#necro cristabel shows up at canaan house instead let's see what happens

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in the roleswap AU, Gideon would be a shit Reverend Daughter but actually a great necromancer

she REALLY resents having to minister to this population of breathing corpses without being able to DO anything concrete for them.  like that’s a pretty effective torture for a Gideon!  she ESPECIALLY resents how her only playmate is mad at her for something that is totally not her fault.  She blows off as much of the ceremonial stuff as possible; she will fix your bones but her bedside manner is absolute shit as she does it because she’s calculating how soon you’re gonna die anyway. 

however: the facts that there is nothing to do on the Ninth, and that Gideon (much like Harrow) gains ego from skill mastery, have not changed from canon.  She would study, and she would do the heck out of bones, because she likes having a Thing To Be Good At, and it makes people look at her like “wow, the weirdo freak is actually cool and useful” or “maybe we didn’t COMPLETELY fuck up by making the airdrop baby our heir as a last ditch planet saving effort”.  She would fix the shit out of people’s arthritis because that’s the only Actually Be Useful outlet she has.  She devises more and more sacrilegious things to do with bones to get under Harrow’s skin.  She harbors a secret thought that maybe if she’s good enough word will get out and the cohort will HAVE to recruit her and the rev parents won’t be able to say no without admitting they have no replacement.  she’ll steal them some vat wombs so they can continue their precious line of succession and she can go off gallivanting throughout the galaxy.  maybe she’ll just steal some babies.  they will simply HAVE to let her go to the sixth and fix their servitors or whatever.  and do some genetic outreach if you know what I mean.  or maybe she’ll say that’s what she’s doing and then fuck off and leave the Ninth to its lot.  the ending changes depending on whether she’s arguing it to the rev parents for the 89th time or whether she’s putting herself to sleep with it.  it may not make a lot of sense but she really doesn’t have a lot else going on.

she would actually be more well-rounded of a necro than Harrow on account of learning spirit magic in order to try and summon her mom in secret, in the hope of having a parental figure who (hypothetically) doesn’t see her as merely a means to an end.  given the Ninth’s lack of resources in this area, unlikely she’d get anywhere, but it’s an area she would have an actual personal interest in!