I know that all the names of The Locked Tomb Series have a lot of deep meaning but I just love the Seventh house. Like, the way you can figure out the plot twist just by reading the names. (Spoilers for Gideon the Ninth).

Dulcinea is named after Dulcinea del Toboso from El Quijote. The titular Quijote lives in a fantasy world due to reading too many books about Knights, so he starts imagining the world around him as the one from his books. He kinned too close to the sun. Dulcinea del Toboso is his lady love, the most perfect woman in existence. Obviously Don Quijote's "squire" Sancho Panza doesn't believe Dulcinea exists. She's part of Quijote's fantasy. So to try to snap him out of it he brings him a peasant woman named Aldonza Lorenzo, ugly and stinky, saying it's Dulcinea. Quijote assumes she must be under some curse and bows to free her (he never gets to). So obviously when I read Dulci's name in Gideon the Ninth and she turns out to be too perfect to be real...yeah, I figured out that wasn't the real necromancer from the seventh. Tbf, I'm from Spain so Dulcinea immediately triggers my second grade memories.

Protesilaus. This one's crazier and I didn't get it until the end of the book. You see the name sounded familiar and I was sure it was from some Greek myth or tragedy. Turns out in the Iliad the Oracle tells the Greeks that the first man to set foot on Troy would die. That's why Odysseus jumped on his shield to not "set foot on trojan soil". Protesilaus was the first one to actually disembark and, as such, was killed. Just like TLT protesilaus was the first one to die (protecting Dulci). Also in some versions of the story his wife, wracked with grief, asks the gods to see her beloved again. The gods take pity on her and allow her five minutes, after which they both die. This reminds me of how the real Protesilaus was brought back by Harrow's bubble, created by her grief for Gideon.

Cytherea is another name for Aphrodite and Gideon's very obvious lust aside, this tracks too. Not only is Cytherea described as really beautiful, she's a Lyctor which makes her godlike. It's also her love for her cavalier that makes her lose her head a bit. And even while she's Killing everyone in Canaan House she makes it a point to state that she still loves all of the contestants. She even admits to still loving John (much like Mercymorn). Also, the one that finds out she's not who she says she is is the man in love with the real Dulcinea.

Gotta love Tamsyn spoiling her book with names. This series is so fucking good.

judith “I can’t believe I’m the only normal person here” deuteros

they say she was pushed out of the airlock but i know what really happened

it will take some time

i never picked this up before but gideon moving her hands from harrow's jaw when harrow talks about The Body... im gonna explode

SHE WANTED TO KISS HER!!! SHE WANTED TO KISS HER AND THEN HARROW STARTS TALKING ABOUT HOW SHE'S IN LOVE WITH A CORPSE AND GIDEON PULLS AWAY!!!! "her eyes starting to sting from it" they were in that pool forever there's no way that was from the salt she wanted to cry it's so gideover for me

The Happiest Girl In the World

Another Ianthe brainrot

The reason Ianthe is Like That btw is because the locked tomb is an video game told from the perspective of the NPCs and she’s the Player Character, hope this helps!

Trying to romance every character? ✅

Making the worst possible decisions for no reason other than “unlimited power, and my face on posters”? (That was definitely a multi-choice dialogue option) ✅

Constantly being relevant to the plot and thinking every character in the game loves her even though she has almost exclusively caused misery? ✅

First one to reach the big goal, but not a high enough level for the boss fight, so the NPCs had to step in to remind the game that they are also cool and powerful? ✅

Avatar and clothing change options she keeps using all the time? ✅

Had to level up in friendship with the major NPC of the second arc in order to unlock the legendary item that would boost her weapons damage because she accidentally maxed out on magic in character creation? ✅

Obligatory pool scene drawing

first flower of my house

(aka harrow can’t catch a break in my drawings)

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birth of a saint

i was gonna draw the pool scene TM for real but then i remembered i hate drawing water so i did this instead

One flesh one end

drew this after reading gtn for the first time and just recently decided not to gatekeep

aside from some minor perspective issues I think this is still pretty cool for being six months old.

'Don't you dare look at me'

Commission for @kurisus

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