#pyrrha/gideon/john

[winepresswrath]

there is no greater proof that john is tumblr girlie than his approach to conflict resolution but a close second is his decision to rebuild a society where the genders are sword and necromancy. and then making the most sword coded guy in his life a necromancer. pyrrha really took his man. she stole his codependent enabling cuddle buddy and now she's wearing his body. she has his eyes.

#pyrrha/gideon/john #is one of the more underrated love triangles of our time #i am extremely excited for john-pyrrha interactions i think they're going to be so deranged about the love lost between them and pyrrha #wearing gideon's face but in a completely exhausted way #also the our girl gideon paternity confusion issue #john crawling through gideon's window and into his bed when they were kids is canon to me ok #gideon breaking john's heart a little isn't canon to me #i think gideon was always there and always on his side and at some point that turned from relief and safety to terrible responsibility bcs #john cannot let himself have a win and he knows he can't trust himself! which now also means he can't trust gideon #however however IMAGINE baby john like one day we'll have our own house and no one will tell us what to do

[rosenkranz-does-things]

my spin on Nona the Ninth cover, id in alt, close-ups under the cut

#nona the ninth #the locked tomb #john gaius #ianthe tridentarius #gideon nav #coronabeth tridentarius #gideon the ninth #camilla hect #pyrrha dve #artists on tumblr

[donut-wraith]

I'm thinking incoherently about how John makes Cassiopeia kill her wife to stick around with him and how she called him the most vindictive man she's ever met and how she established a society based on 'truth over solace in lies' About how g1deon could never choose between pyrrha and john, and how john put g1deon in a position to kill her, and he does, but does it in a way that breaks imperceptibly and lets pyrrha still live

#the locked tomb #john gaius #gideon the first #cassiopeia the first #pyrrha dve

[keplerspacecraftofficial]

imagine ur doing 90 in a 55, ur water just broke, u arent even trying to get to the hospital about it youre trying to get away from your ex man (who is also your girl) who is also the fucking traffic cop trying to arrest you for speeding and also some unrelated stuff (the only reason he hasnt called a full on car chase is because he thinks you're pregnant with his kid) (its not his kid, you specifically picked his boss as your sperm donor to make said boss’s life hell) and you have a pretty good idea about what the last couple hours of commander wake's life was like

#commander wake #john gaius #the locked tomb #deep breath #Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity #yeah this was on discord first…….. leave me alone #if i got something wrong also leave me alone #g1deon #pyrrha dve #gideon the first #1k #2k

[moldofthewater]

I love them all so much.

#tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #nona the ninth #harrow the ninth #john gaius #mercymorn #pyrrha dve #gideon #commander wake #tlt art #tlt god #tlt series

[badcatcait]

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??

#tlt theories #tlt spoilers #pyrrha dve #gideon the first #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #nona the ninth spoilers #ejg #fuck john gaius

[lizzybizzyart]

i had to do it

#the locked tomb #john gaius #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #sketch #mine #his vibes are the complete opposite to pyrrhas

[dykemcqueen]

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.

#gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #harrow the ninth #griddlehark #campal #nona the ninth #route66 #this series makes me crazy it really does #john gaius #pyrrha dve #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #nona the ninth spoilers #my writing

[nonasbirthday]

G1deon was really left to fight a whole resurrection beast on his own because everyone else decided to have their Real Housewives of the Mithraeum moment right then

#i get sad if i think too hard about it #i think about pyrrha crying that he died for nothing #he was expendable when the nukes went off and he was expendable when they were all trying to not get eaten #john TOOK his ARM bc he could and he knew G- wouldn't ask questions #this guy is your best friend??? #exhibit A that loyalty to John gets you nothing but pain. looking at you IANTHE #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon the first #harrow the ninth spoilers #nonasbirthday

[nonas-third-tantrum]

gideon's having mixed feelings about father's day

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#tlt x twitter #tlt twitter au #the blocked tomb #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon nav #john gaius #ianthe tridentarius #palamedes sextus #pyrrha dve #tlt spoilers

[emperorundying]

