You Know, The Thing That Really Gets Me About The Locked Tomb Books... It's That In Any Other Series,

You know, the thing that really gets me about the locked tomb books... It's that in any other series, Gideon sacrificing her life for the greater good and to protect Harrow with the bonus that they'll always be together in a way--in any other series, that's pretty much the good end. That's where the author would have been like "and Harrow would never forget this. She would remember Gideon's sacrifice for the rest of her endless existence. She would carry Gideon's will and power in honor of her."

Even by Homestuck logic, a big part of the root of TLT writing, Gideon's death was heroic and therefore irreversible by pretty much every method.

But that isn't what happens. Everything after the first book is pretty much "No. You weren't allowed to die, that decision was made for you by people meddling in our lives. And besides, I told you not to do it and you did it anyway, so now I need to undo it. You die when I say you can die and not a moment sooner."

And it's very refreshing.

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Nona as a character is so fascinating to me when you consider her as a foil to Alecto’s history. Because, when you get down to it, Alecto was Nona all those thousands of years ago.

Consider Alecto, who rose from the shattered remains of the Earth, whose body was new and massive and unwieldy, who only existed because of her creator’s cosmic overindulgence and still knew love. Love!! Knew it so well that she chose it, even to her detriment, every single time. In response, the world around her —the Lyctors especially— rejected her for it because they saw her devotion as stupidity. And Jod, who claims to love her, locked her away, entombing her because he saw his love as a weapon to be used against him. And from what we see of Alecto when she’s awake in the Locked Tomb (especially when she bites Harrow) she’s grown sharper and crueler because of these rejections.

Similarly, Nona, having been slammed into a body that was not hers, with no memory and no faculties ALSO chooses unyielding love. But where Jod and his disciples rejected such “foolishness,” Cam, Pal, Pyhrra, and Nona’s Gang all accept it with open arms. They plan a birthday party for her and make silly jokes and check in on her and always say “I love you” back. They spend every day nurturing her the best they can.

Even in Nona’s final moments, these people tell her, “we love you. We will always love and remember you. That’s what matters.” And that’s what gives Nona the strength to make it to the Body, to do an act so terrible it will erase her. She does it because she is loved.

And now Alecto lives, ancient, undying, and so unloved.

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wasthistaken

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How ppl in the Locked Tomb think about their love situation with Harrow.

Ianthe: Oooooh, I am stuck in a love triangle, but I'm pretty sure I can beat Gonad easily, and Harrow will be mine.

Gideon: News flash bitch! Harrow doesn't love either of us. She's in love with a frozen corpse.

Harrow: My beloved Gideon is dead, just like the lovely lady in the Locked Tomb. Also my coworker is acting very weird for some reason.

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