#Nerfing all of humanity because of one person's desire to be like unto god

[katakaluptastrophy]

So humanity is precipitously existing on the brink of climate armageddon and the trillionaires put a bunch of people on a fleet of spaceships and fly off. We assume at least some of these people successfully emerged from FTL, found some habitable planets, and continued human civilisation in one form or another, having kids, etc for thousands of years. And Wake is a descendant of that civilisation of regular humans.

Meanwhile, back in the solar system, John murders every human being and every planet in the solar system. They are dead. And then he brings them all back, in his own terrifyingly warped way. The planets become thanergetic: where once their souls generated life energy, thalergy, like all living planets do, they are now empty dead husks, their murdered spirits seeking revenge as Resurrection Beasts, generating thanergy. These planets are death radiation zombies. Then John brings back the people, or at least, he brings back some of them, and he makes them different. All of them have the possibility developing the ability to harness that thanergy that radiates from their dead planets and some chunk of the population in every generation are able to sense and manipulate that energy.

Blood of Eden calls the Housers 'zombies' and it's not entirely incorrect. Imagine the horror of fighting people you know descend from people who died - who died and were resurrected and went on to have children - and now scavenge the energy of death that irradiates their entire dead system. That on the one hand these people have access to terrifying and unfathomable power, but at enormous human cost: necromancers are starved and sickly, and struggle with fertility. And even non-adepts seem to be stunted. The human body is not built for death. 10,000 years of zombies, in their zombie system, sustained by their horrifying god.

Anyway, maybe Wake thought about some of this when she stared at the three month old and yet still horrifuingly swimming vial of sperm from the 10,000 year old eldritch abomination that murdered humanity and has been pursuing a wrathful divine genocide against her people for thousands of years.

tumblr keeps putting posts on my dash about how it’s not “realistic” for Gideon to be fat/buff/fat+buff bc all the Ninth House eats is snow leeks and oatmeal

I’m so sorry, I can’t seem to hear you. I was too busy adding 20 pounds to her, as I do every time I hear this rancid opinion