#atn wishlist

[mayasaura]

One of my biggest hopes for Alecto is that Harrow has a minute of going full Carrie revenge insane upon finding out what they did to Gideon’s body. Like. Throughout Canaan House and especially in the AUs, we get the sense of Harrow having a deep desire to protect Gideon’s body even if it is in her own solitary goth nun way. She wants Gideon to put more consideration into the danger of avulsion before agreeing. She tells her afterward not to price her life so cheaply. She makes Cam and Pal check on her multiple times. She leaves her bread in a drawer. She’s fully on board to throw Camilla towards possible death in the interest of keeping Gideon safe. And then when she finally sees her in the coffee AU her description is just so soft and loving even when she’s about to pass out because she saw her arms, and continues that way until the end of the book. When Ianthe thinks it’s Harrow in Nona she’s surprised she isn’t violently storming the compound to recover Gideon’s body. Anyway she should find out how BOE and Jod treated her body and go on a tiny insane revenge spree. As a treat.

You are SO fucking right. Deep down inside Harrow is that one gif of the girl holding puppies and crying because she can't protect them, only the puppies are a butch lesbian determined to throw herself into a meat grinder.

I think Harrow might be a little grateful for the unbreakable bones and indestructable skin part of Jod's deal re: Gideon—she may have done that herself in Canaan House, if she'd known how—but the rest of it? The gaping wounds, the leaving her dead? Kill Bill sirens. She has been trying so hard to protect and preserve Gideon, to give Gideon a life, and when Gideon's own father has the chance to restore her he just slaps her together with crazy glue and calls it fine? That is not fine.

If she ever finds out how Gideon's corpse was being treated while her murderer lay in state on a bed of flowers... Man, I would not want to be in the room where that happened.

It would be so cathartic to see her tear into John over his part of it. Gideon already went apeshit on him for how he treated Harrow, so it's only fair Harrow gets to have her go. It's equality!! If We Suffer could somehow be there to be held accountable, too, so much the better.

And after that, what I really really want to see is Harrow turning the soft and loving vibe from the Baristar AU on the real Gideon, and channeling that protective fury toward protecting or restoring Gideon. I know it's probably not going to be exactly how it happens, what with everything else going on, but that sleeping beauty fakeout has me hungry to see Harrow try to ride in and rescue her prince.

In abscence of her body, Harrow's soul dreamed of Gideon's eyes; and in abscence of her soul, Harrow's body dreamed of Gideon's hands. If we don't get to see some pay off when she has those hands to hold again, I'm gonna have to chew my own fucking leg off.

[library-ghost-adjacent]

getting extremely (prematurely) excited for the return of elderly deviltwink augustine quinque. i hope he bursts forth from the bowels of hell to serve cunt amongst the living one last time. and maybe he gets to hate fuck god about it idk

[spending-life-pretending]

One of my favorite things about reading the locked tomb books is I have literally no idea how they’re going to end. I can’t even begin to try and predict what’s gonna happen in Alecto. Nothing is too outrageous to consider. Everyone could die, or they could kill God and rebirth the sun and close on a gay triple wedding. There’s no way of knowing. Book 1 was a murder mystery dinner party and Book 3 was an eldritch space sitcom; there is no precedent. Every set of characters who might kiss are also just as likely to kill each other. AtN is a complete blank to me, and I’m loving it.

[thanergeticbloom]

I really need to know more about how cam and pal felt in regards to nona. as they got to know her and grow attached to her over the months, they were operating under the leading theories of her being gideon, or a gideon/harrow amalgate with amnesia.

did they think they were getting to know gideon on a deeper level? did they feel like the bond they were nurturing was with their old ninth allies? how did they feel when they found out that nona was actually something completely different, and gideon was never in there? that what they thought they might have learned about their ninth pal’s souls, was actually never them.

how much of their care for nona was driven by their impression that it might be their deeply traumatized canaan buddies in there? did their feelings change very much when they learned the truth?

paul please reflect on nona in ATN. please interact with alecto. I guess that’s one of my big wishlist items for ATN

[jugglingjujube]

I don't want to make any predictions for AtN because every book in this series has gone in such a different direction than I expected. But I do have a wishlist:

Gideon and Harrow. I don't think hoping for the main characters to appear in the series finale is too much to ask but who knows

Gideon and Harrow in the same room. talking to each other. in real time. Ideally they get an on page kiss. Bonus points for being alive and in their own bodies but I'm managing my expectations

Post-resurrection, pre-lyctorhood Canaan house

OG lyctors and OG Cavs

Actually OG Cavaliers deserve their own bullet point

Mid-life crisis Jod feat. the tower princes being terrible

Paul

Dulcinea. I want my girl back and I want her to meet Paul. Maybe they'll have the wedding. (boy did propose)

Aim? The Messenger? Whatever that's about

Gideon and Pash being cousins

We Suffer backstory. Wake backstory. I wanna know about the MILFs

Other resurrection beasts!!! Alecto, Varun and friends!

[saltwaterconfessions]

i am DYING to get my lesbian lil hands all over alecto. we know so little about her, john is a lying bastard, and the lyctors aren't necessarily reliable sources either but. augustine and mercymorn seemed very genuinely scared of her, and of the idea of her coming back.

and i just realized - john's got those awful inhuman oil slick eyes, alecto's are golden. it seemed like the eyes of a monster in a human face were something everyone just gets used to, but the idea of human eyes in a monster's face is also pretty eerie!

i'm honestly just VERY eager to get a glimpse of her actual personality. she's angry, scary, and john's attachment to her is.... hm. also, i've been thinking. john must have had something to gain by "turning her off" bc otherwise i doubt he would have done it. IF it's alecto narrating the epilogue of HTN, which isn't a given, she seems pretty fine? definitely detached, which is interesting, but she does seem to care about her companions.

[griddlesbone]

Some tender Griddlehark on my AtN wishlist. Let these tired dykes rest pls

[saltwaterconfessions]

if there’s not a mmm whatcha say reference when/if someone gets shot in alecto the ninth, i do legally have to sue