Cam is flabbergasted 💥
Thank you tumblr for the inspo
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underrated part of the unwanted guest is dulcinea knowing full well that palamedes and camilla are a package deal. like, she’s in a weird emotional situationship with palamedes, and she is aware that means that she is Also, By Extension, in a weird emotional situationship with camilla. and she’s quite happy about it
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thinking about the phrase "kill in sustainable ways." the fact that if you eat meat you should be comfortable with killing. the necessity of Death, Sustainably; the way a creature eats to nourish, and dies to nourish; the way it is kind to let an animal eat well and die quickly; the way you should use every part to make its death as valuable as possible.
thinking about lyctorhood and how john convinced them all it was not murder but a sacred, necessary act. you can see the thought process, you can see the way they reasoned: this will feed, this will heal, this will nourish forever. but a soul is not a body; a soul is not meat. it is not yours to take. it is not yours to feed on.
thinking about campal and their death, sustaining a new life, creating as MUCH new life as is possible from two deaths. and still pyrrha says it is not beautiful. it is not love. because you were there, and now you're gone. you created someone new, and you are still gone.
thinking about gideon. she dies thinking: at least my death will matter. but to harrow, her death is not nearly anywhere as valuable as her life. and who better to know the value of death than a girl whose own power is fueled by it? harrow understands what the lyctors did not, what god cannot. eat me, says gideon, and harrow says no, no, no, you are not mine to swallow. keep your soul, i cannot stomach it. how can we be together when you are silent. how can i call it love if you are nowhere to be found.
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THE ONLY THING OUR CIVILISATION CAN LEARN FROM YOURS IS THAT WHEN OUR BACKS ARE TO THE WALL AND OUR TOWERS ARE FALLING ALL AROUND US AND WE ARE WATCHING OURSELVES BURN
WE RARELY BECOME HEROES.
-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth
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camilla hect tries so hard to present herself as unflappable, which makes this scene significantly more devastating to me.
she sees gideon on the stairs, lurking in the shadows and dressed in all black, and she only narrows her eyes and explodes into action.
she fights cytherea “like her heart had exploded,” but her face is described as solemn and obstinate as she asks about palamedes’s last words.
she watches harrow sit up all at once after following the thanergetic links to palamedes’s river bubble and she doesn’t flinch. she tries to repress the intensity of her desire to know if he’s still in there, even though she ultimately can’t contain her feelings and harrow sees through it.
she has “a resolute, keen, utterly unmoved face” and nona remarks that she never flinches at loud vehicle noises or people shouting nearby through the thin walls.
when she’s lost so much blood that she’s breathing high and tight, she holds onto nona “unflinchingly” despite the pain (and, let’s be real, the terrifying experience of being nona’s passenger on a motorcycle, of all things).
she gets a second-hand knuckle kiss from palamedes, and THAT’S when her composure breaks. even after it’s a well-established routine — she almost doesn’t flinch.
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the definite discontinuity is broken, the barrier drips into the sea
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sixth
(i forgot to post this one here oops)
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This question is about what you think is the case in canon, not what you like to see in fandom.
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