The Locked Tomb Characters as Mental Illnesses

Harrowhark: Schizophrenia Gideon: Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Nona: Pica Ianthe: Gemini Coronabeth: Borderline Personality Disorder Palamedes: Transgender Camilla: Fuck Ass Bob Pyrrha: Cop John: The last remaining Homestuck Augustine: Blonde Mercymorn: Bisexual G1deon: Dissociative Identity Disorder Cytherea: Cougar Judith: Victim of a lesbian situationship Naberius: Tasted like chicken

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius #john gaius #mercymorn #augustine #augustine quinque #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #cytherea loveday #judith deuteros #gtn #gideon the ninth #htn #ntn #naberius tern #pyrrha dve #nona #beauposting #my post

[anxiousrekt]

All the Earth ever wanted when it granted John the power of necromancy was for him to nurture it, take care of it. And he let it die. But the Earth got its wish finally when she became Nona and I—the family on New Rho—oh, I have thoughts now...

Like this is why I strongly disagree with a common reading of John's story in NtN being that anyone would have done what John did. They'll ask, "Where would you have stopped, then?"

And while I think there's an obvious answer to that (when the trillionaires launched off-planet), it's beside the point to me.

Anyone could have done what John did, maybe, but it wasn't inevitable. It wasn't human nature, like he so desperately wants us to believe—that would absolve him of personal responsibility. Because as much as it's human nature to take, it's also in our nature to give.

Alecto wasn't wrong in trusting humanity. She trusted Cam and Pyrrha and Pal, and they did what John failed to do.

She told them she was dying.

And they didn't let her. Not this time.

#is this anything????? #i hope this is anything!!!! #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta #nona the ninth #ntn #gideon the ninth #gtn #john gaius #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #pyrrha dve

[cheerupqueerup]

Locked Tomb characters as stupid stuff we sell at the gift shop

Nona:

Camilla:

Palamedes:

Pyrrha:

Gideon:

Ianthe:

Harrow:

John:

Bonus Harrow:

#the locked tomb #nona tlt #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #pyrrha dve #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #ianthe tridentarius #john gaius

[theriverbeyond]

some meandering thoughts on Lyctoral reproduction, contraception, and why I DON'T think Pyrrha hit it raw

this was originally a reblog of another post but it became SO LONG i am just posting it by itself. anyway cracks knuckles:

I think from a reproductive health standpoint the Lyctors are, despite having been exposed to extreme pre-ressurection levels of radiation, not sterile per say, but homeostatically fixed at the point of ascension with any changes made to themselves after that being a concious theorem. See: Cytherea is frozen as sick as she was when she ascended, but when she wanted to fight she could walk around fine, and Harrow when cold, can pad her fat reserves. So they CAN change their bodies, but it's still a Thing They Have To Do vs. a truly autonomous bolidy process.

Also, we know Lyctoral Healing is a thing dependant on nerve fibers -- why a severed limb (Nona/Gideon-in-Harrow aside) is not supposed to automatically regrow (but can be intentionally regrown, with thought and effort), and why in order to imbue Ianthe's bone arm with regenerative power Harrow had to make sure it was properly innervated

(The reason I believe they are not inherently sterile despite having been exposed to massive amounts of radiation is simply because that radiation does not discriminate and would have destroyed the rest of their physical bodies as well. basically, I think any radiation induced infertility would have been fixed in the Ressurection Process, same as the radiation induced. death.)

At the same time, the biological changes a human body must undergo to fertilize an egg and then bring a pregnancy to term are many (on a physical and physiologic level) and all must happen in the correct sequence at the correct time. the adult unaltered, non-Lyctoral body (most of the time) naturally knows how to follow this path, but in order for a Lyctoral Body to bring a pregnancy to term all those minute changes would have to be done manually, lest the Lyctoral Body revert to its homeostatically frozen state.

Therefore, my thoughts are: a Lyctor wouldn't really be able to become pregnant on accident to begin with, much less carry a pregnancy to term unwillingly. Every minute step or shift or change in hormone levels, uterine stretch, etc would have to be manually preformed and then monitored 24/7 which just seems incredibly exausting if not annoying. Then, of course, you have the reality that the Lyctor is going to outlive their child by thousands of years if not forever, and after the catastrophic grief they all carry for their cavaliers I cannot imagine any of them willingly putting themselves in that situation.

why, then, did Pyrrha think Gideon was her child?

