#harrowhark nonagesmius

[elfieafterdark]

I don't think I'll ever be able to stop thinking about how fucking misguided Gideon and Harrow are when it comes to their feelings for each other.

Gideon's convinced that the love of her life is only capable of feeling the way she wants her to feel about herself, for the Body. Harrow loves Gideon in a way she could never love the body. She covets the body, she childishly adores Alecto.

But she isn't willing to destroy herself for Alecto, she isn't willing to shatter her mind to ensure Alecto's survival. She lobotomizes herself to save Gideon, and I don't believe that she would do the same for Alecto.

Harrow meanwhile, is a complete disaster zone at expressing and communicating her feelings. Her note to Gideon, her letter, the one that would be given to Gideon with the assumption that Harrow was going to get Gideon into a body at some point could have explained it all plainly.

How she feels about Gideon, how she loves Gideon more than anything. How she's going to do everything she can to get back to her. How she needs her so badly.

Instead she hides that all behind the cryptic message, their message for sure, but Gideon misses it. "One flesh, one end."

Girls please?!

[harrowing-of-hell]

"yeah there's are a lot of metaphors about sexual abuse surrounding john's behavior but he didn't actually DO it as far as we know!!"

so like... do you think that's a meaningful difference?

when the entire point of a metaphor is to say something without really saying it and to make allusions to things without those things being literal... do you think it actually matters that we haven't seen him do it on the page?

anyways, i've wanted to kill that man for a while but doubly so ever since he drew a heart around his and harrow's initials

[marvin-the-ever-victorious-fish]

Thinking about Gideon and Crux - two fixed points in Harrow’s life - elbowing each other to spill their blood to open the tomb to save Harrow’s. Aiglamene - the other constant in Harrow’s life, the only other person other than Crux to give a damn about her as a person rather than a house scion - saying “Die for her…it’s all any of you ever knew how to give her. You could have lived for her…but you didn’t know how.”

Thinking about Harrow taking one look at the end of God, the one thing she was created to keep contained, and deciding to live in case she ever woke up.

Thinking about how Harrow cracked open her own skull and endured brain hemorrhages for months just so she could keep Gideon alive in her brain, how angry she was that Gideon would even think to die for her.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus was a mausoleum to two hundred children even before she was born, watched her only friend sacrifice herself so that Harrow could live, put that sacrifice and her lyctorhood at risk for just the chance at keeping Gideon alive. This girl is sick and tired of people dying for her; she wants so badly for someone, just once, to live for her instead. No wonder she is so enamored with Alecto, who swore fealty to her the moment she woke up.

Harrow wants so badly to live, but even more than that, she doesn’t want to live alone.

[wofworld]

forget-me-not

[elfieafterdark]

Real. Generally when your childhood sucks it's because adults ruined it.

The way Gideon and Harrow were bullied into hating each other by adults their whole lives. Then they spent a few weeks alone together in a haunted castle and ended up sobbing in each other's arms.

[mayasaura]

just realised that bc Harrow was out of it for all of Nona, she's gonna be the last person in the universe to know about John being Gideon's father. She slept right through her whole princely debut

[nerd-at-sea5]

playlists!

yellowjackets

the yellowjackets (team playlist)

natalie scatorccio

van palmer

lottie matthews

laura lee

javi martinez

lottienat

taivan

lottielee

natlee

van & nat / vannat

hozier as yellowjackets (association)

no return (all versions)

riordanverse

thalia grace (under editing)

percy jackson

annabeth chase

percabeth

the locked tomb

harrowhark nonagesmius

griddlehark

gideon nav

supernatural

holy shit dean winchester (music he’d enjoy?)

supernatural (show playlist)

ghostbusters

phoebe spengler

phelody

misc

sam fraser (fear street)

the half of it (movie playlist)

soundtrack of the woods (over the garden wall)

[princington]

kayakap

[elfieafterdark]

I was talking to @goodmorningnona about TLT and I shared a little thought I've come up with. Time to share it with all of you.

So, we know John has a whole bunch of soul juice inside him, that's what makes him so damn strong. We know that he can't die conventionally, even the resurrection beasts aren't a danger to him.

But Alecto might just be able to, it's heavily implied that she can. Also know that she's linked to John via the complete version of the lyctorial process. Since he and Alecto are both alive but also ascended, I think it's reasonable to speculate that she shares the 10 billion souls John consumed. John and Alecto are jointly God, and Alecto can kill him.

So here me out, I think Harrow is a mini-baby god. Born of 200 souls smashed together in a torrent of death and magic. She's a young god, maybe a fledgling one I'm not sure.

But I think, baby god or not, she can kill John just the same as Alecto can. I think that John lies to her constantly in order to keep her pliable and loyal. He wants her on his side because of this, because she's like him.

It would explain why Gideon the first tries to kill her constantly. Because she's an actual, legitimate threat to John.

That's the theory, Harrow is a baby god and she's one of two people capable of killing John Gaius. Gideon the First attacks Harrow for this, and John lies and manipulates her to keep her on his side.

[elliesgaymachete]

There are two types of people who read Gideon the ninth: those who hate Harrow when we first meet her because she’s a raging bitch to Gideon who doesn’t deserve that but then slowly realize over the course of the book that she’s really just a traumatized child who doesn’t understand emotions and has the burden of her entire house on her shoulders and the mere existence of Gideon is a constant reminder of the 200 lives her parents sacrificed for her to exist and slowly learn to love her just as Gideon does

And then there’s those of us who meet Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the raging bitch, and are immediately like, “Yes. Her. I love her.”

[wouldtheybecomeafearavatar]

I think this is one of the clearest no votes yet! Harrowhark Nonagesmius would NOT become an avatar of The Spiral and would instead serve another Fear. There was a lot of good debate and discussion on which she'd serve, with End, Flesh and Buried being the most suggested.

She IS a necromancer, and with the whole aesthetic End would make sense, but with all that bone manipulation, she has Flesh like powers already. But being an avatar is often more about what you Fear and the kind of Fear you would inflict on others. In that sense, the burdens she carries, her willingness to impose her will on others and crush them under it... Buried would make a lot of sense. Maybe another submission could settle this debate once and for all!

Would Harrowhark Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb become an avatar of the Spiral?

[mayasaura]

Firmly believe that Gideon and Harrow could sort all their shit out, become the disgustingly romantic couple they've always secretly wanted to be, live together in domestic bliss for a decade, and Gideon would absolutely still bite Harrow if she covered her mouth with her hand. That's just who they are.

[aurorasulphur]

Top: ?

Middle: Ianthe Tridentarius

At left: …Jod? Gideon the First?

Center: Harrowhark Nonagesmius

At right: Gideon Nav

[elfieafterdark]

Okay, full degen brainrot for a minute here.

Harrow doesn't wear a bra because she doesn't need one.

Gideon doesn't wear a bra because she's busy wearing a binder instead.

Palamedes has been wearing a bra incidentally, because Cam wore one (rip my darling 😭😭)

Dulcie doesn't wear a bra because she doesn't need to, and because they ruined the ✨ aesthetic ✨

Corona doesn't wear one because she's a beautiful, gorgeous, totally not into her sister in a weird way menace.

[swordlesbiansmybeloved]

Bone rosary for harrowhark