funniest thing about my orpheus and euydice post is that i've seen multiple people now respond to it as if gideon is orpheus, when gideon is very obviously eurydice.
that's the thing about gideon. she's eurydice and she's sleeping beauty and she's the prince(ss) in the tower and she's also a butch with a sword. when she has any degree of agency she loves to be the hero but when she's trapped by outside forces she always ends up playing the damsel.
the obvious flip-side to this is that harrow has almost never really needed to be protected. she's been victimized plenty, but she's been very proactive in dealing with situations. she looks frail and bleeds from interesting places more than she really should, but she plays the hero. she's orpheus walking into hell. she's the prince discovering the glass coffin. and she might've been, but wasn't, the hero come to save gideon from the tower.
this is very cool and interesting and should be incorporated into fantasy aus more often.