WELL! the above theoretical process is specific to a Lyctor becoming pregnant, either from Lyctor or non-Lyctor. For Pyrrha/G1deon, the person who may have become pregnant from their encounters was WAKE, a (as far as we know) physiologically normal human, whose body would be able to like. in the presense of viable sperm, get pregnant the usual way without need for necromantic initiation and maintenence. Not only that, but at the time, Wake could NOT have been taking any sort of continuous contraceptive, as the planning/execution/impregnation of Dios Apate Major/Project Bomb was happening at the same time as Wake was fucking Pyrrha and G1deon. Like I know Mercy gave her the dolls but like Wake was able to turkey baster herself pretty quickly after their failure which means there was an open window of time where Wake was fucking PyrrhaG1deon and definitely fertile.

I could see G1deon as being able to tie off his ductus deferens, or whatever, while he is having sex to prevent physical ejaculation but as we know from Gideon-in-Harrow and Pyrrha-in-G1deon and Cam-when-Pal-Was-Inside, the cavalier's soul cannot preform necromancy whilst in the driver's seat. SO, following that, Pyrrha would be unable to necromantically prevent herself from ejaculating whilst doing the deed.

and finally, we have come to the part where I explain why I do NOT believe Pyrrha was having unprotected sex. as funny it is to imagine them all hitting it raw with a huge breeding kink, given Pyrrha and not to mention WAKE'S general competency (and also like if Wake is trying to get pregnant with the key to the Emperor's Tomb, being already pregnant would have been really inconvinient!!! considering again that the impregnation of ProjectBomb happened at the same time as she was fucking PyrrhaG1deon, Wake HAS to have been taking steps to prevent an unwanted, competing pregnancy), I have to take the controversial position that the condom broke.

Imagine you are a soul fragment, 10,000 years old, and you are betraying your God and Emperor AND your other half, by fucking a rebel comander (using your other half's body) while both of them are unaware. and then the condom breaks. wyd

#pyrrha dve #awake remberance of these valiant dead #tlt meta #lyctoral reproduction #cannot believe i wrote this. i feel insane. #should i go into witness protection. #lyctorhood #gideon the first #also sorry but there is NO WAY 'we never fixed maternity' John gaius would have been giving people secret abortions 💀

[lovelycloudsart]

im sooo out of practice lately but!! im figuring out how to draw them!! have some silly little drawings

#junos.art #tlt #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #silas octakiseron #pyrrha dve #nona #alecto #mercymorn the first #awake remembrance of these valiant dead #augustine the first #john gaius #griddlehark #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #gtn #htn #ntn #undescribed

[mayasaura]

Do we ever think about how Gideon rejects Pyrrha's attention as a mother because it's a little late to come into her life and instead accepted John as a father? (even though she had some reasons to hate him)? sure, john gave her everything she wanted, but why is pyrrha different? I wish Pyrrha had a chance :((

I think the main difference is that Pyrrha did have a chance to do better by Gideon, and she fumbled it.

John gets dad status because he stepped up as her father as soon as he knew she existed. She knows he had his own blood-related reasons for launching a military expedition to recover her body, but it still must have meant a hell of a lot to her that he did. Vindication for all her childish hopes that maybe she was just lost, and not abandoned. See, Harrow? Her dad really would have come for her, if he had known.

Pyrrha proves the exact opposite. She did know, and it changed nothing. The whole time Gideon was growing up on the Ninth, telling herself there was someone out there looking for her, Pyrrha knew exactly where she was. She thought she must be dead, but she never actually checked. She never even tried to claim her body. It was an extremely complicated situation for Pyrrha, but from Gideon's perspective, that looks a hell of a lot like abandonment.

So yeah. John gets dad privileges despite being a fucked up bastard, because he's the fucked up bastard who went looking for her. Pyrrha watched her fall to the surface of the Ninth and quite literally left her there to rot.

#to be clear this is leaning heavily into gideon's perspective #I don't resent Pyrrha for not going back because. come on. #the woman was not on speaking terms with her own headmate #she's a fucking mess #it's not surprising she'd be negligent on following through on her duties to a kid she thought was dead #but I wouldn't expect the child she left in a violently abusive household to see it that way #and that's not even starting to unpack the whole telling Gideon to her face that she killed her mother #or Wake's entire fucking deal #the locked tomb #gideon nav #kiriona gaia #pyrrha dve #emperor john gaius #nona the ninth #ntn spoilers