Gideon Nav Talking Time is literally Harrow harking time
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im gods favourite exposed nerve
Post-canon Gideon who finds a gray hair or flab on her arm and has a freakout where she almost wishes that she'd stayed in her eternally young and strong and handsome Kiriona body, even though it was torture, until Harrow reassures her that she always has been and always will be the most dashing person in the world to her and that every sign of maturity in her body is nothing less than a testament to their love and their work
A Harrow Nova who is so disgusted with the state of their accomodations at Canaan House that she starts regularly lousing Gideon
#Gideon is like 'The ninth was shittier' and Harrow is like 'Be that as it may life did not flourish there. Even those of a parasitic nature'#Then Gideon is like 'Ha ha we get it. Isn't it unbecoming for a cavalier to own her necromancer? Fine. Have at it.'#The locked tomb#Griddlehark#harrow nova#Gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#Reverend Daughter Gideon#Tlt#harrow the ninth my beloved
Telling my kids this was the Harrow Nova au
You don't understand. I need a fic set back on the Ninth where Gideon is out of commission because of something Harrow did, but then she shows up and helps her cut her hair because she knows how important that is to her.
#Hurt/comfort where the hurter and the comforter are the same person my beloved#It's about Harrow understand and respecting (loving) her butchness even when she's seemingly rejecting everything else about her#Alternatively it's about Harrow wanting to maintain her as well as retain her and that it's what Gideon wants is a coincidence#The locked tomb#Griddlehark#Gideon nav#Harrowhark Nonagesimus#tlt fanfic
It's been a minute since I wrote it, but I don't think I ever made a designated post about this - Nova au pool scene! Because there's nothing in this world I love more than a Reverend Daughter presenting herself as a sacrifice and being denied it.
Top 10 griddlehark scenes that could have resulted in kisses, ranked by how hot it would have been if it had happened
Disclaimer: I am in no way shape or form saying that this would have made the scenes better, merely mashing them together like dolls.
10. When the gang are headed to "Dulcinea"'s sickroom on Harrow's suggestion and Gideon says she could have kissed her. Girl do it!
9. Post-avulsion, once they're back in their room - preferably, right after "Don't price your life so cheaply, Griddle." Harrow is so fucking scared and so fucking in love, and while it is adorable that she turned to anger at the trials putting them in this position she also could have put that energy into a certain cavalier! Held back by just how pained and out-of-it Gideon was. You know in the morning she would be aggressively telling herself it was a dream.
8. Speaking of things Gideon told herself were dreams, that one time Harrow woke her up from a nightmare! Underrated scene imo. She's looking at you so so softly and understandingly despite the cynicism.
7. During the battle with Cyth, after Harrow saves her flying through the air and they're both slumped on a pile of bones. Gideon just nearly died because she was too busy admiring her perpetual bone, she's so proud of her it makes everything ache, and Harrow's openly performing for her now. No time for talking or thinking, pure adrenaline, just make your move before she passes out!
6. After passing the Winnowing challenge. They are both probably the most exhilarated and turned-on they've ever been. Harrow entered her body and it was a positive interaction. It might have fully struck at least one of them dead if it had happened.
5. During the stair fight, contingent on Harrow finishing the "how dare you mock my-" sentence. Gideon called her out on jealousy, which is major fucking progress for them as far as identifying feelings. They're drained and pissed off, and it's really setting in for Harrow how willing Gideon would be to give herself away to her. Show her that you care!
4. Pre-avulsion. See lovely role-swapped example by @sinshiney here!
3. Right after Gideon tucked away that shadow-colored lock of hair. We know it, we love it, Harrow I understand but at the same time please don't talk about the Body right now. You have no idea what this will do to the next year and a half+ of your relationship.
2. First Flower Of My House. Her trembling hand is on your cheek. A beautiful little smile is on her face. She just made the most beautiful declaration of love you've ever heard in your life. You're planning on dying anyway and have nothing left to lose. Shalalalalala-my-oh-my...
Honorable mentions:
- After the discovery of Dulcie's ashes, once Gideon runs to confirm that Harrow wasn't the victim in a panic. It always kills me that she calls what she would've said the other day about finding Harrow dead a "youthful" dream, but at least you're done pretending now. Wake her up and give her an update!
