#nearly mistyped as the last trial oh my god

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

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personally i think it'd be more accurate for her to be raised in some deeply ascetic non-christian cult

maybe derivative but definitely not explicitly christian

probably something with a doomsday narrative & almost definitely worshipping john as a leader-prophet figure

& the asceticism would be very foundational to their belief system ofc

but like yeah basically. harrowhark veils religiously in the modern au too. It's Important To The Fundamental Conceit Of Her Character

and i've said this before but i would be sooo much more interested in modern aus that preserved the sheer degree of like

dysfunctionality and violence harrow & gideon display in tlt canon

and interpret it into analogous material circumstances in our world that would produce those behaviors

sorry but modern AUs which depict harrowhark as incredibly goth or punk-looking just completely misunderstand harrow as a character. like, yes, aesthetically in the TLT context harrow has goth-like attributes. skull facepaint, bone earrings, etc, etc, i get it. but that's not counterculture for her! in fact, she dresses exactly how the revered daughter of the ninth house is expected to dress - down to the sacramentally shorn haircut.

which brings me to my main point. harrow's not a goth! she's a nun! she wouldn't be wearing chains and spikes, she would be wearing a full habit and a headscarf! she's a religious nun and she accidentally fell in love with lucifer. that's her aesthetic. she was raised in some deeply catholic cult somewhere in buttfuck nowhere and she carries a rosary everywhere she goes. there's your modern AU.