; The Fourth has been implied to be subordinated to the Fifth a few times. Magnus I think is actually the dreadful teens Uncle, and Isaac is apprenticed to someone outside his own house. Did the Fifth swallow the Fourth the way Harrow is afraid the 9th will be swallowed? Is there precedent that she’s afraid of?
The Third and the Sixth are facing off before Teacher (conveniently!) defuses things by announcing the main event.
Gonna read stuff into the seating arrangements. Gideon is with Palamedes, her lady-love Dulcinea, and the fifth Cav. Harrow is with the Mayo dyad, Ianthe, Seventh Cav super mutant, and Naberius. Putting eighth and ninth together feels like some kind of power play.
“The same middle name.” Good God. Coronabeth is either laughing too hard on purpose as an ingratiation play, or she is, in fact, compatible with Gideon on two levels.
Okay, there are on-site greenhouses. That explains where the food is coming from. I was wondering.
Alright, Magnus and Abigail can’t conceive. Slightly adjusting my assessment; they have the affordance of being nice because they’re weird, and on the outs within the political system they’re ostensibly on top of. Abigail is interested in pure scholarship and Magnus is interested in Abigail. I refer back to my previous assessment of Magnus as embodying the fun aesthetic parts of courtly empire w/o the inherently monstrous decision-making power.
 And Dulcinea is, in fact, good at picking up on what her conversational partners care about and feeding it. It’s not a Gideon-specific thing; she’s honing in on Abigail’s interests as well.
“Post Resurrection, Pre-sovereignty, pre-cohort.” Aaaaand Gideon turns away from the exposition because that’s just what she does.
Okay, from the Young-Uncle-Ianthe-Babs interaction we get the following; young-uncle has something against… intervention in births? A religious taboo? Ianthe was premature, extracted by C-section; The Eigth (Silas, I checked the cast page) calls this a “wasted opportunity,” which feels like a deliberate inversion of real-life Catholic Abortion Dickishness ™. Babs jumps in to defend Coronabeth, as he did before; Ianthe tramples him verbally. From this we derive that Babs is into Coronabeth specifically, although it doesn’t end well for him no matter which of them he’s talking to. And he has opinions on Bucklers, which Gideon wants to hear. It’s always interesting to encounter someone who has your exact interests but is so massively dickish on every other axis that you can’t capitalize on it.
This is Gideon’s first interaction with Jeannemary, and it’s this. I like that even when Gideon is interacting with the fourthling directly, there’s a shift in the dialogue from when Jeannemary is speaking normally and when she’s doing the nasally whine thing. She’s great. (But is Isaac great? I can’t tell if they’re trading off on doing the bit, or if it’s all her, all the time.)
And Gideon gets to eat! That’s good.
Okay, so Harrow, given a chance to dig into things with Teacher, can make him look thoughtful. A theological discussion? Applied Theory? Most of the others haven’t gotten far enough in the trials, so far as we know, to be able to talk specifics in the way that Harrow now can.
Is Dulcinea’s bit about the Biceps a Gravity Falls reference?
Oh, Jeannemary was, like, jealous. And possibly Crushing. Okay, this is back to cute. I like how the vocal affect reflects their tone but also their physical distance from Gideon and Dulcinea; also, question answered. It’s all Jeannemary. Isaac is the voice of reason, ish.
Okay, so Dulcinea pops the question- the big question- why are the houses like this. The dysfunction is obvious if not yet explosive; The houses are militarily and financially secure from the constant influx of spoils; The Emperor’s favor is both nebulous in its actual benefit and completely unrelated to the task at hand, which is pretty explicit (learn how to be Lyctors!) You’re inclined to say that everyone in Canaan House, categorically, has virtually no higher place to which they can climb within their hierarchies; that’s the point of pursuing Lyctorhood. Of course, the situation with the Ninth tells us that the assumed notion of security isn’t true in the slightest, the situation with the Sixth demonstrates that the Houses can have orthogonal interests like pure scholasticism, The eighth clearly aren’t in it for money…the more I think about it, the more Dulcinea’s remarks feel like that thing pretentious poets sometimes do where they wax cynical about an arrangement without putting much thought into the petty incentives underlying stuff. This might be deliberate; Dulcinea is clearly pretty clever.
Alright, something’s going on between Palamedes and Dulcinea. Gideon thinks that his weirdo obsession with. uh. Medicine that works…? gives him the hots for her.
“Magnus was nice.” I forgot to mention in chapter 12 that Gideon’s word choice in relation to Magnus is tied like an anchor to her current mood. When she’s in the pits, Magnus “tries pathetically hard;” when she’s well fed and high on Dulcinea, he’s “nice,” and she’s hurt on his behalf when Harrow ignores him.
And we end the chapter on this; Harrow thinks Pent is now in the running. Harrow is really, really committed to the idea that she has to WIN; this is, with added context, probably at least a little true, because the Eighth is probably an existential adversary and the Third strikes me as an opportunistic adversary if they get an opening. But it’s very telling that Harrow hears the Eighth- the most zealous of all the houses- just hand this information over to the Fifth without any cajoling and jumps to the conclusion it’s a race. What she overheard was an act of cooperation. And she was asleep for a major act of inter-house cooperation. She’s sticking to her initial paradigm, in the exact way that she stuck to her initial paradigm with the 163 skeletons. And Gideon, with her ability to actually make nice with people from other houses, might be the only effective counter to this tendency.
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