#cytherea loveday

[notedchampagne]

each house gets one rendering style the economy is dire

[theriverbeyond]

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bone construct

[sermna]

"My name is Cytherea the First," she said. "Lyctor of the Great Ressurection, the seventh saint to serve the King Undying. I am a necromancer and I am a cavalier. I am the vengeance of the ten billion. I have come back home to kill the Emperor and burn his Houses. And Gideon the Ninth..." She walked toward Gideon, and she raised her sword. She smiled. "This begins with you."

I did my best and that's what matters here folks

[smellslikera1n]

“dulcinea”, casually saying “i feel like i’ve been dying for ten thousand years” :

[rosenkranz-does-things]

cav!Cytherea for @thelockedtombcfp! that was a very specific request and I enjoyed working on it a lot :')

[the-velvet-worm]

the love triangle in TLT is so funny because it's not even a true love triangle. it's like a shape that hasn't even been invented yet. first you've got Ianthe, who thinks Harrow is totally into her but isn't. and Harrow is into Gideon but also this really sexy corpse. the sexy corpse was maybe probably in a relationship with Gideon's dad who's also the leader of the solar system. he hooks up with his officers sometimes and has hooked up with his best friends over the last 10,000 years because they were bored. Ianthe also has this weirdly borderline incestuous relationship with Coronabeth but Coronabeth is in love with Judith who had a crush on her now-dead cavalier. the only ones who've got a semi-normal relationship are Camilla and Palamedes and even then they had a weird poly thing with Dulcinea even though they never met her in person. and they have another weird poly thing with Pyrrha but by that point they're sharing a body. then they decide to do a mutual suicide/soul binding ritual and become a whole new person in Camilla's body. also they're second cousins. oh Pyrrha also had a weird poly thing with her necro and Gideon's biomom/the leader of the rebellion who's fighting against Gideon's biodad. I don't even have time to unpack all that and that doesn't even cover half of the shit happening here. there's also the whole Cytherea thing

[cutetanuki-chan]

wanted to sketch something fun

[nortess]

birth of venus except it sucks!

[foxy-alien]

Evil cougar 🫣

[eggpngg]

"Stand up for me," said Dulcinea. "Indulge me. Lots of people do... but I want you to."

[artac13]

Welcome to Canaan House! Come meet the crew! We have:

A bone-obsessed goth nun

A jock forced to dress up as a bone-obsessed goth nun

An autistic nerd

An autistic nerd whose special interest is knives and what they can do to human flesh

A valley girl

An evil valley girl

Douche-y Elvis with a sword

An awkward scene kid

An awkward scene kid who's definitely listened to Angel With a Shotgun an unhealthy amount of times

An evil cancer patient

The end result of that laser grid from the Resident Evil movie

The dad you wish you had

The mom you wish you had

An ROTC kid

A worse-adjusted ROTC kid

The bleached leader of the Spanish Inqusition In Space

The actually-very-nice older nephew of the leader of the Spanish Inquisition In Space

And last but not least, the souls of the damned, eternally trapped in torturous servitude!

[tiffanyachings]

interpersonal drama! at canaan house

[ancientannoyance]

finally finishes the colour wheel meme a whole year after everybody else

[griddleharkbrainrot]

Diversity Win! The evil 10,000 yr old woman who murdered your girlfriend and all your friends is a disabled lesbian

[katakaluptastrophy]

Imagine being the Cohort soldiers from the Erebos who were sent respond to Judith's distress call.

They land to find a dead Lyctor, run through with a Cohort infantry sword, and two new Lyctors, one freshly missing an arm. I doubt either of them were particularly coherent by that stage.

And then they go to clear the inside of the building. In the room the transmission came from, there's a dead priest and an enormous pool of blood, but no sign of captain Deuteros. Her cavalier is missing an eye and seems to have been blown open from the inside.

A room down the hall is singed and splattered with blood and chunks of human flesh. Perhaps there are fragments of grey robes, or perhaps some poor psychometrist works out that they're looking at what's left of the Master Warden of his House.

Further into the building they enter a study with the words "YOU LIED TO US" daubed across an ancient and beautiful mural. The Third House cavalier lies dead on the floor, stabbed from behind. The Master Templar of the Eighth is lying dead, his throat slit, apparently by his own cavalier's sword. And his cavalier... His eyes are gone, there is something wrong with his mouth. His wrist and neck are broken. The whole room is dripping and sticky with blood and human fat.

Searching past the kitchen, they find the morgue. There's a bowl of ashes (two people's, dead before the pilgrimage even began, confirms the by now very shaken psychometrist). One of drawers lies open and the sheet has been roughly pulled off the body inside: the utterly shattered body of the Fifth House necromancer is lying there, her blouse rolled up to her ribs, a fist sized hole in her abdomen.

Neatly lying under sheets in the other drawers there are more bodies, and the preserved severed head of the Seventh House cavalier. There is no sign of his body. The Fourth House cavalier has been impaled through the chest, shoulders and legs, precisely, like an insect for display. Her necromancer...it might be easier to list the places where he hasn't been impaled. The Fifth House cavalier is just as destroyed as his necromancer: limbs broken, body horribly mangled.

Later, they find the bloodsoaked bed with "sweet dreams" daubed on the wall in blood. If they get as far as the facility, they discover the outlines of two horribly broken bodies surrounded by necromantic diagrams drawn on the floor in pen. One unremarkable room is splattered in blood and singed with spirit fire.

The building is full of collapsed skeleton constructs, seemingly mid task, as if all struck down simultaneously, and as they explore they find more dead priests. They find no sign of the Sixth or Ninth cavaliers, or the Crown Princess of the Third, or of Captain Deuteros. And from what they've already seen, this can't feel encouraging.

It's clear that this building has witnessed necromantic horrors beyond their comprehension. What were the scions of the Houses doing, or what was being done to them? What could possibly cause what they have seen?

And I can't imagine that after seeing the truth of what happened at Canaan House, that John would have taken the risk of those soldiers revealing what they had seen. After all, he's a very careful guy.

[theriverbeyond]

me and my girl don't argue, she deludes me into thinking she is a terminally ill 26 year old while conspiring to destroy the Empire and kill all my friends and I walk it off like a man