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creature-once-removed · 6 months ago

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every time I re read GtN I am caught off guard by how serious it is

Like, Gideon spends the first few pages checking everywhere for possibilities for Harrow's skeletons to ambush her. And then she nonchalantly tells Aiglamene that Harrow would do literally anything to hurt her.

You don't really notice it the first time around because of the lighthearted way it's written, but when you know the context for all of it, it becomes uncomfortably clear how intense and dangerous the situation is that Gideon tries so thoroughly to avoid here.

#I would almost go so far as to say there's a dreading hint of 'this could be where she kills me' in between those lines #and it's soo interesting because that's entirely due to Gideon's perspective because she fundamentally doesn't understand Harrow here #tlt #gtn #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #I love that dynamic because you never really know which side of the line it falls #because it's obviously something that stems from a childish enmity with childish means #which makes it even if serious at least not life threatening #however one of those children has always been royalty with all the power that entails #and the other has never had anything to lose #and at the point where the story starts those children have grown up somewhat #enough for where a mindlessly hateful traditionally antagonistic relationship could very well shift into something seriously fatal #and I feel like especially Gideon in the beginning tiptoes kind of around that

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