#fucked up au / tlt bre fic

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Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Cytherea the First & Gideon Nav, Gideon Nav & Pash | Our Lady of the Passion Characters: Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Gideon Nav, Cytherea the First (Locked Tomb Series), Pash | Our Lady of the Passion (Locked Tomb Series), Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, Mystery, Secret Identity, Canon Temporary Character Death, Non-Linear Narrative, POV Alternating, Family Dynamics, Power Imbalance, Developing Relationship, Mild Sexual Content, Cameos, Canon-Typical Body Horror, TLT BRE 2023, house swap AU Summary:

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a cavalier who can actually fight.

In an unlikely turn of events, Gideon the Seventh might be just what she's looking for.

#fuck off lou #my post #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #link #ao3 #fanfiction #my fanfiction #writing #My writing #tlt #the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #griddlehark #here it is folks #come and get it

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Would it be possible to hear more of your thoughts about the 5th absorbs the ninth au?

oh my god YES

i'm so deep in my tlt bre fic or i would already be writing this because i LOVE this au and will soon be reading EVERY fic with this concept (some of which are linked in the notes of the original post)

so i imagine this taking place a short while after harrow opens the tomb, a year or two at most

harrow is equal parts devastated w grief and fanatic with adoration for the body in the tomb

she is also NOT in the mood for the ninth to be absorbed by the fifth and is ready to fuckin throw down

of course by throw down, harrow means "glare at them until they go away and also bones" bc she's twelve and that's really all she can do

fifth's first trip to the ninth:

abigail: hel- those people are dead

harrow, currently manipulating the corpses of her parents: (drops from the ceiling like batman) begone, invaders, you are not- griddle!

gideon, who Should Not be there but saw a sword and thought "fuck it": (walks up to magnus) fight me old man

magnus and abigail immediately decide to adopt these children

magnus starts sparring with gideon and getting his ass handed to him, much to aiglamene's delight

abigail begins the daunting task of Earning Harrowhark Nonagesimus' Trust

she explains she doesn't actually want to take over the ninth and harrow can have it once she's eighteen

this inadvertently offends harrow and sets them back a month

the fifth quickly pick up that ortus is Not Into this whole cav business and make the pretty obvious connection that gideon should be harrow's cav and the equally obvious connection that both girls would Rather Die

cut to quinn and pent's epic quest to trick two preteens into accepting the fifth as their caregivers and becoming cav and necromancer

they also become the world's most awkward wingmen

magnus, during a sparring session: say, the reverend daughter looked very regal this morning, didn't she?

gideon, who has already adopted this man as a father figure: what the fuck mags how could you betray me like this

ortus is either besties with the fifth or actually fucking them like abigail pent would one hundred percent take one look at this chubby eloquent caring inept motherfucker and be like I Want That Bear Obliterated

at some point they get it into their heads that the girls need peer engagement so they bring jeanne and isaac to visit

harrowhark nonagesimus, who has never met a person younger than her, watching a nine-year-old jeannemary chatur vibrate with excitement: what the FUCK is That

gideon nav, whose only experience with people younger than her is harrow: what the FUCK is That

#fifth absorbs the ninth!au #tlt fanfic #the locked tomb #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #griddlehark #abigail pent #magnus quinn #jeannemary chatur #jeannemary the fourth #isaac tettares #tlt au

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out of context spoilers for "train up a swordsman / to stab you in the back" (my tlt big resurrection event fic) what does it mean? what does it all mean??

#my post #fuck off lou #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #fucked up au / tlt bre fic spoilers w no context #tlt #the locked tomb #writing #my writing #fanfiction #my fanfiction #hope this doesn't give anything away but also at this point i don't care #swordsman drops tomorrow are y'all ready?

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anyway, here's my event fic playlist :)

#fuck off lou #my post #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #fucked up au / tlt bre fic coming to an ao3 page near you on july 26th #all 88k of it #music #playlist #me adding a bunch of mcr to this last minute like “oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit”

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post to announce my tlt bre fic title, now that we're two days out from posting day :)

as far as the mad libs game goes...

prolly shoulda gone w my gut and made the amount of underscores equal to the amount of letters in each missing word, since i seem to have accidentally given the impression that each word was only four letters long. apologies, folks, next time i'll play it more like hangman.

anywho, shout out to these guesses specifically

#my post #fuck off lou #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #fucked up au / tlt bre fic spoilers w/o context #fucked up au / tlt bre fic coming to an ao3 page near you on july 26th #all 88k of it #+ the 6.7k glossary and references page at the end #writing #my writing #my fanfiction #fanfiction #next time ill probably play it more like hangman

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leaving myself important notes in my fucked up au / tlt bre fic document like

