December EMP Meme

[enablemeplz]

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harrow the ninth 💀

[mercymorn]

offering • Mercymorn, from Tamsyn Muir's Harrow the Ninth.
seeking • The absolute of long shots: I would do a murder to write with an Augustine the First, Saint of Patience, First Saint to Serve the King Undying. Failing that, John Gaius or any other canonmates from this rare canon would also be great! I'm down to roll with all sorts of roads-not-taken and pre- or post-canon setups, too, to enable meetups that we never saw in the book.
info • Further information & preferences here. Feel free to reply here or PM to contact me!

[worsetwin]

y halo thar :>

[mercymorn]

Ianthe!!! HOLLERS. oh my gosh it would be so wonderful to sink our teeth into Augustine's two terrible girls and see more of how these two would interact -- fleshing out their dynamic and interactions while in training at the Mithraeum, maybe? and/or a slight AU where Mercy was assigned Ianthe as a student instead of Harrow?

[worsetwin]

Ha, I have to reread Harrow the Ninth with way more attention paid to Ianthe and Mercy than mentally yelling at Harrow. I do think leaning into necromantic strengths rather than personalities in training would have been a viable way for John to go. Who knows, maybe Mercy could have gotten her around her mental block on the arm. (The gold skeleton arm is so #aesthetic though.)

[mercymorn]

right? like, as an anatomist, I feel like she could've had such interesting perspective to offer on the problems with the arm (and then don't get her started about the work with Harrow). I'll have to page through the book as a refresher too, but I feel like we didn't see that much of these two together, since so much was centered on what Harrow saw or experienced & then the training was so separate.

I AM FEELING INSPIRED so I can toss you a text-type thing to warm up the gears and just take 'em for a spin?

[worsetwin]

Sounds good! I'll definitely start out shaky, but immortals that have loved/hated each other for centuries while making long series of bad life choices are totally my jam, so I'm highly motivated to get it right.

[mercymorn]

I'm also still voice-testing like crazy, so we can be super shaky together! NONE OF US CAN BE MUIR but goshdarnit we can at least attempt pale imitations :')

[nerdcromancer]

Man props for being you, I'm thrilled to see there's a Mercymorn on here.

[mercymorn]

Sex Pal! oh my god your PB is absolutely perfect

(and I hadn't ever thought how she and Palamedes might have bounced off each other, but that that idea is planted in my head, I now desperately want to see this??)

[nerdcromancer]

Always happy to lend a hand 👋

Obviously there's the whole issue of *gestures vaguely* book 2 Palamedes but perhaps there's room for a scenario where the other Lyctors find out Cytherea's game before the aspirants do? Some unexplained necromantic phenomenon where Mercy gets dragged into his pocket dimension after her last encounter with the King Undying? Palamedes is trapped in a pocket dimension with only one shitty romance novel and some means of texting his awful canonmates? Anyway I am here for it.

[worsetwin]

Just imagine: Love Amongst the Bones: A Novel, by Palamedes Sextus and Mercymorn the First.

[nerdcromancer]

nothing spells steamy romance novel like a collaboration between the sixth and the eighth!!

[worsetwin]

On the bright side, at least Mercy's actually had sex.

[nerdcromancer]

Is that really a bright side?

[worsetwin]

Getting your important theological questions answered, like "Is the Emperor a bottom?"

[mercymorn]

"He switches,"

she says, and absolutely hates that she knows this

[mercymorn]

she will be the worst creative writing workshop critique partner

[worsetwin]

Look, if immortality's starting to wear on you, at least writing bad porn erotica with a Sixth House turbo-nerd would be a novel experience.

[mercymorn]

gasp

so book 1 fix-it AU would be the juiciest for a long-term thing, but also her getting dragged into the pocket dimension could be a really fun one-off scene to tinker around with, and I'm already imagining how that might go -- I could go ahead and toss you a starter for her, ahem, arrival? (I'm still voice-testing since I just finished the book exactly two weeks ago but man I wanna write all the things)

[nerdcromancer]

I'm definitely still in the voice testing phase too (and I may have to switch the pb at some point if I get desperate for more icons) but I am definitely down for that.