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* SanitySlippage: By the later portions of the book, as Ianthe continues to ignore her and people keep dying, and she can do literally nothing about it, she's increasingly unhinged and unstable. When they reconcile, it's Coronabeth miserably submitting to Ianthe's authority. This culminates in the final moments of the book, where she's left sobbing, not because Naberius is dead, but because Ianthe ate him instead of her.

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* SanitySlippage: By the later portions of the first book, as Ianthe continues to ignore her and people keep dying, and she can do literally nothing about it, she's increasingly unhinged and unstable. When they reconcile, it's Coronabeth miserably submitting to Ianthe's authority. This culminates in the final moments of the book, where she's left sobbing, not because Naberius is dead, but because Ianthe ate him instead of her.
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* HasAType: Admits as much to Nona, saying she can't help falling for what she calls "landmine people", those who are filled with anger and drive to change the world and damn the consequences. [[HeroesWantRedheads And redheads.]]

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* HasAType: Admits as much to Nona, saying she can't help falling for what she calls "landmine people", those who are filled with anger and drive to change the world and damn the consequences. [[HeroesWantRedheads And redheads.]]
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* MeaningfulName: "Deuteros" derives from Deuteronomy, and Judith comes from the ''deutero''canonical book of the same name. Judith Deuteros is likewise a widower (of a sort), and as a soldier is obsessed with order, rules, and serving God.

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* MeaningfulName: "Deuteros" derives from Deuteronomy, is the Greek word for "Second" (hence Deuteronomy is the "Second" Law as it supplements and clarifies the laws of the preceding books of the Pentateuch), and Judith comes from the ''deutero''canonical book of the same name. Judith Deuteros is likewise a widower (of a sort), and as a soldier is obsessed with order, rules, and serving God.
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* HeartbrokenBadass: By the time she identifies herself to the audience, her necromancer, her best friend who she's loved as a ghost for 10,000 years and her former lover, who Pyrrha seems to have genuinely loved completely in spite of being [[RebelLeader the leader of the Empire's sworn enemies]], are both dead and gone. Nona, who effortlessly reads emotions, notes that Pyrrha is completely heartbroken and mourns them both deeply, though she covers it over with jokes and cigarettes for Nona's benefit.

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* HeartbrokenBadass: By the time she identifies herself to the audience, her necromancer, necromancer Gideon the First, her best friend who she's loved as a ghost for 10,000 years years; and her former lover, lover Commander Wake, who Pyrrha seems to have genuinely loved completely in spite of being [[RebelLeader the leader of the Empire's sworn enemies]], enemies]]; are both dead and gone. Nona, who effortlessly reads emotions, notes that Pyrrha is completely heartbroken and mourns them both deeply, though she covers it over with jokes and cigarettes for Nona's benefit.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Even while being pissed off at her for how she's treated Harrow, Gideon struggles not to laugh at some of her jokes.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Even while being pissed off at her for how she's treated Harrow, Gideon struggles not to laugh at some of her jokes.jokes, and WordOfGod notes that Ianthe genuinely having a sense of humor is one of her few humanizing traits.
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* HasTwoMommies: It's briefly mentioned that her parents were both women.
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!!Coronabeth Tridentarius / [[spoiler: Lieutenant Crown Him with Many Crowns]]

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!!Coronabeth Tridentarius / [[spoiler: Lieutenant Crown Him with Many Crowns]]Crowns



!!! [[spoiler: Crown Him with Many Crowns Thy Full Gallant Legions He Found It in Him to Forgive]]

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!!! [[spoiler: Crown Him with Many Crowns Thy Full Gallant Legions He Found It in Him to Forgive]]
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** Heavily downplayed, if not outright subverted as of Nona the Ninth. [[spoiler:Pyrrha is openly impressed with her replication of Mercymorn's lethal entropy traps through nothing more than a blood ward, while scoffing at the insanity of making such a trap out of ''nothing but a blood ward,'' as in, no more contingencies or backups after that one ward is erased. Palamedes has nothing but awe and respect for her abilities after a grueling mental duel, and the revelation that what possessed and killed Colum the Eight was a Devil unknown to the Nine Houses makes her instant banishment of it all the more impressive in retrospect.]]

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** Heavily downplayed, if not outright subverted as of Nona the Ninth. [[spoiler:Pyrrha Pyrrha is openly impressed with her replication of Mercymorn's lethal entropy traps through nothing more than a blood ward, while scoffing at the insanity of making such a trap out of ''nothing but a blood ward,'' as in, no more contingencies or backups after that one ward is erased. Palamedes has nothing but awe and respect for her abilities after a grueling mental duel, and the revelation that what possessed and killed Colum the Eight was a Devil unknown to the Nine Houses makes her instant banishment of it all the more impressive in retrospect.]]



* TheDeterminator: Toward the end of Nona the Ninth, [[spoiler: Ianthe is shot by a Herald bullet (which was known for driving even Lyctors insane) and surrounded by a small army of skeletons to pin her down while Nona and the others escape through the icy water of the Locked Tomb. In a matter of ''minutes'' she manages to remove the bullet, fight off the constructs, cross the waters to where The Body is resting, all so she could flirt with Harrow.]]

