#Alfred Quinque

[beguilingcorpse]

blah blah we’ve all heard the discourse about whether or not mercymorn dyes her hair and what shade of pink/red/orange it is etc etc etc. yawn. we’ve been there and done that. instead i would like to humbly propose that mercy’s hair is in fact natural and it is augustine who dyes his hair. i think he bleaches his hair an UNGODLY amount per millennia and then magicks it back to looking healthy. i think that in alecto the ninth we’re going to see a picture of alfred quinque with beautifully luscious jet black locks, and all of a sudden harrow and gideon will remember that as a matter of fact augustine DID get dark roots once a month, which they never paid attention to at the time on account of The Horrors. i think augustine the first is kind of like if homelander was the I’m Just Ken flavor of bottle blond

[fawntastic]

Throws you another sketchpage thanks to the kind folks in the BAM server ft Harrow Nova (butch edition), Pal, Cris and Alfred, Cris and Alfred’s necromancers and Paul with Phyrra and Nona :3

[mercyisms]

five for tradition and debts to the dead.

[g0ddamnb0x]

I don't have too many thoughts for Alfred Quinque, except that John was wild for using title "Saint of Patience" for the first person to kill himself

[dve]

augustine quinque 5 minutes after cannibalizing his brother:

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

I think they fucked if you even care 💅

[lylikers]

some pre res lyctor designs&doodles

[babybutchianthe]

alfred quinque served cunt in his gogo boots i know this in my heart

[figgolu]

The Fourth House:

Hope of the Emperor

The Fifth House:

Heart of the Emperor

The Sixth House:

The Emperor's Reason

The Eighth House:

the Forgiving House

quite funny, isn't he?

[derseprinceoftbd]

Imagine the unbearable pain of Alfred Quinque. Only person in the commune with a Real Job. I'd have killed myself way earlier.

[theriverbeyond]

Saint of Patience moodboard

[mellori]

R.I.P. to Jod but I'm different. If Mercymorn had confronted me about the secrets of lyctorhood, I simply would've reminded her that Alfred and Cristabel's suicide pact forced both her and Augustine to perform the eightfold word in an unplanned emergency, then made up some bullshit about that ruining my plan to explain the truth at the last minute before anybody actually got sacrificed Abraham-and-Isaac style.

Plus, then I get to explain that I had to let the rest of the lyctors kill their cavaliers because I loved Mercymorn and Augustine so much that I couldn't bare telling them the truth after the fact, that would only be more hurtful. Now it's their fault half their friends had to murder the other half.

Perfect A+ Jod level bullshit.

No way telling Mercymorn it's basically all Cristabel's fault backfires on me at all. 0% risk of consequences for sure.

[lucimiir]

Ok I definitely wanna have Ianthe as Augustine and Corona as Alfred. But there’s two routes to go down with Cam and Pal:

Palamedes as Gideon (original flavor) and Camilla as Pyrrha- parallels work, both with being Nona’s caretakers and with occasionally swapping who’s in control of the body. I could also definitely see them having a similar dynamic with Wake as G+P do, in love with the same person except they’re maybe more aware of it. I think they would write each other letters and it’d be super angsty and sad etc

Palamedes as Mercymorn and Camilla as Cristabel- Funniest shit I’ve ever thought of in my life. Characters don’t mesh well but just imagine the constant bickering with Ianthe. Peak

Also, you get Augustine and Alfred as the weirdly codependent highly extravagant siblings, and either Mercy/Cris or Gideon/Pyrrha as hyper-competent similarly codependent colleagues and cousins. You know what I think it should be Mercy and Cris. They deserve to be fucked up scientists

Oh, and one more thing: Isaac is Cytherea.

Just think about that.

Ok ok I agree that them as Mercy/Cris is amazing and hilarious and the way it should be but consider: then as Gideon/Pyrrha and Dulcie is Wake

[kipperlillycopperkettle]

POOR OLD SISYPHUS, POOR OLD US.

[the locked tomb. mercymorn and augustine get stuck in a time loop. 8.1k.]

““cristabel died yesterday,” she says, emphatically. “or. today?” she gnaws on her lip, an old, absentminded habit that she hasn’t quite managed to kick as her heart thrums in her chest. she expects augustine’s lips to curl in a smile. it’s what he’s been waiting for — mercymorn’s complete and utter break from reality. she loves him just about as much as she loves being first at something. when she and cristabel had mastered augustine and alfred’s lab in record time, mercymorn had carried that feeling for a week, lightness in her step and a smirk on her lips. if she was in his position she would laugh. augustine doesn’t react as she expects — no smirk blooms on his lips (slowly, like the cheshire cat) and there’s no light in his eyes as he realizes that he’s gotten the better of her. instead, he heaves a heavy sigh and opens the door to his and alfred’s quarters wide. “well, you’d better come in,” he says.” or; the morning after their cavaliers die, mercymorn and augustine wake up to find them alive again. and again. and again.

author reveals finally happened for the lyctor exchange and now i get to talk about my piece!! i'm so so proud of this piece, mostly bc whatever mercymorn and augustine have going on makes me want to study them with a microscope and that's basically all this fic is. they make me feel like biting glass for realsies

read ‘poor old sisyphus, poor old us.’ here on ao3!

[llovelyclouds]

notes on alfred quinque

here's all the information i found about alfred in my tlt re-read, in one place!

you can find links to the other posts in this project here!

ALFRED QUINQUE

titles:

Augustine’s cavalier, first gen, founded the fifth (with Augustine)

(from the harrow the ninth pronunciation guide) "NOTE: Yes, Alfred and Augustine share an arithmonym: the implications of this so early in the timeline of the Nine Houses aren’t so developed as they would be later on, but are still present."

notes from harrow the ninth:

Augustine's brother (htn. pg. 165)

The reason that Augustine is the Saint of Patience (htn. pg. 177)

“‘You know what I feel… you know I don't think she was the best influence on Alfred… you know I think they brought out the worst in each other, and I don’t think you disagree.’God said, “They were very similar people.’  ‘No,’ said Augustine. ‘They weren’t, John. She was a fanatic and an idiot- yes, she was, Mercy- and he… was a man who regretted he wasn't. It took surprisingly little to lead my brother astray.’” - Augustine and John, discussing whatever happened between Cristabel and Alfred (double suicide, maybe?) (htn. pg. 274)

“‘Nobody could lead him where he didn't want to go,’ said God, and his patience took a solemn edge. ‘You know that.’” -John, about Alfred (htn. pg. 274)

"You picked the wrong man to enter a suicide pact with. I hate 'em. Cristabel might have undone all my good work with Alfred, but here comes the reckoning." - Augustine (htn. pg. 487)

notes from nona the ninth:

"A- brought in his little brother who was a hedge fund manager. A- Junior was useless but he was a darling, I couldn't fault A- for adding him to the mix." (ntn. pg. 191)

"It was A-'s little brother who said, Well, you have to understand money is one big shared hallucination, but I'm not sure they could have hallucinated this much, none of this is even in crypto." (ntn. pg. 273)

"Apparently A-'s little brother and her nun had been obsessing over bank movements and assets. Going crazy checking manifests." (ntn. pg. 396) 

“The nun and A- 's hedge-fund-manager brother had teamed up to try to mediate, which as per usual made everyone pissed off at them instead.” (ntn. pg. 401)

“A-’s little brother was there… dead in the middle… shot from both sides. Nobody likes a peacemaker.” (ntn. Pg. 406)

[dve]

it’s quinning absolute que (?)