#my post #fuck off lou #gideon nav #tlt #the locked tomb #my writing #writing #fanfiction #my fanfiction #fucked up au / tlt bre fic

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accountability post: i'm going to write the last scene today. even if it's just as a rough draft. i'm going to get it written out so i have smth to work off of later

#my post #fuck off lou #writing #my writing #my fanfiction #fanfiction #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #i NEED to finish swordsman it's literally not even funny #hold me accountable #hit me w the fly swatter

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fucked up au / tlt bre fic ("swordsman") spoilers without context post 1/3. more to be revealed in the coming days. (fic is being posted on the 26th of July, so watch out)

#my post #fuck off lou #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #fucked up au / tlt bre fic spoilers w/o context #fucked up au / tlt bre fic coming to an ao3 page near you on july 26th #all 88k of it #writing #my writing #my fanfiction #fanfiction #tlt #the locked tomb

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let's do a mad libs for my tlt bre fic title shall we?

"____ up a ____ / to ____ you in the ____"

chuck your guesses in the tags, replies, or send to me on asks, idc. if you already know what it is, pls refrain from making a public guess :) you have 24 hours

#if i've told you the answer no i didn't #fuck off lou #my post #shameless promoing #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #fucked up au / tlt bre fic coming to an ao3 page near you on july 26th #all 88k of it #writing #my writing #fanfiction #my fanfiction #idk if the amount of underscores is meant to correlate to the amount of letters in each word #and since this is madlibs not hangman i decided to just make each space four underscores long #we're four days out from posting. i am. jazzed.

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okay. last scene for my bre fic. i mean it this time. we're gonna smash it out. here we go. current word count: 1,423

#my post #fuck off lou #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #writing #my writing #my fanfiction #fanfiction #need to shake it like a snowglobe until it rearranges itself and then fill it in. it's all dialogue currently #as soon as that scene's done i need to look at the edits i have for the preceding two scenes #and then get it looked over again. by then it'll be home stretch #i got this

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keep reminding myself that I chose to make a references page for my tlt bre fic. and yet i keep sitting back while sourcing the references and going, why the fuck am i doing this?

bitch! because of integrity! craftsmanship! respect! you're a detail oriented individual with autism and a relentless need to prove yourself!

#anyway im fine #im just struggling w formatting but it's cool im fine #fuck off lou #my post #writing #my writing #fanfiction #my fanfiction #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #there are like. 47 references in this. just in the wild. im the bane of my own existence

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i am a serious writer and i write about serious things

#this is the start of a really angsty section of fucked up au actually #which is really funny to me #had a really evil thought that I'm gonna drop in act 4/ch 5 #can't talk too much abt it #but just know that my tlt bre fic is uh. So Much is happening #fuck off lou #my post #writing #my writing #fanfiction #my fanfiction #i know no one follows me for my writing but i need to post it somewhere

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genuinely obsessed w heel turn 1 by the mountain goats. like bros? why was that one not on the record? you're seriously saying i have to listen to beat the champ w/o hearing the lyric "one thing abt the good guys that i've noticed, they always beg for mercy in the end"? fellas come oooooooonnnn

#also the line immediately preceding being “i watch my guardian angel leave the room” #ALSO the “always help the bad guy to his feet / always help old ladies cross the street” line #anyway #i never stop being a mountain goats girlie #fuck off lou #my post #music #song lyrics #heel turn 1 #if john darnielle knows what's good for him he'll put heel turn 1 on spotify #and then that bitch is going straight on the playlist for my #fucked up au / tlt bre fic

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now who could i be talking abt

#my post #fuck off lou #vagueposting/promoing for my event fic since i only have a little over a fortnight to wrap this bad boy up #[screams internally] #anyway #writing #my writing #fanfiction #my fanfiction #fucked up au / tlt bre fic spoilers w no context #fucked up au / tlt bre fic

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gonna slam my head into a wall and give myself such a powerful concussion that it will break thru my executive dysfunction and fucking finish my last event fic chapter. i literally only have to write one more scene and edit two more don't do this to me we're on the home stretch buddy please

#my post #fuck off lou #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #i have less than a fotnight to finish this WHY is it so HARD #writing #my writing #my fanfiction #fanfiction #if y'all see me posting abt other fics in the next few days get me w a fly swatter

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okay, here we go

#my post #fuck off lou #tlt #the locked tomb #fucked up au / tlt bre fic #writing #fanfiction #my fanfiction #making up a dramatis personae for this fic is gonna be fun #i also love that even after months and months google docs still hates harrow's name. it's like THATS NOT REAL #[shoots it with a spray bottle of water] yes it is calm down.