#Cristabel Oct

[bloodbroox]

how i love doomed yuri…

commission for @thelockedtombcfp 🍉

[cutetanuki-chan]

Mercy and Cristabel commission for @shifuaang and @thelockedtombcfp

[franzias-cave]

CRINGE: The world is ending and you're in love with your best friend who is a nun. and your roots are showing.

[sunfloowerlatte-art]

cristabel and mercymorn for @thelockedtombcfp :)

[green446004]

the saint of joy

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[ludicrousluna]

Lovable Mercymorn

[featherbreak]

holy fuck we're back from Dragoncon and TLT COSPLAYERS REMAIN UNDEFEATED YAAAAAAARGH

without further ado, I present an initial dump of selected photos I took at the official TLT meetup -

Third/Fifth/Eighth House serving absolute cunt:

Cristabel Oct, the Woman that you Are, completely wrecking everyone's day:

Dios Apate, complete with traumatized Ianthe & Harrow:

all the Harrows & Gideons flipping one another off:

Individual mentions go to this INCREDIBLE Matthias Nonius, Ms. Gideon Frizzle, & a self-indulgent nod to the doomed triad:

feat. @eldritchw1tch and @incandescentorrery as two of our Ianthes, me as Cam, @archety-pal as Pal, and @aduck8myshoes as a pitch-perfect Dulcie. if you're also in any of these, definitely let me know (& tag me if you upload them, here or on IG at @feather.break) - I'd love to keep in touch!

I'll be editing and posting more individual images & solo shoots of various friends & co-conspirators for weeks, probably - stay tuned!

[cryptiidcrowe]

john 1:20 - “ he did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, ‘i am not the messiah.’ ”

ITS HERE!!! i’ve been wanting to do this ever since i read this quote. also i just reread this chapter in nona and it makes me go fucking insane. tribute to my most favorite horrible little guy and the most genuinely horrifying writing i’ve ever read

(comic quote is from The Reunion by Katherine Applegate, translation for the bible verse googled. thanks bible gateway)

- the “bright line” is john’s understanding of the soul/his connection to the earth; the four-pointed star is more explicitly the soul, hence why it’s in the palm of cristabel’s hand after she shoots herself, and over john’s mouth as he begins the lyctor process. the bright line resolves itself into alecto at the very end.

- the frame of cristabel is actually the first that came vividly to mind—i loved the image of a bright-eyed, naively innocent, anime-girl-esque cristabel juxtaposed with the harsh reality of the gun to her head and her bloodied hand

- the splash on page two is when john reaches out and stops gideon’s heart, and i just loveee how it came out

- the final panel is also one i’ve had in mind for a really long time. i hope i captured the unsettling horror of john, feral and animalistic and unnatural, moments after he completed the lyctor process

[silasoctakiseron]

It's been said before but I'll say it again — ever be so deeply, permanently emotionally destroyed by killing your best friend in the name of the newfound necromancer/cavalier relationship that you build a house that treats cavaliers as innately disposable, breeds them for a single purpose, genetically matches them to babies before they are born, names them for sacrificial animals, specifically so none of the necromancers who follow behind you will experience the heartbreak of losing the person they love most in the world, so horribly that they can't stand to hear their name spoken aloud for the next ten thousand years, only for the scion of that house, ten thousand years later, to be so revolted by the concept of killing his cavalier for Lyctorhood, so disgusted by your crime, that he claims G-d's directly expressed will is heretical and fundamentally morally opposed to the principles of the religion you helped to found?

And then, when that person does do what you explicitly built his house to be able to do and uses his cavalier as a tool rather than a person — even if he does it because he believes his cavalier capable of surviving anything, the polar opposite of what you tried to teach his house to believe — he experiences his cavalier's death as such an abrupt and horrifying loss that after he himself is killed he wanders the afterlife in grief, impotently taking revenge on a woman who should have been burned up for Lyctorhood by the person who loved and needed her most, but was spared, saying may all the blood of your blood suffer even a fraction of what I have suffered? The suffering you tried so incredibly hard to insulate him from? He of the church you built to bury the memory of a nun?

[firstfloweroftheninthhouse]

The scene in ntn where Nona does such a spot on impression of Palamedes kissing Camilla's hand that Camilla has to dissociate about it in the tub has me wondering about the first gen lyctors' relationship with Alecto. Do you think that they were afraid of her because she wasn't human enough or because she was too human?Do you think that she worried her lip like Cristabel? Do you think she walked with Alfred's walk and laughed Pyrrha's laugh? Do you think they saw in her flawless imitation a mockery of their dearest friends and of their greatest sins? Do you think they said to John "it is a monstrosity, it is unbearable, send it away from us, Lord. We cannot look at it." Do you think he looked into the golden eyes of his own greatest sin and said "You are right, we should put it to bed."

[diosapate]

i do think it's kind of crazy how both cristabel and mercymorn function as sacrificial lambs that absolve their respective quinque of his sins... augustine can only ever blame cristabel for something that she and alfred did together so he can forgive the part alfred played in it. and john punishes mercy for a sin that she and augustine committed together — she "really pissed him off" — but john is able to extend an olive branch to augustine in spite of the part he knows he played. they're both finding scapegoats in the women who founded the house that produces cavs named after sacrificial animals. like, what the hell

[mayasaura]

Wait fuck. shit. ooog my fucking god. Mercy's fun double layered way of interacting with John. the way she talks to him both like he's her god and like he's her most annoying friend. It's Cristabel. She's talking to him like she's Cristabel. permeability of the soul ft. the nun and the atheist

[smapis]

🫁 cover for @mercyisms’ necro elysium (yuck!!): a combination of my two favorite things (mercy and disco elysium’s skill system)

[vaunted-and-vilified]

John 1:20

this started as a much bigger idea but three days of sketching in i realized my brain-eyes were bigger than my hand-stomach could manage. i probably still couldve taken it further than i did but i think im still happy with what ive got for two and a half weeks worth of working on it.

also full disclosure the shot of johns politician puppet is almost entirely lifted from a photo of a white house meeting room (mirrored and with some people left out) and i straight up traced the city of melbourne from a stock photo because at that point i was afraid that if i didn't take some pretty extreme shortcuts id never get past it and id lose all my work up to that point. the original intent was for both images to show up for a second or less in an amv or an animatic or whatever were calling them these days so it would probably have felt like less of a big deal. so like, sorry to the original photographers for jacking your shit but also thank you for your service o7

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

she was a devout nun she fully believed that Some Guy™️ was god she killed herself to bolster someone else's power not once but twice we know like 5 things about her and all of them are fucked up insane she was a delight she was effervescent she was kind to animals and children she probably initiated a suicide pact which she then carried out she didn't mind being trepanned on the regular she was god's favorite sacraficial lamb she had strange and unnerving eyes and a strange and unnerving worldview she probably invented soul siphoning she was seemingly incapable of separating love from fanatical devotion she's haunting the narrative she was a zealot she was an idolator and a heretic she was the first one to figure out what needed to be done and the only one with the balls to do it and she didn't have the intellect you'd ordinarily find in a sandwich or an orange. i didn't say her name but she popped into your head didn't she.

[franzias-cave]

do you think if they knew they were going to create the ecru house they would have made the same choices