- The hug scene. Omitted because it's perfect the way it is.
- The post-pool lean-in. Omitted because Gideon's mind was already made up when she started it. Meanest thing she's ever done.
- While Gideon was backed up against that pillar, right after Harrow says, "And at the end of the night, the locked tomb is me." Would it have made any sense with the trajectory of their characters? No. Would it have been hot? It would have been hot as fuck, thank you for asking.
Hello, I would like to discuss some implications!
Between the fact that Harrow herself didn't use her sexuality as a reason and this fear about other Houses becoming involved in the Ninth:
I think we can assume that in the Nine Houses everyone is essentially expected to be attracted to people regardless of gender, especially when it comes to political alliances. It's not entirely clear whether the idea was brought up to her or she was getting ahead of it, but either way the possibility of a strategic marriage was floating around.
So, this tells us that at some point Harrow must have had to shield Gideon from marrying Ortus.
Did Harrow ever bring it up as a threat they both knew was empty, or did they both silently avoid it? Would Gideon hit her with the, "What are you going to do, hitch me to Ortus?" when she went on one of her monologues about punishment and House loyalty? Would Gideon ever be genuinely worried about the prospect; would she ever try to thank her, prompting a "I meant what I said, Griddle - I can't have an imbecile like you contaminating my Houses' bloodline"-esque response?
In any scenario, it gives Gideon more evidence that Harrow both understands her and is willing to place her over the needs of the Ninth and raises the question of how Harrow justified it to herself!
#Wanted to include Gideon being trans as an explanation but I think if there was another person young enough to have kids it would've come up#I will say maybe my favorite thing about that is the extra layer it adds to her keeping her as a tribute to her butchness and her mother#Least favorite is that Harrow might be have to defend against marrying Gideon and I don't really want them to confront that possibility yet#Honestly we can never talk enough about this chapter in HtN it's so gorgeous and fascinating in terms of what it sheds light on#The locked tomb#Tlt#Harrow the Ninth my beloved#HtN#Gideon nav#Harrowhark Nonagesimus#ortus nigenad#I feel like he knew it wouldn't be happening. I'm a strong believer in him knowing what was up with those two long before they did.#Griddlehark
Something something first deflowering of my House
Wait, have we considered how fucking repulsed Harrow would/will be at the sight of Ianthe Naberius? Literally the antithesis of what she tried to do in HtN, making the empty shell of her cavalier a monument to her own ambition and an instrument of her power. Like hghhhhh. She disdained Babs in life, her only positive memory involving him was Gideon knocking him down, but if/when she sees him being used as some grotesque puppet I think she's going to blow a fucking gasket.
#writing an au where she watches the tower prince broadcast and had this moment of like. Holy fucking shit.#the locked tomb#griddlehark#nona the ninth spoilers#ntn spoilers#tlt#harrowhark nonagesimus#ianthe tridentarius#ianthe naberius#Like she grudgingly respects her for reverse-engineering the lyctorhood and she was surrounded by different dynamics during the lobotomy er#to the point where I think she got kind of desensitized to the idea especially where Ianthe was concerned#But if she saw Gideon's construct next to Babs' construct up on that screen. And Ianthe essentially controlling them both. Hooooo boy
Animated adaptation of the pool scene from Harrow's point of view, where we see her looking at The Body over Gideon's shoulder during her description and then refocusing on Gideon, her shift in priorities complete (and we see, albeit blurrily, the way Gideon's face changes and her hand falls from Harrow's jaw)
Nona is very Ninth, in that she's a lesbian and her most formative (self-acknowledged) experiences with love came from an older woman who probably wasn't the best role model but did her damnedest under the circumstances, followed by Cam and Pal.
You've seen "Lift Weights, Babe", now get ready for "Cav-sual"
Hiking date that begins with both of them attempting to walk, climaxes with Harrow making a giant skeleton to take her from place to place, and ends with Gideon carrying her out (she got jealous of the construct)
Harrow Nova variant: The Reverend Daughter creates a bone wheelbarrow for her cavalier to cart her around in