#Pyrra Dve

[asthedeathoflight]

Thinking about Gideons "are you EVER too late to come into my life and say that now" feeling betrayed by the fact that someone knew she was out there and didn't come for her all those years vs Pyrrha's "but why'd you bring along the baby" when she's literally about to let Wake kill her. Gideon felt so alone and she's so used to feeling alone that she lashes out at the first suggestion that maybe she wasn't as unloved as she thought because in the moment it just hurts even more but god. Nineteen years and Pyrrha still fucking haunted by Gideon. Her last words trying to find out why Wake would put Gideon in danger. Not why the Ninth, not why let me kill you, not did you ever love me. Why'd you bring the baby. Wake, why did you have to do that to our baby. God. Pyrrha thought Gideon was her fucking baby. Like we talk about Pyrrha saying she never mentioned the baby to John because she thought it was hers but we're ignoring the fact that she found out the baby wasn't hers THIRTY SECONDS AGO. She's been mourning her dead kid for NINETEEN YEARS and she just found out that not only was said kid alive and suffering alone for all those years, shes NOT EVEN HER KID. And still! And still! Pyrrha immediately risks everything to save Gideon. Never considers leaving Gideon behind for an instant. Not for a moment. Live or die she was not leaving that girl's side. And I don't think Pyrrha was disappointed that Nona wasn't Gideon but it really says something that she was so willing to care for this body which was the last place she saw her daughter. Buying her a half-birthday present because what if they don't have birthdays on the Ninth. Thinking about nineteen years that Gideon was alone and she was angsting about it alone in space when she should have been helping her. God. Jesus fucking christ. Pyrrha Dve.

[grxygreenrain]

Collection of my Post-Nona Locked Tomb memes

[libraryfag]

things we know about what pyrra looked like:

-she had beautiful soft green eyes.

That's literally it i think.

[the-yuri-librarian]

Of the og lyctors? Correct. But you cannot say that Pyrra Dve doesn't know how to fuck

I got an asks night about which of the og lyctors I think was good at sex and I WILL actually answer when I'm back home on keyboard but I need everyone to know that my immediate first thought was "none of them"

[blankinsidecards]

happy mother’s day to all of Gideon Nav’s moms: Aiglamene, Abigail Pent, Pyrra Dve, Mercymorn, and Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity <3

[princesscolumbia]

Peanut Butter...Chocolate...Lyctoral Consumption...Murder?

So I just got done reading an interesting examination of a moment in Nona the Ninth where Alecto emerges from the depths of Nona's consciousness and chastises Pyrra "I'm not the Lyctor, I'm the (he) Or (she) who Lyct Up" Dve. It was good, it was solid, and it was done with the understanding that OP didn't know for sure as they're not Tasmuir.

So you can imagine what a baseball bat to the head it was to see a Psych AU post where Shawn is dead and haunting Gus.

So guess what fell out of the piñata that is my imagination:

Shawn and Gus were born on the Sixth. They weren't supposed to be doing anything with the lyctoral process, but you know how Shawn is...and Gus is always a step behind. You know how they're "Ride or Die"? Well, Shawn is just smart enough ("...a brilliant mind with no impulse control." -Palamedes, who upon meeting Gideon is eternally but silently grateful that she and Shawn never met) piece together how to become a lyctor just from the available material and a few clever questions to the currently living lyctors without ever stepping foot in Canaan House. Because Shawn's knowledge and understanding of the process is SUPER limited, even more so than Ianthe's when she ate Naberius, they're unaware that one of them's gonna die as part of the process, and it's not going to be the necromancer...which is Gus.

Gus goes along with it because he knows Shawn is going to loop in some other more gullible adept and doesn't want anyone to be dealing with Shawn on one of his hyperfixations that isn't used to dealing with him.

Things are going well...until they aren't, and Shawn realizes he's gonna die, but he figures out how to modify the process while they're in the middle of a failed ascension and they become a lyctor...sorta.

Shawn winds up 'haunting' a now ungodly powerful and immortal Gus. Shawn's spirit is inhabiting Gus' body at the same time as Gus' spirit is "consuming" Shawn's, but since Shawn isn't a braindead result of a transference that's intended to be strictly one way, Shawn is 'eating' Gus' spirit at the same time, creating a cycle where both are feeding each other in perfect lyctoral harmony. They don't twig the Resurrection Beasts because "sin" =/= "dumbass fuckup" and Shawn isn't, strictly speaking, dead. It's a symbiosis rather than a parasitic relationship.

