r/TheNinthHouse

Hi! Noob here!

I have some questions about the locked tomb and I figured out it would be nice to ask them here

First of all, I’m French and english is not my first language. I’m comfortable with social medias or fanfictions in english but that’s all. I heard that the french translation is kinda bad and i don’t wanna miss the insides jokes and all. I was also a keen reader as a teen but it’s been ages since I’ve read a proper book. So is this one easy to read/follow through ?

My second question is more light-hearted. My first impression of the book was a lesbian fanart between two characters. Do we have a lesbian romance? Or at least a sapphic subtext between the main characters? (Please please please please)

Thanks in advance !

In Ntn, did >!Gideon's "speed holes" heal after Nona kissed her?!< From what I have seen in the community there seems to be a consensus that >!the kiss returned the part of Gideon's soul that was still attached to Harrow's body!<. My reasons to think that maybe >!her wounds were healed!< are:

1. >!If, as is widely believed, Gideon died as a child in the gas leak that killed the other 200 children in the Ninth house, then whatever damage she sustained at the time was fully healed by the time the story starts, otherwise she would have terrible brain and likely lung injuries. But she is completely uninjured from that event (at which point her soul was whole), unlike at the end of Gtn (where all or most of her soul was bound to Harrow's body and could not return to Gideon's).!<

2. >!When Paul is "born", they're naked. The first thing Gideon does is to start unbuttoning her jacket, but then she hesitates and takes off her trousers instead. At first I thought it was just that she didn't want her speed holes on display, but then I wondered if it couldn't be that it was because she noticed that they were gone.!<

What do you think? Sorry if this has been discussed before, I am relatively new to this community (despite having been very obsessed with tlt for a super long time xD).

Edit: fixing spoiler covers

When all is said and done, The Locked Tomb can be read as a story about the lengths a girl will go to in order to acquire her favorite Barbie after she sees it in its box.

No seriously, what the actual fuck was his name? I have been wracking my brain for *months* trying to think of a man's name that starts with a U and isn't Ulysses. I even checked the New Zealand government's name lists for the last five years or so (both for Anglican names and Māori) and came up empty.

At this point, I'm convinced that his parents were medieval historians that were a bit too into it and named their kid Unferth.

Please drop your suggestions (both hinged and otherwise) below.

Spoiler: Alecto possibly next year (2027). Maybe.

What if I told you that the following sentence summarizes part of another literary work outside of TLT:

"Alecto guards a Tower in Hell containing the trapped, suffering dead souls of people who have denied God"

In Dante's Inferno, a tower guards the city of Dis - a city that houses the deepest circles of hell (circles 6-9). The 6th circle, which you reach immediately after reaching the tower, is for heretics, aka "those who have denied [J]od." 

The three Furies guard this tower. Their names are Megaera, Tisiphone...and Alecto.

Abigail Pent even spends some time in HtN around the 75% mark discussing how believing in the River Beyond, i.e. leaving the river after death and going somewhere else instead of slowly descending into hungry ghost madness in the River while waiting around to maybe get resurrected, is considered "heresy". 

Muir is too referential for this to be an accident. I wouldn't bet on any specifics. But I do think it's a safe bet to say that the tower is related to Alecto and that it contains lost "heretical" souls. Whether this means the original 10 bil or everyone who's ever died since the Resurrection or everyone who's tried to leave the River and failed - I'm not sure. I'd love to hear anyone else's thoughts!

What the fuck!

>!The Nona stuff all makes sense!<

>!The Alecto stuff makes sense!<

>!The Harrow/Worldbuilding all makes sense!<

>!The Gideon stuff...... Confuses me. Like girl, really?!<

>!The Paul stuff makes sense!<

>!The Angel is interesting, like them!<

SO WHY AM I SO CONFUSED IF IT ALL MAKES SENSE?

Please discuss with me and help me form a single coherent thought

The denizens of the Ninth House largely subsist on snow leeks which have mild flavor with subtle hints of onion and garlic.
Do you think everyone had terrible breath?

>!Dulcinea del Toboso is a character from Don Qixote, which I haven't read but just stumbled upon the wiki for in my search for something else... she's an 'unseen character', defined in its own wikipedia page as"unseen character in theatre, comics, film or television, or a silent character in radio or literature, is a who is mentioned but not directly known to the audience, but who advances the action of the plot in a significant way, and whose absence enhances their effect on the plot."!<

>!Mind blown. TM's a genius with these character names.!<