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whoa look who just appeared in my hades 2 playthrough... crazy

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Imagine you’re some little evil woman sitting in Hades’ throne room when Orpheus walks in to make a deal to get Eurydice back, and Hades is like “yeah ok, just don’t look back otherwise she has to stay here” then walks out of the room. Almost immediately after hearing the conditions, Orpheus breaks his own neck so that it is physically impossible for him to turn it, and then demands that you gouge out his eyes for good measure. Eurydice then gets really upset because she’s convinced this is a sign that Orpheus hates her and never wants to see her again, and Orpheus is completely convinced that this was a normal and logical thing to do.

You are literally the only person in the universe who recognizes this as an act of love. They both then insult you to your face for thinking this is anything other than very normal (Orpheus), or petty hatred (Eurydice).

You are Ianthe Tridentarius.

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bury me in an unmarked grave

(aka gideon dealing with rejection aka me thinking about the fact that gideon's ultimate act of love is the ultimate act of betrayal for harrow)

details under cut!

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Concept: a mermaid who collects human artifacts, but, like, exclusively objects that humans have dramatically cast into the sea in moments of high emotion, catharsis, or personal revelation. Each item is carefully mounted above a little index card that outlines the circumstances of its hurling in terse, clinical prose.

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Based on a shitpost by @paramoregf

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femslash day 14 : kisses

with my favourite lesbians. and happy valentines <3

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First tlt comic pls be kind to me

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Workshopping Pyrrha’s Nicknames for Gideon

We all know that Pyrrha Dve is a serial nicknamer of her kids from Nona, so I’ve been making a running list in my head of nicknames she might use for Gideon. I don’t think she would want to use any of the names she gave Nona (other than all-purpose ones like kid), so she gets an all new set.

Junior- A pretty obvious one, but it feels significant that Pyrrha had two people in her life she loved named Gideon.

Gid/Gid-Kid/Giddo/GG- Again, obvious. Some riffing on names is to be expected.

Sunshine- Starts off ironic and stays that way right up until the moment Pyrrha sees Gideon genuinely smile for the first time.

Romeo/Loverboy/Prince Charming- Obviously reserved for teasing Gideon when she’s mooning over Harrow. She hopes it communicates that she’s rooting for them.

Chickadee- No real reason behind this one I just think it’s really cute. Gideon of course has no idea what a chickadee is.

Baby Girl- For a long time, Pyrrha never says this one aloud. She worries it’s too much, forcing her feelings on a girl whose wounds from life are too big and too raw. But Gideon has been her Baby Girl practically since the moment she first saw her. When she thought she might be hers and when she knew she wasn’t. All those years she grieved for her. When she learned that she lived eighteen years past anyone’s expectations, only to die and become a chewed up cavalier’s soul just like her. When she might have been Nona and when she definitely wasn’t, standing in front of her a living corpse powered by barely contained rage and despair. And finally there’s a moment when her Baby Girl is right there, alive and whole and healing, that she finally dares to say it out loud. And it’s in this moment it finally sinks in for Gideon that she really does have a mother that loves her.

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John “I only wanted to save the World” Gaius and Harrowhark “I only wanted to save the Ninth” Nonagesimus.

Alecto “I don’t know if I’ll ever stop being mad about what you did to me, but I’ll love you anyways” and Gideon “I’ll forget a lifetime of torment because I value yours” Nav.

John gave up everyone else’s lives so that he could remake his own. Gideon gave up her own life so that Harrow’s could continue.

Alecto gave John power so that he may save her. Harrow stripped herself of power so that she may save Gideon.

John, who is spiritually part-Alecto. Alecto, who is physically part-John.

Harrow, who is spiritually part-Gideon. Gideon, who is physically unwhole.

Do you see where this could go? I dearly hope that this is where it is going.

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messy sketch WIP of the saddest girl in the whole entire world

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Listen I’m sure someone has already talked about this scene, and way better than I ever could, but it makes me so feral and I need to talk about it too

This is hands down the most depressing scene in the entirety of NtN in my opinion.

Surface level it’s Gideon yelling at Crux, but the significance here comes from the exact word choice. “You could have lived for her. But you didn’t know how.”

She uses past tense.

It’s not about Crux (who arguably did live for Harrow, considering his purpose was raising and protecting her, and could by all means still do this if he changed his mind about dying for Harrow.) It’s not about the congregation who worshipped her.

It’s about Gideon, who can’t live for Harrow anymore, because she’s dead. It’s about the promise she broke at the end of the first book. She’s talking about herself.

Harrow made her promise that when it comes down to it, Gideon needs to save herself. If only one of them can survive, it has to be Gideon.

At the end of the first book, Harrow is actively planning to sacrifice herself so Gideon can live, bringing up the promise and then diving into what this is actually about. Namely, how she owes Gideon her life back.

And Gideon breaks that promise, instead deciding to sacrifice herself for Harrow.

“I can’t keep my promise because the entire point of me is you. There is no me without you.”

Gideon doesn’t know how to live for Harrow, how to exist without her, even though it’s the most important thing Harrow ever asked of her—and so she dies for her instead.

“You could have lived for her. But you didn’t know how.”

And the sacrifice ended up being rejected by Harrow, because it’s not what Harrow wanted. It never was. So Gideon ended up feeling rejected and like her life and giving it up wasn’t worth anything. And she still immediately offers herself up again without hesitation. She’s ready to die for Harrow all over again, even now that she’s already dead.

“Die. Die for her. It’s the only goddamn good you’ll ever do her.”

Gideon is fucking furious—so much that Nona can’t even place her voice anymore—but not at any of the people who would rightfully deserve her fury. Not at Crux. She’s furious at herself. This whole scene is so damn heartbreaking to me.

And out of all the cruel things Crux has done to Gideon throughout her life, this might be the worst one: telling the girl who died for the Reverend Daughter once and was ready to die for her a second time that she couldn’t even get that right. That she managed to screw up the one purpose she was actually supposed to serve, the only good she’s ever done for Harrow.

Gideon is dead. She can’t do what Harrow asked and live for her anymore. What the hell is she supposed to do if she can’t die for her, either?

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Gideon shielding Harrow at a concert so she doesn't die stepped on

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Many thanks to @house-of-musez for indulging my silly fantasies, and also a nod of appreciation to @lynndoublelegacy for the concept of the bonus image depicting a hilarious aftermath.

I wish I could draw.

I just think it would be hilarious if someone drew Harrow standing on a chair so she could look into Gideon's eyes when they argue. But she still has to look up a little.

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I love this so much XD

I wish I could draw.

I just think it would be hilarious if someone drew Harrow standing on a chair so she could look into Gideon's eyes when they argue. But she still has to look up a little.

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“Keep it together. Wherever you are, idiot, I know you can hear me. Keep it together…”

commission from the lovely @locked-tomb-shenanigans

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You ever think about how even though it was slowly dying, harrow’s body has maybe never been as loved as it was for those six months with nona

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A very silly comic about why Jod decided to remove Gideon’s heart (other than the fact that he’s a controlling jerkface/exceedingly unwell psyche who’s been alive for way too long).