Huevember day 6: Emperor John Gaius

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The only splash of colour was an enormous portrait of the Emperor as Kindly Master, with an expression of beatific peace.

As seen hanging on the wall of the Eight House’s quarters in Canaan House ✨⚔️💀⚔️✨

tlt doodles (her divine highness au)

I wanted to add more but I ran out of steam 😔

Just realized the deeper implications of Harrow’s lobotomy and why John sent Duty after her…she showed God he isn’t the only one who knows where memory lives.

Can’t imagine anything more threatening to a liar than someone who knows where the truth is buried.

I think John Gaius successfully utilized girlpower when he fixed global warming and quality of life inequality, and brought his favorite childhood toy to life, all in the span of one day. Absolutely no further details or points to be said about how he did any of that

He solved wealth inequality, fixed overpopulation, and took care of the issue of rising housing prices in the city of Melbourne. He became the de facto leader of the most powerful democracy on earth and dismantled capitalism. He took care of the global nuclear stockpile, cleaned up the Pacific Trash Vortex, and found the answer to several metaphysical questions that have fascinated humanity for centuries, such as "Is there such thing as a soul?" and "Does Pluto count as a planet?" He also ate the sun.

Nobody's doing it like him

Imagine the soul of the earth gives you god-like magic to save the planet from a climate apocalypse and you just hard focus on doing necromancy with it lmao. Imagine being handed the keys to life just to close off the door and declare that you conquered death. Imagine putting the embodiment of all life in a tomb and calling her an apocalypse to come. Incredible loser behaviour tbh.

rip john gaius you wouldve loved blackout poetry

truly invested in pre-resurrection john. imagine someone actually gets superpowers in real life, but they're just a very poorly adjusted bisexual scientist, running on no sleep, coke zero, and spite for the rich. and they start a cult. scenario of all time

this is why john locked her in the tomb btw

thinking more about John and.... at the end of HtN when he was interogating Wake, she wanted him to say her name. "i'll be dammed if i pass up the chance to hear you speak the words" and "they're dead words, a human chain reaching back ten thousand years": Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity.

and then she asks him "how did they make you feel?" and of course, John deflects.

but that's Aotearoa's national anthem in te reo Māori. and as we learn in NtN, John is Maori. that's his anthem. how must have that felt, to John? to hear his own anthem claimed by someone descended from the people who left his earth to die?

emperor john gaius would wear these

furiously typing a vaguepost about how my sperm donor post isn’t about jod and also cannot be about jod. JOD IS NOT A SPERM DONOR!! He is A DAD who didn’t know he was a dad. The instant he found out he had a kid he stepped the fuck up and made her an evil colonialism prince. Now Wake, on the other hand—

Here’s a crop from my current wip, inspired by Byzantine art! It’s part of a much larger piece that I’m chipping away at.

I’ve been a Locked Tomb fan for a while now and I’ve always wanted to make art for it and I’m finally indulging myself 🦴🌟🦴

the Mithraeum during Nona the Ninth: a summary

Pyrrha says Gideon the First’s ORIGINAL name, here, change my mind:

Compare the G dash to the standard em dash above it…it’s longer and thicker, just like the placeholders in John’s speech. AND it’s followed by a comma, which isn’t standard if it’s just indicating interruption.

That’s G’s real name, and somehow not even Alecto can hear it…so what did John DO?

Audiobook folks, does this stand out in the audio version as much as it does visually??

Fuck every other question about John Gaius, none of that matters. Do you think he actually only ate peanuts discreetly, the once?

John Gaius is a dirty liar who lies. That was just the only time he was caught.

Imagine if Judith actually managed to become a Lyctor, yeah sure oh she'd go through terrible grief etc etc but worse than all she would get an aneurysm seeing the way John Gaius acts

and what is she gonna do about it??? Call god for help?? He's already there and he's eating peanuts in his underwear