So here these two dumbasses are, neo-lyctors, standing over Shawn's dead body. They figure out that they're going to be so screwed if they're caught and someone figures out what they did, so they destroy the body and bug out as fast as possible...

...landing in the midst of BoE on one of the non-Empire human-occupied systems. They're doing their best to lay low and not twig anyone to the fact that they're from the Empire (Gus, thanks to the neo-lyctorhood, looks like a fine, fit, and dare we say sexy man, so nobody pegs him for a necromancer) and Shawn figures out how to do a fancy kinda-sorta projection where he can actually interact with the physical world while still bonded to Gus.

One day there's a murder nearby and Shawn sees all the clues to figure out who-dun-it, and Gus is all, "Naw, man, they're gonna pick us out as Imperial the second those cops see us!"

Shawn, of course, does everything possible to draw attention to the clues, which catches the attention of (you guessed it) Lassie and his partner. Lasiter is suspicious but can't prove anything because the usual 'tells' for a necromancer or lyctor aren't turning anything up. Shawn feeds Gus some line about some grandparent from a few generations back being an expat from the Empire and so Gus is "able to receive messages from the spirit realm" (just Shawn, obvi) and because they can't prove there's a more direct connection to the Empire than that, the police are forced to let Gus go.

Things play out fairly similar to the pilot of Psych from that point forward, but with Gus having to be the point-man for the whole thing while Shawn is getting better and better at manipulating the world around him, including being able to visually manifest by the time Juliet arrives on-planet. She's one of the refugees of a planet destroyed by a lyctor and is absolutely the best officer ever when it comes to hunting down necros...but since none of her tools or experience include anything like what Shawn and Gus have become, she doesn't figure it out for several years, by which point she's fallen in love with Shawn.

Until we get AtN, I have no idea how this would shake out, but my ideal scenario is somehow Paul and Kirona wind up on this BoE planet that Shawn and Gus are on.

[nooomagnus]

WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THIS JODSDAMNED COLLEGE. THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT THE MORE IM GONNA EXPLODE. PYRRA DVE GIVE ME UR FREAKING SECRETS.

HMMM IDK

i think we'll have to wait to find out :)

[princesscolumbia]

Starting Nona the Ninth:

Finishing Nona the Ninth:

Time to get started on Nona the Ninth, engaging in foolish behavior for Break My Heart 2: Electric Boogaloo

[theriverbeyond]

im absolutely obsessed w the audiobook rendition of pyrra's reveal in HtN ch 52. her audiobook voice beforehand, even when she's talking as herself and not pretending to be G1deon, is grave and reserved. but when she starts talking about hiding herself from G1deon, and then their mutual affair with Wake using his body, her voice takes on this light and utterly amused quality. she's having so much FUN. fucking incredible

[thelonghairedone]

Wait so Gideon v1 was his lyctor the whole time????? And both she and Gideon v1 banged Commander Wake/Gideon v2′s mom?

Seriously how did Gideon/Pyrra and Wake even end up together considering their opposing sides? that must be an interesting story

[momentary-ecstasy]

Now that I understand what is going on, those last few chapters of Harrow the Ninth are like whiplash. I've read it before and I was still surprised.

[princesscolumbia]

Yes! Pyrra Dve, best mom and official Brony! 🥰

saw this post on twitter and wanted to draw Pyrrha in this shirt

and some more nona stuff

[recentlylocal]

There is a real void of Pyrrha Dve fic in this fandom and I am about to start filling it.

[whitenoiseblackknight]

I submit for your consideration a totally different direction - this is not about Pyrrha the character at all.

We have multiple pages of John, our evil overlord who let his best friends kill his other best friends for questionmark reasons, and the lyctors who are desperately trying to maintain emotional distance from the fact that they’re the living tombs for the people they loved and murdered... and this is how they think about their cavaliers now if they have to think about them at all. The discussion isn’t showing us something about her, it’s about them.

no one, absolutely no one:

me, waking up in a cold sweat at 3am: but why did tamsyn muir spend multiple pages establishing that pyrrha dve was the hottest woman to walk the face of the planets? why did tamsyn, the author who is on record saying that she would rather write less and risk people missing plot points, write in testimonials from multiple lyctors and g*d himself to hammer home that pyrrha was hotter than a thousand suns??? why is pyrrha, a minor character so far, described this way when we barely get to see in the books and when we do see her, she’s in someone else’s body??? why are her looks so important that we needed an extremely awkward narrative break to dissect them? WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING, TAMSYN MUIR?

