Nona The Ninth Spoilers - Blog Posts
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
Amen
character with HUGE LIAR written in his forehead: waughh i am so sad...nobody like me
audience: waaaugh he is so sad...nobody likes him :(
Paul means a lot to me.
“It’s finished, it’s done. You can’t take loved away. We loved you too.”
Have another TLT WIP.
What if Alecto adored her reflection as the descendent of Anastasia?
“When she had been earlier born, and less self-conscious, sometimes she would rest her face against the mirror's face, and try to reach her reflec-tion. Camilla had caught her kissing it once, and had written about six pages of notes on that, which was humiliating.” —Nona the Ninth
"Time’s up," he said. "Give this to Cam for me, will you?"
And he spread Nona’s fingers like he always did, and he quietly kissed the second right-hand knuckle.
- Nona the Ninth, chapter 5
i NEED nona from gideon/kirionas point of view. i know the second she was resurrected she was trying to figure out where harrow is. the first thing she even ASKS nona is where harrow is. "listen, she can be in hell for all i care, i wont get mad. she can be at the bottom of the sea or at the bottom of space. i just need to know– where." i know she was going insane for MONTHS
I literally put a note on the part where Nona says she doesn't like gingers. In my mind they wrote down "does not like gingers????? Can't be Harrow."
love how as far as i can interpret, they're testing nona for some kind of lyctoral body-sharing necromancy background, and part of the criteria is being a lesbian so they have to notice if she talks about tits a lesbian amount.