#What is going on with harrow and alecto

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

i also hate the locked tomb but am obsessed with it. i dont know what to do anymore man. i want to but i cannot stop thinking about them

BRO YOU GET ME. I hate it. I love it. I have fanart of the characters saved. Fanart and textposts are constantly on my dash. Gideon and Harrow make me absolutely feral. Today, I was considering rereading it because maybe I missed something? But nah, I don't think I did lmao. The writing style is not for me at all, but I'll be fucking damned if the author doesn't know how to make characters that nest in your brain. Gideon and Harrow are a literal masterclass in how to make readers obsessed with characters. I started drawing fanart of them myself!!! Just today I saw art from a scene in the first book that really got to me. I'm genuinely so fucking obsessed but I'll never buy the second book.

[littlemsterious]

holy fuck harrow is a product of her parent’s genocide and alecto is a product of jod’s genocide how have i never put this together before

i’m trying to spell out my thoughts about this but i cant get past how a horrific number of people had to die in order for them to exist

[yuurionviktor]

Did not change much in the end

[godlypancake]

[mayasaura]

When Alecto woke up, she finished the sentence she'd started when she was put to rest. There's a continuity there, unbroken by her consciousness having moved on or shifted attention in the ten thousand years she was asleep or dead, despite her having been other people and done things in the interim. It reminds me of when Harrow woke up in the dream of Canaan House with her memory restored. It had been nine months, but by her perception she had only lost Gideon three days ago. She had split herself into two selves, but Harrow First and Harrow Secundarius were really all one Harrowhark wearing different clothes.

I think Alecto, Nona, the Body are the same way. They're all one person, separated by what they're wearing and what they can remember.

Alecto remembers everything up to her death, and she's wearing a body built for her as a prison out of her dirt and John's blood and bones.

Nona remembered nothing, and was wearing Harrow.

I think the Body was halfway between them. Her memory was vague, and she had no body. She knew things Harrow appeared not to, and seemed to recognize John, but she was confused when she tried to share information about herself. She was Alecto only half awake, summoned by a kiss from a crying child.

I'm looking forward to seeing how or if these three aspects of Alecto will mesh. The Alecto who woke up in the epilogue of Nona the Ninth didn't remember being Nona. She didn't recognize Harrow, or remember being the Body who followed Harrow for months, talking her through her fears and trying to hold her when she cried herself to sleep. Nona was afraid to become Alecto, because she didn't think she would know how to love anything, but that can't really be true. Every version of Alecto we've seen so far has done nothing but love. She just has to remember.

[nonasbirthday]

"why is there only 1 RB per planet. why dorsn't the moon get an RB. what even is a soul" are all good questions and i have another!

if john killing the planets produced the resurrection beasts, if the reason he killed the planets was to get a thanergy boost from their deaths, and a thing must have a soul for it to be killed, does this mean the fucking sun has a soul?

ugh you know before nona came out i was semi-convinced that alecto was actually the RB of the sun. which doesn't really make sense bc how could there be life on the sun. but john said he reignited the sun, and that he continued to power it, and his eyes kind of look like an eclipse, you get it. so YEAH i'm with you here, if john actually resurrected the sun then it seems like it's gotta have a soul right?!! IF john is telling the truth, which seems to be a big if, because in HTN right as we believe john's death is causing the sun to collapse he suddenly re-forms and tells augustine that he can't actually be killed by the RBs or by mercymorn, so no need to worry about Dominicus after all, except how it may have toasted the sixth a little bit there, whoopsie! BUT then in NTN john does say he "bit through the sun first" so like!! what is the deal!!

[thermodynamic-comedian]

im extremely entertained by the fact that at some point in alecto the ninth, its very possible that john's gonna see harrow and alecto together. what are you supposed to do when a fucked up fucking necromancer dates both your daughter and your ex. i would just die probably

[dear-sophie]

Definitelynot-tober day seven: BETWEEN YOUR TEETH

(promt list)

the only thing that came to mind when I read the promt was the scene from Nona the Ninth:

Alecto was angry, and raised her up, and kissed her. The child did not cry out, though blood fell from her lips and tongue, and she was wounded sore. For Alecto knew not how to kiss, except such as it involved the mouth and teeth.

[procrastinationaccount]

Abella Trine. Abella Trine is the name that Ianthe had in an early draft.

One of her love interests was a spoiled swordswoman who loved sexy parties. A swordswoman. Who Palamedes describes as disliked by the narrative.

Until she meets a tedious widower??? Saintly dead spouse??! After a couple of misunderstandings they get married???

In conclusion. Harrianthe wedding sweep?

[youaremysunshine-court]

Oh btw blossoms by the amazing devil is going to be The alecto the ninth song trust me

[frontlinebicepsoftheninth]

gideon knew nona was alecto from the start right??? was part of her shock after the kiss seeing her own eyes in harrow’s face???? gideon was standing right there when mercy said “Your child... Alecto’s eyes” so she knows all that like she HAD to have figured out nona immediately. ALSO did harrow not realize alecto had gideon’s eyes in the epilogue??? or during the sixth months where she was in hell or wherever did she piece together what she was already starting to subconsciously realize (according to tazmuir - i forget which interview though) re: the AUs hinting at gideon’s parentage because do you really think a harrow who was unaware that gideon is the daughter of god would not absolutely freeze up and/or faint at THE BODY IN THE TOMB having GIDEON’S eyes????

[phialie]

I'd never had one in particular until a few years ago. Now it's definitely the one from The Locked Tomb series ❤️

i’m curious which river is “the river” for you guys? for me it’s the rhine

[themoonstonechronicler]

So I just finished Harrow the Ninth!!!

what the fuck

[fingertipsmp3]

Self explanatory

[iamthescalesofjustice]

idk if ive ever mentioned that my primary obligatory ‘throw my ocs into the series i currently like’ scribbleplot involves keres being at canaan house and jj only showing up onscreen in ntn (barring maybe a cameo in ayu), and their presence, identites, and abilities not being explained until the very end of ntn or after. 

crucially, keres has had a supremely high-level ‘shroud against undead’ effect up the whole time, so nobody falling under that unbrella, including anybody who has so much as touched the river, is able to perceive their existence or the direct results of their actions. the only people at canaan house not subject to this full-on stranger effect are the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and magnus. 

[hot-lesbian-knight]

So I know that the Nona the Ninth epilogue is a bit confusing with regards to who is speaking and doing things, made moreso by the fact that those who listened to the audiobook have heard the way Moira Quirk ended up taking her best guess at who was talking.

Because I wanted to nail down exactly who I thought was talking when I decided to go through and highlight who I believe is talking/being addressed in the Epilogue and I figured some other folks on here might find it useful!

This is my best guess, though there are a few that are more ambiguous which I try to justify as such:

I believe that it is Ianthe who ties to kill Alecto and has a back and forth with Harrow(referred to in the text as both Second Child and Black-Eyed Infant), because Harrow directly addresses the person attacking Alecto(referred to in the text as The First Child) as "Tridentarius".

For "Then Perish" I think it could be Gideon, as Gideon is the most likely person to be spouting memes and also because the person saying it is addressed as "The Other Child" rather than "The First Child" or "The Second Child", but that could simply be a method of breaking up the repetition of the exchange rather than indicating that a new person was talking which would make it Harrow who was speaking.

Finally, I think it was most likely Pyrrha who was calling "Alecto, Alecto" from the shore as Alecto addresses Pyrrha immediately after she fully wakes and remembers who she is, but it doesn't have anything concrete to prove it beyond this.

Anyway, that's my take on the general order of who said what during the epilogue for Nona, I hope this helps some folks clear up any confusion!