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[[caption-width-right:350:''No one expected Nona to exist.'']]
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* RelativeError: On her first time hearing Ianthe and Coronabeth interact, Nona assumes Ianthe is Corona's boyfriend. Given the twins' affectionate, intimate conversation and Ianthe's loving petnames, Palamedes comments that it's no wonder she thought so.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The John chapters take place at a nebulous point somewhere in the 21st century; global population has increased to 10 billion, humanity has invented FTL and is working to colonize the solar system, and some of the political alliances have shifted, but from the facility John and his colleagues worked at, and later acolytes, the world is largely recognizable to audiences in 2022.

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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The John chapters take place at a nebulous point somewhere in the 21st century; global population has increased to 10 billion, humanity has invented FTL and is working to colonize the solar system, and some of the political alliances have shifted, but from the remote New Zealand facility John and his colleagues (and later acolytes) worked at, and later acolytes, the world is largely recognizable to audiences in 2022.the audience.
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''Nona The Ninth'' is the third book in ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' series by Tamsyn Muir. Originally planned to be just the first act of ''Alecto the Ninth'', ''Nona'' was split off into its own book as it grew out of control, turning the planned trilogy into a series. It was released on September 13th, 2022.

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''Nona The the Ninth'' is the third book in ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' series by Tamsyn Muir. Originally planned to be just the first act of ''Alecto the Ninth'', ''Nona'' was split off into its own book as it grew out of control, turning the planned trilogy into a series. It was released on September 13th, 2022.

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* RunningGag: Ass jokes are something Nona's family keeps track of, and recur semi-frequently.

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Ass jokes are something Nona's family keeps track of, and recur semi-frequently. semi-frequently.
** John converts a herd of cattle into a barrier of tissue and bone when he and his people are under threat. For the rest of the plot arc, every time John tries to expose the trillionaires' plan, someone dismisses him by citing a fact about how intelligent cows are.
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The Ninth House isn't destroyed, even with losing ground and members, it is still in a much better state in terms of personal and survivability, Harrow being revived at the end also ensures her House has its Reverend Daughter restored, all its older members would ultimately ever care about.


** Harrow spent her entire life obsessed with the resurrection of her House, and the Emperor ultimately granted her several hundred new members. [[spoiler: The Ninth ends up destroyed regardless, with most of the new members being killed by the devils, a foe even God claims to not understand]].
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Crux is a horrible ''horrible'' person who tormented Gideon her entire life while knowing all about Harrow's conception. He is also despised by the rest of the Ninth house for being a self-righteous asshole. But he loves Harrow as his own daughter [[spoiler: and does not hesitate to kill himself and ''open the locked tomb'' for a chance to save her life]].
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it's not actually confirmed to be america


** [[spoiler:A while after he first gained his powers, John was paid an enormous amount of money to turn the President of the United States into one of these, on behalf of the government of the same, in order to cover up his recent death. This included giving his corpse a pulse and a normal body temperature, although making him talk was a little troublesome.]]

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** [[spoiler:A while after he first gained his powers, John was paid an enormous amount of money to turn the President an unnamed head of the United States state into one of these, on behalf of the government of the same, in order to cover up his recent death. This included giving his corpse a pulse and a normal body temperature, although making him talk was a little troublesome.]]



* SmallRoleBigImpact: The ultra-wealthy trillionaires who bankroll the evacuation of Earth are the major antagonists in John's backstory, but never named or seen directly. Additionally, the American government turns to John to conceal the fact that the President is dead to prevent political instability. [[spoiler: The former abandoning everyone else on Earth gives John the motive, and the latter gives John the means to murder Earth and the Ten Billion by triggering global thermonuclear war.]].

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: The ultra-wealthy trillionaires who bankroll the evacuation of Earth are the major antagonists in John's backstory, but never named or seen directly. Additionally, the American an unnamed government turns to John to conceal the fact that the President their head of state is dead to prevent political instability. [[spoiler: The former abandoning everyone else on Earth gives John the motive, and the latter gives John the means to murder Earth and the Ten Billion by triggering global thermonuclear war.]].
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** The language used between Camilla and Palamedes in their conversation over the recordings "I hope you know that I adore you, Scholar," "Indubitably, Warden," is reminiscent of their first on-page conversation in ''Gideon the Ninth,'' where Cam pokes fun at him by using a series of increasingly elaborate one-word responses.
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* BookEnds: Nona's life began with her muttering "No, no," [[spoiler: and draws to a close with Anastasia screaming "No, no!" as Nona approaches the Tomb to return to her body.]]

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* BookEnds: Nona's life began with her muttering "No, no," [[spoiler: and draws to a close with Anastasia Ianthe screaming "No, no!" as Nona approaches the Tomb to return to her body.]]
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* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Nona, who [[AllLovingHero relentlessly loves]] even people who [[GoodThingYouCanHeal shoot her in the head]] with intent to kill, immediately dislikes [[spoiler:Kiriona for her abrasiveness and hostility. However, she picks up that Kiriona has a crushing case of SourOutsideSadInside.]]

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