#there's already evidence from the nona leaks that things are kinda different than i originally thought regarding the resurrection

[nepenthean-sleep]

i think there’s a comparison to be drawn between the resurrection and the colonialist violence of european christian missionaries, especially of the medieval and early modern periods. a lot of this has to do with wake’s speech in chapter 50.

"repeated mass killings, the utter disintegration of institutions political and social, languages, cultures, religions, all niceties and personal liberties of the nations..."

obviously, these things are the effects of colonialism and imperialism, specifically the effects on indigenous peoples in the case of real-world history. john has inflicted the crimes wake listed upon tons of planets outside of the nine houses in the years since the resurrection. the act of flipping planets, causing them to eventually wither and die, is a direct allusion to the act of converting people to christianity. the resettlements of planetary inhabitants discussed in the released chapters of nona are an additional example of john and his empire’s colonialist violence. 

in wake’s speech in particular, though, i think she is also referencing earth: specifically, the earth of the 21st century. hundreds of nations, thousands of languages, ten thousand different religions. all of them gone after the resurrection. john reformed the world, but he reformed it under one culture, with one language, one belief system, one religion. this was (and still is) the end goal of white christian missionaries: “every knee will bow” and “every tongue swear allegiance” to the christian god (in the case of tlt, the emperor of the nine houses.)  

#gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #the locked tomb analysis #analysis #cw imperialism #cw colonialism #cw christianity #this is barely an analysis but im gonna tag it as such anyway #this is pre-nona speculation #there's already evidence from the nona leaks that things are kinda different than i originally thought regarding the resurrection #but this was in my drafts so i decided to just go ahead and post it now before more leaks come out #neph.txt #neph analysis #neph tltposting