Skell

God's name being John when there are characters named Harrowhark and Hot Sauce and Wake's whole ass name really show the vibe you're in for reading TLT.

You know for as much as the locked tomb is about what we leave behind when we die, in literal and metaphysical and metaphorical terms, it fucks me up really bad how every boe member on new rho thinks of Pyrrha as nothing but the person who killed Wake and regards her grief and heartbreak as some kind of sick perversion because obviously their glorious leader would never have felt anything but hatred and revulsion for a zombie. Pyrrha doesn't even really bother to correct them, she seems to think they must be right. Commander Wake exists in everyone's memory as cold and hard and righteous and utterly devoted to her cause. Pyrrha loved her, but Pyrrha also seems to think of herself as someone doomed to fall in love with people who will never love her as much as they love self-sacrifice. But we as the audience get to see a layer beyond that, we get to see the parts of her that are too contradictory to make it into the legend, we know Harrowhark is alive because Wake even in her most monstrous and rage-filled aspect could not bring herself to intrude on a place where Pyrrha had once lived and worked and felt safe.