#it wasnt that long ago that i frantically sloshed that roiling braining across a keyboardim sure you can find it if you poke around

[iamthescalesofjustice]

hi hello 2023 time to be incoherent about the locked again lets fucking go

disclaimer until atn comes out i am not taking at face value the presented ideas about the worldspirit blessing john with necromancy. maybe not even trusting the idea that alecto is a true and accurate iteration of the worldspirit idk

i think the gold eyes are bc john was exposed to necro-radiation* from the cryogenic tubes**

when you have something dark change into something shiny and gold it means your nuclear reactor needs better shielding bc stray leakage is transmuting buts of the lead shielding into gold. dark brown eyes into gold eyes, lead into gold. 

insert that poem thats like ‘alchemists you were right, it is magic’. 

side note, alchemy as being historically an inseparable tangle of magic and science and spiritual is relevant here, bc i feel that is very much a thing for this series both vibeswise and very literally in terms of worldbuilding and possibly in the metaphysical underpinnings of the setting as well. 

among gideons weird powers that are mostly glossed-over*** is that she can like, see the energy fields of necromancy. yknow that bit where after the sense-sharing harrow is like griddle wtf and then the story moves on? that. 

anyway why have cool eyes and also cool aura vision and not have the two be correlated at all? and they arent just gideons eyes. so if arent assuming that john was literally divinely blessed and instead consider what happened as part of a superpower manifestation, we are quickly reminded how radiation* and lab experiments are of course iconic elements in a lot of superpower manifestation tales. 

anyway. timeline and cause-effect chain i am proposing here looks loosely like: 

- the cryogenics project produces at least some cases where a cryo-preserved body radiates thanergy in what must be a longer-lasting or more stable flow than what gets naturally produced ‘in the wild’ during normal course of events

- john gets exposed to a lot of thanergy from working at/on/near/around these cryotubes. 

- john ends up developing golden eyes. 

- john ends up being able to see the thanergy. 

- now that the new form of energy was discovered, it was able to be studied and thus the field of necromancy was born. 

- ten thousand years down the line, gideon didnt realize everyone else couldnt see that stuff

okay its by now taking too much effort to even try to spell things so im wrapping it up here. peace and love and magic eyes on planets earth and pluto goodnight