#anastasia the first

[cutetanuki-chan]

Ninth Saints

close up on faces cause I like em

[homeofwyrm]

Work's been busy (good thing) so I haven't been able to draw much. Here's Anastasia

[so-normal-about-anastasia]

anatomy left the chat so I probably never finish it

[unreachedgalaxy]

some anastasia the first for your tl today. i have always thought anastasia's was the first tongue to be sewn and her jaw-only facepaint is why the ninth house skull is jawless. anyway can't wait for alecto the ninth to release and prove me wildly incorrect

[rosenkranz-does-things]

She had said, There are almost no beautiful things left. Where is Anastasia? Let me talk to Anastasia.

[felidaefatigue]

thinkin about the ancestral wounds of the 9th house

[ferretsarefurryappendagedsnakes]

Rereading Harrow and somehow only JUST noticed Anastasia is skipped in the “____ SAINT TO SERVE THE KING UNDYING” line up.

❗️Spoilers for HTN & NTN Below❗️

And I’m assuming it’s because her lyctoral ascension went “wrong” and she ended up being sent off to guard the tomb instead of becoming an official “hand”. But it makes me hate Jod even more. She was the closest to cracking the process he was lying about(and so he ruins it), and then he sends her off to guard Alecto’s tomb, and doesn’t even have the decency to still consider this act her being in his service, to still grace her with a title?

Not to mention Alecto and Anastasia were obviously close to a degree based on her asking to see her in her final non buried moments, and he still does that to Anastasia, to the both of them? He leaves her there to die “guarding” what never will, as a placeholder act since she “messed up” in ascension. And he still doesn’t even have the decency to let her have the title. I can’t wait to see him get what he deserves.

[ashiistired]

Without paint

Anastasia concept

This is a very messy sketch but oh well

[queondagrey]

John 5:4 "What does it mean to love God?"

I loved this quote in Nona and it wasn't until I'd finished making this comic that I realized that Jod really didn't ever technically answer her question???

John Gaius is gonna girlboss gaslight gatekeep his way directly into the sun and I for one can't wait to see it

[argonnizando]

nona says that shes pretty (Harrow's face) and that she specially likes her eyes (Gideon's eyes) but what if Alecto likes John's eyes and Anastasia's face because those are the traits of people that she loves and that loved her back

[ghostsessioned]

the priestess crushed beneath the new - laid rock.

[cutetanuki-chan]

where is Anastasia, where is Anastasia

but no one asks how is Anastasia

[homeofwyrm]

I'm giving Anastasia a try, on the fence

[so-normal-about-anastasia]

[mayasaura]

I wonder if there's any practical reason for Harrow's family to only tell secrets while immersed in salt water, or if it's something they've just always done without remembering it's because thousands of years ago, Anastasia figured out it was the best way to talk with Alecto

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

some points. some things. some ideas. none of which are connected, i'm sure.

"anastasia" means "resurrection" or "one who will be reborn."

she is the only one of the original lyctors explicitly stated to have sired her house's line of succession.

this is vitally important (important enough to have been actively preserved against all odds for 10000 years), but nobody seem to quite understand why, including the reverend family.

alecto says "you are the blood of anastasia," as if this is relevant to her. she then kisses harrow and draws blood.

it's only after getting verbal confirmation and (presumably) tasting her blood that she pledges her sword to harrow.

she says "i am sorry about samael," as if that would mean something to harrow, as if she expects harrow to have the same grief over anastasia's cavalier that anastasia did.

the ninth house is "the house of the sewn tongue," which is a ritual for the keeping of secrets. it also sounds oddly flesh magic-ey for the ninth, which means they probably didn't originate the practice.

this would imply that it's relevant to their history somehow.

the ninth's skull is jawless, which we know from the ianthe situation is the way to undo the effects of the sewn tongue.

when people talk portentously of the ninth, they talk about its "secrets" and its "mysteries," always in the plural.

which implies that there are more secrets than just the tomb. i doubt they added the plural after the creche flu, can you imagine? the ninth has other, very old secrets.

harrow loved alecto from sight.

alecto recognized her immediately.

like i said, this is a series of random, unconnected facts. there are no conclusions whatsoever to be drawn from this.