#nonnynine

the way babs is full of hot air. the way he fights like clockwork. the way he is introduced as decorative. he's a blow-up doll, a wind-up toy, a cardboard cutout through which coronabeth and ianthe have drilled a sneaky glory hole, and this was all before he was dead and being worn as a convenient skinsuit! it was his destiny to be this from the very start!! you all wanna talk about who is and is not "doomed by the narrative"?? you better be talking about Naberius Tern, baby

"nona the ninth should have been the intro to alecto" to YOU. i think becoming intimately acquainted with the people especially children of this setting and the struggles they face and the ways in which their priorities are small and intimate and far removed from the galaxy-shattering events happening to and around them and then watching as the protagonist and her loved ones are wrenched away from their tenuous peace due to forces and history that have been out of their control for 10000 years is does necessitate like 500 pages actually

his name is naberius tern because everyone keeps taking terns in his body