strike me down. you’ve won. i’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and god knows i deserve to die at your hand. you are my only friend. i am undone without you.

HEIRESS.

name.       harrowhark nonagesimus.
alias.       the reverend daughter, lady harrowhark nonagesimus the ninth.
gender.       nonbinary, they / she.
sexuality.       lesbian.
date of birth.       ten thousand years from now.
age.       nineteen.
occupation.       failed saint of god. half a lyctor.
birthplace.       drearburh, the ninth house.
current residence.       hell. sometimes.

height.       175 cm.
eyes.       black. gold.
hair.       black.
scars.       scattered ones on upper arms and inner thighs.

✱     backstory.         10,000 years after the death and necromantic ressurrection of our universe, harrow is born on the tiny and desolate planet of pluto, now known as the house of the ninth. the ninth is a dim and gothic place where devoted bone-based necromancers spend all day in prayer. the ninth house holds the tomb, a secret buried by god for centuries. what's inside is not known.     /     harrow's parents, the reverend mother and father of the ninth house, struggle to conceive. in order to secure a powerful heir to the planet, they commit necromantic sin - they slay the ninth's 200 children between infancy to near adulthood and use the thalergy produced to conceive a necromantic miracle baby.     /     harrow is raised with full knowledge of her horrid birth, leaving her a living war crime. burdened with immense guilt and tired of being 200 corpses, ten year old harrow breaks into the tomb her ancestors have guarded so dearly. when she tells her parents what she saw inside, parents hang themselves before her, even tying harrow's own noose. but harrow, young, is a coward, and cannot die.at eighteen, harrow has spent the last decade puppeting her parents corpses around so none of the ninth would know the truth. the only ones who know her secret are her marshal, her captian... and gideon nav, her indentured servant, sworn enemy, and only friend. when harrow is asked to ascend to lyctorhood and become an immortal hand of the emperor himself, she agrees. but she did not know the cost would be gideon's soul. refusing to destroy her only love, harrow lobotomizes herself, scrambling her ability to comprehend gideon so she would not eat her.

i pray the tomb is shut forever i pray the rock is never rolled away. i pray that which was buried remains buried insensate, in perpetual rest with closed eye and stilled brain. i pray it lives, i pray it sleeps.