[theriverbeyond]

master list of who is alive or dead, pre-NtN! it gets... complicated!

I did not include every single character ever mentioned because I wish to remain sane, but i guess if sister glaurica comes back and becomes widly integral to the story then i will have been proven a fool. But!! i think i got everyone that (i think is) plot relevent! Let’s start off easy:

ALIVE (with body and soul still together)

Ianthe Tridentarius (+ the incorporated soul of Naberius Tern) (last seen in the River, saving Jod)

Emperor John Gaius (last seen in the River, being saved by Ianthe)

Camilla Hect (last seen on a BOE planet with new eyes, with “Nona” as well as two other people)

Coronabreth Tridentarius (last seen on a murdered planet with Camilla and Judith)

Judith Deuteros (last seen on a murdered planet with Camilla and Coronabeth)

Comander We Suffer (last seen in AYU, on a BOE base/ship)

Fleet Admiral Sarpeadon (last seen on the behemoth-class flagship the Seat of the Emperor, formerly  known as the Erebos)

Now it gets weird. I am defining “Alive” to mean “the person, with body and soul still married, has NOT died/been killed/had their body irreparably destroyed, Jod excluded (presuming he did die once, a myriad ago)” and “Dead” to mean “quite a lot of different states of being that can happen after destruction of the body when it still houses the soul”. Defined below:

DEAD (revenant, not in river)

Palamedes Sextus (last seen posessing his own skull transformed into a hand, with Camilla and Judith and Coronabeth, on a murdered planet, as of NtN presumed to be with Camilla and Pyrra)

DEAD (soul active, not in river, non-revenent)

Pyrra Dve (last seen being submerged in the river, in Gideon the First’s body, as of NtN presumed to be with “Nona”, Camilla, and Palamades) 

DEAD (presummed to have passed on from the river)

Isaac Tettares (Last seen in Harrowhard’s dream bubble, soul presumed to have been ushered away immediately afterwards by Abigail Pent)

Jeannemary Chatur  (Last seen in Harrowhard’s dream bubble, soul presumed to have been ushered away immediately afterwards by Abigail Pent)

DEAD (died in Life, presumed to be in the River or a River Bubble)

Abigail Pent  (last seen fighting the RB #7)

Magnus Quinn  (last seen fighting the RB #7)

Ortus Nigenad  (last seen fighting the RB #7)

Dulcinea Septimus  (last seen fighting the RB #7)

Protesilaus Eboma  (last seen fighting the RB #7)

Mattias Nonius (last seen fighting the RB #7)

Marta Dyas  (last seen fighting the RB #7)

Ninth House Crew (Crux, Aiglamamine, the Rev. Father and the Rev. Mother) (Last seen in Harrowhard’s dream bubble, bodies presumed to still be on the Ninth) (like A and C might not be dead but. I think they’re dead. Their characters seemed “correct” in the river bubble)

DEAD (soul status unknown)

Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity (soul last seen in cytherea’s body, having her head exploded, dead for the second time, body presumably farming snow leeks somewhere on the Ninth)

Gideon the First (soul side only, killed by RB in the river, body still active)

Colum Asht (soul lost when he was put under by Silas in GtN, body killed by Ianthe)

Silas Octakiseron (soul last seen escaping Harrow’s river bubble, body killed by the posessed body of Colum Asht)

Teacher, little old man version (soul last known to have escaped Harrow’s river bubble, body killed by the Second House)

DEAD (soul status unknown, lyctor edition - can lyctors even GO to the river? what happens to them? what happens to the cavalier’s soul when a lyctor dies when not in-the-river?)

Gideon, original flavor (soul last seen being killed in the river by RB #7, body last seen housing Pyrra Dve)

Mercymorn (last seen having having her heart exploded by Jod :( )

[Cristabel Oct (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]

Cyrus (last seen having lured RB #6 into a black hole, killing them both)

[Valancy Trinit (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]

Cytherea (soul and body killed at Canaan house, body last seen with its head exploded)

[Loveday Heptane (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]

And finally.... my favorite section! you thought it was already complicated. it gets MORE complicated!