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* TheDeterminator: Toward the end of Nona the Ninth, [[spoiler: Ianthe is shot by a Herald bullet (which was known for driving even Lyctors insane) and surrounded by a small army of skeletons to pin her down while Nona and the others escape through the icy water of the Locked Tomb. In a matter of ''minutes'' she manages to remove the bullet, fight off the constructs, cross the waters to where The Body is resting, all so she could flirt with Harrow.]]



* BanishingRitual: As a mature spirit magician, she's capable of banishing ghosts as well as summoning them. [[spoiler: She used this to hurry Jeanne and Isaac out of Harrow's DreamLand.]]

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* BanishingRitual: As a mature spirit magician, she's capable of banishing ghosts as well as summoning them. [[spoiler: She used this to hurry Jeanne and Isaac out of Harrow's DreamLand.]]
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* DracoInLeatherPants: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/i45jq6/im_tamsyn_muir_author_of_harrow_the_ninth_second/g0h078e/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 According to the author]], Ianthe is explicitly based on this trope, described as "the hyper-privileged, drawling blonde with daddy issues who sulks erotically in a corner", funny and with sympathetic elements as well as a lot of awfulness. [[invoked]]
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* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Her memories of before the Resurrection, as with the rest of John's followers, were [[LaserGuidedAmnesia tampered with]], but - perhaps because he worked with the brains of his friends, and she's been dead a myriad and remembers as a soul - there are suggestions that Pyrrha remembers things others don't. She once refers to Gideon the First as "G--", she compares Nona to a commercial character named "Hairy McLary", and she brings up "the military wing of disco".

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* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Her memories of before the Resurrection, as with the rest of John's followers, were [[LaserGuidedAmnesia tampered with]], but - perhaps because he worked with the brains of his friends, and she's been dead a myriad and remembers as a soul - there are suggestions that Pyrrha remembers things others don't. She once refers to Gideon the First as "G--", she compares Nona to a commercial character named "Hairy McLary", [=McLary=]", and she brings up "the military wing of disco".
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* BrainyBrunette: A dark haired woman who functions as the SmartGuy in Harrow's DreamLand. Extra content from the first book establishes her as a well-respected academic.

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* BrainyBrunette: A dark haired woman who functions as the SmartGuy TheSmartGuy in Harrow's DreamLand. Extra content from the first book establishes her as a well-respected academic.
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** She gently disrupts the majority of Harrow's alternate realities in ''Harrow the Ninth,'' recognizing that Harrow's a traumatized teenager who doesn't understand what she's doing. The only exception comes when Harrow accidentally draws Jeannemary and Isaac's spirits back, putting them at risk of going mad in the River. Abigail shuts things down immediately, with a flat "No."

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** She gently disrupts the majority of Harrow's alternate realities in ''Harrow the Ninth,'' recognizing that Harrow's a traumatized teenager who doesn't understand what she's doing. The only exception comes when Harrow accidentally draws Jeannemary and Isaac's spirits back, putting them at risk of going mad in the River. Abigail shuts things down immediately, with a flat "No." "Absolutely ''not.''"
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* ArtificialLimbs: At the beginning of ''Harrow the Ninth'', she's replaced her right hand with a transplant, but struggles greatly with adjusting to it, Naberius's instincts seizing up whenever she tries to wield her rapier and her body rejecting it as foreign. Harrow replaces it with a construct formed of Ianthe's own bone, which fixes the problem. Ianthe being Ianthe, she then has the limb covered in gold.

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* ArtificialLimbs: At the beginning of ''Harrow the Ninth'', she's replaced her right hand with a transplant, but struggles greatly with adjusting to it, Naberius's Naberius' instincts seizing up whenever she tries to wield her rapier and her body rejecting it as foreign. Harrow replaces it with a construct formed of Ianthe's own bone, which fixes the problem. Ianthe being Ianthe, she then has the limb covered in gold.



* EyeColourChange: After she consumes Naberius's soul and becomes a Lyctor, her eyes keep flickering between her natural eye colour and his, sometimes just becoming entirely pupil-less and white. This continues in the beginning of ''Harrow the Ninth'', with the colour of her eyes bleeding from purple to blue to brown as well as combinations of the three, with them firmly settling into Naberius' brown and blue after her experience in the River.

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* EyeColourChange: After she consumes Naberius's Naberius' soul and becomes a Lyctor, her eyes keep flickering between her natural eye colour and his, sometimes just becoming entirely pupil-less and white. This continues in the beginning of ''Harrow the Ninth'', with the colour of her eyes bleeding from purple to blue to brown as well as combinations of the three, with them firmly settling into Naberius' brown and blue after her experience in the River.
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* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Her memories of before the Resurrection, as with the rest of John's followers, were [[LaserGuidedAmnesia tampered with]], but - perhaps because he worked with the brains of his friends, and she's been dead a myriad and remembers as a soul - there are suggestions that Pyrrha remembers things others don't. She once refers to Gideon the First as "G--", she compares Nona to a commercial character named "Hairy McLary", and she brings up "the military wing of disco".

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