u/thetruecermet

I’ve been re-listening to Harrow (for like the 4th time lol) and got to the part at the end where Mercymorn and Augustine are revealing their whole sordid plan to John. Mercy says that “she was bad in every single way, we all hated her” about Alecto, insinuating that all the original necros and cavs hated her. But then Pyrrha-as-Gideon says she didn’t hate Alecto, and in Nona Pyrrha says both her and Gideon always liked her. Obviously Mercymorn and Augustine both hated Alecto (he calls her a monster in a human suit) but is it true that all the lyctors and their cavs hated Alecto?? For some reason it feels odds to me that they would. I know Tamsyn says the myriad of time has “selected for jerks” in respect to the lyctors, and that’s definitely true about Mercy and Augustine, so I feel like this statement of Mercy’s may be her characteristic hyperbole. However we do get multiple people saying they “all” begged John to kill Alecto (John, Teacher, Mercy, etc) so it seems some people besides Mercy and Augustine had to have hated her for that to be a definitive statement. What do y’all think?? For some reason I feel like at least Cassiopeia wouldn’t have hated Alecto based on what we have heard about her in Harrow and in Nona. (and also why would Ulysses and Titania hate Alecto if the theory some people have that John was puppeting them the whole time is true?)