IT’S COMPLICATED (lyctor edition)

Augustine (last seen being pulled, both body and soul, into the stoma)

[Alfred Quinque (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]

Ulysses (Last seen having wrestled RB #8 into the stoma)

[Titania Tetra (eaten and incorporated 10,000 yrears ago)]

Cassiopeia (last seen being “torn apart by ghosts” near RB #7, something I do not believe for a second)

[Nigella Shodash (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]

Anastasia (is she alive? is she dead? is she The Body? she never completed lyctorhood, but only Samael was killed in the process. what happened to her!!!! Body and soul status unknown)

Samael Novenary (body killed by Jod 10,000 years ago, soul “not all the way in” Anastasia, it’s complicated)

IT’S COMPLICATED (unholy terror edition)

Alecto, A.L., Annabel Lee, the Emperor’s Bodyguard (is she a RB? is she the First House? is she The Body? is she in some kind of staisis?)

IT’S COMPLICATED (Nona edition)

Nona... the Ninth? (how did she wake up in a different body? did she die before? who is she! why does she challenge Camilla to figure out who she is! does she not know? can she not say? when is her birthday? is she the The Body? is she a dog? is she in Gideon Nav’s body? Soul last seen in a body that doesn’t belong to her, on a BOE planet, with Camilla Hect and Pyrra and Palamades)

IT'S COMPLICATED (Drearbough edition)

Harrowhark Nonagesimus (Body last seen being dunked into the river by augustine along with the Mithraum, being piloted by Gideon (new and improved). Soul last seen falling asleep in a tomb with a copy of Frontline Titties of the Fifth. is Her soul in THE Tomb? is she in the River? is she in Hell? did she get eaten by the stoma?) 

Gideon Nav (Body last seen failing to rot on a BOE base, developing a cult following, perhaps being piloted around by Nona. soul last seen “dying a second time around” but probbaly just being very dramatic, being saved by a wildly gorgeous, yellow eyed woman that perhaps looks The Body. was this real? was this in the river? where is she? HOW is she?) 

The Body (last known to be in the locked tomb, on the Ninth. is she in stasis? who is she? is she still in the tomb? is she alecto? is she anastasia? is she a ressurection beast? is she a failed lyctor? is she the emporer’s final death? is she nona? are harrow’s hallucinations a projection of The Body’s soul, or something else?)

[whimsicallywiddershins]

Pyrrha kills Wake. She shoots her without a second's hesitation to protect Gideon. I think Wake was about to spill who Gideon was, what she did, that the baby was still alive. Because at this point, it was possible that Mercy and Augustine wouldn't spill that Gideon is technically alive, and maybe John wouldn't use her or something.

So Pyyrha kills the woman she loves to protect a daughter who was never hers, who she mourned and never actually met. Just for that tiny chance that Gideon might be safer.

Thinking about Gideons "are you EVER too late to come into my life and say that now" feeling betrayed by the fact that someone knew she was out there and didn't come for her all those years vs Pyrrha's "but why'd you bring along the baby" when she's literally about to let Wake kill her. Gideon felt so alone and she's so used to feeling alone that she lashes out at the first suggestion that maybe she wasn't as unloved as she thought because in the moment it just hurts even more but god. Nineteen years and Pyrrha still fucking haunted by Gideon. Her last words trying to find out why Wake would put Gideon in danger. Not why the Ninth, not why let me kill you, not did you ever love me. Why'd you bring the baby. Wake, why did you have to do that to our baby. God. Pyrrha thought Gideon was her fucking baby. Like we talk about Pyrrha saying she never mentioned the baby to John because she thought it was hers but we're ignoring the fact that she found out the baby wasn't hers THIRTY SECONDS AGO. She's been mourning her dead kid for NINETEEN YEARS and she just found out that not only was said kid alive and suffering alone for all those years, shes NOT EVEN HER KID. And still! And still! Pyrrha immediately risks everything to save Gideon. Never considers leaving Gideon behind for an instant. Not for a moment. Live or die she was not leaving that girl's side. And I don't think Pyrrha was disappointed that Nona wasn't Gideon but it really says something that she was so willing to care for this body which was the last place she saw her daughter. Buying her a half-birthday present because what if they don't have birthdays on the Ninth. Thinking about nineteen years that Gideon was alone and she was angsting about it alone in space when she should have been helping her. God. Jesus fucking christ. Pyrrha Dve.